REFLECTIONS ... 3

1. Posing to be a preceptor (Guru) does no good to the masses you cater to in the absence of genuine spiritual realisation. Instead it harms the cause of nation-building. Anything fraudulent cannot conduce to human good and it will require public rejection of such for the nation's true spiritual heritage to be the common property of all. Effective education right from childhood in India's spiritual culture will remedy this disease to a large extent overtime and give power to the masses to rise rejuvenated.

2. We must preach our scriptures free and pure without pandering to the vanity of the West. This tendency to suit truth to others' requirements is veritably the practice of falsity and bears no significance in eventual terms in so far as communication of essential truth is concerned.

3. Commerce and politics are corrupting the order of the day as mass literacy of a low kind exposes the multitude to a myriad deception by the crafty manipulators of Hindu spiritual truth to suit their own pecuniary ends. It is time to educate the masses in that ancient lifeline of our civilisation --- Sanskrit. Only then will culture cease to have its present down-flow and the masses be made aware of their genuine inheritance, the pristine philosophy of the Vedas.

4. In an age of plummeting culture a return to one's spiritual roots is the answer to all evil consequent on such degeneration. The scriptures must be studied with reverence under the guidance of preceptors of realisation and their aphoristic content comprehended and assimilated in one's system through meditative introspection. The nervous currents will be thus re-directed along higher channels leading to Self-realisation in the fullness of time. Character will have then been built and its fragrance spread all around filling the environment with vibrations of peace and bliss. Such a being, no more a mortal material personality that perishes at the touch of carnal contact but one that has transcended such transitory limitations, remains in this perishable world of ours, nonetheless, as a source of spiritual replenishment, a fount of divine bliss and a veritable pilgrimage, the interface of the human and the divine.

5. How restrained in speech, civilised to the core, loving and forgiving the disciples of the Master of successive generations are! An object lesson for those that engage in fruitless vitriol against fellow civilians in a nation desperately trying to throw off the baggage of past perfidies and establish itself in the comity of nations. Ramakrishna remains the way out of the present dissonance into the consonance of the future.

6. But for Thakur (Sri Ramakrishna) where else shall we go? He is the rudder of our lives and he is our polestar.

7. When you seek, question : when you serve, be silent.

8. The philosopher friend yet again in regal bearing redolent of yesteryears when dignity prevailed over external form and the soul of man bespoke through the outer frame that was rendered thus divine. Salutations to this sterling soul, quite a rarity these days of surface dreams and selfish ends seeking sense gratification at any cost. Susanta Mullick remains entrenched in the classical Ramakrishna culture inspirational to all.