Madhya Pradesh Government will institute Swami Vivekananda International Award comprising Rs50 lakh. Vivekananda Jyoti Yatra will visit every village promoting Swami Vivekananda's philosophy of life and ideologies which will be included in the syllabus from Class III to XII said Culture Minister laxmikant Sharma in ‘Swami Vivekananda and Indian Renaissance’ symposium at Samanvay Bhavan here on Saturday.
The Culture Minister said that it was decided at the meeting of festival committee chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan that Swamiji's 150th birth anniversary will be celebrated till January 12, 2014. During the period, Swami Vivekananda Quiz will be held participated by youths and children.
Sharma said that winners of district, division and state-level competitions will be taken to visit Kanyakumari and Vellore Mutt. He said that a book containing lectures delivered and discussions held at the symposium will be published and distributed, the programmes are expected to introduce the youth to Swamiji's life and persona. The Culture Minister also released the latest edition of 'Navneet' magazine, "Man is not political animal."
At the symposium, Swami Jitatmananda said that views expressed by Swami Vivekananda have been proven true word by word. He highlighted importance of Vedic knowledge and said that "man is not a political animal". Swami Vivekananda had visualized victory over world through spiritualism. He further said that it is the effect of Swami Vivekananda's lectures and views that study centers have been established in 20 universities in United States of America including three at Harvard University. He called Swami Vivekananda "a visionary, whose foresighted ideology aimed at establishing India as world guru."
"Only Vedic knowledge and spiritualism can establish world peace," Justice Devdutt Madhav Dharmadhikari said that peace can be established in society by following ideals of Swami Vivekananda. He said that world peace can be ensured only through Vedic knowledge and spiritualism; social organizations should establish spiritual centres. Adding that our country is being driven by cultural ethos, country's soul is spiritualism and science. Dharmadhikari said that public should be aware for giving a health, capable and powerful system.
Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communications, organized the symposium where Vice-Chancellor Proj Brijkishore Kuthiala shed light on the objectives of this symposium. On March 24, the second day of symposium, Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Jayendra Saraswati will express his views and RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohanrao Bhagwat will deliver a lecture.