SUNNYVALE: More than 300 people came to listen and get the blessings of Sadhvi Ritambhara, popularly called Didi Maa on Tuesday August 25 evening in Sunnyvale Hindu Temple. The event was organized by the Bay Area supporters of Param Shakti Peeth of USA, along with Sunnyvale Hindu temple.
Sadhvi Ritambharaji has emerged as one of the most prominent Indian spiritualists in the contemporary times. Sadhvi Rithambharaji used the example of Krishna and Yashoda to form Vatsalyagram, the village of maternal love.
Vatsalyagram is a village where children and babies who are abandoned by their parents and guardians are nurtured by mothers and grand mothers who are themselves in turn abandoned and left to fend for them. Didi Maa, Sadhvi Ritambhara is the divine disciple of Swami Paramanandji, who is revered by the saint community as Yuga Purush – the man of the era.
The event began with Preeti Bhoj (Satvic Dinner) followed by a beautiful rendering of Bhajans by Masterji & Vijayaji. The songs on Rama and Krishna and many other spiritual songs filled the hearts of people and set the stage for Didi Maa.
Didi Maa addressed the gathering in her flawless poetic language of Hindi using her classic singing on Sri Krishna in the beginning and at the end. The pianists who played simple notes to accompany her poetic eloquence added to the already blissful experience.
Didi Maa talked about material desires and the nature of their impermanence. She explained the meaning of worship where not just the body is involved in rituals and chanting, but the mind and spirit are also wholly involved. She explained the meaning of Santana Dharma and its relevance to the modern world.
She urged all the devotees to dedicate their time in spreading the message of the beautiful philosophy and values of Hinduism. She explained the plight of uncared for parents and urged people to get back to their roots and nurture their roots. She explained what Vatsalyagram is in her poetic style.
After Didi Maa’s Pravachan the organizers started fundraising for the noble cause of Vatsalya Gram. Ashwini Surpur, one of the main volunteers, explained Vatsalyagram and its concepts. Vatsalyagram is a one-of-its kind & innovative community program conceptualized by Didi Maa, which has found favor and admiration of people across countries and continents, wherein orphan / abandoned children; destitute / homeless women / widows; and abandoned / homeless aged women are formed in smaller groups and nurtured as individual families to ensure that not only the basic needs but the social & psychological needs of the beneficiaries are met.
The event concluded with a vote of Thanks by the organizer Sri Chandru Bhambhra. Didi Maa blessed the entire audience one by one.
Sadhvi Ritambhara’s Vision – Vatsalyagram
Didi Maa, Sadhvi Ritambhara is the inspiration behind the vision that has created Vatsalyagram – a village of affection for the homes to the children of God and the women that are not mainstream women – the neglected part of society to be short.
Five girls, three boys, a mother and a grandmother, none of them with any blood relationship with each other, come together to form a home with a spiritual relationship that is beyond any other bond.
She has built a Vatsalya Gram, where the kids are not up for adoption, but are sought after by decent families as brides and grooms to be married to their own sons and daughters, because they can make the best daughters-in-law or sons-in-law due to the love, care, values and good education imparted to them by Didi Maa and her volunteering Seva Vrutis.
Didi Maa nurtures the destitute women abused by their spouses, women sexually assaulted by men on the street and the senior women beaten up by their adult children. They are picked up and given training for 6 months to first heal themselves, and then get ready to start a new life of care giving and self-caring in Vatsalyagram home with 7-8 children who may have gone through similar trauma in their little lives.
Some of the projects run by Vatsalyagram include:
• Female Feticide awareness program – Awareness movement in rural areas. Many women have boldly claimed to keep their female fetuses when they get pregnant.
• Traditional Diary System – Saving and breeding the original breed of cows that are real satvic cows whose existence is now threatened due to hybridization.
• Vocational Training – Children from Vatsalya gram to become self-dependent adults with dignity of labor. Teaching them to fish instead of feeding those fish.
• Community College – Children who can now avail degree colleges for getting the right education
• Yoga and Philosophy – Creating healthy environment through Yogasana and holistic living in accordance with yoga philosophy
• Girls Hostel – A safe environment after the girls come out of Vatsalya Gram for their higher studies.
For details about Vatsalyagram, visit http://www.vatsalyagram.org/http://www.vatsalyagram.org/
Chandru Bhambhra, the philanthropist and community leader, who was coordinating, concluded the program with a Vote of Thanks to Didi Maa, attendees, musicians (Gurdeep on Tabla, Pianist and singer Masterji, Singer Vijayaji) and to the volunteers, such as Balwant Birla, Raj Bhanot, Bodhraj Saini, Suresh & Urvashiben Patel, Ashwini & Anil Surpur, Kusum Ravikant, Ramesh & Bharatiben Mistry, Rukmini & Sundar Suajn, Tulasi Tummala, Gaurang Desai, Rajesh & Jyoti Gupta and Nishank Trivedi.
For additional details, please call Chandru Bhambhra at 510-299-0906 or by email chandrub@sbcglobal.net
India Post News Service
