LIVE THE LIFE 21 (EDITED)
Devotees of the Ramakrishna Order, unite your wills to serve the cause of the Master. Live glorious lives full of the fire of spirituality such that people stand in awe of you. Your flaming character will be a beacon of inspiration for all and will draw them towards the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda ideal. The object is to manifest individual divinity to bring about collective transformation in human society whereby spirituality will be the vibrant basis of global living.
Pursuit of excellence must include pursuit of truth, both scientific and philosophical, with rationality as the common denominator of all such endeavour. But this rationality must not be dry intellectuality. Rather it should be the bedrock on which future systems must be built and existing systems stand instead of fanatical faith in irrational assertion passing off as gospel truth. It is here that work must be done. Irrationality must not be allowed to pass off as revelation. Rather the latter must be in fulfilment of reason and, so, transcending it. But even such transcendence must be explainable in rational terms, so to say, and not arbitrarily thrust on humanity as the exclusive vision of a seer or a prophet. Indeed, as Swami Vivekananda had beautifully articulated, instinct evolved is reason and reason transcended is inspiration or super-conscious revelation. Instinct, reason and inspiration -- these three are in an ascending series, each being the fulfilment of the one preceding it.
Thus, the primary requisite in this path of spiritual seeking is for one to be founded on reason and not to subscribe to any faith based on fanciful narratives which have no credible basis in evidence to back them up. And the evidence again must be scrutinised with scientific rigour before acceptance should it pass the test. This is the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Way.
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