Monday, 11 August 2014

Hundials




  Hundials

Dear Devotees,
Warm and seasonal greetings from Sri Bhashyakara Charitable Trust.
As we gear up for the celebration of the new Tamil Year “Nandhana” on 14th of April 2012, we would like to pass on a gentle reminder to all of our prestigious hundial owners that the hard earned and affectionately deposited amount should be submitted atleast a week before the Tamil New Year day.
The practice of saving money through a hundial is quite common in our society at the households and temples. The concept behind though has been long forgotten and hence Sri Bhashyakara Charitable Trust has taken up the task of educating, creating awareness and reminding about this concept during every Tamil New year so that this knowledge and practice is passed on to the upcoming generations as well.
The concept of hundial appears so simple but it abstracts a complex and wonderful subject behind it which is known as “Destinal Mathematics” (Vidhi, Karmic Theory as per our Shastras). According to the Shastras destiny in not merely a set of fixed events in our life but is a package of such destined events along with provisions to avoid, defer or mitigate the same. This requires not merely an insight to the Shastras that deal with such subjects but also a foresight of the future which not everyone is gifted with.
So, for the laymen who apparently lack such a foresight, Shastras recommend that we collect and store a portion of the results (credits) of our positive actions and hard work for worst situations that may come in our future. These collected credits pouring in from various individuals and families are then submitted to an administration source which distributes the same to the needy (Charity) in a periodic interval.
Thus these hundial savings represent a commitment from us towards the charity in future that would benefit the needy and it is this commitment that eventually avoids, postpones or mitigates the currently awaiting dangers as per our destiny. So, a current danger is managed by a future action that is guaranteed by a present commitment in the form of hundial.
In today’s world, money represents the results of our hard work and hence hundials are used to store a portion of the money that we earn. It is not the quantum of money that we save in the hundial that matters but the understanding and commitment towards helping the needy thereby demonstrating our social responsibility, in the form of even small savings, is more than sufficient to yield exponential results. We all know that SBCT has recommended that a small amount of Rs. 500 at the minimum could be saved per month in the hundial.


Hundials are made in different forms as per the likes of the people. In the western world it is popular in the form of pig and is known as piggy bank. Unlike favoring silly likes and dislikes, SBCT has used the form of Lord Sri Lakshmi Narasimha who is the personification of the protection offered to His devotees, thus associating the device (hundial) that takes our request for protection with the Lord (Sri Lakshmi Narasimha) who guarantees and offers the actual protection.
You are fully aware that our SBCT acts as one of the mentioned administration authorities and the total collection is diverted towards some significant spiritual or social cause. Those who have not been able to attend to the hundials in their busy schedule or those who have poor contribution can do reasonable justice to the hundials by depositing something decent and donate, instead of providing a simple or empty one.
Those who have forgotten to get their hundials back or have lost them can receive new hundials or just collect in any other format and hand over the same to Sri. Anantha Kumar (0 99406 88798) and receive your receipts. Out-station people can deposit the same in Sri Bhashyakara Charitable account mentioned below.
Sri Bhashyakara Charitable Trust
A/c No:  789790590 
Indian Bank A/c,
North Usman Road, T.Nagar, Chennai-17

Once again, we want to remind that your small and earnest savings evince more power and fruit than your generous donations.
Yours sincerely
E. Damodharan (0 94443 49776)
For Managing Trustee
Sri Bhashyakara Charitable Trust
 




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