Kamal Tolia & Lotus Healing Seva Group

Living in our comfortable homes, knowing that our meals are guaranteed, it is easy to forget that there is a world out there in which people have no shelter and no food. It is these homeless people, the children that LHSG Kenya went to feed on 11th August. Read below the write up from Monica Gokaldas. Read also the moving experience of our youngest member, 12 year old Pranav Acharya, …….
Kamal Tolia

Narayan Seva at Sai Centre, Nairobi

On the 11th August 2013, a few of us from LHSG went to Sai Centre on Waiyaki Way to do Narayan Seva. Narayan in Hindi means God and Seva of course implies to serve. The people of Sai Centre feed the poor children every sunday and call this feeding programme a Narayan Seva as under Hindu belief system, feeding the poor is considered equivalent to serving the Lord.

The group had paid for the meal which is prepared at the Centre’s kitchen very early in the morning. The meal consisted of rice, red beans, bread and juice. We took with us packets of milk to be distributed to each child. Besides milk we went with sweets and biscuits. Some other people had brought bananas and someone brought Mandazis.

We began by prayers at a small table altar in the kitchen, thus offering the first plate of the meal to Baba. Each of us took a bit of prasad from that plate and then the children who had lined up by 8.30 am were brought in. The children who were roughly about 500 were brought in two shifts.

As the kids came in they took up places on the wooden low benches. They offered their prayers to Baba before being served the meals. We handed out plates, spoons and cups to each of them and then served the food one by one.

I felt very grateful to Punita and Jayant whose noble thought had resulted in this event being conducted by LHSG on the sunday before Dr. Usui’s birthday thus commemorating the day with the future of Kenya – the youth and kids.

It was a day well spent as we were all very happy to feed the children and their happy expressions at seeing packets of milk and bananas (which most of them saved to eat later) made us realise, how much this one meal meant to them. Kamal told us that sometimes, this is the only meal of the day most of them get.

The LHSG members and their husbands and children that did this seva were Punita, Jayant and Pranav, Monica and Haresh, Kamal and Harish, Lata and Harish and Pratima.
Monica Gokaldas LHSG Kenya
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On Sunday 11th Of August I Pranav Acharya went to the Sai center with the Lotus Healing Sewa Group. I had a great experience there. I went to do Sewa to the needy children that had no roof on their head and food on their plate some of them were orphans and I was sad seeing them in such a terrible state. I am so grateful that I have 3 meals a day without thinking twice. And I am so lucky to have a roof over my head. Being amongst all those children I was emotionally stirred which in turn gave me a stomach ache. I went up to my mom and said I am feeling very sad and in turn it’s giving me a stomach ache. She advised me to sit in a corner and bless these children with Love and Light. This made me feel much better towards the end.
I am extremely grateful to God, and specially my parents who take me with them to do Sewa as its a very fulfilling experience

Love and Light

Pranav Acharya LHSG Kenya

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What can one give to someone who has very little or nothing? The answer is plenty. You can give them so much …… food, clothing, shelter, money…… But what could you give them that would never finish, always be there, give them good health, heal them when sick, and heal their loved ones and friends too? The only thing that meets these criteria … You guessed right is … empowering them with healing energy!

This then is the mission of Lotus Healing Seva Group, to share our Love and Light with the poor, the poorer and the poorest in our society. On 22^nd July, the children of Pamela’s Paradise in the Kibera slums of Nairobi were the recipients of this sharing. Forty seven children between the ages of 3 and 17 came all excited in the morning for their training in Reiki. They were accompanied by 7 equally excited adults! The event took place in a Church hall in Kibera.

After an informative introduction to Reiki by Mamta, they were attuned to Reiki Level 1, and taught how to heal themselves. This was followed by a filling lunch and then how to heal others. Finally, before leaving, they were given cakes and milk, and some throat lozenges that had been kindly donated by Beta Health Care. 

And so ended another Reiki camp for LHSG in Nairobi, Kenya. One more chance for us to do seva and bring Light and Love to people. As at the end of every seva, we enjoyed the satisfaction of giving, for which we are always grateful to the Universe. But wait! We got even more. We got to witness the sparkle in the little kids’ eyes, the joy in their smiles as they marveled at the new found energy in their hands, the earnestness with which they did Reiki on themselves and on each other….

At the end of the camp, we wondered … who had given whom? … who had enriched whom? …… For sure there were many many happy and grateful hearts that day!

The members who were privileged to do this seva were Raj, Mamta, Monica, Punita, Anuradha, Brit, Pratima, Bubbles, Shariffa and myself. this brings to 27, the number of Reiki camps we have carried out in Kenya in which 868 people have benefited.

Kamal Tolia

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