The slowly unfolding horror that is Japan today is there for everyone to see. I was waiting and praying for our response and finally found some information on the IAHV web site. While a team is being put together, the disaster fund raising has already begun. Please donate today (Choose Japan Earthquake Relief from the drop down).
Q: Guruji what do we tell people that have been through a calamity?
H.H Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Tell them to give all their worries to me. Disasters and calamities also have a positive side to them. They bring people together.There is a new creation after every calamity. Nothing is permanent. In every crisis there is an opportunity. The Chinese word for crisis contains the word opportunity in it. Every crisis reminds you to smile, makes you aware of the impermanence of everything, even ourselves. So instead of sitting and blaming, lets see how we can move forward, rebuild and help others.
As anyone following the news in India these days would know, the state of Bihar in northern India has been devastated by floods. Hundreds of villages have been inundated and lakhs have been left marooned, homeless, hungry......
Art Of Living and its sister organization, IAHV are working actively in the affected areas to bring material and other relief to the victims .
Sri Sri Ravishankar, the founder of Art Of Living has appealed to everyone to support this cause.
How can YOU contribute? CREDIT CARD: Please go to our secure website http://www.iahv.org/donate.asp to make a donation. (Choose Disaster and Trauma Relief - Bihar Flood Relief)
CHECK/MONEY ORDER (in the USA only) : Please make them payable to IAHV and mail to: IAHV, 12121 Quadrille Lane, Bowie, MD 20720.
For in-kind contributions or volunteer in the affected areas, the local VVKI offices can be contacted to donate money and other supplies .
Pune Contact :
Pune Information Centre. 405, 'Citi-Centre' Bldg.,Opp. Ayurved Rasashala, Karve Road.,Pune. (Tel.: 020-25411821, 020-64002463, 9423005328)
UPDATE : Guruji visited Bihar to personally meet the victims of the flood disaster and review Art Of Living's relief work . Here is a wonderful video of Him addressing some affected victims :
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