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Gita for the blind in Braille

 

Aadhyatmik Chetana Samiti (Reg) , based at Delhi, India, is involved in printing the Vedic scriptures for the blind in Braille script and gives them free to the blind schools and students. You'll be surprised to know that till now there were no Braille script scriptures or stotras for the blind people of India to read and learn. This is the first organization which has undertaken this task. Pt. Ram Kumar Sharma, who is a Sanskrit teacher at the School for the blind, New Delhi, started this project with the help of a few other like minded people and is providing the scriptures and stotras etc. to the blind schools and students freely.

So far they have printed and distributed feely the following books for the blind -Vishnu Sahasranama Stotra, Lalita Sahasranama Stotra, Shiva Sahasranama Stotra, Hanuman Chalisa, Sundara Kanda, Durga Chalisa, Lakshmi Asthakam, Lakshmi Astottara Shatanaama Stotram, Sri Sooktam, Aditya Hrudayam.

In August '07 they conducted a stotras competition for the blind students and distributed prizes.

Thanks to the good wishes and help extended by many helping hands, they have managed to print, Bhagavad Gita for the blind people in Braille. This 1st ever Braille edition of Gita is with Sanskrit verses and Hindi commentary and it is being inaugurated on 30 November 2007 by Sri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Ramabhadracharya, (the Ramanuja Muth equivalent of a Shankaracharya) M.A.Dlit in Sanskrit. He is an acknowledged Vedic scholar who started the world's only university for the physically handicapped at Chitrakoot, MP, and is blind himself.

The venue is the Blind School, near Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi, 30th November 2007, 3.00 PM. The Gita

in Braille will be distributed free of cost to all the registered blind schools and to any blind person who wants it.

Their next project, which is in process, is Bhagavad Gita in Braille, the English translation is by Swamy Paramahamasa Sivananda of the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh. Right now it is almost a 2 man project. Pt. Ram Kumar Sharma, who is a Sanskrit teacher at the School for the blind, New Delhi, looks after putting together the Devanagari script, editing the Braille composition, printing and distribution of the booklets. Pandit Siva Prasad Tata, the well known astrologer of

www.astrojyoti.com looks after the fund raising and publicity.

 

So any support is a morale booster for them.

For donations, please visit:

http://www.astrojyoti.com/paymentoptions.htm

 

Money is not necessarily the only help. You can help in other ways too:

http://www.astrojyoti.com/helpfortheblindpublicity.htm

You are cordially invited to attend the function.

You can contact Pandit Siva Prasad Tata on +91-9911119235.

You can read more about this organization at: http://www.astrojyoti.com/helpfortheblind.htm

 

Kind regards and God bless you all,

Gaurav