A walk around the temple

Anne no better so her friend Praveen, who has been here a long time, invited Edie & Me to take a walk to see the Temple animals & Green Sakthi plant nursery. The Temple owns 700 cows, which are, of course, sacred animals here. They are beautifully looked after & although there is no opportunity for them to graze (a work in progress), some are taken for walks!! The objective is to preserve & propogate the native breeds. Cows are also donated to those in financial hardship to provide families with dairy products plus the opportunity of extra income through the selling of milk. Amma donates 100s of cows to poor farmers every year. I am unsure as to why deer, geese, doves & an emu are kept, but again, they have good lives. Apparently, it was decided to import emus to India as a source of protein, but the idea didn't really take off!! Speaking of protein, I have no idea where Induans got their protein from apart from dairy products. It's one of the great mysteries!! Anyway, it was a beautiful peaceful walk following the Temple wall. The Green Sakhti Afforestation Program donates many thousands of saplings & fruit trees to the surrounding area. It is one of many charitable projects initiated, blessed, and guided by Sri Sakthi Amma. Others include the Anna (food) Dhaanam (giving) - nutritious food using locally grown ingredients is served free to more than 7,000 people who visit the Temple each day; Mathoura Ganga - the distribution of drinking water to villages in the Vellore district who regularly experience drought. Water is pumped 20km & stored & supplied to villagers in tankers. Bores are also sunk & donated each year; Primary & Secondary schools have been built & for some children they are the first to attend school & also have the opportunity to learn English; to provide quality medical care at affordable cost to the rural public & free of cost for the needy, Amma built the Sri Narayani Hospital & Research Centre along with a College of Nursing. There are future plans for a Medical College giving local rural people the chance to train & move back to their communities to set up clinics. So much amazing good work being done here. 💙💚🩵Read more