IN RESPONSE TO Ila Dutta's COMMENT, IN AFFABLE, RESPECTFUL TERMS BY ALL MEANS, THOUGH
And what is that, pray? Where is the forthrightness in them today in opposing oppression of humanity through the use of fanatical religious doctrine that we in sharp contrast witness in their founder a century ago?
Many more zealous missionaries are necessary rather than singing saints inducing a threatened Hindu population into somnolence. The numbers are neither there nor the will to fight injustice even through optimal denunciation of inhumanity and villainy perpetrated by perfidious proselytising missionaries and mullahs. Courage of conviction to take up an affirmative position in this regard is missing and is passed off as adherence to prohibition by the founder from involving the Mission in politics.
But who is asking them to involve themselves in politics in any way or even to make political statements of any sort? Rather the Mission itself is unduly and increasingly pandering to politics these days much against the grain of its tradition and not quite in keeping with the directives of its prophetic founder.
Political involvement is not called for, simply living the life and preventing misinformation among devotees and the polity at large about Swamiji's stated position regarding proselytising Christianity and Islam, and propagating the balanced full truth about Swamiji and his message to mankind instead of this half-baked truth which not only reduces the leonine monk in stature but transforms him quite into an impotent prophet unfit for serving the best interests of the Sanatan Dharma or of humanity.
And it is time to redress this issue, rectify stance and reform the movement along the virile direction Vivekananda would have liked it to have taken but must be dismayed to witness its utter failure to comply thus in recent times.
Anyhow, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda are due soon and their advent will undo the heresies of the times. Till then let my keypad print out bold messages fired by the inspiration of the divine duo even as inebriated devotees keep clinging to their sinking dreams of a make-believe harmony of inhuman elements adhering with fanatical zeal to their original indoctrination of a like kind. Meanwhile, let music and dance and poetry of a debilitating kind prevail till the Master comes to admonish such perpetrators in severe terms much like Jesus chasing the money-changers out of the synagogue.
Written by Sugata Bose
And what is that, pray? Where is the forthrightness in them today in opposing oppression of humanity through the use of fanatical religious doctrine that we in sharp contrast witness in their founder a century ago?
Many more zealous missionaries are necessary rather than singing saints inducing a threatened Hindu population into somnolence. The numbers are neither there nor the will to fight injustice even through optimal denunciation of inhumanity and villainy perpetrated by perfidious proselytising missionaries and mullahs. Courage of conviction to take up an affirmative position in this regard is missing and is passed off as adherence to prohibition by the founder from involving the Mission in politics.
But who is asking them to involve themselves in politics in any way or even to make political statements of any sort? Rather the Mission itself is unduly and increasingly pandering to politics these days much against the grain of its tradition and not quite in keeping with the directives of its prophetic founder.
Political involvement is not called for, simply living the life and preventing misinformation among devotees and the polity at large about Swamiji's stated position regarding proselytising Christianity and Islam, and propagating the balanced full truth about Swamiji and his message to mankind instead of this half-baked truth which not only reduces the leonine monk in stature but transforms him quite into an impotent prophet unfit for serving the best interests of the Sanatan Dharma or of humanity.
And it is time to redress this issue, rectify stance and reform the movement along the virile direction Vivekananda would have liked it to have taken but must be dismayed to witness its utter failure to comply thus in recent times.
Anyhow, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda are due soon and their advent will undo the heresies of the times. Till then let my keypad print out bold messages fired by the inspiration of the divine duo even as inebriated devotees keep clinging to their sinking dreams of a make-believe harmony of inhuman elements adhering with fanatical zeal to their original indoctrination of a like kind. Meanwhile, let music and dance and poetry of a debilitating kind prevail till the Master comes to admonish such perpetrators in severe terms much like Jesus chasing the money-changers out of the synagogue.
Written by Sugata Bose
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