BHASKAR SEN SHARMA, A FRIEND IN DELIGHT 2

That's the spirit Bhaskar. Hit it right where it ought to be hit. Ever vigilant, dear friend and friend of our beloved Motherland, you truly can separate the grain from the chaff. God bless you glorious one for your articulate honesty.

Be it pseudo-glorification of Sardar Patel to gain electoral mileage or sycophancy of the Gandhi-Nehru familial tradition or pseudo-devotional servitude to a venerable monastic order, dear friend, your resolute pen never shirks from uttering the truth enshrined in your heart and which finds resonance in many a kindred spirit but whose voices are muted by inhibition and ideas marred by muddled thinking. It is here that you, great protagonist, come forth with your shining light and dispel the dark of ignorance and arrogance thereof with a sublimity of expression and a profundity of thought that defies the mundane and lifts friend and foe alike to ethereal heights where the babble of dissension gives way to peaceful acquiescence where all is music and all is harmony. It is a rare trait in an individual to speak poetry, to pen music and to ever articulate truth. Such a harmonic combination you are my friend where the forces have so met that disparateness dares not stoop so low as to obstruct the fundamental function of Nature to uphold unity in diversity.

Long back Swami Vivekananda had foreseen and prophesied the advent of the future man who would be the perfect combination of the four-fold aspects of Jnana (Knowledge), Bhakti (Devotion), Yoga (Mind-control) and Karma (Work) and the Lion of Vedanta had made no distinction in his pronouncement between man and monk. When I behold your talents which are so very obvious to anyone with a modicum of knowledge or a stray bit of musical perception, I wonder why such a plethora of powers should lie in rust in diverse pages and not see the sunshine of concentrated exposure in a single focus which will blaze humanity. I am an ardent devotee of your principled personality, my friend, and your filial adherence to truth irrespective of social opinion or institutional standing where a lesser soul shirks from expressing heart-felt urges fearing social chastisement and institutional retribution. But you, my friend, loyal as you are to the Cause of Truth and to those that bled for it with their hearts' blood never step back from your advancing stride following the dictum of the Vedic Rishis, 'Charaiveti' (Advance). And herein lies the glory that is Bhaskar Sen Sharma, pure pristine child of Mother, free and fair, buoyant, blissful, sublime, true.