PRELUDE TO SEVENTH SUNDAY SESSION, 12 APRIL, 2015, 5-8 P.M.

Two days to go before the Seventh Sunday Session on the 12th of April. Ramakrishna Mission Haripad, Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Muzaffarpur, Ramakrishna Mission Khetri​, Ramakrishna Math Baranagar, the life of Swami Vivekananda and his emphasis on character-building as the bedrock of life and spirituality, all these are on the agenda for discussion and deliberation.

Also, INTEGRATED PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT COURSE is to be initiated on this day where dynamism, the soul of Vedanta, will be induced in the youth through debate, dialogue and discussion on various contentious issues. Members of this Youth Programme will be taught to orate and organize welfare activity so that they become socially conscious and responsible citizens conducing to the welfare of the nation and the world.

Our objective is to enliven society by spreading the message of the Vedanta as enunciated by Swami Vivekananda and so, help bring people into intimate contact with their own divinity which is the fundamental condition for the larger fulfilment of the general aspirations of the masses.

Swamiji's mission remains unfulfilled largely even today despite the significant progress of the work initiated by him. This failing is on account of the dynamics of the times, the historical imperatives and the very nature of spiritual diffusion in the heart of humanity which is a slow, gradual process involving the passage of centuries. The deeper the work, the slower it is for gravity slows down time. This principle is true not only for the material universe but also for the spiritual for essentially the universe is but one, a continual progression from the gross to the fine till the universe is finally transcended and left behind as a fast-receding shadow and then it is no more. It is now all, an undivided ocean of consciousness, waveless, still, an unbroken mass of existence, alone and without a second through eternity, without even the possibility of replication or multiplication. It defies all description for there is none to communicate to nor the means nor the occasion to link up save to savour the Self by the Self, a wholeness brooding on itself. This is the eventual destiny of man and his universe, total dissolution in the Self. But more of that later.