Subhashitam

aatmavat sarva bhooteshu.
आत्मवत् सर्व भूतेषु
Consider all beings like your own self. Treat everyone the way you would expect them to treat you.

Amrita - Vachan

“It is the unity of all in the solidarity of a common manifestation that will allow the creation of the new and divine world upon the earth.”

- Yogi Aurobindo

Festivals

Guru daksina utsav
HSS shakhas celebrate Guru dakshina utsav during the month of December. It is in this utsav that every swayamsevak and swayamsevika offer their monetary contributions to Bhagwa dhwaj.

Geeta Jayanti
This day is commemorated as the day of Bhagavat Geeta. This is the first day of Kurukshetra war, when Sri Krishna and Arjuna had a dialogue, which became popularly known as 'Srimad Bhagavat Geeta.'

Rani Lakshmi Bai

Manikarnika or Manu (the maiden name of Lakshmibai) was born in the family of a courtier, Moropant, in Bittoor, a place located in Central Bharat. Manu was very athletic and loved to compete with boys. She was also an avid reader with a love for learning. When Manu reached marriageable age, quite unexpectedly, a marriage proposal came from the Maharaja (king) of Jhansi. She was married a year later, in 1842. Manu was named Rani or queen Lakshmibai, after the goddess of wealth and victory.

The British were determined to take over the kingdom of Jhansi and so when the King of Jhansi died they tried to take over. They used an act called the Doctrine of Lapse, to say that because Rani Lakshimibai’s son was adopted there was no real heir to the throne. Lakshmibai wrote a petition to the Governor General, and later sent an envoy to London to plead her case. The British rejected her arguments.

She then resorted to fighting against the British to hold onto ther kingdom which she did successfully even after the British captured all their independent states. Rani Lakshmibai was known as one of the brave Hindu queens who fought against foreign rulers.