Mysore/Mysuru: Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysuru, has organised Bhoomi Puja (ground-breaking ceremony) for the construction of ‘Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre – Viveka Memorial’ building on Narayana Shastry Road, opposite Maharani’s Government Girls PU College, in city tomorrow (July 6) between 9 am and 10.30 am.
Suttur Mutt Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji and Adichunchanagiri Shaka Mutt Seer Sri Someshwaranatha Swamiji will grace the occasion.
Co-operation and Mysuru District in-Charge Minister S.T. Somashekar will lay the foundation stone.
Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha will inaugurate the project’s model. Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra will preside over the event.
Mayor, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and Chairmen of various Boards and Corporations will be present on the occasion.
What is needed is not yet another Vivekananda Centre of some kind-they are littered all over India, but sincere observation of Vivekananda’s preaching, as part of every day life , particularly by the Ramakrishna Mutt head concerned and the attending seers. These are veritable politicos , functioning more as politicians than as spiritual leaders. The only difference between them and the professional politicians of India is that these Ramakrishna Mutt heads and these Seers were saffron clothes and robes! They preach others and do not follow what they preach.
Vivekananda, a simple person, would have rather preferred these Mutt heads and Seers follow in their day lives the best aspects of his tenets he preached, so that they are fit to teach others.
When this MP Simha gets involved in anything, you know there is hypocrisy and publicity for self promotion is involved!
In Kerala they love MP Simha, as he is through his plans of Hassan-Kodagu-Kerala highway, and expansion of Mysore airport, helping massive numbers of Keraliites in Kerala to move to Mysore city ans well as the large numbers of Keralites resident in the UAE to start their business links with Mysore city through the non-stop air services in the UAE-Mysore route , thanks to the A320 passenger jets.