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 

REST IN PEACE, THOU, 'REST IN PEACE'

REST IN PEACE, THOU, 'REST IN PEACE'

How can one rest in peace when the swinging pendulum unceasing ticks time and atoms keep rolling to congregate and dissolve? Is there any rest anywhere save in final liberation when the fetters have fallen, the universe has melted away, God has died and Man awakened to his undying Being in his own Godhead when he witnesses his Self as the God he had always sought? Till then how can rest be? How peace? How 'Rest in peace'? Does life cease in a single stroke that peace shall irrational follow? It is not a single season that makes the year nor a lone lifetime that composes corporeal existence. The Abrahamic religions are wrong, far far off the mark in their estimation of truth. Thus the fanciful 'Rest in peace'. There is no peace in Phenomena, Māyā. Peace alone abides in the Absolute, the Brahman. 

Written by Sugata Bose

দশরব

দশরব ...১

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১) তাঁর দয়া হলে দোষদৃষ্টি দূর হয় |

২) যতক্ষণ দেহবোধ, ততক্ষণ পাপ |

৩) প্রেমপূর্ণ আচরণই পুণ্য |

৪) ঐক্যবুদ্ধিই প্রেম |

৫) প্রেম ঈশ্বর | তাই প্রেম অবিনাশী |

৬) মানুষের মহত্তম সত্তা ঈশ্বর |

৭) প্রেমই সার্বজনীন ভাষা |

৮) ভাষার অন্তে ভাব, ভাবের অন্তে প্রেম, প্রেমের অন্ত নাই |

৯) দেখে, শুনে, বুঝে কিছুই বোঝা হল না | এই বোঝাটা (সংসারবোধ) রয়েই গেল |

১০) তাঁর পূতস্পর্শেই মুক্তি |

রচনা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose) 

দশরব ... ২

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১) ভোগের মধ্যে ক্ষয়, ত্যাগেই বিজয় |

২) বাক্য নয়, কর্ম চাই |

৩) সংহতিই শক্তি |

৪) সর্বদা বাস্তববাদী, সর্বদা আদর্শবাদী, সর্বদা আশাবাদী |

৫) হিন্দুর সংরক্ষণে জগতসংরক্ষণ |

৬) আচার্যদেবদের পূজা চাই, মহাপুরুষদের মনন |

৭) বংশীধারী নহে, চক্রধারী |

৮) নিঃশক্তির আবার প্রেম কি ? সংস্কৃতি কি ? চাই পৌরুষের উদ্বোধন |

৯) জীবন মরণের দিকে ধেয়ে চলেছে | তাই আদর্শপালনহেতু মহামরণ বরণীয় |

১০) ব্রহ্মচর্য ও বীরত্বের সাধনা---এর প্রেমপরিণয়ে শত্রুনাশ |

রচনা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

SEPARATE ADHERENT FROM IDEOLOGY

SEPARATE ADHERENT FROM IDEOLOGY 

Anti-ideology need not mean anti-adherent. An adherent may have been by birth trapped into abiding by a certain ideology and cannot will his way out of it. But he may in terms of other human qualities be an excellent individual with a great capacity for spiritual unfolding which is right now being circumstantially impeded. But the ideology he is by birth and indoctrination being made to follow may be rotten to the core, anti-human, anti-life and utterly tribal and archaic with no place in a modern world of universal values, non-sectarian and human. To separate individual from ideology is then imperative. This done, it is easy enough to weed out the degenerate doctrines and arrive at a reformed view of life and truth. If the ideology resists reformation, it will have to be left alone to die a desolate death in the desert sands of disuse. Meanwhile, evolution carries on, humanity progresses. 

Written by Sugata Bose

READ THE GANGA IN THE GOMUKH

READ THE GANGA IN THE GOMUKH

We need to read Sri Ramakrishna's and Swami Vivekananda's message direct and not through the lens of feeble preachers coming after them and interpreting them. The Master and his Apostle are direct enough, simple enough for easy understanding and need no intermediaries to interpret their message in the light of their fractional understanding for us to swallow and digest with altered understanding. This is how the messages of great spiritual teachers are lost to humanity as mediocre men of shallow intellect and inferior understanding take upon themselves the superior charge of instructing such to people. Come off this business of learning from such latter-day lights and go back to the original. Read Ramakrishna and Vivekananda as they truly were and not as they are made out to be in the fractured understanding, in the fractional interpretation, in the altered presentation as per the convenience of latter-day preachers and writers. Read the source books. Let none stand between Thakur-Swamiji and you. These original works are well available. Avail of them.

Written by Sugata Bose 

HEAL THE HURT

HEAL THE HURT 

When a person is in deep distress, you do not scold him or ignore him or simply cast him away as so much trash. Humanity demands deeper empathy, acceptance and love that heals and restores health. Each person is divine and needs to be included in the scheme of things, not schemed out of reckoning or simply sold for a few copper coins that are valued more than flesh and blood. Life is a slit unto the vast background reality that is divine. Humanity is but the intermediate state, an opening unto the trinity of existence-consciousness-bliss. Must you fail to appreciate each life that is a beam of the infinite optical spectra rambling through countless pathways in countless universes, up, down and sideways? Do not neglect any. Each one is the Most High coming in myriad shapes through mystifying Māyā. Recognise the Real in the phenomenal, your own in distant deflected beings. The blood of immortality flows in all waiting to be spilled unto union with the Ākāsh Gangā. The stars blaze but appear to twinkle, such is the poetry of life, such the movie screened in the firmament of fertile dreams of fullest fruition in the fullness of time. Therefore, neglect none, be kind to all and loving in varying degrees to all who injure not life's possibilities in people. Read poetry in prose, melody in dry score and love in the lily that fades not with time. Bliss it is to be born, bliss to live and bliss to merge in the Mother who never forsakes. I come, Mother, I come.

Written by Sugata Bose

LESSONS OF LIGHT

LESSONS OF LIGHT

1. Be simple. Do not complicate thoughts. Be straightforward. Do not go about meandering in life. The avenue is broad. The path is straight. Freedom is at hand. It is within you. It is your very being, your very existence, your deepest sense of 'I'. Affirm it. Do not wind about. Hit the mark right away.

2. The dog's curly tail remains curly however one may straighten it. Such is its elasticity. Likewise for society. Its conservatism, inertia, resistance to reformation is so intrinsic to it that almost all attempts to alter status fail till the right time comes when its organic capacity to evolve further has through experience been attained. Then society surges forward to the next phase of its life. Where it fails, it simply dies. Where it adapts and evolves, it lives. 

Mass movement is ever complex and full of conflicting forces resolving out motion. Hence, evolution often is better than revolution attempted out of raw impulse. Even revolution is a part of evolution, its climactic rapid change of order in the fullness of time, and revolution has its own dynamic, its laws, conditional constraints, circumstantial requirements and, most importantly, proper preparedness of the people who will revolve, for human behaviour is not deterministic that it can be delineated in terms of infallible laws resonating to time and space. There is a quantum behaviour of the mind akin to subatomic particles which is unpredictable and does not guarantee revolutionary results despite all other conditions being conducive to bringing it about. 

3. পরিস্থিতির দাস যারা, স্বার্থের বশীভূত যারা, তারা আর ভালবাসবে কি করে? ভালবাসে মুক্তমন, মুক্তজন |

4. Seek God as the highest goal of life towards which all of sentience is headed. Everything else is evanescent and will tie you to this painful cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth, seemingly without end. Acquire knowledge temporal and transcendental, and break free from the eight fetters that bind. They are shame, hatred/aversion, fear, honour, lineage, routinised observance, caste/class and the secretive impulse. 

5. Guru is God. 

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