The 152{+n}{+d}birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was observed in Kanyakumari on Monday.
Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Pon. Radhakrishnan along with BJP MP Tarun Vijay and RSS Vice-President Suresh Joshi garlanded the bronze statue at the mandapam in Vivekananda Memorial Rock.
The life-time office-bearers of Vivekananda Kendra also offered floral tribute at the memorial at the memorial.
It was said that Swami Vivekananda during his travel across the country as Parivrajak visited Kanyakumari in the last week of December in 1892 to offer prayers to Devi Kanyakumari (Bhagavathi Amman).
On December 25, he swam to a rock in the sea nearly 1,600 feet from the southern tip of the land and spent the whole night in deep meditation.
He chose the rock at the confluence of three seas as the site for his meditation.
“At Cape Comorin, sitting in Mother Kumari’s temple, sitting on the last bit of Indian rock, I hit up on a plan,” wrote Swami Vivekananda. It was said that sitting on the rock he looked northward at the great land and its teeming millions and resolved to dedicate himself to the service of his country and to convey the message of Vedanta to the West.
The Vivekananda Kendra celebrated the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda as National Youth Day and Annual Day at the Vivekananda Matriculation School.
“He chose the rock at the confluence of three seas as the site for meditation”
