‘Cultural insensitivity’: Mamata slams PM Modi over ‘Swami’ prefix to Ramakrishna’s name

NEW DELHI: West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday launched a scathing onslaught against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for adding an “unprecedented and improper prefix” to Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsadeva’s sanction portion paying tributes connected his commencement anniversary.Mamata accused the Prime Minister of “aggressively displaying his taste insensitivity to large figures of Bengal.”“Yet again, our Prime Minister aggressively displays his taste insensitivity to large figures of Bengal. Today is the janmatithi of Yugavatara (God's incarnation successful our age) Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsadeva. While trying to hail the large saint connected this occasion, our PM added an unprecedented and improper prefix to the large saint's name, ‘Swami’!” Mamata said successful a societal media station connected X.“As is good known, Sri Ramakrishna was wide revered arsenic Thakur (literally, God). While his ascetic disciples constituted the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission aft their Master’s demise, and those monks were past called ‘Swami’ arsenic per Indian traditions, the Master, the Acharya, himself continued to beryllium referred to arsenic Thakur. The prefix ‘Swami’ was meant for his disciples successful the Ramakrishna Order; but the beatified trinity of the Order remained Thakur–Ma–Swamiji.

Thakur is Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsadeva, Ma is Ma Sarada, and Swamiji is Swami Vivekananda,” she added.

Earlier successful the day, PM Modi paid tributes to Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa connected his commencement day and said his noble thoughts volition everlastingly stay a root of inspiration.“Humble tributes to Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa connected his commencement anniversary. The mode helium established spirituality and meditation arsenic a captious beingness unit volition proceed to payment humanity successful each era.

His noble thoughts and messages volition everlastingly stay a root of inspiration,” Modi said successful a station connected X successful Hindi.Ramakrishna Paramahansa was calved connected this time successful 1836.Ramakrishna Paramahansa, who served arsenic a clergyman astatine Kolkata’s Dakshineswar Kali Temple, is known for his teachings connected the harmony of religions.The Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission were brought into beingness by Sri Ramakrishna and his main disciple, Swami Vivekananda.The Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission are worldwide, non-political, non-sectarian spiritual organisations that person been engaged successful assorted forms of humanitarian and societal work activities for much than a century.