Chapter 9

Question 1

What were the two objectives of the Ramakrishna movement?

Answer 1

1. A band of monks- dedicated to a life of renunciation, practical spirituality - among them teachers and workers would be sent out to spread the MESSAGE OF VEDANTA
2. Lay disciples to carry on preaching, philanthropic and charitable work, looking upon all people from all walks of life, as they are veritable manifestations of the divine

Question 2

Who and why did lay the foundation of Ramakrishna Math?

Answer 2

Paramahamsa with his young monastic disciples did so. It was to promulgate the first objective (spread the universal Vedanta message)

Question 3

Who took up the second objective?

Answer 3

Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897 after Paramahamsa’s death.

Question 4

HQ of the Matth and the Mission

Answer 4

Belur, near Calcutta

Question 5

What was the method of Paramahamsa’s salvation?

Answer 5

Traditional ways of renunciation, meditation, and bhakti.

Oneness of all religions (so many faiths, so many paths) and the same god with different names.

Question 6

Who said “service of man is the service of God”?

Answer 6

Paramahamsa

Question 7

Methods of Swami Vivekananda né Narendranath Datta

Answer 7

1. Preacher of Neo Hinduism, teachings of Vedanta, Gita, Upanishads laced with examples of Buddha and Jesus.
2. Doctrine of Service - The service of Jiva and the workship of Siva

He pressed upon the personal salvation and the social reform.

Question 8

What was Swami V.’s mission?

Answer 8

To bridge the gulf between paramartha ( service) and vyavahara (behaviour), and between spirituality and day to day life.

Question 9

1. ” For our own motherland a junction of the two great systems, Hinduism and Islam, is only hope.”
2. “Knowledge without action is useless.”

Who said these?

Answer 9

S. Vivekananda

Question 10

Two types of knowledge a man needs according to S. V.

Answer 10

1. Secular k - how to work for economic upliftment
2. Spiritual k. - to have faith in themselves and strengthen the moral sense

Also he urged his fellow people to imbibe a spirit of liberty, equality and free thinking.

Question 11

Where did S.V. say that “ A blend of materialism of the West and the spiritualism of the East into a new harmony to produce happiness for mankind.” ?

Answer 11

Keynote speech of the opening address, Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893

Question 12

Who wrote Satyarth Prakash

Answer 12

D. Saraswati