IN APPRECIATION OF A COURAGEOUS POST BY NAVEENA CK

IN APPRECIATION OF A COURAGEOUS POST BY NAVEENA CK

Brilliant, Naveena CK. At last I have found a kindred soul voicing the same sentiment. This is the way. Your observation I wholly second and I have been articulating similar sentiments, perhaps, in a more robust way, in a more forthright manner, as is my wont, but to seemingly little effect. Now one more voice is being heard in the wilderness to keep my solitary soul company and the twain will, through consistent clarion calls, awaken a semblance of self-consciousness, a sense of self-dignity among devotees that will through enlightened behavioural resistance have put paid in the long run to this sort of unseemly treatment by so-called superior individuals of so-called inferior ones. To that day of enlightened citizenry, to that day of sublime spiritual equality of beings --- not merely in precept but in practice as well --- , to that day of honourable relations among individuals sharing the same social space, I look forward with eager expectation. In it will lie great good, for, in such perception of the essential sameness of beings, a lot of the social evils that abound today, of discrimination against the downtrodden, will also be eliminated in due course.

God bless you, Naveena, for bringing to the fore this contentious issue that needs immediate redressal if devotees are not to be reduced to feeling inferior by such supercilious attitude of many a monk.
Written by Sugata Bose