Mother of the destitute rejoicing in human service

Galkot, 7th November (RSS): Until the age of twenty-two, Sumira Lama of Hetauda was not much interested in human service. His routine was going on in fun and playful nature due to his age.

Sometimes he dropped out of college and wandered around, sometimes he used to ask his parents for money and enjoy going to the cinema. It didn't take long for the lama's nature and daily life to change from this regularity of a few years. The thirty-nine-year-old lama has now been dedicated to human service for seven years. If he was only in this area for a moment's fun and to show off to someone, he would have been separated from this area by now. The spirit of human service awakened in him is increasing more and more. It seems that the rest of Lama's life will be devoted to service.

Born in an ordinary family, Lama's parents wanted to see him get a job like his friends. However, he proved to be better than his fellow workers due to his dedication and dedication to human service. For four years, Lama has been dedicated to the rescue of street people, the guardian of the orphans and the support of the destitute as the coordinator of the Baglung branch of Manav Seva Ashram. The lama, who has faced many difficulties and problems during human service, is now working at the ashram spontaneously. "I am surprised myself, the goal of studying that campus, the life and the moment and the present experience, dedication to human service, thinking and being able to walk by adding bricks to the help of the needy is a different experience", Lama said. I am satisfied with human service, I have tried to be a parent of the parentless, I will spend as much time as possible in human service. She is now becoming the mother of small destitute children and the guardian of people who are left without care. He has now succeeded in becoming a responsible and mature parent of the orphans.

Lama had no idea that it had been three years since the Manav Sewa Ashram was opened near the campus. Lama's friends, who are studying for graduation, brought the news that a training was being conducted. The nine-day training was at the ashram. At that time, Lama suddenly wanted to train, but not for human service, but only to gain more experience for a job. The idea of father and mother was to make their daughter a job. From the first day he participated in the knowledge transfer training, his mind started to change. The spirit of human service was reflected in him. He began to see himself in the faces of the children and parents in the ashram. During the entire training period, his heart was filled with the spirit of human service. "During the training, I learned about the Ashram's work, service and rescue and treatment", said the Lama emotionally.

Lama's life, dreams and plans have been changed by participating in the training for the greed of a certificate, now 'job' is gone from his mind. He is now devoted to the service of orphans, helpless and street people. He has not had time to think about his personal life. Lama and Adarsh Dhakal, who participated in the training, are now in the human service. Lama spent time in the ashram and completed his graduate studies. He leaves home and spends day and night in the ashram. The ashram where he was serving was the first ashram. He did not think that the Manav Seva Ashram would become nationwide in such a short time, nor that everyone would like and support it. If he had got a job, Lama might have been able to give two or four rupees to his family, he might have been known by limited friends, his parents' goals might have been fulfilled, but after engaging in human service, he has become a separate identity.

While Lama was serving in the ashram, the Hetauda branch was doing well. He was sent to Chitwan on the advice of Central President Ramji Adhikari. He was very healthy there in the beginning. Hetauda was close to home, but when he came to Chitwan, he felt a little uneasy. He has also experienced that it was very difficult to manage the ashram in Chitwan. "In the beginning, there was a second branch of the ashram, it was very challenging to manage, there was no help from anyone", said the lama.

He went to the Kathmandu branch after some time. After reaching there, some positive news about the ashram started coming out, everyone started getting to know each other and help started coming to the ashram. Later in the year 2074, the presiding officer for Baglung branch sent him to Baglung for three months. However, since then Lama is in Baglung.

The goal of life is human service

Lama says that the goal of his life is to serve humanity. He is now devoting himself to human service. He said that the Baglung branch will serve from its own building and will also play a role in the expansion of other branches. "The goal of life is human service, who has seen the future?" I have been in this area for seven years, the construction of the Baglung branch building has also started", Lama said. "Sometimes I have been to Gorkha and sometimes to the Pokhara branch to conduct training and seminars, sometimes to conduct street plays in Daudaha." It is his experience that it has been a great help to reflect the spirit of humanitarian service through street drama.

He says that he is happy to be a mother of 49 'destitutes' at a young age. Currently, the Baglung branch, run by Muthi Dan, has dependents of the homeless, the destitute, the disabled and the mentally ill. Lama says that the support of the social volunteer team under the leadership of Shiv Khadka, Manish Rayamazhi, at the initial stage for the establishment of the ashram, is memorable.

Ashram is home

Lama feels as if he has forgotten the house where he was born. Now the ashram feels like home to him. He does not even have time to go home to meet his parents. "Now the ashram feels like my own home, the children feel like my own children", said the lama. Lama, who said that he did not have time to go to his native place, said that after reaching home, the mother sent Sumira's contents with gundrak to the children to ask what they would eat.

Lama's parents, who were born in Makwanupar, Hetauda-8 Kamane, denied their daughter's interest in human service at the initial stage. They were angry that their daughter, who was good at reading and writing, was wasting her time in the service of others. "Once, when Baba came to the ashram, she saw me cleaning the toilet, she went home and cried saying that her educated daughter would do such a thing", the lama recalled, "later, after hearing the appreciation of my work from the villagers, she started to calm down."

Lama says that the parents are proud of their daughter's courage, contribution and role dedicated to human service in recent years. In 10 years of Ashram establishment, 22 branches of Manavseva Ashram are functioning. Now the Baglung branch building is under construction at Nirayaghat.