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Anna-Vastra Daana Satra inaugurated - 9 July
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Workshop
for senior corporate executives
- 22 June 2003, The New Indian Express |
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Workshop
for corporate leaders
- 25 June 2003, The Hindu |
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Workshop
for Corporate Executives inaugurated
- 29 Jun
2003, The New Indian Express |
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Workshop
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- 29 June 2003, The Hindu, Kochi |
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Meet
of Bhagavatha scholars held
- 10 June 2003, The New Indian Express |
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'Anna
vastra daana satram' organized
- 20 July 2003, The New Indian Express |
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19th
Anna-Vastra Daana Satra begins in Venginissery - 9
July 2004, Mathrubhumi
[Free transliteration of
Malayalam news item]
The 19th annual Anna-Vastra
Daana Satram was inaugurated in Narayanashrama
Tapovanam, Venginissery near here, by the
Mathadhipathi Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha.
This year the daana is expected
to serve 20000 families from the poor strata of
society.
This charitable activity which
began in a small way 18 years ago with daana for 150
poor families, has grown over the years to become a
prominent event attracting many philanthropic minds
both in India and Abroad.
A couple of Indian origin
living abroad – Lakshmi and Krishnan – entrusted
Swami Purushottama Tirtha of Vyasa Tapovanam in
Wadakkancheri, Thrissur with a corpus fund of Rs
14000, 18 years back and requested that the income
from the fund be used for feeding a few people from
the poor section of society every year.
In the early years cooked food
was given to the needy every year. This was later
changed to distribution of rice and cloth along with
some payasam.
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha says
that a mere 3kgs of rice or a square meal on a
particular day will not serve to wipe away the poverty
of the recipients. But when many people participate in
such events of daana it becomes a satram and the
message of helping by gifting or sharing one’s
wealth with needy fellow human beings is better
conveyed and understood.
It is the well-wishers of the
Ashram who reach out to the indigent and downtrodden
to invite them to receive the daana and participate in
the Daana Satra. All are equally considered for this
without discriminating against Religion or caste.
The Satram inaugurated in
Venginissery, last evening with distribution of Rice,
Dress and Sweet to 3000 families will last about a
month with distribution taking place from different
village centers mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. This
year about 20000 families are expected to benefit from
the Satram at an estimated cost of Rs. 23 Lakhs.
The Anna Vastra Daana Satram is
being jointly conducted by Vyasa Tapovanam
Wadakkancheri and the Narayanashrama Tapovanam, in
Venginissery, Thrissur.
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Poojya Swami Bhoomananda
Tirtha inaugurates the 19th Anna Vastra Daana Satra in
Narayanashrama Tapovanam, Trichur, Kerala
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Workshop for senior corporate executives - 22
June 2003, The New Indian Express
THRISSUR,
JUNE 21: A two-day 'brain stimulating' workshop
for selected senior corporate executives will be held
at Narayanashrama Tapovanam, on June 28 and 29.
The basic theme of the workshop, conducted by the
scholar and exponent of Vedanta and head of the Tapovanam,
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha, is 'Excellence and beyond
- harnessing your inner resources'. Participation
in the seission is by invitation and no fee is charged
for the programme.
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha said that the workshop was
designed to explore the concept of excellence in its
amplitude and profundity and will take participants
to what lies beyond conventional concepts of excellence.
He pointed out that in their efforts to maximize their
potential, many corporate leaders and executives miss
the singular fact that the most powerful of all resources
is to be found within them.
The proposed session will be the second bi-annual
'brain stimulatium' conducted by Swami Bhoomananda
Tirtha, the first being the one held at the Narayanashrama
Tapovanam's unit - Centre for Inner Resources Development
- near New Delhi in November last year.
The number of participants has been limited to 15.
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Workshop for corporate leaders - 25 June 2003,
The Hindu
Thrissur, JUNE 24:
The Centre for Inner Resources Development (CIRD),
a unit of the Narayanashrama Tapovanam near here,
is conducting a two-day workshop for corporate leaders
across the country on June 28 and 29.
A release from the CIRD said the two-day residential
programme to be held at the Tapovanam, would help
corporate leaders to rediscover their inner resources
and to deploy them to address the challenging tasks
expected of the participants in their area of work
and life as a whole.
Titled 'Excellence and beyond - harnessing your inner
resources', the two-day workshop is designed to explore
the concept of excellence in its amplitude and profundity
and would take the participants to what lies beyond
conventional concepts of excellence, the release said.
In a unique and enlightening exposure, the participants
would be guided to discover the new dimensions of
leadership and to harness the unlimited potential
of the mind to find joy as a sure associate of performance.
Among other things, the workshop would also help the
participants strike a harmonious balance and integrate
professional, domestic and social involvement into
a viable composite.
The release said this is the second biannual workshop
for senior managers being conducted by Swami Bhoomananda
Tirtha, head of the Tapovanam.
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Workshop
for Corporate Executives inaugurated - 29 Jun
2003, The New Indian Express
VENGINISSERY (THRISSUR),
JUNE 28: Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha inaugurated
the two-day 'Brain Stimulatium', an interactive session
for corporate executives, organized by the Centre
for Inner Resources Development of Narayanashrama
Tapovanam, here today.
He said that the workshop will provide the participants
an opportunity to review the problems and the challenges
and help them to arrive at solutions. It would enable
them to discover and recognise the inner resources
in them.
The participation to the workshop was by invitation
and was restricted to 14 top executives from both
the public and the private sector enterprises.
The participants included Satish Kumar and Ravinder
Nath Joshi, both directors of Delhi Metro Project,
Suresh Kumar, general manager, Hindustan Latex, Rajiv
Vasudevan, OSD Techno Park, G C Gopala Pillai, managing
director KINFRA, C N Parameswaran, managing director
Aswini Hospital, Thrissur, G S Nayar, managing director,
Ojus Healthcare, Bangalore, Balasubramaniam, director,
Mangal Tirth Estate, P Sivasankaran, managing director,
ACME Marketing, S Meganathan, managing director, Rajalakshmi
Engineering college (all from Chennai), R C Sastry
director, Stony Carter Consultants, Ramesh Kundalia
and Manju Kundalia, directors Prajna Technologies
(all from Hyderabad).
The session commenced with the participants introducing
themselves and highlighting some of the challenges
faced by them in their work environment as well as
in the family. While all the participants faced problems
on their professional fronts ranging from motivating
personnel and answerability to their shareholders,
all of them had one problem in common - than of an
unfulfilling family life.
Almost everyone admitted that his family life was
not what he would have liked it to be. In their zeal
to excel and deliver, they found little time to spend
with their near and dear ones resulting in conflicts
and tensions.
In response, Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha said the workshop
would provide them with sufficient inputs to enable
them to take up further pursuits gainfully.
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Workshop
begins - 29 June 2003, The Hindu, Kochi
THRISSUR. JUNE 28: A two-day workshop organized
by the Narayanashrama Tapovanam, Venginissery, near
here for senior executives was inaugurated by Swami
Bhoomananda Tirtha today. Speaking on the occasion
the Swamiji said the workshop would provide the participants
with an opportunity to review the problems and challenges
faced by them in their own work spheres and arrive
at solutions. He said this would be achieved through
the discovery and recognition of the rich inner resources
within each participant. The sessions in the workshop
have been designed to accelerate this self-discovery
and recognition of the inner strength of the participants.
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Meet
of Bhagavatha scholars held - 10 June 2003,
The New Indian Express
WADAKANCHERRY, JUNE 9: As a follow-up of the
12-day Sreemad Bhaagavatha Tattwasameeksha Sathram
held in Parlikkad, near here, in December last year,
a meeting of Bhagavatha scholars was held here.
The meet was to discuss the need to change the focus
of the usual Bhagavatha Sapthaham and Sathram from
bhakti to jnaana and thereby provide enlightenment.
Delivering the keynote address, the president of Sreemad
Bhagavatha Tattwasameeksha Committee, Swami Bhoomananda
Tirtha, said even though the popular view is that
Sreemad Bhagavatham is a composition of bhakti and
devotion, a closer reading will reveal that the main
and, perhaps the only, purpose of the author, sage
Vyasa Deva was to instill knowledge and enlightenment
in the readers and listeners of Bhagavatham.
Kandamangalam Subramanian Namboodiri, P. Krishna Iyer,
K Madhavan Namboothiri, Ventrakkad Krishnan Namboothiri,
K Sreedhara Varrier, Dr Lakshmi Kumari, Neelakanta
Sarma, Kaippulli Krishnan Bhattathirippad and Perumbilli
Kesavan Namboodhiri attended the meet.
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'Anna
vastra daana satram' organized - 20 July 2003,
The New Indian Express
VENGINISSERY (THRISSUR), JULY 19: The annual
'anna vastra daana satram' in which 3 kg of rice,
a dhoti or a saree each will be distributed to 18,000
indigent families in Thrissur and Palakkad districts
was inaugurated today by Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
of Narayanashrama Tapovanam here.
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha said that 'daana dharma'
is the backbone which sustains a society and provides
for its welfare and growth. Secretary of Hind Navothana
Pratishtan, Swami Purushothama Tirtha, Brahmasri Devapalan
and others were present. The donation covered 2500
families today.
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