Sadhu Prof. Rangarajan and the Bharat Mata Mandir
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Sadhu Prof. Rangarajan and the Bharat Mata Mandir
August 1, 2010
Adoration and worship of Motherland is the hallmark of the Hindu way
of life. To a Hindu the Gods and Goddesses of worship are just
symbolic representations of the One Nameless Formless Ultimate
Reality--the Consciousness-Force--that is the creatrix of the entire
universe. The visible manifestation of the Mahashakti is the
Motherland whom the Vedic Rishis as well as Avatar Purush like Lord
Shri Ram eulogized as greater than the Heavens.
As long as the Hindu race adored and worshipped the Motherland as
superior to all gods and goddesses and the Heaven, the Holy Land of
Bharatavarsha remained as the Loka Guru attracting humanity aspiring
for divine knowledge and wisdom to Her shores. Those who came seeking
knowledge and salvation were welcomed with warm hospitality of the
Hindu Nation. However, those Mlecchas like the Greeks, Shakas and
Hunas who wanted to aggress the sacred motherland of the Hindus and
came with drawn out swords were overpowered, bundled and thrown out
by the valiant heroes of our Bharat.
The day the Hindu race, in its self-forgetfulness, lost sight of the
sanctity of the Motherland, there arose a Jayachandra who betrayed
Prithviraj by inviting a Mleccha Mohammad Ghori to attack our own
nation and Bharatavarsha fell a victim to a long spell of dishonour,
degradation and centuries of slavery.
However, even during the period of trial and tribulation, Mother
Bharat did produce spiritual savants and sages like Samarth Ramdas,
Guru Nanak, Bandha Bairagi and Shri Vidyaranya and also valorous
children like Rana Pratap, Guru Govind Singh, Chatrapati Shivaji and
Krishna Devaraya to carry on the fight against the aggressors. During
the period of subjugation of our Motherland by European forces,
modern saints like Swami Dayananda, Maharishi Bankim Chandra, Swami
Vivekananda, Swami Ram Tirtha and Mahayogi Shri Aurobindo rejuvenated
the nation by once again instilling the spirit of patriotism in the
children of the motherland and giving them a new Mantra of "Vande
Mataram". Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, by founding the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh, sowed the seed of a new order of dedicated
Deshabhaktas constantly adoring and worshipping the Motherland. Sadhu
Prof V Rangarajan, a humble Swayamsevak of the RSS from his
childhood, was inspired by the ideals of Sister Nivedita, the
illustrious disciple of Swami Vivekananda, who wanted every youth in
India to turn out into a patriotic servant of the Motherland and
sacrifice himself or herself, like the great Dadhichi of yore who
donated his backbone to create a mighty Vajrayudha, for the
protection of the Motherland and Her children. A renowned writer and
a retired IAS Officer, Shri V. Sundaram, has recently written about
the Sadhu in a leading daily, 'News Today' published from Chennai,
paying glowing tributes to the work of the Sadhu, in the following
words:
"I have just finished reading a very inspiring book titled 'Saga of
Patriotism--Revolutionaries in India's Freedom Struggle' written by
Sadhu Prof V. Rangarajan and R. Vivekanandan. This book has been
published by Sister Nivedita Academy in Bangalore. This book contains
inspiring and enlightening biographical sketches of great
revolutionaries like Madame Cama, Mahakavi Bharathiyar, Sister
Nivedita, Champak Raman Pillai, Bhaga Jatin, Madan Lal Dhingra, Lala
Har Dayal, Dr Hedgewar, Rash Bihari Bose, Veer Savarkar, Bhagat
Singh, Chandrasekar Azad, Shri Aurobindo, V O Chidambaram Pillai,
Mangal Pande, Kartar Singh Saraba, Ram Prasad Bismil, Khudiram Bose,
Surya Sen, Sardar Udham Singh and Nethaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
"Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan is the Founder Trustee of Sister Nivedita
Academy in Bangalore. Inspired by his Siksha Guru, H H Chinmayananda
and his mentor, Shri Guruji Golwalkar, Sadhu Prof V Rangarajan
started dedicating himself to the advancement of the sacred cause of
Sanathana Dharma and Hindutva more than three decades ago. He has
held important positions of trust and responsibilities in
institutions like Chinmaya Mission, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,
Vishva Hindu Parishad, Swami Vivekananda Medical Mission and
Vivekananda Kendra.
"Sadhu Prof V Rangarajan served with distinction as the Associate
Editor of Yuva Bharathi for the youth from its inception on 15
August, 1974. He wrote a series of articles on the great patriots and
revolutionaries of India who had willingly and cheerfully laid down
their lives upon the altar of India's freedom. Most of the
biographical sketches included in this volume under review had
appeared in the issues of Yuva Bharathi in the 1970s. When that
shameless predatory dictator Indira Gandhi imposed the illegal
Emergency upon the country starting from 25 June 1975 to 21 March
1977, Sadhu Prof V Rangarajan founded the Sister Nivedita Academy. To
begin with it started as a small study group of patriotic youth, to
inspire manliness and courage in our frightened youth to fight
against dictatorship and tyranny. This later flowered and developed
into an Institute of Hindu thought and culture in 1977 and its main
objective is to foster the spirit of patriotism and respect for our
ancient culture. In establishing the Nivedita Academy, I have no
doubt whatsoever that Sadhu Prof V. Rangarajan was moved by the
following deathless words of Shri Aurobindo in his pamphlet Bhawani
Mandir which he wrote 'for the revolutionary preparation of the
country': 'If India is to survive, she must be made young again.
Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her: her
soul must become, as it was in the old times, vast, puissant, calm or
turbulent at will, an ocean of an action or a force. Many of us,
utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are
saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed,
bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is
doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or
nation need be weak unless he chooses; no man or nation need perish
unless he deliberately chooses extinction.....We have to create
strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our
natures, and become new men with new hearts to be born again....We
need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is developed to its
uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality
and overflows to fertilize the earth. These, having the fire of
Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go forth and carry the flame
to every nook and cranny of our land.'
"The maiden publication of Nivedita Academy was VANDE MATARAM
published in 1977. It was authored by Sadhu Prof V.Rangarajan.
Achariya J.B.Kripalani blessed the founding of the Nivedita Academy
which synchronized with the Centenary Celebrations of the composition
of the BANDE MATARAM song by Bankim Chandra Chatterji (1838-1894).
This book was released on the auspicious day of Akshaya Triteeya, the
day sacred for the worship of Bharat Matha on April 21, 1977.
Achariya J. B. Kripalani in his inspiring forward to this book wrote
as follows: 'Shri V. Rangarajan has done some original work in giving
the history of our National Anthem, Vande Mataram. It was necessary
because thousands of our pre-independence patriots had to suffer
grievously in uttering and singing this song which before
independence was considered the National Anthem. Some of them lost
their lives for singing this song. Every patriot from Khudiram Bose
to Bhagat Singh and Rajguru died with the mantram of Vande Mataram on
their lips. It had become spontaneously the National Anthem adopted
by the mass of our people'.
"Ever since then, the Nivedita Academy under the exalted leadership
of Sadhu Prof V Rangarajan has made rapid strides by setting up
Centres not only in India but also in South Africa, Botswana, Kenya
and Singapore. The Academy is involved in multifarious activities
like publication of books, journal and newsletter, conducting
orientation courses on Hindu thought and culture for students all
over the world and spearheading a spiritual movement for collective
Sadhana for world peace.
"Sadhu Prof V Rangarajan later established the Bharatamata Gurukula
Ashram at Bangalore on December 1999. Can anyone doubt that this is a
duly deserved spiritual fruit of the Sadhana of service of a humble
Swayamsevak like Sadhu Prof V Rangarajan, a great social activist
whose resplendent life of service and self sacrifice has been totally
dedicated to the service of Bharat Mata and all her children for more
than four decades? Bharatamata Gurukula Ashram serves as an abode for
several children of Mother Bharat, both from India and abroad, where
they can reside in an atmosphere quite similar to that of our ancient
Gurukula system of ancient India.
"For spiritual and social activists like Sadhu Prof V. Rangarajan our
beloved mother-country is not just a clod of earth, nor an unreal
figure of speech, nor a contrived fiction of the mind. It is a mighty
Shakti, composed of the Shakthis of all the millions of units that
make up the nation, just as Bhawani Mahisha Mardini sprang into being
from the Shakti of all the millions of gods assembled in one mass of
force and welded into unity. To quote the appropriate words of Shri
Aurobindo in this context: 'This Shakti we call India, Bhawani
Bharati, is the living entity of the Shakthis of more than 300
million people (now more than 1000 million!), but she is inactive,
imprisoned in the magic circle of Tamas, the self-indulgent inertia
and ignorance of her sons..... What India needs especially at this
moment is the aggressive virtues, the spirit of soaring idealism,
bold creation, fearless resistance, courageous attack..... We need to
cultivate another training and temperament, another habit of mind. We
would apply to the present situation the vigorous motto of Danton,
that what we need, what we should learn above all things is to dare
and again to dare and still to dare.'
"These inspiring thoughts and emotions rushed and gushed to my mind
when I read Sadhu Prof V.Rangarajan's introduction to his book 'Saga
Of Patriotism': He has clearly brought out the historic fact that in
the last two decades of our struggle for independence from 1927 to
1947, when the non-violent, non-cooperation movement led by Mahatma
Gandhi was becoming popular among the masses, a sinister and
deliberate attempt was made by some unscrupulous politicians to paint
the earlier phase of our armed struggle for the cause of freedom,
hallowed by the sacrifice of great revolutionaries like Madame Cama,
Bhaga Jatin, Madan Lal Dhingra, Rash Bihari Bose, Veer Savarkar,
Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekar Azad, Mangal Pande, Kartar Singh Saraba,
Ram Prasad Bismil, Khudiram Bose, Surya Sen, Sardar Udham Singh and
Nethaji Subhash Chandra Bose, as an insignificant period of senseless
violence and misguided patriotism. As Sadhu Prof V Rangarajan rightly
concludes: 'Though it is a historic fact that the non-violent, non-
cooperation movement proved to be a total flop and when the Quit
India Movement took a violent torn, Gandhi had to withdraw it, and
that the final blow to the British Empire was given by the Indian
National Army led by Nethaji Subhash Chandra Bose which created
mutiny in the Army, Navy, Air Force, compelling the British to leave
India.'"
To rekindle the spirit of adoration and worship of Motherland once
again in the present day children of the Motherland, especially the
youth, Shri Bharatamata Mandir as envisaged by the great patriot
saints like Shri Aurobido, Subramania Bharati and Subramania Shiva,
has now been set up in the premises of Shri Bharatamata Gurukula
Ashram at Krishnarajapuram in Bangalore and the consecration was done
by His Holiness Swami Vishwesha Teertha of Udipi Pejawar Mutt, in the
presence of late Shri H.V. Sheshadri, former Akhil Bharat Prachar
Pramukh of RSS, on Wednesday, December 8, 2004. A six-foot tall black
granite idol of Shri Bharatamata standing with Her lion behind Her,
was installed according to Tantric rites. Swayamsevaks in Bangalore
took active part in the installation and consecration of the Mandir,
where today, daily poojas, aradhana, abhishekh and festivals of the
Divine Mother take place regularly, attracting devotees from far and
wide. The Ashram today houses Yogi Ramsuratkumar Indological Research
Centre, named after the Deeksha Guru of Sadhu Rangarajan who took
initiation on April 26, 1988, and Shri Guruji Golwalkar Hindu
Resource Centre with a vast Library consisting of thousands of rare
books, journals and press clippings for the benefit of research
scholars on Hindu thought and culture from inside the country and
abroad.
Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan, visited South Africa for the first time in
1984 to edit the "Yog Lesssons For Children", a prestigious
publication of the Divine Life Society of South Africa, on the
occasion of Swami Shivanand Centeneary. He also visited Mauritius and
Reunion, carrying the message and mission of Mother Bharat to Her
children in those distant lands. Lauding the work of Sadhu Rangarajan
abroad, his Shiksha Guru, H.H. Swami Chinmayananda, said, "We need
such champions of Hinduism, who scream into the ears of the sleeping
Hindus, reviving and revitalizing them in their hearty consciousness
of their proud past".
Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan was born on 22nd October 1940 to Shri
S.R.Venugopalan and Smt. Janakiammal at Ernakulam, Kerala State,
India. He did his Post Graduation in M.A. (Philosophy, First Rank
holder from University of Madras). He served as Bureau Editor,
Hindustan Samachar News Agency; Associate Editor, Yuva Bharti,
Vivekanda Kendra Patrika and Brahmavadin; Secretary, Chinmaya
Mission, Viswa Hindu Parishad and Swami Vivekananda Medical Mission;
and Visiting Professor of Indian Thought and Cultural Heritage of
India in Sacred College and Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai.
He received initiation from his Deeksha Guru, H.H. Yogi Ramsuratkumar
Godchild Tiruvannamalai, on April 26, 1988. Since then he has been
travelling all over the country and abroad, propagating the Ramnam
Taraka Mantra in accordance to the command of his Master. He visited
South Africa again in 1996 for the World Hindu Conference at Durban
and since then made three more visits, setting up the centres of the
Academy and spreading its work in that country. Sadhu Rangarajan is
also a member of the International Coordination Council of Vishwa
Hindu Parishad Overseas and participant in the Vishwa Dharma Prasar
Yaatra of sadhus and sants to different countries.
H.H. Swami Chidananda, World President, Divine Life Society,
Rishikesh, in his speach, following Sadhu Rangarajan's address in
Swargashram, Rishikesh, on October 26, 1987, remarked: "I will take
this opportunity for saying a few words about Professor V.
Rangarajan. He has shared his lofty ideas and inspiring thoughts with
us all in a very very dynamic and thrilling manner. You all know:
Brahmavit brahmaiva bhavati (Knower of Brahman becomes Brahman); and
you also know: "As a man thinketh so he becometh." Constantly
thinking about Swami Vivekanandaji, constantly thinking about such
noble patriotic souls like Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Aurobindo Ghosh
and Subrahmanya Bharatiyar, who saw in India a veritable Divine
Shakti, a verit able deity, not merely a land, not merely a nation,
but a living force of all our herats, a dynamic, a potential force to
transform humanity into divinity -- thus, in their inner intuitive
vision they beheld the eternal, living reality, the true saviour,
Bharatavarsha, and the redeemer if not today at least tomorrow of the
future of mankind; they adored, they eulogized in their intuitive
vision their spiritual identity of their self with the soul of India,
Bharat Shakti -- and Professor V. Rangarajan, who is amongst us, in
constantly thinking about these lofty souls, their sublime ideas and
their inner spiritual intuition of their Divine Mother, beloved
Motherland, 'Matrubhoomi, Bharatavarsha', he has imbibed verily
their fervour -- their patriotic fervour -- and love for India, and
the great spirit of adoration of India so that, when he speaks, their
own words come through him. Constantly thinking of Vivekananda, he
has himself become an inspired orator".
TATTVA DARSANA Quarterly, the official organ of the Academy, was
launched in 1984 and Swami Chinamayananda rightly pointed out in the
inaugural issue, "Sri V. Rangarajan is fully capable of delivering
the goods through the journal, TATTVA DARSANA, which is the urgent
need of the times. It is my firm understanding that he has the
spiritual preparation, in both study and practice, and by a
conspiracy of destiny, he had a gruesome total training in all areas
of journalism. When such a well equipped person, having the necessary
intense consciousness of our culture, starts a jourjnal, it cannot
but assert our goal. Even though the market is saturated with trash,
I am confident that TATTVA DARSANA will have all success, and I am
looking forward to seeing its glorious trail of service to the Hindu
Nation." The journal is now entering into the twenty-eighth year of
publication.
Bharatamata Gurukula Ashram & Yogi Ramsuratkumar Indological Research
Centre, set up in 1999, is dedicated to train a lay order of
missionaries of Mother Bharat to serve Her children all over the
world. Shri Guruji Golwalkar Hindu Resource Centre is coming up in
the premises of Shri Bharatamata Mandir. The construction work of the
Centre is fast progressing. The auditorium hall, dormitories,
kitchen, dining hall and the computer-cum-library room are ready. Now
the laying of the floor tiles, painting, plumbing, carpentry,
electrical fittings, room furnishing and the construction of Gopura
above the shrine of the Divine Mother are to be taken up.
All these works are possible only because of the unstinted help and
patronage of our devotees who have been responding voluntarily and
spontaneously to our humble appeal. The library room is to be
furnished with shelves to accommodate more than ten thousand books on
religion, culture, philosophy, science, literature and art,
collection of hundreds of back issues spiritual, cultural and
scientific journals, thousands of press clippings of various
articles, features and news from news papers and journals procured
and preserved in the last four decades, and hundreds of audio, video,
CD and DVD of talks, especially those of Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan
delivered inside the country and abroad during the last forty years.
We intend to provide all facilities and accommodation to devotees
from within the country and abroad who intend to make an intensive
and serious study of Bharatiya culture and heritage and go out as
messengers, not of any sect, Sampradaya or organization but as
children of Shri Bharatamata, to spread the message of unity and
universality among all people. Facilities for scanning of rear books
and publications, internet and web services to make research
materials available to ardent students all over the world, and
regular classes and programmes to coach them on all aspects of Hindu
thought and cutlture will be provided by the Centre.
Anwar Shaikh, a patriotic and enlightened Indian who was settled in
England, in his introduction to his article, "Bharat Mata" published
in his LIBERTY Quarterly, Volume Two, Issue Nine, July 1995 and which
he dedicated to Sadhu Rangarajan, paid glowing tribute to the Sadhu
in the following words:
"In India, a sadhu is an ascetic who has turned his back on the world
and attained Siddhi through this process.
"However, Professor Rangarajan is a sadhu with a difference. Why?
Because he is not only a devotee of God but also a lover of
Bharatamata, a doctrine close to my heart.
"During the mid-seventies, as India touched its political nadir
through fear, frustration and fiasco, starting with the traumatic
Chinese invasion, 1962, and subsequent wars with Pakistan, the great
Sadhu felt the need for saving Bharat Mata with a programme of
patriotic action as dictated by the Vedas. He founded on the
auspicious Tamil New Year's Day, April 13, 1977, the Sister Nivedita
Academy, "an organization of patriotic youth inspired by the Bhavani
Mandir ideal of Shri Aurobindo. The Academy is dedicated to promoting
dharma by creating revolutionary patriots through the zeal of
Aggressive Hinduism." The highly applauded "Vande Mataram" is a
brainchild of the Professor Sadhu Rangarajan, who has held several
important positions for the last twenty-five years. As an
acknowledgement to his national passion for Bharata Mata, Swami
Chinmayananda remarked about the Sadhu, "We need such champions of
Hinduism, who scream into the ears of the sleeping Hindus reviving
and revitalizing them in their hearty consciousness of their proud
past."
"A worthy aspect of the Academy is that it actively promotes the
ideal of Spiritual Nationalism. This is true Hinduism for being the
righteous and liberal way of life but has been turned into a swamp
for lacking patriotic zeal and action. The Spiritual Nationalism of
India is not a vice but a great virtue because it does not seek to
aggrandize narrow nationalism and this is confirmed by the fact that
Sister Nivedita was an Irish and not an Indian lady. The Professor
Sadhu Rangarajan quite rightly believes that the Veda is the
ambassador of universal brotherhood, thus making Hindu Dharma the
religion of mankind. This is why he started the International Ramnam
Movement to bring about world peace through message of unity.
"Rashtr Dharm is the true ideal of the Academy. It means that as
there is an individual self, there is also a national self and one
should seek self-realization through the patriotic service of
national self, which is none else by Bharat Mata, the Mother of us
all, the Divine Incarnation.
"As a mark of respect, I am pleased to dedicate this article: "Bharat
Mata" to this great Sadhu."
Sadhu Rangarajan and Shri Bharatamata
Contact Address:
Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan
Founder & Spiritual Head, Shri Bharatamata Gurukula Ashram &
Yogi Ramsuratkumar Indological Research Centre,
Sister Nivedita Academy, Shri Bharatamata Mandir
Srinivasanagar, Krishnarajapuram, Bangalore 560 036
http://greathindu.com/2010/08/sadhu-prof-v-rangarajan-and-bharat-mata-mandir/
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Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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