THE NATION NEEDS SWAMIJI AND THE GOVERNMENT MUST IMPLEMENT HIS IDEAS AND PROPOSED PROGRAMMES

THE NATION NEEDS SWAMIJI AND THE GOVERNMENT MUST IMPLEMENT HIS IDEAS AND PROPOSED PROGRAMMES 

The Government of India must seek guidance in its actions in 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda'. Then its course will be unerring. The modalities will have to be worked out though as to how his proposed programmes may be best implemented. For instance, Swamiji wanted the wide dissemination of Sanskrit in India. He wanted India to develop into an organic being with 'Vedanta brain and Islam body'. Swamiji desired the well-being of 'women and the masses'.

Vivekananda inspired our freedom fighters to sacrifice their all for the unshackling of the colonial-imperial fetters of the motherland. Out of the ranks of his ardent followers rose Bagha Jatin, Rash Behari Bose and Netaji, to name just three of the most illustrious ones. These great ones followed the precepts of Swamiji and liberated our motherland. Others like Gandhiji, Rajagopalachari, Nehru, Chittaranjan Das, Aurobindo Ghosh, Hemchandra Ghosh and countless other freedom fighters were likewise influenced by the message and the man that Swamiji was. A generation of patriots came up in his name and galvanised the masses into revolution against the colonial oppressors.

This was but one side of Swamiji, the patriotic one. As Sister Nivedita said, India was the queen of her adoration. And Nivedita had made herself the servant of his love for the people of India. Likewise Sister Christine dedicated her life to educating the Indian girls. When Miss Josephine MacLeod asked Swamiji what she could do for him, the latter replied, "Love India." This in essence captured Swamiji's thrust in life, his great desire to raise India from the mire in which she found herself owing to colonial depredation.

Swamiji was of the view that the fallen condition of India was owing to the neglect of the masses by the upper castes of India.  And he wanted a levelling off of this disparity for the possible rise of India as a nation. He desired that the system of caste privilege should be done away with. In this he is often misunderstood as having been anti-varna or anti-caste in theoretical terms. No, he was not so. He understood these principles as being intrinsic to human society but thought that, having degenerated into a hereditary system of privilege, they were no more of such consequence in modern India where the masses were to be raised. In fact Swamiji wanted a society where scriptural study was to become universal and where the shudra would be raised to the merit and status thereof of a braahman instead of the other way round as is now in vogue owing to misunderstanding of the essence of the scriptures and their modern relevance in society.

Swamiji has laid down the comprehensive blueprint for India's future development. It is for the Government of India 🇮🇳 to study and implement his proposed programmes. In so far as they do it, to that effect India 🇮🇳 will rise. But the will of Swamiji being omnipotent, his ideas will sooner or later find fruition.