[Sri Ramakrishna] Sanyasis and Grahasths

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HI Vinayak

I think you answered your question by yourself at the

end of the passage.

 

Robin

 

 

--- Vinayak Lohani <vinayaklohani wrote: >

 

>

> Pranam,

> Here i would like to know the

> opinion of the group as this group comprises both

> Sanyasis and Grahasths.I have been largely inspried

> by the works of Swami Vivekanada particulalrly his

> message of 'Service to God through Service to Man'.

>

> But I have found some of his statements confusing

> with regard to the issue of sanyasis and grahasths

> and belittling the householders.Of course it could

> be I who has failed to understand those lines fully.

> In 'Complete Works of Vivekananda' Vol. 5,the Swami

> says " its impossible for householders to realise

> Brahmo as being in the world and realising Brahmo

> are two mutually contradictory things. "

>

> Similarly, in another Volume he says that he won't

> trust God if Narayan comes in the form of

> householders.What did Swami Vivekananda mean in this

> passages? Haven't many exalted people whom we regard

> as GOD incarnate like Ramchandra ji, Shri Krishna

> themselves had been houselholders though they still

> did their duties towards the world.If the author of

> 'Geeta' which preaches renunciation and union with

> Brahmo himself can be a householder,how could the

> Swami say what he said. Moreover in all ages there

> have been men who had been householders but still

> served the world and had a great message for the

> world.In our own age we can take example of Gandhiji

> and others. Similarly there have been a number of

> Sanyasis who have been embodiments of

> egoism,demanding obeisance,having self-vanity, which

> is just opposite to the goal of spiritual

> realisation. There have been Sanyasis in India right

> from Vedic ages.Then why did vices like

> untouchability and Sati prevail in India and were

> condoned and in many cases practised by these

> Sanyasis.

>

> What I am saying is that the duty of a Sanyasi is

> different from the duty of a householder,they both

> can be great in their own right.Their greatness

> should be judged by how they perform their own duty.

>

> Regards,

>

> Vinayak

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