IT IS CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE RAMAKRISHNA ORDER ENLIVENS INTO BEING
It is a dark wintry night and the brothers are assembled before the blazing fire in the garden of Baburam's house. The stars above send messages unto these modern messiahs, these 'choice and master spirits of the age', these future 'fishers of men'. Narendranath is seized with a divine inspiration and eloquently starts speaking on the glorious renunciation of the Master of Galilee.
The fire blazes outside but, inside, these children of Ramakrishna are being swept away by the current of their leader's talk. Outside a preacher of the Salvation Army calls, Bible in hand. The disciples of Ramakrishna are now aware that it is Christmas Eve. A fervour seizes all of them and they line up before the fire and take informal sannyas from Narendranath.
The deed is done, the sanction sealed and the brethren bound by the monastic vows and by the bond of fraternal love. The Ramakrishna Order takes its first infant step towards the future of glorious possibilities.
Written by Sugata Bose
It is a dark wintry night and the brothers are assembled before the blazing fire in the garden of Baburam's house. The stars above send messages unto these modern messiahs, these 'choice and master spirits of the age', these future 'fishers of men'. Narendranath is seized with a divine inspiration and eloquently starts speaking on the glorious renunciation of the Master of Galilee.
The fire blazes outside but, inside, these children of Ramakrishna are being swept away by the current of their leader's talk. Outside a preacher of the Salvation Army calls, Bible in hand. The disciples of Ramakrishna are now aware that it is Christmas Eve. A fervour seizes all of them and they line up before the fire and take informal sannyas from Narendranath.
The deed is done, the sanction sealed and the brethren bound by the monastic vows and by the bond of fraternal love. The Ramakrishna Order takes its first infant step towards the future of glorious possibilities.
Written by Sugata Bose
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