5 Initiatives Inspired By Swami Vivekananda

V. Muralidharan
Founder of ‘Sevalaya’

Sevalaya is a charitable organization on Chennai, founded by V. Muralidharan with his friends. Along with Swami Vivekananda, he was much influenced by Mahatma Gandhiji and Mahakavi Bharathiyar. This organization runs a free school for the children of their orphanage and the surrounding village; a free medical center; a free library; a goshala to protect & raise cows; and, an old age home for destitute senior men and women.

He says, Vivekananda says that "People who are poor and needs support, they are Gods. Even if a single animal in the World remains hungry, then what is the need of having religion and so many Gods. We want our children to learn everything and not just bookish knowledge. We want them to respect old people and animals as well."

Sevalaya also have Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Old Age Home which provides shelter to poor and destitute old men and women, who have nobody to care for them and who cannot afford to go to institutions where they have to pay for their maintenance to spend their final years in peace and with dignity.

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