Mathruchaya Foundation

When we were children, we knew of no greater
happiness, no greater security and no greater
self-fulfillment than to live and walk in the "shadow
of our mothers". The whole world hinged around her. We
could conceive no heaven whose bliss equalled that
which experienced when we lay our head upon the
maternal lap.

The inspiration of Motherhood --- "maathru chaaya" --
is what lies at the heart of Maathru Chaaya Foundation
(MCF), a movement or creed that seeks to convert the
noblest of maternal virtue and the tenderest of
motherly instincts into a larger program of social and
community action and charity. 

If peoples of the world everywhere are proud to call
themselves votaries of faiths like Hinduism,
Christianity, Islam or Buddhism, surely they should be
prouder to say  they are inspired by the 'religion' of
their mothers i.e. "maathru chaaya"? After all, it was
the "religion" their own mothers lived and swore by in
order to rear them into robust men and women of the
world. Surely it should be easy for everyone to
embrace this "religion" that seeks nothing else but to
realize, in its own small, humble, practical way --
much like any mother -- the high ideal of Universal
Brotherhood through universal motherhood.  

The difference is that MCF is not so much a charitable
organization as a mass-movement for community action
inspired by maternal ideals and instincts --- of care,
patience, self-lessness, compassion and
humanitarianism -- that transcend all human divisions
of class, caste, religion, community, gender or
geography.