FACEBOOK COMMENTS FROM DIFFERENT PROFILES ... 9

FACEBOOK COMMENTS FROM DIFFERENT PROFILES ... 9

Sugata Bose @ Deepanjan Mitra : 'Murhamatey' denotes the self-deluded embodied being or the individual soul in Self-oblivion and ever intent on pursuing phenomenal dreams which are fleeting and lead the jiva to death and the unending cycle of birth and rebirth with its concomitant consequences of suffering. The point here to be noted is this that even such a great proponent of Advaita Vedanta and Mayavaad deemed it good to advise the ordinary householder to follow the path of devotion (bhakti) and not knowledge (jnana) for he knew the limitations of sense-bound people and their consequent incapacity to properly apprehend and follow in practice the precepts of the abstruse philosophy of the Vedanta.

Sugata Bose @Ajoy Sinha Roy's Bilawal/Yaman : What a performance ! Simply sublime. What deep alaap with the kharaj ! What silence of the soul can achieve this tranquil piece of alaap ! What depth of music ! Ranks among the very best in the world. Such a melodic rendition of such a beautiful raag (Devgiri Bilawal) ! What a performance ! Each time it carries a fresh fragrance.

Sugata Bose @Basab Sen : I hope this young man (then in 1990 at the time of this recording) grows in stature to make the flag of his Guru Pandit Ajoy Sinha Roy fly high. He bears the distinct mark of his Guru's style.

Sugata Bose @Sewli Bose on her esraj playing : Beautiful ! Moving ! Touching !

Sugata Bose @Basab Sen's sitar recital (Chhayanat) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x543XVoyxcA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0haTtFfl4ZhdFUKgh9i_7sDPEyMuSXYxwGmeWrqiKvL0F1rQsW380cCFA :

This young man (then in 1990 at the time of this recording) has the stamp of class and it augurs well for the future of instrumental music provided he works hard at the lessons learnt from his great Guru Pandit Ajoy Sinha Roy. The classy approach to his music must be attributed to his great Guru whose style is unmistakably evident in his playing. It is wonderful to hear the strains of the sitar coming from this young man's hands as if they are an echo of sounds emanating from deep in the past from another sitar, that of his Guru. My best wishes to this young artiste. I only hope that he will devote more time to his trade and chisel his music to a higher refinement.

Sugata Bose @ Piyush Kanti Sinha : Piyushda, your effort in a seminal moment of inspiration in 1990 has laid open for us today a treasure trove of musical gems.

Sugata Bose @Ustad Shujaat Khan's melodic play : What a sweet, silky, caressing touch of the sitar ! Aesthetics.

Sugata Bose @Sayak Barua : Read all my posts and you will gradually get to know what I mean. And keep reading. But eventually it is individual discrimination that determines for each one as to who is who in one's view. Discussing more in detail will not be expedient as it will stir up unnecessary controversy which will be counterproductive. But the bottomline is that those who are of divine nature and pursue life and its greatest art form (music) with single-minded devotion to its aesthetic and ascetic character are, in the spirit of the post, the children of the gods and those who use music for personal gratification of the senses, for money, position, power, popularity etc. at the expense of ethics and spiritual values, those who pull strings to eliminate competition of rivals wherever they can, those who flatter and butter men in power to secure earthly ends while all the while masquerading to be musicians when they are in real mercenaries despite accomplishments in the art form to a pronounced degree, are to be deemed the children of the demons. Now this is a long and deep subject which the scriptures have dubbed as 'vidya' and 'avidya' to which I have been drawn in response to your rather innocuous comment and I guess I need not deliberate any more. The rest you can determine for yourself any way you feel like and either agree or disagree with me, for my observations are born out of my experience and conviction thereof and need not have any bearing on yours unless they happen to be of sympathetic vibration.

Sugata Bose @Ajoy Chakraborty's Arvind Parikh Baithak performance tit-bits : Disgusting gimmicks, cheapness so blatant from such a gifted musician.

Sugata Bose @Ajoy Chakrabarty's Arvind Parikh Baithak performance : Flattery and veiled boastfulness in alternate terms does mark this musician but does not make true music. Would it were that this vocalist was less vocal about his own self and let others speak in praise of him, if at all. Too much talk about money etc. are extraneous to the discussion and clearly point out the artiste's own fascination for the same. Also it hardly befits a gentleman to vaunt about his own self and his daughter in such carefully crafted terms. After all he is a reputed artiste and so is his daughter which would merit greater self-restraint in speech in real terms and not in such camouflaged terms with a view to giving veiled expression to self-attainment. It is unfortunate to see these developments in men so musically gifted otherwise and is a pointer to the fact that few, after all, pursue music for purer ends. Most do so for commerce and career whose success must be attained at any cost, even if that requires lowering of self-respect, begging for favours from powerful ones and undue and unnecessary vaunting of self-calibre and attainment to seek greater security in a market of mobile mass support that could shift allegiance any time. Unfortunate !

Sugata Bose @Baba Allauddin Khan's Marukhamaj : What pathos in the tune ! A meandering flow of music as if a heavenly stream is flowing on earthy earth. Nehr-e-Beyhest !

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Sen Sharma (ref. History of the World membership request from dubious sources) : The cover picture was changed to prevent the unending stream of requests for membership by people I have no clue who they are. Dubious members are being removed for group safety. From nowhere an endless stream of requests are pouring in which is pretty surprising. Of course, I am wary and not admitting them by any means. The group is being streamlined once and for all with unnecessary appendage being rid of for necessary ends.

Sugata Bose @Ajoy Chakrabarty's Arvind Parikh's Baithak performance : Ajoy Chakrabarty has a good voice but suffers from a great deal of levity of character. Hence, his failure to qualify as a great artiste.

Sugata Bose @Ajoy Chakrabarty's aggressive fan's caustic comment on my remark on the singer : Perhaps, you and your proposed psychiatrist -- which I believe you need to rectify your mental stance -- both need treatment in aesthetics of a refined kind. In this age of gross common culture and coarse commercialism it is but expected that my cultured comment in critical denunciation of gimmickry and pandering to the vanity of commoners like you will meet with adverse reaction, for sycophancy is the name of the game today and followers are but carbon copies of a decadent kind of the degenerate 'masters' they follow. God bless you with better discretion and direction in comprehending what connoisseurs speak about genuine music which this gentleman is eminently capable of rendering but for levity of character is unable to do so when the hour is ripe. And to sum it up, incidentally, I am a teetotaller and am innocent of the supposed pleasure of Bacchus which, perhaps, you are affiliated to. And it were better if Mr. Unknown Indian, you were known, for hiding identity and speaking suits the coward and not the valorous one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns9i2hv6zK0&t=4583s For your understanding as to what true music is as opposed to gimmicks of a cheap kind.

Sugata Bose @Annapurna Devi's last interview : Guru Ma Annapurna Devi is my inspiration in music. But for her one would have wondered whether Hindustani classical music has lost forever its spiritual touch. Ma Annapurna is the living link of the great musical heritage of age-old India with this otherwise decadent age we are living in.

Sugata Bose @Annapurna Devi's last interview : Ma Annapurna Devi in her lifetime was matchless in her pursuit of pure music and remains so to this day post mortem when commerce has corroded the citadels of classical music with major artistes pandering to the vanities of the unrefined public in their bid to secure mass popularity. These artistes who could have regenerated music have rather degenerated it such that Ma Annapurna and a few of her select disciples like Nityanand Haldipur shine as stellar bodies in an otherwise darkened sky of artistic degeneracy.

Sugata Bose @Swapan Chaudhuri's performance in Arvind Parikh's Baithak : The best thing about Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri's tabla playing is his delicate touch which is sonorous and sweet and is aesthetically so very refined that it seems as if his is a singing tabla.

Sugata Bose @Swapan Chaudhuri's performance in Arvind Parikh's Baithak : Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri is the intellectual tabaliya.

Sugata Bose @Jim Griffin (ref. Annapurna Devi's Manj Khamaj) : Again, Nikhil Banerjee was a disciple of Annapurna Devi as well along with his being a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan and Baba Allauddin Khan. Hence the influence and the likeness thereof, I suppose, for Banerjee was a strict adherent of the classical Seniya-Maihar style of Baba which he had inherited from his Ustad Wazir Khan of Rampur.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Yours, Sharmistha, is Yamani bhasha.

Sugata Bose @Anup Ghoshal's music in the Bengali film 'Harmonium' by Tapan Sinha : This person, Anup Ghoshal, is the one of the worst singers to have ever done playback music for the Bengali screen. He is more or less always terribly off-tune and is blissfully unaware of it or pretends to be so, for he lacks the musical ear which would allow him a performance any better than what he routinely dishes out despite his 'Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne' fame.

Sugata Bose @Manjiri Asnare Kelkar's Gaud Sarang rendition : More show than music. Weak voice with hardly any robust control. The 'sur' is imperfect. Much practice over years yet necessary to hone skills before effective platform performance is possible. The support vocalist has a much more robust and confident voice. Unfortunate when musical performance is reduced to a sham.

Sugata Bose @Manjiri Asnare Kelkar's Gaud Sarang rendition : How can such a satisfied look adorn the artiste's face when she is putting up such a lacklustre performance? This is a matter of serious concern as it implies that these artistes either do not see themselves as musically terribly limited or else attempt to dupe the audience and themselves by false projection of excellence at their craft when what they are dishing out is more a mockery of real music than mockery in earnest would have mustered at the bidding of the master jester.

Sugata Bose @Pinaki Bhattacharyya : I cannot thank you enough, dear friend, for this delightful read which has humbled me as it has reconfirmed my faith that Guru-shishya parampara need not be so structured as to be religiously chauvinistic about it. The Gurukul is a tradition that has been observed for ages in India but must now be adhered to, I feel, in a somewhat altered manner suited to the age where mutual reverence of preceptor and pupil must underline its spirit amidst the general structural changes that the modern education system must necessarily entail for it to incorporate the vast mass of the populace of the day. Even such secular pursuits as science in some way ultimately are Gurukul-based as Professors Ganguly and Salam have exemplified. Thus, the idea of Gurukul is not only not to be confined to the somewhat limited space of narrow sectarian understanding but must find its application in general terms, and in specific terms wherever possible, for it to bear its fruits universally and help foster knowledge and reverence in the minds and hearts of learning humanity.

Sugata Bose @Ipshita Majumder : Mother Teresa lived a life of utter poverty. You are mistaking the motive of my post which through preconceptions you are ascribing to me, though not purposefully but through ignorance of my intent. If Hindus are so gullible that a mere post can mislead them, then you better take up the task of reprogramming them to the intended contrary effect.

Sugata Bose @Koyel Deb Roy : Why so? Do you say so because she converted some Hindus to Christianity? If so, then indeed it was not perfectly selfless but inspired by a subtle sectarian impulsion.

Sugata Bose @Abhishek Chakraborty : But Swamiji fell into terrible poverty post his father's death and post sanyas. But you are right in the balancing act to Ipshita Majumder's comment.

Sugata Bose @Satadru Sovon Ghosh : Ramakrishna and Vivekananda had reached the goal while Mother Teresa was a pilgrim en route to the goal.

Sugata Bose @Partha Gupta : They did not enjoy those possessions but used them for world welfare.

Sugata Bose @Amrita Bhattacharyya : You write sublime English. However, I have not accorded any of them any place together or apart but have merely mentioned their names in the same post which clearly is not indicative of such placement, myself being too insignificant a person to even contemplate ranking personalities I worship.

Sugata Bose @Manjiri Asnare Kelkar's Gaud Sarang rendition : Weak voice. Hardly much control or clarity in singing the individual notes in the gamak.

Sugata Bose @Manjiri Asnare Kelkar's Gaud Sarang rendition : Completely off-tune so often. This is especially glaringly evident in the drut rendition 'Piu palana laagi moree ankhiya'.

Sugata Bose @Deepanjan Mitra's comment on Goopy Gyne getting banished by the King of Amloki : But the kick is necessary for the boon to follow. Then princess and kingdom.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Ah, what a literary rendition and in what lyrical terms ! Your depth of feeling is palpable and your development in the line of the Masters worthy of emulation. How beautifully you have strung up a necklace of ideas, pearls of wisdom adorning the Master's neck ! I am sure you are a blessed soul and Thakur-Ma are holding you on their lap. This sort of a writing comes when the sattva is touching the soul.

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : But that would require the Semitic religions like Islam and Christianity to alter their text and attitude sanctioned and imposed thereof.

Sugata Bose @Subrata Ghosh : Indeed, it is a shame that we have thus far been what we have been. But our best elements were different. They were heroes who brought us freedom, our culture, our heritage, our golden civilisation. We are proud of them, too.

Sugata Bose @Diganta Sengupta : The Sanatan Dharma is the only inclusive and universal religion/philosophical system that the world has ever seen. Its correct application and practice alone can make the world truly human, divine, inclusive, accepting et al. Swami Vivekananda's opening address at Chicago on 11 September, 1893 clearly outlines it. His 'Paper on Hinduism' read out by him on 19 September, 1893 at Chicago further elaborated and elucidated it. These are addresses worth reading.

Sugata Bose @Shaikh Abdul Alim : I feel very happy to find in you such an illumined, well-meaning and magnanimous human being always eager to forge bonds in a world largely fractured by narrowness and sectarian outlook. May God bless you and yours with health, wholesomeness and happiness to which I send my heartiest good wishes too !

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Treasure chest is not mine but of the Mother whose bounty She shares with insignificants like me.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Sen Sharma : Thakur assumed the form of Rama and Krishna alternately to convince the sceptical Narendranath in Kashipur about his (Thakur's) own divine reality. Thakur is Krishna himself. Hence, Thakur is the ocean I have mentioned in the post.