Explain how Ramakrishna Mission helped
in creating awarness the evils of India
society.
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Answer:
IMPACT OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA’S PHILOSOPHY IN THE
CURRENT SCENARIO
Sri Ramakrishana Vivekananda movement was a great
influence and spread spiritual and moral teachings of world especially
all over India. The work spurred a religious and cultural movement
which effectively contributed to the India society. Its watchwords
were strength and self-discovery. The internal and external actions are
based on the principle of UpaniÀadic tradition. The spiritual
humanism emphasized creates the liberal and social awareness of
people. The aim of his philosophy fulfilled all fields of the doctrine of
Indian spiritual equality and dignity brought about the world, nation
building proper messages is giving the society the movements aspired
for the institutional based social welfare and upliftment. Based on the
spread of his vision the Ramakrishna Mission movement extended to
Bengal and other states in India and foreign countries. Its message
echoest in India as well as other countries. All the Ramakrishna
Vivekananda revolutionary spiritual movements are dynamic.
SRKP‟s prominent disciple SV associated himself to be the leader.
The social context of the movement i.e. the 19th and the 20th century
faced many poverty, economic crises and hence this spiritual shower
which the movement executed turned to be a great solace to the
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common folk. This spurred the development of it. Indian nationalism
aims at the spirit of soul and the creation of its identity.
Through the SRKP‟s teaching so many disciples were attracted.
They are the direct disciples, lay disciples or house hold devotees, and
women devotees, foreign devotees etc.
In the seventies of the last century nationalism became selfconsciousness and assertive. The national movement was directed to
the search of Indian generation which led to the turning point that the
complete self-realization for the discovery of national soul. They
accepted the principle of new age and these spiritual ideas influenced
very much.
In different ages the birth of prophets led to great civilizations.
The messages and teachings of these holy men filled the air with the
sweet breeze of peace, inner and outer. Such a prophet was none
other than SRKP. SRKP led the human race to the path of faith in
God. Along with his disciple SV, he tried to establish the religion of
universal brotherhood. Besides this, SRKP made one recognize and
accept all religions as one.
Brief Sketch of Impact
The nineteenth century India focused on two remarkable
developments. The one was the British imperialism and the other was
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the flaming spirit of nationalism. Many social reformers came to the
fore front to spread nationalist ideologies through words and through
the spiritual progress. Thus the youth turned to SRKP for inspiration
to develop spiritually and thereby awake the national spirit.
This dependence led to the formation of Sri Ramakrishna
Vivekananda movement to spread the spiritual moral and ethical
teachings all over the world and not constrained to a single village,
taluk, country or nation. It can be seen that this movement, especially
the religious one, had left a great and deep influence and mark on the
Indian society. The motto of this movement was strength and
discovery.
The movement placed its foot on the UpaniÀadic tradition to
know the inner and outer actions. This foundation led to the creation
of spiritual humanism with the full extent of social awareness. The
message which is the base of a nation, that is the policy of oneness,
was stressed. The aim of this movement was spread and induces the
doctrine of equality and dignity along with social welfare and the
upliftment of the one word.
The movement though planted in Bengal sprouted and spread
its branches all over India as to the foreign lands in between 1893-
1922. The messages, teachings and aspirations of SRKP were
echoed, all over the Universe. The Mission being dynamic fought for
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the cause and rights of the common. The reins of the Mission were in
the strong hands of SV.
The onset of this movement was of great comfort to the people
then because the economic, social and political crisis was at it
summit. Then the people needed a comfort zone and they found it in
this movement. The nationalistic spirit combined with the spiritual
mentality also leads to self consciousness and assertive. The
nationalistic movement also led to the search of self realization which
led to principle of new age to the brim of spiritual ideas.
Vision of Mission