1% of Us
Sadgati. GN Vidya, our English Teacher at Sarvail Gurukulam, a teacher of a kind, made a big difference to a lot of us. She went on to become Secretary of Gurukulams Society and Director, School Education in combined AP.
14567 – National Elder Line launched. Agrasar for Elders is going forward.
NRLM is revisiting MKSP Guidelines to support Natural Farming and NABARD inches forward on JIVA project. Farming and Food System is gearing up for local movements of farmers, farmworkers, farmer-consumer value-chain players and consumers hand-in-hand.
2 October – Foundation Day of Akshara. It is a celebration in itself for being there under the trying circumstances in which we are living. Visu and Prakash are in our reflection. Gandhi, 152, Shastri, 117, Kurien, 99 – remain inspiration. It is 23 years of coming into existence. Livelihoods learning programs, 17 years. ‘Akshara Livelihoods’, ‘livelihoods’ today and tomorrow – 14 years. 7L Coexistence – 2+ years. Its long-term vision and agenda includes 7Is for 7L on Scale in TRUE Livelihoods – LPRD domain – Enrich and spread thinking/practice and leadership; Identify, build and mentor mentors/anchors/life-workers; and Support individuals, entrepreneurs & organisations for poor. Immediate portfolio focus includes – 7L Notes, Conversations, Journeys, Classes, Videos, Cohorts; INDIA Plan 100; Support to Field Stations, Enterprises, Talent; 7L Leaders’ Forum; and in sync with N.
Payback has to come centre-stage.
Items are getting added to the 50 of in India Plan 100. May need another week/fortnight. Then, we need to fine-tune, group/re-group, and make outlines of plans listening to the people living those items/ideas. We need to check the robustness, feasibility, sustainability and what it takes to realize these plans. Once that is done, we go for e-publishing the portfolio of these subplans for initiating action and support.
7 October, special incidence/occurrence: Date, Tithi and Nakshatra match, :). It may happen once in 10-12 years. This time, it is a perfect match. Universe is calling for a great transition/transformation.
Let us prepare and get ready for the roll-out, in various realms, moving from conceptual to decisive and deliberate practice. Deliberate conscious choices in parallel and sequentially. These call for series of decisions with resolve, determination. Determination emanates from passion, dedication, commitment. Publicly articulated. This is a function of the life’s purpose of being useful to ‘life’ we are wedded to. The values of hope, faith, promise and love we are not willing to negotiate. Flowing with N, in N, for N is the approach that takes us there.
Learnt: Broadly, 90% of us are tools to be used; 9% of us, movers and shakers, are seeking success individually or collaboratively to get wealth, power to dominate, overpower; and less than 1% of us are journeying in experiencing N in its various higher dimensions. These are transformational, seeking change at the core. Without losing usefulness. May not go with the status quo. Results may be visible much later. Can we not be these in the third realm? Do we have the courage to be there? Can we prepare and build our courage?
Yes, we can. If we are determined. If we are in satsang. If we persist with practice. If we flow. For 7L.
Join us in the world of yoga of making decisions for useful coexistence – nirnayayoga for 7L.
G Muralidhar