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Sangamam UK third annual meeting was held on 29th June 2204 at Purley in Greater London area. About 25 active workers attended the meeting. Kalyan and Pravin introduced the organisation for new members and explained the recent activities of the organisation. Sri Prakash ji, active RSS karyakartha from Chennai, spoke for an hour on line and answered the questions raised by the UK Members. Those who couldn’t attend from far off places like Liverpool and Birmingham attended the meeting via zoom.
The program started with small refreshment
and Manju from Liverpool delivered the welcome note and program agenda.
Post welcome note, Dakshin Kshetra Sampark Pramukh Shri Prakash Ji, from Chennai, spoke.
Satish and Chelliya introduced the new members and mentioned recent activities conducted by the
organization. Mothi Sayeeram and Subbu explained the organization’s present state and
future roadmap to everyone. Those who couldn’t attend in person from far-off places like
Liverpool and Birmingham joined the meeting online
Last year Tamil Nadu Governor Sri Ravi Ji addressed the annual gathering in Reading. This year RSS key Karyakartha from Chennai was the main speaker.
Sri Prakashji , an RSS Dakshin Kshetra Sampark Pramukh from Chennai,i, delivered his speech online from Chennai. He quoted elaborately from the works of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda and folk tales from Ramayana. He explained the five point resolution passed by RSS for celebrating its centenary . RSS was started by Doctor Ji in 1925 with only 17 people. Now it has spread throughout India and he said just in the past week, a two day training programme was conducted with 600 youths in Tamil Nadu.
Prakshji explained the RSS Panch Parivartan program for benefits of the society. The program includes five key points for social transformation namely samajik samrasata, kutumb prabodhan, paryavaran, the insistence on ‘Swa’ and the duties of the citizens.
There is a need for comprehensive and immense efforts to sustain the lively and value-based nature of our family system. Through our day to day behaviour and conduct, we should ensure that our family life works for building character, enriching life-values and strengthening mutual relationships. The family life will be joyous and blissful through dining, praying, celebrating festivals and going on pilgrimage together, the use of mother tongue, insistence on Swadeshi and, nourishing and protecting family and social traditions. Family and Society are complementary to each other. To instil the sense of social responsibility, encouraging donations for social, religious and educational cause and readiness to help the needy as per ability should become the nature of our family.”
Saving water, reviving old values, living the life which Ramayana taught us, contacting and connecting families were explained by Prakashji with stories and anecdotes.
If the electrical connection fails in a house the electrician comes , restores the lost contact and then connects the wires. Then only we get back the bright lights. So, start with contact first and then connect the families through activities, Prakashji emphasized.
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London Swaminathan , who was invited as a guest speaker, spoke for 20 minutes about attracting new members through new activities.
Pravin, Sangamam organiser, UK introduced London Swaminathan as an author of 120 Tamil and English books and former BBC broadcaster, Dinamani Newspaper Senior Sub Editor and University of London (SOAS) Tamil Teacher where he helped his Professor Dr Stuart Blackburn, erecting Tamil Poet Tiru Valluvar statue donated by Government of Tamil Nadu .
Since the list of suggested activities was circulated to the members, London Swaminathan briefly explained how successfully they conducted new activities in the past 18 years through four organisations. Now that zoom is available for online activities, lot of things can be done online, he reminded. But he warned not to initiate new activities without knowing the implications. Swaminathan insisted that Mental, Physical and Intellectual capacity along with available resources must be taken into account before starting new programmes. He gave an example of his friend who wanted to become a Mittal or an Ambani or an Adani overnight without any infrastructure. So, one must think small and get it done successfully. Then, one can expand it slowly.
Harini, key member of the Sangamam UK and her husbandMr Venkatesh were the hosts for this meeting. They made fantastic arrangements, provided refreshments and finally ended with dinner. As it was announced as a family gathering, many families came with their children.
The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks by Dr. Varadharajan and a group photo to
commemorate the occasion.
–subham—
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