Vivekananda’s Message
Practical Vedanta Could Help Solve Governance Problems
By Jagmohan
Swami Vivekananda said that sympathy, love and heart
were the foundations on which society could be built.
Ironically these very foundations were missing in the
present age resulting in crumbling down of the pillars of
civilization. Since independence of India, poverty of the
soul of the
nation should have been alleviated along with
material poverty.
Conscience and nation building should have been
simultaneous after independence. Renaissance of 19
th and
20th centuries was unutilized. At this rate India would
remain a Third World country or worse still a nation
struggling internally to survive. Vivekananda said that
lust and luxury would reign supreme when spirituality
withered.
Efforts at establishing honest edifices were unsuccessful
due to superficial approach. Vivekananda inspired his
countrymen to liberty. Only in India thinkers could
discover immortality of soul and related truths thundered
Vivekananda. His exhortations created leaders like Gandhi
and Tilak.
Sri Aurobindo said that invaders hypnotised Indians
inducing morbid weaknesses until a mightier hypnotist
awakened them. A similar push must awaken them from their
slumber now. Practical Vedanta of Vivekananda would provide
that push. His idea of serving God by serving the
downtrodden was unique. He wanted to worship God the
wicked, God the miserable, God the poor of all races of all
species.
If Indians were encouraged by State to understand that
violation of justice would imperil their own conscience,
things would have improved. Then purity, fairness and
justice would transcend the borders of individual, family
and society to reach the realm of state for everyone’s
good. Practical Vedanta is akin to science. Vedanta is
secular for it considers all religions to be true. Its
application could solve problems of governance by arousing
the conscience to rise against all evils.
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