A PowerPoint Presentation of the true inspiring story of a woman who rose from adversity to contribute most worthy service to orphans and oppressed women. The texts are in English and Chinese. For the Video with audio narration and explanation in Hokkien, please check out the Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHz0PXDRb2Q

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Sindhutai，贫困妇女
一个真实的鼓舞人心的故事

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Sindhutai Sapkal (14 November 1948 – 4 January 2022) was an Indian social
worker and social activist known particularly for her work
in raising orphaned children in India.
Sindhutai won more than 700 Awards for her outstanding outreach welfare
work for orphaned children and women empowerment
Sindhutai Sapkal 鼓舞人心的人生故事介绍
Sindhutai Sapkal（1948 年 11 月 14 日 - 2022 年 1 月 4 日）是一名印度
社会工作者和社会活动家，尤其以在印度抚养孤儿的工作而闻名。
Sindhutai 因其出色的孤儿外展福利工作和妇女赋权获得了 700 多个奖项
The Contents of the Story are essentially a Transcript
(with some editing) of a Talk by Radhanath Swami,
an American Guru.
故事的内容本质上是美国大师 Radhanath Swami 演讲的
抄本（经过一些编辑）。 Radhanath Swami

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This story is about a woman named Sindhutai who was born in a poverty-stricken village
in Maharashtra India. She never really had any education when she was a little girl. She
wanted so much to go to school. Because of poverty, her family made her take care of the
buffaloes when she was eight years old.
I think actually she was nine years old when she was married to a man who was about
30. By the time she was 19 she had three sons and she was pregnant again.
A mafia type of person was exploiting the people of the village especially forcing
the women of the village to work really hard and paying them practically nothing.
这个故事是关于一个出生在贫困山村的名叫辛德胡泰的妇女的。在印度马哈拉施特拉邦。
当她还是个小女孩时，她从未真正受过任何教育。 她非常想上学。 由于家境贫寒，她八
岁时，家里就让她照料水牛。我想实际上她九岁时嫁给了一个大约30. 到她 19 岁时，她
有了三个儿子，并且再次怀孕。一个黑手党类型的人正在剥削村里的人，特别是强迫村里
的妇女真的很努力工作，几乎没有给她们任何报酬。

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Everyone was afraid but the poverty-stricken woman Sindhutai told the local collector
of taxes about the exploitation. The local collector brought the matter to the police.
The police took action and the ‘mafia’ person was stopped from what he was doing.
This bad guy was so angry; he went and told Sindhutai's husband a lie.
He said to Sindhutai’s husband, “You are such a fool. Your wife is having affairs with
so many men …in fact the child that is inside her womb is my child and not yours.
I've been having sex with her. If you don't kill the child and kill her, I will kill you.”
每个人都很害怕，但贫困的妇女 Sindhutai 将剥削的情况告诉了当地的税收人员。 当地收藏
家将此事报告给了警方。警察采取了行动，阻止了“黑手党”人的所作所为。这个坏人太生
气了； 他去对 Sindhutai 的丈夫撒了谎。他对 Sindhutai 的丈夫说：“你真是个傻瓜。 你老
婆跟那么多男人有染……其实她肚子里的孩子是我的孩子，不是你的。我一直在和她发生性
关系。 你不杀了孩子，杀了她，我就杀了你。”

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So the husband confronted his 19-year old wife; he kicked her in the stomach
repeatedly to kill her and the unborn baby she was carrying. She fell and lay
unconscious on the ground. The husband thought she was dead. So he dragged her
to a cow shed where a whole herd of cows were being kept. He was thinking that
people would think that the cows just trampled her and that's how she died.
Sindhutai lay unconscious. When she woke up she told others later she found one
cow standing right above her protecting her. There were all these buffaloes and oxen
and cows walking and they would have certainly trampled on her but this cow was
keeping everything away from her.
因此，丈夫与他 19 岁的妻子对质； 他反复踢她的肚子，以杀死她和她怀着的未出生的婴儿。
她摔倒在地，不省人事。 丈夫以为她死了。 于是他把她拖到一个牛棚里，那里放着一整群
牛。 他在想人们会认为牛只是践踏了她，她就是这样死的Sindhutai 昏迷不醒。 当她醒来后，
她告诉其他人，她发现一头母牛站在她的正上方保护着她。 所有这些水牛、公牛和母牛都在
行走，它们肯定会践踏她，但这头母牛却让一切远离她。

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Even when the in-laws of Sindhutai came to make sure she was dead, the cow
chased them away with its horns and stood over Sindhutai protecting her.
When Sindhutai regained consciousness, she gave birth to a baby girl under the cow.
She took a rock and cut her umbilical cord to separate the baby.
For hours and hours the cow protected Sindhutai and the baby. When Sindhutai got
enough strength she embraced the cow and promised : “As you protected me when I
was in great need, I will protect others who are in need.”
It's a long story but no one would have Sindhutai back. Her own biological family
rejected her because according to their tradition once you're married you could
never come back home …a foolish tradition.
甚至当 Sindhutai 的姻亲来确定她已经死了时，母牛用角将它们赶走，站在 Sindhutai 上方
保护她。当信德胡泰苏醒过来时，她在牛下生下了一个女婴。她拿了一块石头，剪断了她的
脐带，把婴儿分开了。一连几个小时，母牛保护着 Sindhutai 和婴儿。 当 Sindhutai 获得足
够的力量时，她拥抱了母牛并承诺：“当我非常需要时你保护了我，我会保护其他需要帮助
的人。”这是一个很长的故事，但没有人会让 Sindhutai 回来。 她自己的亲生家庭拒绝了她，
因为根据他们的传统，一旦你结婚了，你就可以永远不要回家……愚蠢的传统。

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In order not to be exploited, she slept in a crematorium with her little baby child
And she would collect the wheat that people would put around the dead bodies and
she'd mix it with water and cook it using the fires from the burning dead corpses.
It became such a depressing life for her she decided not to let her child live like this.
So she was going to commit suicide. She went to a railway track with her child in her
arms and lay waiting for the train to crush them.
But as she was lying there she heard someone crying in anguish. So she got up and
she found an old man who was crying out and he was crippled.
为了不被剥削，她带着小宝贝睡在火葬场她会收集人们放在尸体周围的小麦，她会
把它和水混合，然后用燃烧的尸体的火来煮。她的生活变得如此令人沮丧，她决定
不让她的孩子过这样的生活。所以她打算自杀。 她抱着孩子走到铁轨上，躺着等火
车来压他们。但是当她躺在那里时，她听到有人在痛苦地哭泣。 于是她起来，看见
一个老人在哭泣，他是个瘸子。

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He was crying for some food and water so she went and begged and got him food
and water. She was thinking that the old man was the voice of the god she called
Krishna. She felt the voice was telling her that she had a higher purpose in life than
to commit suicide. She thought, “I have to do something to contribute to this world.”
But then later in the day she was sitting in a field wondering what she was going to
do. She thought, “I have nothing. I have no one. How can I help anyone?”
She was under a tree and she saw that there was a branch of the tree that a
woodsman with an axe had violently cut. The branch was just hanging by a single
string-like structure. Yet that branch was giving her and her child shade.
他哭着要食物和水，所以她去乞讨，给他弄来食物和水。 她在想，那个老人就是她称为奎师
那的神的声音。 她觉得那个声音在告诉她，她的人生目标比自杀更高。 她想，“我必须为
这个世界做点什么。” 但那天晚些时候，她坐在田野里想知道她要做什么。 她想：“我什
么都没有。 我没有人。 我怎样才能帮助任何人？”她在一棵树下，看到树上有一根树枝，
是伐木工人用斧头粗暴砍断的。 树枝只是挂在一根绳状结构上。 然而，那根树枝却给了她
和她的孩子阴凉处。

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She was thinking, “This is the answer. However much I have been beaten down still I
could do something for others.” So she started going out and finding homeless
abandoned orphaned children and she became their mother taking care of them.
Somehow or other she learned how to sing. It was really nice and she begged with
her singing and she provided for the orphans and somehow or other kept them safe.
After some time people saw what a difference she was making to so many people.
Some wealthy ones built an orphanage for her and over the years she said she had
about 1500 children and over a thousand grandchildren. She's made a tremendous
difference to her life. All of her children have a great education. Many are doctors and
lawyers and farmers …such an education she never had.
她在想，“这就是答案。 不管我被打败多少，我仍然可以为别人做点事。” 于是她开始外
出寻找无家可归的被遗弃孤儿，成为他们的母亲，照顾他们。 不知怎么的，她学会了唱歌。
这真的很好，她用歌声乞求，她为孤儿提供食物，并以某种方式保护他们的安全。一段时间
后，人们看到她给这么多人带来了多大的改变。 一些有钱人为她建了一座孤儿院，多年来她
说她有大约 1500 个孩子和 1000 多个孙辈。 她对她的生活产生了巨大的影响。 她所有的孩
子都受过良好的教育。 许多人是医生、律师和农民……她从未接受过这样的教育。

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Sindhutai won so many awards internationally for her accomplishments. She explained
the most meaningful and fulfilling thing she ever did in life was to help the suffering
ones.
Many years later after the President of India and Governors of states had given her
awards and also receiving international awards, something unexpected happened. A
really old man came to her orphanage. He was starving, he was sick, he was homeless
and he was asking for shelter. After a few minutes Sindhutai recognized this was her
ex-husband, the person who tried to murder her maliciously. She said to him, “When
you left me to die, I was homeless, in rags. Now you're homeless and rags and I have a
nice place with so many people. She said the most meaningful thing in her life was that
she forgave her ex-husband..
Sindhutai 因其成就在国际上赢得了众多奖项。 她解释说，她一生中做过的最有意义和最充实
的事情就是帮助受苦的人。许多年后，在印度总统和各州州长授予她获奖，还拿到了国际大奖，
意想不到的事情发生了。 一个真正的老人来到了她的孤儿院。 他饿了，他病了，他无家可归
他正在寻求庇护。 几分钟后，Sindhutai 认出这是她的前夫，就是那个企图恶意谋杀她的人。
她对他说：“当你任由我去死时，我衣衫褴褛，无家可归。 现在你无家可归，衣衫褴褛，而我
有这么多人的好地方。 她说这辈子最有意义的事就是原谅了前夫。
Sindhutai with Ex-husband

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She had said to him, “I will give you shelter but I'm not your wife. I'm your mother.”
When people visited the orphanage she would introduce him by saying,
“This is my eldest son and sometimes he's very naughty.”
She told the story to me (that is Swami Radhanath). It moved me. I shared the story on
Youtube and when she learnt of it she wanted to meet me (Swami Radhanath).
We met at Pune and had an interesting conversation and when I was just about to
leave Sindhutai said, “I want to introduce you to this girl.” (The girl was near her.).
“She's the one who was born under the cow. She's now a medical doctor
and she's taking charge of one of our orphanages. And then she said to me,
她曾对他说：“我会给你住所，但我不是你的妻子。 我是你妈妈。” 当人们参观孤儿院时，
她会这样介绍他，“这是我的大儿子，有时他很调皮。”她把这个故事告诉了我（那是
Swami Radhanath）。 它感动了我。 我在 Youtube 上分享了这个故事，当她得知后，她想
见见我 (Swami Radhanath)。我们在浦那见面并进行了一次有趣的谈话，当我正要离开
Sindhutai 时，我说：“我想把你介绍给这个女孩。” （那个女孩在她附近。）。“她是牛
底下出生的人。 她现在是一名医生她负责管理我们的一所孤儿院。 然后她对我说，
Sindhutai with Daughter

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“I consider all of the tragedies in my life as gifts to empower me to make a
difference to others. My life has been a road with many thorns but I made friends with
those thorns and my life became beautiful and I could give beauty to so many other
people's lives.
That's one little example of influence without affluence. The power of compassion is
far greater than anything that money can do but when money and knowledge and
strength and skills are built on the foundation of that compassion, our own life is
enriched beyond our comprehension. We can make a most meaningful difference.”
“我认为我生命中所有的悲剧都是礼物，让我有能力为他人带来改变。 我的人生是一条布满
荆棘的道路，但我和那些荆棘交上了朋友，我的生活变得美丽起来，我可以为很多人的生活
增添美丽。这是没有富裕的影响力的一个小例子。 慈悲的力量远比金钱所能做的要大得多，
但是当金钱、知识、力量和技能建立在慈悲的基础上时，我们自己的生活就会变得超乎我们
的想象。 我们可以做出最有意义的改变。”
COMPASSION

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With Metta,
Bro. Oh Teik Bin
The End
(结束)
愿我们的慈悲与智慧不断增长。 愿我们将法光带入众生的生命之流