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.

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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

PPESY : MARCH PAST

MARCH PAST

The world is split 

Between the right

And the left.

Left cancels right

And right cancels left

As we march ahead.

Left right left right

Left right left...

Downward march...

Left right left...

Let's see what is left

As we march down and down

And reach Tumbletown.

Left right left.

Composed by Sugata Bose

MESSAGES GALORE ... 130

MESSAGES GALORE ... 130

1. 

একদিন নবদ্বীপে হড় তর্ক হইল,

কি, তৈলাধার পাত্র না পাত্রাধার তৈল ?

For once in Navadvīp there was great verbal toil,

Doth the oil hold the cup or the cup hold the oil?

2. Celebrated by the masses, mediocrity shines dull.

3. One's average consciousness must be spiritual. 

4. Simplicity of soul is conducive to spiritual progress, not crookedness of heart. Simplicity, rectitude, they come in one's last earthly life. 

5. Hurt your Guru and pay the price. Law of Karma.

6. If there is a sin on earth, it is to lose faith in oneself. From it follows weakness that sins repeatedly. Hence, build up self-belief and be strong.

7. The life of an individual is in his compassion.

8. Words come freely to me from Mother who is the only authoress of all manifestation. We claim credit for Her compositions. This indeed is plagiarism.

9. Humanity is hardly human. Violence vitiates life.

10. Today's victor will be tomorrow's vanquished. 

11. When rogues rule, the rule of law is no more.

12. Transnational capitalism drives premeditated wars.

13. The fifth vice, Mada (arrogance), is a killer. It destroys the possessor. The Long March has but begun. History will resolve issues as yet.

14. Politeness is the first attribute of a gentleman.

15. Ones's greatest friend and one's greatest enemy both abide in one's home. The home is the heart of all good and of all evil. And the heart is home, too.

16. The impolite become impoverished.

17. The evildoer is always a first class liar.

18. Do not fall for propaganda. Study a subject well.

19. Which nation has the right to inflict death on children?

20. Do not believe in wartime propaganda. Watch contrary news channels, read contrary versions and intelligently form your views.

21. It is not good to disrespect, insult or displease the Guru in any way.

22. গুরুকে অসম্মান, অপমান, অপ্রসন্ন করা শুভ নয় |

23. Leaders lead less, lie more. The result is that the led, the lied to are laid low.

24. The best way to raise one's failing nation is to use military might to lower other rising ones. It is a toxic way though.

25. A nation that is largely intellectualy dead cannot hope to be a world power despite apparent advances in GDP.

26. Neglect the Guru and pay the price. Law of Karma.

27. Neglect parents/children and pay the price later. 

28. Neglect of Guru is a most serious mistake. It retards spiritual growth.

29. No good chasing wild material goose. Ignorance!

30. They who neglect the Guru fall from divine grace.

31. One must revere one's earthly mother to get the grace of the Divine Mother.

32. The udder gives milk, the rudder guides. The Guru is both and much more.

33. Intelligent is the one who sits at the feet of the Guru and learns.

34. Foolish is the one who insults the Guru.

35. To think of the Guru as human is productive of no spiritual good. The Guru is God. God has become the Guru to lead the disciple to the Truth.

36. A Brahmajnāni is a fully realised soul but the Avatār is infinitely greater. He is God Himself in the guise of a human being.

37. The ideal of work is detached attachment---attachment to the means of work but detachment to its end.

38. Learn to be original thinkers. Be creative.

39. War is messing up the world. Peace will not be able to restore it easily.

40. The disciple should be such that the Guru will be saying, 

"You are the best,

Far above the rest."

41. Should life lead me somewhere, may it lead me to people who value relations above material work.

42. Work is work so long it is unselfish. The moment selfishness creeps in, it becomes a source of evil.

43. গুরুর প্রতি দুর্ব্যবহারে শিষ্যের/শিষ্যার ক্ষতি হয় | তাই তা কদাপি করা উচিত নয় | গুরু ঈশ্বর | তাঁকে সেইমত সম্মান, শ্রদ্ধা করা কাম্য |

44. গুরুকে অগ্রাহ্য করা গর্হিত অপরাধ |

45. Disregarding the Guru is a grave offence.

46. Shishupāl was forgiven by Krishna a hundred insults before the Sudarshan Chakra beheaded him.

47. যত সব খারাপ লোক রাজনীতি করে | তাই দেশের এই দুরবস্থা |

48. 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' offers solutions to life's problems. Read it and shape your life in line with the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna. 

49. Do not destroy what you have not built. War is wicked. It is the crime of the mighty against the weak. Organised mass violence cannot be condoned.

50. Rushing to resist the Norwester? Well, good luck!

51. Sudden onset of what ought to have happened on the eve of the Ides of March if Shakespeare says it right.

52. Ideological divides should not be so deep as to make human beings behave like brutes towards perceived enemies. Civilisation then is in peril.

53. Your loss is also my loss. This is humanity. 

54. Nations are no longer secure under international law. No such law in practice exists. Only titular, nominal existence. UN is powerless to protect.

55. Security lies in self-dependence.

56. Leaders ought to have balance of mind. Else, they throw the world into chaos. Sanity is necessary for governance. Selfish impulsiveness is for movies.

57. Devoted ones will react to all my updates. This is the litmus test.

58. Those that ignore noble thoughts aren't devotees.

59. Work engages all. God is workfree.

60. Busy? Busy with what? Mundane stuff? Is that all there is to life, a material preoccupation? Is human life of no better worth, of no greater value?

61. Small hearts cannot be devotees. It is the big heart that finds God. All crookedness must go and the soul cleansed of lowliness. The pure alone see.

62. Let not work rule you. Rule over work. But do not rule it out. Work freely, not like a slave.

63. From dawn to dusk you labour like a slave. Is this life? Work in freedom. Work like a master. Always work but never be busy. Give up this business of busyness.

64. Like breath is while you work, so let freedom be while you work. Never be so busy as you pose to be. Pretence can be seen through by God.

65. Make not thy Guru a member of thy Etcetera Club.

66. 

Was the sea free of salt once? 

Will it ever be free again? 

Will the waves cease? 

Will the turbulence ease? 

Will the water rise, never to rain again?

67. 

Photographs of old---

Have they all been sold?

Had I but so told

That they'd be valued in gold,

Sure sans being cajoled,

Well packed and rolled,

They'd have been bowled

Over and across the cold

To warm my heart, to enfold

My vision fair that'll behold

In rapturous joy to unfold.

68. Impossible to realise God without simplicity.

69. Man celebrating death of man. Humanity indeed!

70. 

Pray,

Something say.

Not in poesy though.

In prose thou mayest write more.

I wait to see the shore.

71. 

My words are sweet

But I am sour.

Passeth the hour, 

I lose all power 

In chasing wild dreams

That'll enervate it seems.

So here I stop,

This skip, jump and hop. 

72. Karma is recoiling. Karma will recoil. None will escape, nor now nor on the morrow. Cause sorrow today. Suffer tomorrow.

73. The sheet is being balanced. All debts will be recovered. None will be written off. History will avenge injustice. The sheet will be balanced. 

74. Heartlessness cannot be condoned in the name of natural justice. Nature also knows mercy.

75. Brave are the weak who dare to stand up to the tyranny of the mighty. 

76. Cowards support the tyrant.

77. Men quote scripture when they are bereft of original thinking. Scriptures were written by men of original thought.

78. Ideologically based humanity is no humanity. Same with theological humanity. Both are divisive, hence not human in the truest sense.

79. Is God formless? Yes. Is God with form? Yes. Is God immanent? Yes. Is God transcendent? Yes. God is the alpha and the omega of existence. God is the manifest and the unmanifest. God is all that is and all that is not. God is the summation of all positives and all negatives. God is the Shūnya, the Void. God is the Pūrna, the Whole. God is God. 🕉

80. Life is so fractured. There is no continuity of communication. It is a stupid broken dream that hurts only to heal, heals only to hurt, endlessly.

81. Cunning and might used to dominate the world is not civilisation. It is barbarism cloaked in its garb.

82. If between two breaths there is a large gap, death results. So with relations. Constancy of communication is the key to sustenance of souls.

83. 

প্রথমে বহু, পরে এক,

আবার বহু, দেখ রে দেখ |

84. 

First many, then One,

Again Many, watch the fun.

85. West Bengal has been laid waste by an intelligent people gone left to becoming anti-Sanatan. Also because of utter loss of manhood. 

86. Swamiji had exhorted us to produce a succession of Hrishis. What we are producing instead are effeminate dancers.

87. Constant quotation and banking on the thoughts of others. Why so? Be original. Be creative. Be thinkers. Be men of self-capacity. You can. Now do it. Do not copy.

88. Why does the West keep on talking about its self-interest? Is the West the world? What about the Rest? Field for exploitation?

89. Does anybody know the cost of human blood?

90. Those who are young, think constantly of Thakur. Many years later in the evening of life these thoughts will integrate to produce great bliss. Life will then become a mansion of mirth, a wellspring of spontaneous joy. This life is a golden chance. Do it. Do not spend it in vain pursuits. Drown in the recollection of Thakur. You will emerge immortal. Believe it. 

91. Through the trackless paths of Māyā the little Buddha travels. 

92. Frustrating futile war leading to needless suffering and chaos and, if unchecked now, potentially spiralling out of control.

93. To feel you need to rise above circumstance.

94. God alone is true. You are God.

95. Haunts the memory of a former life.

96. One must overcome all expectations from life now and hereafter. Only then will one be free. This is real renunciation. 🕉 

97. The Gīta has a flat meaning and a deep meaning.

98. There's an inner gospel within 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna'. Likewise, there's a subtle world behind the facade of this outer world. Seers see it.

99. Will be beginning scriptural classes. Interested ones may contact. Naturally no charge. Spirituality is a free gift.

100. Communication is a real difficulty with people of the world in hot pursuit of puerile desires. Meanwhile, life flies fast towards death. Time is short. 

101. Assert yourself over circumstance. Be free.

102. Be pure. Purity is superlative strength. Purity of thought, word and deed. Purity of intent.

103. Men live in abject misery out of their own volition, own ignorance. Live like a king, an emperor of the Spirit. You are God.

104. Vedānta is the only religion that says, "You are God."

105. Aver your greatness. Let not the world pull you down. Remember you are the infinite Spirit in essence. This body-mind cover you are not. Awake!

106. When I wrote on Fb, they did not read. I wrote on X. They did not see. Now I write updates here (Whatsapp) and they casually ignore. Fools, they never will learn!

107. Before the hour arrives realisation never dawns. You have to renounce all before you see the Self within. The Beloved cannot brook neglect. 

108. A life of dependence is a life of misery. We must be self-reliant in every way. For this each one of us has to comtribute to national welfare. Onward!

109. Thakur was devamānav or godman. As superseer he was godly. As participant in human affairs he was man. Look upon him in as many ways as you can.

110. Do research on Ramakrishna Vivekānanda and earn a PhD. 

111. Look beyond photographs and see the man standing within.

112. 'Aparigraha' means non-receiving of gross gifts or subtle sensory impressions.

113. Do research on Ramakrishna-Vivekānanda and earn a PhD. 

114. Sri Ramakrishna's body was an exceptionally refined organic system that allowed him easy access to the realm of the Spirit. It was like Jacob's ladder connecting heaven and earth. He strode up and down this ladder with effortless ease to plumb the secrets of the sacred and laid before man his findings. Not only that, he trained a band of disciples along the line divine, taking care to help them along their own evolutionary lines.

115. The war in the Middle East is ruining the environment. Irresponsible leaders with little knowledge of science are playing with the future of the world. 

116. Hatred is polluting the world more than burning oil. Man gloats that he is hunting down brother man who he considers his enemy. Hunting? Is man wild game then?

117. Keep your mind fixed on the fourth plane, that of the heart ❤️. Spirituality begins there.

118. Trump needs to read Vivekānanda urgently. 

119. We need to send emissaries across the world preaching Ramakrishna-Vivekānanda. The world needs peace. May Thakur find us the right preachers!

120. Capital must not create war to sustain itself. 

121. The Arms Industry to sustain itself needs constant war. 'Dollar imperialism' in the words of Vivekānanda. Venezuela, Iran. Cuba next? Greenland? 

122. The fourth plane of consciousness is the heart-centre, the confluence of love and light. Bliss tingles in every pore of the being. This is the Hardwār of spirituality. Mount Kailāsh is higher up in the seventh. 

123. Loving concern about the people of the world and robustly addressing the world's problems without shying away from them on the pretext of being apolitical is spirituality. 

124. Assert your individuality and shake off society. 

125. এখনও সময় আছে | রামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দ পড়ো | গবেষণা করে PhD নাও |

126. ব্রহ্মভ্রষ্ট জগৎ |

127. কর্ম যার স্বয়ংক্রিয়, তার আবার ব্যস্ততা কি?

128. অবতার কে জানো? ঋষি তৈরির factory |

129. চরিত্রগঠন না হলে, ঈশ্বরের অনুভূতি না হলে আর রাজনেতা !

130. We are a speck in the universe and, yet, we are greater than it. We can free ourselves from its deathclasp on us. 

131. God is within our reach. But we reach elsewhere.

DREAM NO MORE ... 1 [EDITED]

DREAM NO MORE ... 1 [EDITED]

The surface mind is an illusion. Consciousness is deep. It is an integrated being within. It does all the work and dispenses the fruits to itself. The prism of Maya refracts the rays of the Sun of Truth along variant paths, producing the optical spectrum the phenomenal universe is. We are the trapped beams of light, dispersed into flora and fauna, the radiant hues of the Bright One that knows no dimming nor darkening like our lot is here, lost on Earth. The Ocean waveless lies beyond cognition of the faculties that the senses provide. Supersensory is the Truth percolating through sensory modes. The vast universe is the play-field of the Divine, the realm of primeval ignorance, Maya's dream. The infinite trapped in the finite --- how preposterous a proposition, how impossible the event! And yet, the impossible is made possible, and this is Maya. Souls we are but are duped into believing we are bodies. Unstructured free beings we are but find ourselves hopelessly bound in mortal coil crushed by the wheel of Fortune. Worst of all, so deep is the inebriation that few realise that they are caught in a nightmare, that they are wakeful dreamers and that life is but a passing dream of no substance whatsoever save the opportunity to break through the network of Maya and emerge mighty lions that have overcome this dreaded delusion.

Ordinary folks, let us leave them aside for a while. Even men of genius are souls trapped, however tall their creative stature, however pretentious their philosophical posturing. The whole world is in bondage. We are bond-slaves of Nature at her beck and call. Dare we say we are free citizens of the world when the world holds us in terrible bondage? Sense-bound, sense-clad, sense-duped creatures, dare we assume to dictate terms to Nature when She holds us at Her mercy at will? No, such pretensions will not work. Hypocritical stances must be shed if we are to emerge into real freedom far beyond the domain of the senses, beyond this very universe which is but the shadow of the Divine. We must assert our real nature if we are to be free. The cross linkages of Maya we must break through, not by force, for the very reaction of it will hold, but by deft dealing with the wiles of the Enchantress Divine, by advancement through the maze of Maya along the freedom routes which are the exit paths in this intricate network of the Cosmic Web.

This world is a numeral construct delineated along coordinate axes whose intersection is the Origin of life, the focal point of phenomena, yet transcending it, for the Origin exists in principle, never in phenomena which revolve round it. It is not a hypothesis, it is the Reality, not a concept but the core, the substance behind this Ancient Poem, the dream of the One that knows not a second, the One Eternal Being, alone, alone through all eternity without hope of company from any, for none else is but the One that is. And yet the multiplicity abounds, but for whom? Not for the Ancient One but for the many. The many 'exist' for the many for a long but limited time, stretching across vast but limited space, a continuum that is self-manifesting and self-dissolving in cyclical order without beginning or end. To this realm of ignorance belongs the mind whose construct this all is and which is self-constructed. The Self remains beyond, everfree, Consciousness Absolute, Existence Absolute and Bliss Absolute, ever a Unity and never the Trinity that dreams it all. Infinite is the dreamer dreaming finite dreams, to quote Vivekananda with a variance.

So, dream no more. What value do you attach to this momentary motion called terrestrial life that does not in essence derive from your infinite Self? So, smash the dream. Let bonds go and with it bondage. Let all earthly affections dissolve in the Brahman which is the source of all love. May all that you receive and all that you renounce find fulfilment in oblation to the Cosmic sacrificial fire that devours it all to light up the night sky, the screen of this dualistic delusion that hides the Radiant One! May your souls purged of all earthly dross stand revealed as the luminous beads of the Rosary Resplendent whose orbits about the Cosmic Core keep the universe in its cascading rhythms! May you all merge in your final fall into the shoreless sea of radiance whence there is no return! May all souls dissolve in the One that is the Self of all! Om Tat Sat Om!

Written by Sugata Bose