Sunday, September 11, 2011: The 157th birth anniversary of Sree
Narayana Guru, a saint-philosopher and a quintessentially humanist
social reformer, has been celebrated all over the State with various
cultural and special programmes.
Hundreds of people from various parts of the state took part in the
all-religious meeting at the Shivagiri math, founded by the Guru at
Varkela and Guru’s birth-place Gurukulam at Chembashanthi near here.
Pageantry and cultural programmes marked the celebration of the
jayanthi, organized by its state-wide local units. Sree Narayana Guru,
social reformer of the state, coined the famous phrase “one caste, one
religion and one God for mankind.
Sree Narayana Jayanthi is also called Chathayam Dinam in Kerala. The
birthday of this great saint is celebrated on the Chathayam asterism of
the Malayalam month of Chingam. In a society broken into fragments by
casteism and economic inequality.
Though the Guru accepted the fundamental principles of the Vedic
religion, he revolted against caste-based ascendancy, caste
discrimination and sectarianism.
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