Tag: free housing
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Everything must move up
Since so much land was lost along the riverside, the only place to build here is on the hillsides above. This valley is quite densely populated, with almost all suitable land taken for existing homes or farming. There is no possible place to efficiently build a tract of 50 homes. Our first house sits by itself among terraces growing rice and mustard seed. All building materials are dropped on the highway. Mules or Nepali porters show up to move sand, gravel, cement, brick, and steel bar up the steep hill on their backs. You can make 20 rupees carrying 35…
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Our Golden days in Raichur
Davangere is truly blessed to get another opportunity to participate in the seva work in Raichur. Our previous one day visit to Raichur gave us such a lot of inspiration that we wanted to visit Raichur again for a longer time. Taking Amma’s permission we once again went to Raichur for a week. We reached Raichur on 18th April early morning. Our 27 members’ team consisted of non-teaching staff of Amrita Vidyalayam and devotees. It had people from all ages (from from 15 years to 60 plus years). We had 7 ladies in our team. 7 people joined us in…
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Tapas in Raichur
16 April 2010, Bangalore Inspired by Amma’s Love and Service for the humanity, Amma’s Bangalore children also wanted to do squirrel’s seva in the great Service been carried out by Amma for the flood victims in Karnataka and Andra Pradesh. Under the leadership of Swami Amritegeetananda Puriji, a team of 19 members left for Raichur. I remember how eager our hearts were to reach there. We reached on 5th Monday night and were received by the warm love of our brahmachari brothers in Raichur, who are in charge of the constructions. Our day started with the archana after which we…