SWAMI NIRMALANANDA SIDELINED BY WHOSE WILL?
Sugata Bose : Swami Nirmalananda is the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, yet he lies in organisational neglect. Why? Whither truth for monks?
Sanathkumar Chenganamadathil : What do you know sir, about Thakur's will? Those who have got away from the main stream found themselves sidelined, and by whose will?! Thakur's or organization's? You must have the answer before making comments in public!
Sugata Bose : Dear Sanathkumar Chenganamadathil,
Indeed, how right you are! What do I know of Thakur's will and who possibly can ever know it beyond what he reveals? And in the absence of its revelation to a commoners like me, who will, after all, provide the answers? The Order? They speak and you do not listen to their answers, and they do not speak and you ask me to seek the answers.
Read the texts like 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' by M and 'Life of Sri Ramakrishna' by Swami Nikhilananda and compare what they say about the discipleship of Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) with 'History of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission' written by Swami Gambhiranananda before doubting my knowledge about this contentious issue or, perhaps, my honour of intent in this regard. If you already are aware that Swami NIrmalananda was a direct disciple of Thakur and support organisational sidelining of him on account of what you call going 'away from the mainstream', then it is a sorry state of affairs indeed. How can history be denied its due on account of organisational caprice? Truth must prevail at any rate in the recording of history. Untruth in the name of the embodiment of truth cannot be deemed Thakur's will.
So far as Thakur's will is concerned, it is not possible for me to directly have access to it at any rate ever till he reveals it to me regarding this issue but that ought not to detract me or any in all love and honourable intent from drawing our inferences from the wealth of data already available in the public domain. The constant denial of Swami Nirmalananda of his rightful status as direct disciple of Thakur by the organisation has made a sham of the very truth we have come to associate it with, being representative of Thakur's cause. How can anyone in his senses out of sheer loyalty side with untruth of this kind and urge me to refrain from making my stance known in this regard after having waited for a proper answer for three decades about so many issues that no one cares to address or answer. It is like siding with the Catholic Church against Galileo and the Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus out of blessed loyalty! And loyalty to whom -- truth or Church? Swamiji has said, 'It is well to be born in a Church but it is terrible to die there.'
To me truth is synonymous with Thakur, much more than organisation is, for in the very words of Swamiji, 'Organisation breeds fresh evils,' and, 'To organise or not to organise? If I organise, the spirit will diminish, and, if I do not organise, the message will not spread.' Your devotion to the Order and your loyalty to the Organisation is praiseworthy and I am happy to find today a fellow devotee who cares for Thakur's Mission. May Thakur keep you and yours in health, wealth and happiness and with a heart to care for others ahead of your own self so that good may accrue to the common weal thereof! Also, may he preserve your loyalty to the Mission while keeping your discrimination keen, your intelligence aware and your conscience beating to the pulsations of truth and not to blatant untruth masquerading itself as Thakur's will of sorts!
Thanking you and ever wishing you well from the core of my heart as a fellow pilgrim of the soul,
I remain yours in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda,
Sugata Bose.
P.S. :
Comments :
Sugata Bose : Swami Nirmalananda is the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, yet he lies in organisational neglect. Why? Whither truth for monks?
Sanathkumar Chenganamadathil : What do you know sir, about Thakur's will? Those who have got away from the main stream found themselves sidelined, and by whose will?! Thakur's or organization's? You must have the answer before making comments in public!
Sugata Bose : Dear Sanathkumar Chenganamadathil,
Indeed, how right you are! What do I know of Thakur's will and who possibly can ever know it beyond what he reveals? And in the absence of its revelation to a commoners like me, who will, after all, provide the answers? The Order? They speak and you do not listen to their answers, and they do not speak and you ask me to seek the answers.
Read the texts like 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' by M and 'Life of Sri Ramakrishna' by Swami Nikhilananda and compare what they say about the discipleship of Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) with 'History of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission' written by Swami Gambhiranananda before doubting my knowledge about this contentious issue or, perhaps, my honour of intent in this regard. If you already are aware that Swami NIrmalananda was a direct disciple of Thakur and support organisational sidelining of him on account of what you call going 'away from the mainstream', then it is a sorry state of affairs indeed. How can history be denied its due on account of organisational caprice? Truth must prevail at any rate in the recording of history. Untruth in the name of the embodiment of truth cannot be deemed Thakur's will.
So far as Thakur's will is concerned, it is not possible for me to directly have access to it at any rate ever till he reveals it to me regarding this issue but that ought not to detract me or any in all love and honourable intent from drawing our inferences from the wealth of data already available in the public domain. The constant denial of Swami Nirmalananda of his rightful status as direct disciple of Thakur by the organisation has made a sham of the very truth we have come to associate it with, being representative of Thakur's cause. How can anyone in his senses out of sheer loyalty side with untruth of this kind and urge me to refrain from making my stance known in this regard after having waited for a proper answer for three decades about so many issues that no one cares to address or answer. It is like siding with the Catholic Church against Galileo and the Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus out of blessed loyalty! And loyalty to whom -- truth or Church? Swamiji has said, 'It is well to be born in a Church but it is terrible to die there.'
To me truth is synonymous with Thakur, much more than organisation is, for in the very words of Swamiji, 'Organisation breeds fresh evils,' and, 'To organise or not to organise? If I organise, the spirit will diminish, and, if I do not organise, the message will not spread.' Your devotion to the Order and your loyalty to the Organisation is praiseworthy and I am happy to find today a fellow devotee who cares for Thakur's Mission. May Thakur keep you and yours in health, wealth and happiness and with a heart to care for others ahead of your own self so that good may accrue to the common weal thereof! Also, may he preserve your loyalty to the Mission while keeping your discrimination keen, your intelligence aware and your conscience beating to the pulsations of truth and not to blatant untruth masquerading itself as Thakur's will of sorts!
Thanking you and ever wishing you well from the core of my heart as a fellow pilgrim of the soul,
I remain yours in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda,
Sugata Bose.
P.S. :
Comments :
Sugata Bose : Sanathkumar Chenganamadathil, His will be done in untruth when He is the embodiment of Truth? So, in the Minority Appeal Case of the 1980s did His will periodically shift stance from making for victory in the Calcutta High Court to loss in the Supreme Court? How about it? Is He capricious in His dealings thus? I very much understand what you wish to say but cannot quite accurately articulate. Perhaps you mean to say that organisational compulsion to sideline Nirmalananda Swami on account of the Court Case in the early 1930s is merely to prevent the raking up of factual ugliness regarding the same. But the Order of Ramakrishna was founded on Truth transcendental and truth temporal, that is, truth in every phase and flight. Does it then behove the Order to no more comply with the dictates of truth and to so compromise it at every bend and turn that it loses its very character, the essence on which it enjoys its preeminent position in a world of terrible falsity? Where will the Order be founded then if truth be forsaken for the sake of earthly exigency? Ponder, brother, on this and let us both labour in love and in truth to serve the Order of Thakur with our whole soul and heart.
Swami Sampurnananda : Sugata Bose I think there was no organizational or legal compulsion any time. Some people were plain mean and many plain stupid. Now things are changing.
Swami Sampurnananda : As for the Minority Case, despite the SC not agreeing, I am still in agreement with the main assertion (that Hindus, Christians, Muslims, etc. being monks or nuns or devotees are a legally distinct group which is in a minority) but I think we had allowed some too clever lawyers to advance some silly side arguments.All said and done Ramakrishna Mission has been much wronged by the General Hindu Public in this matter. It is very important to guide the lawyers and not be guided by them.
Swami Sampurnananda : Sugata Bose I think there was no organizational or legal compulsion any time. Some people were plain mean and many plain stupid. Now things are changing.
Swami Sampurnananda : As for the Minority Case, despite the SC not agreeing, I am still in agreement with the main assertion (that Hindus, Christians, Muslims, etc. being monks or nuns or devotees are a legally distinct group which is in a minority) but I think we had allowed some too clever lawyers to advance some silly side arguments.All said and done Ramakrishna Mission has been much wronged by the General Hindu Public in this matter. It is very important to guide the lawyers and not be guided by them.
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