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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.


Source URL:
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/27150