Ramakrishna Mission in Bengal’s Jalpaiguri launches value education programme for students
The initiative combines motivational sessions, personality development workshops, meditation and environmental awareness activities.
The initiative combines motivational sessions, personality development workshops, meditation and environmental awareness activities.
Earlier, TMC had claimed that Yogi Adityanath wrongly attributed iconic slogan "You give me blood, I promise freedom" to Swami Vivekananda.
Regarding the education of the masses, the great Indian philosopher Swami Vivekananda once said, “A nation is advanced in proportion as education and intelligence spread among the masses.”
“ The world is in the chains of superstition,” said Swami Vivekananda in 1896. He had also said then, “Religions of the world have become lifeless mockeries.”
New Alipore College observed the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda and National Youth Day in a befitting manner on 10 January.
Vivekananda once wrote: “Religion is a question of fact, not of talk. We have to analyse our own souls and find what is there. We have to understand it and realize what is understood. That is religion.”
The PM-Suraj portal was virtually launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today at Gana Bhavan in Uttarpara.
The 19th century Bengal Renaissance had been the force behind the influx of Western rationality and thought in India. Fed up with the superstition accumulated over the ages, educated Indians decided to do away completely with religion. It is now fashionable to speak of secular education where the word secular is interpreted to mean devoid of any particular religious beliefs whatsoever. But this apparently neutral stand has often sucked out the life-giving components from culture and education. In the attempt to remove the weeds from a plant, the very plant has been cut down, as it were
It was September of 1893 when a charismatic young man named Narendranath Datta aka Swami Vivekananda took the podium at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago and brought the hall down with his opening address: “Sisters and brothers of America”.
Today's Narendra, Prime Minister Modi, has successfully showcased India's nationhood through the tenets of 'Ram Rajya.' Lord Rama is compassionate, unifying and progressive.
