“The Global Call for Love and Peace was a god-send.  It was the most high, peaceful, heart-centered and utterly serene moments I’ve felt since the disasters in Japan started.  In everyday life, I hear people talk about the worsening situation, shake their heads and feel overwhelmed.  On this call, we were led into light-filled, peaceful, purposeful and powerful realms of our inner world to make a difference in the outer world.  It felt so real, so tangible- I know an impact was made with our collective prayers.  Beginning with us, we definitely are the change we want to see in the world!”

~Anonymous

Are you feeling like you would like to do something positive and proactive to bring healing to the people, lands, plants and animals recently affected by the natural disaster?

Join us in holding hands, sending light and love, and raising voices in song- together, we can create a tangible energy of love and peace on this planet.

Beginning on Wednesday, March 16th, Pillai Center and Tripura Foundation are joining together to host a daily prayer ceremony for Global Love and Peace.  The daily ceremony will be hosted at our Pillai Retreat Center in San Diego, a vortex of love and peace.

We invite you to join us for our monthly Global Call for Love and Peace, as we come together on a conference call and pray together, fill ourselves with Grace Light, and transmit light to all in need of healing.  Our monthly Global Call for Love and Peace is our way of sharing our daily ceremony with everyone, and creating an even more powerful vortex of Love and Peace for healing the planet.

First Call

Date: Sunday, March 20th (first day of Spring in Western Hemisphere)
Time: 11 AM EDT (www.timeanddate.com for time zone calculator)
Call in Number for Live Call:(760)569-7676
Access Code: 902673#

Please Note: Call will be recorded
Playback Number: (760)569-7699
Access Code: 902673#

How to Participate in Future Calls and Join Our Global Community in HoPE:

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Love, Light, Peace and Healing HoPE,
Team Tripura HoPE

Sunny has been teaching Mind Sound Technology to the boys at the Boystown in Selaiyur for about 1.5 years now.  He shared with me last week that it wasn’t until he volunteered here that he knew passion.  To spend time with the boys, to teach them such a valuable practice and too see them thrive and grow is what keeps him up at night thinking of how to spread the MST to more and more youth.  He started a new venture helping other students at his college write their CVs.  This is a profit enterprise that Sunny uses the revenue from to help fund a new venture his fellow school mates started called Ansh.  More about that later.  He helped Karthik from Boystown to write the CV that got him placed at Caterpillar as a Mechanical Engineer.  Congratulations Karthik and thank you Sunny.

left Sunny, middle Karthik, right Mr. Armugam (manager at Boystown)

He also teaches the boys MLA or Standardized Research Writing to get them involved in national and even international conferences that will give them experience and exposure and ultimately, empowerment!

‘Brotherly Love’ was the message we had for the kids of Tripura yesterday.  We visited Girlstown in Madambakkam, the Boystown in Selaiyur and then traveled to the other side of Chennai to Gumudipundi Boystown.  It was an all day love and cake fest!

The annual day is thought of for ‘lovers’ only but we reminded the kids how much love that people (their supporters both financial and through good wishes) have for them.  Love for No Reason– just because that is part of being a good human being.

The girls sang some Tamil Love Songs, the Selaiyur Boystown  demonstrated their Mind Sound classes that they do daily, and their in house cricket team posed proudly for pictures and went off to play a game.  The boys from Gumudipundi also demonstrated the MST and gave us an impromptu dance performance the when we left the country-side property the boys lined both sides of the driveway and showered us with pink flowers.  We can still feel the LOVE form all the ‘Kidstowns’!

Happy Valentine’s Day to All of Our HoPE Friends!

“I had an unforgettable experience while participating in our Briyani for the Hungry initiative in Goa.  One auspicious night, we were delivering the hot meals late in the evening to the destitute along the road, as we drove through villages.  The moon bathed the heart-rending images of the destitute as they prepared for a night’s rest.

Homeless Elder in Goa

We found cluster after cluster of elderly and frail-looking people huddled together, sitting or laying on the concrete by the side of the road, dressed in thin and worn clothing.  The night was chilly and I was cold even getting in and out of our car as I handed out the food packets.  These people had very little warm clothes or blankets- some were sitting on the cold concrete, or laying on scraps of cardboard.  Their faces and bodies showed the ravages of poverty.

Feeding poor in Goa

One particular cluster of elderly people were laying on the street outside a temple.  We stopped and I handed each of them a packet of briyani, warm and smelling fragrant.  They each smiled a big grin back at me, and several of them raised their hand with an extended palm to bless me.  I felt a light hit my brain, emanating from their palms.  As we drove away, I felt surrounded by a field of bliss.

When I arrived home, and closed my eyes to pray over my dinner, the light was still visible in the right side of my brain.  I went to sleep that night embraced by light and bliss.

I realized that even though we were able to extend the comfort of a hot meal to those suffering individuals, I was the one who received the greatest blessing- the light of God emanated from those simple souls and I felt forever changed.

That night, the idea came to me that we needed a mobile unit to provide all the most basic needs to those who have nothing.  For those that don’t have the gift of living in a community with their basic needs taken care of, we can bring some form of shelter and vital items needed to them- wherever they happen to be each day.

Our HoPE on Wheels is being launched in February, in Goa, in honor of our

Dr. Pillai, Founder Tripura Foundation

founder, Dr. Pillai’s B-day on Feb. 1st. I remember many occasions as Dr. Pillai described being kept awake at night by the cries of the hungry, or his compassion as he would hold up a bottle of costly medicine that would take away pain- but often completely out of the reach of the poor.

The greatest B-day gift for Dr. Pillai is to join us in financially supporting our HoPE on Wheels initiative.  HoPE on Wheels is his compassion in action, and we HoPE to expand this service to many locations in India.

We are the ones who are truly blessed to give to those who could not survive without our support- God’s grace comes to us through acts of compassion.

We thank our sponsor, Astroved.com, for the timely donation of a reliable and sturdy vehicle to be the wheels of our HoPE on Wheels!

I’ll keep you posted on the progress of both of these initiatives.”

HoPE Delivers!

~Elaine “Mohini” Kueper, Global Director, Tripura Foundation

December 2010
Year End Edition:

2010 was an incredible year for Tripura Foundation. Thanks to your generous contributions, we helped thousands of deserving individuals with our programs. Here are just a few highlights we’d like to share with you as we ring in the New Year together!

• Tripura HoPE Town Program

With your incredible support, we built 30 beautiful new homes for families previously dwelling in abject poverty and slum conditions in Manila, Philippines. This first HoPE Towns to be completed touched the lives of over 120 residents and hundreds of volunteers, all who contributed to the effort. Tripura provided provision packages containing one week’s groceries for 200 families at the HoPETown opening ceremony.

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• Girlstown, Boystown & Education Programs

With your help, Tripura provided year-round residential housing to 35 underprivileged girls at our Girlstown facility and 50 underprivileged boys at our Boystown facility. In addition to the children’s traditional schooling, we provided over 900 sessions of supplemental educational programs, including Mind-Sound Technology, Grace Light empowerment, values formation, creative arts projects, and other mindfulness and meditation practices.

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• Poverty & Hunger Relief Programs

Through your generosity, Tripura provided meals to over 24,000 spiritual pilgrims at Mt. Arunachala in Thirvanamalai, India. In addition, we provided hundreds of meals to homeless people in the U.S. and India, through the efforts of our devoted staff as well as our Indian partner Arul Jyoti Trust. We also held Medical Camps for remote Indian villages to deliver much-needed medical services and, with your help, we hope to expand this program in 2011.

• Animal Aid Programs

We are proud to deliver animal relief programs through selected Indian grantees, including Animal Aid and Blue Cross of India. Tripura provided meals, twice daily, to an average of 160 dogs, 40 cows, 40 donkeys, 4 monkeys, 10 cats, and 30 birds (wow, that’s a lot of tiny mouths!)…for a total of 2,750 individual meals.

• Spiritual Well-being Programs at our Retreat Center

Given the essential role of consciousness transformation in all Tripura program offerings, our Retreat Center in San Diego (and satellite in San Rafael) are important delivery centers for our transformational tools and models. In 2010, we led over 400 community gatherings (in-person and teleconference) involving over 10,000 people worldwide. We also performed over 1140 sacred ceremonies, including fire rituals, prayers and blessings to benefit humanity in the areas of planetary peace, global prosperity and abundance, personal and environmental health, social justice, and human evolution.

From all of us here at Tripura Foundation, we wish you a joyous, healthy and prosperous New Year!

Peace & Warmth,
The Tripura Team

Both the girls at Girlstown and the boys at Boystown were given new sandals and umbrellas to prepare for the upcoming rainy season.

Both items were generously sponsored by AstroVed, a company who donates financially, supports with ‘in-kind’ donations and whose employees volunteer in several different capacities to our charity projects.

The kids thought that their brand new things were ’super!’ and kept the boxes and wrapping too!

On this Independence Day, we need to reflect on the question: What is Independence?

This was a question posed by our founder Dr Baskaran Pillai.

Our girls are learning the importance of independent thinking and how to live independently of the poverty cycle.  Just as India became freedom fighters lived to help Indians to free from British rule, our MST and other core programs for enhanced education give the girls tools to break free of the poverty struggle.  They are becoming courageous and lit up about life, the future and the world.

Jaya He, Jaya Hind

Hoisting the Flag, Singing the National Anthem, Handing Out Sweets