Dr. Abraham George
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275 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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If you work on all these things, that's why I have to stay here 10 months in a year and only go two months. I'm not the only one. There are so many others working with me. But the biggest challenge I have is not the children, John. It's not the children. It's the staff. It's the staff. I have to bring them into that culture and that mission.
And if you have 70, 80 people working on the same thing and children are noticing how they are and how they treat the children, magic happens. That is the secret. The children are not my problem. Much less problem.
Amazing. You touched upon the most important point I forgot to tell you, but you touched upon the most important point. That is, it's one thing to bring about great success in a few children or hundreds of children, but where the true impact is how they touch others. One of the things we instilled in them right from childhood, that they have a moral duty.
because they are beneficiaries of other people's kindness. They have a moral duty to be kind and generous to others. So we tell them, in your lifetime, maybe not in the first five years when you're trying to fix your homes and get your parents out of poverty, that's all fine. But in your lifetime, you must carry at least 100 others with you. And that is a moral duty you have.
And yes, already these children have taken their families who are graduated and working, they've taken them out of poverty. They are no more living in those broken-down huts. If they were living in a They improved that and added rooms and toilets and kitchen and so on. Because they used to go to toilets somewhere in the field and keep cooking outside and so on. All that has changed.
They buy clothes for their parents. They put them on medical insurance. And all those things they have done for their families. But they then get their sisters married. India has a dowry system, which is terrible. But you have to pay money to get your daughter married. They pay for it.
They educate their siblings in college and then they are involved in other projects that are available to serve the community or someone outside the community, their own community. I tell them, listen, don't talk about your blood relationship. You can't go around testing somebody's blood to see whether your DNA matches.
But your job is to help as many people as possible, regardless of where they are. It doesn't have to be in India. It can be in Africa. It can be in the inner city of America. Wherever you can, you have a moral duty to help. So that's a core value we try to inculcate in them. And the children, for their part, their initial years of their careers, they already started doing it.
I'm not promising that every child will do it. Even if a good majority does it, that will be wonderful. They will be changemakers of tomorrow. They will contribute to society and the world at large.
I think I can speak for myself, but that is I found great joy in improving the lives of people through service, in this case, to children or the village women or whoever was unemployed and so on. There is a certain joy that comes with transforming the lives and you see it in their eyes. I can't describe it more than that. But the point is this.
If you have the means to reach out, touch someone, you are not going to get poorer by just spending some money to help a few. Do it by all means and see the happiness that comes from it. At least I find it. I hope others find it.
And if you assume that half the world is poor and the other half is reasonably well off and everybody contributes one or two dollars a day, there'll be no poor people in this planet. There are enough number of people, 78 billion people, 4 billion people out of that half of them, give a couple of dollars a day, we will solve poverty. But we are not doing it.
So I would say when you can help others, do it and find the happiness from it. It's not just a religious issue. It's a moral issue. It's something that compassion in action. Compassion in action is just feeling sorry for somebody who doesn't do the job. You have to act on it. And a small act, like what I just described, can make a difference.
And if everyone does it, we will be a much, much happier world.
They are all interrelated. They're free press, like yours, that addresses issues and challenges government policies if they are wrong and bring out the corruption. If you do that, you will have better governance. And I feel that one of the reasons for poverty is bad governance. If you're talking about Baldi Medical, poor people don't go to a doctor unless they are really sick.
But if you go to them, to their huts, and look at them and say, you've got this problem, let me do a blood test on you and take care of them, or they can walk up to your clinic, it will make a big difference to their health. That's another moral duty you have to make sure that people don't suffer. Suffering. Poverty has different dimensions. It's not hunger. It's suffering.
And even indignity of being in a lower caste, that is also part of poverty. So I find all these activities that I embarked on, they're closely interrelated, though you may not see it as such. I mean, the only one somebody may argue that I did doesn't fit in with poverty is lead poisoning. That's an urban problem more than anything else.
But I would argue even there, who suffers most is the poor people in slums who have no way of protecting themselves, who are right next to a factory that is fabricating lead. They are the ones who are suffering. So it's also a poverty issue. So everything I've done, as some connection may not be directly visible, But some of them are directly connected.
I am Not that worried or concerned about my personal legacy. I like to leave behind an institution, Shanti Bhavan, and some of the other projects that will last for hundreds of years, that will change people's lives, that will bring joy to people who never had anything. If others would carry that forward, that would be great. And what I have done,
if it appeals to people and they will be attracted to join this crusade, that will be wonderful. So what I hope to see is this mission carrying forward with the help of millions of others and we transform the lives of those who are suffering and who are deprived. And that will be my greatest wish. I don't personally don't care what happens about my name. That's not as important.
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