Floral Tribute to RSS
Author: Narendra Modi
Publication: Jyotipunj
Page No: 21 to 24
URL: https://hvk.org/specialarticles/floral_tribute/floral_tribute.html
India is not identified by
its political system,
form of government
or
power of the state.
India is identified on
the basis of its cultural heritage.
It signifies that the building of India has
been shared by
those great people
who have always been ready to serve and
achieve goals,
as saints and seers,
hermits and sages,
teachers and religious teachers,
philosophers and the learned,
scientists and thinkers.
This tradition has been in existence for
thousands of
years in one or the other form.
Generation after generation,
this sacred continuity
can be experienced in our country
in new forms and colours.
In every corner of India,
we can see thousands of such people
who have dedicate themselves to the
sacred task of social welfare
with attention and penance.
An organised endeavour was made to
devote the people in the service
of the cultural heritage of
India of the 20th century.
This endeavour was the founding of the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and
this massive task was undertaken by
Dr. Hedgewar.
It was to unite the society through individual
building in the service of Motherland.
Today, there are thousands of institutions
to create leaders and
managers in the world,
such as IIMs, Harvard and Stanford.
However, we have to undertake a
comparative study of the western model
of leadership with the Indian model
laid down by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
The characteristic of the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
has been that it has given
a go by to the features
that attract and impress,
but has given importance to
renunciation, penance, devotion,
loyalty and commitment.
I have been fortunate to acquire
these traits while living in this tradition
in the capacity of a Swayamsevak
of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
As an individual, I might have lacked
some capability by which I could have erred
in assimilating the traits…there may be
some shortcomings in me…but whatever
good and noble I possess, in all that, this
fountainhead of traits from which I drank,
it occupies a very exalted place.
During this journey of mine in the
refinement process,
I got an opportunity to be in proximity of
many exalted lives, who might be viewed
as very low by the world, but their love,
their proximity have been the motivating
factors for this journey of mine.
The list of such lives
is very long, still it has been possible
to recall a few of them.
Few people are aware of
this bright tradition of sacrificing life
without expecting anything in return.
The world seldom remembers such
architects of the society
who devote every moment of their life
and every particle of their body
in the service of the Motherland,
but their fragrance keeps spreading around
even today.
Recalling such lives infuses
new inspiration in life,
and so, for the pleasure of the innate soul,
for the happiness of everybody,
I have made this solemn effort
to give words to the fragrance
of the architects of the society
which has resulted into this book.
I am neither capable nor eligible
to assess such high lives.
There are several bright anecdotes in the life of everybody.
I am presenting before the readers
only a few of them here from the lives
of great personalities.
As a person, as a Swayamsevak,
I offer my respectful tribute
to this great bright tradition
of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
I owe my indebtedness to it.
I am confident that the readers would get
an opportunity to understand the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh through this book.
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