PM Narendra Modi is meditating at the "dhyan mandapam", the same spot where Swami Vivekananda had meditated in 1892.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday evening began his 45-hour-long meditation at the famed Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari.
After wrapping up his hectic Lok Sabha election campaign, he reached the rock memorial by ferry service. Hours later, he started his meditation that will go on till June 1.
The day was exactly 131 years ago — May 31, 1893 — when Swami Vivekananda, originally named Narendra Dutta, left for Chicago to deliver his iconic address at the World Parliament of Religions where he surprised many by calling the delegates, “My fellow brothers and sisters". Narendra Modi, ever since his 2023 Independence Day speech, has often used the phrase “Mere parivarjan"
131 years ago, Swami Vivekananda, meditated at the rock memorial that is now named after the saint. Modi too is meditating for two days, at the end of a long election campaign, as if trying to get ready for something bigger, grander. Though the similarities are uncanny and there are many, we will focus on the three strong images that have come out of Kanniyakumari and the embedded messages.
