BACK TO VIVEKANANDA

BACK TO VIVEKANANDA 

What is the use of building statues of Swamiji and temples of Thakur when the living Gods and Goddesses by the hundreds of millions are being reduced to becoming beasts of burden under the crushing wheels of crony capitalism? Does it become the renounced followers of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda not to raise their voice of protest against this brutal exploitation of the people in the name of legally sanctioned profit? Whither conscience? Whither consciousness? Whither being anymore the true adherents of the lofty ideals of the divine duo, the pristine principles of our ancient philosophy? Now there is none among the professed followers of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji that follows the real God that is the visible mass of moving, living humanity. All that they follow is the other God, the God of convenience, the God whose other name is 'the privileged class of society'. Taking donations from the rich and serving the poor may seem a noble occupation but only serves to perpetuate the misery of the masses by not striking at the roots of corruption, this crass commercial, capitalistic exploitation. Hence, the failure of Swamiji's mission and his terrible frustration before death in having in his seer's eye the forevision of the ensuing exploitative order which his countrymen would be dragged into with none among his followers even, perhaps, to resist.

Written by Sugata Bose