I must
congratulate both of you on behalf of all Prajapatio in the world for
finally bringing Gujarat Prajapatio together on one platform lighted by
many atma-jyot and with a pride of ourselves as a kumbhar and a distinct
people.
I must
congratulate Shree Chandrakantbhai for his nishkami bhakti for the last 3
years for all Prajapati children's future. May Bhagvan grace you both for
what you have accomplished so far and may Bhagvan bless you so that you
never stop serving Prajapati children and samaj as a seva to
Bhagvan Himself.
I am also
happy that in the name selected for the Gujarat organization the word
EDUCATION is included. It is only that we do not have enough
education that we are comparatively poor. Poor from lack of knowledge
usually also means one would be poor of wealth and everything else.
May Bhagvan give all of us a lot of gnan (knowledge) through education.
Shree Krishan has told us repeatedly in Bhagvat Gita that gnan
is the only thing which will eliminate our dukh of our sansar and samasara
(life cycles).
Kamleshbhai:
Prajapati Vishva Ashram would like to
have a structured program of education from SHREE
PRAJAPATI INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION which
Gujarat Prajapatio would like to implement for the next five years in each
of their samaj location in Gujarat.
This education program must be:
- based on the need
we have to prosper in life,
- based on eliminating
the reasons why we are not prospering,
- based on the
progress in all aspects of life, meaning education should not be
just that we can make money - education should be all rounded
so that we also become good Prajapatio socially,
emotionally, spiritually and of course economically.
- based on the need
to upgrade all age groups in our samaj.
- based on the need
to educate males and females equally.
- based on the need
for all our children to be able to educate themselves to whatever
standard they wish.
- based on the
need of the adult group who have missed education and are labouring in
life for practically nothing. Adults can start learning trades
which pays far better than being labourer for the rest of their
lives.
- based on our need
to start individual and communal businesses - we can never achieve much
wealth if we are going to be working for others all the time.
- based on need to
re-learn the Ved we have forgotten. If we do not learn Ved than we would
be just mechanical beings similar to what is happening to our Prajaptio
in western countires. Mechanical beings have no understanding of Bhagvan
our Creator and consequently have no understanding of what a
relationship is within a family, samaj, provinice, state, country and
international communities.
- based on need to
learn our history, heritage, traditions - this knowledge makes each
one of us proud of being who we are and can never be looked down upon by
anybody in the world. At the same time gives us knowledge never to look
down on anyboy in this world.
For the last 33 years I have been involved
in community development professionally. That is what my bussiness has
been and that is how I make my living. In community
development I get involved with everything from having descent
standard of physcial living by having descent houses, water and
sewer systems to having proper schools and education systems, social
programs such as health, religion, social support programs,
recreational, etc. I project manage by putting all expertise together as
a team and co-ordinate everything in all phased right from visioning to
vision development to fund-raising to planning, design and
implementation of all the visions into reality to operation and
maintenance programs of the reality implemented.
If it is agreeable and pleasing to you
all, I would feel blessed and would love to work with you all
Prajapatio in Gujarat to develop the above with you to satisfy your
needs and in your local ways.
All of the above activities require wealth -
money, materials, various expertise and labour. Through Prajapati Vishva
Ashram we all will make efforts to raise all of the above at local
levels and at international levels.
As education is the basis for all of the
above, Prajapati Vishva Ashram will be focusing on raising
funds for education first.
Shree Chandrakantbhai, as a Program
leader for Gujarat Internet Program has volunteered and committed
himself to keep on raising funds till all our Prajapati Samaj in Gujarat
are connected through internet.
I have volunteered to raise funds
for providing education. This year's target is to provide
scholarships for university or vocation education for about 5 students
and keep on increasing the number as we fund-raise.
In all of the above we need active volunteers
in all the samaj all over the world. We will be making appeal for this
very shortly.
These are my thoughts on which my family has
grown in the last 80 years from being our usual poor kumbhar to a
kumbhar family having comfortable life and targeting increasing
prosperity for my future generations. It has been all possible
becuase my parents had the wisdom and determination to educate me
and all my four brothers and a sister right up to the level each of us
wanted. With this determination from my parents all of us 5 brothers
have university education and some of us are continuing education to
upgrade to stay with the current knowledge levels even in our adult
life.
We must continue this change and
evolution of life through education for all of us Prajapatio.
I will take lead in writing proper messages
of appeal to join in this struggle to all known samaj sevak all over the
world now that we have SHREE
PRAJAPATI INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION in
Gujarat. You two have worked hard and started
something which will change our Prajapati future for ever. May Bhagvan
grace us with all we are going to need.
Please let me know of your thoughts
regarding the above. The above are my starting thoughts and are not cast
in stones but should be regarded as a starting point only. And the start
point is to start working at drawing up a Education
Program working with all the samaj in Gujarat.
Once again congratulations to
you two and all the samaj who have joined this program at the present
time.
Shukriya and Namaskar till we meet in your
response.
Champaklal Dajibhai Mistry,
Edmonton, Canada"
A volunteer for Prajapati Vishva Ashram: Email:
cmistry@home.com
