UTTERANCE OF MUCH PHILOSOPHY BY WAY OF CAMOUFLAGING COWARDICE AND ACTIVATION OF LITTLE COURAGE BY WAY OF WISE RESISTANCE

UTTERANCE OF MUCH PHILOSOPHY BY WAY OF CAMOUFLAGING COWARDICE AND ACTIVATION OF LITTLE COURAGE BY WAY OF WISE RESISTANCE 

Acceptance of criminal intent and activity directed and perpetrated against the Hindus beyond a critical mark in the name of high-sounding Sanatan philosophy is portentous of dangerous things to come. It is the seed of downfall for a civilisation on the verge of being wiped out in the immediate or the not-so-far-off future. Herein lies perspective, context and the relativity of values applicable to microcosmic and macrocosmic situations. What is food for one is so often poison for another. Thus, democracy in deliberation, dialogue and discourse directs the national ship towards the desired destiny. The problem has ever been this tangled relation between the individual and the collective. The ideal in sublime spiritual terms is one and the practical in terms of mundane reality another, the duo much at mutual variance. The ascetic in his reclusive hermitage broods on transcendental reality in one way while the current of common life flows in grosser brutal terms in quite another manner. The balance between the ideal and the practical is ever to be sought and realised for maximum benefit to all and sundry, divorced from which, fate deals a race or a nation the hard blow from which it scarce recovers and perishes more often than not, leaving not a trace behind but hieroglyphics that are difficult to decipher. 🕉 Hindu!

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo: Top, Swami Suvirānanda, General Secretary, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission ; bottom, Kartik Maharaj (Swami Pradīptānanda), Bharat Sevashram Sangha.