PM Modi Arrives At Vivekananda Rock Memorial For His 45-hour-long Meditation | WATCH

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Last Updated:May 30, 2024, 20:55 IST

The prime minister reached the rock memorial by a ferry service and started meditation that is scheduled to go on till June 1

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari, before he began his 45-hour-long meditation on Thursday evening.

He will be meditating there from the evening of May 30 to June 1.

#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari, Tamil NaduHe will meditate from 30th May evening to 1st June evening.
PM Modi will meditate day and night at the same place where Swami Vivekanand did meditation, at the Dhyan… pic.twitter.com/7QfKkvRLLN
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The Prime Minister arrived in Kanniyakumari earlier in the day from nearby Thiruvananthapuram and offered prayers at the Bhagavathi Amman temple. He will meditate day and night at Dhyan Mandapam, the same place where Swami Vivekananda did meditation.

All arrangements, including heavy security, are in place for Modi’s 45-hour stay at the famed, mid-sea memorial, named after the revered Hindu saint.

Clad in a dhoti and a white shawl, Modi prayed at the temple and circumambulated the ‘garbhagriha’. Priests performed a special ‘arthi’ and he was given temple ‘prasad’ that included a shawl and a framed photograph of the presiding deity of the temple.

The prime minister showered flowers on the portraits of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, mother Sri Sarada Devi and also paid floral tributes to Swami Vivekananda, whose life-size statue on a high pedestal adores the mandapam. Modi later commenced the sadhana (spiritual practice) in the mandapam.

While security personnel teemed the memorial premises, security has been beefed up in the entire Kanyakumari district and about 2,000 police personnel have been deployed, besides heightened vigil by the Tamil Nadu police’s Coastal Security Group, Coast Guard and the Navy.