1. The present is as unreal as the past and the future. Reality transcends time. It is the Presence.
2. There is a seeming 'I' and a real 'I'. The former is the ego, the latter the Atman.
3. The separatist tendency springs not from the spirit of independence but from the slavish urge to maintain the puny self. Integrate unto freedom.
4. Provincialism and nationalism --- these are the dominant themes in the political scene today. Humanism yet a far cry.
5. Politics is ruled by rogues for it involves power. Money is in the hands of rogues as well. And when the two combine, we suffer.
6. Resistance to evil is as much a part of dharma as forbearance enjoined by it. Duty lies in discrimination and in deed thereof.
7. Young men of Bengal, yield not to effeminacy. It has become chronic in our land.
8. Strength must come to the land through the practice of continence and contemplation on the Divine. Renounce and rejoice.
9. Young men of Bengal, read Vivekananda and aspire to be like him, a total man.
10. Masculinity lies in continence, not in domination over women.
11. To convert a Hindu to Islam or Christianity is like conferring a bachelor's degree to a post-doctorate.
12. It is not good enough to be a Hindu by birth or belief. One must be a Hindu in essence as well. Realisation of the Self is the key.
13. Subtle is the truth, subtler the means to arrive at it and subtlest the end when the means dissolve.
14. When all transactions have ended, realisation dawns.
15. God is the Self.
16. Brahman ever Self-realises.
17. When everything drops, realisation remains. Revelation then is of the Self.
18. We labour in the world of ignorance. Love is the guiding spirit in all our travails. It is the best reflection of Truth.
19. To label truth is to hide it in name and form. The universe is the largest label on Truth.
20. Why even bother to come to this State gone despicable? Remain a world citizen and keeping bringing sanity to the discussion that most involves you so that malefic politicians in due course are brought to book by an enlightened electorate at whatever distant a date it may be. Do not ever be disheartened by your banishment from your homeland for the geography of it is not all that constitutes it. Wherever you are, you carry the fragrance of your soil in your being, in your writings and in your very longing to tread on it, the aspiration ever approaching the real.
21. Oh, how many people starve still!
22. Freedom is not attained, freedom ever is. The bondage just drops to reveal that bondage never was.
23. Karma only apparently binds, not really, for the Real is free of all karma. There no thought subsists.
24. Hardly anyone can expound on the truth of the Atman. Too many worldly words, too many analogies, too little of spiritual silence.
25. Where realisation is, there textual references galore become redundant and the preacher speaks from his immediate experience.
26. On one hand, capitalism is creating wealth and lifting millions out of poverty, on the other, it is reducing millions to penury.
27. Why do people always refer to a Muslim by his religious denomination but a Hindu or a Christian or a Buddhist not by such?
28. It is the will that has to be strengthened so that we may exert ourselves to diligently discover the Truth.
29. The individual is superimposed on the universal, the relative on the absolute to create this delusive drama of life.
30. There is but One and it is Me.
31. The whole of humanity is Me.
32. Men are caught in their little whirlpool of existence, not having even an inkling of the fact that they are the Infinite.
33. Life is a constantly getting beaten up from all sides unless you cling to the Lord for support.
34. Preaching words of the Vedanta will not end human suffering in even a single life. It is the light of the Guru that must shine in the life of the disciple for suffering to cease. The life of renunciation of the sage inspires lesser mortals to aspire for freedom. Mere words forever fail to release any from bondage.
35. The shedding of the material is the unfolding of the spiritual.
36. It is torture for the spiritually inclined to be drawn into the mundane necessities of life. One must accordingly shed all material baggage and stand free in the knowledge of the Self. Else, their is suffering, there is no peace.
37. The Self is subtle and cannot be expressed adequately in words or images for the latter are bound by name and form which the Self transcends. The Self is the absolute truth which has no parallel in relativity for it to be borne out by illustration that caters to duality.
38. Enlightenment may be sudden but will have to be rationalised in due course through spiritual practice for it to bear fullest fruition in life, for it to conduce to world-welfare. The enlightened one has known his non-existence in the body and the mind and his eternal and solitary existence in the Self which is one with God and in derivatives downward manifests as the universe with its multiplicity. All things are now manifestations of the perceived Self and the solidarity of existence is now perceived even through the mist of name and form.
39. To be able to directly address the issue is the call of the hour in this hectic age of high technology when people hardly have the time to spare or the patience to endure any winding about or meandering in delivering a message. This is the age of precision in thinking, brevity in delivery and proper packaging of stuff for the attention of the audience to last for any sizeable length of time. Then comes the content whose quality will determine the period for which the message will live in the minds of the listeners.
40. The moderator is just flitting from point to point and seems uninterested in the answers to her questions. She has somehow to fit in her questions as per a set pattern which is repeated in every show almost in an identical and, hence, predictable fashion. Her lack of interest in the answers elicited by her to her questions is plainly evident on her face and is not in keeping with good culture for a show of this repute where the best artistes of the country are being interviewed. This fact must be taken note of and amendments made to the show accordingly.
41. When the pressures of life get too much for the body to bear, it seems that the system is poisoning and earthly existence becomes an excruciating affair that is better rid than borne any more. In such a moment of extreme distress comes the memory of the ever-loving Lord and life is freshened with hope and joy and the longing to seek a new day when the dewdrop will reflect stellar beams once more to bring back boyhood dreams of a fragrant future. Once more the autumn breeze will carry the tidings of the southern sea, once more the springtime buds shall burst into bloom, once more the monsoon current shall inundate the banks of one's being till love and light and life become one. My friend, for such an hour of fulfilment bear the present predicament so that the moment ripens into fullness and the bars that bind give way unto freedom perennial.
42. Any academic pursuit must be along the lines of the Gurukul with continence as its base and austere practice as the method.
43. The Geeta exhorts non-attachment to the result of action but only a handful practise it despite professed devotion to Sri Krishna.
44. This bondage we call work must be deified and done in order to save the soul from the ignominy of earthly existence.
45. Beauty binds but not if beheld in the soul.
46. When the character softens, the will weakens. Then desires run amok to render order into chaos. Then descends the Avatar.
47. It is impossible to be an atheist, for even to deny God affirms His existence. The definition, though, may differ.
48. The optimal touch is what constitutes great art and is the secret of the economy of the world.
2. There is a seeming 'I' and a real 'I'. The former is the ego, the latter the Atman.
3. The separatist tendency springs not from the spirit of independence but from the slavish urge to maintain the puny self. Integrate unto freedom.
4. Provincialism and nationalism --- these are the dominant themes in the political scene today. Humanism yet a far cry.
5. Politics is ruled by rogues for it involves power. Money is in the hands of rogues as well. And when the two combine, we suffer.
6. Resistance to evil is as much a part of dharma as forbearance enjoined by it. Duty lies in discrimination and in deed thereof.
7. Young men of Bengal, yield not to effeminacy. It has become chronic in our land.
8. Strength must come to the land through the practice of continence and contemplation on the Divine. Renounce and rejoice.
9. Young men of Bengal, read Vivekananda and aspire to be like him, a total man.
10. Masculinity lies in continence, not in domination over women.
11. To convert a Hindu to Islam or Christianity is like conferring a bachelor's degree to a post-doctorate.
12. It is not good enough to be a Hindu by birth or belief. One must be a Hindu in essence as well. Realisation of the Self is the key.
13. Subtle is the truth, subtler the means to arrive at it and subtlest the end when the means dissolve.
14. When all transactions have ended, realisation dawns.
15. God is the Self.
16. Brahman ever Self-realises.
17. When everything drops, realisation remains. Revelation then is of the Self.
18. We labour in the world of ignorance. Love is the guiding spirit in all our travails. It is the best reflection of Truth.
19. To label truth is to hide it in name and form. The universe is the largest label on Truth.
20. Why even bother to come to this State gone despicable? Remain a world citizen and keeping bringing sanity to the discussion that most involves you so that malefic politicians in due course are brought to book by an enlightened electorate at whatever distant a date it may be. Do not ever be disheartened by your banishment from your homeland for the geography of it is not all that constitutes it. Wherever you are, you carry the fragrance of your soil in your being, in your writings and in your very longing to tread on it, the aspiration ever approaching the real.
@Taslima Nasreen
21. Oh, how many people starve still!
22. Freedom is not attained, freedom ever is. The bondage just drops to reveal that bondage never was.
23. Karma only apparently binds, not really, for the Real is free of all karma. There no thought subsists.
24. Hardly anyone can expound on the truth of the Atman. Too many worldly words, too many analogies, too little of spiritual silence.
25. Where realisation is, there textual references galore become redundant and the preacher speaks from his immediate experience.
26. On one hand, capitalism is creating wealth and lifting millions out of poverty, on the other, it is reducing millions to penury.
27. Why do people always refer to a Muslim by his religious denomination but a Hindu or a Christian or a Buddhist not by such?
28. It is the will that has to be strengthened so that we may exert ourselves to diligently discover the Truth.
29. The individual is superimposed on the universal, the relative on the absolute to create this delusive drama of life.
30. There is but One and it is Me.
31. The whole of humanity is Me.
32. Men are caught in their little whirlpool of existence, not having even an inkling of the fact that they are the Infinite.
33. Life is a constantly getting beaten up from all sides unless you cling to the Lord for support.
34. Preaching words of the Vedanta will not end human suffering in even a single life. It is the light of the Guru that must shine in the life of the disciple for suffering to cease. The life of renunciation of the sage inspires lesser mortals to aspire for freedom. Mere words forever fail to release any from bondage.
35. The shedding of the material is the unfolding of the spiritual.
36. It is torture for the spiritually inclined to be drawn into the mundane necessities of life. One must accordingly shed all material baggage and stand free in the knowledge of the Self. Else, their is suffering, there is no peace.
37. The Self is subtle and cannot be expressed adequately in words or images for the latter are bound by name and form which the Self transcends. The Self is the absolute truth which has no parallel in relativity for it to be borne out by illustration that caters to duality.
38. Enlightenment may be sudden but will have to be rationalised in due course through spiritual practice for it to bear fullest fruition in life, for it to conduce to world-welfare. The enlightened one has known his non-existence in the body and the mind and his eternal and solitary existence in the Self which is one with God and in derivatives downward manifests as the universe with its multiplicity. All things are now manifestations of the perceived Self and the solidarity of existence is now perceived even through the mist of name and form.
39. To be able to directly address the issue is the call of the hour in this hectic age of high technology when people hardly have the time to spare or the patience to endure any winding about or meandering in delivering a message. This is the age of precision in thinking, brevity in delivery and proper packaging of stuff for the attention of the audience to last for any sizeable length of time. Then comes the content whose quality will determine the period for which the message will live in the minds of the listeners.
40. The moderator is just flitting from point to point and seems uninterested in the answers to her questions. She has somehow to fit in her questions as per a set pattern which is repeated in every show almost in an identical and, hence, predictable fashion. Her lack of interest in the answers elicited by her to her questions is plainly evident on her face and is not in keeping with good culture for a show of this repute where the best artistes of the country are being interviewed. This fact must be taken note of and amendments made to the show accordingly.
41. When the pressures of life get too much for the body to bear, it seems that the system is poisoning and earthly existence becomes an excruciating affair that is better rid than borne any more. In such a moment of extreme distress comes the memory of the ever-loving Lord and life is freshened with hope and joy and the longing to seek a new day when the dewdrop will reflect stellar beams once more to bring back boyhood dreams of a fragrant future. Once more the autumn breeze will carry the tidings of the southern sea, once more the springtime buds shall burst into bloom, once more the monsoon current shall inundate the banks of one's being till love and light and life become one. My friend, for such an hour of fulfilment bear the present predicament so that the moment ripens into fullness and the bars that bind give way unto freedom perennial.
42. Any academic pursuit must be along the lines of the Gurukul with continence as its base and austere practice as the method.
43. The Geeta exhorts non-attachment to the result of action but only a handful practise it despite professed devotion to Sri Krishna.
44. This bondage we call work must be deified and done in order to save the soul from the ignominy of earthly existence.
45. Beauty binds but not if beheld in the soul.
46. When the character softens, the will weakens. Then desires run amok to render order into chaos. Then descends the Avatar.
47. It is impossible to be an atheist, for even to deny God affirms His existence. The definition, though, may differ.
48. The optimal touch is what constitutes great art and is the secret of the economy of the world.
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