Swami Vivekananda wanted empowerment to be taken to the poor, if the poor themselves cannot easily go to empowerment, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday.
“First, he wanted empowerment to be taken to the poor, if the poor themselves cannot easily go to empowerment. Second, he said about India`s poor, They are to be given ideas; their eyes are to be opened to what is going on in the world around them and then they will work out their own salvation,” PM Modi said while addressing the 125th-anniversary celebrations of “Prabuddha Bharata” journal, which was started by Swami Vivekananda.
The Prime Minister asserted that this is the approach with which India is moving ahead today. Referring to Swami Vivekanand`s letter to the Maharaja of Mysore and to Swami Ramakrishnananda, the Prime Minister underlined two clear thoughts in the Hindu philosopher`s approach to empower the poor.
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