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Vivekananda declared: “Why should you shame yourself
when you introduce yourself as a Hindu?” And then Doctor
Saheb says: “I stress that this is the Hindu nation.” Vivekananda
says: “It is the duty of man to serve the poor.” And Doctor Saheb
says: “Learn to live for the country.” Both these great people
guided the society in the same direction using their unique
manners.

The significance of Doctor Saheb’s life lies in the fact that
he had taken upon himself the task of accomplishing two
ambitions of Vivekananda without anyone letting know of it,
and today, after sixty years, it would not be an exaggeration to
claim that he has completed the task. Expressing his anxiety for
the nation, once Vivekananda had said, “If I had young men
with iron bodies and purposeful minds, I would change the
very face of India.” If we glance at the accomplishment of Doctor
Saheb, he created a long line of young men with iron bodies,
with fearless minds, cultivated with positive qualities, and thus
he conducted a competition to create young men who could
sacrifice everything of their own in order to make over every
aspect of national life. Of course, in their basis lie the foresight,
renunciation and penance of Doctor Saheb.

Looking at the psyche of the prevalent society, Vivekananda
had once said in remorse, “For the next fifty years, the people
of India should forget about all their gods and goddesses and
should sacrifice everything in the feet of only Mother India as
their sole deity.” This was how Doctor Saheb realized into reality
this solemn wish of Vivekananda. With his insight and working
style, Doctor Saheb accepted Mother India as the deity, and thus
built the social man. This led to the cultivation of the tendency
to worship Mother India.” The slogan ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ was
becoming the favourite slogan as ‘Vande Mataram’ had become
prior to independence.

In our country, the tradition of Sanyasi has been in existence
since ancient times. Vivekananda transformed the definition of
Sanyasi. A Sanyasi, absorbed in personal penance, took his goal
as social service. For a Sanyasi of the Ramakrishna Mission, the
service to the poor is the true worship. Doctor Saheb too created