 ET Plus Report
Jammu, Mar 11: Underlining contributions of Guru Ravi Dass Ji in promoting an egalitarian society, Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand said Guru Ji was preeminent saint of Bhakti movement in the country and gave message of love, compassion and devotion to supreme lord.
He said teachings of Ravi Dass ji spread the message of universal brotherhood and equality. "Great saints through their teachings fought against the social evils and dogmas prevalent in the society and have shown the righteous way of living based on mutual co-existence, love and devotion to god," he added.
He was addressing a huge gathering of devotees at Ravi Dass Mandir, Khour. The function was organized to celebrate birth anniversary of Guru ji. Calling upon civil society at large to follow the path shown by great saints, the Deputy Chief Minister said that real tribute to the saints is to adopt their teachings in life and work for establishing an egalitarian society.
He said saints besides preaching for a spiritual way of living, also taught for establishing a class less society in which all human beings are equal before the god and nobody is supreme by birth. Listing various social sector schemes launched by the government, Tara Chand said with the active support of central government a number of welfare schemes have been launched in the state, so as to provide succor to those living below poverty line. "The government is committed to ameliorate the lot of the marginalized and all our efforts are afoot to take the development revolution to all nooks and corners of the state," he added. Stressing on upgrading rural infrastructure, Tara Chand said that road network in the area would get boosted with the Completion of up gradation work of both Jourian as well as Pallanwala roads. |
