REBIRTH OF INDIA

India, Great and Free Series - 45 Swami Vivekananda’s attempts of Igniting work for the rebirth of India

- Dr.K.M.Rao

Swamiji was bent stirring the great cauldron of India, whose incomparable treasures had sunk to the bottom, lying motionless and hidden under layers of debris. The whole nation was sunk in tamas, heavy, inert almost impossible to move. But in the heart of the nation, he knew the embers were still glowing, needing only to be fanned into flame by the fresh breeze of ideas both old and new. He had seen the spiritual ideal shining deep in the serene eyes of every villager, expressing itself in the grace and gentleness of carriage and gesture, woven into every household tradition indeed into the very texture of life. He knew that in the basic spiritual nature of the Hindu villager lay the hope of his motherland, and he knew that nature had not died; it could be fully revived. He wrote to Alasinga in March of 1896:

“The only hope of India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and morally dead”

Swamiji’s plan for the Regeneration of India

In January 19, 1894, wrote his first letter to his brother's disciples address to Swamiji Ramakrishnananda who was at the time scattered, wandering in accordance with the age-old tradition of sannyasins. In this long letter, Swamiji told his plan for the regeneration of India.

“At cape come in (he wrote) sitting in Mother Kumari’s temple, sitting on the last of Indian Rock – I hit upon a plan: we are so many sannyasins wandering about and teaching metaphysics – it is all madness. Did not our Guru deva use to say, ‘An empty stomach is no good for religion? That these poor people are leading the life of brutes due to ignorance and they are being trampled over by the privileged people…