BRILLIANT WORK, RIYA!

BRILLIANT WORK, RIYA!

Brilliant work, improving by the day! Such is the fruit of consistency, persistent labour of love in one's chosen vocation. 

This was the positive spirit within the hereditary transmission of trade whose negative impact of the constricting 'Jati' hampered social progress. But like everything in this dualistic world, transmission of diligent labour's finer fruit in one's own life or the transmission thereof in the coming generations, the 'Jati Prathaa', a la French society guild concept or the modern method of hyper-specialisation, had its positive aspects, too. As a first principle in application it developed and helped preserve the different schools of Vedic and Puranic thought and by way of consequence helped preserve the Hindu 🕉 civilisation despite marauding inroads into it for millenia. It is this disciplined adherence to a single act through hereditary transmission that eventually saved the Sanatan civilisation despite its aberrations in constraining social progress.

There are historical exigencies that are inevitable in terms of their appearance and disappearance but the fruits they yield are ours and they are to be absorbed to gain nourishment and move on, following the age-old dictum of the Vedas, 'Charaiveiti', which means 'Onward'. So shall we march on carrying the banner of Swamiji unto the dawn of a new world civilisation where the divinity within all will be heralded and vistas open unto eternal freedom which has always been ours but unheeded, hidden in the depths of our being.

The Divine within has been ever awake. It is we, terrestrial beings, who have for unnumbered aeons slept on it and hurled furies at each other. Swamiji beckons us on to that golden age of reason and realisation, light and love, whence humanity may take the plunge into the ocean of immortal bliss.

God bless you, Riya Bhattacharya, for your wonderful persistence, a labour of love that will go a long way in awakening many a slumbering soul!

Written by Sugata Bose