Article for Vivekananda Seva Kendram - Trichur

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Bal Gopal Dear Sir, Kindly contribute your great input and article to the upcoming Souvenir issue of the Vivekananda Seva Kendram a non profit charity based in Cherussery a Trichur suburb! the website is www.vivekanandasevakendram.org www.vivekanandasevakendram.org




Through Action NOT Just Words
– Tribute to Swamy Vivekananda

Being in the learning and dream of making SWAMY VIVEKANANDA as a role model for a decade and more, the dream on India is strong. Strong enough that it is difficult to hold any negative statements against this mother land. I am unusually hopeful of a brighter future for this great country.
Who and How to make this possible was a concern for me. Is this with a few celebrations and a talk and articles around? I keep wondering why SWAMY VIVEKANANDA couldn’t make another a few before he left us.
I had the opportunity of being the guest and giving away the prizes for the best speaker selected by the elocution competitions help commemorating the 150th Birth Celebration of SWAMY VIVEKANANDA in a major city in Kerala. I asked the name of a book authored by SWAMY VIVEKANANDA while giving the prize to the winner when she came to receive the prize, she couldn’t give. It was not surprising to know during the speech when I asked among the audience someone to tell me at least one book authored by SWAMY VIVEKANANDA.
I have a few regular students who are aspirants of Civil Service and we meet on all holidays for the 20 months in Hyderabad at my residence. I made my students to write article on their dreams about India. Many of them starts with a negative sentence stating what are the problems and bad things. I gave examples of SWAMY VIVEKANANDA who used to speak great about this nation and his dreams on education, life, confidence on youth etc. and made my students to write essay with positive attitude.

We travel and at times have sessions in Villages with social service and learning associated with that. Our sessions are at times in Gurudwara with silence, Science centre with experiments, MMTS (Train), Fort, Parks etc.
Request for essay was forwarded and circulated through little contacts I had and also through the internet social network media. Found that youth have real wonderful dreams and they could be molded to be brigades of SWAMY VIVEKANANDA. Messages at my talk in many of the colleges across the country and a few venues in Kerala including the Ramakrishna Mat in Kochi gave me good number of youth contribution.
August 15th was a day when I conducted an elocution competition based on the same theme. After that a certificate distribution as Youth Award for 2012 was planned on top of the Fort. I insisted that those who reach on top of the fort only will get the certificates. I wanted the message of SWAMY VIVEKANANDA to go the youth. Only in Strong Body the Strong Mind resides and then only we can be Leaders.

 

I am glad and privileged to have the contributions of Youth from National Institute of Technology (Hamirpur) to Trivandrum. Their dreams are encouraging in creating a promising India.

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