Om Sri Ganeshaya namaha

This service is dedicated to his sweet lotus feet of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

OM JAI SRI SATHYA SAI NARAYANI

NEWS LETTER 15
15/8/2003

Please organize your service actions with love and devotion to serve the poor. Helping people to give food, clothing, shelter, health and education to the poor uplift them make them independent is our goal. Jai Sri Sathya Sai Ram.

NOW WE HAVE A GLOBAL WEB SITE FOR OUR MISSION

Visit:

Sai Baba Global Poverty Service

SAI BABA GLOBAL POVERTY DATA BASE

Are you a service provider to the poor (Narayana Seva) or is your center provides help to the poor? Or are you willing to serve the poor in future? We want you.

WE are building a great network of service providers or future volunteers to coordinate and help the poor globally.

Jai Sai Ram

WORLD NEWS ON POVERTY

HUNGER: DO YOU KNOW THE FACTS?

It is estimated that one billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. That's roughly 100 times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year.

About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.

Famine and wars cause about 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones you hear about most often. The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. Families facing extreme poverty are simply unable to get enough food to eat.

In 1999, a year marked by good economic news, 31 million Americans were food insecure, meaning they were either hungry or unsure of where their next meal would come from. Of these Americans, 12 million were children.

JAI SAI RAM

BHAGAVAN’S MESSAGE FOR THE WEEK

The tree never partakes its own fruit. The tree sacrifices by passing on the fruits to
others. The river does not drink its own water. It sanctifies its very purpose by providing drinking water to others. The cow does not take its own milk but gives it for the benefit of others. Likewise, man should share with his fellow beings his natural qualities like morality, truth and integrity.

We are born out of this mother earth. The tree yields fruit; the clouds bring rain to give water that sustains life. It is the sun's rays that manifest and blossom the entire organic world and sustain human life. It is mother earth that once again demonstrates her quality of sharing the five elements to the rest of mankind. Having been born here on earth, growing here, we have forgotten the very lesson that mother earth offers.

The highest value latent in a human being comprises in declaring that I am a human being. All are human beings. The greatness does not lie in the caste and creed. All religions merge in the divine effulgence ultimately.

With all the divine strength and power we have, we should strive for the welfare of society and not misuse it. The welfare and happiness of the individual depends on the welfare of the society. When there is welfare and peace in society, then only the individual can experience peace and happiness.

Man needs three important capabilities. The first is that there should be spiritual
transformation. After spiritual transformation comes social change. Then comes the
individual transformation. There will naturally be social change with spiritual transformation. The individual will shine and blossom with radiance when there is peace and welfare in society.

We make use of certain words to bring in such transformation. A small example. The letters S - A - I make Sai. S - stands for spiritual change. We should have such change now. A - stands of associational change. The third I - is for individual change. Sai symbolises here spiritual change, change in our association and change at the individual level. That is the essence of all these three letters. The whole world will be happy when such a transformation takes place.

The day when the individual gives up all these bad habits (smoking, drinking, eating meat and gambling), his individuality will truly blossom. We should have morality in order to express our individuality. Individuality in turn will blossom in you have morality. Individuality is submerged because of the bad habits.

We should all be away from the social evils. What are these social evils? They are accusing others continuously, blaming others, making fun of others and feeling jealous. We have lost peace in society because of these bad qualities of man. You don't find anyone who is acceptable to everybody in society.

We should develop divine feelings at all times. Therefore, we have to foster good qualities in society. We have to foster qualities of helping others. To do service, we should develop sacrifice. We should have the spirit of equanimity, a feeling that others suffering is our own suffering. Then there will be a spiritual change. Compassion, mercy, love, forbearance, sympathy - such noble qualities originate from spiritual transformation.

BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

JAI SAI RAM

HELPING ORGANIZATION OF THE WEEK

Please remember to click every day to give help and hope to those with nowhere to turn. Every click counts in the life of a hungry person.

JAI SAI RAM

THE FAMOUS WORDS OF BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Serve the poor with love. That alone can redeem you. Service to the poor is service to God. Sacrifice your life for the cause of the poor. Service to the poor is My only motto. I have no other desires. I am prepared to sacrifice even My life to serve the poor. Do atleast one thousandth part of what Swami is doing. Of what use is human life if it is not spent in the service of the poor?

BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Jai Sai Ram

Jai Sai Ram

HELPING SWAMI’S MISSION

Eventhough the Sathya Sai Organization does not entertain any collection of money from its members and public by canvassing and advertising. It is worth that at least a word of swami’s projects should be known to public so any good soul can think of donating any money to those projects. Swami’s projects need wide support from the global community. Help ever Hurt Never. Jai Sai Ram.

SOME OF BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA’S MAJOR PROJECTS

Avathars are engaged in selfless service (seva); that is why Avathars happen. Offering service to mankind pleases Avathars. ... I am active and busy twenty-four hours a day. ... I have never craved a minute's rest or sleep or relief.
--Sathya Sai Baba, in Sathya Sai Speaks X, Chap. 19, 123; VII, Chap. 59, 350; VI, Chap. 58, 288 (old edition)

SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER LEARNING
Prashanthinilayam, Puttaparthi, 515 134 (A.P), INDIA
Phone (08555) 87239 Grams SAINSTITUT

SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER MEDICAL SCIENCES
Prashanthigram 515 134 Anantapur District (A.P), INDIA

SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER MEDICAL SCIENCES
Whitefield, Bangalore, INDIA.

SRI SATHYA SAI BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS TRUST
Prashanthinilayam, Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh 515134 INDIA.

SRI SATHYA SAI DRINKING WATER SUPPLY PROJECT
Sathya Sai Baba's project, begun in 1994, which brought water to more than 700 villages in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (where Prashanthi Nilayam is located)

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

No. of villages covered      750

Population covered            900,000

Project cost                      US$63 million

DETAILS OF VILLAGES

Villages covered with borewells as source -274 villages

Villages covered by 14 comprehensive protected
water supply schemes with infiltration wells and
filter points -98 villages

Villages (including Anantapur municipality) covered
by 7 summer storage tanks ranging from 30 to 100 acres -

98 villages

Comprehensive scheme with water treatment plants using
water from Pennar Ahobilam Balancing reservoir as source-

115 villages

Comprehensive scheme with infiltration well in the bed of
Chitravathi Balancing Reservoir at Parnapalli as source -

165 villages

Love All Serve All

Jai Sai Ram

SAI BABA GLOBAL POVERTY DATA BASE

Are you a service provider to the poor (Narayana Seva) or is your center provides help to the poor? Or are you willing to serve the poor in future? We want you.

WE are building a great network of service providers or future volunteers to coordinate and help the poor globally.

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