Home » Salient Points of PM Modi’s inaugural address at the Sri Ramakrishna Vachanamrita Satram, Tiruvalla, Kerala on 21 Feb, 2017
- India’s oral tradition has evolved constantly to adapt to changing times and circumstances, keeping the eternal values intact
- To reach the common people, there was a need to make dharma, or right living, more accessible, closer to their daily lives
- Bhakti saints used music, poetry, local languages to bring God closer to people – they broke barriers of caste, class, religion & gender
- India is a land that is blessed with a rich cultural and intellectual milieu
- Our land is home to writers, scholars, saints and seers who have expressed themselves freely and fearlessly
- And whenever the history of human civilization entered into the era of knowledge, it is India that has always shown the way
- A false perception was created about India that India needed social, political and economic reform initiated by outsiders
- India’s soil is that soil from where change has always originated
- Our Saints integrated each and every citizen in their quest for social reform. Nobody was left outside the ambit
- Our civilization stands tall, overcoming obstacles
- Our Saints did things that may seem seemingly small but the impact was very big and this altered the course of our history
- In Hindu philosophy, time is accepted as a very important factor of the absolute -we are dik-kal- badhita- conditioned by space and time
- We all remember the role of Shri Narayana Guru in transforming Kerala
- Sri Sri Thakur Ramakrishna broke the mental barriers that keep us apart
- He lived the Muslim way of life, he lived the Christian way of life, he practised tantra
- “The Reality is one and the same;” he said, ” the difference is in name and form”
- His teachings are relevant to us today, when we are confronted with people who use religion, caste to divide & create animosity
- If we had not a teacher like this, would there have been a disciple like Swami Vivekananda
- Let Sri Sri Thakur Ramakrishna’s words inspire us to see the divine in all things
- To harness self & the ego in the service of the poorest & weakest so that we find the greater truth that is the essence of all religions
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