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COMMENTS GALORE ... 118
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Wednesday, 30 September 2026
FLYING ON THE WINGS OF FACT, FANCY, FICTION
FLYING ON THE WINGS OF FACT, FANCY, FICTION
A spiritual movement spreads rapidly if it can bring to its followers an unearthly sense full of sublime suggestions. Naturally, mythology and archaic ideas can creep in as well into the mass of distributed literature which will fire up the minds of the masses with strange notions and fancies, irrational hopes and dreams, but will keep the movement going if it is well fuelled by daily ritualistic discipline and austere observances, spiritual practices that nourish the psychophysical person, making him happier and peaceful. At any rate cherishing beautiful dreams is no worse than being beaten with rude realities of the mundane world. The flights of fancy that mythology releases in the prone mind makes for even spiritual growth when activity is restrained by ethical observances and spiritual exercises. To top it all, if the devotees are made to understand that their chosen path is the best path, the perfect path and the only path to ultimate perfection and proximity to the Lord, you have hit the bull's eye. The movement will then take to wings and spread like cyclone.
Written by Sugata Bose
Sunday, 27 September 2026
POESY: SECULAR KIRTAN
SECULAR KIRTAN
Chnoare Gobindo amar,
Gokhro saap er phul.
Nekrer mastuto bhai,
Dui kaane te dul.
Bob cut teri kete
Dichhe birir taan
Aar choudike te ghaagra nachon,
Bishtu abhijaan,
Bolo Bishtu abhijaan,
Bolo Bishtu abhijaan.
Aha ki gaan!
Friday, 25 September 2026
THE SPIRIT OF CRICKET
THE SPIRIT OF CRICKET
Dennis Lillee for all his boorish behaviour would have fared rather badly with, say, hypothetical skipper Bradman. Foul-mouthing opponents (Gavaskar), physically fighting them (Lillee-Miandad case⁵), kicking at the stumps¹ (after dismissing Viv Richards in a provincial one-day match after bouncing him four times in succession), aluminum bat², all this and so much more certainly made the greatest fast bowler of all time a spectacle but like John Snow⁴ purposefully colliding with Gavaskar, would have landed Lillee in deep trouble with the Don of old school cricketing ethics, what in cricketing parlance is called 'the spirit of the game'.
The 1981 Adelaide Test Match³ memory of Lillee/Aussie rude behaviour against Gavaskar and company rankles still. Lillee's general demeanour aided by the Chappell brothers allowing him undue latitude created on-field unpleasantness that has permanently in the minds of many tarnished his image. Rude boy Lillee will live in memory as a great fast bowler who did his country proud with his incredible cricketing achievements but shamed her with his uncricketing attributes as well for good and set in a dangerous precedent to check which the Rule Book had to be rewritten by the ICC. What a far cry from Bill Woodfull's impeccable ethical response to Jardine's and the MCC's 'unsportsmanlike' attitude in their bid to browbeat Bradman in the Bodyline Series! The Don in his interview⁶ 'Don Bradman: 87 not out' categorically denounced the use of what has been euphemistically called 'gamesmanship', what Steve Waugh notoriously called 'mental disintegration' tactics, and said that were he the captain of Australia when any player so transgressed, he would have warned him once and, should he have repeated the selfsame offense, would never have picked him again.
That, gentlemen, is Sir Donald George Bradman speaking the final word on the disrepute to which the Lillees, the Chappells, the Steve Waughs and the Ricky Pontings, mentioning here by way of a larger representative illustration only a handful of significant Australian cricketers who he could as captain and administrator have hypothetically restrained the way the spirit of cricket deems it best for the game. And there's Lillee for you.
Written by Sugata Bose
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FORGET NOT, THERE ALSO IS A DEPTH TO IT
FORGET NOT, THERE ALSO IS A DEPTH TO IT
There is a depth to voice that comes through deep concentration and sustained practice which shows up in rendition of classical vocal music, even in conversation, something that transports the audience to a higher realm, transcending the existent surroundings and reaching an altered order of existence altogether. So hard to express it in words but felt so easily by perceptive ones when men of experience speak, recollecting memories that lie in the depths of their hearts but, recalled, stir afresh reflections of events of the past in live colours that secondary sources can scarce reveal. This depth-diffeence is so apparent in interviews when the interviewee sinks into depth-memory while the interviewer belonging to distracted breed of the modern kind casually interrupts his reminiscence and reflection by shifting his focus to more commonplace things of lesser consequence. This indeed is felt by great actors, by film directors when they try to level depth-differences in personality of players to arrive at a seamless presentation of performance. In everyday life this is hidden in commonplace talk based in the same frame of time and place but in reminiscence becomes apparent when individuals are mind-located differently. This, perhaps, is also the reason why communication is so rare in this world of easy misunderstanding, egotistical personalised interpretation based on insufficient sympathy that fails to connect and huge differences in historical positioning and perspective. But above all, to return to roots, it is this difference in depth of personality that creates this communication gap, this unbridged difference in feeling, as in love, as in conversation, as in going down memory lane in interviews of men steeped in the past. Bridging differences is good, but must it come at the cost of loss of the real that lives in the silent chambers of the heart where chamber music is still on?
Written by Sugata Bose
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
MESSAGES GALORE ... 146
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MESSAGES GALORE ... 146
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1. When there is a trace of ego, there cannot love be. And where there is a trace of ego, can there love be?
2. আজকের কলরব কি কাল শান্ত হবে, নাকি কালে শান্ত হবে যখন মানুষ বহুসংখ্যক সভ্য হবে ? বর্বরযুগের হিংস্রতা আজও নব নব নখদন্তে বিকশিত সভ্যতার মোড়কে | কালক্রমণে বিবর্তনের সংঘটনেই কি এর অন্ত ? আর কত রক্তপাত করবে মানুষ মানুষের সভ্যতার দোহাই দিয়ে ?
3. Lying has become commonplace as cheating has been. Basic values are all gone down the drains. People casually keep not truth.
4. Love is like a river flowing upwards to source.
5. Everything except Brahman is in motion. Motion is the law of life. Hence, charaiveti!
6. ভারত বিকশিত হবে আপনি বিকশিত হলে | ঠাকুর-মা-স্বামীজী সে পথ দেখিয়ে গেছেন | তাঁদের পদাঙ্ক অনুসরণ করেই ভবিষ্যৎ ভারতের উত্থান, মাত্র বাণিজ্যিক বুদ্ধি বাড়িয়ে নয় | বৈশ্য যুগ বটে কিন্তু ব্রাহ্মণত্ব, ক্ষত্রিয়ত্ব বর্জন করে, এই দুই বর্ণকে অপমান করে নয় | প্রকৃত ব্রাহ্মণত্বের বিকাশের দ্বারা, ক্ষাত্রবীর্যের প্রকাশের দ্বারা, বৈশ্যবুদ্ধির প্রক্ষালনের দ্বারা এবং শুদ্রোদ্ধারের দ্বারা, অর্থাৎ, অলিখিত চতুর্বণের সাম্যস্পন্দনের দ্বারা নতুন ভারত সূর্যালোকে প্রস্ফুটিত হবে নবপুষ্পসম | বিকশিত হোন ঘরে ঘরে সেই প্রস্ফুটিত পুষ্পরূপে |
7. এই ভেজালের যুগে গুণীজনের সমাদর নেই, না আছে তাঁদের গুণের কদর | এখন নিম্নমেধার রমরমা |
8. বাঙালীর মধ্যে সনাতন শ্রদ্ধা ফিরিয়ে আনতে হবে | বড় বেশি বুদ্ধির বিড়ম্বনায় ভুগছে ভ্রষ্ট বঙ্গব্রাহ্মণ | ঠাকুর বলতেন, "কাক বড় চালাক কিন্তু বিষ্ঠা খেয়ে মরে |" সেইরূপ পরিণতি যেন আধুনিক বাঙালীর না হয় | ইয়ং বেঙ্গল থেকে মার্ক্সবাদ ঘুরে এবার বাঙালীর ঘরে ফেরার পালা শুরু হোক | রামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দ গন্তব্যস্থল | সেইদিকে চরৈবেতি !
9. The current education system is a conspiracy, unconscious though and unconscious indeed, to keep students under the thraldom of Nature to survive as slaves and die as such.
10. ঠাকুরের আদর্শ ছিল 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা |' আজকের এই ঘোর বৈশ্যযুগে, যখন লোভরূপ তৃতীয় রিপু বিশ্বমানবকে আক্রান্ত করেছে, তখন ঠাকুরের বাণীটি স্মরণ করা আশু কর্তব্য ও তা পালন করা ততধিক |
11. আজ চরিত্রের বড় অভাব | সর্বত্র বাণিজ্য, এমনকি তথাকথিত আধ্যাত্মিক জগতেও | স্বামীজী বলেছিলেন, "Religions of the world have became lifeless mockeries. What the world wants is character." সময় এসেছে তাঁর বাণীর অনুধ্যানের | এতেই ভারতের উত্থান, এতেই জগতকল্যাণ |
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বিন্দু হতে বিচ্ছুরণ,
বিন্দুতেই পুনর্মিলন |
13. Serve the Hindus by way of religious charity but do not convert them to Islam or Christianity and deculturalise them. That is SIN.
14. ভাল জিনিস নেবার লোক নেই | তাই গুণীজনের এত অনাদর |
15. As the candle burns out, there isn't a room illuminated yet. In futility is life spent chasing wild dreams while the icy chill of the final hour draws near. As yet the flickering flame hasn't died, the rushing breeze daring it equally with life and death. Who knows what shall chance?
16. স্বামীজীর বাণী পড়ে দেশ জাগুক |
17. ISKCON has zeal. This sort of missionary zeal Swamiji wanted in his followers. Let us have it. That is service to Mother.
18. Instead of giving emojis can readers not respond with creative commenting, pertinent observations on a post?
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THE VOICE OF TRUTH
THE VOICE OF TRUTH
We want a voice of authority and not apology, one who can stamp his authority on what he says, his authority stemming from experience and lived truth rather than truth read in books but unverified in experience. There must be power in his affirmations, a thunderous roll in his remarks that does not pander to the vanities of society, does not bow down to political or religious authority but hammers out truth as it happened, as it is happening and as it is in essence. No compromise, no apology, simply the truth pouring out like volcanic lava to metamorphose society unto a higher order of terrestrial and ethereal existence.
Written by Sugata Bose
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