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RisingWaves Swami Vivekananda at Kanyakumari
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November 2011
There (at Kanyakumari) for 3 days (24 to 26th December, 1892) sitting on the last stone of India, Swami Vivekananda passed into a deep meditation on the present and future of the country!!
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e sought for the root of her downfall. With the vision of a seer he understood why India had been thrown from the pinnacle of glory to the depths of degradation. Where only wind and surf were to be heard, Swami Vivekananda reflected on the purpose and achievement of the Indian world. He thought not of Bengal, or of Maharashtra or of the Punjab, but of India and the life of India. The centuries were laid out before him. He perceived the realities and potentialities of Indian Culture. He saw India organically and synthetically, as a master-builder might visualize in the concrete of an architect’s plans. He saw religion to be the life-blood of India’s millions. “India”, he realized in the silence of his heart, “shall rise only through a renewal and restoration of that highest the spiritual consciousness that has made her, at all times, the cradle of the nations and cradle of the Faith”. He saw her greatness; he saw here weaknesses as well—the central one of which was that the nation had lost its individuality.
The single-minded monk had become transformed into a reformer, a nation-builder, a world-architect. His soul brooded with tenderness and anguish over India’s poverty. In his meditation he saw as almost insurmountable barriers to the progress of the Indian nation. His heart throbbed for the masses, great in their endurance. He seemed to enter into a high mood of feeling their world. In their sufferings he found himself sharing; by their degradation he found himself humiliated. Agony was in his soul!! At Kanyakumari was the culmination of days and months of thought on the problems of the Indian masses; here the longing to find a way by which the wrongs inflicted on them could be righted, was fulfilled.