The sesquicentennial celebrations of the advent of Swami Vivekananda are well and soundly over but the mission of the great Swami of the complete spiritual transformation of the world remains largely unaccomplished as yet although some advances towards the same have been already achieved which give us cause for hope. But we must accelerate the process of propagation of the great message of peace and harmony as espoused by Ramakrishna-Vivekananda in which alone the world may find a safe harbour as it steers its way through the turbulent ocean of delusion that has well nigh driven it to the brink of disaster, the very edge of a precipice whence there may be no return. What a waste of human life is resulting from the villainy of crony capitalism against which Vivekananda had so categorically warned and had attempted to thus reduce future pain of the masses by setting up the twin institutions of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission as spiritual and welfare bodies that would in Ramakrishna's name look after his children, spread as they were throughout the wide world! This then is the task before us, a work whole and holy, a mission of man and God, to raise the consciousness of mortal man that he may hearken to the call within. Come ye all and join in the march of the Swami's grand army as we storm the citadels of heaven and earth to veritably 'unhinge the world' as he was wont to saying and so set free the clouded consciousness of man unto its divine habitat which is inherently its own domain. May Swamiji bless all who participate in this noble endeavour, this invigorating enterprise, this labour of love for afflicted humanity! Jay Ramakrishna!
Visible above is the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur Math, an institution he had dreamed of and had prophesied as one that would be the focal point of the harmony of all that was grand and great in the Indian tradition down the ages and whence all life-giving ideas would spread to the remotest corners of the world in a massive tidal wave of spirituality that would deluge the world in course of the centuries to come.
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