Kanniyakumari: Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his 45-hour-long meditation on the famed Vivekananda Rock Memorial right here on Thursday night, following completion of his two-months lengthy high-pitch ballot marketing campaign throughout the nation.
After arriving from close by Thiruvananthapuram by a helicopter, Modi worshipped on the Bhagavathi Amman temple and reached the rock memorial by a ferry service and began meditation that’s scheduled to go on until June 1.
Clad in a dhoti and a white scarf, Modi prayed on the temple and circumambulated the ‘garbhagriha’. Priests carried out a particular ‘arthi’ and he was given temple ‘prasad’ that included a scarf and a framed {photograph} of the presiding deity of the temple.
Later, he reached the rock memorial by a ferry service operated by the state government-run delivery company and commenced his meditation on the ‘dhyan mandapam.’ Before he launched into the dhyan train, for some time, Modi stood on the steps resulting in the mandapam that gives breathtaking views of the ocean that surrounds the memorial from all sides.
The prime minister showered flowers on the portraits of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, mom Sri Sarada Devi and in addition paid floral tributes to Swami Vivekananda, whose life-size statue on a excessive pedestal adores the mandapam. Modi later commenced the sadhana (non secular observe) within the mandapam.
Speaking to reporters at Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu BJP president Okay Annamalai termed PM Modi’s go to to the memorial as an out-and-out ‘non-public’ go to. “It is Prime Minister’s personal visit,” he mentioned, including that was why his get together leaders and cadres didn’t participate within the occasion.
Ahead of his departure on June 1, Modi is more likely to go to the Thiruvalluvar statue, subsequent to the memorial. Both the memorial and 133-ft statue have been constructed on tiny islets, which might be separate and mound-like rocky formations within the sea.
While outfits together with Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam staged a black flag demonstration in Madurai opposing Modi, social media platform ‘X’ additionally witnessed a flood of #GoBackModi posts, amid political opposition to the published of his meditation in view of the ultimate (seventh) section of voting for the Lok Sabha elections on June 1.
All preparations, together with heavy safety, are in place for Modi’s 45-hour keep on the famed memorial named after the revered Hindu saint. This is the primary time the prime minister might be staying on the memorial, a monument in-built tribute to Swami Vivekananda, who meditated over the rocks inside the ocean in the direction of the top of 1892.
While the PM selected Kedarnath cave to mirror and meditate following the top of marketing campaign in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, now he has chosen a spiritually important place within the southernmost tip within the mainland of the nation.
Following the fruits of the hectic Lok Sabha election marketing campaign through which he presided and addressed a mess of political occasions resembling roadshows and rallies, Modi might be meditating in an atmosphere of quietude, the place most likely solely the sound of breaking waves could possibly be heard.
While safety personnel teemed the memorial premises, safety has been beefed up in your complete Kanyakumari district and about 2,000 police personnel have been deployed, in addition to heightened vigil by the Tamil Nadu police’s Coastal Security Group, Coast Guard and the Navy. Modi’s meditation from the night of Thursday to the night of June 1 at dhyan mandapam is the place the place Vivekananda, a non secular icon admired by the PM, is believed to have had a divine imaginative and prescient about ‘Bharat Mata’.
