Guest guest Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 dearest friends plz learn how our thakur has been treated to keep up the secular interest (????) of india Demean Sri Ramakrishna to detoxify!Tuesday August 9 2005 08:59 IST S Gurumurthy As he uttered “Sisters and Brothers of America” a thunderous applause hit the roof. This was Swami Vivekananda speaking to the ‘World Parliament of Religions’ at Chicago in 1893. In minutes the global audience turned his captive. Unstoppable thereafter, he spiritually conquered the colonial conquerors of India! The western media was in awe of the ‘silver-tongued’ monk. Back at home, his message raised a storm as he travelled from place to place, addressing thousands and arousing high national spirit and patriotism. His matchless intellect and oratory drew thousands of youths into freedom struggle and nation-building tasks. Some even turned revolutionaries to free the motherland. Great freedom fighters — Gandhi and Tilak, Netaji and Rajaji, Nehru and the rest — acknowledged that Vivekananda sounded the bugle for freedom. But Vivekananda himself dedicated all his work to his Guru, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. He proclaimed that Ramakrishna took an avatar ‘‘to re-establish Sanatana Dharma, to revitalise India.’’ Hundreds of educated youths inspired by Ramakrishna joined Vivekananda to form the Sri Ramakrishna Mission for man-making and nation-building work. More than a century after he left this earth, Sri Ramakrishna keeps inspiring thousands to dedicate their life for the motherland. If Vivekananda represented the kinetic energy that triggered India into action, Sri Ramakrishna was the potential energy that silently turned a rebellious boy, Narendra, into Vivekananda, the nation-builder.Yet see how a textbook for children officially produced by Arjun Singh’s HRD Ministry, through National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), introduce Sri Ramakrishna to Indian children? It tells them that Sri Ramakrishna was ‘‘an illiterate and mentally unbalanced’’ person. Yes, Sri Ramakrishna is ‘illiterate’, ‘mentally unbalanced’! This book, written by Comrade Satish Deshpande is part of the new efforts to detoxify the students afflicted by saffronisation! This is not an individual’s perversion but driven by a philosophy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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