SARSANGHACHALAK-AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Sangh Parivar - Vasudhaiva Kutumbhkam


RSS :- A New Era.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 11:22 AM PDT




Every RSS chief (Sarsanghachalak) has his own different level of contribution to RSS and sangh parivar. So, New chief means start of a new era for RSS.



Whenever RSS name crops up, different sets of people, with different opinions come forward. Whether one likes it or not, every socially active and responsible person is connected to RSS or Sangh Parivar (whether he loves or hates RSS). .



1) RSS Swayamsevak (Cadre or Volunteer ):- This group of people always stand with RSS in any situation. Volunteers spread sangh to every corner of the world and to newer heights of service and sacrifice. Swayamsevak is neither a bounded cadre nor a blind follower. He is a socially aware and responsible citizen. Their dedication is with the nation and not even with sangh. Thus, this group became one of the most prominent influencing force in the society.







2) Neutral Citizens:- This group is socially active and consider him or herself responsible to society. They try to segregate the good and bad forces that influence to society. This group is in majority and always tries to stand on positive side of the society.







3) Basher or Critic: - This group is vocal but divided into two sub groups.

a) Talented and Good observer: - This type of critics are like a boon to any organization or person. They speak bitter truth as feed back. The bitter Feed back which is required for growth of an organization. They can be termed as positive critics.

b) Blind Bashers:- This group has their own perception of things. They don’t want to stand up for the truth nor with some thing good. They use freedom of speech in criticizing others or pulling the rug under their feet. This group can be termed as negative critics.



By the grace of god, RSS comes across many people of all three groups.



Now questions arise:-



Why is RSS so important to the society, nation or even world?

Why should I know more about RSS?

What should I do to take a clear stand about RSS?



RSS, in terms of pure numbers 40 lakh + active members, 50000+ shakha , 1.5lakh + social service projects, influence many top organizations of every field. The full time volunteers include doctors, engineers and many such highly educated. You can understand by numbers that no one can be out of the influence of RSS.



Coming to ideology, RSS is known for Hindu ethos like Vasudhaika Kutumbakam (all world is one family). RSS puts up a strong fight against all divisive forces in Hindu society like untouchability, dowry, sati etc. RSS stands for one powerful nation.





In respect of practical implementation, RSS follows the dictum “Untouchablity is a sin”. RSS helped governments in wars. It even worked with Catholic Christian organizations keeping the social welfare paramount.



So no one can ignore RSS. RSS and swayamsevaks will influence society immensely. So it is important to keep a close watch on growth and path of such an important organization. Growth and contribution of such a huge and influential organization in positive direction is the need of the society.







Change of Era: - In past RSS had a view that rather than reaching people in mass, communicate with people through small shakha programs or through sawayamsevak. One reason was influence of Blind Bashers on media and negative criticism by some section of people. As a consequence, RSS was labeled “Secretive Organization” among neutral people or positive critics. This label never hampered work growth or volunteer force but it confused the independent viewer's mind.



However, new era has come up with new policies. Current RSS chief (sarsanghachalak) P.P. Mohanrao Ji Bhagawat started putting in youthful energy to communicate with all types of people. RSS is known for bottom up approach, where ground cadre work first and then leaders make statements. But with changing societal dynamics, where media has a lot influence on the society; RSS also customized its interactions. For internal matters of Sangh bottom up approach continues. For external matters, top leadership adopts top to down approach by projecting the ideas to socially aware and active people through media or public meetings.







Change of era can be seen by programs listed below.



1) New RSS chief given a series of interviews to media houses for putting RSS view on many issues in front of the public.

2) New RSS chief is going to address public rallies and cadre meetings in about 40 places till February, 2010. ( This is a regular visit of RSS chief to all pranths )

3) Mumbai will see a mass gathering of RSS cadre and general public on 20th September '09. Here RSS chief will speak on all relevant issues and sangh approach. This meet is taking place after a successful one in Chennai.

4) Every meeting is followed by press conference and interactive gatherings of prominent people of society.

5) RSS is making every information of sangh work available in video or text format on its website (rssonnet.org) or encouraging the independent initiatives of its members ex:- www.Youtube.com/RSSOwner.







So, if you are in Mumbai , it is a golden opportunity on 20th September '09 to know more about sangh. If you are Swayamsevak, then it is a direct massage. If you are neutral and want to take a stand then it is a golden opportunity to know what is RSS from RSS chief himself. If you are a positive or negative critic, then also this is a golden opportunity to know the direction of RSS for the future.

RSS AGAINST SWINE FLU

RSS begins swine flu awareness drive-rkm

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 11:11 AM PDT
PUNE: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) city unit plans to hold a swine flu awareness drive, which will begin from
Monday.

According to a press release, a meeting of officials of various organisations, including the National Institute of Virology (NIV), the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), and the Indian Medical Association held a meeting at the RSS office, where the decision was taken.

RSS workers will help the people at the 15 PMC screening centres. They will also provide leaflets to various housing societies and hope to reach out to up to 1,000 societies in this way. Those who want to participate in the drive or want to know more about the programme can contact Atul Kulkarni (9226824336), Sachin Kulkarni (9763704818) or Balasaheb Phatak (9822610024).


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/pune/RSS-begins-swine-flu-a...

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh,USA celebrates Raksha Bandhan

Sangh Parivar - Vasudhaiva Kutumbhkam


Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh,USA celebrates Raksha Bandhan

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:40 AM PDT

Highlights: Naperville Shakha team of Chicago Vibhag planned the
celebration of Raksha Bandhan utsav 2009 well in advance as a team they
celebrated as given below:
Celebrated in the shakha on 9th August 2009
Shakha team went to the Naperville city hall and tied Rakhis to the Hon. Mayor and his staff on 3rd August 2009
Shakha team and kids went to tie the rakhis to the Chief of Fire and Police dept. on 9th August 2009
Shakha team met Bharat Seva Ashram Sangh and tied rakhis to Swamijis
Team met Bhutanase Hindus and tied rakhis to them.
http://www.hssus.org/gallery/v/MWEST/NaperRakshaBandhan2009/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRQAzxPrMMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWy-anMFbLc

Report:

Shakha Utsav, Chief Fire Officer and Police Dept.:
On
9th August, the shakha team celebrated the utsav in the shakha by tying
the rakhi to the dwaj and then the shakha upasthit swayamsevaks were
divided in two groups, one group of kids and parents went to the Fire
and police dept and the other group went to meet Bhutanese Hindus.



Bharat Seva Ashram Sangh and Bhutanese Hindus:
On 09-Aug-2009
around 10:30 AM CDT, Karyakartas from Naperville-Aurora shakha vistied
Bharat Sevashram at Aurora to celebrate Rakshabandan with Bhutanee
bandhus. We gave a brief introduction regarding the History &
itihas of Rakshabandan festival and importance in the society on the
same. Also vistied 9 different Bhutanee familes (around 30 members)
near by Bharat sevashram and tied rakhi.

The chairman, director, and principal coordinator and chief official representative of all overseas branches of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Sri Swami Purnatmananda impressed with our activities and spent his
valuable time with us and delivered a 20 minutes speech on Rakshabandan
in terms of Dharmic samskruti and its cultural
effects in society.

Fire officer and Police dept.
officer were briefed on the Raksha Bandhan and then kids and sevikas
tied rakhis to the officers, Fire officer and the police dept.
appreciated the HSS work and thanked for reaching out to them. Fire
officer distributed the dept. metallic gift coins to each participant.
They have promised to conduct a safety workshop cum awareness program
for shakha kids, they will explain their operations to the shakha kids.

Hon. Mayor's office:
On 3rd August, some of the karyakartas from Naperville-Aurora shakha visited and tied the Rakhi
to Hon. Mayor of the City of Naperville and his staff. We had a
scheduled appointment and as per that all the available karyakartas
assembled at the office. We gave a presentation on HSS Raksha Bandhan
along with a packet of information/handouts describing HSS activities
and future events such as Diwali.

Hon.
Mayor listened to the talk given by karyakartas about Raksha Bandhan
and about HSS. Mayor has promised to help HSS for the Diwali
proclamation and some joint activities during Diwali. He was pleased to
know of our seva activities.

His
official comment after tying the rakhi was: "I am pleased to see HSS
taking steps in creating an awareness about India's great traditions,
Rakhi's event is a very important one and has a great significance
especially during the troubled times, I truly believe that such events
bring about a change in the society and help create a peaceful society.
Raksha Bandhan creates the sense of universal oneness and can help
build a cohesive society of tolerance and peace. I thank HSS in taking
lead in that direction. Thanks for arranging this function. I look
forward to participating and supporting such noble events."

HSS
Naperville-Aurora team thanks Hon. Mayor and his staff for their
continued support. We are greatful to him for his help for the future
events.

RAKSHA BANDHAN -THE POWER OF UNITY

Raksha Bandhan Wishes

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:25 PM PDT

''On the day of rakhi purnima traditionally brother reaffirms his duty towards the sister whereas we at RSS, pledge to unite whole society in the thread of love. Rakshabandhan is an occasion to remind ourselves for our duty towards the weaker sections of the society. As a thread is keeping all flowers together in garland, the thread of Hindutva is uniting all Indian-ness in us. Unless we take care of the thread, flowers of all varieties cannot remain together. Let's nourish this long neglected thread by actively participating in social work of our choice.We as a individual cannot survive and grow without healthy society and it is our collective responsibility to work towards its betterment.''

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RAMAYANA IN TODAYS WORLD

Sangh Parivar - Vasudhaiva Kutumbhkam


Ramayana- still relevant in today’s society

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:51 AM PDT


Preparations for Ramleela are on. Dussehra is just a few months away. As usual effigies of the demons shall be consigned to flames. Thousands of people around the country especially in north India gather at corner- stage- shows to watch Ram Leela – story of Ramayana during Navratras ten days prior to Dussehra - enacted by stage artists since ages- year after year. New serials depicting the same story of Lord Rama are launched and old ones are repeated on the small screen but no let up in the popularity is found and viewers make it a point not to miss any of the episodes.


What is special? The Ramayana is a story of human relations. No other book in the world over has ever defined the idealism in human relationship so precisely as Ramayana. Ram as an ideal son and an ideal king, Bharat and Laxman as ideal brothers, Sita as an ideal wife, Monkey king Sugreev as a friend in need, Hanuman as an ideal devotee (servant) and Ravana –an enemy in the true sense of the word – all these characters of Ramayana have ever remained a torch bearer for the society in the past and shall ever remain for the times to come as far as the human relations are concerned.

If Ram as an ideal son sacrificed the princely comforts and the throne of Ayodhaya to keep the word of his father, Bharat waited for his elder brother Ram to complete his exile to handover the kingdom and never enjoyed the palatial comforts during those 14 years. Newly wed Sita set an example as an ideal wife for the generations to come by accompanying Ram to his exile. Laxman sacrificed his married life andother princely comforts and too accompanied his elder brother to the jungle.Hanuman’s character shall ever remain exemplary for master- servant relationship. Sugreev proved the proverb true to its meaning that “a friend in need is a friend in deed”.

The idealism and values of human relations still find relevance in today’s social set up as these have become most wanting in today’s society. Nuclei families are replacing the age old joint family system. Material values are reigning supreme over the human values. We know a person by his status and material holdings. Human values have deteriorated to an extent of a son killing his father for property, wife eliminating her husband to facilitate an extra marital affair, brothermurdering brother to grab his share of property and daughter in connivance with her husband eliminating her parents and brother to become the only legal heir of the leftover estate. Defiance in the son-father relationship is pervasive.The former reasoning it to generation gap tells the later to mind his businessby saying "it is my life”.

Individualism in behavior and denial and disrespect to the human values has led to extreme intolerance in individuals. Set aside helping some one on the road, a car driver is thrashed to death just for asking side from a driver ahead of him.

Individuals have become so selfcentered that there seems to be no interaction with even next door neighbor. Living a shell like life, people are so disinterested even in street, mohalla,locality that the integrated social fabric in a country like India comprising numerous communities, religions seems to have become a distant affair. Lack of brotherhood is indirectly helping the vested interests to have their way individing the society in the name of sects, religions and regions.

Disintegration in the societyis so widespread that one just passes by leaving the accident victim to die on the roadside. Gap between parents and children is so wide that a daughter and domestic servant are hammered to death in the adjoining room in the house and parents come to know only in the morning. And the dual murder becomes a mystery to solve for the intelligence agencies of the country. Elders in the families are considered as liability and left to help themselves. Number of old age homes is on the rise. The younger lot has no time to care and maintain old parents.

Contrary to the concept of RamRajya exhibited in Ramayana, the rulers are conniving with criminals to loot public. Corruption is on the rampage. Leave others aside, even the decisions of judiciary can be thought to be influenced by money power. Elected representative are on sale to share power at any cost. Politicians don’t even spare the sensitive religious issues from capitalizing for vote bank.

Terrorism is another face of inhumanity. Killing innocents, attacking worship and crowded places has become the modus operandi by the terrorists’ groups to inflict maximum causalities for settling scores among enemy countries.

We watch Ram Leela and epic serials very keenly. A few intellectuals may even challenge a scene or event enacted for its veracity but how many of us try to imply the moral of the epic in our lives and propagate in the society.

Family is a smallest unit of social fabric. Individualism in the family disintegrates the society. Human relations, if valued and respected properly, can prove to be vital in building a well webbed society free of knots of ego, selfishness and false pride. Wejust need to go a little above individualism. An individual is known by his different characters in the society viz. a son, a father, a brother, a husband,a friend, a neighbor and so on. Let us be true to each of the roles assigned to us by the God.

Article By R.P.Malhotra