The Hindu interfaith response to HIV/AIDS of H. H. Ma Jaya Sati Havarti and the River Fund

Vilius Rudra Dundzila

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The Hindu interfaith response to HIV/AIDS of H. H. Ma Jaya Sati Havarti and the River Fund

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Vilius Rudra Dundzila. The Hindu Interfaith Response to Hiv/aids of H. H. Ma Jaya Sati Havarti and the River Fund. Meadville-Lombard Theological School. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/67f5b5e5-53b2-4b40-baad-310ae0ab0b39.

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V. R. Dundzila. The Hindu interfaith response to HIV/AIDS of H. H. Ma Jaya Sati Havarti and the River Fund. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/67f5b5e5-53b2-4b40-baad-310ae0ab0b39

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Vilius Rudra Dundzila. The Hindu Interfaith Response to Hiv/aids of H. H. Ma Jaya Sati Havarti and the River Fund. Meadville-Lombard Theological School. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/67f5b5e5-53b2-4b40-baad-310ae0ab0b39.

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This research thesis documents a comprehensive humanistic response to HIV/AIDS from a Hindu interfaith spiritual community. It explores the HIV/AIDS-related teaching and ministry of the guru H. H. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati and her human care service organization the River Fund, both at Kashi Ashram in Sebastian, FL. After providing her developmental biography, it summarizes her verbal, artistic, and kinesthetic forms of teaching. She responds to HIV/AIDS with the Hindu concept of seva (service) that follows the Hindu religious path of Karma Yoga (action). The project then examines the history and work of the River Fund, paying a particular focus to its de facto AIDS hospice, the River House. The organization is unique in both the Hindu and American religious contexts. The project demonstrates how a medium-sized religious congregation successfully provides secular HIV/AIDS social services.

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