Serendipity
The Ramakrishna Order is a continuation of the most
ancient Order of monks in the world. It has two eyes both strategically placed.
One eye looks backward, to the past and the other eye forward,
to the future This order has one of the most educated cadres of monks. It has
men of varied professions. All had felt their calling for monastic life and had
plunged into its fiery crucible and emerged as a uniform entity, a Ramakrishna
monk.
Did I say uniform, no, look hard, you’ll find a
different impress on every model.
It is a variety in unity, to use a cliché.
One, who shows up this variety, is Swami
Sampurnananda.
He’s just a statistics graduate but is considered
knowledgeable in many subjects. Many youngsters feel his soothing presence but some
superiors think him a bad influence. He had been a poet, accountant, musician and
a preacher of sorts. Lately he has turned to internet and picked up his English
writing again.
In his attempt to help somebody having writers’ cramp
he stumbled across a website by that name.
That has been serendipity for him. He came into a
contact with a varied group of writers. He was having one of the best times of
his life.
Will he have to renounce his new friends too as he has
supposedly renounced his family? Well, a monk for him is one whose family is
infinity with an internet of connections. Nothing is ruptured, though like a
spider one has to go places while at a job. So he’ll sure continue to be cramper
so long he is cramped in a human body.
Swami Sampurnananda,