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Minister for Social Welfare H.C. Mahadevappa connected Tuesday said that Maharshi Valmiki, who composed the epic Ramayana, imparted values of righteousness and morality to the full world.
After inaugurating the Maharshi Valmiki Jayanthi programme organised jointly by the territory administration, Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation, and organisations representing the Nayaka communities astatine Kalamandira successful the metropolis connected Tuesday, Dr. Mahadevappa said Maharshi Valmiki was calved successful poverty, but attained bonzer intelligence powerfulness done his penance.
Dr. Mahadevappa, accompanied by MLAs Tanveer Sait, G.T. Deve Gowda, and Harish Gowda, and different dignitaries, lit a lamp and offered floral tributes to the representation of Maharshi Valmiki arsenic portion of the celebrations astatine Kalamandira.
While addressing the gathering, Dr. Mahadevappa said that a statue of Valmiki, who became a sage of large intellect done the powerfulness of knowledge, had been unveiled astatine Vidhana Soudha successful Bengaluru astatine a outgo of ₹3 crore.
The Maharshi depicted Lord Rama done the Ramayana and taught motivation behaviour and adherence to dharma done it, the Minister said, portion pointing retired that the the sage sowed the seeds of antiauthoritarian values by emphasising societal and economical quality.
Calling upon radical to unrecorded arsenic equals without falling prey to superstitions oregon warring implicit caste, Dr. Mahadevappa underscored the value of gathering a casteless society. “Maharshi Valmiki, B.R. Ambedkar, and Buddha taught america the aforesaid lesson. We indispensable recognize their teachings and unrecorded unitedly. We should imbibe their principles successful our lives and travel retired of ignorance, Dr. Mahadevappa added.
Mr. Sait, a erstwhile Minister, said that quality beings cannot unrecorded lone with the individuality of their caste oregon religion, and emphasised the request for radical to see acquisition arsenic their superior plus and usage the aforesaid for the upliftment of the society. He added that a assemblage progresses erstwhile it lives with the existent knowing of religion.
The MLA said that radical should besides marque usage of the warrant schemes and pointed retired the instauration of respective campaigns introduced by the Congress authorities for attaining societal equality.
Mr. Deve Gowda, MLA for Chamundeshwari, said that the Maharshi, who attained immortality by penning Ramayana, was a large sage. He added that conscionable arsenic the sage guided Lava and Kusha done cognition successful the epic, radical should besides amended their children.
Mr. Harish Gowda, who presided implicit the event, said that Maharshi Valmiki’s ideals had taught mankind however to unrecorded righteously.
Folk troupes taking retired a procession connected the occassion of Valmiki Jayanthi successful Mysuru connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: M.A. SRIRAM
Procession
Meanwhile, a colourful procession was taken retired from Kote Anjaneya Swamy Temple adjacent Mysuru palace to Kalamandira arsenic portion of the Valmiki Jayanthi celebrations.
A fig of people troupes participated successful the procession that marched done the main thoroughfares of the city.
