LETTER TO A DISPUTING DEVOTEE WITH A PATRONISING PREDILECTION

LETTER TO A DISPUTING DEVOTEE WITH A PATRONISING PREDILECTION 

Dear disputing devotee,                                                                          

      Stop making your patronising remarks. First let institutions practise truth and then come forth with your supercilious advice. These puerile assertions do not also become a Ramakrishna devotee as you ought to very well know. 

In so far as truth is concerned, suppression of truth by organisation needs to be combated squarely and in this there can be no apologies. Articulating fact and promoting it to counter malicious falsity need not be misconstrued as advertisement of one's promotional product. That in a world which is a mixture of truth and untruth by scriptural assertion the real facts and figures must be made prominent before the public eye much deluded by reverse propaganda does not tantamount to the expression of ill-will towards the Mother Organisation. It rather strengthens its truth base much corroded by its own elements by consistent engagement in half-truths, untruths and the sidelining of truth.                                                                      

There is a consistent denial by organisation that Swami Nirmalananda was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, although, there are umpteen original documents and books that testify to the contrary and assign Nirmalananda Swami pride of place among the direct disciples of Thakur. That your truth does not include the combating of this falsity obviously compromises it a lot and denies it the universal status truth by definition possesses. Where the Organisation deliberately engages in dubious propagation of misinformation and hides pertinent facts from public knowledge it ought to be the duty of conscientious devotees to take up cudgels for the cause of the reestablishment of truth which is the stated basis of Thakur's body politic. And it is this work that we exhort you to do so that the truth-basis of the organisation remains pure and undiminished in strength.                                                                                              

There are references in 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' and elsewhere, sources well cited by Manoj Sivan that you may access, which make it abundantly clear that Swami Nirmalananda was a direct disciple of Thakur. If you have reservations about lending yourself to fact-finding and are happy enough to indulge in delusive dreams about organisational truth-leanings despite the fact that they consistently carry out this miscarriage of truth about the direct discipleship of Tulsi Maharaj, then such indulgence in exoneration of organisation will be a personal predilection that can have no bearing on others intent on the discovery of truth. And to label such investigators and propagators thereof of the truth as advertisers of the same is not quite in keeping with propriety as ought to be the wont of one devoted to the Order.                

The fact that some of us are campaigning for the express relocation by the Order of Swami Nirmalananda among the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna is in itself a vindication of not only our devotion to truth but also our veneration for the Order itself. Else, why on earth would we be wasting time and energy in pursuing what seemingly has been a barren chase thus far? It is our deep sense of devotion to the Order, which at its foundation is based on truth but which out of organisational exigencies has assumed this strange stance of excluding Tulsi Maharaj from their discourse as direct disciple of Thakur, that prompts us to career, through pressure of data-deluge, the course of untruth unto truth. In such reaffirmation of the original truth as opposed to constant affirmations of made-up 'truth' shall lie our loyalty to Thaur's Mission.                                   

Thanking you,                                                      Ever yours in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda, Sugata Bose

P.S. We have not forgotten you, Maharaj, [Swami Sampurnananda Puri]. Hence, I have tagged you to this post. Bless us by gracing it. Stay in bliss with Thakur-Ma in your hallowed abode.