1. What did Swamiji see in the ice-lingam at Amarnath? Was it a self-realisation? Who is Amarnathji? And who is Swamiji?
2. Within the next two generations the character of the country will be transformed by the youth, educated and enlightened in the Vedanta.
3. Of what avail is life if it be not lived for bringing life and succour to the distressed, the dispossessed and the destitute?
4. A lion of a monk Swami Atmasthananda was, a veritable volcano of spiritual power. He typified the sort of harmonic sadhu Swamiji had dreamt of, the perfect synthesis of jnana, karma, bhakti and yoga. With his passing away an era has ended of monks who had been the disciples of the direct disciples of Thakur.
5. How wonderful it feels to behold the pure faces of the young ones growing into maturity with the light of the Lord shining in them!
6. Holy Mother initiated out of compassion, out of her pity for suffering humanity to release men from the shackles of ignorance.
7. Where is Vandan Maharaj today, Swami Vandanananda who spoke with a flaming spirit to so inspire the youth and transform their lives for good?
8. We must seek inspiration from these 'choice and master spirits of the Age'. Ref. the direct disciples of Thakur at Baranagar Math.
9. The death of jawans in Kashmir to terrorist attacks has become so commonplace that we hardly take too much notice of it. Sad!
10. How long does one suffer? So long as egotism persists and surrender to God or Guru is a distant call.
11. He who suffers in life, let him take care of the ones that suffer worse.
12. Let each one be possessed of an ideal in life and let him strain his utmost to live up to it. In it will be found life's fulfilment.
13. In the midst of sorrow, my mind, cling fast to the ideal, for in it lies the panacea of all evils, in it lies thy redemption.
14. Men suffer of their own volition and it is the seasoned practice of detachment to life's ills that extricates them from this sorrow-syndrome.
15. Scriptural erudition may not impress but spirituality certainly will. The impact of 'silent sadhus' is greater than loquacious ones.
16. When words outnumber the optimal mark, they fail to make their mark. In spiritual lecture this is the bane of many an eminent speaker.
17. Self-reference is in sharp contrast to reference to the Self. The former highlights the unreal self as the latter witnesses it all.
18. During springtime strike the gong. When winter strikes, you will hear the echo.
19. Where has the deal been struck? Where's the document of the dominion of matter over the sovereign Self? And what sustains the deal?
20. Let me not crave for success over the failure of a million others. Let my achievement be not bought by the purse but by merit. Let me not go abroad to study and then fail to return to serve the motherland that had nourished me and afforded me the resources thus. Let me learn to call my own mother first as mother before I expand to own all mothers as mine. Let my heart bleed for my countless countrymen who bleed for me so that I may have my comforts and crave for even more. Let me not forget what Swamiji has exhorted me to do in his 'Swadesh Mantra' --- to love my motherland and sacrifice my all for her. Let this body that was born of this soil, serve to sustain its future fruits and in the evening of life merge in the very dust of it.
Where are those pledges, my friend, you made to our motherland before you left her shores, that you would qualify and return to serve her? Your mother is dying at home from sickness of the heart. Must you return but for her memorial service to put up with the pretence?
Let not the vanities of the world cloud your vision. You are born to break free and reclaim the empire of the Self. You are that infinite Atman whose thunderous roar at a distance you hear as the cosmic cataclysm. But be not afraid. Death is but a delusion, life a bubble of no consequence save the occasion to assert your sovereignty over Nature. These weakening, paralysing vibrations that you are exposed to from childhood, this effeminate clinging to sensory impressions in the name of sentimental soft music and dance, art and poetry of a debilitated order, does in no way conduce to the bringing forth of the manhood in you and leaves you with what Swamiji dubbed 'a jelly-fish existence' that reduces your race to one devoid of the slightest trace of the strong blood your ancestors had bequeathed unto you but which you chose not to be the worthy inheritors of. Arise, my countrymen, and shake off this paralysis and, like Lazarus, rise from the dead.
21. Rationality reaches not where the Spirit abides. Experience is the key to it all.
22. This world is a delusive dream and in substance unreal. So, cling to the Lord who alone is real, and discharge your duties in life.
23. Avoid all weakness that masquerades as strength in the guise of effeminate forms of culture, decadent and despicable.
24. Wake up, my friends, be men. Enough of effeminate exhibition. Now for once feel the strength in your sinews that becomes a man.
25. Dangerous in the spiritual path is the drive for fame which affects 90% of the monks, according to Swamiji.
26. Subtle are the traps laid by Maya and how foolish we are that in our vanity we think we are safe.
27. Women ought not to be advised by men about their specific obligations to society. They can determine them themselves.
28. How wonderful it is to see our Indian girls, bashful and pure, bold and daring, the complex of all divine attributes!
29. Let us not impinge upon the freedom of women, for in their absolute liberty lies the future of our human race.
30. O Thou mighty Mother, Thou hast adorned Thyself in a myriad garb, in the guise of the mothers on earth!
31. There Thou flashest past me and I fail to sight Thee. Again and again goes on the game till through vision purified I behold Thee.
32. Who to preach to when all are merely putting up the pretence of being fallible human to test my insight? O divinities, bless me!
33. The plight of the people sinking daily into the vortex of destitution caused by an inhuman system of economic exploitation is so easily accepted by all even though it entails the greatest degree of violence directed by man against brother man. The process is slow and scientific and seemingly bloodless but its long-term retribution in the making may be very violent and plain catastrophic. The forces at work today which are camouflaging this silent and crushing decree of death on the masses by the surface glitter of economic empowerment in the form of declared programmes of social welfare, ever announced, never quite activated to fruition, must be themselves unaware as well as to the portentous developments brewing in the distillery of sociopolitical evolution. The consequence of this mass carnage in this meticulous and merciless way may not go well with the forces in opposition developing within human society and augur not too bright a prospect for the future of humanity. This is the ugly face of capitalism that is fraught with gain of gold at the cost of dripping human blood and can only bring forth uglier forces of retribution to end its gory life for good. There is little glory in this blazoned celebration of ill-begotten wealth and it is time that masses of well-thinking individuals start the counter-campaign to portray this blatant exhibition of Mammon-mongering for what it truly is.
34. Why is English to be spoken in a singsong manner and not with a clear virile diction?
2. Within the next two generations the character of the country will be transformed by the youth, educated and enlightened in the Vedanta.
3. Of what avail is life if it be not lived for bringing life and succour to the distressed, the dispossessed and the destitute?
4. A lion of a monk Swami Atmasthananda was, a veritable volcano of spiritual power. He typified the sort of harmonic sadhu Swamiji had dreamt of, the perfect synthesis of jnana, karma, bhakti and yoga. With his passing away an era has ended of monks who had been the disciples of the direct disciples of Thakur.
5. How wonderful it feels to behold the pure faces of the young ones growing into maturity with the light of the Lord shining in them!
6. Holy Mother initiated out of compassion, out of her pity for suffering humanity to release men from the shackles of ignorance.
7. Where is Vandan Maharaj today, Swami Vandanananda who spoke with a flaming spirit to so inspire the youth and transform their lives for good?
8. We must seek inspiration from these 'choice and master spirits of the Age'. Ref. the direct disciples of Thakur at Baranagar Math.
9. The death of jawans in Kashmir to terrorist attacks has become so commonplace that we hardly take too much notice of it. Sad!
10. How long does one suffer? So long as egotism persists and surrender to God or Guru is a distant call.
11. He who suffers in life, let him take care of the ones that suffer worse.
12. Let each one be possessed of an ideal in life and let him strain his utmost to live up to it. In it will be found life's fulfilment.
13. In the midst of sorrow, my mind, cling fast to the ideal, for in it lies the panacea of all evils, in it lies thy redemption.
14. Men suffer of their own volition and it is the seasoned practice of detachment to life's ills that extricates them from this sorrow-syndrome.
15. Scriptural erudition may not impress but spirituality certainly will. The impact of 'silent sadhus' is greater than loquacious ones.
16. When words outnumber the optimal mark, they fail to make their mark. In spiritual lecture this is the bane of many an eminent speaker.
17. Self-reference is in sharp contrast to reference to the Self. The former highlights the unreal self as the latter witnesses it all.
18. During springtime strike the gong. When winter strikes, you will hear the echo.
19. Where has the deal been struck? Where's the document of the dominion of matter over the sovereign Self? And what sustains the deal?
20. Let me not crave for success over the failure of a million others. Let my achievement be not bought by the purse but by merit. Let me not go abroad to study and then fail to return to serve the motherland that had nourished me and afforded me the resources thus. Let me learn to call my own mother first as mother before I expand to own all mothers as mine. Let my heart bleed for my countless countrymen who bleed for me so that I may have my comforts and crave for even more. Let me not forget what Swamiji has exhorted me to do in his 'Swadesh Mantra' --- to love my motherland and sacrifice my all for her. Let this body that was born of this soil, serve to sustain its future fruits and in the evening of life merge in the very dust of it.
Where are those pledges, my friend, you made to our motherland before you left her shores, that you would qualify and return to serve her? Your mother is dying at home from sickness of the heart. Must you return but for her memorial service to put up with the pretence?
Let not the vanities of the world cloud your vision. You are born to break free and reclaim the empire of the Self. You are that infinite Atman whose thunderous roar at a distance you hear as the cosmic cataclysm. But be not afraid. Death is but a delusion, life a bubble of no consequence save the occasion to assert your sovereignty over Nature. These weakening, paralysing vibrations that you are exposed to from childhood, this effeminate clinging to sensory impressions in the name of sentimental soft music and dance, art and poetry of a debilitated order, does in no way conduce to the bringing forth of the manhood in you and leaves you with what Swamiji dubbed 'a jelly-fish existence' that reduces your race to one devoid of the slightest trace of the strong blood your ancestors had bequeathed unto you but which you chose not to be the worthy inheritors of. Arise, my countrymen, and shake off this paralysis and, like Lazarus, rise from the dead.
21. Rationality reaches not where the Spirit abides. Experience is the key to it all.
22. This world is a delusive dream and in substance unreal. So, cling to the Lord who alone is real, and discharge your duties in life.
23. Avoid all weakness that masquerades as strength in the guise of effeminate forms of culture, decadent and despicable.
24. Wake up, my friends, be men. Enough of effeminate exhibition. Now for once feel the strength in your sinews that becomes a man.
25. Dangerous in the spiritual path is the drive for fame which affects 90% of the monks, according to Swamiji.
26. Subtle are the traps laid by Maya and how foolish we are that in our vanity we think we are safe.
27. Women ought not to be advised by men about their specific obligations to society. They can determine them themselves.
28. How wonderful it is to see our Indian girls, bashful and pure, bold and daring, the complex of all divine attributes!
29. Let us not impinge upon the freedom of women, for in their absolute liberty lies the future of our human race.
30. O Thou mighty Mother, Thou hast adorned Thyself in a myriad garb, in the guise of the mothers on earth!
31. There Thou flashest past me and I fail to sight Thee. Again and again goes on the game till through vision purified I behold Thee.
32. Who to preach to when all are merely putting up the pretence of being fallible human to test my insight? O divinities, bless me!
33. The plight of the people sinking daily into the vortex of destitution caused by an inhuman system of economic exploitation is so easily accepted by all even though it entails the greatest degree of violence directed by man against brother man. The process is slow and scientific and seemingly bloodless but its long-term retribution in the making may be very violent and plain catastrophic. The forces at work today which are camouflaging this silent and crushing decree of death on the masses by the surface glitter of economic empowerment in the form of declared programmes of social welfare, ever announced, never quite activated to fruition, must be themselves unaware as well as to the portentous developments brewing in the distillery of sociopolitical evolution. The consequence of this mass carnage in this meticulous and merciless way may not go well with the forces in opposition developing within human society and augur not too bright a prospect for the future of humanity. This is the ugly face of capitalism that is fraught with gain of gold at the cost of dripping human blood and can only bring forth uglier forces of retribution to end its gory life for good. There is little glory in this blazoned celebration of ill-begotten wealth and it is time that masses of well-thinking individuals start the counter-campaign to portray this blatant exhibition of Mammon-mongering for what it truly is.
34. Why is English to be spoken in a singsong manner and not with a clear virile diction?
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