In life so many come in the guise of friends, so many professing love in the blossom of youth, but they all leave when their deal is done. The Guru alone abides forever in our hearts and never leaves us even in our direst hour of distress. He alone is the true friend, none else, none else.
It is time we actively propagate the teachings of Swami Vivekananda for it is our only national imperative if we are to survive as a self-respecting nation. Vivekananda's universality is the one thing so very necessary for amity in our storm-tossed world today where factionalism and sectarian violence are rending it apart. Friends, help spread the message of the Swami. His ideas need dissemination to the remotest corners of the world for humanity to feel secure about its future.
Sri Ramakrishna, they say, is the prophet of harmony. But harmony of spiritual ideas is not a new thing in India. It was not Ramakrishna who first discovered it. It has been the discovery of the Vedic Rishis that all of phenomena is wending its way toward godhead and that freedom from the causal chain is the goal of all. The sage of Dakshineshwar relived the spiritual experience of our entire historical and prehistorical past and reconfirmed the findings of the Vedas thereby re-validating the inviolability of Vedic transcendental truths. His was the affirmation of ancient truths suited to the modern age. And, after all, truth is timeless and truth is universal. Otherwise, it is arbitrary assertion without rational or intuitive basis which is the seed of future feud when decadence sets in. The Hindu embraces all within his fold without disturbing the faith of any for the Hindu is secure in his wisdom about the inviolability of absolute truth and a modicum of error in all relative truths. Ramakrishna traversed the diverse spiritual paths available to him and through his realisations arrived at his famous inference : As many faiths, so many paths. Let us study the life and message of this seer of the soul and so strive to make our attitudes more conducive to conjoint living where unity shall be the core principle amidst a myriad diversity.
The Manu Smriti has in parts become obsolete now and has been replaced by the Constitution of independent India which is the Smriti we ought now to follow. Being truthful to the Constitution is not only law-abidingness but is a moral duty for the citizens of India. Herein alone we have arrived at harmony as a nation and religious laws must now be subservient to the Constitution, be they Hindu Smriti injunction or Islamic sharia. Man must be unfettered to evolve freely at last.
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