HE WHOSE WORDS AND DEEDS WERE ONE

HE WHOSE WORDS AND DEEDS WERE ONE

Rise above circumstance and assert your independence. To affirm oneself as the Atman and then to avoid temporal trouble in the name of being apolitical is the height of hypocrisy. Dive deep into the feverish complexities of the world and help disentangle befuddled man caught in the snares of ignorance. Not by convenience or compromise can you achieve your end but by sincere effort in establishing dharma. Perfidious politicians cannot be pandered to but must be duly censured for disabling national and regional growth, much the way Swami Vivekananda did while remaining above politics, yet never failing to upbraid erring souls, organisations, institutions and systems for being antithetical to human progress. He never compromised with the wicked and has warned his followers to desist from such acts. Swamiji would have none of the comfortable compromise that makes life easy for an organisation but chose to traverse the thorny path of renunciation in every sense, never compromising with untruth or the wickedness of the deliberate wicked. Alas, we need a Swamiji today to uphold those pristine principles enshrined in valorous terms in our scriptures whose aberration alone we see in execution today! We await his arrival, nay his descent into mortal clay again. 

Written by Sugata Bose