Sunday 17 March 2019

TWEETS --- WAR AND PEACE ... 3


1. RAMAKRISHNA WITH A ROAR

Chant 'Jai Ramakrishna' with a thunderous roar so that all effeminacy vanishes from the soul. Let no weakness debilitate your personality which has the fire of the Spirit within. Let not Ramakrishna feel ashamed of you that he has lent his name unto your feeble utterance.

Written by Sugata Bose

2. Manohar Parrikar passes away. A good man enters peace.

3. Manohar Parrikar sets off on his final voyage. He has served his motherland well. Such men, selfless as they are, are in sharp contrast to the crop of traitorous intellectuals who plot to break our country. India, arise to salute this valorous son of yours. Vande Mataram!

4. Manohar Parrikar was the epitome of the true nationalist, the patriot premier, the servant of the people, yet another sacrificial soul at the service of the motherland. I salute his parents and suffer with his family at this difficult hour when consolation there can be none. Om!

5. Presentation of party manifestos have given way to mudslinging as the prevailing political discourse in an unfolding era of decadence in dharma that slides the polity to the edge of a precipice.The national character needs a reaffirmation but whither are the leaders who'll do so? @ Dr David Frwaley

6. Read it and for the first time in Hindi with fluent ease, so lucid was your literary presentation. The colloquial style, they say, is the best form of literary communication. Thank you, Chief, for your commitment and let politics never dilute the original martial vigour. @ Gen V.K.Singh

7. The loss of Aurobindo Ghosh to the freedom struggle was one of India's greatest losses. The freedom movement would have had an entirely different dimension were he not to leave the national scene in the formative years of the revolutionary struggle. The question is whether the British would have allowed him to survive were he to continue with his radical line of the liberation struggle.

8. Life is so uncertain, yet, men cling to fleeting fancies with such ardour. And then death strikes its fell blow. Who wins? The cycle of transmigration goes on seemingly endlessly till deliverance comes in divine realisation. But it is always worthwhile to live for the nation. Om! w.r.t. Manohar Parrikar's death on 17/3/2019

9. Either flatter or abuse Modi. Is there no golden mean between these two abhorrent extremes to guide one's assessment of a leader?Must sycophantic politics assume newer garbs to carry on with its self-destructive agenda? It's crucial that principle reigns over personality. Jai Hind

10. A leader with a difference passes away. ManoharParrikar is no more. An IIT engineer, Shree Parrikar distinguished himself as Union Defence Minister and Goa Chief Minister. He battled valiantly with pancreatic cancer for the 63rd yr of his life before passing into peace. Om !

11. Exemplary worker of RSS, Chief Minister of Goa n former Defence Minister of India, Manohar Parrikar gets ready for the pyre. National Flag flutters at half-mast as the country mourns. Such a man of character n commitment to the nation and of such exemplary lifestyle is a rarity.

12. Thank you Lt Gen @atahasnain53 for illumining us with your wonderful article on our beloved deceased former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. The information gleaned thence has greatly helped me understand him in real personal terms against a professional backdrop. Commendation.

13. The pyre is about to be lit. Manohar Parrikar lies in his last bed as his soul is about to be lifted unto ethereal heights.

14. On one side Mother is giving birth to Her baby from Her womb and on the other She is consuming it in Her eternal fire. The cycle of life and death goes on. #ManoharParrikar

15. Intellectuals must learn what character is from Manohar Parrikar's life. Politicians must learn, too, and so must businessmen and professionals so that they emerge worthwhile servants of the people who are the sovereigns of this nation.

16. Manohar Parrikar's mortal form being consumed by the rising flames as his soul rises unto ethereal heights.

17. The Defence Minister must always be highly intelligent n a visionary who can not only solve seemingly intractable problems confronting the ministry but also formulate policies that go to building up the armed forces in a manner as to tackle sudden contingency conditions. JaiHind!

18. Congress is a dying party. Its destruction is imminent as it just will not get past the family that will ruin it. It is the classic case of a dynasty in decadence.

19. The sheer shamelessness of the so-called secular Congress in its brazen attempt to garner the Hindu vote through boat-rides and temple visits by its last lingering hope in Priyanka Gandhi is the prelude to its epitaph that will soon be written by the Indian polity.

20. Liberalism is good but it must not be weak or partial as not to be able to denounce fanaticism on all front. Selective liberalism is mere hypocrisy.

21. Wonderful to see ex-servicemen express their admiration for this rare son of the soil who maintained his grass-roots connection n simplicity despite it all. A side question though. Did Manohar Parrikar draw adverse reaction from the armed forces for his casual attire when there?

22. Israel is a remarkable country. After the Holocaust it was unthinkable that the Jews could have converted themselves from lambs to lions and fought their way against Islamic nations on all sides to come out triumphant. But the exceptionally high Jewish IQ has overcome all odds.

23. So nice to see Priyanka Gandhi at last owning up the Congress' communal stance through her deliberate devotions at temples, dargas and other places of worship. Truly, Modi's 'Swachchh Bharat' programme is making the Congress come clean in its intentions.

24. How hard it is to send a worthwhile message across the nation without the backing of a mass following! Inconsequential cheap talk occupies centre-stage these days as eminent people merely tweet to retain even cheaper popularity. It saddens me to witness this cultural degradation.

25. Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed, SyedSalauddin and Dawood Ibrahim are top terrorists all lodged in Pakistan. Can the Modi Government in a possible second term bring them to justice in India?

26. Indo-Israel relations must be strengthened. Israel will be the future powerhouse of the world and this must be recognised by India, and Israel befriended beyond bounds before other nations have done so when such close ties with Israel will be coveted by all but achieved by few.

27. Religion continues to be the crucial election campaign card of 'secular' Congress that has now thrown caution to the winds in its bid to woo the electorate and return to power. But the move will badly backfire as the common man will no more be duped by such cosmetic measures.

28. Hope we, Indians,in our bid to socially communicate are not getting self-deluded into becoming a virtual nation of sorts,for the grounds realities are stark n will have to be met before we may rest in peace.Till then mere platitudes will be of no consequence. Maturity's the call.

29. The world is as yet far from spirituality. It has merely started struggling with the body and basis human emotions. As such, people are caught in the mire of individual selfishness, a far cry from genuine craving for the Spirit.

30. The rise of China could eventually be the rise of ancient Indian thought, as in the Nalanda tradition, and that should augur well for the future of the world, especially, for India.

31. HOMECOMING

When Tibet took refuge in India after the Chinese occupation and subsequent persecution began, it was a homecoming for this daughter of India after centuries of scrupulous adherence to the Nalanda tradition of Buddhist study done by her. India who had once mothered the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in 8th century CE now came to protect and preserve her own spiritual outflow in Tibet. This is the hallmark of the Indian civilisation and this is how all cultures of the world will eventually seek refuge in India and gain succour from her.

Written by Sugata Bose

32. চোরেরও চরিত্র আছে, আমাদের নেই |

33. Give up personality, seek principle, discover your self, give expression to it. This is called living. Blind adoration is death.

34. The instruments have been set, the music's taken to flight. The song flows free off the soul and there is none to give it company.

35. The sculptor carves the statue, the sovereign unveils it. One was indispensable to it, the other an enforced adornment.

36. The passage of time has meandered the movement of Ramakrishna along an altered path. The Master must come again.

37. Fair fancy's child, thou become real in a dream.

38. So much is forced out of the moment that it dies before it could live.

39. Tear apart all epithets from the one you love and love him, nonetheless, as your own. To love one, one need not qualify him but may simply let him be.

40. A mother goes and leaves behind herself yet in her rebirths.

41. So many sing, yet, so rare is a song ever sung that floods the floating environs.

42. Music must flow like laughter, like tears, like bliss, like sorrow deep-felt for it not to peter into prose.

43. Lyrics destroy the soul of music due to their over-jamming the spaces required for the free flow of the tune.

44. The life of a man is in his Spirit and so is the life of a nation which is but the aggregate and resultant of individuals on a vast scale. The Spirit remaining vibrant, Vivekananda says, the life of both the individual and the nation is safe, and so should it be for the world which is the conglomeration of all nations.

45. What a beautiful style of writing! I literally enjoyed the piece. And what clarity of perception and presentation thereof! Keep writing so that we may savour your self-expression in delightful terms and enrich ourselves with some genuinely good literature in an age of proliferating mediocrity in every field. Also, post this particular piece in the group NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY which is administered by me as well. Thank you and my good wishes unto you. @ Joy Deep

46. Simply superb. Nothing more to say. The pen freezes in estimation as the heart warms up to it in admiration. @ Joy Deep

47. 'OH, WHAT A FALL, MY COUNTRYMEN !'

How hard it is to send a worthwhile message across the nation without the backing of a mass following! Inconsequential cheap talk occupies centrestage these days as eminent men merely tweet to retain even cheaper popularity. It saddens me to witness this cultural degradation.

Written by Sugata Bose

48. HOW MUCH MORE, HOW LONG MUST YOU MALIGN HIM WHO WAS THE EPITOME OF SPIRITUAL PURITY?

It is impossible. I just cannot subscribe to the concoction that Netaji had married and had a daughter. Impossible, I say. Netaji had never married nor had he any progeny. He was a celibate all his life.

Written by Sugata Bose

49. Intellectual discussions will never solve the deeper problems of life, for life itself is the outflow of something far deeper than where the mind reaches. Spirituality is the only way out eventually and it is for this reason why we must seek our solutions in depth investigation of the soul instead of in mere material deliberations.

50. Conflicts cannot be resolved by dialogue or war. They can be resolved only through higher evolution and that takes time. However, in the eventual analysis, the structure of the mind is such that conflicts will forever be as cause and effect work out their resolutions in the dual space.

51. The problem is with hatemongers like u who indulge in continuous doublespeak for maintenance of cheap popularity instead of engaging fruitfully in the constructive work of harmonising cultures. Your constant carping has much diminished ur erstwhile stature as a thinker of repute. @ Taslima Nasreen

52. SPIRIT THOU ART AND SHALT LIVE FOREVER

The life of a man is in his Spirit and so is the life of a nation which is but the aggregate and resultant of individuals on a vast scale. The Spirit remaining vibrant, Vivekananda says, the life of both the individual and the nation is safe, and so should it be for the world which is the conglomeration of all nations.

Written by Sugata Bose

53. Superb. This is the way Indian spirituality must be upheld before the wide world n you must be supported in this endeavour in every possible way both the government and by the lay public. But you must be wary of the trappings of name and fame n money et al as you serve the cause. @ Dr David Frawley

54. Spiritual preceptors of these rich people must bring home these ideas of discriminate spending into the minds of their prosperous proteges. @ Bhaskar Sen Sharma 

55. @AkbaruddinIndia : What are the chances of India being elected a permanent member of the UNSC? Is India actively pursuing it? The composition of the SC is no more representative of the world with a sixth of the global population having no voice in its most strategic deliberations.

56. Robust steps need to be taken in J&K to resettle the displaced Kashmiri Pandits. This sort of lip-service with no actual ground work being done to render justice to the Pandits is a travesty of the justice they deserve n a grave threat to the survival of their indigenous culture.

57. Gullibility and pretence are both vices that need to be shunned as Hindus arise to reclaim their civilisation that has thus far been much wounded, to pilfer from Naipaul the oft-quoted expression. 

58. The abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A will in the long run lead to the rapid development of J&K despite the threat of temporary unrest in the Valley on account of it. So long as this special status to J&K continues to be in place, it is going to remain segregated from the mainstream of national life and consequently backward and susceptible to all sorts to malicious foreign forces that sow the seeds of cessation.

59. Repetition of the party line so comprises the politician on truth that in the bargain he loses character and becomes a caricature of his former self which had prompted him to enter politics in the first place with the mission to serve his people.The nation gets lost in the party.

60. Which is why Pakistan ought to hand over POK to India where it rightfully ought to belong. This illegal occupation of POK since 1947 is at the root of all the unrest in Kashmir. Act now, Pak, to prove that you will not forever belie the meaning of your name. JaiHind !

61. SoniaGandhi, RahulGandhi and RobertVadra are all out on bail in respective cases filed against them. Here let the case rest. Now judge for yourself.

62. Must we all talk together? Must we all shout at each other? Is this national discipline? Is this now the standard model for TV debates?And the worst offender we all know is the nightly circus with republican pretensions. How are we projecting ourselves before the world after all?

63. Dynastic politics is drowning the Congress. Unless course correction is effected, extinction awaits this party, for democracy is the call of the hour n feudalism has had its day.But recent promotions to premier positions in the party will not brook such a change. Ram naam satya hai!

64. @davidfrawleyved : Sri Ramakrishna had once prophesied, "The modern religions will come and go, only the Sanatan Dharma will remain. The modern religions will not entirely disappear, though, but will remain barely in traces."

65. We must no more suffer from the colonial hangover. It is time we give up this gross westernisation of our social #culture and stand erect as Bharatiyas. No more this 'Mummy-Papa' culture and all its despicable derivatives. Revert to the Hindu call. This is your calling as well.

66. How many forces are trying to break India! But they will not succeed. India, invincible, is rising and no power on earth can stop it.

67. The saffron is the colour of eternal India n we must recognise it as such. It is futile to resist the rise of eternal India. The river rushes down towards the ocean n will not retrace its steps. The saffron calls us unto service and sacrifice, unto the high ideal of renunciation.

68. What is the use of electing representatives to Parliament if this is the way the Opposition behaves and stalls proceedings? It is a sad reflection on the Indian polity, that is, us. It is we who send from our people the representative cases who are so manifestly ill-fitted for engaging in any civilised discourse.

69. The spontaneous smiles, the rushing tears, they are rituals enough for me. I need no other expression of joy or sorrow or worship whatsoever.

70.
If China is such a powerful nation, why does it not allow His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to enter its territory and address the Tibetans there? What is its fear? And, can a fearful nation be called powerful in any real sense of the term?

71. Elaborate please on how you learnt it the hard way and what were the mistakes you had made in your assessment of the RSS. @ @Swamy39

72. The only way to tackle Pakistan is to upgrade our military capabilities and to have a robust government at the Centre. @ Maj @majorgauravarya

73. Let us not celebrate Holi with the blood of our jawans on the border. Let us, this Holi, take the pledge to serve our motherland in a robust way and may this pledge be not taken merely by way of show but may it be followed in principle and in practice for the rest of our lives.

74. This high decibel constant drumming that has to endured as it is played out over speakers surely is violence endured unduly and bespeaks the fall of culture.

75. To the extent Tagore composed his own songs n sang them, he was original. Where he proceeded to teach them to others, he manifested his mediocrity. Such a combination we all are, a beautiful or a bizarre blend of creativity n conditioning in varying proportions, a mix of impulses.

76. What happened thereafter? What was the follow-up action? Are legal proceedings on against the offender or has he been merely handed over to the Chinese embassy with a warning or even less, a friendly request to refrain from such activity? (w.r.t. the arrest of a Chinese citizen who was caught flying a drone over the Kolkata Maidan where the Fort William is located.)

77. What is your idea of civilisation? Do you call those countries civilised who have built up their civilisation's base through centuries of depredation of the rest of the world? Is this where you as a perceptive writer-thinker been reduced to? Your language needs a civilising, too. @taslimanasreen

78. Sam Pitroda has shamed us again. This Gandhian by self-claim has all the attributes n accessories to life which the Mahatma had shunned and yet carries on with his pretentious parading of proper patriotism in a foreign land to seal the doom of the party he represents. INC beware!

79. Like preceptor like pupil. The uncivil code continues.

80. L.K.Advani made to retire from electoral politics. Amit Shah to contest from his Gandhinagar constituency. This is the law of life. The old make way for the new. Retirement at 91 well-deserved. Let the new brigade take on the reins with idealism, energy and gratitude.

81. The election campaigning is going wrong for all parties. Instead of focusing on #issues and setting out the correctives by way of stated #manifesto, they are indulging in counterproductive mudslinging and rhetoric that could badly backfire. Time for quick introspection.

82. Vivekananda had exhorted us to preach the principle and not the personality. But in all these years since independence personality has been the dominant factor in politics and not policy or principle. This is regrettable for a polity so vast that needs greater clarity about policy.

83. Education is the key. We must fast attain 100% literacy to develop our nation to potential. Till this is achieved, dreams of development will remain a dream and no more.

84. The whole country must gear up for fitness. A fit population by the hundreds of millions will be a force to reckon with and this ought to be our national priority.

85. China is solving the Islamic indoctrination programme with its counter Chinese nationalism indoctrination programme for which they have locked up a million Muslim Uighurs of the Xinjiang province in concentration camps. Beijing denies the charge. Nationalism comes first in China.

86. Whatever harmony there has been in India has been on account of its peaceful Hindu culture, whatever disruptions there have been, have been on account of imposition by alien cultures, Christian and Islamic. The proof of it in its most glaring recent episode is in the Partition.

87. The Dalai Lama's late acceptance of Chinese sovereignty over the erstwhile free Tibetan population -- whose homeland is now under Chinese occupation -- after decades of campaigning for their freedom n right to self-determination is a regrettable act of capitulation to pressure.

88. Civilisation is built on the blood of the poor and is sustained by their blood as well. It is the labour of the lowly that is forced out to create conditions for the enjoyment of the rich and it is that labour again that serves the needs of these oppressors of the masses. The price of civilisation is high indeed.

89. Hindus must not forget that the Buddha is the eighth Avatar of God for them. Here lies the grand connection between Buddhism and Hinduism and strengthens both the dharmas. This common link, this intersection of ideas is the bridge that will help the Sanatan Dharma triumph in the end.

90. Shame! Shame! Shame! PM, shame! Why on earth must you extend any good wish on the occasion of the resolution day for the future break-up of India which we as a nation consider even today a curse on our people, one that goes against the stated principle of the RSS to which you belong?

91. We are only content to see our images. Alas, when shall we see our selves?

92. Is it binding on BJP ministers to humour PM Modi by mentioning him flatteringly before every statement made? Has any survey discovered this unique method of building up the personality cult in a manner that will help secure them political gains with the electorate?

93. It is a pity that you are no more vociferous than you are. Perhaps, it is the right way forward for you are a public personality who must maintain his balance. But these Abdullahs and Muftis must be met as well in a more vigorous way and with an army of co-workers supporting you. I wonder how I may be of help in this cause of the resurrection of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus and sincerely request you to illumine me in this regard. The propagation of the cause must be on a war-footing and the Islamic ideology of exclusive survival must be exposed. The sheer callousness of the GoI towards the cause of the rehabilitation of the Kashmiri Hindus, despite being in power for a full term, quickens a sense of indignation in me and makes me wonder when a larger public pressure will alter things for them. Write more vigorous pieces, please. Jai Hind ! @ Sushil Pandit

94. Imran Khan claims he received a message from our PM and our PM has not denied it. It is a shame if, indeed, he did send such a message of felicitation on 'India Break-up Day'. @ Priyanka Chaturvedi

95. There is something the GoI can sure talk about with Pakistan and it is about PoK to be fast vacated and returned to India. How about such a dialogue? @ BrigMahalingam

96. Why must you, too, who were the Chief of the Army, adopt this silly epithet of 'Chowkidar'? It does not befit you, General, to thus flatter the PM for it lowers public appreciation of servicemen? @ Gen V.K. Singh

97. Going by the social media response, BJP and its allies will have a landslide victory in the ensuing general elections. One wonders whether such a massive orchestration of social media impressions is possible for a party to bring about and, so, create a false impression so fast.

98. And that is when friend turns into foe and annihilates. The Indian predicament for sure. @ Maj Gen C.M. Seth

99. They cannot do so, neither will they do so, for it is intrinsic to their faith which harbours exclusiveness and intolerance towards all who do not subscribe to their faith. It is an arbitrary imposition on humanity to label a vast mass of it thus and it needs to be repudiated.

100. Tranquillity is the seed of genuine happiness.





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