COVID-CAUTION THROWN TO THE WINDS BY THE AGENTS OF CHANGE

COVID-CAUTION THROWN TO THE WINDS BY THE AGENTS OF CHANGE

@Swami Nikhileswarananda : Mask should be up. Photo op can take backseat, COVID-caution cannot. Moreover, the safe distance of 2 m is hardly on. Proximity can promote the virus. Sad lack of awareness for a monk. Not much spoken about the Minister for Climate Change as he evidently is unconscious about his basic COVID duties and, you, Maharaj, are blissfully oblivious of it, too. How do you propose to change society by bringing awareness in it when you yourself are so unaware? Swami Vivekananda would have been horrified by the honourable Minister's and your amazing act of indiscretion, and so am I along with countless responsible citizens.

Written by Sugata Bose in horror and in shame

Photo : courtesy, Swami Nikhileshwarananda in public interest.

[ A book of Swami Vivekananda being presented by Swami Nikhileshwarananda to Shri Kiritsinh Rana, Minister of Climate Change, Government of Gujarat, on 21st September, 2021 -- information gathered from Swami Nikhileshwarananda's Facebook post, dated 27 September, 2021.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5026879803992158&id=100000105636264 ]

P.S. COMMENTS :

SugataBose @Sujoy Mukherjee : Bravo ! That's the spirit. Only I'm afraid that few will be able to understand what you've so vaguely attempted to point out. Did you not 'like' the post, pertinent as it is?

Sugata Bose @Sujoy Mukherjee : No, you must be clear in whatever you say. Otherwise, awareness will not spread about the missionary laxity of the times. It is bounden on us, lay devotees of the Ramakrishna Mission, to safeguard its ideals not only through right living but also by right speech, as the Buddha would like to have had it and no less the Swami Vivekananda who had founded the Ramakrishna Mission specifically towards that end of vigorous work by the laity who have reposed faith in his Master.

Sugata Bose @Sujoy Mukherjee : It is time to be self-aware through scientific understanding rather than always clinging to historical personalities to a fault. A western devotee, Francis Leggett, possibly, had said that Swami Vivekananda possessed the most wonderful common sense that he had ever come across in an individual. It is this common sense which is most uncommon, as my father used to say, that we should cultivate and live by. It comes from being grounded in reality, of the world and of the Spirit in conjunction, I guess, and is the easy rationality we may adhere to and abide by. We need not muddle our mode of understanding by constant and ready references to the scriptures which may be easy of access these days but difficult of comprehension nonetheless. Hence, self-help ought to be the way out instead of needless passive piety in terms of ultradependence -- and superficially so -- on monastics and their supramundane affirmations on events mundane. This self-dependence surely is the way of the Vedanta and is the surest and quickest way to being spiritually alive. Hence, devotees among the laity have a definite role to play, that is to allow monks to meditate in peace and not to bother them or they themselves to be bothered by the monks in matters mundane. That will clear the path for renunciation for the real monks while the rest will be caught napping in their professed vocation and will thus be exposed. So, 'the fault lies, dear Brutus, not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.' (Quote, Julius Caesar) Awake, strong men and women, awake ! 'Ill doth it befit thee' to so hypnotise yourselves into cowardly weaklings.

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : Succinct. That's the way. Clear, uncluttered, direct comment. Let others who hide behind vague assemblage of words learn.

Sugata Bose @সারদা মা কন্যা সৌমিতা : Why so angry? Take it calmly and act in accordance.

Sugata Bose @Diganta Sengupta : Ask the monks. I have been lifelong propagating Swamiji's message vigorously, and creatively so, and have neither flattrered the bigwigs of the organisation nor watered down the fiery truth of the volcanic monk's words.

Sugata Bose @Diganta Sengupta : Keep commenting and you draw the necessary response from readers, myself included. So, keep at it.