PM Modi: Let us dedicate next 25 years for Viksit Bharat, says Modi after meditation
The HinduPrime Minister Narendra Modi, in a note penned on Saturday, while on his flight back to Delhi from Kanniyakumari, after a 45-hour meditation retreat, reflected that “Bharat’s development had a global context”, and that the time had arrived when, for the next 25 years, the country must dedicate itself to creating strong foundation for the coming generations. Meditating at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, where Swami Vivekananda had also done so and had envisioned the form of “Bharat Mata” or Mother India, Prime Minister Modi in his note titled New Sankalp from Sadhana, gave reference to the spiritual leader. “Swami Vivekananda had said in 1897 that we must dedicate the next 50 years solely for the nation. Referrencing the giant statue of Tamil poet-saint Thiruvalluvar at the spot, he said that his work, the Thirukkural, was “one of the crown jewels of the beautiful Tamil language.” He spoke at length about the lessons the country, as a cradle of ideas from ancient times, held for the world, guided by the spirit of “Idam-na-mama” or “this is not mine”.