‘I do not want
to be wiped away by death, but I like to live in this beautiful human world!’
This is not only the desire of a poet but also the desire of every living
being. Being and becoming is the cry of existence. Sri Sri Thakur says-
“Satta Satchidanandamay-
Asot nirodhi swathi,
Satchidanader pariposhak ja tahai Dharma,
Dharma murto hai Aadharshe,
Aadharshe Diksha ane Anurag,
Anurag ane brittiniyantrana,
Brittiniyantrana ane dhriti
Dhriti ane sahanubhuti,
Sahanubhuti ane samhati,
Samhati ane Shakti,
Shakti ane Sambardhna;
Aar, oi dhriti ane pronidhana,
Pronidhana hotai aase Samadhi,
aabar
samadhi hotei aase Kaibalya-
Trishnaar ekanta nirbana-
Mahachetana samutthana!”
“Being is instinct with Existence,
consciousness and blissful; becoming-
Spontaneously resisting evil,
which is unfavorable to existence,
What is nurturing to existence,
consciousness and blissful becoming is
Dharma.
Dharma is embodied in a Living Ideal.
Initiation by the living Ideal begets Adherence.
Adherence brings adjustment of Complexes.
Adjustment of complexes invite uphold of
existence
Uphold of existence brings Compassionate Sympathy.
Compassionate sympathy gives birth to Integration.
Integration welcomes Power.
Power invokes harmonious total growth.
and uphold of existence give rise to deep Concentration;
from deep concentration comes Samadhi-
i.e. perfect absorption in the Supreme
Spirit-
and from Samadhi comes
eternal emancipation of the soul-
the total extinction of passionate desire-
the great awakening of supreme
consciousness”.
‘Sat’
means existence, ‘Chit’ means
responsiveness. ‘Ananda’ or bliss
means the urge of becoming. In a word, being wants to exist with consciousness
with steps towards becoming. This is its nature. Because it wants to exist, it
wants to eradicate all that is against existence. So it is called
evil-resisting. Evil means that which destroys existence. The function of
Dharma is to nurture existence, consciousness and bliss with all resistance to
evil’.
Dharma and
resistance to evil should run hand in hand. Rabindranath Tagore has said-“He
who does wrong or tolerates wrong is burnt like a straw by divine wrath”. Sri
Sri Thakur says-“Consider him to be a
friend who molests your enemy without being asked by you to do so”. It is
just an essential feature of loving integration. To keep the interest of
everyone unaffected as mutual existential effort is needful, so also is badly
needed uncompromising evil-resisting velour.
On 9th
October, 1946, before partition of India Sri Sri Thakur said to His devotees
who were present by His side-“We have only a moment; by this time we are to
finish our work. Our duty is to establish Dharma by resisting what is harmful
and detrimental to Dharma and against our being and becoming- and by this only
the paths of well-being are opened to all. Our fight is not against any man or
group or community or nation, it is against Satan. Non-violence means to become
Violent against violence. (Himsake Himsa Karai Ahimsa). Why
should we be violent to a man? We are to do what is necessary to rescue a man
from the clutches of violence. There are some people who do not respond to love
but are controlled by being frightened. So if we do not create such an
atmosphere so that they are frightened, then it will be harmful. You must
always remain alert so that none is harmed. Strength flourishes by the
Ideal-centred integration. The Satan only bows down his head to this strength.
We are to establish well-being of all by love or by trick or by strength or by
hook or crook. It is a moral degeneration to drag the men to destruction by
taking a stand on one-sided morality”.
One asked Sri
Sri Thakur-“Today we see many kinds if isms. How and in which way we are to treat
these isms?
Sri Sri Thakur
replied-“To the extent those isms fulfill our being and becoming they are
right. There is illusion in that ism which does not enhance the uphold of
existence individually as well as collectively. Straying away from the Ideal begets
erroneous activities. To stray away from the Ideal is to invite an utter ruin.
The Ideal symbolizes the man of upholdment of existence”. (Alochana-Prasange,
Vol. VIII, P-184)
Today we are
badly in need of an Ideal leader. “The history of every society or every nation
has a special trend and a specific fashion of ushering an emergence and
enfoldment of its nascent consciousness. Again, it has an inherent capacity to
adapt itself to changing condition. They alone are fit to be leaders who can
discern with an uncolored, clear and integrated insight the overflowing current
of national life, the living heritage of the past, the present condition and
the problems of the nation, its relation with the world and the impact of the
existing world on the national life, the trend and the future position and role
of the nation in the community of nations, the probable contribution of the
nation to human evolution, in a word the past, present and the future of the
nation. Such a farsighted leader can mould the living present on the basis of
the past in such a manner that the future of the country becomes lovelier,
richer and brighter.
“If the true
natures of national genius and distinctiveness as well as the deep significance
of national destiny are not revealed to the leader, he cannot inspire the
country to engage itself in the endeavor to achieve higher becoming by moving
the people to their very core. And without devout self-culture no nation can
find the key to her latent powers and possibilities or be really great. The
mission of the leader is top rouse a spirit of loving self-culture in the
national life. If the leader having adherence to his leader and if this
adherence does not make him steady, well balanced and absorbed in self-culture,
then he cannot lead the nation towards the kind of self-culture that ordained
by providence for the development of the nation. It is not the business of the
leader to strive to win the favor of the people by yielding to their passions.
This sort of false leadership is also dangerous to leader himself. The duty of
the leader lies in keeping himself and others ever engaged in acquiring
existential self-adjustment, and a spirit of sacrifice, service, love and
self-improvement. Such a leadership does not lead the nation towards misery by
being guided by the unenlightened public opinion rather it seeks to ensure
public good by correcting the erroneous notions of the people. This is called
meaningful leadership, creative leadership.
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