Shri Ashutosh Maharaj Ji – universalizing brotherhood for disaster management
The universe is a web of diverse and multiple systems. Right from the natural habitat to the human society furthering down to the families; the nested individuals too are a system in their own. Interconnected and interdependent are its two symbolic wings if the system is taken for instance as a bird. These two attributes keep any system balanced and sustained. The whole water cycle gets disturbed when there is no sun. The evaporation, the condensation as well as the precipitation goes haywire. Similar outcomes are seen when even a single unit of the society or the family or the individual system gets stabbed. So who gets the pain? All systems, indeed! The super-system of nature is like a bead necklace where each creature represents a bead be it a human or a quadruped or a geographic feature – mountains, rivers, trees etc. and the thread being the super-soul – the supreme consciousness [Gita – 7,7]. Hence, any kind of human malfunction causes suffering to the whole system, natural as well as synthetic or man-made. Natural disasters cause devastation in human society and conversely human malfunction prompt catastrophic outbursts in nature. Furthermore, human malfunction is self-annihilating in the form of man-made disasters such as terrorist attacks, bomb-blasts etc. leading to bloodshed, loss of family etc. The principle value of Hinduism – Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam that envelopes the same ideology of integrated units and systems is also the ultimate solution for disaster management as well as prevention in the long run. Walking on the same lines, head and founder of DJJS, Shri Ashutosh Maharaj Ji is igniting the much needed compassion and sensitivity in peoples’ hearts to render solace to the devastated humanity under the disaster management program – Samadhan. It is said that better than sympathy is empathy. Verily, only the ones awakened to the super-soul can empathize with the pain of others. Therefore, the brigade of self-awakened devotees of Shri Ashutosh Maharaj Ji as volunteers of Samadhan ensures not just post-relief material but also post-relief psychological as well as social care to the victims of disaster.