As all of us aware 2013 is Swami Vivekananda's 150 Birth Anniversary
Celebrations. Several organisations and institutions the world over will
organise programmers as a befitting tribute to this great Patriot Saint
of India who was intensely nationalistic and deeply universal. In a
special effort initiated by Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari several
individuals, organisations and institutions working at local, state,
regional, national, international levels will come together to celebrate
this historic event. The uniqueness of this effort by the Vivekananda
Kendra is that it will be celebrated without any organisational banner.
It has at core Swami Vivekananda's thought, National Union in India must
be a gathering up of its scattered, spiritual forces. Titled Swami
Vivekananda Saardh Shati Samaaroh [Swami Vivekananda 150 Birth
Anniversary Celebrations], the programmes will be organised through five
segments - Youth, women, policy makers, villagers and the hill-forest
people. For convenience of coordination celebrations in 42 Praants will
touch 4 lakh families and an estimated 20 crore people of the country.
The motto is Bharat Jaago! Vishwa Jagao!!! Wake Up India! Enlighten the
World!!
Today - 25 December - is the day when Swami Vivekananda commenced his
three-day meditation on the sacred Rock off Kanyakumari in 1892 to
understand his mission for the future of India. He foresaw that India
has to rise with its great spiritual tradition, its cultural values as
the foundation and reach out to the world with its message of peace and
harmony. To commemorate the same, thousands of people - young and old
alike - participated in the Sankalpa Divas programme today. The purpose
was to make individual commitments in order to make these celebrations
successful.
arunachal the program was celebrated at 42. In Arunachal the
programme was celebrated in 42 place having more than 7000 participant.
In addition to this several programmes were held in educational
institutions and other venues in the state. People flocked in a serene
atmosphere which saw a unique programme - Swami Vivekananda's photo in
meditation in front of which people sat in neat rows and files or semi
circles as convenient. Instead of the regular lectures by appointed
speakers, a compact disc played a 30-minute message that included two
songs, the background to Swami Vivekananda's meditation on the Rock and
his message for humanity and specifically to Indians. In the serene
ambience, people took an oath - silently, each by himself/herself in
their heart - to volunteer their time, skills or resources in whatever
way they could to make the celebrations successful in a way that social
values and harmony could be restored. What is also unique is that people
cut across narrow regional, religious and community bounds to
participate.
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