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"In the Rigveda, one hardly finds a Rik where anything is prayed and demanded for an individual. It is always "of us" (न:) and not "my". The well-known Gayatri Mantra prays for "the intellects of all of us to be illumined". The sage in the Tenth Mandala says, "You all go together, speak together and let all your minds know things together" etc. (RV X.191.3-5). The great National Anthem of Yajurved speaks for the whole nation and its manifold constituents simultaneously and not individually for one person. The celebrated Shantimantras of the Upanishads pray for the community as a whole and never for any one person"

- Mananeeya Eknathji {SOS - VIV}

News Updates from Vivekananda Kendra :

• स्मारिका : मा. एकनाथजी  :  विस्तृत
   
  
• Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalayas Arunachal Pradesh Trust January - February Month Report : Read More
  
  
• अमृत परिवार मिलन दम्पतियों को जोड़ने की कड़ी : विस्तृत
  

• ईन्दोर में युवा सम्मेलन : विस्तृत
   
  
• Pariksha De Haste Haste at Teju, Arunachal Pradesh : Read More
  
  
• Arohi 2014 - The House Magazine of VKVAPT : Read More
  
  
• Telugu Prant Karyalaya Foundation stone at Hyderabad  :  Read More
  
  
• Updates from Assam : Read More
   
  

• भिण्ड में अमृत परिवार मिलन कार्यक्रम का आयोजन  : विस्तृत
   
  
• New Website Layout of VKV Majuli  : Read More
   
  
  
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Upcoming Events :

• 22 March 2015 - Yuva Dampati Samelan Surat, Gujarat : Read More
  
  
• 25 March 2015 - Vimarsha on Rise of Islamism as a direct consequence of the creation of Pakistan by Mr Tarek Fatah ( noted columnist & author) : Read More
  
  
• 25 March 2015 - Safal Yuva - Samrudhdha Bharat Workshop @ Kota, Rajasthan :  Read More
  
  
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• 9th November 2014 Inaugural Program's Banner, Audio, Video & 1hrs+ presentation materials : https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_Np4iPVnYiHYW1tbzNpWG53Mms&usp=sharing&tid=0B_Np4iPVnYiHYXNiUmFqcUVlN2s
  
  
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Might Is Right ???

|| योग: कर्मसु कौशलम् ||

Having glorified Bharatiya Varnashram Dharma. Mananeeya Eknathji brings out the Comparison between Western social systems and Indian social systems. This understanding is important as Swamiji had told us that we need to learn the skill of organisation from West. In fact, what Swamiji meant was we had forgotten the skill of team work, working together in an organised way and hence, those need to be revived. Therefore, understanding the goods and bads of western model is also needed.

Mananeeya Eknathji says : The Western ideology of the social life speaks of the survival of the fittest. If this is strictly followed, then it will lead the cosmos into a chaos. The Law of the jungle, viz. 'might is right' will prevail and life will become distorted and meaningless. Our great seers of the ancient period realized the fact that differences, variations, gradations are the laws of nature and therefore, everybody, whether weak or strong, had an equal right to live in this world. The Westerners, wherever they went with the principle of life for the fittest, have exterminated the tribes and communities and have caused massacres and bloodshed. It never occurred in India, as the life itself was based on the eternal values of a perennial philosophy, firm like a rock unshaken in any cyclone. The Westerners denied the right of existence to those primitive tribes, as according to them, the uncultured and the uncivilized brutes had no reason to live on this earth. Indians accepted everybody's right to live.

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While the "missionaries" with "Christianity" perverted implore the colonial subject to lay up "his treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt." the traders and concessionaires and administration acquire his mineral and land resources, destroy his arts, crafts and home industries.

-Kwame Nkrumah (Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs ..., Volume 2 : Iam A. Freeman)

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

-Bishop Desmond Tutu (God With Us By Thomas Barton)

Brahmin-ness, the ideal of Hindu race

|| योग: कर्मसु कौशलम् ||

 
Swami Vivekananda deals with the Varnashrama Dharma is a very unique way. He presents the ideal of the human race. He says : Brahmin-ness, the ideal of Hindu race

The ideal man of our ancestors was the Brahmin. In all our books stands out prominently this ideal of the Brahmin. In Europe there is my Lord the Cardinal, who is struggling hard and spending thousands of pounds to prove the nobility of his ancestors, and he will not be satisfied until he has traced his ancestry to some dreadful tyrant who lived on a hill and watched the people passing by, and whenever he had the opportunity, sprang out on them and robbed them. That was the business of these nobility-bestowing ancestors, and my Lord Cardinal is not satisfied until he can trace his ancestry to one of these.
In India, on the other hand, the greatest princes seek to trace their descent to some ancient sage who dressed in a bit of loin cloth, lived in a forest, eating roots and studying the Vedas. It is there that the Indian prince goes to trace his ancestry. You are of the high caste when you can trace your ancestry to a Rishi, and not otherwise.

Our ideal of high birth, therefore, is different from, that of others. Our ideal is the Brahmin of spiritual culture and renunciation. By the Brahmin ideal what do I mean? I mean the ideal Brahmin-ness in which worldliness is altogether absent and true wisdom is abundantly present. That is the ideal of the Hindu race.

Have you not heard how it is declared that he, the Brahmin, is not amenable to law, that he has no law, that he is not governed by kings, and that his body cannot be hurt? That is perfectly true. Do not understand it in the light thrown upon it by interested and ignorant fools, but understand it in the light of the true and original Vedantic conception.

With this as the ideal, the Vranashrama Dharma aims at withering away of the state which takes care of law and order. Swamiji says :
If the Brahmin is he who has killed all selfishness and who lives and works to acquire and propagate wisdom and the power of love — if a country is altogether inhabited by such Brahmins, by men and women who are spiritual and moral and good, is it strange to think of that country as being above and beyond all law? What police, what military are necessary to govern them? Why should anyone govern them at all? Why should they live under a government? They are good and noble, and they are the men of God; these are our ideal Brahmins, and we read that in the Satya Yuga there was only one caste, and that was the Brahmin.

But was there a system in vogue any time. Swamiji gives from Bharatiya Itihasa that there was no castes in Satya Yuga – all  were brahmins. He says :
We read in the Mahâbhârata that the whole world was in the beginning peopled with Brahmins, and that as they began to degenerate, they became divided into different castes 5, and that when the cycle turns round, they will all go back to that Brahminical origin. This cycle is turning round now, and I draw your attention to this fact. Therefore our solution of the caste question is not degrading those who are already high up, is not running amuck through food and drink, is not jumping out of our own limits in order to have more enjoyment, but it comes by every one of us, fulfilling the dictates of our Vedantic religion, by our attaining spirituality, and by our becoming the ideal Brahmin.

And therefore, when we are to have ideal social order, India is to teach the world, then all of us need to work on : Everyone has to become the ideal Brahmin again

There is a law laid on each one of you in this land by your ancestors, whether you are Aryans or non-Aryans, Rishis or Brahmins, or the very lowest outcasts. The command is the same to you all, that you must make progress without stopping, and that from the highest man to the lowest Pariah, everyone in this country has to try and become the ideal Brahmin. This Vedantic idea is applicable not only here but over the whole world.

Such is our ideal of caste as meant for raising all humanity slowly and gently towards the realisation of that great ideal of the spiritual man who is non-resisting, calm, steady, worshipful, pure, and meditative. In that ideal there is God.

Mananeeya Eknajthi while compiling Rousing Call to Hindu Nation takes care of all these aspects and places the ideals, the way to reach in a very beautiful manner.

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सिद्ध‌‌यसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥

Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26