Devotees of the Ramakrishna
Order, unite your wills to serve the cause of the Master. Live glorious lives
full of the fire of spirituality such that people stand in awe of you. Your
flaming character will be a beacon of inspiration for all and will draw them
towards the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda ideal. The object is to manifest individual
divinity to bring about collective transformation in human society whereby
spirituality will be the vibrant basis of global living. Pursuit of excellence
must include pursuit of truth, both scientific and philosophical, with
rationality as the common denominator for all endeavour. But this rationality
must not be dry intellectuality. Rather, it should be the bedrock on which
systems must be built and existing systems must stand instead of fanatical
faith in irrational assertions passing off as gospel truth. It is here that
work must be done. Irrationality must not be allowed to pass off as revelation.
Rather, the latter must be in fulfilment of reason and so, transcending it. But
even such transcendence must be explainable in rational terms, so to say, and
not arbitrarily thrust on humanity as the exclusive vision of a seer or
a prophet. Indeed, as Swami Vivekananda had
beautifully articulated, instinct evolved is reason and reason transcended is
inspiration or super-conscious revelation. Instinct, reason and inspiration---these
three are in an ascending series, each being the fulfilment of the one
preceding it. Thus, the primary requisite in this path of spiritual seeking is for one to
be founded on reason and not to subscribe to any faith based on fanciful stories
which have no credible basis of evidence to back them up. And the evidence
again must be scrutinized with scientific rigour before acceptance if it passes
the test. This is the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Way.
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