{"id":722,"date":"2016-02-06T05:35:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=719&amp;preview_id=719"},"modified":"2016-02-06T05:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T05:35:59","slug":"karnatka-cm-says-hinduism-is-about-breaking-religious-barriers-newsgram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Karnatka CM says Hinduism is about breaking Religious barriers &#8211; NewsGram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<p>Editor: I wonder what &#8220;Breaking religious borders&#8221; is a euphemism for? Does it mean all others to convert Hindus easily?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><span class=\"commented-out-html\"> A generated by theme <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"commented-out-html\"> end A <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bengaluru<\/strong>: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah said that Hinduism is about breaking the religious barrier existing between different religions.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, attended a National Youth Week programme organised by the state government \u00a0on Tuesday to observe the 153rd birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda at Sri Kanteerava Indoor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>He said, the young generation of India should follow Vivekananda\u2019s teachings.<\/p>\n<p>He took a dig at right-wing element claiming that the external groups are using Swami Vivekananda as a mascot to promote their \u201culterior motives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"commented-out-html\"> A generated by theme <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"commented-out-html\"> end A <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The programme was not attended by the BJP bigwigs despite the names of M Venkaiah Naidu were mentioned on the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Siddaramaiah said, \u201cVivekananda placed the religion followed by millions in our country on a pedestal where it was seen as a pioneer in advocating universal brotherhood\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Vivekananda being a great human being never built a wall around Hinduism instead his motive was to break religious barriers. Siddaramaiah said\u00a0there are organisations which are using the spiritual leader\u2019s name to spread differences, hence, people should not follow them blindly.<\/p>\n<p>Karnataka CM talked about the Swami Vivekananda and his teachings on the occasion. India celebrates great leader\u2019s birthday as the National Youth Day. Great Hindu leader had a worldwide impact through his thoughts, writings and speeches.(Inputs from agencies)(Image-manipalworldnews)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"commented-out-html\"> A generated by theme <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"commented-out-html\"> end A <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgram.com\/karnatka-cm-says-hinduism-is-about-breaking-religious-barriers\/\">Karnatka CM says Hinduism is about breaking Religious barriers &#8211; NewsGram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgram.com\/karnatka-cm-says-hinduism-is-about-breaking-religious-barriers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karnatka CM says Hinduism is about breaking Religious barriers \u2013 NewsGram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor: I wonder what &#8220;Breaking religious borders&#8221; is a euphemism for? Does it mean all others to convert Hindus easily? &#8212;- A generated by theme end A Bengaluru: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah said that Hinduism is about breaking the religious barrier existing between different religions. Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, attended a National Youth Week programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18,1134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}