Is PM Modi aware of concluding words of Vivekananda's Chicago speech, asks Sitaram Yechury
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Sitaram Yechury questions Modi's awareness of Swami Vivekananda's message of religious harmony at World's Parliament of Religions.
Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi who presently sitting in meditation at Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on May 31 highlighted Swami Vivekananda's quote where he said he "pitied" those who dream of "exclusive survival" of their own religion.
In a post on X, Mr. Yechury asked if Mr. Modi is aware of the concluding words of Swami Vivekananda at the final session of World's Parliament of Religions.
Vivekananda, a Hindu monk, philosopher and disciple of mystic Ramakrishna Paramhansa, made his iconic speech at Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago between September 11-27, 1893.
"Is Modi aware of these concluding words of Swami Vivekananda at the final session of the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago on 27 September 1893?" Mr. Yechury said, and shared a quotation from his famous speech.
"If anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: ‘Help and not Fight’, ‘Assimilation and not Destruction’, ‘Harmony and Peace and not Dissension’,” he quoted Vivekananda's speech.
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