SRKV Feb'09 Extract

SRKV - Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam.
Its a spiritual monthly publication from Ramakrishna Math. I'm a regular reader of this monthly magazine, right from my Child hood. Interesting thing is, it does contains very less number of spiritual articles, but has many good articles about Cultural Ethics, Self-Motivation, Self-Realization, Practical Advising, etc., Also I'm very much honored to say, I'm a product of Ramakrishna Math's group of educational institutions. After a long time, when we got transferred to Chennai, we missed to renew the address, as we have life-time subscription. Recently I’ve renewed it and that has been made regular.

My plan is just to blog the interesting extract of it and listing here. Let's see, how far this journey goes.

Article – 1
Once in a tea time party, Swami Vivekananda has been asked this question. “How India is prepared to be an Independent Nation?” [It’s before 47 years before Independence]

Swamiji answers, “Now we are actually having a long-term training with British people, for how to govern our country, as they are very good in that. Also, we will learn Agriculture and Science from U.S. Let us give them time, for these trainings. But no country in this world should try to teach Spirituality to India. Instead, we will teach it to everyone.”

Article – 2
Some youngsters were traveling Delhi, on a taxi, where a Sardarji was the Driver. They cracked silly jokes about Sardarji and on the way to get down; he got his fees and said “You are all happy now on cracking jokes on Sardarji, but all were cheap”, and gave them 5 one rupee coins.

With lot of pride, he added, “Just give these coins to any Sardarji, who is begging you”. But on the way and for a day, they didn’t find any “Sardarji” begging and after realized, there were no “Beggars” in Sardarjis. They annoyed on their action.

Article – 3
He is a great scientist and his inventions were world-popular. Once in a press meet, he was asked about, how his actions are very powerful and steadiest? He answered with an incident, once in his child hood, while taking a bottle of milk from the fridge, it slipped off and his Mom noticed it.

He’s shocked about his Mom’s reaction to it. But instead she did following things. She asked her son with smile “Oh, I never seen a pond of milk like this before?”. She added, “Ok, If you want, you can play with this milk on floor, after we both will clean this” and after sometime, his Mom asked, “Now tell me, Shall we clean this with groom or cloth?” and he got the cloth and both of them cleaned it.

Atlast, she added, “Listen, today we got a fail in an experiment that is how to take a bottle from the fridge, you failed, let’s try once again”. “Take the bottle and fill it with water, and try to take it”. Now he took it with more power and cautious. He said, after he didn’t fail in taking a bottle carefully.

”No action is an evil”. If the result is bad and problematic, the experiment has failed and it revealed the alternative path, “The Success”.