Sanatana Dharma Avatara Mela 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n Awake, Arise! As the buds and blossoms that herald spring appear increasingly by the moment and set the mood of renewed life and vibrancy, these fresh and enlivening words of Swami Vivekananda are left reverberating from this year\u2019s Sanatana Dharma Avatara Mela (Grand Gathering in Celebration of the Divine Manifestations of Eternal Truth).<\/p>\n With disciples gathering from around Japan, New York and Taiwan, the celebration this year focused on approaching Swami Vivekananda, the beloved disciple of Shri Ramakrishna, who in his short life of only 39 years, \u201cshook the world to its foundations,\u201d precisely as his master proclaimed that he one day would.<\/p>\n Swami Vivekananda was the one who dedicated his life to regenerate India, and to boldly introduce Eastern wisdom to the West for the first time in history. Behind all of his activity, travel between the East and West, brilliant speeches and relentless work, Shri Ramakrishna, his beloved Guru<\/em>, was ever-present, such that Vivekananda worked as if united as one with the spirit of Shri Ramakrishna. His heart was as if bursting in pain from seeing and feeling the plight of the Indian masses, and he was thus determined to \u201cawaken the sleeping divinity\u201d of the \u201cknowledge of God\u2019s presence in man\u201d as the \u201csource of man\u2019s strength and wisdom,\u201d and, in a way, the wisdom he brought to the West might have been precisely what was needed to cure its growing materialism. When it came to his brother disciples, he set fire beneath them to serve people and work for the restoration of the masses rather than dwell on their own personal liberation, seeing also that a reawakened India could, in turn, help the world at large.<\/p>\n During the celebration, various pivotal moments of Vivekananda\u2019s life were introduced along with visual images and direct words from both Vivekananda and Shri Ramakrishna, with these accounts focusing on the guidance of his Master, Shri Ramakrishna, the impulse and resolution that arose within Vivekananda, and the propagation of Vedanta and its wisdom of the divinity of the soul and the unity of existence.<\/p>\n A twenty-minute slide show, originally presented in Japanese, was recreated with additional wordings for the English-speaking audience and presented in New York. The incessant works Vivekananda carried out were on an enormous scale, impossible to cover in that short twenty minutes\u2014Vivekananda himself even once said that the work he did was that of a thousand years. But in seeing the images and locations of the places where Vivekananda spoke, it helped us to feel more realistically the actual scale of those works, both internationally and in his motherland, India.<\/p>\n Indeed, Vivekananda worked across America, in Europe and in India at the end of the 19th<\/sup> century, when travel was nowhere as easy or available as it is today, and surely the social circumstances must have been completely different from how they are now, such that the ideas he introduced were completely new to America and the West. If each one of us tries to sense the feeling of that, how do we perceive the actual challenges that Vivekananda faced, what was it like, what did he feel and what spirit was needed to accomplish what he accomplished at that time in the world? The depth of the contribution he made is so grand that it may be difficult to fathom, and humanity as a whole likely has yet to understand it, even now.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Be Bold, and Face the Truth! Be One with It!<\/strong><\/p>\n
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