According to sources in the Tamil Nadu Police, PM Modi will meditate at the iconic rock memorial during the two-day retreat; this is the same place where Swami Vivekananda had meditated and attained enlightenment. (The rock is about 500 meters off the mainland, at the meeting point of the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and Arabian Sea.) Folklore has it that Vivekananda was barely 29 when he reached Kanniyakumari on December 24, 1892. A worshipper of Shakti, he is supposed to have asked Goddess Kaynakumari, tears rolling down his eyes, "How can I serve you, Oh Mother! Are you not able to see the living condition of your children under an unholy regime? Show me the way that I can be an instrument in Thy hands, for giving them freedom from the foreign yoke. Let my country and my people regain their lost glory and manliness".
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