Thursday, December 14, 1882

http://books.google.rw/books?id=1k4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=ramana+maharshi+winthrop&source=bl&ots=uEXTqDOAPL&sig=iZB5xNp439kR8M1NYLhvYaYaUYI&hl=en&ei=bpcaS53ABInilAeLk7zyCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CB4Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Just few minutes ago was watching a programme on India’s rich wedding in Rajasthan and Onam festival in Kerala in BBC Knowledge channel
http://southafrica.bbcknowledge.com/feasts/
There was an excellent question asked about the different kitchens kept for the wedding party and the workers who prepare the food. Do not know when the rich Indians will ever understand the meaning…well I am just reminded again and again….what Swami Vivekananda said long back…
Open your eyes and see what a piteous cry for food is rising in the land of Bharata, proverbial for its wealth! Will your education fulfill this want? Never.
Yes, just like in the above link when the American journalists reported on Sri Ramana Maharshi to in Life 30th May 1949 issue western journalists and people alike try to give their own opinions and understanding of India and its vast differences.

Indians truly educated about their rich country present their country to the world as how Swami Vivekananda did more than 100 years ago. I do not see if there is any single Channel or even newspapers reporting about it, except negative reports and its not surprising knowing that these reporters are only products of ‘hypnotic ‘education which has De-Indianiszd them for over 200 years. Wish time changes soon and we have our own channel reporting the real story.

How will it happen? It can happen only through a better education right from the school.

And it brings me to connect what read in ‘Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna’
‘Trampled daily under the English boots’
"As without strong determination the farmer cannot bring water to his field, so also without intense yearning a man cannot realize God. (To Vijay) Why don't you come here now as frequently as before?"
VIJAY: "Sir, I wish to very much, but I am not free. I have accepted work in the Brahmo Samaj."

Degrading effect of serving others
(To Vijay) "You yourself perceive how far you have gone down by being a servant of others. Again, one finds that people with many university degrees, scholars with their vast English education, accept service under their English masters and are daily trampled under their boots. The one cause of all this is woman. They have married and set up a 'gay fair' with their wives and children. Now they cannot go back, much as they would like to. Hence all these insults and humiliations, all this suffering from slavery.

Imagine this was said Thursday, December 14, 1882. More than 125 years and still its true. (Moreover it was said to a work in Brahmo Samaj, which was actually formed to talk high of Hinduism…and this was also where Narendra was initially inclined before meeting Sri Ramakrishna. This is also a clear message to those who claim to represent Hinduism but fully educated in ‘English education’ what shall be their end…nothing but similar to Brahmo Samaj…)But we may have got used to this ‘English education’ which over these years has made us English Masters in the ‘slave’ education system. It has made to such an extent that we even want to parade it proudly about the achievement in this slavery…but never want to accept it as slavery, instead want to claim our ‘superiority’ in this slave English education which Ramakrishna Paramahamsa talked about.
We now have people groomed up in this 125 years of mental slavery to insult our own glorious past wisdom and lessons because we have now become masters in this slavery and so will not accept it as a ‘daily trampled under their boots’…today we are either trampling or get trampled as/under our own ‘masters’ who have mastered the ‘English education’ that’s talked about.
Wonder when we will ever get rid of this hypnotic spell and understand what Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is talking here as ‘English education’.
But it must be understood by the numerous schools run by Sri Ramakrishna Mission order. Having Sri Ramakrishna name or Swami Vivekananda name for schools and yet having syllabus similar to the same ‘English education’ as referred by him would it be liked by them if they happen to visit these schools?
The great monks of this order should have a syllabus completely different from the ‘English education’ that’s referred and instead have a syllabus in a way to make students feel proud of their own religion, heritage, culture, language and make Sanskrit the compulsory language to learn for everyone and to make children to live under the direct supervision of the monks compulsorily through out their study period.