Prime Minister Narendra Modi, clad in white, emerged from his 45-hour-long meditation on the Vivekananda Rock Memorial on Saturday. His non secular sojourn comes in opposition to the backdrop of the ultimate section of the Lok Sabha elections.
The Prime Minister’s meditation session started on the night of Might 30, within the Dhyan Mandapam, the place the revered Swami Vivekananda is believed to have had a divine imaginative and prescient of Bharat Mata. The rock memorial, set in opposition to the backdrop of Kanyakumari’s famed dawn and sundown vistas, sits on a tiny islet the place the Jap and Western coastlines of India meet, and the place the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and Arabian Sea converge.
At daybreak, Modi carried out the Surya Arghya, a ritual involving the providing of water to the solar, symbolising reverence and gratitude. Clad in saffron, he poured water from a conventional, small beaker-like vessel into the ocean, chanting prayers with prayer beads in hand.
After finishing his meditation, Modi paid floral tributes to the 133-foot statue of Thiruvalluvar, a towering determine in Tamil literature, which stands adjoining to the rock memorial. Arriving on the statue complicated by ferry, he positioned a garland on the poet’s ft.
PM Modi’s handwritten message at Thiruvalluvar Statue, that he visited earlier right now after concluding his meditation train in Kanyakumari.
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After finishing his meditation, Modi returned to the mainland by ferry and took the helicopter to Thiruvananthapuram earlier than taking an Indian Air Drive plane to Delhi round 4 pm.
On finishing his meditation, he wrote, “Visiting the Vivekananda Rock Memorial at Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India, I really feel a divine power. It’s on this rock that Mom Parvati and Swami Vivekananda had meditated. Later, Eknath Ranade reworked this rock right into a ‘Shila Smarak’ that introduced Swami Vivekananda’s ideas to life. Swami Vivekananda, a pacesetter of non secular renaissance, has been my excellent, my power, and the supply of my spirituality.”
“My meditation at this ‘Shila Smarak’ is among the unforgettable moments of my life. Sitting on the ft of ‘Ma Bharati’, I as soon as once more reaffirm my resolve that each second of my life and each particle of my physique will all the time be devoted to the service of the nation,” he wrote. “With needs for the progress of the nation and the welfare of its residents, I supply my utmost reverence to ‘Ma Bharati’.”
The go to mirrors Modi’s sample of embarking on non secular journeys on the finish of serious political campaigns. In 2019, he visited Kedarnath, a sacred Hindu pilgrimage website within the Himalayas. In 2014, following his electoral victory, he travelled to Shivaji’s Pratapgarh fort.
A BJP assertion forward of his journey to Kanyakumari spoke about mythological hyperlinks of the rock, the place Goddess Parvati is believed to have meditated on one foot, awaiting her union with Lord Shiva. The Rock Memorial was inbuilt 1970 to commemorate the go to of Swami Vivekananda, who meditated right here earlier than his journey to the West, the place he would later introduce Indian philosophies of Vedanta to the worldwide stage.
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