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

OM JAI SRI SATHYA SAI NARAYANI
NEWS LETTER 13
1/8/2003

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

Signs of Need

• 57 million teachers around the world lack basic books and materials.
• 880 million people in the developing world-1 out of every 5-have no health services
• 2.2 billion people in the developing world -- 1 out of every 2 -- do not have adequate housing.
• The world population will reach 9.5 billion by 2050. 8 billion will live in developing countries.
• 80% of the poor in developing world live in rural areas.

Signs of Hope

Much is being done to meet the basic needs of people around the world:

• HUNGER: The number of people who die from hunger has decreased by 32% -- but still 24,000 die each day.
• GOVERNMENT: USAID has helped increase agricultural productivity as well as economic security in sub-Saharan Africa. USAID is also involved in stimulating private sector activities in Africa to bring life into weak economies.
• DEBT RELIEF: The Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative has been endorsed as one effective way to help poor, heavily indebted countries deal with severe poverty. The initiative would require the international community to work together to help poor countries reduce debt to a level that is commensurate with their growth and ability to pay.

Overseas aid involves the most basic human needs that we take for granted: food, sanitation, healthcare, and education. You can support the charities that are making these basic necessities available to everyone.

JAI SAI RAM 

BHAGAVAN’S MESSAGE FOR THE WEEK

Many of the enjoyments you experience in life are really just the relief you feel when you temporarily soothe the pains of a disease you are suffering. For example, you think that taking food is an enjoyment, but it is really only a medicine. Food is the medicine for the disease of hunger. When you give the medicine the disease is temporarily forgotten. You cook many varieties of delicious food and consider the taste of these prepared dishes to be most enjoyable, but that is not the real purpose for which you take food. As you know, medicines are sometimes given in the form of a mixture which contains some sweetener to make it more palatable. In the same way, to treat the disease of hunger there will be a meal containing a mixture of ingredients, some of which are particularly flavorful and pleasant to the taste. But in the final analysis, the meal can only be thought of as a form of medicine to treat the disease of hunger that afflicts you. After you have eaten, the symptoms of the disease disappear. Similarly, when you take some cool water, the symptoms of the disease of thirst disappear.
We have previously discussed the six inner enemies of man: lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and jealousy. They can also be described as desire, hatred, possessiveness, infatuation, arrogance, and envy. These are the most deep-seated diseases of mankind. It is only when you engage in practices which serve as medicines to counteract these diseases, that they will diminish and disappear. During your whole life you have been deluded into thinking that you are enjoying different types of pleasures, but in fact you are afflicted with these diseases. Until you recognize that the resident of the body is God, you will continue to be burdened by these diseases and the sufferings they bring.

BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

JAI SAI RAM

HELPING ORGANIZATION OF THE WEEK

http://www.justgive.org

JustGive is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect people with the charities and causes they care about and to increase overall giving. As the central gateway to giving, we provide people with the resources, services, and tools they need to give -- whether it's their money, their time, or their goods.

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

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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