Kailash Satyarthi urges swayamsevaks to help build new India on ‘Panchaamrit’

Nagpur, Oct 18: Noble Laurette and global champion of child rights and founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) Kailash Satyarthi called upon the RSS Swayamsevaks to contribute their mite in building a new India based on the principles of ‘Panchaamrit’.

Addressing a massive rally of Swayamsevaks in uniform and a impressive gathering of RSS sympathisers at Reshambag Ground assembled here to celebrate the 93rd foundation day of RSS here this morning Satyarthi, who was awarded Nobel Prize in 2014 for his pioneering work in child rights, explained the five qualifying terms which he referred to as Panchaamrit.

He called upon the swayamsevaks to strive for building new India that would include elements of compassion, inclusivity, safety and security, self-reliance and self-respect. “I offer a Panchaamrit – the five element concoction for new India”, Satyarthi said adding “I clearly see the potential of building a ‘Samvedansheel Bharat (Compassionate India), ‘Samaaveshi Bharat (Inclusive India), Surakshit Bharat (Safe & Secure India), Swval;ambi Bharat (Self-reliant India), Swaabhimaani Bharat (Self-respecting India)”.

He said compassionless politics, economy and society are much like a body without a soul. He underlined the need to start inculcating sensitivity within ourselves. ‘West has taught us globalization of markets, economy, consumerism, manufacturing and technology. This tornado and hot gust of materialism has swept us off our feet. To counter this we must ensure that cool and gentle breeze of compassion emanates from our great motherland, he added.

Talking about respect to women, the Nobel Laurette said that though we worship Durga, Saraswati and Lakshmi as Goddesses of power and courage,, knowledge and wealth respectively, how2 can we tolerate such fall and decimation of character?

Commenting on threat and insecurity at home, workplace, localities and public places to children and girls, he said this is a grave disrespect to Bharat Mata. Silence of the society succumbing in front of crime and injustice is not merel;y cowardice but quite violent in itself! He also underlined the importance of job creation and social equity as most important factors for self-reliant India.

Dealing at length with the element of self-respect, he said due to hundreds of years of colonial rule a deep sense of mental slavery has taken over our minds and influenced out thought process. This inferiority complex conspicuously reflects in the ever increasing sense of contempt towardas outr language, tradition, culture, costume, way of living, food and education, he said.

For generating self-respect towards out culture we will have to adopt the values that are at the heart of our great culture, he said, underlining three philosophical elements of immortality, universality, and totality in approach.

He said that by immortality he meant that India is a country that has no birth and death; it is eternal. Universality means not limiting to certain boundaries of time and space. It is for this universality that out saints could give the message of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’. And, totality means we look at the world as a one and not in fragments.

Invoking youth of India, Satyarthi urged them to recognize their innate cultural strength and derive self-respect from it instead of copying and chasing the shadow of others. Let us all take a pledge for building a compassionate, inclusive, secure, self-reliant and self-respecting India, he said urging the RSS swayamsevaks to take a leading part in this mission.

He called upon them to take lead in protecting every child and to build a child friendly nation so that no child will face hardship. Like Jambavan, he said I am also reminding you of your abundant inherent power. He concluded his address by reminding the swaymasevaks of invocation of sages and saints from the era of the vedas “Vayam Rashtre Jagryama Purohitah”.