“How can anybody be anath (orphan) in this land of Raghunath and Vishwanath?” asks Sadhvi Rithambara
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“How can anybody be anath (orphan) in this land of Raghunath and Vishwanath?” asks Sadhvi Rithambara. Outflowing from her fond concept of bhakti is vatsalya or devotion as towards children, getting reflected in her novel experiment of communes vatsalya mandir and now vatsalya gram. Her vatsalya gram at Param Shakti Peeth is a verdant sprawl of 43 acres on the Vrindavan-Mathura Road. In her vatsalya mandir and gram she takes up destitute children and old women and prepares them as role models of daughters, mothers or grandmothers as is the case. Sadhvi Rithambara is referred to here as “Didi Ma,” and schoolteachers know that children have come from vatsalya mandir. She finds charity a cold concept. It might provide food, clothes and shelter to some needy person but can’t impart love, affection, care and warmth, necessary for healthy evolution that vatsalya is all about.
