Vision Of Our Work
Theme: To
avoid slavery or bloody revolution and provide enduring peace and freedom to
society, our ancient Hindu thought and practice had kept economic power away
from the hands of the state. Our culture survived because we have entrusted
saint and sages as the torch bearer of our ancient culture.
Detailed Explanation:
People want quick result and short cuts to success.
This mentality has entered every sphere of our National life. For quick success,
a person is ready to descend to any level. Many people wonder are there short
cuts in sangh works also. They are of the opinion that with vast political
power face of the country can be changed and mould the coming generation
through education. We can see example all over the World were a Nation is
dependent on its political master. In Persia the emperor was supreme head and
controlled all aspect of people’s life including their religion. But the empire
crumbled at the very first shock from Arab invasion. The same fate overtook the
empires of Rome and Greece.
However, in case of our Nation the situation is
totally different. For centuries continuous invasion happened from the most
barbaric races. The situation was so dark that during Aurangzeb rule, the great
martial saint Samartha Ramadas said that an Incarnation of the Almighty alone
could save the Hindu society from total annihilation. Same British tried, even
today there are many adharmic elements are having their heyday but our society
survived. Our glorious tradition continues. It is clear the basis of our
National existence was never any political power. It is saints and sages who
contributed to this. They presented the Dharmasatta. The great saviour Sri Rama
was moulded and guided by sages like Vishwamitra, Vasistha and Agastya. After
Buddha his followers invited and helped foreign aggressors. Saint Sri
Shankaracharya roamed on foot from one end of the country to another end. The true
national consciousness and selfless service that they roused, helped society to
find its feet once again and throw out the treacherous elements.
Even during the
days of Muslim domination great saints and sanyasins rose to continue that
tradition. All those stalwarts – Chaitanya, Tulsidas, Surdas, Jnaneshwar,
Ramananda, Tukaram, Ramanuja, Madhwa, Nanak and a host of such others – flooded
the land from one end to the other with religious devotion. We see the same
spiritual content present in the national resurgence against the foreign yoke
of the British also. The spiritual sun broke forth in all its glory in Bengal
as the Sri Ramakrishna-Vivekananda order, in the Punjab in the form of Swami
Dayananda and Ramatirtha, in the South Maharshi Ramana and Yogi Aurobindo – all
of whom infused the spiritual content of nationalism in to the people’s mind.
Today
government is trying to centralise all power and authority and secure almost
all spheres of society. If the state were thus to dominate the whole range of
human activity, the individual will exist only as a slave bereft of all
initiative. The
state could do good to society only so long as it remained as the upholder of dharma
– the higher law of the good life – and not as an end in itself. They,
therefore, placed our rulers under the guidance and control of the dharmic authority
in the form of selfless and disinterested persons-the sages and seers living in
hermitages. Political power shall only reflect the radiance of culture,
integrity and power of the organised society that we want to build up-just as
the moon reflects the radiance of the sun.
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