We, the modern human beings are now passing through an unexpected and unnatural situations which has been experiencing most of the inhabitants of the World. Hope my readers might be same in opinion with me . Obviously it’s Covid19 that spreading in every corner of the continents and sub continents. We are fighting against it individually, socially, and above all scientifically. Government has taken so many measures from the inception of break out this fatal Virus. We have lost so many people in India and also aboard. Many people died in this virus . And many more are in dying condition. They’re not getting works , some has lost their services, some are being given half remuneration for the full month. Schools, Colleges, Universities are closed for uncertain periods. Students, teachers, non – teaching staff are almost in home . Only medical staff , specially the Doctors, Nurses, Para – Medics are engaged in this pandemic. They’re battling day and night to cure the covid patients. A few of them had died being attacked in this contagious viruses leaving their offspring, spouse and family. Now these people are facing the dark moments. Even they didn’t get opportunity to look last time to their beloved one during funeral.
Scientists are trying to make vaccine to get rid of this pandemic. Now we’re maintaining social distancing and always trying to be hygienic . Boys and girls are confined in home. Seniors are also same condition. They couldn’t go outside to get some energies. The relationships between the people has been disrupted. Children has lost their smiles. Scarcely you have to see the people laughing. In fact, we are in dark deep sea where there is no shores to reach and spend a peaceful day.
Perhaps One day vaccine will be discovered , not from a single scientist of a country, but from so many scientists of different countries. That day the world might calm and peaceful , but we don’t get return to the warriors who faught against it . We can’t remove their family’s pain and suffering. The newly married couples lost their husbands or wives. This happened in Bengal some days ago.
This situation prevails not only Bengal or India , it’s happening throughout the World. I am not above it . As a senior citizen I am to spend my maximum times in home. I have a little job in a college as a guest professor with very low remuneration. But it’s now stopped to go there. Online class and online test ( internal) completed. So no worries for work. But have worried for money. As ill luck would have it , the W. Bengal Government did not give any pension. Even nor did I get any facilities from my education department as then CPM government and their representative was against me. Because they thought that my family is not supporters of the Party.
Next Government comes , the new minister being motivated gave the permission, but the DPI and others were the supporters of the previous government ,so they opposed. I have only way that’s judicial help. I have battled for 25 years and won . But still I didn’t get my arears. So it’s not only my pain , my family too. I am now helpless, sinking in deep dark wave of the sea . No one come forward to save this sinking man .
I will open up my pains with you all my beloved readers. Recently , during this lock down situation my pain and suffering heightened in peak . I used to spend my life which I have possessed. But it’s my evil luck when I had to face some cheaters . This incident is lika a drama . I will discuss it before you . There are two causes behind it.
I spend my time in online Facebook, Twitter, linkedin, WhatsApp messenger etc . One one such friend proposed me to start a business. What this business is? She told that their company is in need of herbal oil for pharmaceutical purpose. She gave me two addresses of the supplier, one is Sunita Sharma and another is Aarya Choudhary. She sent me the mobile nos and email. I contracted them. They sent me Quotation. Next that introducer told me that company wants to test the oil. We will purchase 10 litters of oil – half half . She told me one day that she had sent money for 5 litres, you send for 5. Practically I have no such amount of money. I took loans from bank by giving my wife’s ornament. I have sent it. After some days the oils by currier reached to me. I don’t know what types of oil it’s. At last they sent a mail from their company ( –false) that we have deposited money USD 550000 , in PNC Bank. Sent me a username, user ID , Account. You will get money when you pay bank 5 lakhs.
That time my daughter discovered that it’s a false website. I have lost several lakhs rupees. I have no money in bank . Even I am to deposit money for loans of 2.5 lakhs.
So I am totally bankrupt. My wife, daughter is in great shock. I have no word to give them peace.
I wrote previously that I am describing this situation for two causes. One , being an educated person I am trapped in cheating by some people recently, they’re mostly from Delhi and Mumbai. So please don’t trust online relationship. Secondly, I write for my readers . They did not get any blog posts from me during this 3/4 months. If any well wisher help me in regarding this matter I can provide them all particulars of the cheaters.
Thank you . I hope my readers will understand me.
Dr. Sushil Rudra, mob: 7548049679 , email: sushilrudra040@gmail.com/sushilrudra@rediffmail.com
India has produced so many great men like Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhash Bose and so on, but Swami Vivekananda is regarded as the greatest personality of all times. To speak the truth, he is always regarded worldwide as the spiritual teacher and the preacher of universal brotherhood between East and West . Swami ji never thought about himself. Motherland and its people was his first priority, but to him ,the people of all countries in this World was his brothers and sisters.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S CHICAGO LECTURE : In the inaugural lecture at Chicago in the World Religious Conference , he addressed to the spectators of America as the ” Sisters and Brothers of America ” which mesmerized the people of Western World and Vivekananda became famous in American society . Later he continuously gave lectures in America and Europe about Indian philosophy and Hindu Religion which is of five thousands years old and which is of great profound in knowledge of the ancient monks of India.
¶¶ VEDANTA IN THE WEST :
While Swami Vivekananda spreading this fabulous ancient knowledge of India in the West , the intellectuals of the West moved by it . The universal teaching and profound learning of the Swami made a deep impression upon the minds of the American intelligentsia. Not only American intellectuals , Great Orientalist ,Professor Max Muller of Oxford University , E. T. Sturdy , Roman Rolland, Christopher Isherwood, Poll Dawson of Germany , Jules Bois of France , Arnold Toyenbi – all these distinguished persons were also influenced by him .
¶¶ SWAMI JI’S MESSAGE :
What was his massage to the West ? Or what he told there that they became influenced by him? September 11, 1893 The Monday was a special day to Swami Vivekananda. This day is remarkable in the history of mankind , because , Swami Vivekananda uttered some words which is the key of World peace. Modern world has been highly enlightened and enriched through the progress of science and technology . The entire world has been changed into a big city . Through technological development and massive progress of science , we are getting a lot of amenities . Medical science widens longevity of men’s survival . But Communalism, bigotry, religious fundamentalism, terrorism and nasty politics are alwa hiys making this world into a Hell. The battles of Orthodox religious fundamentalism, Low and high caste problems , political differentiation , corruption in all spheres of the societies , vandalism etc are the burning problems of the country like India and world as well . In such an environment and circumstances , the path which Swami Vivekananda proclaimed , that’s the need of the time. What he advised and remarked that very day ! Let’s try to memorize his utterances.
¶¶ HINDUISM AS THE MOTHER OF RELIGION:
Vivekananda presented there Hinduism as the mother of religions – a religion which had taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. He quoted two beautiful, illustrative passages taken from the scriptures of Hinduism: ” As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea , so O Lord, the different paths which men take , through different tendencies, various though they may appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”
” Whosever comes to Me , through whatsoever form , I reach him ; all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to Me. ”
It was only a short speech, but its spirit of universality, its fundamental earnestness and broadmindedness completely captivated the whole assembly. There were other Hindu delegates who stood for societies or churches or sect but the Swami Vivekananda , who belonged to no sect but rather to India as a whole, proclaimed the universality of religious truths and the sameness of the Goal of all religious realizations. In the course of his illuminating addresses, Swami Ji placed before the audience the cardinal truths of Vedanta, the universal religion of humanity.
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UNIVERSAL RELIGION:
Again he distinctively uttered : ” If there is ever to be a universal religion, it must be one which will have no location in place or time ; which will be infinite, like the God it will preach , and whose sun will shine upon the followers of Krishna and Christ, on saint and sinners alike; which will not be Brahminic or Buddhistic , Christian or Mohammedan , but the some total of all these , and still have infinite space for development ; which in its catholicity will find a place for every human being, from the lowest grovelling savage not far removed from the brute to the highest man towering by the virtues of his head and heart almost above humanity. It will be a religion which will have no place for persecution or intolerance in its polity , which will recognize divinity in every man and woman and whose whole scope, whose whole force , will be centred in adding humanity to realize its own true , divine nature. Offer such a religion and all the nations will follow you…… The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth.” He concluded the speech with alerting that the Parliament of Religions had shown to the world that holiness, purity, and charity were not the exclusive possession of any Church in the world and that every system had produced men and women of the most exalted character. In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreamt of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of others, he was to be pitied and told that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: ‘ Help and not fight’, Assimilation and not Destruction’, Harmony and Peace and not Dissension’.
¶¶ VIBRANT WORDS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
The effect of these mighty words was tremendous. The news of Swami Vivekananda’s unparalleled success poured into India very soon . Though the media of that time was not like today’s electronic media. But this fabulous news reached here through the famous newspaper of India . It was printed mostly in the Hindu , the noted newsprint, published from Madras ( Chennai). Swami Vivekananda was then world renowned spiritual teacher, great Indian monk , big orator and philosopher. Within few years he founded Ramakrishna Mission and math at Belur , near Kolkata for the service of mankind which is an eminent philanthropic organization .
¶¶ INDIA: HIS ULTIMATE GOAL :
However, in the midst of recognition of his genius, universal applause, and immense popularity, He was never for a moment forgetful of his duties to the sunken masses of India. On the very day of his triumph when he was invited by a man of great wealth and distinction to his home and lodged in a princely room fitted with luxury beyond anything he could conceive, instead of feeling happy in this splendid environment he was miserable. He could not sleep, pondering, in contrast, over India’s plight. The bed of down became to him a bed of thorns. He rolled down on the empty floor and in agony of his heart cried , ‘ O Mother, what do I care for name and fame when my motherland remains sunk in utmost poverty? Who will raise the masses in India? Who will give them bread ? Show me, O Mother, how can I help them .’
¶¶ VIVEKANANDA’S MISSION :
The great – hearted Vivekananda wrote inspiring letters to his disciples and admirers in India to stimulate their hearts into activity and a high pitch of patriotic fervour. — ” Gird up your loins , my boys,’ he once wrote, ” I am called by the Lord for this. The hope lies in you — in the meek , the lowly, but the faithful. Feel for the miserable and look up for help – it shall come.
Vivekananda not stopped there . He expressed his agony and suffering for this mission. Here we see his untiring efforts to remove the darkness of ignorance and the dearth of hunger of the poverty- stricken peoples of his motherland. He wrote : ” With a bleeding heart I have crossed half the world to this strange land seeking for help . The Lord will help me . I may perish of cold and hunger in this land, but I bequeath to you , young men, this sympathy, this struggle for the poor, the ignorant, the oppressed. Go down on your faces before Him and make a great sacrifice, the sacrifice of a whole life for them – these three hundred millions, going down and down everyday. Glory unto the Lord , we will succeed .”
¶¶ Vivekananda never forgot in the midst of luxury the primary idea of his mission – to save his people, to mobilize them to help him in his task by widening his appeal until it became the cause of the people, the cause of the poor and the oppressed of the motherland as well as the whole world.
¶¶ For the sake of this mission and particularly to serve the cause of his motherland he accepted the offer of a lecture bureau for a tour of the United States. He expressed his mission to India in some of his lectures which he delivered in Madras after returning from West . Here he gave an eloquent utterance to his massage to India in these lectures comprising ‘My Plan of Campaign’, The Mission of Vedanta’, and ‘The Future of India’. Swami Ji observed the problems of the India very deeply and prescribed the solution accordingly. ‘ Each nation ,like each individual’ he said , ‘ has one theme in this life , which is its centre , the principal note with which every other note mingles to form the harmony. If any nation attempts to throw off its national vitality , the direction which has become its own through the transmission of centuries, that nation dies .
¶¶. THE MUSIC OF NATIONAL LIFE :
In India religious life forms the centre , the keynote of the whole music of national life. Social reform has to be preached in India by showing how much more spiritual a life the new system will bring, and politics has to be preached by showing how much it will improve the one thing that the nation wants – its spirituality. Therefore before flooding India with socialistic or political ideas the land should first be deluged with spiritual ideas . The first work that demands our attention is that the most wonderful truths confined in our Upanishads, in our scriptures and Puranas , must be brought out from the books, the monasteries, and the forests and scattered broadcast over the land so that these truths may run like fire all over the country, from north to south , and east to west, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin , from the Indus to the Brahmaputra.’
Vivekananda’s call reached every corner of our country . His love for motherland Inspired so many freedom fighters . Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose considered Swamiji as his spiritual Guru . Netaji wanted to initiate in renunciation and he went to Belur Math with this desire , but clairvoyant Swami Brahmananda, the then President of Ramkrishna Mission could envision his future and advised him that sannyasa was not his cup of tea , his love for the country would lead decidedly to the realm of politics where he would play massive role for the country’s emancipation.
However, not only Netaji , others freedom fighters , even Mahatma Gandhi to Dr. Radhakrishnan to Abul Kalam Azad , Present Prime Minister of India to Late Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, Ex President of India took and followed Vivekananda’s ideal, vision and mission in their activities.
That’s why, India government declared Swami Vivekananda’s birthday 12 January as an Youth Day .
Swamiji’s mission is still not fulfilled . Women education has been spread , but they are not safe at all in the society. Youths are in great fix as there are massive unemployment . Our country is going through a crucial time. Extremists problem, Unemployment, corruption in all sectors , political vendalism are the most important problem of our country. We see the lack of nationalism amongst the leaders . They should follow Swamiji’s teaching in order to change the scenerio and to develop our country.
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