100 years in the past, on the sacred event of Vijayadashami, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was based. This was not the creation of one thing fully new. It was a more moderen manifestation of an historical custom, the place India’s everlasting nationwide consciousness expresses itself periodically, in numerous kinds, to face the challenges of the instances. In our instances, the Sangh is the embodiment of that timeless nationwide consciousness. It’s the luck of our technology of swayamsevaks that we’re witnessing the Sangh’s centenary.
On this historic event, I prolong my greetings to the numerous swayamsevaks who stay devoted to the pledge of serving the nation and its folks. I additionally bow in reverence to the founding father of the Sangh, our guiding best, Param Pujya Dr. Hedgewar Ji. To mark this superb journey of 100 years, the Authorities of India has launched a particular postage stamp and commemorative coin.
Human civilizations thrived on the banks of nice rivers. Equally, numerous lives have flourished as a result of affect of the Sangh. A river enriches every a part of the land that it touches with its waters. Likewise, the Sangh has nourished each a part of our nation, each sphere of our society. A river typically multiplies into many streams and expands its affect. One thing comparable has occurred within the Sangh’s journey. By its numerous affiliated organisations, the Sangh works in each area of life, comparable to training, agriculture, social welfare, tribal welfare, girls’s empowerment and extra. Although various of their fields of labor, all of them embody one spirit and one resolve: ‘Nation First’.
From its very inception, the Sangh has devoted itself to nation-building. To realize this, it selected the trail of character-building. Vyakti nirmaan se rashtra nirmaan, nation-building via character-building – this has been the Sangh’s path. For this, it created the distinctive, easy and enduring mechanism of the each day shakha. The shakha is an inspiring place the place each swayamsevak begins his journey from ‘Me to We’ and goes via a course of of non-public transformation.
The muse of the Sangh’s hundred-year journey has been laid by a fantastic nationwide mission, a path of non-public transformation and the sensible technique of the shakha. By these, the Sangh has formed lakhs of swayamsevaks who proceed to propel India ahead in each sphere of life.
Proper from the second of its founding, the Sangh has thought-about the nation’s precedence as its personal precedence. Param Pujya Dr. Hedgewar Ji and lots of swayamsevaks participated actively within the freedom battle. Dr. Hedgewar Ji himself was imprisoned a number of instances. The Sangh additionally supplied assist and safety to many freedom fighters. After Independence, the Sangh continued working for the nation.
Alongside this journey, there have been conspiracies and makes an attempt to crush the Sangh. Its second Sarsanghchalak, Param Pujya Guruji, was falsely implicated in a case and even imprisoned. However the Sangh by no means allowed bitterness to take root, as a result of swayamsevaks consider, “We aren’t separate from society. Society is shaped of us.” This sense of oneness with society and unshakable religion within the Structure and constitutional establishments gave the swayamsevaks steadiness of thoughts and stored them delicate in direction of society, even within the gravest crises.
The Sangh has all the time been synonymous with patriotism and repair. When Partition left lakhs of households homeless, swayamsevaks got here ahead to serve refugees. In each catastrophe, regardless of restricted sources, swayamsevaks are among the many first responders and work on the frontlines. For them, this isn’t simply reduction work, however the work of strengthening the nation’s very soul. Bearing hardships personally whereas easing the ache of others is the motto of each swayamsevak.
In its journey of a century, the Sangh has woke up self-awareness and self-confidence amongst numerous sections of society. It has labored even in essentially the most distant, inaccessible elements of the nation. For many years, it has devoted itself to preserving and nurturing the traditions, customs, and values of tribal communities. In the present day, establishments comparable to Sewa Bharati, Vidya Bharati, Ekal Vidyalayas and the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram have turn out to be sturdy pillars of empowerment for tribal communities.
For hundreds of years, social ills comparable to caste discrimination and untouchability have been challenges for Hindu society. From the time of Dr. Hedgewar Ji till right now, each member of the Sangh, each Sarsanghchalak, has fought towards such discrimination. Param Pujya Guruji continuously carried ahead the spirit of ‘Na Hindu Patito Bhavet’, that means ‘no Hindu can ever be fallen’. Pujya Balasaheb Deoras Ji declared: “If untouchability will not be unsuitable, nothing else is unsuitable on the earth.” Later, Pujya Rajju Bhaiya Ji and Pujya Sudarshan Ji, too, carried this message ahead. Within the present instances, the current Sarsanghchalak, revered Mohan Bhagwat Ji, has given a transparent name for unity, calling for one nicely, one temple, one cremation floor for everybody.
When the Sangh was shaped a century in the past, the wants and struggles of the time had been totally different from these of right now. In the present day, as India advances in direction of changing into a developed nation, there are newer challenges. Dependence on overseas international locations, conspiracies to divide our unity, demographic adjustments via infiltration and extra. Our authorities is actively countering these. I’m glad that the RSS too has ready a concrete roadmap to face them.
The ‘Panch Parivartan’ of the Sangh provides each swayamsevak the trail to beat right now’s challenges.
• Sva-Bodh: Self-awareness helps us free ourselves from the colonial mindset, taking delight in our heritage and advancing the precept of Swadeshi.
• Samajik Samrasta: Social concord is caused by making certain social justice by prioritising the marginalised. In the present day, our social concord faces a grave problem from demographic imbalances brought on by infiltration. To handle this, the nation has introduced a Excessive-Powered Demography Mission.
• Kutumb Prabodhan: Household values strengthen the establishment of household which is the inspiration of our tradition.
• Nagrik Shishtachar: Civic sense and a way of accountability must be woke up in each citizen.
• Paryavaran: Safeguarding the atmosphere is of paramount significance to safe the way forward for coming generations.
Guided by these resolutions, the Sangh now begins its journey into its subsequent century. Within the mission of constructing a developed India by 2047, the contribution of the Sangh shall be essential. As soon as once more, my greatest needs to each swayamsevak.
Revealed on October 1, 2025
