COMMENTS GALORE ... 107

COMMENTS GALORE ... 107

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : Yours is always the Gupte googly.

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : "I am proud to be a Hindu," declared Swami Vivekananda at a time when our civilisation was facing an existential threat. It was he who infused strength in our failing, falling polity, awakening in us self-respect, self-reliance and a deep sense of reverence (shraddhā) for what was to be in civilisational terms a Hindu, the generally meek Hindu, peaceful and contemplative, who could fearlessly rise in defence of the Dharma if need be. Such an existential threat faces the Hindus today once more when we must unite in the Mother's name, responding to the clarion call given by this Lion of the Vedānta. In it lies our own well-being and in it lies the well-being of the wider world, immersed as it is in ignorance, conflict, confusion and chaos. A civilisational churn is on globally where the Hindu must dip his hands right to raise the ambrosia once more that will save the world. And this must begin with the awareness of every right-thinking Hindu of his civilisational roots and activation thereof of the principles laid down in the scriptures. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Atika Farooqui : A typical journalist trying to fish out information that is spicy for public consumption and satisfies the tastes of the interviewer. Otherwise, why ask Asha Bhosle the standard lowly question of inter-sibling rivalry and unsubstantiated publicised acrimony when such uncomfortable questions need not be staple to interviewing a great musician whose life and works demand delving into aspects of her musical art and form from a purer perspective? 

Sugata Bose @Anoushka Alicia Thakur : Remember, I had messaged you the evening before yesterday which I am rewriting to get you to know: "Are you alright, Anoushka?" No reply came, but you will now get well. You are in my constant care and will ever remain so. Always keep in touch. Get well. Complete cure from now on. Hereon take greater care of your health too, eating duly on time, never fasting or dieting dry.

Sugata Bose @Anoushka Alicia Thakur : I am happy to hear. You are a precious person and must be in full vitality always for the good of the world and your own good. I am always at your service. Bless you!

Sugata Bose @Jaggi Vasudev : You are certainly not dumb but are a pretender to being a preceptor and fooling dumb people by the millions wholesale.

Sugata Bose @Kaushani Chatterjee : Bring back the blue double tick so that people may understand whether you have seen the incoming message or not.

I know. But the sender of the message is kept in the dark thus as to whether his message has been read or not.

Yes. It is something like speaking to someone over the phone who generally prefers to remain silent and one cannot make out whether he is there or not. I frequently have to experience this. Of course I do agree that it is one's choice to be the way one wishes to be.

But civility deems due communication as incumbent upon all. After all communication is the soul of social life, human beings being gregarious.

Sugata Bose @Swani Shuddhidānanda : Maharaj, we can very well imagine the Islamisation of India as it is a historical fact. In 636 CE there was not a single Muslim in India. Today there are 220 million and the number keeps mounting by the day. What is this, Maharaj, but the progressive Islamisation of India? Have you forgotten Partition, Maharaj?

Sugata Bose @Swami Shuddhidānanda : Maharaj, instead of advising us to read Swami Vivekananda which we do, it would be advisable to make the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission a bit more bold and direct in taking up the Hindu cause, in defending Hindu interests as you through your speeches are doing. Ask the authorities to stop the recently much proliferating song and dance culture of monks with virile defence of the Dharma, the prevention of conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity, and the debilitating propagation of the impossible harmony of antithetical religions that are hell-bent upon destroying Hinduism and the Hindus. First restore spiritual sanity in every truthful sense in your own house and then people will no more need too many lectures to rectify stance. As it is famously said of Chaitanya Mahāprabhu that he taught precepts through personal practice, so may your endeavours in this regard be brought to bear upon your hallowed home institution. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee :  We are not following the Vedānta. So, we are walking backwards. If we follow the Vedānta, we shall be progressive in every sense because the Vedānta is the body of spiritual truths, the Word-manifestation of Truth itself. Rabindranath tried to abide by the Vedānta, although he did so in its dualistic Brāhmo form as originally enunciated by Rammohun Roy, the founder of Brāhmoism. Swami Vivekananda was the Vedānta personified and so have been countless luminaries who advanced in accordance with Vedāntic precepts, responding to the clarion call 'Charaiveti!' ('Onward!') Give up Vedānta and you have the lamentable result in front of you. 🕉

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MESSAGES GALORE ... 134

MESSAGES GALORE ... 134 

1. What you think of, you become. This is the law of sustained induction, the process of transformation through education, indoctrination, meditation, imagination, reflection, contemplation et al. But it must be wholehearted and sustained till the end is reached and not given up mid-way. Here resolve and firmness of purpose and execution comes in. Nature yields before the omnipotent soul, blocking its path, barring its progress only to intensify effort till the critical point be reached and scaled over. Then the metamorphosis in the pertinent phase is complete even as a fresh phase begins. This is the evolutionary way.

2. ব্রাহ্মণ কে ? যে অনুভূতির জগতে প্রবেশ করেছে |

3. 

10 p.m., 18 April, 1930. Masterda Surjya Sen storms the Chittagong Armoury with his 49 comrades-in-arms and temporarily liberates the province.

4. জীবনে কখনও হতে হবে বাকবাবা, কখনও মৌনিবাবা | নাহলেই বিপদ |

5. মা ! তোমার প্রসাদ, কৃপা, ভালবাসা---কিছুই চাই না, মা | অপরিগ্রহ ! দেখি, নিঃস্ব ভগবান পায় কিনা |

6. Love is self-reflection. 

7. 

কবির কথা যখন ফুরোয়, 

কবি ফুরিয়ে যায় |

মানুষ বেঁচে থাকে

আর এক কবি জন্ম নেবে বলে ||

8. 

আমার আমি আছি,

আর আছো তুমি, 

আমার আর এক আমি |

9. 

চেনা বন্ধুর রূপ চেনো না ?

চিনে নাও অরূপের মাঝে |

10. The life of a saint is writ in tears of blood. So is humanity saintly. For what is civilisation but the fruit of the blood and bruises of the billions, the toil and tears of the teeming millions that have but breathed to seek deliverance in their end? The mute millions have endlessly suffered to build the works in stone while their stone-heart masters have mercilessly mauled them. Such is civilisation, such the saint's life spread out in ghe masses, in the vast body of God, suffering humanity. 

11. 

If this form I do wear yet again,

I shall adorn it with love again.

12. He knows best who has known the One. And He is One and She is the Many.

13. He knows best who has known the One. And He is the One and She is the Many.

14. Dawn it is and the veil of light has hid the heavens.

15. Speaks the Lord in silence ever.

16. The humming bee waltzed past whispering her message of love.

17. Dive ye into the ocean of love and immortal rise from it.

18. What is the intrinsic worth of man? His very life-breath.

19. Subtle are the ways of the Lord, subtler still the Lord Himself. Who loveth Him, seeth Him, for He is seated in the midst of that love.

20. The greatest strength of a person is his humility. 

21. যা কিছু তোমার তা তুমি নও |

22. Sweetness is the soul of love. And when purity perfects it, bliss follows.

23. The greater the freedom, the greater the flourishing. 

24. Be a human being. Let not money dehumanise you. Charity isn't enough.

25. Spirituality means to grow in stature in every sense, in every phase of the being, in personality, intellect and emotion, in culture and self-control.

26. Forgiveness is the art of the heart.

27. Cultivation of the heart is spirituality. 

28. কী অপমান সহ্য করতে হয়েছে স্বামীজীকে ! আজ যারা অপমান করে তারা বুঝুক |

29. অহঙ্কারই জীবনে পতনের কারণ |

30. Read the life and struggle of our revolutionaries for freedom if you have any pretensions about God-realisation. 

31. Our freedom was won with blood and toil. We must not become a sick consumerist society that apes the West.

32. One should be ashamed to live a life solely of sensory pleasure oblivious of the suffering that centuries of alien tyranny imposed on us.

33. It is a crime to fail to salute every dawn the revolutionaries for our motherland's freedom. How else on earth may God be realised? 

34. Seek the bit of truth that is there even in falsity. 

35. Good people suffer, the evil prosper.

36. Good people who are weak aren't so good after all.

37. One survives in solitude, dies in company.

38. In soleness abides the soul.

39. Life is not just breath but the breadth of life includes so much more, the defined and the undefined aspects which so fill it to the brim.

40. For some I am chairman of their 'Etcetera Club'. 

41. Democracy of the spirit must not be misconstrued as weakness. A dictatorial attitude rather bespeaks of weakness. Arrogance is weakness, not so humility. Democracy makes room for all, conduces to mass strength. Dictatorship is exclusive to one and dehumanises society. Freedom and civility crushed, animality remains as residuum taking civilisational millenia behind. May all beings be free of fear, all citizens free of savagery that is commonplace by way of insensitive domestic treatment of members!

42. Drive the crowd away if you wish to love. In solitude reigns the queen of love.

43. The chatter of the mind must be silenced in the depths of meditation for the Self to reveal.

44. Human interaction hides the Divine. Solitude and silence are essential for the Soul to surface. 

45. Where the crust has become the core, there the Ātman is.

46. Madhubala was the heartthrob of all and she had a hole in her heart which proved fatal. What an irony of fate!

47. There is a symphony of life whose strain we must catch. Then life in love will be fulfilled.

48. Crooks win at the outset but character triumphs eventually. 

49. Our television channels are a disgrace. Not a bit of journalistic intrgrity there anymore. Sycophancy rules the roost. Most undemocratic!

50. Islam is an assumption. 

51. Innocence and purity manifest sublime beauty. 

52. We must learn from our revolutionaries for freedom what it is to forget the self and love the motherland.

53. Why live in the estimation of others through frequent self-advertisement of all kinds online? Are you short on self-respect?

54. In our childhood we saw people achieve but hardly ever advertise the same. Now we see the reverse. Achievement is cipher, advertisement loads.

55. Why do some remove the blue double tick from their Whatsapp pages? Is it to prevent detection as to their having seen or not so the incoming messages?

56. Can selfishness and service coexist in truth? 

57. What may we do for the motherland? Your response.

58. What ought we to do for the motherland? Your response in this regard please. 

59. We must excel in our endeavours and perfect our work along the principles of Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram. In it lies national well-being. 

60. If you have not the guts to keep the blue double tick on in your Whatsapp a/c, how do you propose to serve the motherland which requires rectitide and real courage?

61. 'Good' people must stop being hypocrites for evil not to reign.

62. To serve the nation well, one must punctuate one's sentences properly. A full-stop to denote the end of a statement is surely due. To strive for perfection is patriotism proper.

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ISLAM ... 1

ISLAM ... 1

Islam is full of assumptions and arbitrary assertions regarding its doctrine whose divine origin is authenticated by crude circular logic, rationally untenable utterly. Its self-proclaimed superiority over all other faiths is simply arbitrary and has neither philosophical validity nor rational justification. Hence, Islam has by design historically spread by the edge of the sword through direct violence and through the creation of circumstantial pressure (dhimmitude) leading to mass conversion. Proliferation of population by ensuring high fertility rate of its womenfolk has been another method of spreading the Deen.

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NOTE TO MY STUDENT'S MOTHER

NOTE TO MY STUDENT'S MOTHER

I cannot follow constant guidance regarding what to teach when anymore. This is demeaning for me and I have in my long career as a tutor for over four decades never done so in a single instance. I am not a classwork-tending, examination-tending teacher. I build lives. It must be understood. I have repeatedly said so in the past but seemingly to no effect. My students do very well this way. My life's experience says so. You must have faith in me and let me take charge hereon as I deem best. ICSE is less than three years away and I am under time pressure to build her well enough for life, although she is doing remarkably good work for some time now. She will do better. Do not read me wrong as your understanding is most essential. Bless you!

Written by Sugata Bose 

ISLAM/CHRISTIANITY/HINDUISM---A RELATIVE STUDY ... 1

ISLAM/CHRISTIANITY/HINDUISM---A RELATIVE STUDY ... 1

The most mischievous thing politically is to convert Hindus to Islam through marriage. Increasing numbers to increase earthly influence thus in political terms is hardly spiritual. No Muslim as per Islamic scriptural injunction may marry a mushrik without first converting her or him to Islam. And the Hindu is a mushrik (polytheist) in the limited vision of Islam which fails to interpret Hindu worship of multiple manifestations of the same Brahman-Shakti Principle as anything else. 

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AS THEY LEAVE ONE BY ONE TO SHINE WITH A PERENNIAL LUSTRE

AS THEY LEAVE ONE BY ONE TO SHINE WITH A PERENNIAL LUSTRE

Another light of my life goes off. Asha Bhosle will never be again. She along with her elder sister had filled up my adolescent days with a sublimity that is today lost as a civilisation of the past and lives on in tearful memory as a relic that perchance will revive in a fresher spring yet unborn but brewing in the womb of futurity. The breathtaking beauty of her voice, the delicate modulations like a dainty brook dancing over a pebbled bed, here quickening steps, there slowing down, her amazing versatility and that supernal musical sense with ear, voice and soul attuned as if in divine harmony make her nonpareil in the world of Indian film music. A never to be forgotten artiste of rare attainments, voice vivacious and voice velvety where it needed to be, and voice sublime, uplifting, divine where she shone in her truest self. Orphaned yet again today.

Written by Sugata Bose

A CLARION CALL TO HINDUS BY SWAMI SHUDDHIDĀNANDA

A CLARION CALL TO HINDUS BY SWAMI SHUDDHIDĀNANDA

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A clarion call to Hindus by a true follower of Swami Vivekananda. Swami Shuddhidānandaji has caught the spirit of Swamiji right and is articulating it in the right way in these times of growing Islamisation of India owing to perfidious political play of traitorous parties and determined demographic change being brought about by hyperfertility of Muslim women, conversion and illegal immigration into India. Hindus by their neglect of the Dharma, non-marriage, late marriage and low fertility are also contributing to this increasing powershift away from them. Here a solitary Ramakrishna monk is exhibiting sterling courage of conviction to awaken a cowardly polity that in its indolence, sense-gratification and plain indifference to the alarming state of things is hastening its own downfall. Experience, it seems, has failed to teach any worthwhile lesson en masse to the Hindus who have suffered the worst genocide in human history for well over 1300 years, so deluded in ephemeral delights they are and so suffering from amnesia and plain unmanliness. Alas, it would take more than one Shuddhidānandaji to ignite the wet wood that Hindus have become! Hence, it is for us to come forward and bear upon the same cause, that of fostering Hindu awareness, solidarity, unity of purpose, social help and the defence of the Dharma. Vande Mātaram! 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose 

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