RSS Vijaya Dasami Function

I attended the vijaya dasami function in our locality. As it was a street corner many people gathered around and watched the proceedings. I was also one of them.

But the speaker has not made an appeal to them to participate in RSS activities from that day. In the talk, the basic purpose of RSS was not adequately put forward. The basic purpose is to bring together people at various levels(from sakha to nation and even world) and involve them in planning and acting for development of the society.

There has to be social development activity at sakha level and in such public functions, activities at various levels have to be recounted. Straight away going to Kashmir problem or Ram setu problem ignoring local social problems like overcrowded railway platforms, deteriorated roads, may not attract many participants. Social development must include local problems.

> Yesterday, on 1-10-2007, I visited library of North Central College,
> Naperville, Illinois and was surprised to find a hall exhibiting
> posters of Gandhi and his various movements and ideas. One the
> posters says, Gandhi got the idea of civil disobedience or
> developed a firm conviction of it after reading an article titled
> "Civil disobedience" by Thoreau who refused to pay an American tax
> to fight a war in Mexico and went to jail.
>
> I also read a latest book on Sociology published in 2007, which mentions in the
> chapter on religion that Hindus in America number around 2 million
> and therefore this religion is a part of multireligious secular
> society of America.

I came across a very old issue of a local paper
that had a poem on friendships. The meaning of the poem is

If you lost a friend
due to a hasty word
Go immediately and make him friend once again
Don't stand for any pride
Friendship is more valuable
Than imagined issues