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THE LION of VEDANTA a Cultural and Spiritual Monthly of the Ramakrishna Order Since 1914 nd 102 Price: `10 YEAR OF PUBLICATION The Vedanta Kesari THE LION OF VEDANTA A Cultural and Spiritual Monthly of the Ramakrishna Order since 1914 New Temple at Ramakrishna Mission Limbdi, Gujarat February 2015 India's Timeless Wisdom Give up hundred things when time to eat comes. Give up thousand things and take bath. Give up lakhs of things and give in charity. Give up crore of things and remember the Lord Hari. —Traditional Saying Editor: SWAMI ATMASHRADDHANANDA Managing Editor: SWAMI GAUTAMANANDA Printed and published by Swami Vimurtananda on behalf of Sri Ramakrishna Math Trust fromThe No.31, RamakrishnaV edanta KMathesari Road, ~ 2 Mylapore, ~ FEBRUARY Chennai 2015 - 4 and Printed at Sri Ramakrishna Printing Press, No.31 Ramakrishna Math Road, Mylapore, Chennai - 4. Ph: 044 - 24621110 The Vedanta Kesari 102nd YEAR OF PUBLICATION VOL. 102, No. 2 ISSN 0042-2983 A CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL MONTHLY OF THE RAMAKRISHNA ORDER Started at the instance of Swami Vivekananda in 1895 as Brahmavâdin, it assumed the name The Vedanta Kesari in 1914. For free edition on the Web, please visit: www.chennaimath.org CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2015 Gita Verse for Reflection 45 Editorial ‘Ignorance’ and ‘Knowledge’: A Spiritual Seeker’s Perspective 46 Articles A Few Women Disciples of Swami Vivekananda 51 Prema Nandakumar From the River of Time into Timelessness 55 Pravrajika Virajaprana Overcoming Religious Intolerance: A Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Vedanta Perspective 63 R. Lekshmi and V. Vijitha Five Pointers for Good Governance: Swami Vivekananda’s Ideas and the Politics of Our Times 69 Sandipan Sen Annual Report Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Synopsis of the Governing Body Report for 2013-14 60 Special Report The Vedanta Kesari Centenary Programme 74 New Find Unpublished Letters of Swami Saradananda 67 The Order on the March 76 Book Reviews 79 Feature Simhâvalokanam (News and Reports—December 1924-25) 50 Cover Story: Page 6 The V edanta K esari 4 FEBRUARY 2015 The Vedanta Kesari Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004 h (044) 2462 1110 (4 lines) Fax : (044) 2493 4589 Email : [email protected] Website : www.chennaimath.org TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS You can subscribe to The Vedanta reaching us before this or after one Kesari from any month. month (for overseas subscriptions, On your address slip, the number two months) of posting of the jour- on the left of the first line of add- nal are not entertained. ress is your subscription-number. 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This will go a long way in placing this 100 years old magazine on firm financial footing to continue its service to the cause of a holistic and meaning- ful life. Your contributions (minimum of Rs.1000/- or US$ 25) by Cheque/DD/ MO should be sent to Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Chennai, along with a covering note stating that it is meant for Vedanta Kesari Permanent Fund. Every contribution will be gratefully acknowledged and the donor’s name will be pub- lished in the Vedanta Kesari. All donations to Sri Ramakrishna Math are exempt from Income Tax under section 80G of the [Indian] I.T. Act, 1961. We accept online donations also. The V edanta K esari 5 FEBRUARY 2015 The V edanta K esari 6 FEBRUARY 2015 N Cover Story N A New Temple of Ramakrishna Mission, Limbdi, Gujarat Limbdi in Gujarat is associated with Swami Vivekananda who visited it as a wandering monk in 1891. After a dramatic encounter with a sect of degenerate worshippers, he was rescued by Thakor Saheb Yashwantsinghji of Limbdi who accommodated him in his Royal Palace and became his great admirer. The building housing the Royal Palace (Durbar Hall) was gifted to a trust managed by a group of devotees in 1968. In 1994, a sub-centre of the Ramakrishna Mission was started in Limbdi and Tower Bungalow (the Palace) was made into a memorial (now called Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Memorial, Tower Bungalow). The Mission campus is located at a place close to the memorial where it conducts a number of spiritual, cultural and charitable activities. A new temple of Sri Ramakrishna was consecrated at the Mission premises on 1 November 2014. See report on page 76. THE VEDANTA KESARI PATRONS’ SCHEME We invite our readers to join as patrons of the magazine. They can do so by sending Rs.2000/- or more. Names of the patrons will be announced in the journal under the Patrons' Scheme and they will receive the magazine for 20 years. Please send your contribution to The Manager, The Vedanta Kesari by DD/MO drawn in favour of Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai with a note that the enclosed amount is for the Patrons' Scheme. (This scheme is valid in India only). PATRONS DONORS 704. Mr. S. Kameswaran, Mumbai Mr. V. Jayaram, Mumbai Rs. 2000 705. Mr. Sezhian Gandhi Kumarasamy, UAE Mr. V.S.C. Mani, Kerala Rs. 2000 Mr. Sushaanth Srinivasan Rs. 2000 The Vedanta Kesari Library Scheme SL.NO. NAMES OF SPONSORS AWARDEE INSTITUTIONS 5829. Ms. P.K. Bhuvaneswari, Madurai M.A. Chidambaram College, Taramani, Chennai - 600 113 5830. -do- A.J. College, Sholinganallur, Chennai - 600 119 5831. -do- Chennai National Arts & Sci. College, Avadi, Chennai - 600 054 5832. -do- Sri Balaji Polytechnic College, Kolapakkam, Chennai - 600 048 5833. -do- Dhanalakshmi College, Varadarajapuram, Chennai - 600 048 5834. -do- Hindustan College, Padur, Chennai - 603 103 5835. -do- Dr. M.G.R. Janaki College, Adyar, Chennai - 600 028 To be continued . The Vedanta Kesari VOL. 102, No. 2, FEBRUARY 2015 ISSN 0042-2983 EACH SOUL IS POTENTIALLY DIVINE. T HE GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THE DIVINITY WITHIN. 7 Gita Verse for Reflection Tr. by Swami Tapasyananda —Bhagavad Gita, 12-3 Those who are devoted to the Imperishable (the Impersonal Absolute)—who is the firm support of the world and is also undefinable, unmanifested, transcend- ent, motionless, eternal and all-pervading,—even they reach Me alone, striving with their senses controlled, and with mind tranquillised and set on the welfare of all. B When this highest ideal of love is reached, philosophy is thrown away; who will then care for it? Freedom, Salvation, Nirvana—all are thrown away; who cares to become free while in the enjoyment of divine love? ‘Lord, I do not want wealth, nor friends, nor beauty, nor learning, nor even freedom; let me be born again and again, and be Thou ever my Love. Be Thou ever and ever my Love.’ ‘Who cares to become sugar?’ says the Bhakta, ‘I want to taste sugar.’ Who will then desire to become free and one with God? ‘I may know that I am He; yet will I take myself away from Him and become different, so that I may enjoy the Beloved.’ That is what the Bhakta says. Love for love’s sake is his highest enjoyment. —Swami Vivekananda, CW 3.99 The V edanta K esari ~ 45 ~ FEBRUARY 2015 Editorial ‘Ignorance’ and ‘Knowledge’ A Spiritual Seeker’s Perspective Ignorance and Knowledge but in spiritual matters, ignorance is rather In some context or other, all spiritual intangible, invisible and incomprehensible seekers encounter the term ignorance. But ‘something’. For instance if we do not know ignorance of what? And knowledge of how to operate a simple email, we can learn what? How ‘ignorance’ affects us and how from others and in a trice we can become ‘knowledge’ changes our lives—we are left ‘experts’ in handling the emails. But spiritual wondering about these questions. ignorance does not go away by just increasing In practical world, we use these two our ‘knowledge’ by reading or listening. terms—knowledge and ignorance—in a With all his knowledge of emails, internet, variety of ways. We all know how knowledge and modern technology, a person may still and ignorance play a vital role in serious be utterly ignorant—spiritually speaking! issues of life. Think of a subject that one is For spiritual knowledge is something so very studying (and the tension and anxiety of not different from our knowledge of the world. knowing our subject well while appearing for a school or college examination!) or the latest Two Types of ‘Ignorance’ discoveries in science or changes in govern- According to the Mundaka Upanishad,1 ment policies or legal matters, and so on— there are two types of knowledge—objective knowledge or ignorance of something can and subjective. Objective knowledge is the create or destroy a situation. Of course ‘too knowledge about various properties, functions much of knowledge’ has a lighter side as and aspects of the world of objects which well. ‘My mother can speak for hours on any senses can perceive. It is objective knowledge subject,’ said a boy to his friend. ‘So what! that we mean when we use the term ‘general My mother can speak for hours without knowledge’. Where there is ‘knowledge’, any subject,’ responded his friend.
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