Our
constitution is a noble document ensuring a high vision of human
excellence and the will of our people to establish that excellence of
human dignity, freedom, and equality in our country. Our nation came
to itself only when these, our tribal fellow-citizens, and the
millions of our other backward communities also, are given the
economic, social and cultural blessings of our freedom.
Today
India stands strong as a democratic political state deriving its
strength from the people of India. This is a great thing in our
history. Through the ages we had small states and big empires, but
not one of them was founded upon the strength and consent of the
people of India. They were founded on the strength of king or an
emperor or a commander-in-chief we have this democracy today, the
largest democracy in the world. But there are many challenges to our
democracy in the world. But there are many challenges to our
democracy which we have to face as citizens. The political structure
has stood the test of 70 years. We are strong there; we have overcome
that challenge. But we have more serious challenges to face and to
solve, namely, poverty, illiteracy, exploitation and the general mood
of apathy.
The
most glorious work that the people of India are engaged in, since
Vivekananda’s time, in the listing of that heavy weight of social
tyranny from the common people of India, through the steady
implementation by the Indian state, and by the enlightened section of
the people of India, of his message of RENUNCIATION AND SERVICE. The
only valid form of inter human relationship is services and never
exploitation. It is responsibility of enlightened citizenship in a
free democracy that the RKMVU in seeking to shoulder and to
discharge. The magazine which I have the privilege to focus today.
Our attention on the problem of our fellow citizens living in the
tribal areas.
The
Ramakrishna mission has been engaged in substantial educational and
cultural work in Ranchi area of Jharkhand for over forty-five years.
It has also been conducting hostels for tribal students in Obar, soba
and Gutigara centres. The tremendous hunger for education is a very
inspiring and promising feature of these tribal areas today.
Many
are not aware that in India the Ramakrishna mission was the pioneer
organization in spreading non formal education in villages and in
organizing rural housing schemes. Mission was also the first to
conduct large scale relief operation as an organised body.
Besides
their village welfare schemes, the Ramakrishna mission also train
village youths in order to make them valuable and contributing
members of their communities. After training they are helped to
conduct welfare activities in their villages with the assistance of
the villagers, thus creating a sense of social awareness. The mission
provides them with active help at the initial stage, while
emphasizing the necessity of self-help projects for the social and
economic uplift of the villagers. Swami Vivekananda believed in the
kind of education that would enable a man to raise himself. In a
letter he wrote: “All the health of the world cannot help one
little village if the people are not taught to help themselves.”
Keeping this in mind, the mission conduct many training centres to
make the villagers self-supporting.
Written
by,
Swami
Antarananda Maharaj
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