Revered Swami Sarvapriyananda ji Maharaj answers a devotees question on redemption. If there is a way to balance karmic load what it could be ? Do some people end up doing it unknowingly, and that's why the best always don't get the best.
A masterpiece blending Swami's natural eloquence, vast knowledge of scriptures, years of sincere reflection and Thakur and Holy Mother's blessings. It renders two direct sayings/incidents from Holy Mother and Thakur. In one Holy Mother explains the role of spirituality in her divinely simple way by saying the lord almighty can attenuate one's karma if he/she wants through a simile. The other narrates from Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita from a day when Thakur visited Sri Nanda Bose's house.
Swami Sarvapriyananda answers a devotee upon asked to reconcile principal of non-violence with the offense of truth. Truth is often offensive so are criticism, if truth causes offence how dose it fit into the scheme of non-violence and non-offence taught by religion.
The answer can act as the manual for a layman on how to take criticism and even how to criticize if at all. It mentions about a monk's criticism, that only come if criticism improves the person at the receiving end.
The piece ends with a beautiful memory of swami of of his training days in the Belur Math. A must watch for all who is a seeker or a non seeker. The way you look at criticism may change forever.
Swami Sarvapriyananda (pre-monastic name Biswarup Mitra) is a Hindu monk (sannyasi) belonging to the Ramakrishna Order. He is the current resident Swami and head of the Vedanta Society of New York, a position he has been serving since January 2017.
The Ramakrishna Order (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ সংঘ) is the monastic lineage that was founded by Ramakrishna Paramhansa, when he gave the ochre cloth of renunciation to twelve of his close disciples, in January 1886 at the Cossipore House.
The Ramakrishna Order should not be confused with the Ramakrishna Math, which is the legal entity that trains young monks and directs the spiritual duties of the Swamis of the Order. There is also a parallel organization, the Ramakrishna Mission, which performs the charitable work including, orphanages, hospitals, clinics, primary schools, high schools, colleges, and universities - as well as disaster relief and economic development in villages.
Ramakrishna also called Ramakrishna Paramahansa (Bengali: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস, romanized: Ramôkṛṣṇo Pôromohôṅso; pronounced [ramɔkriʂno pɔromoɦɔŋʃo],born Ramakrishna Chattopadhay,[2][3][4] was an Indian Hindu mystic. He was a devotee of the goddess Kali, but adhered to various religious practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, and Advaita Vedanta, as well as Christianity and Islam. He advocated the essential unity of religions and proclaimed that world religions are "so many paths to reach one and the same goal".
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