Saradrtu. Sraavana pournami. Yagnasutram.
Rakshaabandhan. Rakshikasutra. Raakhi. A band of protection, care, security, well-being. Between all relations, blood or otherwise. Starting with our sisters and brothers. Daughters and fathers. Spouses. Cousins. In-laws. Friends, peers, mentors and mentees. So on, so forth.
Let us meditate, reflect on this natural, physical, mental, social, and spiritual universe, so that we get enlightened, and find our ways to our ends. This is daily meditation-reflection-planning yagna. We do not stray out of humility; remain focused; forgive all past; seek way forward inspiration.
Between Anand to Anand, the break was 44 months, investing 10,000+ hrs. Visakhapatnam as a base, tribal communities took us in stride. Commodity coordinator to Community coordinator. Community coordination team servicing the needs of the community. 6-months of induction into tribal communities. Adilabad, land between Godavari-Pranahita rivers as initial karmabhoomi, before moving to Visakha base. Across the tribal areas of combined AP. Eastern ghats with Simhachalam, Annavaram, Bhadrachalam, Vemulawada, Srisailam, and Tirupati zones. Getting more and more ‘mad’ professionals from reputed institutes, IITs, IIMs, IRMA, TISS et al, as community coordinators to be with tribal communities. Supported planning, implementing, tracking participation-led tribal development projects spanning the entire tribal area. Contributed to restructuring Girijan cooperative corporation, GCC, and computerizing in the field and headquarters level. Onboarded, inducted young managers for nurturing them to be future leaders. Supported efforts to increase the proportion of consumer rupee reaching the tribal agri-produce and forest produce collectors, through integrated commodity, product operations; these include – local value-addition, aggregation, processing, packaging, branding, retail marketing; research on natural products, and its commercialization; credit for production; women self-help groups; local enterprises; daily requirement supply et al. CCTs’ work evolved into independent CCN, chaired by legendary SR Sankaran sir. Many CC emerged into a making-a-difference development leader in the country and beyond. Indigenous people’s Kovel Foundation and other collectives serviced their research, regeneration, livelihoods, and value-chain needs for 25+ years.
We need feedback to progress. Positive, negative, but constructive. More than generic praise, criticism. Specific, timely, in-time critique. Focus on improvement, behaviour. Can we take, give?
We are beings, human beings, essential-experiential spiritual beings. Can we evolve into spirituality, seeking, discovering, going closer to truth? Being curious, exploring, questioning. With sacred rules of nature, the universe. In sync, in harmony. Being together, ‘feeding, being fed’. Transcending ego, with humility humbly meditating, reflecting, in the present, now. Practising the essence, transcending rituals, protocols. Of 4000 religions, Abrahamic or otherwise. With individual freedom to interact, be in harmony with N, without intermediaries. Can we use this freedom, live, have ‘life’, for peace? Can we go in with antaraatma, innermost?
Can we realize possibilities we are visualizing? Can we get space, mandate, resources for these?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we are in the flow, in toto. In N? kartayoga for 7L.
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