2. Mahasangramer suchana ja parisamapti ashubhar naash, shubhar bijay. Shubha Mahashashthhi!
3. Mahishaasurke badh korechhilen asurdalani Mahamaya, tnar shathey ahimso-satyagraha koren ni Tini. Shubha Mahashashthhi!
4. Asurer shathey juddha korai Bharater kshaatradharmiya aitihya. Ahimsa adhyatmikmarger poth, samerneetitey byabaharikbhabe achal.
5. India cannot claim to be true to her roots if she keeps on harping on non-violence as the national narrative. It is a falsity that needs immediate reasoned rejection. Mother Herself is the martial spirit embodied.
6. Celebration is fine but character formation finer. Durga Puja must inspire strength of character for it to be fruitful.
7. At a time when we are spending quite liberally, let us remember the unfortunate ones and gift a donation to ease their living.
8. Preparation is the key to spiritual life. Aeons go in getting the wax ready, the illumination but takes a moment.
9. Let us with the eye of purity behold Devi Durga in our womenfolk. Long suppressed, let them breathe the air of freedom.
10. Durga Puja has been the continuing cultural link of Bengal with India's spiritual past and its present renaissance.
11. The rationalist is a person with a stunted vision. He takes a superficial count of things.
12. Out of the darkness emerges the force of evil which the gods invoke the Mother to destroy. The Mother in her benign grace accedes and annihilates the element of evil. The earth is cleansed, so is the atmosphere, so are the heavens rendered free of terror. The gods dwell in bliss once more and earthly fruition reigns.
13. We are entering the bloodiest phase of the battle on the eve of Mahaashtami. The Mother must muster every power to subdue evil.
14. Resolve now at this auspicious hour that ye shall be a martial race impregnated with the knowledge of the Self as in days of yore.
15. Mother visits us every year to cleanse us of evil. Her war on evil is an unceasing one. This is the refrain of righteous living, this, the symphony of the soul.
16. It is a pitched battle. And in the din of war can be heard only one refrain, 'Mother! Mother!'
17 The demon is in a titanic struggle for survival, changing form each time it faces extinction. The Mother relentlessly pursues.
18. The problem of spirituality is the translation of the idea into living practice and so attain the ideal in the idea realised.
19. If you are pure, you are spiritual. That is all there is to it. The rest follow in due consequence.
20. Bhakter thakbe Ishwarey oikantik prem, bishayey anasakti aar parisheelita parimaarjita mitabyayee jeeban.
21. Shandikshan samupasthit. Ebar asurnidhanpaalaa. 24 min Ashtamir aar 24 min Nabamir, ei dui lagnaardhey aridalan.
22. Bijayer sambhaash oi shona jay muktakeshee rudrachandikaarupinir singhaninaadey. Mahishaasuramardini aaj raney matangini.
23. Oi dheye cholechhen dashabhujaa pralayankaree Chaamundaa, mahabiddhangshee ranatarangini asurdalani Mahamaya.
24. Garib manush noy, bolun daridranarayan, jemonti Swamiji shikhiyechhen.
25. The demon destroyed, the dark night is clearing unto the dawn of hope and joy. Shubha Mahanabami!
26. Strange it is that we celebrate Durga Puja with fun and frolic even when the Mother is engaged in Her titanic tussle with the demon. This seems a misapprehension of the essential element of the Durga Puja, although, it is quite an understandable popular stance on it.
27. As Durga Puja rolls into Mahanavami, a new day of hope and light dawns where pollution in people's minds will have been rooted out. But will it? Let ceremonials translate into living action hereon to roll the Wheel of Dharma. Mother blesses such aspirants who bridge the void between the ideal and the real.
28. This wonderful living tradition of flowing art and sculpture is the exemplar of Indian beauty and truth.
29. The Devi personifies the divine attributes, the demon embodies the deathly cult. The tussle of the twain constitutes life.
30. Cosmic spiritual energy is symbolised as feminine. May this be the inspiration for the rise of womanhood along lines of purity!
31. Now let us set ourselves to serving the masses, Durga's destitute children despoiled of earthly inheritance, suffering the pangs of poverty, ignorance and bondage.
32. The ideal of womanhood in India is the bashful, ever-pure Seeta, mother of us all who manifested yet again as our Mother Sarada.
33. Swamiji used to address Ma Sarada as the living Durga and, rishi that he was, he knew what he said. From now on worship her as such.
34. The very address 'Swamiji' signifies the quintessential monk and that of 'Netaji' the quintessential leader. The duo embody India.
35. Subha Bijaya to each and everyone of you who are my kindred spirits for we are all the children of the same Mother!
36. Mother has merely descended into our hearts for our continuing welfare and we will invoke Her yet again to see us the coming year.
37. As She raises Her consciousness and draws over us a veil while She reigns in Her higher splendour, it is for us to seek Her in a profusion of tearful love and see Her yet again. The Mother cannot resist the yearning of Her child nor can She then restrain Her vision to such.
38. Ma aar kothay gyachhen? Eimatra bairey chhilen, ekhon antarey. Darpan bisarjaney amader darpa bisarjan hok. Ma ekhon sadhansaapeksha.
39. Ebar ekti bachhor atmasamikshar pala. Katota bijay labh holo ta chitter bisuddhatar parimaap diyei bojha jabe agami Durga Pujay.
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