REPUBLIC DAY GREETINGS

ARISE, AWAKE AND REST NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
(ARTICLE BY SIVADAS MASTER)

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It was a Monday morning, on the 12^th day of January, 1863. The members of Datta family were very happy. Bhuvaneswari devi, wife of Viswanath Datta, gave birth to a beautiful child. In due course they named the boy Na

rendranath Datta. But the relatives, neihbours and friends used to callhin ‘Naren’. Some others called him ‘Narendran’. No one thought then t

he boy would become a world famous spiritual leader.

Ancestral home of Swami Vivekananda

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Viswanath Datta arranged a private tutor to teach Narendranath the basic lessons. Later Naren was enrolled in Metropolitan School,Kolkatha. He passed the high school examination in first class (1879). Naren joined Presidency College. Next year he shifted to General Assembly’s Institution (which was later known as Scottish Church College) and studied Western Philosophy and World History.

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In 1881 Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, of Dakshineswaram, visited the house of Surendranath Mithra, the neighbour. Surendranath Mithra invited Naren also on the occasion. Naren sang a prayer for Paramahamsa. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa invited Naren to “come Dakshineswaram one day”.

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Narendranath Datta had a sharp intellect with a rational approach. He even questioned the existence of God. The friends advised him to go to Dakshineswaram. He began his journey in search of a person who could quench his spiritual thirst, which ended in Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Narendranath became the disciple of Paramahamsa.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

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Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa asked Narendranath to continue his work after Paramahamsa’s death. So after Paramahamsa’s death Narendranath vowed as sanyasi , with the name Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda

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He traveled from Himalaya to Kanyakumari. The worst condition of his motherland worried him. The experiences of his journey made him think how our nation could be saved. He spent in meditation on top of a rock, in Indian Ocean, at Kanyakumari for three days. He returned from the rock with a new light, with a new vision and with a new plan to save Indians and India, or the world itself.

Vivekananda Smarakam at Kanyakumari

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Swami Vivekananda took part in World Parliament of Religions, Chicago, America.

His historical speech began with the salutation: “My dear brothers and sisters of America…” This made the audience speechless. There Swami Vivekananda stressed on, in his speech, the importance of a vision for a universal outlook, which is already in Indian Philosophy. All the great philosophers presented there congratulated Swamiji. Swami Vivekananda showed the world what India was.

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He believed in the power of youth and considered it as the power of the nation. To him youths were the only hope for India’s progress. He encouraged the youth to awake from sleep and to work. He said:

"Arise awake and rest not the goal is reached"

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VIVEKANANDA ON EDUCATION (ARTICLE BY SIVADAS MASTER)

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Swami Vivekananda was a great scholar of Indian Philosophy. His educational philosophy has been shaped according to his philosophical views. We can have a quick and brief tour of his educational thoughts.

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Being a Vedanthi, Swamiji regarded man perfect from birth. So, according to his vedantic views, Swami Vivekananda defined education as: “Education is the manifestation of the divine perfection already in man”.

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Education is not for imparting of instruction or for delivering huge quantities of information labeled as knowledge. Education is life building, character-forming and assimilation of ideas. It should help the learner to form adesirable character, to strengthen the mind, to expand the intellect and to enable one to stand on one’s own leg. Thus the ultimate aim of Education is man-making achieved by the development of an all round, wholesome and properly integrated personality.

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Swami Vivekananda believe in auto-education or self-learning or self-teaching.

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He compares the child to a plant in a garden; and the teacher to the gardener. The the gardener prepares the ground for the growth of the plants in his garden. He protects them in the natural way and nourishes them in such a manner that they can grow properly. Like that the teacher should:

(i) Take care of the children

(ii) Provide them a suitable environment

(iii) Look after their proper growth

(iv) Activate the motivation that comes from within the child and

(V) Encourage the child to use its body, mind and sense organs properly to achieve maximum development

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The teacher has to provide environment so that the child may become aware of the immense treasure of knowledge lying buried in his/ her mind.

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Swami Vivekananda advocates for a national educational system. He says: “ The ideal is that we must have the whole education of the country , spiritual and secular, in our hands, and it must be on national lines, through national methods, as far as practicable.” He believed in the utility of the education of the masses. The real cause of our national downfall is our indifference to the education of the masses. To rebuild our mother India , we have to pay due attention to the education of the masses.

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Swami Vivekananda propounded a philosophy of education which India needs at present badly. Swamiji’s views on education is well appreciated, not only in India but in the whole world, by the educational philosophers and educational experts. (Read more …)

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Swami Vivekananda was born on 12^th January, 1863 in Kolkatha. He was originally named as Narendranath Datta. He had a sharp intellect with a rational approach. He even questioned the existence of God. He began his journey in search of a person who could quench his spiritual thirst, which ended in Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Narendranath became the disciple of Paramahamsa.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa asked Narendranath to continue his work after Paramahamsa’s death. So after Paramahamsa’s death Narendranath vowed as sanyasi , with the name Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda took part in World Parliament of Religions . His historica speech began with the salutation: “My dear brothers and sisters of America…”. This made the audience speechless. There Swami Vivekananda stressed on, in his speech, the importance of a vision for a universal outlook, which is already in Indian Philosophy. All the great philosophers presented there congratulated Swamiji. Swami Vivekananda showed the world what India was.

He believed in the power of youth and considered it as the the power of the nation. To him youths were the only hope for India’s progress. He encouraged the youth to awake from sleep and to work.

Once Swami Vivekananda described himself as ‘A Condensed India’. So it was. To understand Vivekananda is actually to understand India itself. Although his life span is of the length of only 14418 days, his work and service cannot be expressed , whatever units you my use, in any finite number. The depth of his work is still to entirely manifest.

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ബംഗ്ളൂരു എച്ച്‌. എ. എല്‍. അയ്യപ്പന്‍ ക്ഷേത്ര തിരു സന്നിധിയില്‍ പഞ്ചാരിമേളം അരങ്ങേറ്റം നടത്തുന്ന
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ഏസ്‌. എന്‍. എസ്സിണ്റ്റെ മംഗളാശംസകള്‍.

മംഗളാശംസകള്‍ ! മംഗളാശംസകള്‍ ! മംഗളാശംസകള്‍ !

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എസ്‌. എന്‍. എസ്‌. -ണ്റ്റെ സുഹൃത്തായ ധീരജ്‌ കൃഷ്ണയും സംഘവും പഞ്ചാരിമേളം അരങ്ങേറ്റം നടത്തുന്നു.
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പഞ്ചാരി മേളം

കേരളത്തിലെ ക്ഷേത്രങ്ങളില്‍ ഉത്സവത്തോടനുബന്ധിച്ച്‌ നടത്തുന്ന ഒഴിച്ചുകൂടാനാവാത്ത ഒരു കലാവിരുന്നാണ്‌ ചെണ്ടമേളം. വിവിധ തരം ചെണ്ടകളും അനുബന്ധ ഉപകരണങ്ങളും ഉപയോഗിച്ച്‌ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന മേളമാണ്‌ ചെണ്ടമേളം.ചെണ്ടയാണ്‌ പ്രധാനമായും ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത്‌.

പാണ്ടി, പഞ്ചാരി എന്നീ വകഭേദങ്ങളില്‍ ചെണ്ടമേളം അവതരിപ്പിക്കാറുണ്ട്‌. കൊമ്പ്‌, കുഴല്‍, ഇലത്താളം മുതലായ സംഗീതോപകരണങ്ങളും ചെണ്ടക്ക്‌ അകമ്പടിയായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്‌. ക്ഷേത്രത്തിനു വെളിയില്‍ പല സാംസ്കാരിക പരിപാടികള്‍ക്കും പൊലിമ വര്‍ദ്ധിപ്പിക്കുവാന്‍ ചെണ്ടമേളം ഇന്ന്‌ വ്യാപകമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്‌. ഇതുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട്‌ കൂടുതല്‍ അറിയുവാണ്‍ തായമ്പക, പഞ്ചവാദ്യം, പഞ്ചാരിമേളം, പാണ്ടിമേളം എന്നിവയെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങള്‍ വായിക്കുമല്ലൊ.

പഞ്ചാരി മേളം

കേരളത്തില്‍ ക്ഷേത്ര മതില്‍ക്കെട്ടുകള്‍ക്കത്ത്‌ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന പ്രത്യേക ചെണ്ടമേളമാണ്‌ പഞ്ചാരിമേളം. കൊമ്പ്‌, കുഴല്‍, ഇലത്താളം എന്നീ അനുബന്ധ വാദ്യോപണങ്ങളും ചെണ്ടയും ഒന്നുചേരുന്ന കേരളത്തിണ്റ്റെ തനതായ ചെണ്ടമേളമാണ്‌ പഞ്ചാരിമേളം. പാണ്ടിമേളം ക്ഷേത്ര മതിലുകള്‍ക്കു പുറത്താണ്‌ സാധാരണയായി നടത്തുക പതിവ്‌. പഞ്ചാരിമേളം രണ്ടുരീതിയില്‍ അവതരിപ്പിക്കാറുണ്ട്‌. വലതു കയ്യില്‍ കോലും ഇടതുകയ്യും ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ്‌ കൂടുതലായും ഈ മേളം അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്‌. എങ്കിലും രണ്ടു കയ്യിലും കോല്‍ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന അവതരണരീതിയുമുണ്ട്‌. പഞ്ചാരി എന്ന പേരില്‍ ഒരു താളമുണ്ട്‌. ആറക്ഷരമുള്ള ഈ താളം കര്‍ണ്ണാടക സംഗീതത്തിലെ രൂപകതാളത്തിനു സമാനമാണ്‌. പഞ്ചാരിയുടെ വായ്ത്താരി 'തകിട തകിട' എന്നാണ്‌. കേരളത്തില്‍ തൃശ്ശൂറ്‍ ജില്ലയില്‍ ഒല്ലൂരിലുള്ള ഇടക്കുന്നി ശ്രീഭഗവതീക്ഷേത്രം, ചേര്‍പ്പു പെരുവനം ക്ഷേത്രം, ഇരിങ്ങാലക്കുട കൂടല്‍മാണിക്യം ക്ഷേത്രം, എറണാകുളം ജില്ലയില്‍ തൃപ്പുണിത്തറയിലുള്ള ശ്രീപൂര്‍ണ്ണത്രയീ ക്ഷേത്രം ഇന്നിവിടങ്ങളിലെ പഞ്ചാരിമേളം പ്രസിദ്ധമാണ്‌.
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മന്നം ജയന്തി ആശംസകള്‍

Birth : 02-01-1878 in Perunna, Kottayam, Keralam, India

Father : Neelamana Iswaran nampoothiri

Mother : Mannath Parvathy Amma

Education : Primary education from Govt. Malayalam School,

Chenganachery. Passed Teacher’s training Examination

from Covt. Training School, Thiruvananthapuram in

1900. Passed Magistrate’s examination through private

Study.

Occupation : Teacher, Lawyer, Social Reformer, Organiser.

Marriage : Married Thrikkodithanam Mechottuveetil Kalyani Amma in 1902. She died in 1912. Second marriage with Thottaikkattu Madhavi Amma in 1932.

Death : 25-02-1970

Services : Formation of Chenganassery Nair Samajam in 1913. Read more ….

Recognitions : He was awarded the title ‘Bharatha Kesari’ by Honble President of India.

Also awarded ‘Padmabhooshan’ in 1966.

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