corporitual values of living at ragpicker's colony, badshahpur
Divya Dwivedi
HEAD OF POLICY & COMMUNICATION,
UK INDIA BUSINESS COUNCIL
I have this overbearing desire to convey to Soulbath Peace Foundation what I feel right now, a very surreal feeling ......not excited not overtly happy ..but so at peace with myself, that even if do not breathe now, I will survive.....feeling I can do so much and that I have to do so much. Thank you SPF for showing me the way ..... I thank SPF and Shri Raj Bhowmik for being my guide and for handholding onto the path which makes me feel liberated.
The workshop experience was very very special, when people listen and see value in what is being conveyed. An immediate connect is established and everyone is a family working together for common good and for the benefit of each other. While I guess they may benefit from this workshop, I benefit too in way I find difficult to convey....but sweet music still rings in my ears and I am ready to tread more on the path shown by my Master, Shri Raj Bhowmik.
The group looked at me with lot of apprehension, not answering any questions and taking a lot of time to come together and sit down. They were infact sitting on their toes and rather uncomfortably when we started, giggling among themselves. But once we started the session specially after the meditation session they calmed down and connected beautifully, so much so that a boy 11 years old started crying as we came out of the session. Later I spoke to him alone and he said he for the first time confronted his mind and that he wants to study, but his father has against his wishes brought him to Gurgaon away from his village in Bengal to become a rag picker, a job which he hates specially in the winters. Others participants were also moved and felt good. An eye opener for me to the fact that there is so much need for literacy and also food for the poor on daily basis, as one of the boy pointed that he is always scared if he will get his meals today.
I have promised to go back to them soon. With your blessings my Master I shall try to be more useful.
The workshop experience was very very special, when people listen and see value in what is being conveyed. An immediate connect is established and everyone is a family working together for common good and for the benefit of each other. While I guess they may benefit from this workshop, I benefit too in way I find difficult to convey....but sweet music still rings in my ears and I am ready to tread more on the path shown by my Master, Shri Raj Bhowmik.
The group looked at me with lot of apprehension, not answering any questions and taking a lot of time to come together and sit down. They were infact sitting on their toes and rather uncomfortably when we started, giggling among themselves. But once we started the session specially after the meditation session they calmed down and connected beautifully, so much so that a boy 11 years old started crying as we came out of the session. Later I spoke to him alone and he said he for the first time confronted his mind and that he wants to study, but his father has against his wishes brought him to Gurgaon away from his village in Bengal to become a rag picker, a job which he hates specially in the winters. Others participants were also moved and felt good. An eye opener for me to the fact that there is so much need for literacy and also food for the poor on daily basis, as one of the boy pointed that he is always scared if he will get his meals today.
I have promised to go back to them soon. With your blessings my Master I shall try to be more useful.