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 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. 1 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 5.00 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  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. 

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