Minutes of Meeting - BengaLuru

namaskAra MMFrnds,

It was quite an eventful meet, with lot of things discussed and also a positive outcome!

Highlights:

> Ashirwadha from Sri Sri 1008 Bannanje Raghavendra Theertharu!
> 1% of turn out!!! that was huge!


Attendance:


1. Jayasimha M
2. Suman Achar
3. Madhusudhan Gulur
4. Shyam Sundar
5. Pradhyuma (student of PPVP)
6. Chaitra Rama Murthy
7. Seetha Kulkarni
8. Sona Indurkar
9. Sowmya V Bapu
10. Sudheendra Srinivasan
11. Srikanth Vellore
12. Sripriya Sridhar
13. Chaitra Prasanna
14. Sanjay Bheemsena Rao
15. Chadrika Sanjay
16. Sowmya Mysore

maKkaLu:

1. SriHari
2. Ambrinee Krishna murthy
3. Sriya Sridhar
4. Anjanee Thippa Srinivasa Rao
5. Sanjay's Son
6. Sanjay's Daughter

Proceedings:

1. Sri Suman Achar Started the meeting with a shloka.
2. Quick intro. Session
3. Sri Sudheendra Started the meet with agenda and why we were meeting.
4. Sri Chitra Rama Murthy avru discussed the initiatives Survey/thread which he had run along with Smt. Sripriya Sidhar.
Points Discussed:
a> Cleanliness Campaign
b> Supporting bada Vidhyarthi
c> Teaching subjects for free.
d> Go-Samrakshana. This topic was disucceed further, with inputs from others.
e> Supporting madhwa families in rural areas "yatha-shakthi"
f> vrudhashrama.

While discussing we happened to remember couple of quotes...
Vitthal Mirji > "Kelsakke karIbedi - ootakke maribedi"

Sripriya who qouted Palimaru Shrigalu > "janakke kaNNuaLLe neeru barolla... bHaviyalli elli  baruthe"

5. We had a nice suggestion from CRM and Shyam Sunder avru and other members who also hinted , that we should have a database of initiatives which are going on or being taken up.

6. Theertha Prasada.

7. Post Theertha Prasada we had Sri Sanjay joining us with his family & also Smt. Sripriya & Co joined. So did Kum Chaitra prasanna & Kum. Sowmya Mysore.

8. The post TP session we did a recap of previous discussion and gathered some more inputs.

9. Sri Shyam Sunder stressesd upon the need to "brining the horses to the stream, and leaving upto them to drink the water.." (better explained in kannada!:P)

10. It was unanimously accepted that we'll support exisitng initiatives, and in case we have a need we shall try to create one!

11. Another initiative which came up was free psychatric consulting (Smt. Sripriya suggested one of our MMF's mother who is a pshycaterist, Sri madhusudhan Suggested we team up with Ajithashree)

12. Smt Sripriya proposed an event as in "aNavarNa" to be conducted for which we have some good organizers with no dearth in talen. She took few names from Cisco one Mr. Ram. (Need to threadbare this)

13. Kum Sriya Sridhar rendered a beutiful dasarapadha "Nara-hari, Ramakrishna siri Vedavyasa ..." to mark the completion of the event!

14. Sri Raghavendra Theertharu, was gracious enough to give us some audience. he touched upon few subtle things and brought forth on how simple and straigt FWD they are!

He asked us to participate in terms of spreading Madwa samparadaya, by helping him out with his "numerous" handouts. Also he shared few of his initiatives of distributing palmphlets and handbooks another important thing of "32 feet Statue of Sri madhwacharya" @ Madhwanagara, BaLenahaLLi. (details will be shared seperately)

15. Few of our MMFs were generous enough to contribute towards those initiatives then and there, and this shows the seriousness & commitment among our friends who participated in the meet :)

Outcome:


1. To create a robust database of "ONLINE MADHWAS"
2. To collate the data about all the initiatives run by our "Madhwa brethren". So that we can take a call on which to support.
3. In this process we were fortunate to find the following initiative drivers:

Sri Suman Achar & Sandeep Inamdar > to co-ordinate between jignaasa and MMF, rather find support here!

Sri Chaitra Rama Murthy > Go-Samrakshane

Sri Jayasimha MN > To collate and work on the Haridasa sahitya project. Along with this he'll work on Database for Online Database for ONLINE MADHWAs

Sri Madhusudhan Gulur > bada Brahmana vidhyarthi support

Kum Sowmya Mysor and her Sis > They'll drive the initiative in co-ordination with youth for seva for teaching children during free time and supporting them with fees and other costs.

Kum Chaitra Prasanna > She brought FWD the initiative for Women health which will be supported by Doctors in our group and also Smt. Sripriya

P.S > @others who attended please add if am missing anything.

~~ Hare Srinivasa ~~