Rameshwaram is the symbol of India’s spiritual unity, a flowering of her genius and an anchor of her renaissance. That it is one of the twelve jyotirlingas is a well known fact. However, it has been the centre of perpetuating the Eternal Sanatana dharma from epic times to the date has amazing significance. We can attempt to understand this through the words of one of the most illustrious sons of Mother India, Swami Vivekananda.
Swami Vivekananda gave his world conquering speech at the world parliament of religions on 11th September 1993 and stirred the sinking western world in order to show them the age old Light of India. After his return to India in 1897, he reached Pamban in Ramnad. The Raja Bhaskar Sethupati gave him royal welcome. Raja even unyoked the bullocks/horses of his chariot and he with others pulled the chariot to palace. Swami Vivekananda gave a speech in Rameshwaram temple. This was a spontaneous response of Indian psyche which places a spiritual guru above the political sovereign. Moreover, Swamiji was lion of Vedanta which roared in the remote lands and gave the new hope to the sleeping giants. The welcome was unprecedented and yet pertinent to acknowledge this much awaited dawn. And what could be better place for such event than Rameshwaram! The raja erected a pillar to commemorate this historic event and got inscribed on the pillar the Upanishadic verse, a mahavakya: ‘Satyameva Jayate’ i.e. Truth alone triumphs.