Swami Vivekananda wanted to create an 'Awakened India', PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Swami Vivekananda saw India as a cultural consciousness that has been living and breathing for centuries. He said, Swami ji wanted to create an 'Awakened India', beyond just a political or territorial entity. Addressing the 125th anniversary celebrations of ‘Prabuddha Bharata’, a monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order, started by Swami Vivekananda, through video conferencing today, Modi said, Swami Vivekananda named the journal Prabuddha Bharata to manifest the spirit of our nation. 
Referring to Swami Vivekanand’s letter to the Maharaja of Mysore and to Swami Ramakrishnananda, the Prime Minister stressed on two clear thoughts in Swami Ji's approach to empowering the poor. First, he wanted empowerment to be taken to the poor, if the poor themselves cannot easily go to empowerment. Second, Swami Ji said about India's poor, they are to be given ideas, their eyes are to be opened to what is going on in the world around them, and then they will work out their own salvation.Modi asserted that this is the approach with which India is moving ahead today. He said, if the poor cannot access banks, then banks must reach the poor and that is what the Jan Dhan Yojana did. If the poor cannot access insurance, then insurance must reach the poor and this is what the Jan Suraksha schemes did.
The Prime Minister said, if the poor cannot access health-care, then we must take health-care to the poor and this is what Ayushman Bharat scheme did.Modi said, roads, education, electricity and internet connectivity are being taken to every corner of the country, especially to the poor. He said, this is igniting aspirations among the poor and it is these aspirations that are driving the growth of the country.The Prime Minister also pointed out that Swami Vivekananda did not see spiritual and economic progress as mutually exclusive and he was against the approach where people romanticise poverty. Terming Swami Ji as a spiritual giant, a highly elevated soul, the Prime Minister stressed that he did not renounce the idea of economic progress for the poor.