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INSPIRING STORY - 4 (Sister Nivedita of 21st Century)

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                                               When you are 19, you think about fun, college, career. But when you have great family values, they teach you to keep others before yourself. Ultimately you desire to serve the society and wish to make your country a better place to live in. Nivedita Raghunath Bhide (Famously called Nivedita Didi) at a very tender age aspired to serve the people. Being an avid reader, she came to know about the great work of Vivekananda Kendra. She was impressed with the path shown by Swami Vivekananda.   EkanthJi Ranade who built the spectacular Vivekananda Rock Memorial inspired young Nivedita. There is definitely some connection between the name Nivedita and Swami Vivekananda. Nivedita told her aspirations to EknathJi. During tha...

INSPIRING STORY - 3 ( HOW TO USE YOUR BODY )

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                Generally, when you have a muscular body and very good physic you try to show it off on social media. You click pictures in many poses. The person starts to feel like a superman and feels that he is omnipotent. Self-obsession is at its peak. But when you are more obsessed with your country and fellow countrymen you use your powerful body for them. This is the story of a man by name Rohit Shenoy who stays in Chinchwad, Pune possesses a personality like a supermodel who is helping people wherever possible.               Rohit who is 35 years old has donated blood more than 15 times to date and organized many blood donation camps himself. He has done a record of donating blood platelets more than 100 times. Blood platelet is a very important ingredient in our blood. It is required for fighting cancer, diseases and traumatic injuries. He must ...

INSPIRING STORY - 2 ( SAMPURNAM )

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                                In our Hindu civilization, we believe there are 33 crore Gods and goddesses. We choose our God as per our ambitions in our life. For example, if one wishes to gain strength we worship Lord Hanuman, if one wishes for sharp intellect, we worship Lord Ganesh. One can call it God, energy, consciousness anything. Our Sanatana Dharma has given a simple method to reach Him by idolizing our favorite Lord. We bring an idol or a photo frame at home and experience the almighty in that idol as it is easy to visualize Him in form of an idol or a frame. But sometimes after many years the idols, frames might get old and we wish to replace them. Some people just drown the idols, frames in water bodies or keep them below the trees. Every year more than 1 million idols are discarded similarly. This behavior can cause an environmental issue. Idols in the past were made up of clay,...

INSPIRING STORY - 1 ( PARENTS OF 80 CHILDREN )

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                                             “I already have 20 kids Archana” Ashok said this to Archana when they were deciding to get married. Ashok Deshmane the founder of  Snehwan  has devoted his life to the betterment of the children of drought-affected farmers. The year was 2016 when he was a mere 25 when he quit the lucrative IT job and decided to work for the upliftment of underprivileged children. His Idea behind Snehwan was that the ‘ Annadatas’  (the food providers) are in trouble so their children. There are many issues like a drought in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra where farmers suicide has become a daily bulletin. He was from a poor family of a farmer and only because of education he was able to lift himself from the darker days. Hence it became his aim that instead of enjoying the air...