Smiling Beauties !!

Jai Gurudev !!

As kids , how much we smile ?!

It's estimated as 400 times a day !!

Even while sleeping , the baby gives a bright smile and giggles !!

With the years passing by , our smile rate also reduces gradually. As adolescents , we have our own fun and joy. Still there's much of laughter left with us. On an average , our smile rate reduces to 17 times a day in the adolescent stage. 

 From adolescent stage to adult stage ,we smile lesser and lesser .

 

As adults , how many time we smile in a day ?We can observe our own self and do a self study ...Hardly we give out a Smile from our heart !!

Work tension , equal amount of commitment in home front , we get exhausted so much and we forget even to give a smile at the faces we meet in our day to day life.

 And we ask a price to deliver a smile . We need a joke or a light situation for the smile to blossom .And we attend to the humor clubs or laughter clubs to experience  a heartfelt laughter . 

The old age people having a hearty smile would happen once in a blue moon , perhaps !! 

Why is this change ?

Does  the worries and tensions swallow the Sweet Smile of our face ,

like how the snake swallows the moon during an eclipse  ?!

When will we come out of this eclipse ?

Love & smiles....

A Transformed Village - Unbelievable !!

Jai Gurudev !!

Unmanned shop in Kathewadi village .

There's a surprising news about the tiny village ,Kathewadi,which is situated  in Nanded district in Maharashtra.


A Complete transformation has happened in this village ,much to our awe in the present day scenario with violence and corruption prevailing everywhere.

Just imagine a shop  unmanned by a shop keeper !Meaning the goods bought would be paid for, without supervision ?!
Could you believe it ?

Yes , a shop near this village main temple houses that unique facility Each product is labelled and marked with the prices. There is a large box in which the villagers put in the money for the items they pick up and another little one marked Daan Peti(donation box) in which they collect money for development work in the village.

Food packets labelled and kept in the shop.

The village is maintained clean and the homes neatly painted in a uniform shade of soft pink !!


All  homes have a toilet. The village people have collected money and built one toilet outside each house.


Men and women have come out of their homes to gather for the satsang that they all participate in every evening.


The whole village has become totally addiction free is the highlight !!
All the money that was spent on vices like alcohol and tobacco is now used constructively , says the 25-year-old  sarpanch of this village , Sangeeta Suryavanshi .
She adds proudly , "  "One member of every family in this village has done an Art of Living course: The Nav Chetna shivirs, youth leadership training programme and the basic course. It has brought such a change in our society. And Sri Sri Ravishankar Guruji is the inspiration behind all this !!  " 


They have self help groups of ten people each and these groups solve any issues and implement solutions.


Allauddin Sheikh , an old man of  this village of 700 people says , 

"My family has lived here for generations. My son has done the Art of Living Course and he is very happy with all that he has learnt. In all my 80 years I have never seen such a transformation in our village. We live in complete harmony and help each other in times of need."

Courtesy : Rediff news 

Love & smiles...