FOURTH SUNDAY SESSION, 22 MARCH, 2015, 3-5 P.M. AND 5-8 P.M.

The fourth Sunday Session was held on 22 March when Deepanwita Datta attended it from 3-5 p.m. on special request as she had urgent business thereafter to attend to. It was more of an interaction on an interpersonal plane where we sought out solutions to societal problems at different levels. Most importantly, 5 CARDINAL PRINCIPLES to be maintained by CORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS were enunciated and later ratified by others. These are as follows:

1. Spiritual practice twice a day.
2. Study of THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA daily.
3. Observance of discipline for harmonious functioning of group.
4. Attendance of SUNDAY SESSIONS religiously.
5. Saving for service to the RAMAKRISHNA MISSION'S welfare projects.

Thereafter, there was meditation for one hour between 5 and 6 p.m. followed by readings from LIFE IN INDIAN MONASTERIES written by Swami Bhaskarananda. It was so heart-warming to see my mother, Smt. Geeta Bose who is lying paralysed in her Fowler Bed following a cerebral stroke in 2013, gleefully participate in the proceedings as I read out the anecdotes from the aforesaid book. My thanks to Swami Bhaskaranandaji for his delightful rendition of his experiences as a monk of the Ramakrishna Order into such readable text that even an octogenarian prostrate mother finds succour in it.