Re:Why Sri RamaKrishna did not oppose goat slaughter in Kali temples?

[Guest guest]

Who can dare to speak for Sri Ramakrishna?

Nevertheless, I can report things which were said to me by my

teachers:

Sri Ramakrishna was not a breaker of moulds. He did not

talk/preach against the caste system as such, yet he had small

respect for caste distinctions. He asked Vidyasagar, the Calcutta

savant and reformist to dive deeper than his social advocacies and

concerns; yet he did not criticize the reforms the man was working on.

He rarely took public positions on anything. Just think, what a storm

would have been raised if he had come out openly against goat

sacrifice in Kali temples! In other words he was not an

" activist. " Yet when confronted with an instance of goat

offering at the Kalibari, he could not bear to watch it take

place.

Swami Yogeshananda

 

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[Guest guest]

Ramakrishna , Swami Yogeshananda

<yogeshananda wrote:

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> Who can dare to speak for Sri Ramakrishna?

> Nevertheless, I can report things which were said to me by my

teachers:

> Sri Ramakrishna was not a breaker of moulds. He did not talk/preach

> against the caste system as such, yet he had small respect for caste

> distinctions. He asked Vidyasagar, the Calcutta savant and reformist

> to dive deeper than his social advocacies and concerns; yet he did

> not criticize the reforms the man was working on. He rarely took

> public positions on anything. Just think, what a storm would have

> been raised if he had come out openly against goat sacrifice in Kali

> temples! In other words he was not an " activist. "

 

Namaste,

 

All Vedic 'sacrifices' are " Kamya Karma " -s - for the fulfillment of

desires, here and here-after.

 

Thakur-ji was an embodiment of 'nishkama karma', the perfection

described in the Gita. Even Gita advises the sage to set an example of

this and not 'agitate' the beliefs of the ignorant (Gita 3:26).

Why fault Him for practising what the Gita preaches?

 

Regards,

 

Sunder