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Shramadana: Personality and Group Awakening through Shramadana

Theory Summary

How the Shramadana Camps help to achieve the objectives of personality awakening promoted by the Sarvodaya movement can be seen from the following:


Personality and Group Awakening through Shramadana includes:


  • Repairing and building tanks, irrigation canals and wells
  • Soil Conservation, clearing land for farming
  • Cutting access road to villages
  • Construction of school buildings, toilets, community centers, rural housing

within...


Shramadana Camps


where, as a result, there is...


Personality Awakening


1. Loving Kindness

2. Compassion

3. Sympathetic Joy

4. Equanimity


and...


Group Awakening


1. Sharing

2. Pleasant language

3. Joint work

4. Equality

Source

Communications Systems for Planning Change - from the Chapter entitled - 'A Buddhist Approach to Development - A Sri Lankan Endeavour' pps. 48/49.


Placed on the Communication Initiative site November 11 2003
Last Updated November 11 2003

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