Country: India
City: Pune Maharashtra
Organizer
Interfaith Association
Location
Maher ngo Pune maharashtra 412216
Email
[email protected]
To be an effective instrument for Divine service, we must have a personal
spiritual practice that sustains our living connection to the Divine within. Seva
without spirituality is a sure path to burn out. In the words of Meister Eckhart,
“The outer work can never be great if the inner work is small, and the outer work
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ST FEBRUARY-2023
The celebrations began from the 1st of
February 2023, with the interfaith
gathering. The Interfaith Association
for service to humanity and nature
celebrated its 6th anniversary. We all
gathered together at 6.00 PM and
started with holding the lamps to spread the positive energy in the surroundings.
Girls from Maher NGO performed a prayer dance of “Sharnam Sharnam” which
means devotion.
Spiritual leaders from various
religions attended the programme
and delivered messages of humanity,
love, compassion, unity which
followed by a prayer for the people
surrounding us, our motherland and
for the world. We received a blessings
from various representative of all the
religions i.e. Om Maharaj Atkal
(Hinduism), Fr.Peeter D’Cruz
(Christianity), Bhante Dhammanand
(Buddhism), Tamjid Patel (Islamic),
Teja Singh Pune (Sikhism), Leena Katrai Kiran (Jainism), Ramesh Shashtri
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Paturkar (Mahabubhav Panth). In every religion there is love but love has no
religion.
Afridi Ahmed is a missionary in-charge of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community which
stands for the world is one family and we should spread peace and unity
together around the world.
Founder of Interfaith Association Sister Lucy Kurien addressed the people and
expressed her gratitude for the participation and trusting her vision. She is one
of the founders of Maher NGO who build the home for destitute women,
children and men. She believes in the ideology of “love is our religion”
This event was led by Mangesh Pol one of the youths who grown up in Maher
NGO and lead the interfaith mission. At the end, we ended the event with
fellowship meal together.
can never be small if the inner work is great.”
We honor our spiritual responsibility to our earth family and to future
generations by living our daily commitment to our individual faith and spiritual
practice, for the sake of the Divine’s love for Creation.
We work on our characters to enable us to live more and more each day from
our hearts, for the sake of the Divine. We practice living from qualities such as
loving-kindness, generosity, attentiveness, respect, joy, listening, patience,
humility. We practice being loving, patient, forgiving, merciful and
compassionate towards ourselves for our limitations and imperfections as we
work on our characters
We commit to doing inner work so that we can be a container of Love, and to
healing our hearts and clearing our thoughts of separation, such as thoughts or
feelings of conflict, violence, greed, envy, vengeance and hatred.
We respect and love all religions. In our interfaith community prayers,
meditations, worship, and celebrations, spontaneous prayers and songs, we
generally refer to the Divine energy or light, rather than any one form of the
Divine to the exclusion of others. We maintain an inclusive atmosphere at all
times in our community prayers