Morning Walk With Murty

This personal journal entry chronicles the author's transition from professional training to social service and the eventual launch of Project Antaryami. After years of managing virtual assistant teams, the author attempted to pursue a life of spiritual seclusion, but global circumstances and the needs of a long-standing family-run trust redirected their path. The text highlights a deep-rooted legacy of social reform passed down through generations, specifically focusing on the management of old age homes for the destitute. Faced with financial challenges within the trust, the author has integrated their technical expertise with philanthropy to create a self-sustaining model for elderly care. This initiative combines a training academy and a VA network to fund palliative and hospice services for nearly 300 residents. Ultimately, the source serves as a reflection on duty, mentorship, and the evolution of community service in the digital age.

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Today’s note to myself and my Littlebird 20260626

Yesterday Airtel Air connection was installed and fully functional.

At Arikirevula one student joined classes and paid partial fee. I have set auspicious hour yesterday at 5.30 PM and she turned before time and the class started as planned. She works as a teacher in a private primary school so I had to allocate her from 5 PM to 6 PM session. I will set schedule accordingly. Vineela accepted 10 AM to 11 AM session. There are 4 more classes to cover as she missed classes from the schools started. It is very common with housewives attending classes to attend at 10 or 11 AM classes as they could finish their household chores. For those working women they either chose morning classes at 5 AM or 6 PM or 7 PM classes. Almost all classes are one hour length. But past few years while I am completely dedicated my time at our old age homes I have to stop all activity of teaching or taking new students that can be part of my VA team and I made them work independently without my involvement in the projects. I kept warning my past students who in turn become my VAs to work without my help as I will not be available in regular projects as I am leaving Rajahmundry and completely dedicate myself in Yoga research and stay in Santi ashram at Thotapalli Hills. But during Corona everything changed, Ashram stopped taking any inmates and kept postponing my request to stay there. By the time I have closed my office, sold everything to free myself from every financial activity. It is almost like taking Sanyasa. As I have become free and Santi Ashram committee kept postponing decision about my stay I moved to one of the branches of our old age homes. Good one to stay was at Mallavaram. These old age homes were part of our Kasturba Mahila Samajam founded by my grand mother Burlagadda Veerraghavamma and her friend Charla Suseela and the inspiration was Charla Ganapathi Sastry who was also a friend of my great grand father Uddagiri Veerraju. They and many others at Nidadavole are poitically active and part of many social reforms. My great grandfather is owner of very reputed restaurant chain along with his brothers so they had money, reputation and influence on the Nidadavole town. The Kasurba Mahila Samajam was started for women empowerment (eight years ago) and managed by my grandmother for 50 years and by mother for 10 years. Later the daughters of Charla Suseela got their retirement and came to Nidadavole and started old age home in the name of Charla Suseela Vriddhasramam. These two sisters Vidula and Mrudula are also friends of my mother and our relation was more of relatives than friends. It is a friendship of 4 generations and the Charla family kept inspiring our family values and cultures. Due to our businesses our participation in the trust activities become less and these Charla sisters who dedicated fulltime to the trust activities. They didn’t even marry to dedicate themselves to social service. As they are ageing and I took decision to move to our old age home and get myself acquainted with the activities of the trust. It is in 2019 according to the plan I moved to one of the branches at Mallavaram and started spending time completely there in administrative activities. Three years ago one of these Charla sisters, Vidula died and the whole responsibilities of managing trust was on the shoulders of Mrudula. My students started persuading me to start something to generate more income for them as their children are grown up. Many of them are associated with me since 2003 or earlier so it is almost like a family. I am not just their trainer or employer but a guardian and in Indian terminology I am their Guru guiding them in many matters. All chaturvidha purushardha. Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. Grand daughters of Charla Suseela also got retired or able to spare time for trust activities so I don’t need to stay at ashram so I came out and moved to Kovvur and still accessible to the trust as and when they require my services. As the communication technology has progressed a lot and wireless communication has reached to remote villages I started Vistara Marketing and tried promoting virtual assistance again.

Our trust was short of funds so we have to resign from administration of few branches including Mallavaram branch. At present there are three branches with 300 resident (orphans) aged so in ideal conditions we need at least 15 lakh to maintain them. If we need to offer better services like palliative and hospice care the money required could be triple or quadruple. So I started promoting my concept Project Antaryami. Antaryami Academy to train VAs, Antaryami VA network to employ them and Antaryami Ashram to accomodate aged, orphaned, destitutes providing them palliative and hospice care. Antaryami Ashram should be self sufficient with revenue share from Antaryami Academy and Antaryami VA network. Since May 2025 I kept promoting the concept both online and offine.