Atma Deepo Bhava - VKVVF

 Vivekananda kendra Vedic Vision Foundation started a unique programme titled as "Atma Deepo Bhava"  which is a workshop to mould ones own life. Four eminent personalities will be conducting these classes and they will be guiding by answering the questions and answers. There by bringing about self transformation in ones own lives.  Srimad Swami Hari Brahmendranandaji  Man. Lakshmi Didi, Sri Raghunandan and Sri Shoukat will be dealing with the classes.  Classes  will he held on zoom platform. In all 100 people have registered for the programme.  Sri Anil K.N. and  Sri Jaya Sankar and Sri Raghunath will be coordinating the programme.

Online Mediation Classes - VKVVF

 Online morning mediation classes started yesterday from 5.30 to 6.30 has become online yoga varga with 25 participants, Man Lakshmi Didi continued her second talk on concept of family which is attracting many more mothers, which is a welcoming sign. Today she covered the second chapter. In the afternoon as a part of Yoga for covid was started for second time. Earlier it was a weekly programme for almost three months. Now the arogyam 2 started in all about 30 participants were there. online who showed keen interest. As part of relief work for the needy people who are suffering due to Covid 21 thirty families were identified in three wards. 30 kits worth Rs 500 each were prepared to be distributed through he ward councillors and local volunteers. Man. Lakshmi Didi handed over the material to the respective ward councillors

Swadhyaya on 'BHAGAVATAM'

 VKVVF Started Swadhyaya on Bhagavatam on the auspicious day of Sri Ramakrishna Jayanti on 15th March.

It started with 25 participants and Swami Adhyatmanandaji blessed on the day.

Now it will continue every Monday at10am.

Universal Brotherhood Day Celebration at Kodungallur

 As part of the celebration of universal brotherhood day online Competitions were kept for the school students and also for the adults.

1) All Kerala Elocution competition in Malayalam based on the Chicago speech of Swami Ji was for the classes V to VII; Elocution competition in English was for the High school students from class VIII to X.

2) All India Quiz competition in English was designed for the students of classes X, XI and XII. Topic was based on the videos of Mananeya Lakshmi Kumari Didi on  series of  her talks on 'Love India as Swami Ji loved Her'

3) All India Essay competition in English, Hindi, or Malayalam for adults from 19 years to 30 years. The topic was similar to the quiz competition.

140 students registered for the elocution competition out of which 63 students sent their videos. 16 students from 5 different schools around Kodungallur were from the junior section and 47were senior students from 13 different schools of Kodungallur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, and Ernakulam.

267 students registered for the Quiz and 113 only could appear online for the Quiz competition. Among them 250 students were from 21  VKVs of Arunachal Pradesh, 8 were from 3 VKVs of Assam, 2 were fro VKV Kallubalu  and the rest were Govt school students of Arunachal Pradesh( 3 students) and other schools of Maharashtra( 4 students)

121 participants registered for the essay competition. Out of them, only 61 submitted their essays. Out of the 55 participants were from the different VKVs of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and the rest from Bihar, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, and Kerala.

On  11th September, Universal Brotherhood Day was celebrated in two sessions one in the morning from 10 a.m to 11.15 am and the second session from 4 pm to 5:50 pm. Both were online sessions through Google Meet.

For the first session Mananeya Balakrishnan Ji, All India President- Vivekananda Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra, was the Chief Guest.

Attendance was more than 250, hence many had to watch through the You-tube link. Participants included that of Essay, Quiz, and other local wellwishers. Sushree Radha Didi (Dakshina Prant Sangathak), introduced Mananeya Balakrishnan Ji and Ma. Lakshmi Didi.

Ma. Balakrishnan Ji was very pleased to see many VKV teachers among those who attended the Meet and addressed the audience after Mananeeya Didi's introductory speech. After this, the Winners of the essay competition were declared. All the three winners of the First, Second, and Consolation positions were VKV teachers.

Essay written by Su. Sanchita Roy of VKV Doyan -Nagaland was chosen to be the best among the 61 essays.

As for the online Quiz, it was unanimously decided that a second round of the same would be conducted in the month of November and winners declared on Sadhana Divas. Many of the 267 students who had registered, could not appear for the quiz for various reasons.

For the second session in the evening from 4 pm to 5 pm was arranged for all Kerala participants. Dr T.P.Sasikumar, a Space scientist by profession and a close well-wisher of Vivekananda Kendra, was invited as the Chief Guest. 65 people attended.Ma. Didi and Chief Guest  Dr. T.P. Sashikumar was introduced and welcomed to the session by Sushree Radha Didi. After a short address by Ma. Didi and an inspiring talk by Dr. Shashi Kumar, the prize winners of the elocution competitions were declared.  

Kum Rithupurna of Class VI from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans Kodungallur from the junior section and Kum. Sanjana of Class VII from Arya Central School, Tvm, from the senior was declared as First prize winners of the elocution competitions. Cash prizes of Rs 1000/- for the first prize winners, Rs 750/- for the second prize winners, and Rs 500/- for the third prize winners, will be received by the winners. A follow session every month with Dr. TP Sasikumar is being thought of for the participating children, which will help them in their jokurney ahead.

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Remembering Swargeeya Parameshwaranji
mukta-saṅgo ’nahaṁ-vādī
dhṛty-utsāha-samanvitaḥ
siddhy-asiddhyor nirvikāraḥ
kartā sāttvika ucyate ( Bhagavad Gita 18-26)

This sloka written on the Smriti Mandapam of Swargeeya Eknathji finds its resonance in Ma. Parameswaranji as well.

I have had the privilege to know Man. Parameswaranji from 1980 when he was the Director of Deendayal Institute, New Delhi. Later, at Vivekananda Kendra, he was like an elder brother, full of loving concern for me. His love and respect for me, he condensed in that one endearing word “Didi” by which he always addressed me who was ten years his junior.

Vivekananda Kendra was blessed to have Mananeeya Parameswaranji as its President since 1995 which also conferred on him the Editorship of Yuva Bharati and other Vivekananda Kendra publications. This provided a rare and unparalleled opportunity of looking at Bharat from the land’s end, almost like what Swami Vivekananda himself experienced, way back in December 1892; but with a difference – now there is already the Vivekananda Rock Memorial and the prestigious Vivekananda Kendra – the two great landmarks in the ascent of independent Bharat to a new glorious destiny. The former attracted not only the whole of our country but also the whole world to the great vision of the master mind of Swami Vivekananda, and the latter, to the practical exposition of that vision, formulated by the great patriot and missionary Shri Eknath Ranade, into the spiritually oriented service mission Vivekananda Kendra, meant for the discerning youth of our country who want to dedicate themselves to the service of the motherland and its people.

Like Swami Vivekananda and Maharishi Aurobindo, Parameswaranji also firmly believed in the unity of existence that is behind the universe that we comprehend with our senses, mind and intellect. There is a deeper reality of which the outwardly visible is only a partial manifestation and a significant symbol. Regarding his perception of our great Motherland, let me quote his own words: “We believe that nation embodies a spiritual power. It is born and not created. It is an organic, living, growing, dynamic entity, unlike in the West where a nation is considered as the product of social, economic or political factors. The Hindu nation is not a hotchpotch of diverse people based on the confluence of blind historical forces. The modern concept of a melting pot wherein communities of people are melted into one single whole or a mosaic in which different people mechanically co-exist, are not applicable in this case. Here the nation is an organic growth from a Divine seed which sprouts and branches out and spreads its foliage with colourful flowers.”

The Vedas describe our nation as the outcome of the Tapas performed by the Rishis who had in mind the welfare of humanity. The nation gradually grows out of the family and community in a natural process of evolution until at last it becomes capable of embracing in its universality the entire world as one family. It is the “Kutumba” that evolves into a world family. The basis of it all is the spiritual concept of the One becoming many.

Without that spiritual ideal no amount of manipulation or mechanical institution building can bring about such a happy consummation of “one world” or a ‘Family of Nations’. His writings reveal how deeply he has imbibed the ideal of Renunciation and Service in his personal life, values which were so dear to Swami Vivekananda. It is well known that Mananeeya Parameswaranji is a first rate nationalist who has sacrificed his all for the country. His writings embody Swami Vivekananda’s ideal of “Be and Make” and hence his writings are capable of rousing the drooping spirit to service and sacrifice for building a glorious India in the future.

His writings and speeches provide a delicious mix of science and spirituality. In many of them, it might be education, politics, or ecology, the matter is raised to the power of spiritual awareness which is typical of the Indian approach. According to him, the Gita presents a comprehensive world-view. It balances the dual needs of spiritualism and materialism. The Gita’s karma yoga is a panacea for the innumerable maladies we face in our day-to-day work. He teaches us to look at our day-to-day problems from the tower of Gitacharya which makes them appear silly and not at all worthy of wasting our precious mental and intellectual faculties. This vision specially focuses on the youth addicted to the pursuit of money-making and senseless worldly distractions.

Like Swamiji, Parameswaranji, expresses his concern at what is ailing our fields of education, society, economics, religion, Hinduism, feminism and so on. He often wrote about the freedom of worship – the concept of Ishta devata – that Hinduism offers to its followers. Again, worshipping God as Mother has given tremendous strength to Hinduism. Its direct effect was the elevation of womanhood to a height undreamt by other religions.

He also pointed out how from this height, due to the insecurity that women came to experience over centuries of invasions from alien cultures, our womanhood had to suffer so many indignities from which she is yet to find release. Like many of the nationalists of his calibre, Mananeeya Parameswaranji never failed to give out his clarion call to the youth, to live up to the grand Indian ideal and vision bequeathed to us by Swami Vivekananda, Maharishi Aurobindo and a host of others. He urged the youth to dedicate themselves for the service of the country and our people and enthrone Mother India as the Jagat Guru on her Eternal Throne.

In spite of his strong opinions and convictions he was ever soft in dealing with others including the so called ideological enemies. That is what earned for him the title of ‘Ajathasatru’, one who has no enemies. Added to all these,, was his surrender to the great teachers, Sri Ramakrishna, Sarada Ma and Swamiji which added to the softness of his personality. As both of us had taken ‘diksha’ from Sri Ramakrishna Math there was always a golden chain binding us, an unusual brother–sister relationship. That thread would be my source of inspiration as I think of him again and again.

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