Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks quotes a saying, “Many people worry about their own stomachs and the state of other people’s souls. The real task is to do the opposite: to worry about other people’s stomachs and the state of your own soul.” How true.
He quotes another, “Someone else’s material needs are my spiritual responsibility.”
Let us bring cheer and joy to others in ways that would fulfill their needs of the moment. The needs of the poor is very little. Almost always it centers upon food. Knowing this Ramalinga Adigal started the Satya Dharma Salai to feed the hungry at Vadalur in 1867. This activity continues till this day. This noble act has been picked up by many individuals and associations throughout the world. Sadhu Janagiraman and Sadhu Saravanan are among them. They run the Vallalar Mission in Thiruvannamalai. They feed the sadhus and hungry daily and on a large scale during the Karthigai Deepam season. Both sadhus are very passionate about their work and the teachings of Ramalinga Adigal.
Locally Sri Krishna and his family have taken up the call of feeding the hungry and poor. Many noble souls seeing him go live on the streets, have called him up to offer themselves in service. This has been very encouraging and serves as a motivation for him to do further.
Sri Krishna expanded his service to all fields, reaching out to the poor, old, young, disabled, hungry and unfortunate both locally and abroad.
Just as we light a wick from another flame, while Sri Krishna took the cue from Sadhu Janagiraman and Sadhu Saravanan, Thondu Seivom and Amudha Surabhi took the cue from him and began serving and distributing food to those in the homes and food parcels to the homeless too. The flame from Satya Dharma Salai in Vadalur now is lighted in all these souls in Malaysia.