New Delhi : Cultural Minister Dr Mahesh Sharma honoured Colonel Ashok Kini, kannadiga from Kanhangad and Raghav Chaudhry an industrialist from Ghaziabad who coordinated the 6 month yatra “Mission Kaladi to Kedar” along with his team under the leadership of Chairman Faith Foundation Lt. Col. Kini for spiritual reconstruction of Adi Guru Shankaracharya Samadhi Sthal in Kedar which was washed out in flash flood in June 2013. Team along with Sri Krishna Gopal Ji presented a portrait of Adi Shankara to Cultural Minister on auspicious birth anniversary of Adi Shankara.
This year, Adi Shankaracharya devotees from Delhi celebrated his birth anniversary as “Philosophers’ Day” on 11th May 2016. Celebration was organized by Delhi based NGOs, Navodayam and Faith Foundation along with YUVA Foundation and Global Society at Speaker Hall, Constitution Club, New Delhi.
Cultural Minister Dr. Mahesh Sharma inaugurated the Event. Sri Krishna Gopal. Sah Sarkaryavah of RSS was the Chief Guest. Sadhvi Jaya Bharti Ji from Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan, Swami Santoshanand Ji from Sri Harihar Yog Ashram and Shri Nand Kumar Ji from RSS were also present in the event.
Sri Krishna Gopal said while addressing the event that “Adi Shankaracharya revived Bhagavad Gita and place as the principle text of Bharat, through his monumental interpretation, of Gits Bhashya. Darshan deals with ultimate knowledge and seeks always the truth behind the existence. Adi Shankaracharya has done so much of work for Sanatan Dharma in 32 years of his life. He was not just a theoretical philosopher, instead he was a Darshanik, who experienced truth of life and then disseminated the knowledge”
Navodayam and Faith Foundation have also requested Minister of State for Culture and Civil Aviation Dr. Mahesh Sharma to consider declaring the birth anniversary of Jagatguru Adi Shankara as the ‘National Philosophers’ Day’, To develop Adi Shankara Tourism Circuit in India and Nepal to spread the teachings of the man, hailed as ‘Jagatguru’ (teacher of the world)and rename the Kochi International Airport after 8th century religious philosopher Adi Shankara, Reconstruct Antardhyan/ Samadhi Sthal of Adi Shankaracharya in Kedar, Setting up of a national research centre in philosophy in memory of Adi Shankara in Delhi, and the Indian philosophical thoughts may be part of the curricula starting from primary to research level.
A video presentation of Mission Kaladi to Kedar yatra was made. Col. Ashok Kini spokes the Adi Shankara’s life from Kaladi to Kedar.
Cultural Minister said that “We have received the proposal to celebrate the birth anniversary of Adi Shankaracharya as National Philosophers’ Day. We are considering it”.
Col. Ashok Kini spoke on Adi Shankara’s short life of 32 years dedicated to Dharma and Vedic Cultural unity, from birth in Kaladi to his disappearance from Kedar.
After the address, Cultural Minister said that “We have received the proposal to celebrate the birth anniversary of Adi Shankaracharya as National Philosophers’ Day. We are considering it”
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