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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, August 23, 2002: Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi (birthday) was celebrated all over Kerala with religious prayer meetings and communal harmony congregations. Hundreds of people from various parts of the state took part in the all-religious meeting at the Shivagiri math, founded by the Guru at Varkela and Guru’s birth-place Gurukulam at Chembashanthi near here. Special pujas, cultural meetings and annadhanam (feedings) were also held at Aruvikara temple and other temples set up by the Guru. Sree Narayana Guru, social reformer of the state, coined the famous phrase, “one caste, one religion and one God for mankind.” Processions were also held at many places exhorting people to follow the values and teachings of Narayana Guru.

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