Friday 1 December 2017

PERTINENT POINTS ... 1

1. Let Kalidas, Ramayan and Mahabharat be taught to Indian children to familiarise them with their rich national heritage.

2. Manusher manusher sathey sangjog jakhon takhon chhinna kora anuchit o ta saamaajikatar dik diye kamyo noy. Sanghog sabhyatar anga.

3. Amra kobe manush hawbo? Kobe oporer dukkhe byathito hawbo o sukhashanti pradaney tatpor hawbo? Nihsharthoparotai dharma.

4. Pathurey hridayey Ishwar laabh hoy na. Hriday komol hote hobe. Tini toh premer adhaar, nishprem bukey Tnar kothay sthaan?

5. Bhalo bhabe sangsaar kora bhalo kintu sangsaarke atikrom korte hobe jatey Tnar charaney sthaan hoy. Tnake niyei premer sangsaar.

6. Jakhon charidike andhakaar dekhchhen o mahahataashay jeebon durbishaha bodh hochhe, takhon bhebe dekhben ekbar amader Ma er katha.

7. It is the worst form of intended brainwashing to ask someone to submit to 'divine' dictate by whosoever high or holy.

8. If men must relinquish their rational faculty and submit to the dictates of 'revelation', they may give up their claim on manhood.

9. Why must I give up my freedom of mind to an imaginary medieval God whose business is to keep me down in servitude at any cost?

10. Here the balloon flies. When will men everywhere fly on the wings of thought, free of all stricture of scripture?

11. Self-preservation is an impossibility when inmates inflict the vilest tyranny. Is this cooperative living? Whither humanity?

12. Europe had colonised the world once. Now Europe faces reverse colonisation that threatens its very own cultural existence.

13. Science and reason will drive their way through the citadels of fanatical faiths and bring about their eventual demise.

14. The religions of the world must face the scrutiny of modern science and reason in order to survive in their enlightened resolutions.

15. You cannot reasonably posit that a creator God is the uncaused cause of everything. That would be absolutely arbitrary. The Vedantic solution here is far more acceptable that cosmic manifestation is without beginning or end.

16. Debates about the existence of God will not resolve the problem of His existence. One will have to experience God to validate Him.

17. Can someone tell me how we see in a dream without the incidence of light and we hear too without any material vibration causing it?

18. The dominant theme of life is love, yet, how narrow is its focus, how limited its sympathies! Expansion of soul is the way out.

19. The fact about Partition was that it was effected on the basis of a religious divide. Never again must we allow such a perfidy.

20. Spread waves of love in all directions to counter the hate you encounter in life. Group-mediate for the well-being of the world.

21. Is secularism not non-religiosity? If our State is secular, then why in law courts one has to take the oath by touching a holy book? If the State is indeed secular as by Constitution it is, then must there be not complete dissociation of the State from religion? In which case will we not as a civilisation steeped in millenia-old spirituality lose our essential character? If a nation's essential culture is thus injured, what remains of it? Is the present secular status then a conditional contradiction?

22. Children must be protected from all forms of indoctrination in education to allow for the flourishing of their critical faculty.

23. The Jews are a highly resilient race possessed of an extraordinary intelligence that has helped them survive persecution for ages.

24. Approximately 20% of the Nobel Prizes till date have been won by the Jews. Does that say something about their genius?

25. The Jews are a race that has consistently produced a prodigious number of geniuses who have advanced human thought. Salutations!

26. Why is the Hindu population dwindling in Pakistan and Bangladesh? Can anyone illumine please?

27. 'Scepticism is my birthright,' said Einstein. Let us put religion under scientific scrutiny and subject it to rational rigour.

28. Politicians have a case on their hands, to reform themselves.

29. Zeal in nation-building is what we need today without fanatical flow or following to attend it.

30. This colonisation of our mind we have to combat and emerge true Indians steeped in our universal national culture.

31. Hinduism is a misnomer of the Sanatan Dharma which is the lifeblood of this nation and which we have been bequeathed by ancestry.

32. We must not sell our motherland to merchants who suck the lifeblood of the masses but must guard them against exploitation.

33. Terrorism has not only ideological roots but geopolitical ones as well. The West cannot continue to feed on the wealth of others.

34. We as a nation must learn to be democratic in discourse and not arbitrary in assumption when facing criticism. Civility demands it.

35. It is of paramount importance today that we as a nation remain united and do not give in to separatist demands. Jai Hind!

36. We have to advance in science and technology if we are to fulfil our promise as a nation. Mere economic growth will not suffice.

37. GOI is hereby being exhorted to build national universities in the memory of S.N.Bose, J.C.Bose, M.N.Saha and Srinivasa Ramanujan.

38. We must never be satisfied with our achievements but must be at peace with them. Only then will we advance towards excellence.

39. Help those who are helping the nation rise, resist them who threaten its fate.

40. Perfection is the fruit of persistent practice and purity of being. Labour in love to achieve excellence.

41. Do not waste resources. The country will be in want of them soon as the population booms and the environment degrades.

42. A hopeless scenario it seems sometimes when I see how violent people everywhere are and I wonder then if peace shall ever be.

43. Kings and queens are lost to history, the incarnations and saints abide in mass memory.

44. Gandhi stood Himalaya-high in the movement for freedom and made Himalayan blunders too. The nation paid for it.

45. Was Netaji naive in giving Gandhi primacy? No, he had no other option but to do so given the latter's mass following.

46. Netaji always strove to keep the freedom movement integrated and, thus, endured indignity while giving honour.

47. The magnanimity of Netaji's character was unmatched in our freedom struggle by any of his compatriots including the great Gandhi.

48. The gravity of a spiritual discourse ought not to be diluted by needless levity. The atmosphere is rent apart thus.

49. The essential message must be delivered in as simple a manner as possible so that all may comprehend. That was how Swamiji spoke.

50. Infatuation for celebrity is often the seed of exploitation by the ones so raised onto a pedestal. One must maintain self-dignity.

51. This world is not for weaklings, the Darwinian principle says. But education and mutual help carry evolution along for the weak.

52. Your destiny lies in your own hands. Activate your resources and build your future. God will play no role in it save to induce purity.

53. We at nay rate must have pride in ourselves being Indians and must accordingly serve our country to our level best.

54. Perfection is what we have to attain in every endeavour as Indians like we used to in days of yore when our civilisation soared.

55. Versatility at the fundamental level lies in being open to diverse ideas and at the executive level to translate it into diverse fruitful action. It is a talent rare enough to be valued for what it is and those possessing it must be given their due honour, especially, in these days of mass mediocrity when everything flimsy goes for premier evaluation and wins accolades at that while the germs of genius for want of acknowledgement and patronage so often fail to germinate. Thus, culture keeps plummeting as population soars making performance more profane to win public approval and crass consumerism the order of the day. Men of genius dwindle in number and popular taste, coarse and common rule the roost setting progressively lower standards of excellence to attain. The talented die a silent death and the versatile vanish into nothingness. Such, my friends, is the situation the world over today, especially, in our benighted nation where we are content to ruminate over past glory but seek not to emulate such. I urge you all, therefore, to take up the cudgels for culture by way of national service and give off your best effort to revive our glorious heritage of the arts, the sciences and other diverse disciplines of knowledge. Encourage them who have sparks of genius and do not neglect them for they are a dying class, an endangered species, soon to become extinct for want of avenues of self-expression and paucity of appreciative audience. Jai Hind! 

56. A luminous mother is the bedrock on which the child builds his/her life.

57. Wonder why dynasty is denigrated in a democracy when the right to private property is upheld. After all, politics here is business and inheritance a fundamental right.

58. Sunil Gavaskar should be awarded the Bharat Ratna. So must Vishwanathan Anand.

59. For once read the content of a post before hazarding your comment. Else, they make a sham of the post. Photos are not in any way central to the post.

60. Practise of your art must be like the riyaaz of Hindustani classical music, dogged, persistent, years on end till perfection is.

61. The West have developed of late a singsong style of speaking. Must we also imitate them? Is there no originality left in any of us?

62. Oft I wonder if I write in vain, for fain may I dream of my thoughts being read. Those that do, beholden am I to them. God bless them!

63. The Hindi spoken today is largely Urdu and must be restored to its pristine purity based on its mother-language, Sanskrit.

64. Lack of knowledge of Sanskrit is the cause for the colloquial interspersing of excessive Urdu in Hindi. Learn Sanskrit. Teach it.

65. If you cannot preserve the purity of your language, how do you propose the conservation of your culture?

66. Sanskrit is the mother of all major Indian languages and is the literary seat of our spiritual culture. It must be taught widely.

67. Teach Sanskrit as the ancient heritage language of our land like Latin is taught in Europe. There need be no political inhibition to do so.

68. It is a shame to see some oppose the teaching of Sanskrit which is the linguistic seat of Indian spiritual culture.

69. Let the clouds of doubt disperse and the starlit night reveal the beauty that lies beyond mundane material living.

70. Have you forgotten to read 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' today? Then read now.

71. On the National Youth Day let a handful of young men pledge to live for the nation like many in our generation did.

72. The National Youth day draws closer by the day. Are we ready to celebrate Swamiji?

73. Bangladesh gears up to Netaji birthday with great enthusiasm, courtesy, Ashraful Islam. What about India?

74. Concise expressions are musical, never elaborate ones.

75. Sometimes it is necessary to give a tough rejoinder to idle comments made without understanding the context or content of a post.

76. Are we mature as a nation when we 'like' a post not on the basis of its content but on that of the attached photo or its colour?

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