TIME FOR SPIRITUALITY TO ADDRESS MASSIVE ISSUES ON A MASS SCALE AND NOT RSSTRICT ITSELF TO PIOUS TABLE TALK

TIME FOR SPIRITUALITY TO ADDRESS MASSIVE ISSUES ON A MASS SCALE AND NOT RSSTRICT ITSELF TO PIOUS TABLE TALK 

Spirituality must not be mere table talk. It must be translated into deed. The world is vast and variegated. The evolutionary level everywhere is not uniform. Huge cultural differences abide which hinder the smooth manifestation of the Spirit in man. The quantum of work needed to be done is not to be achieved fancifully or with tall talk. It has to be worked out through education of the right type. The ethical side of man must be built up, moral values well nurtured and man must be en masse made spiritually alive. Only then the human scene the world over may change. But proselytising religions, conflicting creeds, dogmatic and perverse with a view to dominating humanity the world over, political ideologies with a like intent, are almost insurmountable obstacles in the way of such social development. Human greed, the thirst for power, sectarian agenda, all these terribly stand in the way of progress. These are intractable, huge issues which neither smooth pseudo-spiritual talk nor earnest but shallow spiritual lecture can address. Hence, the primitive instincts still hold sway over a technologically modern world, and all the more so because they are aided in their destructive ability by the power unleashed by science. Spirituality must translate into tangible deeds, not just in individual or even organisational acts of philanthropy and charity, welfare on a small scale that is immensely incommensurate with the vast proposition of peoples' problems the world over, but must have a transformative effect on the world if they are to be deemed any good in general terms. Here thought must be focussed rather than on wishful thinking and on like lovely talk and pious acts of charity that go to please individual and organisational ego. Swami Vivekananda must be revisited in this regard and his programmes en masse executed. Let charity begin on a far vaster scale in every sense of the term. Let no spiritual complacency mar this mission.

Written by Sugata Bose