A few thoughts on the occasion of Narendra Yogi / Swami Vivekananda's 156th birthday celebrations across the country.....🙂
At a time, when India was perceived by them as just a piece of land surrounded by 3 seas and umpteen superstitions, gripped with grief and poverty with no good recognizable intellect born of it for its upliftment...... ,
he made all such clap for his vision of this land's universal motto of peace for all and received a standing ovation for his message on the same by addressing the gentlemen in the parliament of religions, Chicago, as " My dear brothers and sisters of America....."
At a juncture where in the youth of this nation has lost faith in themselves and are unable to harness the potential lying within, he has enlightened them with many a literary torch that has established a firm sense of self belief to aspire and achieve higher realms.....
It probably wasn't / isn't everyone's cup of tea to assimilate the essence of literary treasure carved out by many a great visionary saint this land has ever produced, right from Shree AadiShankaraachaarya, Shree Raamaanujaachaarya and the like to the current millenia's Sri Annamaachaarya, Shree RaamaKrushna Paramahamsa, Shree Aurobindo and the like...., because of the complexity to apprehend the nuances of the unparalled Sanskrit, Draavida/Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and all other heritage rich Indian languages....
But it was for Swami Vivekaananda and his broad vision in making many such literary treasures available in simple English across the length and breadth of this nation, that we are able to relive the legacy of our ancestors by striking a fine balance between Science and Spirituality to enrich our very own lives wholly....
"Arise, Awake and stop not until the goal is reached...." was the first lesson I was taught in R.K Mutt Lower Tank bund, Hyderabad, by one named Mr. Joseph Sir, during my personal times of despair and utter dismay in my engineering days, that helped me survive and sustain those tough times to fight those hostile circumstances and establish my clarity's supremacy over my chaos, because of which I am a much better entity of myself today .....🙂
Happy birthday to one of those rarest of the rare personalities the world has ever witnessed from Indian soil who weaved the concepts of Soul, Life, Science, Spirituality, Materialism, and so on and so forth....
you name it...he has it.....
in to a succinctly simple universal literary fabric of 'Indian / Hindu wisdom' and handed it over to each and every person on the planet to imbibe its essence in to their lives and cherish the same for centuries to come, for every individual's well being and thus universal well being.....!!
