DREAM NO MORE ... 1 [EDITED]
Tuesday, 10 March 2026
Monday, 9 March 2026
WHERE THE OWL HOOTS NOT NOR THE COCK CROWS ... IN THE DEPTH OF THE MIDNIGHT HOUR [EDITED]
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WHERE THE OWL HOOTS NOT NOR THE COCK CROWS ... IN THE DEPTH OF THE MIDNIGHT HOUR [EDITED]
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When past the mid-night hour, the screen shifts a little, I behold the stillness of a reality behind the facade of unceasing change. Silent, calm, unruffled stillness without a whirl or a bubble, deep conscious existence. Unconnected, parallel background reality that defies description save in tranquil memory. And yet the page opens in the depth of consciousness in the deep of the nocturnal hour. What a silent revelation! What profundity of perception, integrated, total! Seems then I am alone since eternity without possibility of company. Clear perception of an integrated ethereal space where there is not a dot nor mark, plain wholesomeness, how to express in tangible changeable terms that which is the Beyond. This phenomenal universe then melts away revealing that which is the stillness of Truth. When I now try to express, oh, how language deflects the intended meaning and covers it up all! Perhaps, it may only be kindled in sympathetic souls, the purport of this verbal intent of a consciousness and an existence so unlike this manifold world, so separate, as if hanging alone by itself, self-brooding, consciousness turned back upon itself, unsplit, yet fully conscious, unanalytic, yet knowing, a strange unitary understanding, seamless, total. There no thoughts reach for they have been resolved into their integral base and have so lost their very entity. It is a timeless zone or, should I say, a realm where the flow of time is so faint that the ordinary dissolves and the Real is perceived through the fine mist of Maya. But it is a revealing mist, distorting Reality, true, but removing the grotesque facade that external Nature is, moving and mystifying. The revelation is but incomplete, yet, it is a powerful indicator of the deeper status of things till at the deepest there is a strange disconnect, a quantum leap, so to say, into the realm of the Infinite.
Reality is not what it seems. Reality is fundamentally different from the appearance we call Phenomena. But it is hidden or, should I say, obscured from vision by incessant flow of thoughts which are the derivatives of integral consciousness that transcends this ceaseless fractured flow. Neurobiologists may disagree with these affirmations of mine, dumping them as so many misinterpretations of psychic phenomena capable of neural explanation, hallucinations of the heated brain, the scientifically untrained mind's superstitious averment and I hold their thesis in high regard knowing that they are the product of the best minds over a great period of scientific evolution but I still cannot subscribe to their summary dismissals of these claims of the divine without adequate scrutiny or the right means and methods of doing so. For this is a terrain that lies, as of now, beyond the domain of the physical sciences and therefore demands investigation using the right tools. Even as distant celestial bodies are explored through the telescope, even as miniscule matter is investigated using the microscope, so must these perceptions of the human mind at an altitude be investigated using, if I may coin a term, the 'introscope'. By 'introscope' I mean the introspective analytical mind that sifts the spiritual grain from the material chaff and arrives at spiritual realization. Sages and saints down the ages have vouched for their spiritual experiences and these were men of character whose lives were blemishless and based on truth and who brought about beneficent changes in human society giving civilization purpose and meaning beyond the mundane. But age-old religious affirmations, codified creeds and archaic spiritual myths are all breaking down under the sledgehammer blows of reason and it is right that they should seek their quick cremation in the fire of scientific knowledge. Like the fire of the Inquisition which burnt saint and savant alike, let not, however, this time over, a second such fire be lit which shall consume the best of human culture in the form of its brightest discoveries of the Self of man and the ground of phenomena. Let reason go as far as it can but let reason temper reason and let not wild assertions of over-zealous scientists be misconstrued as the findings of reason for men, scientific or otherwise, are so often perverse in their denunciations and carry personal agenda, preconceptions and prejudices so very delusive that arrogance of material knowledge abrogates sublime realizations of the Spirit even as Church power annulled scientific truths in the Dark Ages.
So it is that while so-called spiritual assertions of the bygone ages may have been in error in many places and, indeed, ancient myths about gods and goddesses are very much so if absorbed literally despite protestations about their so-called historicity and allegorical implications ever shifting in interpretation, though, in the light of the findings of modern science to which these upholders of archaic myths resort to to fulfil their bogus philosophy, and in this I am not particularizing any specific religious tradition but am generally reporting about religious tradition down the ages worldwide, it is equally true that much of mythology contains germs of the sublime truths of life and the transcendence beyond and the evolving culture of man which to discard wholesale in the name of surface reason will be as primitive an act as the most heinous crimes of the burning down of the ancient library of Alexandria and the destruction of civilization by tyrants down the ages. Science is an attempt of the human mind to grapple with the puzzle of existence by empirical means while religion is the same endeavour to unravel the mystery of existence by the exploration of the mind itself through introspection. Religion and science are not antagonistic in their mission. Rather, they are the complementary aspects of the unified quest of man to arrive at a fundamental understanding of Reality. As such, mutual respect can foster a more holistic approach towards the comprehension of the riddle of existence than mutual denunciation can. Great truths of the subjective world have been discovered by sages and saints and equally grand truths of objective reality have been discovered by scientists and these truths, though seemingly contradictory often, are but interpretations from two different standpoints of a single Reality that is not partitioned as men have through their divisive modes reduced them to. Nature is whole and integrated, free of the trappings of the human mind in its present state of evolution and sees no conflict between the spiritual and the material for essentially they are the same, the finer and the grosser states of a unified entity. These artificial distinctions of the subjective and the objective world are constructs of the human mind and have no bearing on the functioning of Nature beyond the deflections caused by the conscious mind in the observation of particle behaviour and therefore have their domain strictly confined within the spectrum of consciousness, thereby leaving the vast field of the superconscious and the subconscious as uncharted zones over which presumptuous pronouncements cannot be passed off as rationalization. Since this is the scenario, it stands to reason to have camaraderie of spirit rather than ideological acrimony if humanity is to arrive at comprehension of the core truth which is the harmony of all forces and therefore is to be approached in a harmonious way, if at all.
Revelations abound in millions of lives in greater or smaller degree and this keeps the cycle of life turning. Discoveries are not the domain solely of scientists but each soul is a conduit of the divine and may perceive truth in whatever miniscule form even in the thoroughfare of life and much more so if one is devoted to the pursuit of truth. All these are cultural enhancements and conglomerate to build civilization. Harmony is the key and is ever the basis for advancement of humanity towards final fruition in the discovery of the underlying oneness of things, be it be approached from the material scientific standpoint or from the spiritual standpoint for it is oneness that all are seeking however unconsciously they may do so. When Einstein explored the universe, he did so to find out the ultimate basis of phenomena, The Unified Field Theory that would explain it all. Today's cosmologists are attempting to find The Theory of Everything in their bid to unravel the cosmic mystery and harmonize the apparently contradictory theories of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. The concept of the 'singularity' in astrophysics, the black hole, the Big Bang and the Big Crunch are all portentous of human knowledge steadily advancing towards the discovery of the oneness of existence, a fact which the Vedic Rishis ages ago had discovered through their introspective vision, the Self which is the ground of all that exists. Atman = Brahman was the equation they discovered and in trumpet voice declared before the wide world. The forests retreats of the Rishis and their Himalayan caves resonated to the celestial vibration of Om which is the first manifestation of the unmanifest Reality. The waters of the Ganga, the Sindhu and the Saraswati carried along their current the sublime message of the Upanishads, the symphony of the soul. The One had dispersed into the many and the many were rushing on to oneness. The dewdrops had split up the sun rays into the rainbow colours and the colours were conspiring to resolve into their unitary solar status.
All through Nature this game is on, the One manifesting as the many and the manifold tending to resolve into the One. This contrary phenomenon in Nature, the disintegrating mode and the integrating mode, the tendency to fly apart and the reverse tendency to gravitate inward keeps the universe oscillating from cycle to cycle. These contrary modes work in opposition to each other and thereby bring about the grand interplay of cosmic forces and create the ripple we call life. So let science and religion co-exist as comrades-in-arms as humans battle to demystify creation and discover the basis of life.
And yet in the dark deep of the cosmos a voice beckons us ushering us on to some unknown end. Whither do we rush on? Wherefrom the voice comes? Is it from deep within us? And yet, the screen shifts, the curtain lifts a little revealing a stillness that is tranquil, a silence that is conscious. Who are we? I wonder, I wonder.
Written by Sugata Bose
MESSAGES GALORE ... 129
MESSAGES GALORE ... 129
1. Oil war is devastating for the environment.
2. Cut down on your expenditure. Save national, global energy. These are treacherous times, that of needless roguish war. Economise.
3. Do warmongers realise the cost it entails on the common man? I bet they do but couldn't care less. Power-drunk politicians poisoning the world.
4. The stockpile of arms has to be spent and the commodity purchased is not peace but human suffering. The predator-prey relation continues in full flow.
5. With a heavy heart I witness human suffering consequent on the war.The cost of it could be incalculable. Myopic vision can scarce see where it all leads.
6. Those who suffer know what suffering is. The rest rest on scriptural quotes. It is a heartless world where human apathy thus reigns.
7. Love is scripture to me.
8. Man killing man. Senseless violence. The primitive instinct still prevails. Whither civilisation? Heartlessness!
9. Might is right. This is neoimperialism, not democracy.
10. Have money and have fun. This is life for some.
11. We are moving back to savage days.
12. True it is that not all are true.
13. When happiness and sadness have been equalised, the mind in tranquillity loves.
14. A bunch of unruly schoolboys rule the world.
15. When man thinks he is God and destroys at will, retribution follows. Karma will recoil.
16. ঠাকুরের কথা অমৃতসম | তাই ত' কথামৃত |
17. যে চায় সে পায় | যা চায় তাই পায় | শুধু চাওয়ার তীব্রতা আর সময়ের অপেক্ষা |
18. Nationalism is a major hindrance to world peace.
19. You cannot have world peace if you have a fractured outlook on life.
20. Irregularity of communication destroys relations.
21. Study hard. India needs bright students.
22. Life is moments knitted close to seal the gaps.
23. Plato had said philosophers should rule. Fools rule instead. Plato would have needed a regular supply of smelling salt were he alive today.
24. It is common courtesy to call back if you have missed a call. But many do not exhibit this much civility also.
25. Neglect the Guru and you miss your chance of spiritual advancement in life. Decay then inevitably follows.
26. 'Jāgte raho!' The night is 'dark and deep' but soon it will be dewy dawn, then bright tulip morn, then high noon before eve sets in again.
27. যাঁদের কথার দাম নেই, তাঁদের কাছে মানুষেরও দাম নেই | তাঁরা আপন স্বার্থসিদ্ধিতেই মগ্ন থাকেন যাকে তাঁরা কর্মব্যস্ততা আখ্যা দেন |
28. বাক্যরক্ষা চরিত্রগঠনের জন্য অপরিহার্য |
29. More and more human nature is coming clear.
30. India will become strong only through high quality academic training of our children.
31. The war has plunged the world into a crisis. It needs a rapid resolution lest it spirals out of control.
32. Petty self-interest is ruining the world. One needs a bigger perspective to secure world-welfare.
33. সুভাষচন্দ্র বসুর ব্রহ্মচর্যই ছিল শক্তি |
34. The world needs peace, not the futility of war.
35. Needless dragging of an aimless war can only damage the world and cause untold human misery. Time for sanity to prevail. Philosophers should guide.
36. পূর্ণ শ্রদ্ধার চোখে আজও আমরা একজন নেতাকেই দেখি---সুভাষচন্দ্র বসু |
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Tuesday, 3 March 2026
INSPIRATIONAL PASSAGES
INSPIRATIONAL PASSAGES
You are a glorious soul. A wonderful mother, cultured, soulful, sensitive and loving. You are dutiful beyond measure and you will be rewarded for it. As your Guru I am proud of you. Work intelligently and with diligence. It will all work out fine. My blessings always attend on you and yours. 🕉
I mean it. If you feel inspired, then you are my true disciple holding me in your veneration as veritable God. These are not words but bloodborne perceptions about the glorious one that you are. Bless you ever and ever! 🕉
You are a free soul. You have always been so. You will always remain so. You were never bound, are not bound nor will you ever be. It is delusion that you hallucinate this bondage. Now listen to your Guru's words and affirm your freedom. Declare that you are free and live like that. 🕉
You are a brilliant bilingual writer, prose and poetry both, an artist of attribute extraordinaire, a thinker of great depth and all this with a self-effacing ease, an ennobling humility that makes your achievements apparently inconspicuous, visible though they are to the perceptive eye. You underestimate yourself and it is here that I will bear upon you to bring out the best that is in you. Else, it will be talent yet again lost in the melee of mediocrity that life generally is all about. To that glorious present and future then with an abundance of appreciation and attending blessings. 🕉
Fear not. God is there with you. Who God graces with constant company, more than even shadow can but does so with existential constancy, can such a one ever come to harm? 🕉
Dawn it is and hope shines with it. Be merry that dark is at an end. Rejoice in the streaming rays that bathe the air and cleanse the soul of all dross that affect it. 🕉
There is a beauty in your writings which I cannot match, a certain artistry of a painter using his brush and with words and phrases stroking images exquisitely poetic, as if the lines have become enlivened into music that pierces the heart. Do keep writing and preserving the same. 🕉
There comes a time when the nerves are so saturated with worries that people just won't be inspired. May such a sad state never befall you is the prayer of this insignificant soul, a dust particle on the sands of time! 🕉
Thursday, 26 February 2026
MESSAGES GALORE ... 128
MESSAGES GALORE ... 128
1. Shankar, the great Bengali novelist of 'Kato Ajānāre' and 'Chouronghee' fame who passed away on 20 February, 2026 at 92 years age, had visited us in 1977 when I was 16 years old. Had a brief interaction with him when he talked to me on literature---Bankim, Rabindranath, Sharatchandra and Jibonananda Das. Illuminating experience, still etched in my memory. There have been similar such rare moments in my life when I came face to face with greatness. His humility revealed his greatness which, though, dawned on me in af'er years.
2. Value doubly the one that values you.
3. Love is a giving without thought of return.
4. It is the heart alone that conquers.
5. Wake, work, wither, sleep--what a life deep!
6. Solestar shines in the celestial sky.
7. রাজহংস হও পরমহংসের পথে |
8.
নয়ন মুদে ছিলে তুমি মস্ত মনোযোগে |
সেই যোগ ছেড়ে বা কেন এলে বিষয় সম্ভোগে ?
9. Neglect and lose. This is the karmic way.
10. The problem is to harmonise the macro and the micro.
11. One injures, the other endures---the law of life.
12. Human relation must not be vitiated by commerce.
13. Gain being prompted by greed. Was that the need?
14. God has infinite patience, fathomless love.
15. The concentrated are calm, the calm concentrated.
16. The ignorant ignore. The wise respond.
17. O those who wear human forms, whither thy humanity?
18. He who cannot stand on truth, his character has not been formed.
19. Power is in the soul, not in the body. Be soulful.
20. Know Hinduism from a realised soul.
21. God is man's innermost essence. He/She/It is existence-consciousness-bliss absolute.
22. প্রতিটি ব্রাহ্মণ পরিবার সাংস্কৃতিক ভাবে নষ্ট হয়ে গেছে সংস্কৃত চর্চা ছেড়ে দিয়ে | ব্রাহ্মণত্বের সর্বনাশে ভারতের সর্বনাশ সাধন ঘটেছে, ঘটে চলেছে |
23. In the dark night of despair, Lord, you are my only hope. This night shall pass and dawn awaken a fresher morn.
24. Children, study to save our sinking civilisation.
25. Be deeper. Levity of bearing is killing India.
26. Do not take a creative artist for granted. His trials and tribulations, tears and torment, his tortured self's lonely outpourings have all gone in to make who he is, an enigma, an alien, a mystery bound in measureless love. Love alone he comprehends and love he serves to all who care to receive what he of his boundless bounty gives, careless of return.
27. As yet some close ones care not to read my messages. Their loss is my loss as well. So difficult to organise this disorganised mass that Hindus are.
28. May peace prevail!
29. Do not fear. Be secure. Be alert. Stay safe.
30. Prayer must be peaceful and never violent.
31. Busyness is a big lie. It is business as usual.
32. Enter this world and get trapped. Bhulbhulaiyā!
33. Springtime has set in. Joy it is to be alive.
34. War is dangerous business, price paid in blood.
35. Mature people are peaceful.
36. Karma recoils, will recoil on all.
37. The destiny of man is determined by his deeds.
38. Your hard work will build future India. Work!
39. War your way to solution? Never possible.
40. Vice begets violence, violence vice.
41. Word of honour kept makes a man honourable.
42. Communication (Yoga) is spirituality.
43. Know yourself to be the Spirit Divine.
44. Busyness is often a disease. God finds time.
45. Rudeness exhibited before one's Guru is sin.
46. The war will stop. Peace will prevail.
47. Selfishness is sin.
48. This selfishness is killing the world.
49. The world could not have been selfish were the individual not selfish?
50. One neglects communication at one end to communicate at another end. All are ruled by the exigency of the hour and fall prey to its deathly grip.
51. Why rot in a well? Live in the sea.
52. Unselfishness is spirituality.
53. The selfish cannot love.
54. Love is higher than work.
55. Duty is desire camouflaged.
56. The slave follows routine and remains bound.
57. Thakur found time for all, was never busy.
58. What you neglect, you lose.
59. The blind are bound by duty. The seer lives free.
60. One finds time for everybody but one's Guru.
61. Of what avail is education if it produces slaves?
62. The arrogant, the fault-finder cannot love.
63. Begging is not the language of God. God dictates terms.
64. Selfishness makes oneself the centrepiece of life
65. The Hrishi merges in society, Prakritileen.
66. Do not devalue the gem. Rectify your estimation.
67. They all finally betray. Still love all. ❤️
68. What work, what duty, what exigency of the hour binds thee, friend? Act in freedom. Give up this falsity, this despicable desire masquerading as work.
69. Trade is all that matters? In every deed a deal?
70. The master lives, loves, never the slave.
71. Inconstancy is materialism, constancy spirituality.
72. The one whose moon has been eclipsed lives in perpetual dark.
73. They talk so much, they feel so little.
74. ভগবানের সাথেও স্বার্থের সম্বন্ধ ? শুধু চাহিদা ?
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Never in life felt busy.
Work is fun, easy.
76. One can sense at a distance. All space is within.
77. The Ātman has been eclipsed by Māyā.
78. Dark (Kāli) is Light, sheer depth of darkness!
79. The known is the unknown.
80. Every step of dance, every beat of the drum is pulsation of the Divine. Shiva dances as Kāli on His own prostrate form stretching across universes.
81. The devoted will prosper, the neglectful flounder.
82. Isn't it a shame that people are so ungrateful?
83. Solitude is better than company selfish.
84. Mother hiding in the dark writes Her script in light.
85. দুদিন বাদেই সব ফক্কাকার | তবু ঘর সাজাচ্ছে যেন চিরকাল এখানেই থাকবে |
86. জীবন্ত বিগ্রহ ছেড়ে কাকে পূজা কর'?
87. National academic standard is sharply declining.
88. It is best to spend this colourful day reflecting on the glorious life of Sri Chaitanya Mahāprabhu. Shubha Dolpūrnima to all!
89. God is your essence. You are God.
90. The way to teach children is to affirm their divinity effectively. Affirmation done, awakening will take place over due course. Kālenātmani vindati.
91. Festivity is fine. But whither spirituality?
92. Man is in the savage state still fighting wars.
93. Marksist in childhood, moneyist in adulthood, mercyist in old age--this is the life-mode of material man.
94. Nirgachchhati jagajjālāt pinjarādiva kesharī.
Breaking through the network of Māyā, he emerges a mighty lion that has broken through the bars of its confinement.
95. You are a free soul. You have always been so. You will always remain so. You were never bound, are not bound nor will you ever be. It is delusion that you hallucinate this bondage. Now listen to your Guru's words and affirm your freedom. Declare that you are free and live like that. 🕉
96. Chaitanya, Ramakrishna & ___? A 3rd incarnation ?
97. My eternal life's programme has been set. Now I am on song.
98. ভিখারী মানুষকে ভিক্ষা করায় |
99. As yet violence rules the world. Sheer savagery!
100. What is lost to man is preserved in Nature.
101. What the pen records, the heart feels more, words failing to express emotion.
102. Single line fast-flipping Hindi film songs celebrating Holi. What a decline in spiritual culture!
103. We are such a decadent race today. There is no solemnity, no aesthetic attribute in our religious festivals which are characterised by degradingly loud and vulgar Hindi film music rendered in abysmally unmusical manner with fast-flipping songs sounding heavy over modern loudspeakers that create more noise pollution than soothe the ears. Simply distasteful and unholy!
104. Are people serious about the nation's progress? Can hooligans build a nation? If this is common culture, what remains of national decline?
105. Awake? Not yet. The senses are, not you. Sleep then.
106. Holiganism going on. [4 March, 2026, Holi]
107. Breadth of the heart is depth of the soul. Spirituality is largely the largeness of heart. In the depths of the heart the Lord resides.
108. The world needs to be rid of selfishness which comes as exploitation, oppression and war. Peace can only prevail when man lives to learn and love.
109. Children, read story books. You'll enjoy and learn.
110. Satyajit Ray's movies must be seen multiple times for proper appreciation of the filmmaker's genius. The last of the Renaissance figures of Bengal.
111. From Rammohun Roy to Satyajit Ray ran the Bengal Renaissance.
112. When will we be quality conscious? Damaged books shamelessly delivered while full charges are taken. How many times may a buyer ask for replacement?
113. Nature is nothing but the universal set of hurdles in the way of the advancing soul en route to freedom.
114. When there is time at hand, you squander it. You'll repent when the hour is gone provided you have the heart to feel.
115. Waste not a moment of this ultraprecious life. Live every moment to the full in learning, loving ❤️ and diving to the depths of your being. Advance!
116. Hindus must marry earlier and have more children.
117. To facilitate bigger Hindu families foundations must come forward and provide medical and academic facilities. The cost of living must be reduced.
118. The 'sundaram' principle must be emphasised in India. We are generally lacking in aesthetic sense which is why our packaging of products is so poor, leave aside the quality of the products themselves. A certain casualness of approach, a lack of adequate care pervades our presentation in every sphere which is unfortunate for a historically seminal civilisation like India. We need to radically shift gear and amend the existent order of things. 🕉
119. Love is the gravity that holds life. Love is God.
120. Meditate to peace and bliss. Chant the mantra.
121. One's word of honour must be kept. Otherwise one loses character and credibility both. Truthfulness is the bedrock of character. Be truthful.
122. This day [6 March, 1987] was born a great soul. Happy birthday, Rohini! Let the day roll over. Then savour this moment of first awakening and freshen its flavour in the af'er light of reflection. For the first moment never repeats itself save in memory that has been lost to the soul but lives on in memory from stories heard from the lips of loving elders who were witness to that grand event, the moment of first reckoning. ❤️
123. Busyness that bars communication is bad for business.
124. Is life a business that you hold commerce at such a premium?
125. Busyness is not busyness. It is business.
126. God is busiest but is never so with His devotee.
127. The pure are beautiful. Beauty belongs to God.
128. Spirituality is not business that you can make a quick deal of it or even a long bargain. All calculation laid aside, come to the House of God.
129. Live in the world of dreams. And when the dream smashes, you will know who you are. Till then enjoy and suffer your delusive dreams.
130. For some life is eternal merriment of momentary dreams. For some others life is perpetual misery, a never-ending nightmare. Both have missed the mark and serve their sentence on earth. Slaves to life's burden of joy and woe, give up this bondage and break free.
131. "The camel bites the thorn-shrub, bleeds, yet bites it again." ~ Sri Ramakrishna
132. If life is business, let's wind it up.
133. Do not westernise yourself. Strike your Sanātani roots. Absorb what is best of the West but hold your indigenous ground.
134. Love is all-acceptance. ❤️
135. When love fails, logic comes.
136. Will reason gain access into the mansion of intuitive understanding?
137. শ্রদ্ধাই সর্বস্য | শিক্ষা তারই প্রকাশ |
138. We are a large unwieldy country going haywire in diverse directions. National concentration must be improved. Greater cohesion, solidarity needed.
139. Cultured Hindus should have 4 children per couple.
140. Disobedience leads to despair. The Guru must be obeyed.
141. There are some who spare time for one after he is dead and gone. They then spare a moment or two reflecting on his life in ceremonial recollection.
142. ঠাকুর দাসরূপে থাকতে বলেছিলেন | তাই আছি |
143. Consistency is necessary. Hard work alone pays dividend. Laziness, negligence of duty inevitably fails one. Work, work, work.
144. A long view is necessary. Farsightedness wins.
145. Life is not business. There is a depth to it.
146. Why seek anything when you yourself are God?
147. There is a great deal of business today in every sphere of life including education which is being destroyed by it.
148. If greatness is to be achieved, listen to the greats. Their wisdom goes beyond achieving temporal ends and looks at transcendence in the face. Follow!
149. Accept each one as he is. Do not impose. Love.
150. The life of one is often the sustenance of many.
151. Short gains and long losses. Bad bargain.
152. The busy never find time. They are enslaved to engagements. The free soul rules over time. He responds instantly to all who care to call on him.
153. Intelligent is the one who does not strike a deal with life. Life is not business.
154. If valencies are not learnt, how can chemistry be?
155. Spiritual success is speedy for the one intensely devoted to the ideal. Fullest focus brings fastest results. But slowly build the base. 🕉
156. Myopia can destroy a person in the long run.
157. Digestion of food is necessary, digestion of knowledge imperative. The former failing upsets a person. The latter failing may disrupt civilisation.
158. A million lies are being uttered online everyday to earn money. Is this civilisation? No, this is decadence, degeneracy, decline in character. Greed!
159. If life holds a truth it is this that it is wastefully passing by. Just think how much the greats have achieved in one lifetime and how barren we are.
160. Value a thing while it is there. Later, ruing will not return the gift.
161. The river of reveries will keep flowing. Ford it now or never.
162. Why be a slave to desires? Rule over your mind.
163. Love does not calculate. Where it does, it is business, not love. There is no double entry in love, no suspense account. Its sheet is perpetually balanced with the faintest quivering there which is the vibration of manifested love, its body hidden in the depths of the quasi-Brahman consciousness. The Unmanifest holds more than the Manifest. So, stop doing deals with life.
164. The means not being adopted, the end is never served.
165. Faith is that intense aspirational mood seeking perfection.
166. Live like a queen and assert your womanhood. But be feminine as true queenliness demands.
167. Be a man. Yield not to cowardice.
168. Man killing man senselessly. The horrors of war!
169. May health come to all! May the ailing heal!
170. Communication is the soul of community.
171. বিষয়কর্মে প্রাণ গেলে প্রাণের কর্মবিষয়ের কি হবে ?
172. অবসরপ্রাপ্তিতেই ত' অবসর | এখন ঢের বিবেকানন্দ পড়' |
173. The world must not be held hostage to whims.
174. Toxic ideologies must all go. Time to humanise.
175. ঠাকুর, স্বামীজী দুজনেই ছিলেন ক্রিকেটের পরিভাষায় all-rounder.
176. Hail sovereign of the earth, arise and rule!
177. In a war of fools the bigger fool always wins.
178. Purity seeks peace, perfidy war.
179. মনের প্রশান্তিই পবিত্রতা তথা প্রজ্ঞার লক্ষণ |
180. প্রাণশক্তি ধ্বংস করে করে রচনা | তাই ভগবান তপস্যা করেছিলেন সৃষ্টির প্রাক্কালে | শক্তির সমষ্টি সংরক্ষিত কিনা |
181. বহমান নদী ফিরে তাকায় না | জীবনও তাই |
182. When life fails, death delivers.
183. Such a deal of hypocrisy civilisation is!
184. Constancy is love.
185. Deathless you are if you are the Spirit. Kāli! Kāli! Kāli!
186. This day a great soul was born. Thakur's son. [Posted on 8 March, 2026 -- Rajarshi Ghosh born on 8 March, 1996]
187. Love transcends necessity.
188. Why plunge the world into a catastrophic war?
189. The world has been held hostage to uncivilised forces for far too long. Force itself is uncivilised. Real freedom constitutes true civilisation.
190. When the world is perilously close to catastrophe, what are the famed Vedāntists doing? Witnessing the unreality of phenomena?
191. Hypocrisy is the other name of civilisation that righteously kills.
192. The resurgence of Asia despite western oppression is inevitable.
193. Persia will survive to triumph.
194. Why hit oil depots and pollute the environment?
195. National interest must not supercede global interest.
196. আত্মানুগামী হও |
197. The meanminded, the scheming are far from God.
198. শ্রীযুক্ত হওয়ার মধ্যে লক্ষ্মীর আবির্ভাব, আবাস |
199. The oil depots that are being hit are rendering noxious the air. Millions are suffering. Whither civilisation?
200. The rich profit from war, the commoner suffers.
Saturday, 21 February 2026
POESY: DAWN IT IS
DAWN IT IS
Dawn it is and time to wake.
Dreams do fade for life to make.
Birds, they chirp as dawn doth break.
Streams in light and sloth doth shake.
Awake, awake, 'tis time to take
A snapshot free for the thirst to slake
Of captive eyes now afloat in the lake
That stretches beyond the dull dark fake.
Composed by Sugata Bose
আমার আমি আছি
আর আছো তুমি,
আমার আর এক আমি ||
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চেনা বন্ধুর রূপ চেনো না,
চিনে নাও অরূপের মাঝে ||
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Wednesday, 18 February 2026
MESSAGES GALORE ... 127
MESSAGES GALORE ... 127
1. Great souls are those that are grateful.
2. Fearlessly proceed. Charaiveti!
3. There is no end to karma till jnāna eliminates it.
4. Extricate yourself from the whirlpool of others' thoughts. Be free thinkers, creative to the core. Be original. Only then can you reach the Origin.
5. The life of one has the deeds of many.
6. Extricate the Avatār from organisation. God is without institutional appendage. Let devotion be devoid of organisational trappings.
7. Oneness is never achieved through effort. Oneness either is or is not.
8. Genius unfolds sometimes in constrained conditions, being ignited by circumstantial inhibitions and responding to the challenges thrown.
9. Dawn calls for the dewdrops. Dewdrops call for dawn.
10. The right call never comes at the right moment. Endless wait wanes expectation.
11. Character calls for serious response, subtle sensitivity, empathy that heals. Else, life is a dreary desert fit for cactuses, not men.
12. আজ ঠাকুরের জন্মতিথি | আমাদের নবজন্ম হ'ক |
13. Today is the birthday of Sri Ramakrishna as per the almanac. May we be reborn unto godliness and glory!
14. Booing that happens in the British Parliament is so unsavoury, quite unbecoming of a decent discourse.
15. Non-reaction is the ideal way to peace.
16. Let busyness not become a disease incurable.
17. It is best not to depend on anyone.
18. When the ego becomes wafer-thin, God comes and fulfils.
19. Ramakrishna was a scupltor of the soul.
20. Humility is one's greatest defence against aggression coming from unseemly quarters, non-reaction one's best armour against possible predation.
21. If there is a friend I know, it is this body that I have borne since birth. My constant companion it has been, is, will be 'till death do us part'.
22. When candles die, the wax reforms for a fresh ignition. Thus the cycle goes on ad infinitum.
23. I write, some read, some even give the ❤️ sign, some don't. But they are all welcome to the chamber of my thoughts, ideas, ideals, inspiration.
24. Life is of two days---the first of expansion without and the second of contraction within till the core consciousness is reached.
25. 'Thank you' to all who are supporting me ❤️ily.
26. Happy b'day to one whose sunrise it was today.
27. Value loved ones while they are there.
28. Through the dark of one fateful night Naren and Thakur sang 'Āmār Mā tvam he Tārā'. Naren's resistance to Kāli broke down. He surrendered to Her.
29. The sky assumes its colours, then darkens again.
30. You can never keep up with the flowing Ganga. You may dip in it sometimes.
31. I only wish I had a second me.
32. The busier the being, the more time he has at his dosposal till he totally conquers time.
33. Life is ceaseless, without beginning, without end.
34. If at times you find a full-stop left out, know it is deliberate to accomodate a bolder type.
35. When deeply hurt, stay calm. Do not react.
36. One must remember no one owes one anything. But one does owe everyone so much. It is with a deep disquiet that realisation comes till peace prevails.
37. Is man the master or the slave?
38. If sadness strikes, know happiness is at hand.
39. Sri Ramakrishna is the Ganga of spirituality. Take a dip in it and be pure.
40. Blessed be they who are truly devoted!
41. Devotion to Guru? Who has? The one who values him above work. For such a one illumination awaits, for none else till such devotion awakes.
42. Miserliness of ❤️ is not good. It creates misery.
43. Breadth of ❤️, width of mind, depth of soul---the holy trinity of attributes that takes one to the vision of one's Self, the Ātmā.
44. It is a sea of souls in perpetual procession.
45. Reject Nature to conquer it. She will yield.
46. Thakur disliked miserliness.
47. Busyness is another name for pursuit of desires.
48. For most ideas do not matter. Money matters. The gross grips the masses, the subtle eludes. And yet it is the subtle that fathers the gross. Culture is scarce in most. Thus civilisations rise, thus they in due course fall.
49. The busy can never love; the loving are never busy.
50. People are just too busy to hold communication.
51. When my hour runs out, hold me in memory fading.
52. How can the material man know the Spirit?
53. Do not expect anything from anybody. Just give.
54. Work, work, never-ending work! Is it work after all that keeps one busy or is it pure pursuit of pleasure that largely contributes?
55. The idle write. The busy do not read. God watches.
56. Life's harvest will be empty if seeds are not sown. Even the dark has its seeds sown in time immemorial whence the universal harvest is being reaped.
57. Without harbouring hatred keep a distance from those people who harm you.
58. শংকর চলে গেলেন | কত অজানারে জানিয়ে গেলেন জন অরণ্যে যোগ বিয়োগ গুণ ভাগে সীমাবদ্ধ না হয়ে | এপার বাংলা ওপার বাংলা উভয়ের সাহিত্য জগতে আজ আর এক যবনিকা পতন |
59. Read 'Kato Ajānāre' by Sankar. A classic!
60. The way to greatness is to focus on the essence of man and not on his foibles and failings.
61. I would request those who can read Bengali to read Sankar's great novels 'Kato Ajānāre', 'Chouronghee', 'Nibeditā Reasearch Laboratory' and the like.
62. Never be niggardly in your ways. Encourage talent wherever you find it. Nurturing talent creates culture which is the prime necessity of the times.
63. Keep clicking the ❤️ button at the base of the page to express your support. This is the 'Great Expectation' from those of you who as yet refrain.
64. Be a man. Be a woman. Stand on your own feet.
65. Make time for those that matter. Else, they'll disappear. Your neglect will cause their departure. Life is meant for meeting, not vanishing thus.
66. Study the works of our own great men and women.
67. The shortsighted suffer. The farsighted conquer.
68. It is hardly holy to offer one's spiritual preceptor the crumbs of ones's plate. His divinity deserves better. As you sow, so shall you reap.
69. Myself replicated ad infinitum is the universe.
70. The union of spirits is the union of selves.
71. Brāhmans still have that extraordinary depth of spirit, that penetrative vision, that recounting which journeys through time to bring back photographic memories of the past.
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72. Culture cannot come from visiting places. Culture comes from visiting within.
73. Your word of honour is your strength.
74. The generous prosper.
75. Isolation hurts. Man is by nature gregarious.
76. Have a long view of life. Do not rush in for quick results. That is the shortest path to longterm failure.
77. Constancy of aim and effort achieves the end.
78. Sweetness is the essence of life. Raso vai sah!
79. Sincerity is the foundation of worthwhile work.
80. Curiosity is the mother of knowledge.
81. Great ideas give birth to great deeds. Think.
82. Fill the mind with great thoughts by studying the lives of great people. That is the way to your own greatness.
83. Great minds rest while working hardest.
84. Life is precious. Time should not be wasted. Read.
85. Try and excel in studies. You'll be respected by all, one of the least of the dividends earned. Knowledge will nourish, illumine. Study.
86. Misers will never prosper despite being rich.
87. Can little hearts love?
88. If God were as miserly as these little hearts?
89. Sri Ramakrishna found miserliness distasteful.
90. How can the mean-minded have God-vision?
91. Be of large heart ❤️. Else, in vain has been life.
92. Busybodies will find God too busy to bless them.
93. Expand your heart ❤️.
94. You are your own friend. You are your own enemy.
95. Titular discipleship is no good. Be real ones.
96. Fortunate is the one who knows how to love. And, yet, how few do so! Most behave as if they are devoid of this vital attribute enough. They miss life.
97. Constancy, the criterion. Concentration with it.
98. Where there's life, there's hope. Where there's hope, there's life.
99. He who has loved the world, the world will weep for him.
100. The Hindu's fluid idea of God makes him the most spiritual. He can access God easily as he has made Him homely.
101. Tears convey what words do not.
102. The heart is the soul of the Self.
103. It is broadness of spirit that gains sympathy.
104. Try to deepen your personality. This is the road to resurrection of culture which has reached its nadir owing to shallowness of soul. Read.
105. You cannot raise the masses by lowering culture. Spread Sanskrit to raise Bhāratvarsha. This, though difficult but possible, must be the way.
106. The language of the heart all understand, not so the language of the head. ❤️
107. Through the heart conquer, not through force.
108.
একি ঠাকুর, এখানে কেন, মুদ্দাফরাশের মাঝে ?
আমি ত' এখানকারই |
109. If life be in shambles, hold on to Swamiji.
110. তপস্যা নেই, তাই অর্থলীপ্সা |
111. যাঁরা ছিলেন, তাঁরা আছেন, তাঁরা থাকবেন | মৃত্যু নেই অমৃতের |
112. Poetic words are pathways to freedom.
113. আজ যেটা আধুনিক, কাল সেটা ইতিহাস ; কালক্রমণে যদি বা ফিরে আসে |
114. Communication is the soul of writing. The reader's delight is the joy of the writer.
115. ভুলনা কখনও তুমি ব্রাহ্মণ তনয়া |
116. অপসংস্কৃতির সাথে আজ সংস্কৃতির যুদ্ধ চলেছে | সংস্কৃতিবান, সংস্কৃতিবতী সংখ্যালঘু, তাই সংস্স্কৃতি পর্যুদস্ত |
117. Culture is a delicate thing which is becoming difficult to conserve in an age of progressive degeneration owing to all-round demographic shift.
118. ব্রাহ্মণত্বের বিকাশে বাংলার পুনর্জাগরণ হবে | তার জন্য বিদ্যাবুদ্ধির বহুল চর্চা চাই | সদ্বুদ্ধির প্রকাশে সংস্কৃতির পুনঃপ্রকাশন নবরূপে অবসম্ভাবী |
119. হালকা হয়ো না, উড়ে যাবে |
120. হৃদয়ের কার্পণ্য অনাধ্যাত্মিক বৃত্তি | ❤️
121. Be not envious of others' achievements. Love ❤️.
122. When life becomes weary, wake with the sun.
123. The inability to communicate regularly is a definite sign of indifference. One does not neglect one's dear ones. Exceptions are there of course.
124. The dark background sharpens life's coloured contrast. Let life be not dark, though. May springtime freshen hues in everyone's life!
125. If life holds a truth, it is this that it is never-ending. You were never born nor will you ever die. Disengage from the body and stand free.
126. Infinity partitioned into space-time bits is Māyā bred in avidyā (ignorance). Māyā is that which is not, yet appears to be. Be illumined!
127. Have tremendous faith in yourself. Conquer fear.
128. Associate with the great and become great.
129. Manifest a big heart ❤️ and life will ease.
130. Royalty belongs to all. Why live like a slave?
131. Why pull the brāhman down? Raise yourself up.
132. Wish becomes will, will work, work fulfilment.
133. নিজের প্রতি বিশ্বাস না থাকলে চলে ? কে রক্ষা করবে বিপদে ? স্বাবলম্বী হও |
134. Combine the forces of good to combat evil. Cast aside pettiness of all sorts. If you yourself are mean, how can you lift others out of the pit? ❤️
135. Live like a queen and be not mean. Love ❤️ to live.
136. Bhakti cannot spring in the dry heart. Water it.
137. Daylight brightens sight but shortens it. Night reveals the depths of the cosmos. And beyond the twain the Self reveals Reality reflexive, free.
138. It is impossible to imagine non-existence.
139. Desires conjure dreams. Dreams kindle desires. Thus the fire springs. The cycle of life goes on.
140. Upon your effort rests your success.
141. The updates are a legion. If I can write them, can you not read them for they are all for you? And ❤️ them too for that inspires one to pen more.
142. All life I've intensely worked, never felt busy.
143. This busyness is basically business. Shun it.
144. How lonely does the artist feel till he finds his audience!
145. God laughs when people say they are busy.
146. Just for a copper coin or two! What a waste of life!
147. Gold and silver are worth more than life spent in chasing them. What a travesty of human life!
148. Career is the pathway of the soul.
149. Wasting youth chasing money? Call it career?
150. Be the master of work, not its slave as you are.
151. Ideas needn't be converted to hard cash. Ideas are wealth in themselves. Be full of golden ideas and yourselves become gold.
152. The material man running after the material monk. Result: buildings while the Paramahamsa strolls alone in the Panchavati awaiting a fresh return. And when he comes, he will resurrect his own teachings and prove that they are not outdated but are very much valid and more so in these days of drunkenness of desires, verily the very need of the times, the medicine for the madness of monk and man.
153. Many a mother has died giving life to the child. Maternity care has improved much, needs to far more. Children, study hard and become good doctors.
154. None but Swamiji inspires, none else, none else.
155. হালকা লোক, বকে বেশি | Pretentious culture, mediocrity masquerading as mastery! Self-publicity, disguised and brazen!
156. How selfish can people be? Despite repeated requests they will view but not react heartily ❤️ to the updates. It is like seeing a film free.
157. The mean can never realise God nor find peace.
158. The heart of the matter is that people lack in heart. That is why they suffer. Else, life is bliss. Rejoice in others' happiness for we are all one. ❤️
159. None that is niggardly can be spiritual.
160. The stagnant pool stinks. The broad river freshens in its very flow. Flow like the river and keep your fragrance free.
161. In the darkening night of deep despair, never lose hope. There's someone dear waiting for you with the tidings of a dewy dawn. Love ❤️ can never fail.
162. You may have forgotten Ramakrishna but Ramakrishna remembers you. Rest assured. This deep dark is She who remembers all.
163. Consciousness is the light of the soul.
164. Heart is all there is to a movement. Head strikes not a resonant chord. The heart does, pulls in the masses, moves them along the direction divine. Spirituality, humanity, happiness, love are all founded in the heart. The Lord Himself is seated there. Expand the heart and be blissful.
165. Where head fails, heart fulfils. Love is strength.
166. Dive into the Ganga of Thakur. Cling to the pillar of light snd strength that is your Guru. Both will save you from fear and foe.
167. In doing charity organisations reduce themselves to becoming greedy beggars. Better not do such charity with pompous spiritual proclamations.
168. বাংলা বানানের অন্ত্যেষ্টিক্রিয়া, আদ্যশ্রাদ্ধ সকলই সুসম্পন্ন হয়েছে | এখন পুনর্জন্ম ঘটেছে তার রকমারি পোশাকে, নব নব কলেবরে | তা বেশ, বেশ !
169. How precious life is! One can learn. One can love.
170. Perseverance pays.
171. Sincerely seek.
172. Hold hard onto your ideal with a deeply feeling heart. Let not the common currency of life distract you from your goal. Concentrate on the Divine.
173. Be as intense as the blue end of the spectrum.
174. Do not beggar a loving soul. It will recoil.
175. Distance does not distance. Dryness does.
176. The perennial life-principle pervades the perishable form. Seek ye that which is enduring amidst this collapsing cottage of cards.
177. Help each other bear the load of life. Love all.
178. Love is a power nonpareil, the cure for all ills.
179.
A fair bit of freedom,
A fair bit of space
To fly to ionian heights,
To bolt, to run the race.
180. Practise listening to Hindustani classical music.
181. যা দেবার আছে দাও | কি পেলে তা নিয়ে ভেবো না | এখন দেশ গড়ার সময় | ও সব স্বার্থচিন্তার সময় এখন নয় | ত্যাগী কি ও সব ভাবে ?
182. Be not slave to circumstance. Rule over it.
183. পরিস্থিতির দাস হয়ো না | পরিস্থিতির ওপর প্রভুত্ব কর |
184. বঞ্চিত করলে বঞ্চিত হবে | দেওয়ার মধ্যেই পাওয়া | তবে, হুঁশিয়ার !
185. চলার পথেই বাধা | নাকি বাধার পথেই চলা ?
186. Be strong. Nature spares not the weak.
187. The weak are miserable; the strong self-sufficient and happy. Be strong.
188. Sharp will your success in life be if prompt be your responses to its challenges. Speed of response to stimuli is the prime determining factor.
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