SPREAD THE SANATAN DHARMA

SPREAD THE SANATAN DHARMA 

🕉 ISKCON should concentrate on spreading the Sanatan Dharma among Muslims ☪️ rather than among non-Vaishnav Hindu 🕉 sects. They are doing a fine job among Christians the world over and are trying their level best to make inroads into rigid Islamic societies. How far they will succeed remains to be seen but their efforts thus far are commendable.

The zeal which Ramakrishna Mission has failed to adequately show despite Swami Vivekananda's repeated exhortations to spread out into the world at large with the Word of the Dharma is being shown by ISKCON and it is reaping rich dividends for India. The recognition of the Bhagavad Geeta and the Sanatan 🕉 Dharma has much to do with the path-breaking work of Srila Prabhupada, founder Acharya of ISKCON. Today, Hinduism is a force abroad not because of the feeble preaching of the Vedanta in America in semi-apologetic terms but because ISKCON has, after the ground work done by Swamiji, carried the flag of the Sanatan Dharma throughout the West. The movement whose headquarters are in Mayapur, West Bengal, India, is in truth a global movement unlike Ramakrishna Mission which, despite being an international movement, is not quite that spread out across the globe. However, each is the complement of the other and must wisely work to spiritualise the world with the Vedic vision and its non-conflicting, harmonious way of living. 

ISKCON, despite its pronouncedly exclusive approach to God and Truth which is responsible for its spread as well, is doing so with a single-minded focus and a dedicated missionary zeal, but I am sorry to make this observation that the Ramakrishna Mission is not so zealous about propagation of the Sanatan Dharma. The original impetus given to the movement by Swami Vivekananda, Swami Abhedananda and Swami Nirmalananda has been lost and the Order has lapsed into a comfort zone in preaching and propagating despite the fact that the world is sinking into the quicksand of materialism and toxic religious and political fundamentalism. Perhaps, a new spiritual wave is waiting to rise in India whose current will course through the world as Swamiji had prophesied. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose