THE DESCENT OF THE DIVINE ... 1

 

THE DESCENT OF THE DIVINE ... 1

Ramakrishna-Vivekananda have a challenge at hand. What has thus far remained titular organisational principle of religious harmony must find validation in the real world at large that is increasingly getting fractured along sectarian lines. The future of humanity is at stake and mere preaching platitudes from the pulpit will not serve the purpose but will be deemed inconsequential, pretentious, passive piety. 

The old organisation is becoming redundant by the day with its increasing compromise with the ways of the world, and a fiery new order needs to surface from this abyss of misguided humanity. Ramakrishna had promised a return to earth in a hundred years' time, by alternative account two hundred years. Vivekananda had corroborated the same. Witnessing the human condition today with man in his ignorance plotting to end all terrestrial life, with religious and political strife sealing the fate of humankind, it seems the opportune hour for the Divine to descend to save humanity from self-annihilation. 

Many of the existing order are living in denial of the state of things and are either unconcerned, with their above-the world spiritual aloofness, or are pinning the superstitious hope of a great growth of the existing order to usher in a new world order of things. But saner minds are less hopeful and are ardently hoping for a regeneration of humanity from a fresher descent of the Divine, which hope as well may be deemed superstitious by the rationally inclined. But history bears testimony to such grand arrivals of an army of the Spirit from within the womb of humanity which later assumes divine ascriptions by the devout, and to such an arrival is the author's pinned hope, in the fulfilment of the promise of the peerless Paramahamsa of Dakshineshwar. And if the auspicious hour has not arrived, then what dangers are we to be led to by our own hands before the rescue mission arrives. A simple question props up---if not now, then when?

Written by Sugata Bose