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Patriotism in Action - Personality development camp

Vivekananda Kendra Arun Jyoti, Branch Itanagar was organized a five days Personality Development Camp for the Youth between the Class 6th to 10th from 17th to 22nd April at Chimpu VKV Itanagar. To give future leaders a positive direction and to inculcate patriotism, Cultural value, self discipline and the attitude of Social Service, with the twine ideal of Vivekananda Kendra “Man Making - Nation Building” through the various sessions on yoga, lecture, concentration, memory development games & group discussion.

The Camp was introduced by Shri. Pai Dawe, SVSSS Yuva Shakti Aayam Saha Pramukh A.P. He spoke about how we should build personality through education and set an example for others to follow. Shri H.A. Ranganatha, Senior teacher VKV Chimpu took a session on “Great Personality”. In his session he mentioned how great personality faced trouble in his early life but whatever the problem they faced they became mentally, spiritually, morally, emotionally and physically strong.  Shri W. Lowang, took session about “Arunachal Ki Visheshtayein”. He stated that Arunachal is a most important state in India for geographical situation. Arunachal Pradesh is a “ Land of Rising Sun “.

Shri Chaphung Wangsupa, Secretary of TIPS gave a lecture on the topic “Vivekananda Kendra in Arunachal Pradesh”. In his lecture he informed that Shri. Eknathji Ranade done a tremendous work in education through VKV. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. Vivekananda Kendra give education life-building, man- making, character-making, assimilation of ideas.

Shri. Gyati Rana, Head assistant in PWD and Publicity Secretary IFCSAP took a session about “Our Culture! Our Pride! Our Life! ”.  He advised that it is our duty to preserve our culture in our day to day life. A culture is a way of life of a group of people. Dr. V.N. Sharma, State Liaison Officer NSS took session about “Daily Routine”. He stated that how time is important for student’s life. Maintaining regular daily routine is one of the best way to work toward living a more organized and fulfilling life. Dr. Lala Wage took a session on the topic of “Health and Hygiene”. In his session he spoke without health, life is not life, it is only a state of languor and suffering.

Shri Kalyan Dutta Nagar Pramukh of Vivekananda Kendra, Branch Itanagar spoke about “Patriotism in Action”. “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”. “Ahuti Satra” was taken by Shri Ashok Atale, Nagar Sangathak of Itanagar Vivekananda Kendra briefly explain what our country now wants are muscles of irons and nerves of steel, gigantic wills which nothing can resist, which can penetrate into the mysterious and secrets of the universe and will accomplish their purpose in any fashion, even if it meant going down to the ocean, meeting death face to face. It is man-making religion that we want and urge the camp participant at least to practice one or two activity that was taught in the five day camp to improve oneself, and for the development of the Nation.

विवेकानंद आणि डॉ. आंबेडकर पुस्तकाचे प्रकाशन

Swami Vivekananda ani Dr Babasaheb AmbedkarSwami Vivekananda ani Dr Babasaheb AmbedkarSwami Vivekananda ani Dr Babasaheb Ambedkarस्वामी विवेकानंद सार्ध शती समारोह समितीतर्फे ‘स्वामी विवेकानंद आणि डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर’ पुस्तकाचे प्रकाशन रविवारी (१४ एप्रिल) सायंकाळी ६ वाजता हिराचंद नेमचंद वाचनालयाच्या ऍम्फी थिएटरमध्ये बौद्ध धर्मगुरू भन्ते सुमेधजी यांच्या हस्ते होणार आहे.

स्वामी विवेकानंद यांचे १५० वे जयंती वर्ष आणि डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या जयंतीचे औचित्य साधून हे प्रकाशन होत आहे. रमेश पतंगे यांनी लिहिलेले हे पुस्तक विवेकानंद केंद्र मराठी प्रकाशन विभागाने प्रकाशित केले आहे.

संभाजीनगर (औरंगाबाद) येथील डॉ. आंबेडकर यांचे अभ्यासक रमेश पांडव यांचे व्याख्यान यावेळी होईल. याशिवाय प्रा. विक्रम कांबळे व प्रा. विलास बेत हे पुस्तकासंबंधी आपले मनोगत व्यक्त करणार आहेत. विवेकानंद केंद्राचे प्रांत संघटक विश्‍वास लपालकर यांची प्रमुख उपस्थिती असेल.या पुस्तकामुळे बहुतेक करून दुर्लक्षित राहिलेले स्वामी विवेकानंदांचे सामाजिक विचार आणि त्याच पद्धतीने दुर्लक्षित राहिलेले डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकरांचे धार्मिक विचार यांचे दर्शन होते, अशी माहिती संयोजक वल्लभदास गोयदानी यांनी दिली.

डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या संबंधाने पुष्कळ लेखन केलेले लेखक रमेश पतंगे यांनी स्वामी विवेकानंदांच्या सामाजिक विचारांचा आढावा घेणारे पुस्तक लिहिले आहे. तो आढावा घेताना त्यांच्या आणि डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या विचारांमध्ये किती साम्य होते, हे दाखवून दिल्याचेही ते म्हणाले.

Four Time Tested Formulae for Personality Development

Come summer there is a plethora of Personality Development Camps. Each organization conducts programmes which they think are best to expand the personality of the candidates. Pondering over that, we came across four formulae from our treasure house of spiritual heritage to help Personality Development of an individual.

Chidlren usually think that eating good food, putting on weight, wearing good dress and ornaments are all ways of developing their personality. This has to be modified with a new programme. Our great rishis with their deep in-sight into the personality of the human beings have given us these formule for a wholesome expansion of the human being.

Sareeramadhyam khalu dharma sadhanam

”Children should be made to understand the glorious idea of making use of the body as an instrument to carryout Dharma. Truth must blossom into dharma through their lives. So all those activities centred on Truth like recognising others as our own, serving them, giving up selfish desires and motivations, carrying out activities for the propagation of good, etc. can be brought under dharmic activities which will bring spiritual strength and vigour to the body. Our youth are totally unaware of this blissful expansion which they can effortlessly achieve.

Vasudhaiva kutumbakam

The above concept centered in the awareness of one Truth, visualizing the whole Universe as one’s family leads to an unparalleled expansion of human mind which provides a homely remedy for all the ills which are creeping into one’s mind spoiling our interrelationships with people and the environment.

The statement says that ‘the whole universe is one family’. The welfare of the family rests on the proper exercise of the right sand responsibilities by all its members individually and collectively. Respect, regard, love,sacrifice, service – manifold are the expressions through which those rights and responsibilities are exercised in real life. In the togetherness,mutuality, each member responsibly carrying out one’s duties remaining as part of the whole and ever keeping at bay his individualistic egotism, lie the wholesomeness of a family. To get at this magnificent cohesiveness what else, but the awareness of the spiritual solidity of the whole, could be the basis?

This formula works at the mental level and is the most important factor in deciding the total health of a person including his out-look on life. Here the mind is made to expand absorbing unto itself everything around with a feeling of one’s own. This helps to eliminate all the negative vibrations and bad qualities like jealousy, hatred, etc. from the mind which obstruct the expansion of one’s personality. With such an expansion one finds the whole universe as one’s friend aiding and also bestowing blessings. Peace, happiness, achievements are all by-products of one’s attunement with the cosmos.

Unity in Diversity

The third level of expansion concerns the intellect which is presently used by us togather only information for achieving material benefits like name, power and pelf etc. Intellect should be used for better purposes,to detect the Infinite in the finite, to see God in everything, living and non living.

To see Unity in diversity is the formula ideally suited for this expansion in our under-standing at the intellectual level. That automatically keeps one aligned on the path of seeking Truth. Intellect becomes subtler and sharper and it starts, like a torch light, revealing knowledge deeply hidden or long for-gotten in the depths of our being.

Each soul is potentially divine

Last but not the least guidance for expansion comes from Swami Vivekananda’s famous observation “Each soul is potentially divine”. This is the ultimate source of knowledge and energy which can illumine all the layers of human personality from body to the Self within. This formula brings into the grasp of every human being that he is Divine and the goal in his life is to manifest that divinity. This can be done only by controlling nature external and internal and the first three formulae are ideally suited to bring about the control of nature external and internal which in turn leads to real expansion of the human personality. Such an expanded personality is a blessing unto himself as also to the whole world. 

Vishwa Bhanu February March 2013