WHAT AN EXCHANGE IN EXHILARATING ENGLISH! WHAT A DELIGHTFUL DELIBERATION IN DEFENCE OF THE DHARMA! SMITA SHINES LIKE THE MIDDAY SUN.

WHAT AN EXCHANGE IN EXHILARATING ENGLISH! WHAT A DELIGHTFUL DELIBERATION IN DEFENCE OF THE DHARMA! SMITA SHINES LIKE THE MIDDAY SUN.

The correspondence here between Smita Mukerji and Swami Shantatmananda of Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi, is a reader's ultimate delight. Enthralling, illuminating stuff, rendered in exhilarating English.

Smita Mukerji's use of words and her avalanche of ideas is breathtaking, and it leaves one in awe of both her beauty of presentation and her breadth of understanding. Her insight into present perfidies of proselytising Christianity ✝️ and its historical role in undermining India's eternal dharma traditions will be a revelation for those who as yet harbour holy delusions about Christian missionary charity towards us. Her forthright questioning, intrepid responses and rapier reasoning, all but sweep one off one's feet, infirmly rooted as they are in happy harbouring of holy delusions. Her defiant defence of the Sanatan Dharma 🕉 against the Ramakrishna Mission’s silent acquiescence of proselytising Christianity ✝️, in spite of the latter's corrosive conversion programmes running contrary to our cultural aspirations, is a devastating display of dialoguic discourse.

The parleys here will keep your attention glued to the screen till you have read to the tantalising terminus whence victorious returns our warrior of the day, Smita Mukerji, from the field of battle, quit and resigned by the reverend respondent thus far. The impasse is reached when the Swami refuses to appreciate or answer contentious questions raised by Mukerji, evading instead with the othersidedness of addressing the issue, the alternative argument which is extraneous to the discussion here. This is inevitable when an individual who is sincere in her quizzing meets an order that is naturally compromised owing to large-scale considerations and 'the twain can never meet' save in an unresolved or midstream-forsaken verbal skirmish. Anyhow, from such a zug zwang Smita Mukerji has to extricate herself in a final assault on the holding citadel before it collapses and makes way for an end to the dialogic deliberation.

As it stood, none of her questions had been apprehended adequately and addressed and answered in accordance. They were met with evasiveness and superficial reasoning ruling the roost on the Mission’s side. Perhaps, organisation ever has its queer compulsions and while individuals may reform and alter course, a river, much flown along a contrary channel, cannot return to roots against the gravitational pull of perversion. So is organisation that has strayed from the pristine purity of source thinking and realisation. The call to organisation then and to the nation should be -- 'Back to Vivekananda!'

Foreword to this post here written by Sugata Bose

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