A conversation with a friend inspired this post. He shared how he has chanted ‘शुभं करोति कल्याणं’ every evening for decades but he understood the real meaning of “शत्रुबुद्धि विनाशाय दीपज्योति नमोस्तुते” after hearing Mohan Bhagwatji’s Raksha Bandhan speech at Madison Square, New York.

Amidst the overdose of technology, materialism, self-centredness, warfare and manipulation, I feel the world has been lulled into a zombie-like state. At such a time, Bhagwatji’s speech came as a simple voice that awakened us, 133 years after Swami Vivekanandji’s speech in Chicago. Bhagwatji took a position for Bharat and its dayitva (moral........

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