Acharya Sushil Gurve Namah
Siddhachalam Summer 2018 Arhum Youth Camp Concluded!
Guruji once said in 1985
Behind the history of all religions is youth. Wherever there is faith and hope, there is youth. Youth is responsible for all kinds of stories – good and bad.
……..Lord Mahavir began a big revolution for society; he did this when he was young. The same is true of Lord Buddha. You can read the history of nation in the East or West and you will find youth are responsible for all kinds of change.
………My dear students, our subject is how we can grow, how we can develop. Mahavir taught national character. My dear, think what is your duty.
Siddhachalam concluded its Summer 2018 Arhum Youth Camp this past Sunday, August 5th. The attendees enjoyed yoga, meditation, class on Jain way of life, vegan cooking, outdoor sports, chanting, Shikharji Scavenger hunt etc. The camp started on Friday, August 3rd afternoon with icebreaker activities and wrapped up on Sunday with kids writing notes for each other on their camp handbooks to take back as memories until they meet again.
We Need More Camp Counselors Between Ages 18-24
As our camp activities are getting bigger, we need more volunteers and more Camp Counselors. Teenagers who are 18 years and above are needed to sign-up to be trained as Camp Counselors. Please encourage such teenagers you know to sign up for this fantastic volunteer and learning opportunity at http://www.siddhachalam.org/arhumyc/ This will enable us to provide even more enjoyable experience to our campers while strengthening our already excellent Arhum Youth Camps.
Special thanks are due to our instructors from Towards Ahimsa: Ambika Jain and Neelesh Jain, Roopa Parakh-Bhandari and Ashish Bhandari for their inspiration, hard work and initiative.
Thanks to our volunteers for all their help and tireless support: Alpa Shah, Apurva Shah, Dhruv Kocheta, Harman Sharma, Madhu Gupta, Narendra Gupta, Pardeep Sharma, Pushpa Joshi, Rashmi Jain (Camp Director), Ratna Sharma, Sadhna Mehta. Counselors: Akshat Jain, Anish Visaria, Urvi Shah, Yash Shah.
Please send your comments, questions and more importantly Camp Counselors to: youthcamp@imjm.org. We are keeping Counselor enrollments rolling all year round so that we don’t wait until next summer. Please apply as soon as you make a decision to participate as a Counselor.
Keshi said to Gautam: “Whom do you call foes?” Hearing these words of Keshi, Gautam replied: “O sage! The first foe is one’s unconquered soul. Add to this the four passions of anger, conceit, deceit and greed, and the five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. Vanquishing all these ten, I move about righteously.” Kumar-shraman Keshi said: “Gautam, you are endowed with excellent wisdom. You have removed my doubt…” Uttaradhyayana Sutra, 23:3- 39. The conversation between Sharman Keshi, follower of Bhagwaan Parsvanath, and Gautam Swami, the ganadhara of Bhagwaan Mahavira.