NAGPUR, RSS Vijayadashmi Utsav: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh today completed 100 years of its journey. In the last 100 years it has been relentlessly and tirelessly engaged in national service.
On this occasion, RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat addressed the Swayamsewaks at Reshim Bagh, Nagpur.
Dr Mohan Bhagwat said that, the modern worldview is not entirely misplaced, but it is incomplete. “All our modern thinkers – from Swami Vivekanand to Mahatma Gandhi ji, Deendayal Upadhyaya ji, Ram Manohar Lohia ji – and other greater leaders in our society, who have tried to reflect on Bharat and the world based on a Bharatiya worldview, have all pointed in the same direction while addressing all these problems. The modern worldview is not entirely misplaced, but it is incomplete. This is why some countries and classes have experienced an improvement in material development. This has not happened for all. Leave aside others, some researchers have observed that if Bharat were to live a so-called prosperous and advanced material life like that in America, it would require resources equivalent to five more Earths. This is why new problems are arising for humanity and nature alongside progress, which are becoming existential crises. The root cause of this is incompleteness of the prevailing approach,” he said.
He further said that, “Our Sanatan, spiritual, holistic and integral approach has the power to ensure the material wellbeing of an individual, alongside the development of the mind, intellect, and spirituality; maintain collective progress and environmental sustainability, alongside individual development; and nurture a sense of duty and a sense of belonging and oneness towards others while aspiring for economic wellbeing according to individual needs. This is because we have realized the principle that unites all. Through that, for thousands of years, we had evolved a beautiful, prosperous, and peaceful lifestyle, which recognizes the importance of interpersonal relations and respects the cooperative coexistence of humans and the nature”.
“The world requires a new model based on this holistic and integrated outlook, one that meets the needs of today’s world and provides a permanent solution for the problems which humanity is facing today. Destiny demands that Bharatiya citizens provide a model worthy of emulation through their own example,” he added.
