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, 1 October 2003, Genre 273 No. 25