In closing...

09-11-2005, 03:01 PM

Not to destroy the peace of anybody, not to cause annoyance to anybody over
any matter, to patch up a compromise, or seeming absence of opposition
between the weak points of individuals or aggregates, is the denotation of
the term "concord" in the current usage of the age. The fear of ourselves
being attacked by those whose weaknesses we are to point out recommends to
our prudence the adoption of this convenient principle of "I am silent if
you are also dumb." The so-called concord of the age is only another name
for: drifting according to one's individual tastes with the current of laws
concocted by the mind, and to not in any way oppose the similar efforts of
others.

From: The Special Characteristic of the Acharya
A tribute to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, by Prof. Nishi Kanta
Sanyal, from the Harmonist, March 1928