Page 16 - Mann ki Baat June 2022 - English
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Friends, be it
Ahmedabad or Puri,
Lord Jagannath also
gives us several
messages of
humanity through
this journey. Lord
Jagannath is the
lord of the world,
but the poor and
downtrodden have a
special participation
in his journey. God
also walks along with
every section and
person of the society.
Similarly, in all the
journeys that take
place in our country,
there is no such
distinction between
poor and rich, high
and low. Rising above
all discrimination,
the journey itself is
paramount. As you
must have heard
about the Yatra
of Pandharpur in
Maharashtra, one is neither big
Pratham Diwase'. There is also a nor small. Everyone is a Varkari,
reason behind giving this special a servant of Lord Vitthal. Just four
name to the festival. Actually, the days later, the Amarnath Yatra is
great Sanskrit poet Kalidas wrote also going to start from the 30 th
the Meghdootam on the arrival of of June. Devotees from all over
rain from the month of Ashadha. the country reach Jammu &
There is a verse in Meghdootam Kashmir for the Amarnath Yatra.
– Ashadhasya Pratham Diwase, The local people of Jammu &
Megham Ashlishta Sanum, that Kashmir take the responsibility of
is, mountain peaks covered this Yatra with equal reverence,
and cooperate with the pilgrims.
with clouds on the first day of
Ashadha, this verse became the Friends, the Sabarimala Yatra
basis of this event. has the same importance in
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