---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'N Sekar' via iyer123 <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 10:55 AM Subject: [iyer123] Re: [KeralaIyers] SWAMI VIVEKANANDA...JUST READ To: <[email protected]>, Iyer <[email protected]> Cc: Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]>, Chittanandam V. R. < [email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
Thanks BUT Let me have my say. 1. Modi did not criticize the I N C which died long, long ago. It was rechristened Indira Congress and then again became I N C. This motley group - anti National, anti Hindu group and which is a family property is not the I N C Swami Vivekananda referred to. Let us get clear on this. Only in the BJP a tea seller can hope and become C M and even P M. it is not possible in the so called I N C which is a family serfdom. 2. The Sect responsible for the construction and management of the temple should have the final say as traditions differ across India. They say once the " Karpagraha" is complete, worship, after the necessary rituals are completed, can begin and let us respect their decision. After all none of those who criticize, in my opinion, participated or contributed to 500 years of struggle to RECONSTRUCT the temple but pass comments sitting in the cosy comfort of their homes or whatever. Have they lifted their little fingers all these years? 3. Bharat Joda Yatra is to promote one family. Let him attend to the grievances of the people they ruled and are ruling. If they had listened then they would not have lost the states. 4. One should be able to see the progress achieved in the last 9 years. Funny thing is nobody raised any questions over nearly 68 years of corruption, nepotism etc but suddenly wake up from their deep slumber and ask why not this and why not that? 5. See the anti National and anti Hindu statements by the family called I N C and their allies like the D M K and the meek surrender to terrorism all these years and then, and only then, question Modi. Yes much needs to be achieved but Nation Building is not a 24 hour job. Well, we Hindus are known to commit Hara Kiri and derive pleasure in doing so. We are fit only to be slaves. N Sekar Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 10:21 AM, 'venkat giri' via KeralaIyers <[email protected]> wrote: * Respected Sir/s,* *Excerpts on the subject from* *S.N. Sahu served as Officer on Special Duty to President of India K.R. Narayanan.* *A Lesson on Temples from Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda was not allowed to visit Odisha temples after his return to India following his triumphant visit to the USA in 1893 to address several lectures including in the famous event organised by World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. It is a coincidence that the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was celebrated on January 12 when there is massive publicity campaign launched by Narendra Modi regime for the consecration of Ram in Ayodhya on January 22, exactly in the same site where on December 6, 1992, the Babri mosque was demolished and Supreme Court held that to be an egregious violation of rule law. There is massive controversy being generated by BJP around Congress leaders and others who declined to participate in the much hyped-consecration ceremony. Four Shankaracharya also declined to participate on several grounds, one of which is that the temple is not completely constructed and so it is in contravention of scriptural injunction not to consecrate the deity in an incomplete shrine. Note that Swami Vivekananda was not allowed to visit Odisha temples after his return to India following his triumphant visit to the USA in 1893 to address several lectures including in the famous event organised by World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. So, here is an example of cerebral monk of Hinduism who mesmerised Americans by his brilliant exposition of spirituality and Vedanta and yet was told that he would not be allowed entry to temples of Odisha. In Volume 5 of Swami Vivekananda’s Complete Works, on page number 171, there is a letter Swami ji wrote to one Josephine MacLeod. In that, he wrote with anguish, “I do not know whether it will be possible to see the Orissan temples in company with your Japanese friends”.“I do not know”, he added, “whether I shall be allowed myself owing to my eating “Mlechchha Food”.While Swami Vivekananda was dubbed as “mlechchha food” eater because he ate food cooked by Christians in America and was not allowed to enter those temples of Orissa, present day Odisha, now Congress leaders refusing to join the Ram temple event in Ayodhya are dubbed as Ram-drohis or traitors to Ram. It is illuminating to not that Swami Vivekananda also reflected on the establishment of Indian National Congress which was established in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume, a British national.Eleven years later in 1896 while Vivekananda was in London, he was asked a question: “Have you given any attention to the Indian National Congress moment?” In his response he said that he did not pay enough attention to it and added, “…I regard the movement as significant, and heartily wish it success.”Explaining further, he said that a nation was being made out of different races which in terms of variety remained no less plural than different peoples of Europe. He interpreted the acquisition of Indian trade by several European countries such as Britain, Dutch, Portugal and French as “a turning point in the history of humanity” and described that the trade and commerce of India played a tremendous part in the civilisation of the world.When asked in what direction it would proceed to attain finality, Vivekananda very presciently, said that it would lead to, in his words, “…the working out of India’s homogeneity, in her acquiring what we may call democratic ideas.” He went on to state that monopoly over intelligence and education by a cultured few should come to an end, provision of education should be accompanied with compulsory education and immense power of people should be utilised to actualise India’s potential. When Vivekananda was asked if India was sensitive and conscious of the awakening that he alluded to, his response was: “Perfectly conscious, The world perhaps sees it chiefly in the Congress movement and in the field of social reform.”In 1898 when someone told Swami ji that India National Congress and other patriotic organisations were carrying on strenuous agitation and petitioning the British government, he remarked that the rulers’ duty was to address the problems of the people. In that context he flagged the point as to who would continue to place people’s issues before the government. He asked, “Where are the men who are the able to keep up things demanded?” and suggested, “So make men first”.And so it was that Swami Vivekananda spoke thus of just 13 years after the establishment of Congress in 1885. This organisation is now criticised by none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi for having been set up by a foreigner. <https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/afternoon-brief-congress-founded-by-foreigner-pm-modis-jibe-and-all-the-latest-news-101690268315900.html>Vivekananda’s ideas in the context of agitationsSwami Vivekananda’s words “Where are the men who are able to keep up things demanded” resonate in the several movements of people including the Bharat Jodo Yatra and now the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, being launched on January 14. His vision is being carried forward by people engaged in several agitations with the ability to “keep up things demanded.”That was why Swami Vivekananda was often invoking the stirring words of the Upanishad, “Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached”. Rajiv Gandhi as prime minister of India had started celebrating Swami Vivekananda’s birthday as National Youth Day. Days after his birth anniversary, India must remain tuned to his words uttered in Chicago – that “sectarianism, bigotry and its horrible descendent fanaticism drenched the earth with the blood of innocents”, and hope that the bell that tolled to announce the commencement of the World Parliament of Religions would be the death knell of fanaticism.-----RegardsV.SridharanTrichy* -- On Facebook, please join https://www.facebook.com/groups/keralaiyerstrust We are now on Telegram Mobile App also, please join Pattars/Kerala Iyers Discussions: https://t.me/PattarsGroup Kerala Iyers Trust Decisions only posts : https://t.me/KeralaIyersTrust Kerala Iyers Trust Group for Discussions: https://t.me/KeralaIyersTrustGroup --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KeralaIyers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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