Speech by Year 2 student - True happiness lies in service to others

Simran Solanki (7Yrs)

Year 2N

Prize Day Speech

Friday 4th July 2014

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Namaste

For those who don’t know me my name is Simran Solanki Year 2N. This year our topic title was “True happiness lies in service to others”. Before I present my speech I would like to congratulate all my friends in Year 2 for delivering an amazing presentations and giving different angles of thought on this topic.

True Happiness Lies In The Service of Others

TS14 - North: Reflections on Hunger Banquet:

External Inequalities, Internal Shifts

The hunger banquet run at TS14 – North was not to discriminate between participants. It was to create a simulation of dynamics in the real world and how we choose to interact with it. The 9 hours were challenging, unfamiliar and thought provoking. If we could capture the energy and agitation in that room and carry it into our daily lives, weekly shakhas and aspirations for the future; there is no doubt that we would tap our latent potential to make a significant change in the Hindu samaj.

During the debrief, words like disbelief, sense of injustice were used to describe how participants felt through the experience. Recognising those emotions in oneself is evidence that the activity stirred something deeper in each person. Our 'real life,' day to day routines buffer us from experiencing such feelings. We get busy in our own lives and over time we learn to block out the realities of the wider world which may disrupt our flow.

Youth Development speech delivered at a conference in the presence of P.P Swami Ramdev

[Summary of a speech delivered in the presence of P.P Swami Ramdev at a conference hosted by Patanjali Yoga Peeth Trust (UK) on the subject of “Youth development through the eyes of an NRI”]

Dharmesh Mistry, 

22^nd September 2013, London

Youth Development Panel.

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Youth development will only happen when the standard we expect from our young people is reframed.

There is a saying that is perhaps only a half joke:

Let Ram be born, but not in my house.

Let Sharda Ma be born, but not in my house.

Let Vivekananda be born, but not in my house.

Whether we live in India or not, this statement applies to each one of us, our attitude to the issues in the country we call our motherland, and issues anywhere in our world.

SV150 Speech

This is a speech delivered at an SV150 event.


Namaste!

Today I want to speak about Vivekananda. But not the  man, rather the idea that is Vivekananda, because it is the idea of Vivekananda that has shaped the growth of  the Hindu world.

It is the idea of Selfless work, the idea of a middle class  boy who turns into a wandering monk at the behest of  his own SPIRIT, against the wishes of all those around  him, who walked bare foot across the length and width  of Bharat to only discover suffering, pain, hopelessness,  defeat and despair amongst his countrymen. It is the idea that in the face of over whelming odds, ONE  DEDICATED individual can change the destiny of a  nation.