Narendra Modi with Dwarka BJP MLA Pabubha Manek

Dwarka, 22 April 2012

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today asked people to pray for good rain in monsoon this year. He said that Gujarat will continue to be ‘paanidaar’ if there’s ‘paani’.

Modi said this while participating in Ati rudra and Shiv mahapuran gyan yagna satsang katha at Dwarka hosted by local MLA Pabubha Manek.

Modi said that India’s cultural heritage is its life force. “Our ancestors have conceived of a lifestyle that strikes balance between nature and organic life. The modern science also acknowledges it”, he said.

On the occasion, the Chief Minister performed poojan of Shivpurana Mahapothi and paid obeisance to vyaspitha. The family members of Mr.Pabhuba heartily welcomed Mr. Modi.

Speaking at the satsang-katha where a large number of devout people were present the Chief Minister said that Indian culture has conceived of the God in female form also. In Indian tradition it is said that God has many forms and yet He is the only one. The devotee creates the God in his image and so we see crores of images of God in India. The idea that ‘nar(man) can become narayan(God) by performing good deeds’ has been developed in a scientific way in the Indian culture.

He wished that the Yagna would attract the Rain God and eventually help the Gujarat villages and its farmers to prosper.

In the entire world, it is only the Indian spiritual system which has linked the trees with the Gods. The bilipatra has been linked with the Lord Shiva and the bilipatra also has a connection with human health, he said.

In the beginning of the programme MLA Prabhuba Manek delivered the welcome address. MLAs Mulubhai Bera, Laljibhai Solanki, Meghjibhai Kanjariya, President of District Panchayat P.B.Vasoya, representative of Sardapitha Narayan Swami and devout people in large number were present on the occasion.