Jiva Offerings: February 2011

Each month, I donate all my proceeds from teaching to a different charity, and throughout the classes I'll be talking a bit about the good works that organization is doing. This month's charity is:

Friends of Ramana’s Garden, Inc.

Friends of Ramana’s Garden, Inc. is a nonprofit charity established in 2005 in the United States. It supports Ramana’s Garden India, a wonderful and loving children’s home and school near the renowned spiritual center of Rishikesh in northern India. Our mission as Friends is to support abandoned, destitute, and abused children who are given food, shelter, necessities, and education so they may thrive in a world that once seemed almost hopeless. One doesn’t have to be an “orphan” to come and live at Ramana’s Garden. One has to be at risk of, hunger, death, abuse, torture, or being sold into prostitution or child labor. Most of all, the children are given lots of love and nurturing in a welcoming and tolerant spiritual environment.

Ramana’s Garden India was founded by a dedicated and forceful American woman, Prabhavati Dwabha, 18 years ago as a result of her spiritual practice on the banks of the River Ganga. Prabhavati’s heart overflowed with compassion for the numerous homeless, destitute, and abused children she met there, and she decided to make those children her life’s work.

To learn more, watch this video that was shot onsite at Ramana’s Garden India, which includes an interview with Prabhavati. The story of Ramana’s Garden India and how these wonderful kids are creating joyous opportunities for themselves will truly open your heart and inspire you to realize your own greatness.