Grama Seva is Rama Seva - Ebook

'Grama Seva is Rama Seva' (Service to Village is Service to God) is a well-researched, compilation of invaluable utterances from discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on Grama Seva for the sustainable economic and social development. This concise yet thorough compilation is well organised into several topics on rural developments with a thrust on the pragmatic application of Swami's teachings.

An ardent devotee of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and a staunch Gandhian, late Prof. (Dr) Trichy Krishnaswamy Sudershan was well-recognised as an authority on Gandhian Economics. Throughout his life, he was actively involved in Teaching, Research and Extension Services to the rural mass. Retired principal of Government P.G.College, Chhindwara, Prof. (Dr) Sudershan was the member of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation in Madhya Pradesh, and had taken up a mission to ignite young minds for the and rural development.

In this compilation, the author has elaborately covered the topics like Indian Culture and Civilization built on rural communities, village uplift movement during the pre-independence era and Gandhian ideology, challenges of rural uplift and what needs to be done for transforming villages into self-sustainable models with innovative solutions, the role of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation and its volunteers and in proving basic amenities like healthcare, education, drinking water etc., the spiritual binding through unity - purity - divinity for the volunteers of the Organisation, who have to be a forerunner in this field.

The attention of the readers is drawn to the sources given at the end of the main text, which will be useful to those who are interested to dive deeper. A must read for the volunteers of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations and others who are interested in serving rural mass as a means to illumination and ultimate self-realisation.