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If Lord Ram and Lord Krishna are removed from India, nothing is left in the Indian culture, Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat said on Monday, adding these two great men sowed the seeds of the Indian culture.
Addressing a gathering at Shree Krushna-Rukshmani Vivah Satkar Samaroh (Lord Krishna-Ruskmani marriage reception) organised by the Gujarat Pavitra Yatradham Vikas Board (GPYVB) in temple town Dwarka, the governor said, “Hum yadi Bharat se Bhagwan Ram aur Yogeshwar Krashan ko bahar kar de to Bharat ki sanskriti mein kuchh bachata nahi. Bharat ki jo sanskriti hain, Bharat ki jo sabhyata hain wo in dono mahapursho se prarambh hua hain (If we obliterate Lord Rama and the god of Yoga, Lord Krishna from India, nothing is left in the culture of India. India’s culture, India’s civilisation started with these two great men),” Devvrat said.
“If anyone who made us aware about what our married life should be like, what our society should be like, what should be duties of our king, it is Lord Rama. If someone’s life inspires as to what an ideal son, father husband and a restrained person, it is Lord Rama. And we see the height of those virtues in Yogeshwar Shree Karshan,” added Devvrat.
“This land of Gujarat gave birth to a great social reformer Swami Dayananda Saraswati. This Swami Dayananda Saraswati has written that in Mahabharata, Krishna’s life is like aaptpurush, meaning, Lord Krishna was the only man of his time who didn’t commit any sin… So pure was his character and yet, we associate him with thousands of marriages and queens,” said Devvrat.
“In his life, he had married only once, which was with princess Rukmini… We associate such a great man, great Yogi, sthitpragya (one who observes things objectively) with thousands of marriages. These wrong traditions must have started from somewhere else,” he added.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu, Union Minister of State for Culture, Meenakshi Lekhi, Manipur Minister for Power Thongam Biswajit Singh and Gujarat Tourism Minister Mulu Bera also addressed the gathering.
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