Sugata Bose
Ramakrishna-Vivekananda-Vedanta
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Monday, 19 May 2025
BLESSED BE THE RSS IN THIS ITS CENTENARY YEAR BY THE SWAMIS VIVEKANANDA AND AKHANDANANDA WHOSE GRACES HAVE EVER BEEN ON IT!
BLESSED BE THE RSS IN THIS ITS CENTENARY YEAR BY THE SWAMIS VIVEKANANDA AND AKHANDANANDA WHOSE GRACES HAVE EVER BEEN ON IT!
One of the greatest contributions of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission to the Hindutva cause, other than Hindutva deriving its very sustenance from Swami Vivekananda's philosophy, has been that of Swami Akhandananda's spiritual initiation and energising of Guru Golwalkarji in his youth at the Sargachhi Ramakrishna Ashrama where the youth served his great Guru in his final years and carried his mortal frame to Belur Math post his mahasamadhi. The blessings of Swami Akhandananda are there on the RSS forever, making it a powerhouse of Sanatan regeneration in every phase of national life and in a globalised society even beyond. Swami Vivekananda's devoted brother disciple Swami Akhandananda was and Guru Golwalkarji was Swami Akhandananda's devoted disciple. There runs the Guru-shishya paramparā which has and will forever invigorate the RSS-led Hindutva movement in its bid to rejuvenate Sanatanis once more in their onward march through the tide of times.
Written by Sugata Bose
SIKHS AND HINDUS ARE ONE
SIKHS AND HINDUS ARE ONE
Sikhism is an offshoot of Hinduism. It came into being as a reaction to Islamic invasive destruction of everything Hindu in North India during the days of the Delhi Sultanate. It became a purifying Hindu movement shorn of traditional trappings of caste and gender and rituals that weakened Hindu 'samāj' by dividing it. It resuscitated Hinduism even as it protected it against Islamic proselytism. The birth of Sikhism, thus, has tremendous historical significance, especially in its being pivotal to saving Hinduism from the proselytism of Islam in Northern India. Therefore, to create a rift between Sikhs and Hindus is mischievous and has an antinational intent.
The Sikh faith is part and parcel of the Mother Faith, the Sanatan Dharma. The ten Sikh Gurus all considered themselves as Hindus. The ninth and the tenth Sikh Gurus, namely, Guru Tegh Bahadurji and Guru Gobind Singhji were martyred in their struggle to save Hinduism from Islamic (Mughal) aggression. So was the fifth Sikh Guru, Arjan Devji, martyred at the hands of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir. The sixth, seventh and eight Gurus in Har Gobindjii, Har Raiji and Harkrishanji also militarily resisted the Mughals, and so did the ninth Guru, Tegh Bahadurji. It was the tenth Guru, Gobind Singhji, though, who gave final shape to Sikh resistance which totally transformed his following and created a lasting impact on the Sikhs and on our national history.
The theology of Sikhism, its monotheistic root in the Omkar (🕉) and its foundational principles enunciated by the great Guru Nanak Devji are all derived from the Vedas which the seer saw in his spiritual realisations and revalidated them, for it is in the Rishi's realisations that documented revelations of the past gain fresh validation.
Sikhism, as Guru Gobind Singhji gave practical shape to it in finality in the form of the Khālsā, became the defender of the Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) and the Sanatanis (Hindus). This was the martial wing of the mother faith, now newly forged but maintaining the ancient kshatriya spirit. In fact, were it not for the Sikhs, North India would have entirely fallen to the Dawah and the Jihādi sword of Islam.
Sikhism saved Hinduism and we must bear eternal gratitude to the Sikhs, their forefathers who are our forefathers as well, for their valorous defence of the Dharma then and now and blossoming evermore unto the untrodden fragrant future.
Hence, always remember that Hindus and Sikhs are one, and inseparably so, and cannot be sundered by dastardly antinational forces. All such separatist notions are rejected, all separatist activity resisted by Sanatanis in solidarity with the Sikhs who are our very own in life and spirit, in blood and toil, a valorous martial sect of the Mother Faith, bravehearts of the motherland in whose defence they so fearlessly keep sacrificing their precious lives, as if in remembrance of their martyr Gurus who gave their all to protect the Hindus in their hour of civilisational peril at the hands of invasive Islam.
Wahe Guru ki fateh! Wahe Guru ki Khālsā! Sat Shree Ākāl! 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo: Har Mandir Sahibji (The Golden Temple, Amritsar)
রামকৃষ্ণ-অনুগামী, জাগো !
রামকৃষ্ণ-অনুগামী, জাগো !
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ঠাকুর ত্যাগমূর্তি, বৈরাগ্যের জ্বলন্ত বিগ্রহ | তাঁর ভক্ত-শিষ্য হতে হলে জীবন ত্যাগপূত হওয়া চাই | সত্যসংকল্প এই প্রেমিকপুরুষের অনুগামী হতে হলে সত্যবাদী হওয়া আবশ্যক | তাঁর মুখনিঃসৃত 'শিবজ্ঞানে জীবসেবা'---এই মহাবাক্যকে যুগধর্মরূপে গ্রহণ করে সেইরূপ কর্মানুষ্ঠান করলেই প্রকৃত রামকৃষ্ণভক্ত হওয়া সম্ভব | অলস স্তুতিতে তাঁর মন ভরবে না | যুগধর্মস্থাপনকার্যে সহায়তা করতে হবে | আসুন, আমরা সকলে এই মহাব্রতে নিজেদের নিযুক্ত করি আর সম্মিলিত প্রচেষ্টার দ্বারা ঠাকুরের মহান কর্মযজ্ঞে নিজেদের উসর্গীকৃত করি | জয় রামকৃষ্ণ ! জয় মা !
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Saturday, 17 May 2025
MY MOTHERLAND ... 1
MY MOTHERLAND ... 1
Trolling Nehru and Gandhi will not build India. It is the sign of intellectual weakness. Past mistakes must be avoided, rectified, and we must move on. Give every man his due.
Castigating our leaders is the sign of cultural decadence. Instead we ought to impartially read, analyse and assess history so as to arrive at a better understanding of our past whereupon we may build our national edifice, strong and secure. A nation that reviles its great men is rendered small in due course.
Written by Sugata Bose
THE DEFENCE OF THE DHARMA ... 1
THE DEFENCE OF THE DHARMA ... 1
Bharatvarsha's identity lies in the Sanatan Dharma, popularly called Hinduism, and this identity must be maintained or India will be lost to posterity for good just as its Islamised parts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh have been. India is as well slowly but surely getting Islamised and this in the long run is going to obliterate the cultural heritage of this, the last bastion of Sanatan Bharatvarsha. We cannot allow it to happen and must resist it with all our might. This is an ideological war and we must win it to save our much molested, dismembered motherland. 🕉 Hindu!
Written by Sugata Bose
COMMENTS GALORE ... 87
COMMENTS GALORE ... 87
Sugata Bose @Cheenmoy Saha : স্তাবকের দল সে যুগেও করে নি, এ যুগেও করবে না | নিন্দুকে সে যুগেও করেছে, এ যুগেও করছে | উভয়ই স্বীয় স্বার্থসিদ্ধিতে ব্যস্ত | দেশের কল্যাণের কথা ভাবে কে ? ইতিবাচক সমালোচনা গণতান্ত্রিক প্রক্রিয়ার অবিচ্ছেদ্য অংশ | কিন্তু তা করতে হলে ব্যক্তিকে নীতির থেকে স্বতন্ত্ররূপে দেখতে হবে যা আমাদের দেশে মোটেই হয় না | এ দেশে ব্যক্তিপূজোর বাহুল্য, নীতি-সিদ্ধান্ত-আদর্শের নয় | আর ক্ষুদ্র স্বার্থ চরিতার্থের দুর্দমনীয় স্পৃহা | তাই বিশিষ্ট ব্যক্তির স্তাবককুলকর্তৃক জয়জয়াকার, অপর পক্ষে বিরোধীদের নিম্নরুচির ত্রটিবিচ্যুতি পদে পদে প্রদর্শন | এই তো অবস্থা গণতন্ত্রের, স্বাদেশিকতার, জনমতের | এ হেন পরিস্থিতিতে যেমন গান্ধীজীর, পণ্ডিত নেহরুর সমালোচনা হয়, তেমনই নেতাজী, রবিন্দ্রনাথেরও হওয়ার অবকাশ আছে; ইন্দিরা গান্ধীর সমালোচনা যমন হচ্ছে, মোদীজীরও তেমনই হওয়ার সুযোগ আছে | শুধু এইটুকু স্মরণ রাখা কর্তব্য, সমালোচনা যেন ইতিবাচক ও সভ্য হয়, যেন দলীয় ক্ষুদ্র স্বার্থে দেশের বৃহৎ স্বার্থ খর্ব না হয় |
Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava We won't be alive to be pure. The vengeance of Nature is on us.
Sugata Bose @Brototi Pal : Totally, taking the cue from you. You remain in this induced lunacy my principal inducer.
Sugata Bose @Padmanabha Ghosh : I read them on my own. So do you. Why depend upon others? Why complain when one has not done one's own reading in an age when their works are so easily available in purchased hard copy and in free soft copy?
Sugata Bose @Gemma Smith : They have a poor idea of God, a la Arab warlord egging his men on in Arab expansionism, all other adjustments to social living being made to facilitate the grand project. Woman's womb they found out early was their main source of warrior men and to this end they directed all their efforts in inhibiting women, curtailing their freedom and reducing them to breeding machines of little other value in life.
Sugata Bose @Jahsim Islam : Awakening will lead to resistance and ouster of the invasive influences from the body politic of the nation, desert doctrines that have desecrated our motherland, destroyed our civilisation and partitioned the country. Awakening will lead to strength and galvanisation of the positive civilisational forces for the rolling of the Wheel of Dharma with accelerated motion. Awakening will lead to weeding of the perfidious forces that are tending with gradual demographic change and with traitorous political backing to Islamise the nation in the not-so-distant future. Awakening is the national imperative for the civilisational blueprint of our sages and saints, Rishis and Avatars to unfold in executed action for the future flourishing of humanity. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : Perhaps, the resolution of historical forces has a hidden deeper movement that guides humanity along obscure evolutionary paths. The withdrawal of Britain from the subcontinent unleashed vast forces that violently resolved themselves in the net product of Partition. India was relieved of the vilest segment of its erstwhile polity which facilitated its phenomenal growth. But the growing Islamisation of provincial pockets thereafter does not augur well for the integral health of the country, West Bengal, Assam and Kerala leading the way of this invasive infection. It is, in the words of Dr. Bill Warner, a gravitational slow precipitation over sufficient time that cannot be averted once the tipping point of 25% of the population has been reached by the minority Muslims in any polity. Now, in West Bengal it is way past it. What in your estimation and analysis is your inference about the future of these states and what are your suggestions regarding its redress? 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Prasiddha VaraPrasad : But without total resolution of the issue, for the same problems are resurfacing with demographic shift and perfidious political patronage of a laughably large 'minority'. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Jha Rakesh : The solution lies in bolstering the Ex-Muslim Movement and opening the doors to reconversion to the Sanatan Dharma. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Prasiddha VaraPrasad : Unofficially 34% (Muslim population in West Bengal) and growing by the day. Situation alarming! 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Post fiery passages from 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda'. These are too passive and will not ignite the minds of the youth sufficiently as is the need of the hour. Post from 'Lectures from Colombo to Almora' where quaking stuff is in abundance.
Sugata Bose @Deep w4 : (Modi) Facing upto Putin in a friendly karate sparring.
Sugata Bose @Palki Sharma : You are too loud, Palki Sharma, almost arrogantly so. Greater musicality would suit a news reader that would jar the ear less and soothe it more without in any way diminishing the truth-content of the news item read or the vigour of articulation involved. Optimisation is the key. Have you not heard of Shakespeare's 'brevity is the soul of wit'? Well, in its extended import it would mean that the golden mean is the soul of all expression, even all manifestation, so to say, barring the faintest bit of disequibrium necessarily involved, for a lost balance of cosmic forces is the impeller of the universal movement forwards and backwards in alternately reversing cyclical order. So may we countenance that fair bit of musical mean and only traces of discordant dispersion that will preserve articulate beauty in news-reading and not mar it with jarring display of hyper-affirmation of personality in an otherwise impersonal exercise. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Mohsin Anayat Raja : Kashmir is not a nation but is a Union Territory of India. Get your facts correct first. Despite your false propaganda of no avail, Kashmir historically has been and will remain an integral part of India. Even POJK belongs to India and will be integrated into the vast body of the motherland. At a near or a not so near date even Pakistan and Bangladesh which were artificially created by murderous goons of the All India Muslim League with political backing of the British, will be reintegrated into the mother body of Sanatan Bharatvarsha which will have then regained its original territorial and civilisational status. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Mohsin Anayat Raja : Kashmir is not a nation but is a Union Territory of India. Get your facts correct first. Despite your false propaganda of no avail, Kashmir historically has been and will remain an integral part of India. Even POJK belongs to India and will be integrated into the vast body of the motherland. At a near or a not so near date even Pakistan and Bangladesh which were artificially created by murderous goons of the All India Muslim League with political backing of the British, will be reintegrated into the mother body of Sanatan Bharatvarsha which will have then regained its original territorial and civilisational status. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Abdul Rehman Malik : And Pakistan should hand over Pakistan itself to India as it was created by Husseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the Butcher of Bengal, inspired by his Machiavellian master, the Qayamat-e-Quaid-e-Azam, whose combined atrocities on the Hindus have become the benchmark of barbarism in the subcontinent. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Muhammad Arsalan Qureshi : Hand over Pakistan to us.
Sugata Bose @Muhammed Shayan : We need Pakistan itself to render whole our dismembered geography and this is no joke nor any circus in the offing.
Sugata Bose @Chaudhry Ramiz Riaz : When Pakistan has been reduced to rubble you will understand what Jahannum-e-Jahan is.
Sugata Bose @NOman Khattak : Hand over Pakistan, Astrapachār Akhanda Bharat will be over.
Sugata Bose @Ab Rouf Maitlo : We cannot (hand over Yogiji) because the ISI under yogic influence will then become spiritual and will win the Nobel Prize for Peace instead of the Ghazwa-e-Hind Prize for War. Its sudden transformation and consequent failure to wage war against the kafir-mushrik Hindu will then render it munafiq and damn it into Dozakh, a destiny we cannot help induce in the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan despite all its bungling of brain. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Farooq Khalid : It is time to hand over Pakistan itself to India.
Sugata Bose @Tanveer Ahmed Khattak : Hand over Pakistan to India and things will be over. After all, where was your Pakistan before Partition? Carved out of India you dare to say these things?
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Alas, few will! And those that will, will make sure that they do not acknowledge reading it. You are an exception to this rule who being an exception all the more prove the rule.
Sugata Bose @Sutanu Chatterjee : There you go. Launched it again, the root missile. [Reference to Sutanu's mentioning in his comment that General (now Field Marshal) Asim Munir as having his roots in all probability in the divine Bharatiya ancestry of muni/rishi.]
Sugata Bose @Kanu Debroy : Right you are, very right. But necessity is one thing and greed another, especially if Thakur's own monastic order violates such spiritual stipulation of its Avatar-founder. The Order is giving in to the third dreaded human vice, greed, as its economic activities by way of raising funds in various ways which are not quite in keeping with its own erstwhile lofty tradition are concerned.
"The bane of a spiritual order is when it hangs on to the sleeves of the rich," says Swami Vivekananda. So you see. Rome has witnessed the spiritual downfall of the Christian Church, Bharatvarsha has seen the downfall of the Buddhist Order, and the first clear signs of spiritual decay and material ascendancy are being perceived by the discerning eye in the Ramakrishna Order. Whether devotees should resist it or facilitate the decline is upto them. Myself have long chosen the path of sounding the bell. Of course, this decline has decades back started when the Mission chose to legally de-Hinduise itself before being brought back to sanity by the three member Supreme Court bench in 1995.
You see, Mahamaya weaves her deception net imperceptibly and the chess players aren't aware of the wrong moves they are making but the bystander, if he is knowledgeable in the game, can point them out. (Ref: Thakur's parable to the effect) But men innocent of the nuances of the game can only cheer on the erring player to his checkmated end.
Reams can I write on this but will you have the patience or openness of mind to lend me your eyes? (Ref: Mark Anthony's speech in 'Julius Caesar') Hence, I conclude this not-so-brief observation. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Nehru wrote 'Glimpses of World History' where he gave us glimpses. Here he gives us a glimpse of the origin of the All India Muslim League. Hence, he gives us a hint of its date of birth. He is testing us, his nephews and nieces, and also giving us a hint as to the potential intellectual capacity of his progeny and great progeny in the making in the womb of futurity whose evidence we are to our daily delight witnessing now. This is a perfect demonstration of Nehruvian honest submission of history, deflected only by years five, much like the deflection of the left ear from the right ear by the width of the face intermediate. Therein lies historical distortion, deliberate and not so deliberate, of the Nehruvian era where deflection of years merely represents an honest endeavour in dishonesty. Now, you are correcting such historical heresies, my friend. How unthinking of you! How utterly uncharitable such utterance! 🕉 Satyam Jnānam Anantam Brahma! 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Does a dead man live again except in rebirth in another incarnation? So must the Mission be resurrected in a new Mission set up by a new Avatār in keeping with Sri Ramakrishna's prophecy of his prospective reincarnation.
Sugata Bose @Kanu Debroy : Even the Mission has lost its spiritual bearings and is running after money. That is what I mean to stress on.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Swamiji has been bedecked in artistically effeminate colour unlike as in the original photograph. His facial expression has also been tampered with to render it more feminine which is a travesty of truth. This is the despicable state of decadent devotion these days of growing effeminacy which he abhorred. You must take care to preserve Swamiji's manliness in appearance as well as in the original rendering of his optical image, for that would be in keeping with truth. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : I know this characteristic to be common in our current culturally consumed community. We have had so many revolutionaries in our close and extended family but have had only one such in the army. Cowardice has assumed its pseudonym in culture even as culture has plummeted to its nadir. Now we are neither hither nor thither. I keep thundering away against all inequities but receive scant response by way of readership. Write soft superficial stuff and you have gallants galore following you. Touch a raw nerve in the body of established institutions or individuals and you have to dine alone in the desert, deserted by all the bhadraloks who would dance instead round rosy illusions and dainty delusions reinforced daily by their dope-delivering mentors of soaring speeches and lost morality. The kshatriya spirit is well nigh gone and it is lazy rumination in the past that defines Bengal today. Even unto the day is the evil thereof. We must turn on a new leaf. You have already been up the branch there while most of us have not even approximated the garden where flowers die to live in fruition that the orchard thereof may flourish and afforest as yet infertile fields that this vast human concourse in its variegated distribution seems to be. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Lovely epithet ascribed to me. I wholeheartedly accept it, eventhough most, perhaps, would scant allow me such privilege of principled holding.
Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : You haven't quite read the intent and content of the post. It relates to the current scenario, the abysmally low representation of Bengalis in the Armed Forces today and for some decades past. There is no Bengal Regiment in the Army, mark it. As for the part relating to devotion to Bapu, well, that is by way of pure sarcasm to highlight the fundamental point of the, should I say, aversion of the Bengalis from joining the Armed Forces.
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