FROM THE WHIRLPOOL OF THOUGHTS ... 1
Most people speak on God without having experienced the Truth.Hence, their words carry no power of conviction as Ramakrishna's or Vivekananda's did. Self-realisation is the foundation of propagating power without which preaching fails to make its mark. Mere words may temporarily impress the intellectual or the cultural side of man but spirituality is deeper business which will go unheeded. Verbosity is not religion, realisation is.
Swamiji had witnessed in his Guru, Sri Ramakrishna, the living testimony of this truth. Ramakrishna had realised the different aspects of divinity along their distinctive paths and gained the authority and the sanction from the Divine Mother to live among men while residing spiritually on the 'bhavamukh' or the interface of the Absolute and the Relative, and to preach unto mankind the essence of his realisations. In a like manner his protege, Narendranath, was given the commission to preach unto mankind the religion of the Vedas by his Master when in Kashipur one day the preceptor wrote a note of his commissioning the pupil with the task of teaching the world. Thus, Narendranath matured into the prophet-figure Vivekananda who was to shape the world into a new mould veritably between his very hands, to quote in altered linguistic terms that seminal sage of Pondicherry who may rightly be called the successor to the cyclonic monk nonpareil.
Written by Sugata Bose
Most people speak on God without having experienced the Truth.Hence, their words carry no power of conviction as Ramakrishna's or Vivekananda's did. Self-realisation is the foundation of propagating power without which preaching fails to make its mark. Mere words may temporarily impress the intellectual or the cultural side of man but spirituality is deeper business which will go unheeded. Verbosity is not religion, realisation is.
Swamiji had witnessed in his Guru, Sri Ramakrishna, the living testimony of this truth. Ramakrishna had realised the different aspects of divinity along their distinctive paths and gained the authority and the sanction from the Divine Mother to live among men while residing spiritually on the 'bhavamukh' or the interface of the Absolute and the Relative, and to preach unto mankind the essence of his realisations. In a like manner his protege, Narendranath, was given the commission to preach unto mankind the religion of the Vedas by his Master when in Kashipur one day the preceptor wrote a note of his commissioning the pupil with the task of teaching the world. Thus, Narendranath matured into the prophet-figure Vivekananda who was to shape the world into a new mould veritably between his very hands, to quote in altered linguistic terms that seminal sage of Pondicherry who may rightly be called the successor to the cyclonic monk nonpareil.
Written by Sugata Bose
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