CM promises five-acre land to Kerala’s Sivagiri Mutt in Karnataka

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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said present connected Wednesday that the authorities volition authorisation 5 acres of onshore to Sivagiri Mutt of Varkala successful Kerala to unfastened its subdivision either successful Dakshina Kannada oregon Udupi district.

Speaking astatine a relation astatine Mangalore University, the Chief Minister said that caput of Sivagiri Mutt Swami Satchidananda, who is besides president of Sree Narayana Dharma Sanghom Trust, had requested for the land.

The Chief Minister said that MLC and Congress person B. K. Hariprasad and others could hunt and place authorities onshore suitable to unfastened the subdivision of the mutt.

The relation was jointly organised by Brahmashree Narayana Guru Study Chair astatine Mangalore University and Sivagiri Mutt to observe the centenary of the gathering and speech betwixt societal reformer Narayana Guru and Mahatma Gandhi astatine Sivagiri Mutt connected March 12, 1925.

Mr. Siddaramaiah said Swami Vivekananda, who was distressed by the caste strategy and untouchability successful Kerala, had called it a madman’s market. In specified a madman’s market, Narayana Guru created consciousness against the caste strategy and untouchability and provided a dignified beingness to the radical who were beneath successful the caste system.

Narayana Guru proclaimed to the satellite that “all humans are of 1 caste, 1 religion and person 1 God”. He besides practically established social, spiritual dignity and equality for the oppressed sections of society.

The Chief Minister said that Narayana Guru fought against the caste system, and superstition successful society. He fought to eradicate the superstition and unsighted traditions of the little castes. He made marriages elemental by avoiding extravagance and spending. He encouraged each assemblage wide meals.

Mr. Siddaramaiah said that social, cultural, spiritual and acquisition movements spearheaded by Narayana Guru changed the societal explanation of centuries. “It seemed to amusement a caller way to beingness to lakhs of radical who had mislaid their state owed to the caste strategy for centuries,” helium said.

The Chief Minister said that equality was the instauration of Narayana Guru’s philosophy. He asserted that determination is nary superiority oregon inferiority among humans successful each matters, from worldly to spiritual.

He said that Narayan Guru was a steadfast believer successful the rule of ‘liberation done education, empowerment done organisation’. The guru’s presumption was that acquisition is the astir almighty limb to destruct societal inequality.

Mr. Siddaramaiah said that the dialog of Mahatma Gandhi with Narayan Guru successful 1925 and with Babasaheb Ambedkar astir 1931 were precise important.

Speaker U. T. Khader, Member of Parliament K. C. Venugopal, Home Minister G. Parameshwara, State Ministers Laxmi Hebbalkar, B. Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, Satish Jarkiholi, Congress person B. Janardhana Poojary, MLAs Harish Poonja, D. Vedavyasa Kamath, U. Rajesh Naik, Y. Bharat Shetty, Bhagirathi Murulya, Ashok Kumar Rai were among those present.

Published - December 03, 2025 06:43 p.m. IST

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