By This morning while browsing in Facebook noticed a beautiful note written on this below page , talking about HSS Japan : https://www.facebook.com/Watch-out-1060161214010228/
It was the fascination with this energetic, optimistic and positive note about HSS Japan and self effacing view about their contribution to the society that forced me to write my memoirs and also include this watch out note in this blog ( With writer permission)
I landed up in Japan on Jan , 2016 and there was a time when i was looking for friends around and somehow got connected with HSS Japan Team members. I liked this organization because this was the only org that i observed and found in those days who was so active and their programs were also well planned and interesting. I am sorry , this was my initial impression in true sense. I came from a school background where we call everyone with their name and then Ji even for father age level seniors pass out from my school. Here also Everyone used to address even young boys with a “Ji”, the respectful address that we use in school for seniors.It was all very wonderful. I never heard any foul language from anyone. in this below Blog note you can read the similar sense for the same.
my interest was further enhanced when i started getting involved in various activities.It was not just affection, there was a deep desire to help each other selflessly. After three years I noticed that this spirit of service was extended as the purpose of life itself.
I inherited these qualities of great affection and sociability, helping others through sewa and settling differences, and an ability to work hard from my mother. I found HSS – a (national association of socio-community volunteer workers, generally referred to as Sangh), a combination of all these virtues which I had already inherited.
HSS Japan provided me the opportunity to apply these salutary qualities like affection for society, sewa, skills of reconciliation and hard work in real life. Sangh inculcates these virtues in people. At the same time the main mission of Sangh is to organize and unify the society. This is the reason why I was attracted to HSS Japan, why I joined HSS japan and why I like HSS Japan and have stayed on as its swayamsevak (a volunteer) .
The goal of the HSS Japan is to take our nation to the pinnacle of glory through organizing the entire society & ensuring protection of Hindu Dharma in Japan.
It is not easy to live a life of an ascetic, but it is much more difficult to work for the society as a family man, devoting all the time and energy to social work and giving up the possibility of better comforts for oneself and one’s family. It needs great spiritual energy and motivation to do this, not just once in a while but over a life time, in a sustained manner. HSS Japan has managed to create such human dynamos in hundreds who work selflessly for the society without any pomp and show. These are extraordinary people who lead seemingly ordinary lives, not hankering for any recognition. As a Sangh song puts it –
Shalabh ban jalna saral hai sneh ki jalti shikha par,
Swayam ko til til jalaa kar deep bananaa hee kathin hai,
Sadhana ka path kathin hai.
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My perspective on RSS/HSS : WATCH OUT BLOG NOTE
Generally, I write about Health n Nutrition, Human relationship at workplace, but finally I found necessary to pen down the positivity I find around! Please have patience to read and understand 
During the course of learning Japanese language and its culture in university, professors often characterized Japanese people as humble, honest, polite, punctual, and so on. To my surprise, I experienced also the same from the day I landed in Japan. For instance, you find no tipping culture in hotels, restaurants, you are thanked even when you leave shops without purchasing anything and many such examples that show the humbleness and dutifulness. Every time I experienced such practices in Japan, appreciated with gratitude with the thought that we foreigners should also learn.
Among all these growing trust for almost all habits of Japanese people during life in Osaka, I had opportunities to go to Tokyo and meet more Indians living there. There I happened to join events organized by a particular group of Indians who are generally known and addressed as “RSS” in India and exists as “HSS” in Japan. There I walked between the organizing members and the friendly environment made me join more of those events. What specialties I found in such events and the organizers are the level of mannerism and the inhibited culture among the group members. For instance;
[Addressing each other suffixing their name with ‘Ji’]
Where in the general Indian society, if juniors do not address their senior as Sir/Madam, that is nothing but an offence. Similarly, seniors calling their junior with a ‘Ji’ could be a situation of being sarcastic when the junior has a made mistake. Here people in this organization, regardless of senior/junior, address one another with a ‘Ji’ suffixed to individual’s name.
[Turning up before the promised time]
Because of persistent punctuality followed by Japanese friends at both personal and professional meetings, it made me trust that only Japanese people can be so punctual by having so high sense of precision in timing. But I realized the same is very common among friends in this organization even for casual events.
[Helping a person in trouble is like an opportunity for them]
When you come out of home, you get friends mostly with a mutual interest or an acquaintance flees if sensed a problem. Here I have seen my friends have been always ready with all possible solutions to help or at least pass on to whom who can help. What is more inspiring is that they never seem to be singing their contributions in public.
This is what brings more respect and I take it as a lesson as how strong a motivation called “Self-satisfaction” could be for helping a person. I always want to remind myself the words of my friend who would self-introspect and question as what if one day I will be in that situation and nobody will come forward to help.
[Don’t order or expect, move your own hands]
When you are on the ground for executing the plan, nobody is going to order someone to do a task. Just that the volunteer spirit of the member is strong enough to receive and accomplish whatever task has been allotted with individual’s due permission and interest. Else, there would be members who would not hesitate to take broomsticks do the cleaning or any unaddressed work happily regardless of age/profession/position.
[What is on hand is enough]
The most trusted key of happiness I learnt is the positive attitude towards what you have and finding them to be enough. For instance, after events I often analyzed for me about possibilities of more participants/visitors. But the organizers always looked happy with number of people who joined the events. Even some would say the number was more than expectation!
[Unapologetic pride/respect for the own Indian culture]
Having been lived in Japan for half a decade, appreciating good practices of Japan and comparing the situation in my country always left questions in my mind. There I received answers by firstly accepting those drawbacks and then was shown the bright sides of my country which are far outweighing the shadows. If I am to give just one example from many, Rights and Respect for women in our country have been secured ages ago than anywhere else in the world. Coming to the modern age, this is the country where things have been corrected when brought to notice, while treasuring the indigenousness.
[Sharing due space/respect for female members!]
This is the most common characteristic I found among my friends, seniors who once or ever been part of this organization. Unfortunately, many people have a misconception about it or assume just the other way around, especially it’s so among us ladies. But the truth is, there is no difference in respect, no difference in information sharing, no difference in decision making, each and all are encouraged to lead, volunteer for society, for humanity!.
Interesting or uninteresting, these came into my notice because as I admired the Japanese culture and hoped all foreigners learn the same. No doubt that we all get adapted soon to the society by following well established public rule books. In my perspective, doing something out of obligation/fines as a public rule could create an educated society, but a kind of culture that comes from individuals’ within is something what contributing to creating a happy society is like.
Unfortunately the number of such people is like a drop in the ocean. I wonder what if we all Indians together could promote such a society by trying to adopt such characteristics without requiring a badge. However, a positively motivating environment helps contrast oneself and adopt the good observed in people around and boost up what good yourself possesses.
Write up courtesy : https://www.facebook.com/Watch-out-1060161214010228/
(A big thanks to her for speaking out in true sense)
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