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February 26, 2008

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I am truly humbled

Truly, poverty of the heart is what afflicts most of us.  I have never felt that as strongly, until I saw this video. Watching this video has definitely humbled me, and made me take a good strong look at myself.  For those who truly want to help, they help, inspite of all hardships.  For the rest, its a daily littany of whines, goal statements and spelling out of human greed [not wants].  I definitely fall into the second category of greed, rants, and whines. Im thankful to my friend Shakti Shenoy, for this link!  (I always believed that you meet a person for a definite spiritual reason) The video is a program that identifies a Citizen Hero.  The protagonist is a person called Hajabba from a small village off Mangalore, (my home town), called Nyupadpu.
Some would dismiss him as just another illiterate fruit seller, but, 47-year-old Hajabba's life is a lesson in inspiration. Hajabba, who built a school to educate over a 100 children in his village near Mangalore, was honoured by Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur after he saw the fruit seller's story on CNN-IBN. Thakur awarded Hajabba
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