[Advaita-l] Re: institutionalization of religion

[Abhishek RK]

Namaste,
I agree that many of our organisationd are in the "business" only for
money and fame. "udara nimittaM bahukR^ita veshaH" somes to mind when
seeing all this.

Also ,as many have pointed out in the past,  Indian "secularists" have
a natural agenda to harass Hindus and and slander Hinduism, while
promoting the interests of the monotheistic religions.

Regards,
Abhishek

On 7/25/06, Krishnarao Lanka <krishnarao.lanka at gmail.com> wrote:
> From:--  sriparasukhanandanatha
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> Date :--  25-07-06
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> Subject :--  Institutionalization of religion
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> Priya mahasayAh,
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>                    Recently there was a discussion going on in some groups
> about Sri Ramakrishna Mission
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> Calling it as a Christian organization I wish to project some of my views
> also in this regard.
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>                   At the time of celebrating the centenary of sri Arabindo,
> our secular government has sent some proposals
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> to the Arabindo Ashram that the government is ready to undertake the
> responsibility of celebrating the centenary
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> on the national level and also reprinting of all his books, if the Ashram
> accepts the condition to to delete all the words
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> mentioning "Hindu", and replace those with any other equivalent word. But
> the Mother, who was a German lady, instantly
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> rejected the offer and replied that "that is the only word "Hindu" which has
> attracted me and made to journey all the
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> thousands of miles and settle in this country.  If if that very word is
> deleted, it will not be other than removing the heart
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> and soul of Arabindo itself". The govt. has cancelled all proposals of the
> centenary celebrations.
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>                    The same proposal was made with Sri Ramakrishna Muth
> also.  They readily accepted the offer and
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> Deleted the word "Hindu" from all the previous works of Swami Vivekananda
> and received huge amount of funds
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> for publication of all the works. The government has spent huge amounts to
> celebrate Vivekananda Centenary at state
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>                     The Ramakrishna Mission has applied to the senses
> commission to register the name of the religion,
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> for all their members as "Ramakrishna religion", instead of 'Hindu'.  But
> the commission rejected the plea, saying that
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> Sri Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, both have worked only for the propagation
> of Hindu religion all through their lives,
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> And Ramakrishna Mission cannot be different from the Hindu religion.
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>                    Our Secular government used to be quite against
> constructing a huge Statue upon the Vivekananda Rock,
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> only to appease the Christian Missionaries.  Then the Ramakrishna Mission
> has started supporting the voice of the
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> government, and gave their full support in erecting a statue of Vivekananda
> in the Madras beech as an alternative
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> to silence the Christian Church as an adjustment policy.
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> Of course Sri Ranade has to strive very hard to succeed in constructing the
> present Memorial on the Rock.
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>                    When I visited, Belur Muth some time ago, while waiting
> in the gardens, one of the workers of the Muth,
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> was telling me some instances, how the authorities were trying to collect
> dollars from the foreigners using varieties of baits,
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> which I cant write in these columns. The same versions I heard at Vizag
> also.  For myself, I couldn't but come to the conclusion
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> that the Ramakrishna Mission is certainly :"anti-hindu" if not it is
> Christian, and stoops to any level to secure money, of course
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> only to improve the mission even at the cost of all the ideologies of sri
> Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, and also all interests
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> of Hindu religion at large.
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>                    It is not my intension to criticize the mission, But, I
> can say that they are not helping the real cause of the mission,
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> but for the establishment and upliftment of the institution only.
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> Unfortunately, many number of Hindu religious organizations are also
> following in the same path   Except a few organizations like
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> Geeta Press and venkateswara steam press, all others are collecting funds
> from the devotees, printing books from those funds,
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> But selling them at exorbitant prices, and saying their prices are so cheap
> when compared with others. They are forgetting
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> that they have to sell them at scrape prices, because they are not investing
> any thing of their own for printing and publishing.
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> Where ever I go, I see nothing but commercial outlook only, especially with
> the Hindu organizations.  Mainly they are spending these
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> Profit amounts to construct very huge building complexes only.  Every where
> they are charging heavy rents from the pilgrims
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> Who take shelter for one or two nights, and give receipt as if it was given
> as donation.
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>                   Every where we find entrance tickets for darsan of the
> deity, in the temples constructed by these organizations.
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>                   This kind of trends may at some time endanger the very
> cause of their real purpose.
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> Krishnarao Lanka
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