STICK TO THE YUGĀVATĀR AND THE YUGĀCHĀRYA

STICK TO THE YUGĀVATĀR AND THE YUGĀCHĀRYA

The resurrection of the Sanātan Dharm must be along the right lines. We must not revert to regressive practices and modes but must be progressive in every phase of this resurrection. The Shrutis being eternal will automatically persist but the Smritis must be duly adjusted as per modern necessities. The evolution of the race must not be impeded by institutionalising archaic practices but the bars that thwart the forward movement of the race must be carefully removed to allow the principles of the Shrutis due fulfilment in practice. Thus the nation will advance along the blueprint laid down by the Rishis and not as per the whim of every politically motivated selfish propagator of myths masquerading as real religion. 

Real religion is philosophy, the science of the Spirit, and not fantastic tales bearing no relation to actual reality. The inner essence of these mythological tales must be absorbed in the light of the Upanishads and applied duly, not their hyperbolic narratives believed in as having happened as described in Purānic texts. Discrimination, discernment, judgement lost, the country fall into superstition, into weakness, into ruin. This must not be. Hence the attempted popularisation of jnānmishra bhakti (devotion admixed with discrimination) by the Avatār of the Age, Sri Ramakrishna, and his principal disciple, Swami Vivekananda.

Written by Sugata Bose