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With Blessings of His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Shankara Vijayendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Swami
An initiative to enhance Dharmic awareness among young individuals, assisting them in understanding and implementing the ancient wisdom from Shastras in their everyday lives, thus enabling them to embrace these timeless values. We invite you to collaborate with us in this vital mission to enrich future generations.
'Manava Seva Madhava Seva' is an attempt to get individuals to realize the sensitivity behind a hair cut and to ensure that one's cut hair is disposed in the right manner by means of donations to the right cause.
Manava Seva
Given the pressing need for a hair cut to suit one's worldly lifestyle, one could look at how it could be directed towards 'Paropakaram' in terms of donating the hair to patients suffering from severe hair loss due to effect of medications
This way the cut hair would be directed in a Dharmic way to be of use to someone in need
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Madhava Seva
As per the tradition of people hailing from certain parts of India, it is customary to surrender one's hair in some Teertha Kshetram, could be one's Kula Daiva Kshetram or Divya Kshetrams. TIrupathi in Andhra Pradesh, Palani in Tamil Nadu are some such Kshetrams where devotees offer their hair to the Lord. In the event of an unavoidable hair cut, one could look at redirecting the cut hair to be offered in such Divya Kshetrams
Manava Seva Madhava Seva Kendra
The Manava Seva Madhava Seva Kendras aim at having a set up across different locations to engage hair stylists to provide services to individuals who could opt to either donate their hair either towards Manava Seva or Madhava Seva as per their choice and thus ensure the cut hair isnt getting disposed off in an undesirable way. The Seva Kendras which have a tie up for purpose of this donation with some of the Medical Centres across different locations and with the Tirumala Tirupathi Kalyana Kattu(tonsure centres at Tirupathi) would channelize the donated hair to the appropriate centres. All that one has to do is to register with one of the Seva Kendras closest to your location for your regular hair cut needs. Interested individuals may submit their registrations, and the Area Volunteers would then get connected to fix up your hair cut schedules on appropriate days of the calendar