Early Times Report
Rajouri, Feb 14: The, Yuva Seva Sang (YSS) Rajouri celebrated Matar-Pitar pujan divas in the Ashram Sant Shri Asaram Ji Bapu Ashram.
While naming Valentine's Day as the 'Youth's Disaster Day' and awakening the people to its terrible consequences, Pujya Bapuji said, "King Claudius of Rome must have been very well aware of the power of celibacy; that is why he had forbidden his military forces from getting married, so that they remained physically and mentally fit enough to win wars.
Prohibition of marriage was forcibly imposed on the armed forces, and hence St. Valentine, who himself being a Christian priest could not have been an opposer of celibacy, had got them married secretly. Later, he was found guilty and the king had him hanged to death. Then in the year 496 AD, Pope Galessius began to celebrate 'Valentine's Day' in the memory of that saint.
India is the sacred land of holy rishis, munis and divine incarnations. In ancient times, people would greet each other by saying, "Rama-Rama!". How great the idea hidden behind this custom is! They uttered the Lord's name twice to signify that the same consciousness of the Supreme Lord abides equally in both people greeting each other, and that they offer their salutations to that. Such divine spirit alone represents pure 'love'. A pure, guileless, selfless sense of affection, free from desire is called love. |
