RETURN TO ROOTS, RETURN TO RAMAKRISHNA

RETURN TO ROOTS, RETURN TO RAMAKRISHNA 

Swamiji's words are great but in activating them unto social welfare we must not compromise ourselves to money as is the wont these days. The message was delivered by the Master and the method shown, and we must not stray a bit from the original course. We must never assume that the peerless Paramahamsa and his peerless protégé were not wise enough to see through the tide of times and make room for adjustments thereof which we now need to make by diluting their delivered message to our monetary convenience, nay, even worse, to a corruption far more lethal for long-term organisational sustenance, the brazen greed for gold which the Master so abjured and exhorted his disciples to do likewise. That things have changed thereafter and are changing rapidly for the worse, that ideals are being shamelessly compromised, to a multitude of foolish followers lending support for the same that will eventually seal the fate of the Order, is a matter serious enough for us, lay devotees, to alter our stance and build our lives in the original mould of the Master without seeking amended modes offered otherwise to move things along, so that we may resist the decline of the dispensation. Upon our personal honesty and integrity lies the future fate of the Master's Mission which draws strength and succour from us to carry its course along. 

Resist greed and thwart pecuniary pursuits by renunciates whose primary purpose ought to be propagation of their preceptor's principles rather than pursuing gold-gains to fulfil high-sounding welfare aims, noble no doubt when executed in a scrupulous manner in line with primary principles, not so when done otherwise. What is required is renunciation and scrupulous adherence to the Master's message and his Apostle's directives for the spiritual regeneration of the world which mission has been forsaken for the contemptible course of architectural expansion. 

Return to roots and salvage the situation. The Avatar did not descend to earth for such puerile pursuits as his followers have reduced him to being the apparent inspiration of. We may be lay devotees but we are devotees nonetheless. Upon us lies as much the responsibility for steering the course of the Master's movement as it does with the monks. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose