6/9/2023 0 Comments Swayamsevak meaningBhagwat sought to address the entire citizenry and explain why the RSS believes in sewa-so as to gather “like-minded allies.” He suggested that the process of asking people to adopt a new way of life in context of COVID-19 was in a way “part of an ongoing exercise of rebuilding the nation.” Bhagwat advocated “sewa” as the possible means to achieve that vision of revival. Dotted with rambling philosophical musings over a moral crisis gripping the world, the speech, delivered in chaste Hindi, was not limited to the RSS’s members. The speech, with the tenor of a discourse, urged the RSS’s swayamsevaks, or voluntary members, to do “ sewa”-service-for the people while the country was under the lockdown.īhagwat said the swayamsevaks should help those in need as it is for the “protection of their sacred community and their overall development.” He said that the “basis of this sewa” should be a “sense of belongingness” with the community. Several mainstream news channels also chose to telecast live almost the entirety of Bhagwat’s 42-minute speech. On 26 April, over a month into the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic, Mohan Bhagwat, the sarsanghchalak-supreme leader-of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, delivered an address titled “Current Situation and Our Role.” The address was live streamed on the Sangh’s YouTube channel and on Facebook Live.
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