LOVE, LIMITED AND LITTLE BUT LOADED WELL IN WORDS, YES, WORDS ALONE
The sympathy of sectarian devotees is limited indeed. Religion and organisation hold them in chains of abject obedience devoid of self-respect and the least capacity for critical thinking. Such passive subservience may hardly be termed devotion but is a form of servility that is the characteristic of the subjugated, a feature which was very much evident in colonial times of European conquest. A conquered nation that far outnumbered the conqueror, yet failed to rise up in rebellion to free itself from colonial shackles primarily because of this characteristic servility which remains embedded as the national character even today.
Be it subservience to a dynastic political dispensation in New Delhi or a like servility to a spiritual organisation that would be better served through active devotion rather than passive pretentious piety, the narrative of narrow allegiance and obsequiousness beyond what may be deemed self-respecting remains the same. And when such devotion assumes centre-stage and attempts to muzzle the voice of truth, it turns decadent and noxious and needs a decent burial then.
Such, my friends, are the predicaments of the times when millions of cowards flock the mansion of the Lord and, mercenaries that they are in seeking the grace of the Mother by copious coaxing and cajoling her but carefully avoiding engagement in any endeavour that may necessitate of them any pecuniary sacrifice to serve Mother's children in distress, they do disservice to a spiritual movement with seminal beginnings and an ever-broadening scope of charitable activity for all. May these weaklings discover their roots in the mighty message of the Master and his Messenger and come clean of all their hypocrisies and serve the cause better ! May Mother deserve more virile children than these, her debilitated devotees adept in self-deception !
Jai Ramakrishna !
Written by Sugata Bose
The sympathy of sectarian devotees is limited indeed. Religion and organisation hold them in chains of abject obedience devoid of self-respect and the least capacity for critical thinking. Such passive subservience may hardly be termed devotion but is a form of servility that is the characteristic of the subjugated, a feature which was very much evident in colonial times of European conquest. A conquered nation that far outnumbered the conqueror, yet failed to rise up in rebellion to free itself from colonial shackles primarily because of this characteristic servility which remains embedded as the national character even today.
Be it subservience to a dynastic political dispensation in New Delhi or a like servility to a spiritual organisation that would be better served through active devotion rather than passive pretentious piety, the narrative of narrow allegiance and obsequiousness beyond what may be deemed self-respecting remains the same. And when such devotion assumes centre-stage and attempts to muzzle the voice of truth, it turns decadent and noxious and needs a decent burial then.
Such, my friends, are the predicaments of the times when millions of cowards flock the mansion of the Lord and, mercenaries that they are in seeking the grace of the Mother by copious coaxing and cajoling her but carefully avoiding engagement in any endeavour that may necessitate of them any pecuniary sacrifice to serve Mother's children in distress, they do disservice to a spiritual movement with seminal beginnings and an ever-broadening scope of charitable activity for all. May these weaklings discover their roots in the mighty message of the Master and his Messenger and come clean of all their hypocrisies and serve the cause better ! May Mother deserve more virile children than these, her debilitated devotees adept in self-deception !
Jai Ramakrishna !
Written by Sugata Bose
No comments:
Post a Comment