WHEN PREACHERS OF THE VEDANTA PANDER TO THE VANITIES OF THE WEST AND MAKE A MOCKERY OF THE PRISTINE PHILOSOPHY

WHEN PREACHERS OF THE VEDANTA PANDER TO THE VANITIES OF THE WEST AND MAKE A MOCKERY OF THE PRISTINE PHILOSOPHY

It is strange that the people of the West or Indians residing in the West and even monastic emissaries of the Vedanta somehow fail to enthuse me spiritually by their discourses rendered in popular English. It has something to do with their compromised material living as opposed to the pristine pure spiritual living we see in so many in India. It seems our motherland is surcharged with spiritual vibrations which are absent in the West.

So much for location and the geo-cultural derivatives thereof. More so is, perhaps, the very social culture of the West, suited to which the message of India is invariably presented, which robs it of its essential spiritual flavour and renders it sterile in its material contamination.

Therefore, great preachers of the Dharma must not dilute the spiritual message of eternal India to suit them to western social standards or to western materialism but must have the courage of conviction and the character to present the original message in its pristine pure form. Let the West raise itself to the sublime standards of Indian spirituality instead of Indian preachers lowering the level of the spiritual message to harmonise with western material living. Such preachers who compromise the message by pandering to western social vanity must be recalled and sent to do austerity to fire their spiritual reserves up.

The one exception to this decadent lot was Swami Vivekananda, none else till date, none else. He alone remains a shining star in a darkening sky of decadent dreams. His was the power, the force, the fire to stir up a slumbering nation with the lion-roar of the Vedanta. The rest are sheep bleating from their ministerial pulpits to their feeble Sunday congregations and pandering to every western social vanity that makes of Vedanta a mockery and propagation of the faith a farce. Where is the fire, the steel, the spine in these modern monastic preachers with university degrees, that Swamiji had invoked in his would-be-workers who would spread the Word from the Himalayas to the Andes and from the Ganga to the Mississippi and the Thames?

Written by

Sugata Bose

16Sharmistha Chatterjee, Riya Bhattacharya and 14 others

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