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Narendra Modi : PM Modi to meditate at Swami Vivekananda Rock Memorial, know its features









Leaders Online Desk: As soon as the campaigning for the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections ends, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to Kanyakumari for meditation. For the last one and a half months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned for the Lok Sabha elections through public meetings and road shows across the country. Now that the campaign is over, Prime Minister Modi will go to Kanyakumari for meditation between May 30 and June 1. He will meditate at the Swami Vivekananda Rock Memorial here. Let's know the salient features of this building….

Prime Minister Modi will visit Kanyakumari from May 30 to June 1, 2024. He will meditate at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial from the evening of May 30 to June 1. He will meditate at the rock where Swami Vivekananda meditated. will do Swami Vivekananda swam about 500 meters from the beach and reached this rock. From 25 to 27 December 1892 i.e. for three days he meditated on this rock. The focus of his meditation was India's past, present and future. Meditating at the same place reflects Swamiji's commitment to realizing the dream of a developed India and thereby the upliftment of the countrymen.

Highlights of Swami Vivekananda Rock Memorial

  • Swami Vivekananda Rock Memorial was inaugurated in 1970 by the then President of the country, Dr. VV Giri.
  • Here, on Chaitra Purnima, which falls in April, both the moon and the sun appear face to face on the same horizon
  • The entrance to the monument is similar to that of Ajanta and Ellora Caves
  • It is the confluence of Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.
  • Memorial Pavilion similar to Sri Ramakrishna Temple in Belur, Karnataka
  • It is a place that straddles the eastern and western coasts of India

Swami Vivekananda dreamed of a developed India

. Swami Vivekananda reached Kanyakumari on 24 December 1892 after touring the entire country. It was here that he saw Mother India. It was here that he decided to dedicate the rest of his life to the poor of India.

There was a struggle to erect a Vivekananda memorial at the rock where Vivekananda meditated. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Eknath Ranade played an important role in building the Vivekananda memorial temple here. On September 2, 1970, the then President of the country Dr. VV Giri inaugurated the memorial. The inauguration ceremony lasted for two months. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi also participated in it.

After the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, PM Modi meditated in the Rudra Cave

This is not the first time that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited such an important place after the Lok Sabha election campaign. Prime Minister Modi visited Kedarnath ahead of voting in the last phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019. He had gone to meditate at the Rudra cave, one kilometer away from the Kedarnath temple. Here he meditated for 17 hours. His photographs of meditating in the cave became very famous and the cave has since become a center of attraction for religious tourists. Also, during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Modi visited Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's Pratapgad.









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