OH, THE OMNISCIENCE OF SOME OF THESE FRESH INITIATES !
Devotees should give up assumed omniscience post-initiation in the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission and their consequent so-called association with the senior monks of the Order. It is obnoxious to be frequently told by some of these freshly initiated ones that they have superior knowledge and wisdom gleaned from a few books of Swamiji that they have read and a few monks, 'senior' for sure, that they have been associating with for the past couple or so years. If this is not laughable matter, pray, what is?
Such superior ones should keep their own counsel and confirm ill-founded knowledge by humble seeking of truth whereupon they will be better placed one day to share more secure facts sounded in realisation to a degree. This ought to be the attitude and not peremptory preaching based on sudden stumbling upon certain data and their spiritually immature interpretation and arriving at incorrect inference thereof which they then deem it to be justified in foisting over others by forceful assertions that lack in substance, though. When countered with reasoned argument and evidence, some of these fresh initiates behave in an unseemly manner that smacks of arrogance and an air full of the assumption of a sort of a special belonging to the Math and Mission's hierarchical order by way of close association that has made them privy to privileged understanding of the workings and ideals of the organisation.
Our duty then remains in paying obeisance to these new luminous legatees of the Mission's heritage and I wonder if we ought to alter our decades-old devotional stance to the Holy Trinity by replacing them with these new gods and goddesses of the 'emergent Order'.
Written by Sugata Bose
Devotees should give up assumed omniscience post-initiation in the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission and their consequent so-called association with the senior monks of the Order. It is obnoxious to be frequently told by some of these freshly initiated ones that they have superior knowledge and wisdom gleaned from a few books of Swamiji that they have read and a few monks, 'senior' for sure, that they have been associating with for the past couple or so years. If this is not laughable matter, pray, what is?
Such superior ones should keep their own counsel and confirm ill-founded knowledge by humble seeking of truth whereupon they will be better placed one day to share more secure facts sounded in realisation to a degree. This ought to be the attitude and not peremptory preaching based on sudden stumbling upon certain data and their spiritually immature interpretation and arriving at incorrect inference thereof which they then deem it to be justified in foisting over others by forceful assertions that lack in substance, though. When countered with reasoned argument and evidence, some of these fresh initiates behave in an unseemly manner that smacks of arrogance and an air full of the assumption of a sort of a special belonging to the Math and Mission's hierarchical order by way of close association that has made them privy to privileged understanding of the workings and ideals of the organisation.
Our duty then remains in paying obeisance to these new luminous legatees of the Mission's heritage and I wonder if we ought to alter our decades-old devotional stance to the Holy Trinity by replacing them with these new gods and goddesses of the 'emergent Order'.
Written by Sugata Bose
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