The British, in enslaving us, took our dignity away. The Muslim invaders earlier had done the same. Today, in free India, our corrupt politicians have ruined us in health, wealth and spirit and their deed is not done yet. Ancient scriptures, along with sublime passages enunciated on humanity, have also passed terrible judgement on the infidel, women and the depressed classes at the lower end of the social spectrum. Dictators have tyrannised nations, sent continents to war and destroyed civilisations. The history of the world, despite the grand achievements of the arts and the sciences, has been a tale of continuous violence and war, tyranny and the ravaging of the spirit of man such that humanity has been dreadfully despoiled of dignity to the point of a despairing self-annihilation. And the same applies to the domestic front as well where men and women for their petty self-interest keep hurling abuse at each other and reduce themselves to brutes wittingly or unwittingly. Where comes humanity then? How may one reasonably justify the otherwise unjustifiable 'righteous anger' which is the cause of so much unhappiness at the grass-roots level of human society, the family? Where is the dignity of familial living if husbands and wives so mistrust and misjudge each other that anarchy reigns supreme at the root of society? Whither humanity? Hold on. Ramakrishna will show us the way out of our predicament. I have heard he has the solution to life's problems.
To be continued...
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