Mokoena Infectious Diseases Hospital

[Guest guest]

From africadieu

Vivekananda Centre

Monday, March 04, 2002 08:35

Mokoena Infectious Diseases Hospital

 

 

Hello,

 

One of my nursing Sisters showed us your interesting Internet site,

and I am wondering if your establishment which seems to be founded

on the work of Swami Vivekananda of fond memory, has any advice for

our patients here, also, for us who work with them.

 

Here about fifty percent of the population has HIV/AIDS, and while some

of us caring for them are Hindu, we have not come up with anything we

can say by way of Hinduva to these people to give them some idea

from the Hindu religious point of views as to why they have HIV and must die.

 

We hope you and your people have some good Hindu philosophy to

give for a world-wide pandemic situation.

 

Hoping to hear from you

 

With kind regards

 

Prof. Dr. Sahasanu Panjwani & Staff

Mokoena Infectious Diseases Hospital

P O Mpumalanga

Kwa-Zulu Natal

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~Response from Vivekananda Centre London~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Dear Dr Sahasanu

 

You and your staff members are indeed very special.

What wonderful work you all do!

 

Our Mentor - Vivekananda - would have nothing but the

highest praise for your work. As you perhaps know he

represents the dynamic, contemporary and comprehensive

facet of Hinduism. He set up the Ramakrishna Mission and Math

which is involved in many philanthropic activities.

 

Let me give you a couple of quotes which perhaps you can print and

exhibit at the hospital. Vivekananda's life was nothing but self-sacrifice.

He lived the message he preached. Let me share some of his quotes

that you and your staff may find inspiring..

 

" And may I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries,

so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in,

the sum total of all souls "

 

" So work says Vedanta, putting God in everything and knowing HIM to

be in everything. Work incessantly, holding life as something deified,

as God himself. and knowing that this is all we have to do, this is all

we should ask for. God is in everything, where else shall we go to

find Him? He is already in every work, every thought in every feeling.

Thus knowing, we must work - this is the only way, there is no other. "

 

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I will request our list members to forward some of the Swamis

quotes that can inspire, give hope, peace and strength to people

undergoing a great deal of suffering. That may help and give some

comfort to the patients.

 

jay

Vivekananda Centre London