RAMCHANDRA AND RAMMOHUN---A CASE OF CAUSTIC COMPARISON BY DELUDED BENGAL

RAMCHANDRA AND RAMMOHUN---A CASE OF CAUSTIC COMPARISON BY DELUDED BENGAL 

We, Bengalis, have a propensity for making fun of great souls. We, insignificant in knowledge and realisation as we are, think too much of ourselves and deem ourselves worthy of castigating even such seminal souls as Shree Ramchandra by calling him a wife-burner. We say that Ram cast woman (in his case, his holy consort) into fire and Rammohun saved woman from it. This sort of puerile comparison in utterly different circumstances and ages is hardly justifiable. There are rationalisations to the episode as well that will clarify conception and restore sanity to such disoriented thinking. Such unwarranted remarks exhibit our utter lack of scriptural knowledge, reverence for the greats and lowliness of nature. Bengal has plummeted to an abysmal low and a further degradation can only make us extinct as a community worth the call.

Sri Ramakrishna himself has testified to the divinity of Shree Ram and showed up his form as both Ram and Krishna in his dying days at Kashipur to young sceptical Narendranath [refer, Ramendrasundar Bhattacharya's interview published in Udbodhan in mid 1970s, and later in Prabuddha Bharata of August 2007 issue]. Swamiji had like visions of Shree Ram later as well and so have Tulsidas and countless sages and saints of India. Seeta Devi is Queen Mother of Bharatvarsha according to Sister Nivedita and the epitome and exemplar of the highest ideal of womanhood here in Punyabhumi Bharat and elsewhere. Such derogatory words cast against her beloved Prince and King does no service to her womanly esteem. 

Rammohun was the saviour of the modern Indian woman from the funeral pyre no doubt and he was much more besides. But to draw such stupid comparisons to cast calumny against Bhagavan Ramchandra who remains our Maryada Purushottam (the self-established ideal of life and living) shows us up as base human beings shorn of fundamental civility. The sooner Bengal gets out of this rut of rotten rationality, the better for its survival and sustenance. Where progressive Islamisation continues in this land of the Sanatan Dharma, these caustic critics are careful not to utter a word of condemnation, such is their courage of conviction in standing up against corruption and evil! And, yet, they have the temerity to criticise our beloved Lord, our ideal Man, our God, our Soul, our Self, our everything. May Shree Ram bless these deluded children of his and restore their sanity!

Written by Sugata Bose