The Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems
(CIKS), NIT Calicut organized a
programme on National Youth Day (January
12,2024). Two invited speakers
delivered lectures.
Dr. M. V. Natesan, Prof. (Retd.), Department of Vyakarana and Head of the Department of Education, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady delivered a lecture on the topic ‘Revalued and Restated Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda’.
To Swami Vivekananda, Education should be man-making, life-giving, and character-building leading to nation building. For this he wanted Darsana to be the foundation of education in India.
*Swami
Vivekananda advocated Karma Yoga, Bhakti
Yoga, Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga
*Each soul is
potentially divine and the goal should be to manifest this Divinity within, by controlling
nature, external and internal.
*Understanding Bharat knowledge system is essential.
The various branches include
Science, Darsana, Samskara and
Art. The end of art and science is self awareness.
*If we wish to
improve the quality of the youth of today then we have to ensure that they preserve purity of character and should not be addicted to a material way
of life.
Excerpts from the lecture
Dr.Muralidharan
*Swami Vivekananda was a great scientific visionary : “Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book…Do not believe a thing because another has said it so…Find out the truth for yourself!...That is realization…”
*Awakening from a trance that followed his
deep meditation below an old peppul tree, beside a stream near Almorah (India),
he jotted down his vision in a note book: “the scheme of the universe of both
micro-world and macro-world are built on the same plan…the whole universe
exists in the atom…”
In 1913, a student of Rutherford, Neils Bohr developed a model of atomic
structure which was patterned on the solar system, and his model is termed planetary model of atomic structure. In this
model, electrons are orbiting around a
positively charged central nucleus like the planets orbiting around the sun.
*Swamiji used the language of science to explain Vedanta:
“…soul is a circle whose
circumference is nowhere but the centre
is the same body…God is a circle whose circumference is nowhere, and whose centre is
everywhere, and when we get out of the narrow centre of the body we shall
realize God-our true self.”
The programme concluded with Prof. Sridharan, Chairperson CIKS offering the vote of thanks. The invited speakers were also presented with mementoes.
All participants of the programmes were gifted books on Swami Vivekananda.
