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and send their earnings to the flood victims. He collected one
rupee from each friend, bought the necessary items, got the
vessels and stove from home, and was successful in sending a
sizeable amount to the victims of floods.

Shri Narendra Modi is known to be strict, but his heart flows
with love and compassion for the deprived and persecuted,
enabling him to feel their pain. He understands the true concept
of, ‘Vaishnava Jan’ and has the inborn quality of empathizing
with the suffering of others.

Shri Narendra Modi’s emotions can be summed up by

‘Àtmavat Sarvabh£tÆ¿u’ and ‘ParadravyÆ¿u L∞¿∂havat’. (The wise man

looks upon all creatures as him and the wealth of the others as
the clods of earth.) He is intensely focused on finding measures
to eradicate sorrows from the lives of the deprived and
persecuted. This focus has been consistent within him, whether
in his role as an RSS campaigner or as the Chief Minister. His
passion for this is evident in his actions, lectures and articles.

Today this passion for service flows uninterruptedly for
Gujarat. Shri Narendra Modi is devoted to Gujarat and he
believes in bringing justice even to people of the lowest strata.
Here is one of the many examples of this noble thought.

Sample this situation : In the Public Relations Unit of the
Chief Minister on the ground floor of Block 1 in Gandhinagar,
five to seven officers are sitting on simple chairs. There is a
laptop on a small table and a TV screen in front of it. The Chief
Minister is sitting on the chair against the table and some chairs
have been placed opposite him for visitors. Several people are
sitting outside the room, some young, some old, some literate
and many illiterate. A thin, dark-skinned tribal man called
Ranchhodbhai is sitting on the floor because he cannot walk.
He has dragged himself to Gandhinagar all the way from
Wadhvaniya village of Bardoli sub-district in Surat, almost 300
kms away. This handicapped, helpless man dressed in ragged
clothes and a dirty old scarf carries a small bundle in his hand
and has come for justice. Thus begins the dialogue between a
poor tribal and the Chief Minister: Shri Narendra Modi: Why
have you come here from so far.