#008, Alasinga! WHO TOLD YOU THAT I WANT SOCIAL REFORM?
Swamiji wrote to Shri Alasinga Mudaliar in the second half of 1895 from New York, USA: "Meddle not with social reform, for there cannot be any reform without spiritual reform first. Who told you that I want social reform? . Not I. ..." BLOGGER'S VIEW Do the Indian poor want spirit? What India needed was not only a independence but social , economic and political reforms. The phrase 'spiritual reform' is vague. Spirits fed on ale, beef, chicken, fish, pizzas, pork, steak and turtles etc, cannot easily bend to reforms. India of 1895 needed revolution. India of 2011 too needs it with equal desparation. This revolution need not be bloody. No wonder, the Vivekananda of 1895 didn't recognise the need for a social reform just as the crazy-converting missionaries of his time. The leaders of the Islam also do not recognise such need. It is because reforms hurt them.