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VOLUME 2 - ISSUE 10 1 OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2013

Inside this issue

NAVARATRI

VIJAYA DASHAMI

COMPETITIONS

IN COLLEGES

YOUTH SEMINARS

YOGA CLASSES

IN SCHOOLS

SISHU DIVASAM

PROGRAMMES

IN THE CAMPUS

Specia p!ints !" inte#est

SISHU DIVASAM

DIDI$S ARTICLE

A Bi-monthly bulletin of Vivekananda Kendra Vedic Vision Foundation

EDITORIALEDITORIALEDITORIALEDITORIAL

Be freeSwami Vivekananda used this expression

to capture the imagination of his western audi-

ence and he introduced them to a new taste of

freedom hitherto unknown to them and here is a

mischievous twist to Swamiji's message.

What follows is an imaginary picture of the

world parliament of religions in 1!". #n the

stage were sitting nearly forty leaders of all reli-gious denominations from different parts of the

world$ professing the superiority of their religion$

way of thinking$ of %od and of achieving eternal

happiness. &o Swamiji they all appeared as so

many ird catchers$ each with his own ird$ var-

ying in colour and eauty. #ne thing that char-

acteri(ed them was that they were all in cages.

#nly the colour of the plume differed as also

their capacity to talk. #f course$ the si(e and

shape of the cages differed. )ach one of the reli-

gious leaders was tightly holding on to their cag-

es for fear of the ird escaping from their captiv-

ity.

*t + pm when Swamiji rose up to speak$

he saw all these great teachers holding tightly

their cages fully conscious of the superior per-

formance of their irds. &hen he did a very mis-

chievous thing$ which he only could have done.

#ne y one he opened up all the cages of his co

religionists and set the irds free to fly into the

,nfinitude of reedom$ of &ruth$ of #neness.

irds having flown away all they had to do was

carry ack the empty cages or wait for the irds

to return to their captivity$ which they never

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Unlike Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, people in Kerala celebrate only the last three days of

Navratri. Ashtami, Navami and Vijaya ashmi are of utmost importance for the Keralites. !ere the

people consider these three days as the most auspicious time to initiate learnin". They place books, musi#

cal instruments $if any% in front of &oddess 'aras(ati)s idol on the day of Ashtami. The books are

(orshipped and people pray to the &oddess for "rantin" them (isdom and kno(led"e. *n the tenth day,

after 'aras(athi Puja and Vidyarambham the books are taken out for readin". This year Navaratri be"an

on +th of *ctober. aily bhajans and prayer for consecutive ten days, in front of the -omma Kolu), (ere

conducted by the inmates of Anandadham and the nei"hbourin" 'amskarvar"a children. n the mornin"

evi /ahatmyam (as chanted every day for ten days by the inmates.Various versions are there re"ardin" the si"nificance of the -omma Kolu. Kolu, represents the

durbar or assembly of &oddess ur"a. This assembly is held just before /other &oddess ventures on her

mission to slay /ahishasura, the buffalo#headed demon. t is also a (ay of remindin" us of the hierarchy

in life from the teeny#(eeny insects to the omnipresent &ods, others say it is merely a social event that

encoura"es the artisans (ho make those beautiful clay dolls as also those en"a"ed in multifarious activi#

ties in the society. ndian (ay of thinkin" is ever inclusive of everythin" in the (orld00


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*n Vijayadasami day durin" ussera celebrations, a

"ood number of children "et initiated into learnin" in tem#

ples. Vidyarambham is done (hen the child reaches either

three or five years. *n the ton"ue of the child the letters

1!ari 'ri &anapataye Namah Avi"namastu 1 are (ritten

preferably (ith a "old rin". The child is made to (rite the

same letters from 1!ari 'ri1 on(ards (ith its rin" fin"er on

ra( rice in a bell metal plateand the child is made to utter

each syllable (hen it is (ritten. 2ither the father of the child

or an eminent personality initiates this ritual. *ne notable

thin" is, even 3hristians and muslims have taken to this

Vidyarambham ritual modifyin" it in their o(n (ay.

*n Vijayadasami day, also kno(n as Poojayeduppu

the books and tools are taken back. Vijayadasami is consid#

ered to be most auspicious for all ne( ventures. T(o days

before asami i.e. Ashthami day, all nei"hbourhood chil#

dren kept their books in front of the &oddess 'aras(athi. *n

asami ay mornin" all the children came to take their

books and (rite !ari 'hree &anapathaye, on rice.

Toddlers (ere helped by their parents. idi (as there for

the fe( children (hose parents had brou"ht them forVidyarambham. 'hri !anumanth 4aoji from Kanya

kumari (as present durin" this years celebration.


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As part of Universal -rotherhood ay celebra#

tion this year (e or"ani5ed speech competition in

/alayalam or 2n"lish on the 6th *ctober, at 'N/

3olle"e. /alyankara. The topic for the competition

(as '(ami Vivekananda and 7outh. 89 students par#ticipated in the competition. 'mt :yoti Unniraman,

3o#ordinator for colle"e competitions and 'udhakarji

(ere the jud"es. 'ri /ukundan, !* of -iolo"y

department of the colle"e co#ordinated the

pro"ramme. Kum 4akahi (as adjud"ed as the best

speaker. The pri5e (innin" students have been asked

to participate one day camp at Ananda ham,

(herein they (ill be e;posed to the teachin"s of

'(amiji and intercolle"e competition (ill also be

conducted for all the students

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*n =th of November, a one day seminar at -haratiya Vidaya -havan Vidya /andir, rinjala#

kuda, (as or"ani5ed by Kendra, sponsored by 'ports > 7outh Affairs and 4amakrishna /ission.

The seminar (as meant for hi"her secondary school students. n all 8?< students participated. 4e#

source persons (ere 'ri !areendran /aster, 'ri Vinod Kumar and /ananeeya @akshmi idi. All the

speakers emphasi5ed (hy they should make '(amiji as their hero, so that their lives move on the ri"ht

track. @akshmi idi in her o(n uniue (ay presented '(amiji throu"h po(er point presentation ofVish(a -hanu and asked the students to imbibe the spirit of '(amiji in their lives. 'ri /ukundan,

3hairman of the /ana"in" committee, inau"urated the seminar. 3hildren of Vivekananda club san"

-huvana mandale. A book on '(amijis life and messa"e (as "iven to all the students and a set of com#

plete (orks (as "iven to the school library.

*n B?th November a similar seminar (as conducted at Kodun"allur -havan)s Vidya /andir

for the !i"her secondary students. 'ri Vinod Kumar (ho is 3o#ordinater of the seminars on behalf of

4amakrishna /ission "ave a brief idea about the 8


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This year we have extended our yoga for

school children to two more government schools run

by Muslim management. One G.U.P.S at Konathu

!unnu and another SSM"S at #$hi!ode. Two of our

newly trained yoga %ar&ci%ants' Smt Padma(a and Smt

Sa!eena' have been de%loyed to ta!e the classes on a

regular basis. The former is for u%%er %rimary children

and the la)er is for tenth class children with an aim to

bring about an all round develo%ment in their %rogress.

Sri Sudha!ar(i visited the GUPS and addressed all the

children in the school at the re*uest of the PT# Presi

dent who is also a social wor!er from that area. Smt

Padma(a and Smt Sa!eena visit these schools on wee!ly

basis and conduct the classes. The idea is' a%art from

yoga' they will be teaching them certain medita&on and

concentra&on techni*ues through games' stories' etc.

# notable achievement this year is many of the

children trained by our teachers got %ri$es in district

level com%e&&on+s conducted by the Trissur ,istrict

yoga associa&on. They will now be com%e&ng at the

state level. #ll the winning children were felicitated by

the school managements and PT# associa&ons of the

res%ec&ve schools.

@ike in previous years this year also the children of 'andeepani 'ishuvihar celebrated 3hildrenCs

ay (ith pomp and sho(. The theme for this years (as is National !eroes ) of /other ndia. All the

children from this year and previous years (ere invited to participate in the pro"ramme. They dressed

themselves befittin" the theme. /aster Vishnu dressed as 3hacha Nehru, "ave the inau"ural speech. *th#

ers dressed as Vivekananda, 'ri 4amakrishna, 'arada evi, 'hivaji, :hansi 4ani, Unniarcha, r Palpu,'(ami Ayyappa, 3hattambi '(ami"al and so on, one by one presented themselves on the sta"e and

spoke a fe( lines about themselves and their mission. 3hildren had a (onderful time to"ether. 2very one

of them (as thrilled to "et the opportunity to speak or sin" throu"h the mike.


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Kodungallur Sahitya Sadas' in collabora&on with

-ive!ananda Kendra conducted a one day seminar on

Swami -ive!ananda a Karma ogi. The seminar was

inaugurated by Sri Surendran' ,y SP of Kodungallur. Oneof the members Sri P.S.S.Kaimal of Sahitya Sadas had

com%osed a %oe&cal narra&on /!handa !avyam0of Swa

mi(i1s life en&tled Karma yogi . The boo! was released

by Man.2a!shmi ,idi and the 3rst co%y of the boo! was

received by Kum Manavi. 4imisha Kavi Sri Go%alan!u)y

Menon and other s%ea!ers threw light on Swami(i1s life

as Karma ogi. The %rogramme concluded with a %rayer.

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Yoga Satra

89 ladies in t(o different places and 8+ "ents and 8< children

separately attended the yo"a satra classes daily. Dor "ents, it

(as in the early mornin" $=a.m. to ?a.m. %, for ladies classes

(ere < days in a (eek $from 88am to 8B E8< noon% .

Yoga Varga

7o"a Var"a for men continued in the early mornin" from


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%th &ct' YUV()(*( S+B- at annuthy / uthuvara in connection with the 012th Birthday cel3

ebrations of Swami#i.

04th &ctober' Vidyarambham 5 conducted at Sai Vidya Bhavan, ". Vemballur along with an. +an3

umantha -ao#i6(ll ndia $reasurer of Vivekananda 7endra.

80st &ctober' Satsang at Sri 7eraleswarapuram 7shetra Upodeshaka Samity, ethala

89th &ctober' :entenary celebrations of Vivekodayam School, $hrissur.

;rd *ovember' :hief speaker at 7erala Vyasa Sanskrit Vidyapeetham


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SWAMI VIVEKANANDAS MESSAGE TO THE WESTSWAMI VIVEKANANDAS MESSAGE TO THE WESTSWAMI VIVEKANANDAS MESSAGE TO THE WESTSWAMI VIVEKANANDAS MESSAGE TO THE WEST ( CONTD)( CONTD)( CONTD)( CONTD)Dr. M. Lakshmi Kumari

Tt #( t! %t,' +%i'+ at Saas Sit8'%an+ #n 2 20139

Sa)i:icould thin! and act as he did because he

was a true -edan&n. -edanta is built on %rinci%les' not

%ersonali&es and because of this' -edanta is a most im

%ersonal religion based on %rinci%les and yet with in3nite

sco%e for the %lay of the %erson.

Essn #( Sa)i:i;s Mssag

The 3rst and foremost a)em%t of Swami(i was to

%ut across to the mul& religious and mul&racial audience

at the Parliament' the fact' that varied though they may

be in colour, creed, race, religion or other man made de-

nominaons, in the final scheme of spiritual analysis theywere nothing but brothers and sisters, born of and

aached to the same stock, the Divine elf! "is second

emphasis was that all human e#orts of reaching out to

god called religion, were but di#erent pathways leading

man to his ulmate goal of $od reali%aon!"is ins%ired

declara&ons rooted in his own Self reali$a&on made the

en&re audience one with him' leaving no room for %e)y

doubts or disbeliefs.

The telling exam%le of the 5frog in the well1 story he narrated in this connec&on has now become a

classic exam%le to demonstrate the narrow mindedness of religious leaders who refuse to acce%t the

truth in other religions. "e made &'niversal tolerance and acceptance of all religions as true(the refrains

of the 6hicago Parliament of 7eligions. This was 8ndia1s message that Swami(i wanted the world religions

to ado%t for world %eace.

"e gave a new orienta&on to the search for Truth and ac*uisi&on of !nowledge by eleva&ng

!nowledge to a search for Oneness' of unity in diversity. Such an idea that !nowledge is everyone1s basic

right will let humanity recogni$e that all of us are ci&$ens with e*ual right in the global village' which no

other idea can. "e provided a new dimension to religion by revealing the science of religion with self reali-

%aon as its essence. 9hat the world wants today is a new understanding based on the bedroc! of One

Ul&mate Truth' which can bring human hearts together without the discordant notes of the so called reli

gious dogmas and beliefs. "is lectures on )nana *oga brought a brighter vision of the +ne ruth' which

the western minds had not ex%erienced earlier. 4ewer realms of !nowledge were revealed to the 9est

when he s%o!e about secular !nowledge as di:erent from the im%erishable !nowledge of the Self in man.

"e proclaimed &dvaita . +/0/0( as the &summum bonnum( of knowledgeand reasoned that &as soon

as science would reach perfect unity it would stop from further progress, because it would reach the


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goal111and the science of religion would become perfect when it would discover "im who is the one life

in a universe of death, "im, who is the constant basis of an ever-changing world, +ne, who is the only

soul of which all souls are but delusive manifestaons! hus is it, through mulplicity and duality the ul-

mate unity is reached! 2eligion can go no farther! his is goal of all science!(hrough this beauful syn-

thesis of science and religion he opened an absolutely new channel of thinking contemplaons and re-

search. The result is there for everyone to see' in the new dimensions of !nowledge which the *uantum

science is unveiling before the modern scien&sts. "e argued that secular sciences and secular !nowledgeby themselves cannot assure %eace of man!ind' words which we 3nd later echoed in the observa&on of

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&ons.

"e struck at the very roots of doctrinism and dogmasm and called upon the religious minded to

struggle towards reali%aon of ruth by &being and becoming(!The goal of religion was


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To men&on a few s%ecial guidelines that Swami(i has leC with the 9est areF . The indestruc&ble

%ower and eternal validity of the Ul&mate Truth' Satya. H. The sustaining ca%acity of dharma. I. 6osmic

im%lica&ons of each and every act of man. J. The immaculate %ower of ta%as and brahmacharya. . The

signi3cance of a Guru in s%iritual life. L. The %eace that is enshrined in the ideal of ahimsa. . The need to

recogni$e the whole universe as one1s family.

2ast but not the least' Swami(i directed the minds of his contem%orary scien&sts from the limited

visions of the world observed through the senses into the ever ex%anding realm of &meless' cosmological

in3nity. This has %aid great dividends in the form of the ex%anding fron&ers of *uantum science which is

revealing at every ste% the magnitude of every form of life including that of man. 8n essence Swami(i

taught the west to see the microcosm in the macrocosm and vice versa!

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