THE BOY BILEY

THE BOY BILEY ... 1

Swami Vivekananda was born to Vishwanath Datta and Bhuvaneshwari Devi in North Kolkata on 12 January, 1863. He was named Vireshvar which to his friends became Biley. Biley was a hyperactive child bubbling with energy. Two nurses were employed to look after him. He was a born leader and led his friends in games. He played King and Court with his mates in the large courtyard of his house. One day he fell from the short staircase there and badly hurt himself above the eye. He bled profusely for long which reduced his spiritual power to an extent as his spiritual master Sri Ramakrishna later said. 

Written by Sugata Bose 

POESY : DEAR DISCIPLE

DEAR DISCIPLE

From wakefulness to sleep,

You're immersed in absence deep.

It's one-way traffic for me

With promises lots to keep.

The shepherd doth guide the flock,

Haywire can't go the sheep

But time ticks by the clock,

There'll be time lots left to weep.

 

Composed by Sugata Bose 

MESSAGES GALORE ... 131

MESSAGES GALORE ... 131

1. I do not believe in a single leader neither do I consider them such. He who is full of dark desire, can he be called a leader?

2. The world is full of fools governed by a handful of crooks.

3. The wicked wield power, the meek submit.

4. Words are the missiles I launch and the launcher is my inflamed heart. There is no hope for man unless national selfishness is superceded by global interest.

5..Dawn means life to some and death to many. Meanwhile, war rages on. Brutality continues in the name of civilisation. 

6. We, Bengalis, know the magnanimity of Churchill. He engineered the Bengal Famine that took away 5 million lives.

7. The Axis Powers were wiped out but the Allied have ever since continued the tyranny. Neocolonialism/neoimperialism have gone on.

8. 

Democracy in name 

But dominance is the game. 

Tall though the claim, 

In essence it's a shame.

9. Your health is my wealth.

10. Politics is a dirty game of self-interest.

11. Children need neither theological indoctrination nor missiles. They need space to flourish free of fear.

12. When the preceptor perveives the pupil prosper, peace prevails in his pious self.

13. All divisive theologies, ideologies and nationalisms are anticivilisation.

14. মন নির্মল হলে সৌন্দর্য্য বিকশিত হয় | 

The pure mind manifests beauty. 

15. ঘরে ঘরে মা, মা হয়ে রয়েছেন, তবু খুঁজে মরি মাকে | এরই নাম অজ্ঞান |

16. ঠাকুর বললেন, "আমি ও আমার---এটি অজ্ঞান |" আর চারিদিকে দেখি এই 'আমি ও আমার'এর ছড়াছড়ি |

17. Might is right today as it has been in the past. Whole peoples have been wiped away by invasion, violence, extermination and endless oppression. Whither justice till date? Arms rule, not wisdom. Whither civilisation except in titular terms? But karma works its way in subtle modes and will repay.

18. Straighten your life and be happy. Love all. 

19. Do not be bothered by others' opinions about you.

20. Through a hundred hurdles man races to the finishing line. Be not downcast if you trip. Rise and run again. You will win. 

21. সরল হও, আনন্দ পাবে |

22. Youth squandered in chasing material dreams, vitality will not remain to 'see' the Self.

23. Do not claim God's wealth as yours. That is thought robbery. 

24. 

The modern Buddha. Soon he will redescend to complete his spiritual ministration and to save the world from catastrophe. His message unfinished will seek completion, his mission see fulfilment as he descends again, the prime apostle of Thakur who is due on earth soon along with his entourage of divine disciples. Ready yourself for the grand advent. 🕉 

25. My love is my blessing, my blessing my love. Whosoever has it is blessed indeed.

26. রজোগুণ ভাল কিন্তু অহংসর্বস্ব, কর্মের উন্মাদনায় ভগবানকে ভুলিয়ে দেয় |

27. Have faith in yourself. Be happy. Gurudev holds you. Why fear?

28. Communication is life. 

29. 

মন বড় না হলে কি গান হয় রে ভাই ? মন বড় হওয়া চাই | গান হবে আত্মার গহন হতে | নাহলে যে শ্রুতিবিচ্যূতি ঘটে | শুধু অভ্যাসে কি হয় ? চাই সুসংস্কার, সৌন্দর্য্যবোধ, সাঙ্গীতিক পরিমাপজ্ঞান ও সদগুরুর পথপ্রদর্শন | চাই চরিত্র ও হৃদয়ের উৎকর্ষ | সর্বোপরি সুরসরস্বতীর কৃপা চাই | তবে হবে গান | খেয়াল গায় ত' কতজনে কিন্তু গাওয়ার মত গায় ক'জন ? ছোট মনে ছোট গান হবে, তাও খাটো রবে | বড় গান হবে না | চাই বড় মন | তবে হবে বড় গান, গান হবে বড় |

30. Chant your way to bliss. Be deep divine. Have faith in yourself. Never be dejected. You are the mine of infinite glory. How little you know yourself!

31. Have tremendous enthusiasm for life. Only then can you combat the challenges it poses. Self-belief, vitality and purity will win the war, not vanity.

32. Massive chanting of the Ishtamantra through gradual increase spiritualises for sure.

33. নিজেকে ভুলতে পারলে নিজেকে পাওয়া যায় |

34. এক ভাষায় কথা বলতে শুরু করে আর এক ভাষায় চলে যাওয়া ইঙ্গিত বহন করে যে দুটির কোনটিই আয়ত্তাধীন নয় |

35. The war is proving disastrous for the world.

36. The war is taking a terrible toll on the world. When will man learn the way of peace? 

37. Sri Ramakrishna realised God through 64 separate Tantric disciplines under the tutelege of his Gurvī Bhairavi Brăhmani and that too in just 90 days.

38. Capitulating under circumstance is the sign of weakness. One must assert oneself and tide over circumstance. In it lies the practice of freedom.

39. 'The rich must remember that that there are those that are richer. That will keep their ego in check. The glow worm thinks it lights up the world. Then starlight, moonlight and finally the sunlight pales its predecessor into insignificance. Likewise with the rich.' ~ Sri Ramakrishna 

40. একটি ভাল সাধুর উত্থানে লক্ষ যুবক অনুপ্রাণিত হবে ত্যাগ-তপস্যা-স্বাধ্যায়-সেবার পথে | সাধ্বীর ক্ষেত্রেও তাই | যুবতীরা অনুপ্রাণিতা হবে অনুরূপভাবে |

41. বেলুড় মঠের প্রাচীন সাধু, মহাপুরুষ মহারাজের মন্ত্রশিষ্য, স্বামী নারায়ণানন্দ বলেছিলেন আমায়, "ওই কথামৃতই সাধু |"

42. 'Likolarm', the 'Liked your status' Whatsapp alarm to updates that wakes me up in the morning. 

43. বাংলাদেশে হিন্দুদের অবস্থা শোচনীয় | ভেবে দেখবেন গভীরে সবদিক দিয়ে এর কারণ কি |

44. Expand the horizons of knowledge by advancing along the intuitive-rational path towards truth in all its relativity and its absoluteness.

45. Tireless work done by me goes by the drain as receiver there is none.

46. Repressed emotions often find vent in dreams when loud outbursts occur that break through the dream state to the wakeful state.

47. What do prosperous politicians know of poverty? They make war and impoverish nations. The incalculable cost of war is borne by bleeding people. Capitalism!

48. War, thy other name is Capitalism!

49. Life is nipped in the bud, civilisations destroyed when monomaniacs wage war to appease the hunger of capitalists for money. Domination at any cost!

50. Read 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' religiously every day. Thakur will bless you with his vision.

51. বলা-নরেনকে চিনেছ, না-বলা-নরেনকে চেননি---ওটিই আসল । এদিকে বারো আনা, ওদিকে ষোলো আনা । 

52. Have a commitment for truth, maintaining word of honour.

53. 

मक्का या बक्का 

तु सोच ले भाई पक्का |

54. Politicians are perfidious people. Leaders are liars. 

55. I am a cipher in the immensity of the universe.

56. The calmer you are, the nearer you are to God.

57. What is a biography? A biography is an insult to the life of a person. Its brevity, its concise formulations are scant description of the hourly pulsations of its subject. Encapsulation in such discrete terms is indiscreet and an injury to the holiness of a person's deeper sense of being and his emotional expressions thereof. Breath is life, yet, life is so much more.

58. 

যুদ্ধান্তে নেতাজী প্রায় অজাতমিত্র |

59. What we need now is leadership that is founded on sterling character.

60. Truthfulness is increasingly becoming a casualty.

61. There is hope as yet. Follow Vivekānanda. 

62. If lapse occurs, try again. You'll make it. Try.

63. Worldliness has to be given up for spirituality to dawn. Chant your way to freedom. Cast off all worldly ways.

64. He who lies will be laid low. Truth holds. 

65. Truthfulness is the spiritual seeker's lifeline.

66. Beauty flowers in purity. If purity is lost, so is beauty. The impure can never be beautiful.

67. One's looks reveal one's mind. The seer can see.

68. The wave is the sea.

69. There is a single matter-mass.

70. Life goes in vain in idle talk, in puerile pursuit of pleasure. Life's end is missed. Time ticks till the end draws near and the form's reduced to dust.

71. While it is not good to sell oneself cheap, one should not set oneself at too high a premium as well. Relations are at par excellence when kept at par.

72. অহংকার ভাল না | ওতে পতন হয় | নিজের কষ্ট কেন টেনে আনে মানুষ ? অবিদ্যা ! অজ্ঞান !

73. To close associates: If you do not keep in touch as you ought to, the philosophical loss will be yours alone. Hence, alter stance, rectify.

74. 

Preceptor's words flouted, 

In failure life will be routed. 

May this never be doubted!

75. Constant affirmation of one's divinity manifests it. This is the magic of repetitive impression on the brain to which the system invariably responds.

76. Apparent man you feel you are. Now be the Real Man which you truly are. Ceaselessly aver your true nature. Constantly say, "I am the immortal Atman."

77. 'Muhūrtam jvalitam shreyo nā tu dhūmāyitam chiram.' 

[It is better by far to momentarily ignite than to smoke away forever.]

78. গুরুভক্তির অভাবে সুসুপ্ত শক্তি |

Owing to lack of devotion to preceptor the disciple's latent power slumbering lies.

79. I never bow down to power. I bow down to purity.

80. আমি সাগর হতে চাই নে মা, ঘটি হতে চাই |

81. A nation rises, oppresses other nations, then falls. This has been the history of the world. Live and let live. Else, downfall is inevitable. 

82. The first qualification for discipleship is reverence for one's preceptor. If that is not adequately there, spiritual progress is impeded. Sraddhā!

83. Learn up Swamiji's Svadeshmantra by heart and recite it daily till these ideas tingle in your very bloodstream and bring forth a character-transformation that will burn all temporal dross and raise you unto transcendental heights of glory and Self-consciousness with head soaring high in the heavens and feet firmly planted on this motherland of ours whose peans of praise have been sung by poet-hrishis thus: 'Janani janmabhūmishcha svargādapi gariyasi,' 'Atrāpi Bhāratam shreshthham Jāmvudvīpey mahāmuney / Yato hi karmabhūresah yato'nyā bhogyabhūmayāh.' 🕉 

84. If life ends in ignorance, it was ill-spent.

85. Constancy of purpose and effort achieves wonders.

86. Black spot on a white sheet or white spot on a black sheet? Which is the higher state?

87. Vanity accompanies both wealth and learning.

88. Impediments you yourself put in your way and then cry foul. What should you do then?

89. The Avatār is the finite tip of an infinite iceberg, the flow of a frozen superconsciousness that simply is. He is the people's peep into the Divine.

90. সব কিছুর দাম আছে, শুধু কথার দাম নেই |

91. বক্রবুদ্ধি দিয়ে আর যাই হ'ক, ঈশ্বরলাভ হয় না | অবশ্য, ঈশ্বর লাভক্ষতির পার |

92. কমপক্ষে নামপক্ষ |

At least pro-nām, pranām.

93. আপাতত স্থূলশরীরে মানব-মানস-সরোবরে ভাসমান | এরপর সূক্ষ্মদেহে কর্মানুসারে অবস্থান | পরিশেষে সর্বদেবদেহরহিত বিদেহমুক্তিলাভ অথবা মাতৃ-আজ্ঞায় প্রকৃতিলীন অবস্থান বোধিসত্ত্ব যথা |

94. ইষ্টস্মরণে অনিষ্টনাশ |

95. Rapid responses are more welcome than delayed ones. The mood changes, making reception of reply less invigorating. 

96. নৈপুণ্য সুন্দরম্ তত্ত্বোদ্ভূত |

97. Where are you in the midst of work? 

98. Prying into others' private affairs is uncivil.

99. Self-containment is more productive than spraying about oneself in silly socialising. 

100. Concentration is peace. 

101. বেশি প্রশ্ন কোরো না | জর্জরিত বোধ করি |

102. Why do you wish to define even love? Let simple things remain simple. Analysis belongs to the fragmented mind. Innocence never splits.

103. বদ্ধজীবের আবার মাহাত্ম্য ! সে জগতে যত বড়ই হ'ক না কেন, ধনে, মানে অথবা জ্ঞানে | ব্রহ্মবোধবিযুক্ত বিষয়বুদ্ধিতাড়িত জীব ত' |

104. Humility is the sign of future greatness. But it must be true and not affectation.

105. বক্রবুদ্ধির বিনাশে ব্রহ্মবোধ |

106. 'Dhī' is not ordinary intelligence but spiritual intelligence, subtle and all-encompassing, undeflected by material desires. It apprehendes the Truth.

107. Vedānta should be preached by valorous souls in the midst of war-ravaged terrain, offering wise counsel and solace to sufferers, and not by effeminate ones choosing safe sites for preaching to puerile people flocking out of passive adulation for such dancing dispensers of divine truth.

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POESY : হে যুগান্ত !

হে যুগান্ত !

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অতলান্ত,

আমি ক্লান্ত,

দেব ক্ষান্ত,

হব শান্ত ||

পথভ্রান্ত,

হয়ে শ্রান্ত,

নিশিকান্ত,

কিবা জানত?

তারই প্রাণ ত',

জ্যোতি ভান ত',

কত টানত

সম গান ত'?

জলযান ত',

ভাসে বান ত',

নদে স্নান ত',

পারে আনত'

মুনি মানত',

তিনি ম্লান ত',

কী চাপান্ত!

ও হে পান্থ,

দুটি নান ত'

খেয়ে যান ত',

যাবে জান ত',

পেটে টান ত'

নেবে প্রাণ ত' ||

সন্ধান ত'

পেয়ে ক্ষান্ত,

দেব জান ত',

অতলান্ত ||

রচনান্ত : সুগতান্ত বসু মানত' [সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)]

COMMENTS GALORE ... 106

COMMENTS GALORE ... 106

Sugata Bose @Govind Raj : You mean you were there during the days of the Khilafat Movement?

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : You are, though, highly original, and humorous too. Sarcasm as that of yours and the driving of your verbal vehicle in reverse gear is symptomatic of a style that characterised satire in a bygone era. Now it is in truth much imitation and much more language-lifting and content-copying from technotools. But still we have you as exception to the general rule and entertaining us at that with your sharp wit, inimitable and coloured by thoughts of your own school.

Sugata Bose @Amitabha Dutta Majumdar : The White House Library has all the volumes of Swami Vivekananda. So, don't worry on that count.

Sugata Bose @Swami Atmarupananda : Yet again such an empathetic piece, wisdom, heart, action, all synthesized in a grand harmony that is the essence of the Vedānta you profess, which we all profess whether we know it or not. Courage of conviction this is, in a humane way exhibited where the head and the heart are held in a delicate and dynamic equilibrium, emotions welling up, soulful and spontaneous, yet held in check by superior discrimination born out of sustained reflection on the eternal verities of life. Philosophy, plurality of positional perspectives, and principles have merged to produce a premier post that inspires as it guides one in assuming a considered stance in facing the challenges of these treacherous times when the world hinges on the whims of a handful of individuals who are more intent on feeding their bloated egos and sustaining their immediate self-interest than in promoting world peace and harmony. That you call a spade a spade and spare no names, however mighty, from your rapier assault before you apply the balm of genuine love that heals as it reveals hidden depths to one's being where all is harmonious and whole, that you address key issues that govern temporal life in the light of the transcendental, that you confront the devil with overwhelming love while calling out his misdemeanours and misdeeds with telling effect is truly in the line of your premier preceptor, Swami Vivekananda, who had in a different setting did much the same to a heretical world gone berserk on the eve of its own annihilation. Swamiji had famously said, "One man armed in truth can face the whole universe in opposition." And in you, Swami, we behold with veneration today such a one as has risen from the ranks of the followers of the leonine one of the nineteenth century, who in his twilight years is showing us the dual hues of the two worlds in a single synthesis where duty and freedom are beautifully blended to offer us the symphony of the soul in a world that is otherwise fragmented by a fractured understanding of life's essential truth. We are indebted to your luminous guidance and shall tread the path of light and love in resistance and in reflection, in submission and in suffering, in sharing and in caring, for we are all One. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Deepanjan Mitra, Bolaka Roy, Riya Bhattacharya, Nilanjana Chakraborty : Kindly read this revealing piece (the post proper) by our Swami Atmarupananda.

Sugata Bose @Diganta Sengupta : You are the only one to commend me on this piece (write-up). None else did. Not that I expect it, knowing the magnanimity of people's hearts. But you have a big heart, noble soul that you are.

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বেশ, বেশ !

বেশ, বেশ !

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বক্তৃতার মাঝে কথায় কথায় হাততালি দেওয়া লঘুচিত্ততার লক্ষণ | এ ত' হামেশা হচ্ছে | এটি এখন জাতিয় চরিত্র | দেশ এ'রকম হালকা লোকে ভরে গেছে | গম্ভীরাত্মার বড়ই অভাব, অভাব গভীর চিন্তাশীল ব্যক্তির | 

সাধুরাও দেখি আজকাল নববৈদান্তিক নৃত্যে রত | এর আগে বৈষ্ণব সংকীর্তনের নৃত্যে অভ্যস্ত ছিলাম | ইদানিং নববৈদান্তিক জ্ঞানমিশ্র দোদুল্যমান 'রমণীয়' নৃত্যে নয়ন ধৌত হচ্ছে | জগতের এত গুরুগম্ভীর সমস্যার এই ত' সহজ সমাধান | বক্তৃতায় মারো তালি, রাজনীতিতে দিনরাত চুরি আর মারামারি, আধ্যাত্মিকতায় রমণীসুলভ নৃত্যগীতের ছড়াছড়ি | বেশ, বেশ ! স্বামীজী বোধ হয় পৌরুষ ধারণ ও প্রদর্শন এবং বৌদ্ধিক বিকাশ ও চিন্তাশীলতা বিষয়ে এমনই মত পোষণ করেছিলেন | নাকি শ্লেষাত্মক বাক্যবিন্যাসে সত্যভ্রষ্ট হলাম ? যাই হ'ক, এখন নাচার পালা | যত পারো নাচো, নাচাও, ভুলে থাকো, ভুলিয়ে দাও জগতের বড় বড় সমস্যাগুলির কথা | এই ত' গুরুতর, থুরি, গুরুতম শিক্ষা | 

রচনা : সুগত বোস (Sugata Bose)

SWAMI NIRMALANANDA (TULSI MAHARAJ), THE 17TH DIRECT DISCIPLE OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA ... 1

SWAMI NIRMALANANDA (TULSI MAHARAJ), THE 17TH DIRECT DISCIPLE OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA ... 1

Among the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) was a prominent member. Following in the footsteps of Swami Ramakrishnananda (Shashi Maharaj), his (Tulsi Maharaj's) tireless exertion set afoot the Ramakrishna Movement in Southern India and spread it far and wide. A true karmayogi established in unflinching devotion to his great Master, Sri Ramakrishna, and to his venerable brother disciple, Swami Vivekananda, who considered his beloved Tulsi an ideal monk, Swami Nirmalananda today is a forgotten monk thanks to his name having been deleted by Belur Math from the list of direct disciples of Thakur. This is indeed unfortunate as despite the sad wrangling over management of the Bangalore Ashrama which was being duly managed by Tulsi Maharaj under the express wish of Swami Brahmānanda who had legally authorised him (Tulsi Maharaj) to act on his (Swami Brahmānanda's) behalf in Southern India but which under altered circumstances unfortunately led to litigation by Belur Math against Tulsi Maharaj, the latter was and remains in truth Thakur's direct disciple, a holy member of His holy entourage of earthly companions this time. That Tulsi Maharaj should be reinstated in the pantheon of Thakur's direct disciples was the lifelong mission of one his dedicated disciples, Sri Brahma Gopal Dutt, whose umpteen attempts in this regard were not considered favourably by Belur Math. He published a book providing the details of the Bangalore controversy and allied materials called 'SWAMI NIRMALANANDA (TULSI MAHARAJ) -- A direct disciple of SRI RAMAKRISHNA : A focus on facts and facets'. This book provides all the evidence and proof of the fact that Swami Nirmalananda was a direct disciple of Thakur. A must read for all.

Written by Sugata Bose