About Us

Spiritual and material poverty afflict different parts of the world in various measures. Spiritual poverty is as damaging as material poverty. The spiritual poverty of humankind promotes covetousness and a consumerist lifestyle that leads to global warming and catastrophic climate change. Spiritual poverty leads to hatred, violence, genocides, and terrorism, whereas the world needs peace, non-violence, love, compassion, and fraternity among nations and different faiths and communities. Spiritual poverty also causes erosion of human and moral values, leading to massive corruption and plunder of public funds, resulting in the aggravation of mass poverty. 

Material poverty often leads to malnutrition, hunger, indebtedness, and dehumanisation. Such dehumanisation sometimes may lead to criminality and erosion of moral and spiritual values, as does the surfeit of personal wealth. Thus, spiritual and material poverty both bring an equal diminution in general human happiness. There is, therefore, a need to address both since often, if not always, the two are interlinked. 

 

Spirituality, especially of the kind espoused by the Bhagavad-Gita—a universally admired Book often called the “Holy Book of Humanity”—prompts people to work hard to become prosperous without being covetous and self-indulgent. This approach alone can save the planet from devastation and damage to its ecology, which is today pushing the world towards becoming an unliveable place. Therefore, the Gita Global Family seeks to address the twin problems of spiritual and material poverty across the globe and create a global Gita family imbued with Gita values. 

 

Such a philosophy of life can only be translated into reality when the peoples of different countries and continents are brought together in a network, and two-way communication and collaboration begin. A lasting external change can only come when there is a change at the level of the mind and the spirit.