When persecution is right in your home and takes the shape of legal bond to substantiate itself, decline of religion is at hand and the Avatar is due to come. Such a state has now obtained in so many homes to my knowledge and, sure enough, Thakur is in our midst. Dharma, where is dharma anyway? All that prevails is rampant ritual in the name of religion with scant respect for humanity. There is no room for culture, no space for God. All that is there is a blatant self-assertion which is the antithesis of dharma.
In the last year of his life on earth Swami Vivekananda had rued thus : "By quirk of fate though this body came into being, it did not serve any purpose. Contemplating this at times, the mind is overcome with great despair." ... "No one is able to comprehend the great ideas that I enunciate. The boys who are intelligent have married or have become slaves to name and fame or are of weak physical constitution.'' ... ''Those that are coming to join the Order cannot quite understand my ideas.'' ... ''Where do they understand, say? However, if Thakur wills it, out of these ones only, in time, great heroes will be born."
India failed to receive Swamiji and the world failed to do the same, too, with catastrophic consequences. Swamiji foresaw this impending fate of mankind and tried to help humanity avert it. When he saw it coming and could not do anything about it, he lamented that had another Vivekananda been there with him, he could have done something to carry his message through across the wide world in a much more effective way and so brought about significant changes in the world at large. But, alas, that was not to be. So, Swamiji felt resigned to the resolution of collective human karma and felt depressed at the prospective fate of the world. He said, "The world will rise, but oh, at what a cost, at what a cost, at what a cost!'' Two world wars are over. Did Swamiji foresee a third one coming?
Hari Om Ramakrishna!
Written by Sugata Bose
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