HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF YET AGAIN

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF YET AGAIN 

Our spiritual organisations must remember that like the medieval Catholic Church that indulged in indulgences to raise ill-begotten money, they are also, in a far lesser degree though, going astray, steadily moving away from the scrupulous path trodden by and upheld as spiritual ideal by Sri Ramakrishna, here pertinently regarding money. After all, the wise must learn their lessons from history unless, of course, the rot has so set in that a return to original principles seems to the powers that be the foolishness of the unpractical idealist. Such rationalisation, though, will further the decay unto the Order being rendered spiritually redundant in the not so long a run. After all, covert commerce is not saintliness and this the people understand. 

Written by Sugata Bose