ARISE! AWAKE! ... 3

ARISE! AWAKE! ... 3

World civilisation has to be built. It cannot be if major powers play their selfish roles. Hindu spirituality must play its part. It is not doing so. Massive preaching of Ramakrishna-Vivekānanda in a robust way across the whole world is necessary. Manhood must manifest in spiritual propagation, not effeminacy in monastic dance. The world is thirsting for spiritual knowledge and peaceful repose. India is failing to supply it although it has such resources at its disposal. There must be massive mobilisation of spiritual arsenal across the world. This is the one way to save the world from continuing conflict and war. 

Civilisation is a human affair. It is not nationalistic in nature anymore in a closely connected world. The Government of India ought to facilitate this foreign policy of ours that was highlighted by Swami Vivekananda well over a century ago, that of propagating the Vedānta the world over in all its phases. Now is the time. Ramakrishna Mission, gear up. Spread Ramakrishna-Vivekānanda in a bold manly manner. It is the charge that you bear. Exhibit the zeal that is expected of you. Yours is a world mission. You must fulfil it. The peerless Paramahamsa did not visit this earth for anything short of spiritualising the whole world and ushering in a new civilisation. 

Written by Sugata Bose

SANĀTAN DHARMA AND THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS ... 1

SANĀTAN DHARMA AND THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS ... 1

Abrahamic religions all believe in a single earthly life whereas the truth is that the soul repeatedly takes up different forms till it attains human birth and then through a series of births attains fulfilment in freedom from the embodied self. This is the philosophical stance of the Sanātan Dharma which is the truth as it can through spiritual experience be verified and to the experiencer validated. Thus, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all flawed which effectively means that they are not divinely revealed religions in the truest sense, as claimed, because the Divine cannot make such a huge mistake in describing phenomenal reality. 

Written by Sugata Bose

ARISE! AWAKE! ... 2

ARISE! AWAKE! ... 2

Hindus today are at the crossroads where they must make a choice as to whether they will cling to their Dharma and fight inimical ideologies hell-bent on their destruction or they will forsake Dharma and surrender to these dastardly forces to usher in their own doom. For thirteen hundred and ninety years ever since the first Arab forays into Hindu heartland in 636 CE Hindus have suffered the worst genocide history can testify to. An estimated minimum of 80 million Hindus were killed by Islamic jihad and a far greater number---in the view of Ferishta the population of Hindus at the time of the first Islamic invasion was 600 million, and by the end of the nineteenth century this had plummeted to 200 million---, 400 million had vaporised into thin air owing to Islamic slaughter, persecution, enslavement, abduction of Hindu women, economic deprivation and forced conversion. The European colonial powers stemmed the Islamic assault but replaced it with their own brand of sophisticated proselytism and economic drainage which reduced the richest country in the world to one of the poorest. Portuguese torture of Hindus, their Inquisituon, is of especial mention here. Thus, over the past fourteen centuries Hindus have endured genocide after genocide till the final injury came in the form of dismemberment of the motherland in 1947. No other race would have forgiven so much civilisational pain inflicted on them but the Hindus sadly have. Not only that, apparently they do not care to know about the horrors their forefathers had to endure. This is not only sad but positively dangerous, for amnesia thus can precipitate a worse ordeal in future and utterly annihilate this debilitated race of hurt heritage and injured identity. 

In this age Swami Vivekananda arose along with seminal sages and savants, patriots and Hindu ideologues like Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Dayānand Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, Sitaram Goel, Ram Swarup and others who have laid down the blueprint for Hindus to follow in defence of civilisation, identity and person. We should read their works, heed their message and act in accordance in defence of the Dharma. Upon our awareness depends our survival. This is verily the dharma of the Hindu in this perilous hour of his. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

ARISE! AWAKE! ... 1

ARISE! AWAKE! ... 1

For some time past Christianity is being preached using Hindu symbols and by plagiarising Hindu philosophy in the name of Christ to facilitate conversion of Hindus to the Christian fold. But Hindus are not to be duped so easily. So, economic incentives and academic facilities are also provided to ease induction. Here we have work at hand. Our brethren need sympathy, support and awareness of their Dharma to foster solidarity. The poor and the middle classes must not be exploited economically by the rich. Godmen and famous Gurus must not dupe and fleece the commoner. The Vedānta Dharma must be preached in truth, not for serving political agendas but for raising the consciousness of the masses. Hindu girls must be supported and families offered financial support so that they may raise multiple children well. Highly educated and talented  people must have more children so that the genes proliferate and upgrade the population qualitatively. Swami Vivekānanda must be preached across the body politic of the nation, not in a soft, selective manner that conceals more than it reveals his essential message but in a vigorous vein that is characteristic of him and his thought. Let the worship of Vivekānanda be popularised and see what a wonderful change comes. No soft sentimentality, no soft music and dance that is typically effeminate but real manhood that thunders and awakens the sleeping populace. Arise, Hindu, awake! Now no hour of rest. The sun shines on the eastern horizon. Come ye out and receive its first radiance.

Written by Sugata Bose

THE RESURRECTION

THE RESURRECTION 

The Resurrection of Jesus symbolises the spiritual ascent of man, of the divine in him, his sublimation of self, the upward movement of the spiritual power that is coiled up in him, his inward flow, his depth-dive unto the Divine. Resurrection is not only of the Son of God but of the Son of Man, the grand occasion of the confluence of man and God. Herein Jesus, the son of Mary, becomes Christ, the Master of man. Christianity has the Resurrection as its cornerstone. Verily, verily, arise, awake and resurrect thyself! Become a Christ unto mankind. Amen.

Written by Sugata Bose

MESSAGES GALORE ... 133

MESSAGES GALORE ... 133

1. Men must have patience to do their spiritual practices diligently for a while. Too much of questioning is symptomatic of surface consciousness.

2. A lot of pain has to be endured by the one who has come to serve a divine purpose, that of the resurrection of humanity. He need not in flesh rise but must rise in the Spirit even as humanity in following the Master must rise in the fullness of time. The darkness of the ages must give way to the radiance of the new dawn when all will be fragrant fresh, luminous forms that are no more flesh. 

3. নির্মোহ ভালবাসার নাম ভক্তি |

4. The more you think of Swāmi Prameyānandaji, the better for your spiritual growth. He was an enlightened soul, a thorough gentleman and kind and loving.

5. Every moment you realise God and you do not realise it. In and through God you experience everything including your own existence. This existence at its deepest is God, that very God who you aspire to see.

6. The night of day obscures everything, the day of night reveals.

7. Enough of business! Now read Swamiji. 

8. If educated people are spiritually so irresponsible, it is but natural that rogues will rule over us with impunity. 

9. Hindus must place dharma above business. Else, they will be obliterated.

10. Nirantar Nāmsmaran. Incessant remembrance of the Name.

11. সব গেলে যা থাকে, তাই ঈশ্বর |

12. আধ্যাত্মিকতার অপর অর্থ অন্তর্মুখীনতা |

13. শয়নে স্বপনে জাগরণে যখন স্মরণমনন স্বয়ংক্রিয়ভাবে চলবে ঠাকুরের, তখন তাঁর কৃপা হবে, দর্শন হবে |

14. Truthfulness is the foundation of character.

15. Mary Magdalene was a great saint, the greatest apostle and closest to Christ. She was wronged by the Church but stands redeemed today in truth. 

16. Others claim but Thakur had actually seen Christ.

17. Who knows the Truth knows not. Truth alone knows Itself. The rest is reflection.

18. Must we fail to bring forth great children and rear them well as well? May gods and goddesses be born!

19. Whosoever loveth Me, liveth in Me.

20. The life of one is the life of many.

21. For some time past Christianity is being preached using Hindu symbols and by plagiarising Hindu philosophy in the name of Christ to facilitate conversion of Hindus to the Christian fold.

22. নিরন্তর জপধ্যান না করলে ঈশ্বরলাভ কস্মিনকালেও হবে না | তৈলধারাবৎ প্রেমপূর্ণ স্মরণমনন ভাবের ঘরে কোন রকম চুরি না করে | তবে বস্তুলাভ |

23. No lowering of the ideal will do. Come health, sickness, poverty, wealth---come what may, I shall not swerve from the path of Truth, from the line of duty, from the adopted course of austere action aspiring for realisation of the Truth.

24. What an endless tragedy befell after Islam invaded India! And the ordeal continues even today everywhere in the subcontinent.

25. ভগবান কি খুব বোকা যে তাঁকে চালাকির দ্বারা পাওয়া যাবে ? নাকি তিনি খুব সহজলভ্য যে তাঁকে যথেষ্ট জপধ্যান না করেই লাভ করতে পারলাম না বলে কপট বিলাপ করে ফল হবে ?

26. Keep chanting the Mantra mentally whole day at any place at all hours. This is called incessant informal chant.

27. হিন্দুদের সাহসী হতে হবে, ইতিহাস সচেতন হতে হবে | তবে হিন্দুর সংরক্ষণ, বর্ধন সম্ভব | নচেৎ, বিনাশ অবশ্যম্ভাবী |

28. Fbতে লিখলে পড়ে না | Whatsapp status updateএ দিলে পড়ে না | Whatsapp profileএ দিলেও পড়ে না | যাদের জন্য লিখি তাদের যদি এই মনোভাব হয় ত' আর কি করা যায় ? এদের কি উপায় হবে ?

They will not read my observations on Fb. They will not read them on my Whatsapp updates. They will neglect reading them even on their Whatsapp profile walls. Those who I write for, if this is their attitude, then what can be done? What will happen to these? How will they fare?

29. এখন সব গুরুকেও শিক্ষা দেয় | দিনকাল ভালই পড়েছে |

Nowadays these ones even teach their teacher. Times are nice indeed!

30. শরীরসর্বস্ব প্রার্থী কি ঈশ্বরকে পায় ?

31. The Ishta is the centre of forms among all deities that adorn the pantheon of Divinity. And the chosen form of the Ishta that is the object of meditation is His/Her centre of forms among all His/Her manifested forms. This is specially relevant in the case of Avatārs and Gurus having many photographed images in different phases of their lives.

32. Waves never cease. Work never does save when one repose chooses in rebellion against the unceasing current of life, in rest and restfulness, in peace and peacefulness, in soulful surrender, in resignation to the Lord within. Then man is free. Not till then. Harassed he runs through this world like a hare chased by a pack of hyenas, like deer running for dear life till the shadows lengthen and eve sets in the veil till a fresher dawn unveils the nascent soul. Such is the procession of life, the caravan loading and unloading men and materials as it proceeds through the desert sands of desirous life in all its delusive mirage-like dreams heralding a distant vision of the eternal oasis of life beckoning one to be in blissful reunion with one's Ancient Self.

33. This life is real only when you feel the presence of God in every moment of it, every phase, every movement, every aspect of it, when its very nature has been transformed, sublimated, rendered divine, when the egoistic, fractional, fractured vision has been rendered whole in the cosmic God-vision, when the parts have been collected, coalesced and integrated in the One that is never to be disintegrated in ignorance again. Then is life real when Reality has been touched.

34. Misers in money are bad but misers in love are the worst.

35. The greatest souls do not organise. Secondary ones do. Organisations follow in the footsteps of the Incarnations of God to democratise the movement.

36. The more the myth, the more the following. Superstition is the greatest inducer of religious proliferation.

37. Remember Thakur (Sri Ramakrishna) had 17 direct disciples and not 16 as is officially propagated. Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) was the 17th. His name has later been deleted. This is the truth.

38. হিন্দুদের, বিশেষতঃ বাঙালী হিন্দুর, নিজেদের সংরক্ষণের ব্যাপারে উদাসীনতা দেখে, তুচ্ছ বিষয়ে ব্যাপৃতি দেখে আশ্চর্য্য হতে হয় | এরপর যে নিশ্চিহ্ন হতে হবে | হাজার বছরের অত্যাচারের ইতিহাস কি এত সহজে ভোলা যায় ? যায় দেখছি, আর দেখে আশ্চর্য্য হচ্ছি, বিমর্ষ হচ্ছি | এখনও সময় আছে, জাগো !

39. হৃদয়ের প্রসার ও বুদ্ধির বিকাশ---এই দুটি লক্ষ্য থাকলে বেশ | হৃদয়বত্তাই সার | সেই হৃদয়ের অন্তঃস্থলে অধিষ্ঠিত হৃদিরাজ পরমেশ্বর রামকৃষ্ণ | তাঁর দর্শনে জীবন প্রাথমিক ধন্য করে নিয়েই আধ্যাত্মিক জীবনের সূচনা | এরপর প্রকৃত সংগ্রাম ধর্মরক্ষার, সনাতন ভারতবর্ষের প্রাণরক্ষার কাজ, বিধর্মীর অশুভ অভিপ্রায়কে ব্যর্থ করা, পরাস্ত করা, মানুষের দেবত্বের যথার্থ উদ্বোধন করা বিশ্বব্যাপী |

40. Ceasefire restores sanity in an insane war. A two week reprieve.

41. Arrogance loses in the end always.

42. Spread thought-vibrations of peace and harmony across the world. Meditate on global prosperity and culture. Develop world-consciousness.

43.

Read this book and find out whether Sri Ramakrishna had 16 disciples as is officially propagated by Belur Math or whether he had 17 disciples, the 17th being Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj).

44. আপনি আমাকে ভাতে মারতে পারেন কিন্তু পাতে মারতে পারবেন না | আমি ভাত ছেড়ে রুটি খাব |

45. 

প্রভু, কটা বাজে ? 

দুটো | বাকি তিনটে খারাপ হয়ে গেছে | আর বাজে না |

46. এবার পথম থেকেই মনে হচ্ছে হারার পচণ্ড চান্স | পলয়কালে এমনই হয় শুনেছি |

47. 

কাঁদে মাসি, কাঁদে পিসি,

কাঁদে তিনোজন |

এতদিনে স্বপন ভেঙে 

দেখছি বেন্দাবন ||

48. বাঙালী ধরলে ছাড়ে না, ছাড়লে ধরে না | নীতির রাজার একি ছিরি ?

49. মায়ের হাতে পুতুল নাচ চলছে | একে ফেলে, ওকে তোলে | যেমন ইচ্ছা নাচায় | শাস্ত্রীয় নর্তন |

50. 

যেখানেই হিন্দু কম,

সেখানেই তার যাচ্ছে দম | 

51. শতাংশে হিন্দু কমছে কেন রে ?

52. 

লড়তে হলে গড়তে হবে |

সঙ্ঘে সবে ধরতে হবে |

তবে পাবে  জয় |

তবেই নির্ভয় |

53. এবার কি বৈশাখে বিদায় ?

54. হায় রে, সত্যজিৎ রায় বড় আগে চলে গেলেন ! গত দেড় দশকের বাংলার নব জাগরণের ওপর কোন ছবিই করতে পারলেন না | বিধাতার কী পরিহাস ! অবশ্য, এখন আর ছবির দরকার নেই | আমরা সবাই ছবি |

55. মানিকদা, তুমি বাংলার গত দেড় দশকের নব জাগরণ দেখে যেতে পেলে না | হায় !

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রঙ যেন মোর মর্মে লাগে,

আমার সকল কর্মে লাগে || (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর)

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মর্ম যেথায় কর্মহারা,

যেথায় রঙের উৎসধারা,

সেথায় প্রভুর পূর্ণপ্রেমে

রঞ্জিত হ'ক নবীন ফাগে || (সুগত বসু)

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রঙ যেন মোর মর্মে লাগে,

আমার সকল কর্মে লাগে || (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর)

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রচনা : রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর ও সুগত বসু 

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নটরাজ

নীরব নিশীথিনীর বুকে নিখিল ধ্বনি ধ্বনিয়া।

আয় রে তোরা, আয় রে তোরা, আয় রে।

বাঁধনহারা রঙের ধারা ঐ যে বহে যায় রে।

শেষের রঙ

রাঙিয়ে দিয়ে যাও গো এবার

যাবার আগে,—

আপন রাগে,

গোপন রাগে,

তরুণ হাসির অরুণ রাগে

অশ্রুজলের করুণ রাগে।

রঙ যেন মোর মর্মে লাগে,

আমার সকল কর্মে লাগে,

সন্ধ্যাদীপের আগায় লাগে,

গভীর রাতের জাগায় লাগে।

যাবার আগে যাও গো আমায়

জাগিয়ে দিয়ে

রক্তে তোমার চরণদোলা

লাগিয়ে দিয়ে।

আঁধার নিশার বক্ষে যেমন তারা জাগে,

পাষাণগুহার কক্ষে নিঝরধারা জাগে,

মেঘের বুকে যেমন মেঘের মন্দ্র জাগে,

বিশ্বনাথের কেন্দ্রে যেমন ছন্দ জাগে,

তেমনি আমায় দোল দিয়ে যাও

যাবার পথে আগিয়ে দিয়ে,

কাঁদন বাঁধন ভাগিয়ে দিয়ে।

রচনা : রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর