SPARE A THOUGHT, O NOBLE ONE

When we suffer the miseries of life, we pray to Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Ma Sarada Devi for succour. There are so many monks and nuns of the Order of Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Sarada Devi who are right now ailing and are in severe physical distress. May we not pray for their recovery as well? Remember they have left their home and hearth for the welfare of the world at Swami Vivekananda’s bidding, at Sri Ramakrishna’s call from the roof-top of the Kuthi Bari at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple Complex. They have left behind the comfort of domestic life to embrace the rigours of the life of the renunciate. Must we forsake them who have given up their all for us? May we not spare a few moments a day in contemplating the good of those who are ever contemplating our good? May we not integrate our vibrations with the holy vibrations of these chosen children of the Lord that the Mission of Ramakrishna may be nourished better for the betterment of the world? Send brothers a prayer a day to the Master, a fervent appeal to Mother that they may look after our monastic sisters and brothers and keep them from hunger, sickness and bondage of any sort that may beset their spiritual lives. For sure the Master and Mother are looking after them but our prayers will only ennoble us and integrate us with the Cause of the Master, spiritually nourish us and who knows, may help the nuns and the monks in their distress as well for did not the Swami Vivekananda exhort us to send holy mental vibrations in all directions and did he not speak of the potency of such thoughts to awaken the latent spirituality in receptive souls even at a far-off distance? Let us then turn on a new leaf in our lives and start living in unison with the renunciates of the Order that the movement of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda may be bolstered by our effective participation and a fresher current of spiritual love may deepen our fraternal bonds to give the movement added strength and purpose and our lives a fulfilment transcending the terrestrial terrain. May Mother give vision to all who care for her children! May the Master live radiant in the hearts of all who love the lonesome and the lost in life’s solitary sojourn! Jai Ramakrishna! Jai Ma!