Thursday, 20 August 2026
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
SPREAD VIVEKANANDA, SAVE THE WORLD---LET THIS BE THE MISSION
SPREAD VIVEKANANDA, SAVE THE WORLD---LET THIS BE THE MISSION
Ramakrishna Mission, spread Vivekananda in the world. The world is burning. Must Swamiji's message wait? Send missionaries across the world, far, far more than you have till date, to rapidly propagate Swamiji. Annihilation is in the offing. Can you not see? Or, are you waiting for another Swamiji to be born to do what Swamiji had expected you to do? Must you frustrate him so?
I reiterate. Ramakrishna Mission, spread Vivekananda in the world without delay. The world is near a precipice. Can you not see with your sage's eyes? What is apparent to us, is it escaping your vision cone? We are powerless individuals with neither resource nor support but you are an organisation potent enough, rich in resources, spiritual and material, who can do the needful. Must you fail to fulfil your founder's aspiration?
I know you have done enough and are even now doing so. But can you afford to be complacent when the world is facing destruction on so many counts, principal among which is greed?
From environmental crisis to the threat of nuclear holocaust, from political powerplay among nations to perfidious proselytism of faiths, the insatiable appetite of man to dominate fellow men, of the strong to tyrannise the weak, of the privileged to preserve position by ruthless exploitation of the dispossessed---these have driven civilisation to the brink of destruction. Can you wait to witness the final act of man's insanity then?
Spread Vivekananda, the anointed of the Avatār, the Apostle premier infused with the spirit of his divine Master, the soul destined to save the world from this crisis. Make his literature free for the readers online. Upload them all online for free. Forget about selling books. Now serve free this literature to all and sundry. The funds will come as they have always come. Let this massive movement begin right away. So, onward! Charaiveti!
May the Holy Trinity of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji bless the Mission in this grand missionary endeavour! 🕉 Hindu!
Written by Sugata Bose
ও মন্ত্রী মশাই !
ও মন্ত্রী মশাই !
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জন্মদিনে, অন্তর্ধান দিবসে নেতাজীকে দুই চরণে স্মরণ তো দেখি মন্ত্রীরা খুব করছেন কিন্তু তাঁকে জীবনে বরণ ও হৃদয়ে ধারণ তাঁরা কবে করবেন ? নেতাজী কি মাত্র দুকলি কথা আর প্রণতি তথা ? নেতাজী তো অখণ্ড ভারতপ্রকল্প, স্বাধীনতাকামী মানুষের সাম্যের স্পৃহা | তাই নেতাজীকে দুদিন দুকথায় দুদণ্ড দানে প্রকৃত শ্রদ্ধাজ্ঞাপন করা হয় না | তাঁর জীবনদর্শন, চিন্তাভাবনা, আশাআকাঙ্ক্ষাকে জীবনে ধারণ করে তা লোকহিতকর, যথার্থ জাতিগঠন তথা দেশগঠনের কাজে রূপায়িত করার মধ্যেই তার সার্থকতা |
এই প্রতিবেদনটি রাজনৈতিক নেতানেত্রী ও মন্ত্রীদের উদ্দেশ্যে রচিত কারণ এর বিষয়বস্তুর সাথে তাঁরাই বিশেষভাবে সম্পৃক্ত | তাঁরা যেন ভুলে না যান যে তাঁদের মতই নেতাজীও রাজনৈতিক ব্যক্তিত্ব ছিলেন, ছিলেন অবিভক্ত ভারতবর্ষের প্রধানমন্ত্রী | কিন্তু কী অসীম প্রভেদ তাঁর ও আজকের নেতামন্ত্রীদের মধ্যে !
নেতৃবৃন্দ, মন্ত্রীমহোদয়, মন্ত্রীমহোদয়া, এটি পর্যবেক্ষণ করুন, অনুধ্যান করুন, তারপর নিজেদের অনুশাসনপূর্বক দেশসেবায় কথা কম ও কাজ বেশি, এই মন্ত্রবলে স্বদেশের সেবায় আত্মনিয়োগ করুন | এখন যা করছেন তা নেতাজীর জীবনদর্শন, ভাবনাচিন্তা ও কর্মপন্থার সম্পূর্ণ পরিপন্থী | নেতাজীর রচনা পাঠ করুন | তাঁকে জানুন, বুঝুন, তারপর তাঁর অসমাপ্ত ভারতগঠনকর্ম সম্পাদন করে তাঁর প্রতি সারা বছর যথার্থ শ্রদ্ধা প্রদর্শন করুন | এতেই আপনাদের নিজেদের কল্যাণ, দলের কল্যাণ, জাতির কল্যাণ ও দেশের কল্যাণ | আর এই সমস্ত কর্ম নিঃশব্দে করুন | মানুষ সঠিক সেবা পেলে ঠিক বুঝবে | সূর্যকে প্রতি প্রাতে লাউস্পিকারে তাঁর উদয়ঘোষণা করতে হয় না | 🕉 হিন্দু !
রচনা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Monday, 17 August 2026
MAY THE MASTER COME ALIVE IN OUR WORLD THAT IS FALLING APART---LET THIS BE THE MISSION ZEALOUSLY PURSUED
MAY THE MASTER COME ALIVE IN OUR WORLD THAT IS FALLING APART---LET THIS BE THE MISSION ZEALOUSLY PURSUED
It is time now to propagate widely with intense missionary zeal the life and message of Sri Ramakrishna. When Swami Vivekananda had visited America in the last decade of the nineteenth century it was not expedient for him to preach his spiritual master's life as the times were not right. The West had a poor idea of India then and would not be able to grasp the depth and divinity of the Ramakrishna-personality. They would immediately compare him to Christ unfavourably and miss the significance of the modern master's life and message. It was thus deemed best by Swamiji to shelve his Master's personality for the while and awaken a sense of respect, even reverence, for the philosophy of eternal India which in course of time would prepare the West for receiving the great spiritual masters of India in the right reverential spirit. Accordingly, he had but spoken of his Master before his students and western disciples in private classes and had publicly delivered but one lecture in two sessions on Sri Ramakrishna titled 'My Master'.
Decades passed and in the 1960s Srila Abhaycharanāravinda Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda preached the personality of Krishna and Chaitanya before a radically altered common western audience with magical success. Thus began the ISKCON movement which spread like wildfire across the world. But the Ramakrishna Mission did not budge from the earlier stand taken by their founder and continued generally to teach the Vedānta to its western audiences, hardly altering course ever to massively preach the Master's life.
Today Krishna and his Bhagavadgitā are more well-known in the West than Ramakrishna and 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna'. The Ramakrishna Mission simply have not taken to spreading the life or the message of the Master with the missionary zeal that Swami Vivekananda had expressed in an interview with a western newspaper was his essential intent.¹ A century and a quarter has rolled on since that day and it is time indeed for course-correction. May the Mission spread the life and message of the Master with the missionary zeal that Swamiji had expected them to do but at which they have terribly failed him!
Written by Sugata Bose
Note:
1. https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_5/interviews/reawakening_of_hinduism.htm
REAWAKENING OF HINDUISM ON A NATIONAL BASIS
(Prabuddha Bharata, September, 1898)
In an interview which a representative of Prabuddha Bharata had recently with the Swami Vivekananda, that great Teacher was asked: "What do you consider the distinguishing feature of your movement, Swamiji?"
"Aggression," said the Swami promptly, "aggression in a religious sense only. Other sects and parties have carried spirituality all over India, but since the days of Buddha we have been the first to break bounds and try to flood the world with missionary zeal."
ONWARD UNTO BATTLE THEN!
ONWARD UNTO BATTLE THEN!
Let forces be balanced. Pull in your ploughsgare of life's labour to fulfil this grand mission. Upon your work rests the future of humanity. It is to counter ignorance that generates evil that this mission must be accomplished. Let us deliver our best in utter detachment so that results adverse do not dishearten us, mission failed umpteen number of times does not discourage us to plunge in this war of attrition once more. Victory shall be ours, for truth ever triumphs, it being embedded as principle premier in the fabric of phenomena whose foundation is Life and Truth. The clarion call has been sounded by Krishna in Dvāpar and in this modern age just the other day by Swamiji. Let us plunge in and die game if need be but let us war on against the forces of primeval evil now manifesting as man's predatorial instincts gone berserk.
Written by Sugata Bose
Sunday, 16 August 2026
REFLECTIONS ... 2
REFLECTIONS ... 2
Once a bad habit sets in, it has to be painstakingly counteracted. Otherwise, character is destroyed. Truthfulness and verbal commitment are two such attributes that are best cultivated from early childhood. Else, they never become part of a person's personality. In the absence of fidelity to truth everything is in due course lost, beginning with spiritual consciousness and the possibility of liberation in life. However, materialistic people are not bothered about liberation as they live as the body instead of in it and care not for anything beyond the fleeting pleasures of life and all that are necessary for their fulfilment which they pompously term duty, obligation, work et al. But this is all in ignorance perceived and pronounced and is far removed from truth.
Written by Sugata Bose
WE ARE IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION AS A SPECIES
WE ARE IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION AS A SPECIES
We need trees, trees, plenty of trees, forests, vegetation in superabundance. Only then may we survive in a world made hostile towards ourselves by our very selves. We have injured the planet, abused and degraded it for our degraded sense enjoyment. We have upset the delicate balance upon which life thrives and it now for us to restore it if we wish to live on. Else, extinction stares us in the face.
Towards the end of his life Einstein had remarked that the human species would not be completely annihilated in a nuclear holocaust. It, should it happen, would consume two-thirds of humanity. The great man however said that humanity might not survive environmental degradation, though, which could be the likely cause of its ultimate end. These were wise words issuing from the lips of one of the great minds of all time and we ought to heed them and adopt measures that would thwart such a catastrophic end to our beautiful species for all its faults and failures thus far.
Written by Sugata Bose
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