WHAT WE AIM AT IN 'GREATER RAMAKRISHNA'

WHAT WE AIM AT IN 'GREATER RAMAKRISHNA'

The Ramakrishna Movement is centralised in the Belur Math. But beyond its boundaries there are many more smaller organisations which in their own way are trying to conduct their activities in the name of Sri Ramakrishna. Their capacities are limited, material resources scarce, too, and even man power, the most important component of it all, in short supply. Hence, these distributaries of the Ramakrishna Mission are more often than not not long-lasting. They dry up as water in desert-sand. Founded on initial enthusiasm by an idealistic, enterprising person, often a monastic, the movement dries up in verve and vigour with the passage of time, leaving little trace that may allow posterity to retrace its earliest beginnings. But such is human nature, such the divergence of opinion and original perspective, such the refusal to abide by absolute obedience to congregational code that a central movement invariably throws out its distributaries which cause the initial Order to give birth to countless sects. In regard to the Ramakrishna Order as well this has been, is going on and will continue to be. More and more organisations will form out of the initial inspiration of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji whose footprints it is our objective to trace on the sands of time. With that end in view this group has been started so that people are more aware of these little whirlpools of social and missionary activity centring the Master.

Written by Sugata Bose