DOWN MEMORY LANE
Yuva Bharati|April 2020
THE REPORT GIVEN BY SHRI EKNATH RANADE, THE ORGANISING SECRETARY OF THE COMMITTEE ON 2 SEP 1970
DOWN MEMORY LANE
Today is, indeed, a great day. A part of the dream is realized. The Shikharam or the domes of the Vivekananda Mandapam that you see today, we used to see when the Rock was bare and was devoid of any structures on it. But those towering Shikharams were merely ideas- lofty ideas- which some people considered as nothing but fancies. Those very fancies have today taken a concrete shape-rather a granite shape.

This memorial to Swami Vivekananda is not just one more addition to the existing memorials raised in his memory in the country. In the Kanyakumari township itself, there are already two memorials dedicated to his memoryone of those is just standing before us in this very ground – a small elegant shrine of Swamiji. Another is a library, by name Swami Vivekananda library, dedicated to his memory, on the Sanniddhi Street. What was then the necessity or propriety of putting up a third memorial just three furlongs away? It is necessary, I feel, to grasp the special significance of this memorial and its uniqueness.

This Rock is associated with the Swamiji’s Life almost in the same manner as the Bodhi tree in Gaya is associated with the life of Gautam Buddha. It was just an ordinary tree as any other tree. But, on account of the fact that Gautam Buddha, meditating under this tree received , divine illumination, the tree and the entire surroundings have become a place of pilgrimage and a source of inspiration to millions of people all over the world.

Similarly, this Rock which now bears the name of Swami Vivekananda, has a special significance in his life.

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