VIVEKANANDA ROCK MEMORIAL AND UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD DAY CELEBRATIONS REPORT 2014-2015
DATE: 11-09-2014
VENUE:VIVEKANANDA KENDRA VIDYALAYA M.H.S.S.,VIVEKANANDAPURAM
The welcome and adoration that was
given to the speeches of Swami Vivekananda during the parliament of Religions
at Chicago made it clear that world is in need of the message of Bharat. Swami
Vivekananda addressed the audience as ‘Sisters
and Brothers of America ’ it had an electrifying effect on them. It
was not merely a form of address but behind those words were the great
spiritual strength of India. For the first time to western audience the message
of Universal Brotherhood and its proper understanding was given by Swami Vivekananda.
Therefore Mananeeya Eknathji wanted this day to be celebrated as Universal Brotherhood day.
Our
honourable Chief Guest Sri. R.S.Sundar, Site Director of Koodankulam
Nuclear Power Project lighted the lamp.
In our
school 44th Anniversary
of the dedication of the Vivekananda Rock Memorial
and Universal Brotherhood day celebrations
were celebrated in a grand manner. The programme started at 5.30 P.M.
On that
happiest occasion we initiated our programme by an invocation song sung by VIII
and IX standard students of V.K.V.
The welcome
address was presented by our school beloved Principal Shri.S.
Abraham Lingom.
The function
was presided over by our Special Guest Man.Hanumantaraoji,
Treasurer of Vivekananda Kendra. He addressed the audience. He expressed his
views about Swamiji’s address which was a turning point of Indian people. He
noted the five important words of Swami Vivekananda ‘Sisters
and Brothers of America’ which the audience considered Swamiji as
the greatest example of our whole nation. He talked about the ancient and
modern condition of India. He said that he was proud to belong to the nation
which had self esteem, self respect and self confident. He expressed that our
India has Universal acceptance and tolerance based on our Culture, Religion, Gigantic
spiritual different diamonds and social economic developments ‘Vasu Dev Kudumbaham’ means belonging to one
family.
He advised
the students to remember the three words ‘help don’t fight’ and
they must have patriotic confident life.
Next our
teacher Smt.P.Jeya who won the first prize in English elocution competition.
She delivered the speech in English.
The Kendra
employees who had completed their 10 and 20 years of service were honoured. Our
teacher Smt.P.Jeya read out the
names.
The students
of VIII standard expressed their spirituality feelings in the form of a song in
our national language.
Our teacher Shri.R.Sundara Kumar who won the first prize in Tamil elocution completion. He delivered the speech in Tamil.
Various
competitions were conducted for our teachers on account of Janma Shati Parva. Our teachers participated in the
competitions enthusiastically and won the prizes. Our honourable Chief Guest
gave away the prizes for our teachres.
We had an
eminent person Shri.R.S.Sundar, Site
Director of Koodankulam Nuclear Power
Project as our Chief Guest addressed the audience. He expressed his views about
Chicago address.He told about Swamiji’s thought each soul is potentially
divine.
He advised
the students to have self confidence and face their problems directly. Self
confidence will alone lead a person to achieve success. He talked about the Mananeeya Eknathji’s struggles for
constructing the Rock Memorial. He suggested the students to plant atleast 50
saplings in their life long period.
Our special
guest presented the memento to our honourable Chief Guest.
Vote of
thanks was proposed by Shri.Krishna Swami, Administrative Officer of Vivekananda Kendra.
Various cultural programmes were performed by our V.K.V. Students . The programme was concluded
by Kendra Prayer.