FACEBOOK NEW MESSAGES AND TWEETS ... 32

FACEBOOK NEW MESSAGES AND TWEETS ... 32

1. May good come to all ! My love and respects to all.

2. The poor people suffer everywhere whatever their religion. Does any vociferous political Hindu contemplate any measure to alleviate their misery or are they the chosen ones of God to perpetually suffer the pain consequent on grinding poverty?

3. Netaji and Swamiji belong as much to you as to me. As such I need no advice from you as to what epithets I give them in my concerned estimation of their seminal attainments. You may contradict me reasonably but, pray, do not be condescending in your suggestions as to what I may or may not write about them in my own reasonableness.

4. If you really care to be a true Hindu, then read up thoroughly 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' and discover for yourself what his views were on the momentous issues of life and existence, both temporal and transcendental.

5. In today's India meritorious people are being persecuted and mediocrity fostered. Augurs not well for the future. This stems from the fact that we have less than mediocre men and women at the helm of political affairs at the centre and in the states barring the odd exception.

6. The Upanishads form the climactic portion of the Shrutis, their knowledge section where the Vedas reach the pinnacle of their philosophical thought. Hence, they are called the Vedanta, both in terms of horizontal evolutionary movement along the timeline and in terms of vertical gain either by way of depth dimension or measure of sheer spiritual altitude.

7. Agnosticism, atheism, antitheism, humanism, materialism -- all these are different stages in the upward spiral of human evolution towards grasping the central truth of existence, the divinity of the human soul which is termed the Atman. Vedanta, indeed, is the last rung of this evolutionary ladder.

8. We are all one. These differences are superficial. Deep within unity abides. It is one solidarity of existence. Hence, love, the unifying bond, is the song of evolution unto its climactic crescendo.

9. Hindus must not narrow their hearts in their bid to defend their Dharma. The very soul of the Sanatan Dharma lies in its expansiveness. Hindus ought to practise spirituality more to gain strength to resist invasive aggression against them. They must manifest the heart which is the seat of all power and come to the aid of fellow Hindus who may be in distress. Mere talk, vicious and venomous, against proselytising Christianity and Islam will be of no avail. It is like abusing China on social media while the enemy keeps gathering military strength during our hour of languishing.

10. Where jealousy is, there love is not.

11. My Facebook friends, please do not try to curb my keypad from expressing my thoughts, spontaneous as they are and carrying my best intentions and inspiration. Where you request me to refrain from expressing myself, you should introspect and expand your own inner horizons instead to be able to appreciate what I mean by my messages. It is not civil to curb civic communication thus, and contrary to democratic norms.

12. The ancient Indian philosophers, when they started their own sects, they tortured the texts of the Vedas to suit convenience. Here on Facebook I detect the same common propensity of readers to torture my texts to suit their preconceptions and prejudices. Rarely do I find any who reads into the text and even attempts to appreciate its real intent and inspiration.

13. In resurgent populism it is a woeful intellectual climate today in the country. Academic standards are plummeting and cultural appreciation dismally one-sided, prejudiced, partisan and pitifully partitioned. This is merely decadent revivalism, not refreshing regeneration.

14. TEN MODERN GREATS OF INDIA

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1. Ramakrishna 

2. Vivekananda 

3. Rammohan

4. Vidyasagar 

5. Gandhi 

6. Netaji

7. Rabindranath 

8. Aurobindo 

9. Nivedita

10. Rashbehari Bose

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15. Thinking of the people is also thinking of God, for He is manifest everywhere in conflicting and in harmonic terms, the vast field of interaction being His visible face while the core of reality lies hidden deep within in the seed of things, in the germ of creation and in the vaster beyond where a supreme stillness reigns in consciousness frozen.

16. There are two forces battling for supremacy in this world. One is materialistic, the other spiritualistic. To which does India's resurgent Hindutvavaad belong?

17. Our sympathies must not be limited by our cultural conditioning nor constrained by nationalism or segmented internationalism of any kind. They must transcend all such limiting barriers to embrace the whole of humanity in its rich legacy and diverse fruition. The heart must never be corrupted to feel only for a few nor the head made to conceive only traditional trappings of thought but our souls must soar to higher and higher realms till the whole of phenomena seems kindred to our being. No wonder Swamiji said, "Expansion is life, contraction death."

18. The people's revolution is for mass evolution unto spiritual freedom. This was the cardinal philosophy of Swami Vivekananda.

19. Human ignorance is at the root of all evil, the overattachment to body which creates this sense of separation between man and man, the desire to appropriate wealth and territory for oneself and one's kin, and the invasive aggression of ideology which one tends to impose on others to create an artificial and impossible homogeneity.

20. It is better by far to be an erring liberal with universal sympathies than a fanatical fool with a fixed frog-in-a-well consciousness.

21. THE TEN GREATEST PERSONALITIES OF MODERN INDIA

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1. Sri Ramakrishna 

2. Sarada Devi  

3. Swami Vivekananda 

4. Mother Teresa

5. Raja Rammohan Roy

6. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 

7. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

8. Rashbehari Bose 

9. Mahatma Gandhi 

10. Rabindranath Tagore

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22. I am persuaded to believe that the Buddha meant by Nirvana (the state of extinguishing of the fire of phenomena) the state of Nirguna Brahman (the Self devoid of all attributes), although, the great Master categorically denied the existence of such a Self as such.

23. 

All sectarian in attitude despite pretensions to scriptural universality. Rarely does one come across a soul with universal sympathies. Crooked, knotted hearts that cannot extend love beyond kindred frogs of the same well and there, too, fighting constantly for petty self-assertion.

24. 

Those who hate Mother Teresa and vilify her unduly, let them hate her and vilify her well. Mother will bless them for it with divine love. How lucky they are that their hatred will turn to love for it is 'Shatrurupi bhajanaa' (worship in the mode of enemy) they will be unconsciously doing thus !

25. 

Only the Vedantist accepts all forms of philosophy, religion, opinion and faith as but different stages in man's onward progression to the ultimate transcendental truth. All others are in some way or the other exclusive in their approach, accepting one and rejecting the others. Hence, despite many a soul clamouring to be a universalist, it is the Vedantist alone who is in conviction truly so. And then comes even for the Vedantist the element of praxis. Should he live up to his high standard of intellectual acceptance in practice as well, then alone will he truly deserve the epithet of being a universalist. Else, it is so much wishful thinking, plain hypocrisy or ignorance about one's true status regarding life and philosophical standing.

26. 

WHAT A SHAME !

'The greatest person born after Swami Vivekananda was Mother Teresa.' This post has brought forth spitting venom against the great Catholic nun, people unduly castigating me on account of comparing Mother Teresa with Swamiji. How absolutely absurd and fancifully funny ! Pray, where has the comparison been drawn by me? Is plain English that difficult to understand for people who are well-versed in it? This is pure personal assessment of human greatness in chronological order of appearance and activity on earth, and by no stretch of imagination whatsoever any remotest attempt to compare the incomparable Mother with the incomparable Swami.

Written by Sugata Bose 

27. May genuine love come into the hearts of people for all ! Supposed love that is sectarian can hardly be called love which by definition is universal.

28. 

A fanatic is a fanatic, not a Hindu who is culturally and by philosophical persuasion universal in his outlook. The fanatical Hindutvavaadi is a politician who uses the Sanatan Dharma to his earthly advantage and has no spirituality worth the call whatsoever. 

Written by Sugata Bose

29. 

Defend Hinduism by all means through knowledge of scripture, resist conversion to Islam and Christianity, but do not give in to the poison of ignorant fanaticism while all the while cleverly clamouring universalism in the name of the Sanatan Dharma.

30. I request all Hindutvavaadis to thoroughly go through 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' before spitting venom on Facebook. That would be service to the Sanatan Dharma and to the Hindu community indeed.

31. 

Hindus are divided, true. But is dividing the entire polity through both truthful and false propaganda the way to uniting them? Will electoral victory alone ensure the survival and safety of the Hindus? What about the guardians of political Hinduism becoming moral, ethical and spiritual Hindus as well? There lies the crux of the matter.

32. When I see such mass ignorance and intolerance abounding in society, I wonder whether we are sliding back as a nation, or is it a mountainous ascent with its corresponding detour that seems like a drop in altitude ?

33. 

Sri Ramakrishna practised and preached religious amity and harmony. Let us follow his teachings and become worthy devotees of his.

34. Are some people really that foolish that they keep on making the same old misinterpretations of my 'Swami Vivekananda-Mother Teresa' post where I have not compared them but have merely placed them in chronological order while calling them great? I am appalled to behold their blindness to reason and shocked at English-literate people's gross inability to judge implications of posts which are as clear as daylight. I now get it. Perhaps, it is deep-seated prejudice that is playing this perverse game and surely no love for Swamiji, for love does not stifle heart so.

35. 

How many of you who are busy abusing Mother Teresa ever met her in person, known her in close acquaintance thus or even studied in depth her several renowned biographies? First study, meditate deep on her life and austerities for the world, and then arrive at an illumimed understanding. May Mother bless you all !

36. I may be an insignificant person but my insignificance is also significant in the larger scheme of things where every atom contributes to the vast machinery of Matter, every pulse adds on to the larger life of the Spirit, every breath joins in to lend immortality to the Being.

37. Tell me which part of the atmosphere is Christian ✝️ atmosphere, which part Muslim ☪️ and which part Hindu 🕉?

38. The Taj Mahal is a teardrop on the cheek of Time...Tagore 

কালের কপোলে অশ্রুবিন্দু তাজ | (বঙ্গানুবাদ -- সুগত বসু)

39. Divinity is nothing but purity of love.

40. সৃষ্টিকর্তার অনাসৃষ্টি এই ব্রহ্মাণ্ড ! ভাগ্যিশ ! তাই মুক্তি সম্ভব | নইলে চিরবন্দী থাকতে হত |

41. Politics is the limiting sphere of man. Religion and science are both in essence liberating spheres. Liberation lies beyond the senses, though.

42. The sectarian man can scarce understand the glory of transcendence of sect. His is a limiting vision that clings to earthly survival and adopts crude means to advance his corrosive cause.

43. Ministers should be highly educated. Ignoramuses cannot govern.

44. 

The life of a nation is in the condition of its masses. If they are to survive somehow like brutes, the nation is nearing its death. Now, businessmen and politicians, you know what you have done to the people and sure enough you realise where your duty lies. And if you fail to discharge your duties, the masses will eventually rise up and overthrow you. So, beware ! and rectify means and measures.

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo : Bhupendranath Datta -- freedom fighter, revolutionary, scholar, author and youngest brother of Swami Vivekananda.

45. 

Inspired by Swamiji to liberate India. Jatindranath Mukherjee or Bagha Jatin. The continent revolutionary. Met Swamiji in person several times and was told by him to read Bankimchandra's 'Ananda Math' and to set up gymnasiums for young men throughout the land. Swamiji sent him to Ambu Guha's gymnasium where he had himself done physical culture in youth. Swamiji taught him the secret of 'brahmacharya' or continence and urged him to consecrate his life for the motherland. Died a martyr's death after the Battle of Balasore in 1915. Received glowing tribute from his armed adversary, Charles Tegart, who compared him with Nelson.

Inspired by Swamiji to liberate India. Rashbehari Bose, master of disguise. Bombed Hardinge, organised aborted Ghadar Revolution, escaped to Japan to orgsnise pan-Asian resistance to British rule in India and European dominance in Asia. Never could set foot on the soil of his motherland again after leaving her shores in 1915 for Japan. Spanned five decades of revolutionary activity, organised the Indian National Army, the Indian Independence League, and cooked curries Indian style in Nakamuraya in that hub of revolutionary meet in Japan, dreaming of freedom one day.

Gave her life to the service of her Guru's 'Queen of adoration', India. Sister Nivedita, consecrated to Ramakrishna-Vivekananda, a versatile genius, sacrificed her everything to help raise India from her prostrate position to her perennial glory. Met Swamiji in London in 1896 and followed him to India to love, live and die for her cause at a time when the British were at their ruthless worst in their dealing with the 'natives'. Her white skin raised eyebrows amongst her kin but broke the slumber of the Indians who found in her moral support and sanction for raising their voice and arms for freedom. Nivedita had to sever formal connections with the Ramakrishna Mission founded by her Master which must have been 'the unkindest cut of them all' but she gracefully accepted the 'deal' which allowed her fullest freedom to pursue her adopted motherland's -- nay, true motherland's -- freedom. But her connection of soul and heart with the Mission continued unabated. And all this she did for Swamiji.

Bhupendranath Datta, youngest brother of Swamiji. Inspired by his elder brother to track the path of revolution in his bid to liberate the motherland and her masses. Was imprisoned for a year for anti-British revolutionary activity in 1907, then aided and advised by Nivedita, left for America to pursue higher studies and completed doctoral thesis. Turned communist, met Lenin in Russia during those tumultuous post-revolutionary days there, was advised by the latter to organise the peasants in India for the coming Indian revolution. Late in life authored the groundbreaking study of his elder brother, 'Swami -- Patriot-Prophet'. Made mother Bhuvaneshwari proud when post release from prison in 1908, she was felicitated by the people of Kolkata for mothering such a patriotic, valorous son.

Met Swamiji in Dhaka in 1901 and was electrified by his personality and his benedictory touch on his head. Life revolutionised by Swamiji, he set himself to organise armed revolution to free India. Wax the one gave Swamiji the epithet 'cyclonic monk'. Hemchandra Ghosh of famous memory, of notoriety for the British.

The greatest of them all. Swamiji's spiritual child. Gave his every breath, every ounce of energy, every thought to the fulfilment of his life's ideal, the liberation of his motherland. Inspired by Swamiji to do it all. Read Swamiji's works at age fifteen, was fired up by it to take up at first spiritual and social work which soon consumed him in patriotic activity for the freedom of his motherland. A complex personality who combined in his being absolute continence with revolutionary activity, non-violent agitation with armed aggression in secret that eventually broke bounds, post his great escape from internment in India to distant Germany and Japan, to culminate in armed assault on the north-eastern frontier of India, Netaji remains Swamiji's greatest gift to India, his shining testament to his befallen countrymen and to all colonised people of the world. Netaji was Swamiji in fulfilment, the complement to his being in planes where the transcendental seer had no access to on account of his station in the world of the Spirit which demanded a universal approach to the problem of entire humanity. Netaji did what Swamiji dreamed of but was inhibited by circumstances from real-life accomplishing.

46. When a group (THAKUR-MA-SWAMIJI-GURUDEV) sleeps thus, it is best to shut it. Of course, then you can hardly call it a social group, for in the absence of interaction it is individualism all the way.

47. The inability to chant the divine mantra at least 108 times twice a day is an inexcusable spiritual offence for the initiated.

48. Leaders mislead and the masses like Hamlin's rats follow. But beware of the end result. It is drowning in the sea.

49. 

A ritual reach is outer religiosity. The inner life consists in reaching within to place one's heart at the hallowed feet of the Divine waiting patiently by the river bank where you left Him to seek greener pastures in the village of the world and completely forgot that He has been awaiting your return since a moment back while in your mind aeons have passed like a delusive dream on celluloid.

50. Be intellectually active yourself if you wish your children to do well academically.

51. I have lost faith in politicians of the present dispensation. Politicians are crooks.

52. 

My respects to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's greatest Prime Minister after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who was undivided India's first Prime Minister, on his 57th death anniversary.

53. Be scientific and not religious regressive. Science is the order of the day even if you wish to advance spiritually.

54. India today is walking along a regressive path of archaic religious revivalism. What we need, however, is a progressive scientific outlook that will advance the nation in real terms.

55. Education that makes one a roguish atheist is as bad as indoctrination that makes one a religious fanatic.

56. The Om is the junction of the relative and the absolute.

57. ভগবান আর কি ? বিশুদ্ধ প্রেম |

58. যেখানে ভয় সেখানে প্রেম কই ?

59. 

এই অনৃত জগতে ঠাকুর, তুমিই একমাত্র সত্য |

60. There lies Everest. But who can lend it form? Who can picture it, who photograph?

61. Myself am a bubble, any moment to burst.

62. The life of a nation lies in the individual. Curtail his freedom and you have destroyed the nation itself.

63. 

Fight for freedom. 'Freedom, freedom is the song of the soul.' What would Swami Vivekananda say to this curb on freedom of expression? If criticism of government goes, goes with it democracy.

64.

India loves domination it seems by the powers that be. No wonder we were under foreign domination for well over a thousand years before we got our truncated freedom. Or, have we got it still when freedom of expression is being thwarted this way or that? Must art and literature now call it quits if they dare oppose the ruling dispensation? Must we start practising silence then like the great Trailanga Swami in order to keep our own counsel and peace with it? Else?

Written by Sugata Bose

65. How politicians love power !

66. विनाषकाले विपरीत बुद्घि ||

বিনাশকালে বিপরীত বুদ্ধি |

At the time of self-destruction opposite intelligence prevails.

67. Left, left, left-right-left,  backward march !

68. 

Speech stifled, must truth be compromised then? But did not Swamiji say, "Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. Societies should be moulded upon truth, and truth has not to adjust itself to society."?

69.

Must you crush all the pearls of the necklace to make a powdery whole? Alas, what a necklace it will be -- more a noose than an adornment ! Look at this inspirational figure and learn. Learn while yet there is time. Are you listening, dear 'inspired' one, you who gained so much inspiration to serve the people from him?

70. Anybody who rubs the government the wrong way is an 'antinational', right? So, media must be muzzled and individual account privacy breached?

71. The problem with the current crop of reformers is that they themselves are so heavily compromised with all that they exhort others to renounce. Who will follow such self-seeking hypocrites?

72.

If men of distinction are suppressed in our society and only sycophants to ruling dispensations given the go, quality in governance will so plummet that in a generation's time we will be back where we were generations ago.

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo : One such outstanding man of distinction, Prof. Hiren Mukerjee, CPI leader, five time Parliamentarian (1952 -- 1977) academic, bilingual author, orator par excellence, Padma Vibhushan and man of sterling character, veritably one of the builders of the Communist movement in India. Stood first in Matriculation and in University in History, Oxonian, bar-at-law, and outstanding Parliamentarian whose oratory drew crowds in college when he lectured and earned the applause of fellow Parliamentarians including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who he opposed as Leader of Opposition in India's first Parliamentary five-year term between 1952 and 1957. Never allowed anybody to touch his feet whenever someone attempted it, holding human head-held-high dignity as sacrosanct. Such a one as he was is rare indeed in the annals of Parliamentary history the world over and we were privileged to witness the flowering and flourishing of his genius till just the other day. Prof. Hiren Mukerjee was simply breathtaking in his attainments. When shall we see another such again?

73. Our leaders talk too much, work too little, bungle in work and fight among themselves. Would it were otherwise as Sri Ramakrishna had once told his nephew Hriday, asking him to first accomplish the act and only then speak about it !

74. There is something called being a titular Hindu and another a practising Hindu. Which one we are it is time to introspect.

75. I made this group THAKUR-MA-SWAMIJI-GURUDEV) specifically for you all but your apathy towards it appals me. I feel ashamed of my endeavour to this effect.

76. Dawn shows the day.

77. Affirm your divinity.

78. With open eyes see God, with shut eyes feel Him, with sense transcended be Him.

79. In serving others we serve ourselves. Who is alien to us after all ? All are us.

80. 

Reform has to be phased in time. Too radical a reform more often than not backfires unless the people through education have been readied for it. Social evolution is a function of time and social revolution as well.

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo : Bhupendranath Datta, communist revolutionary, freedom fighter, scholar and youngest brother of Swami Vivekananda.

81. Buddha, Chaitanya and Ramakrishna were all fond of humour, being themselves humorous to a pronounced degree. Wit is the sign of exalted intelligence in its complementary mode. Swami Vivekananda also had a devastating sense of humour.

82. 

EXQUISITE

The sheer symmetry of it with a slight forward incline in the direction of the watchful vision, indicative as if of the grand cultural evolution of future India as she first retraces her ancient steps from her fallen recent past before marching on with the onward times with creative fresher affirmation of her inmost realisations, now in concrete terms expressible in more propitious circumstances. 

Written by Sugata Bose

83. Why without study of Marx and Lenin so many ill-informed men hate Marx and Marxism?

84. 

All ignorance is held at root in the ego. The ego is the delusive shadowy entity that like a dark cloud covers the effulgent sun, using spatial proportions to come to combative magnitudinal terms. All of evolution is but the primary progression and the secondary retrogression of this elastic entity till in point contraction the ego dissolves to reveal that which ever was abiding in Self-revelation, the eternal Presence behind the fluctuations of the cosmic field.

85. 

Leon Trotsky, the great Marxist theoretician of the Russian Revolution.

86. 

বিপ্লব স্পন্দিত বুকে,

মনে হয় আমিই লেনিন |

... সুকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য্য

87. P.V. Narasimha Rao has been India's greatest Prime Minister since Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

88. Whatever you may say about Marx and communism, the future belongs to left movement. The Shudra Yuga is coming. Socialism will sweep.

88. 

Whatever you may say about Marx and communism, the future belongs to left movement. The Shudra Yuga is coming. Socialism will sweep. This exploitative capitalist order will crumble under its own contradictions and pave the way for people's rule, the reign of the masses with lowered culture but greater living amenities for all. Mass slavery as it obtains today will give way to mastery by the masses. This is the imperative of history, this the evolutionary destiny of man.

Written by Sugata Bose

89. England was built at the expense of India. British hands are soaked in Indian blood.

90. To build your life you must do your spiritual practices regularly. Otherwise, character will not be formed neither energy flood your system.

91. My posts weep in vain. My rejoicing co-members (THAKUR-MA-SWAMIJI-GURUDEV) are too busy to read or respond.

92. The modern Jew is so much like the ancient Greek, brilliant in science.

93. Self-advertisement is reaching disproportionate proportions in these days of commercial common culture. Personalities are up as much for sale as commodities.

94. Use democracy to forge communism, then kill democracy. What a grateful return for opportunity allowed !

95.

Too much of preaching is going on, too little practice. And I may be held culpable to the same offence, too, to which in advance I plead guilty.

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo : Swami Nirvanananda, courtesy, a Facebook post by a friend whose name I fail to recall but to whom I extend my obligation and gratitude in all sincerity.

96.

The Indian revolutionary in the classical sense of the term was Rash Behari Bose. All others, even the very best of them, fell short of his total identification with the revolutionary spirit.

97. Communists criticise media gagging done by autocratic governments but communists do exactly the same wherever they assume power. The history of communism is a reference point in this regard.

98.

Capitalism generates wealth but to what end? Exploitation of the very labour force that generates it and with it impoverishment of the teeming millions under the garb of rising GDP and all such bogus statistics that nonetheless reduce man to a beast of burden, suffering the terrible consequence of unbearable rising cost of living and increasing economic disparity between the haves and the have-nots? Is this world then the playfield of only the exploitative rich class and a veritable hell for the billions in beastly burden thereof?

Written by Sugata Bose

99. 

The more I study the world's great political leaders, men who have brought about momentous changes in civilisation, I find Gandhiji incomparably superior to them all in terms of moral integrity, principled politics and human concern.

100. 

So, leftist is internationalist and rightist nationalist? Is that so?

101. 

A nucleus of dedicated workers, intensely sincere, with hearts pouring out love in abundance for the motherland, intelligent and energetic, pure and dynamic, can as yet release fresh life into the polity for it to reassert itself along the grain of its age-old civilisation and bring forth a golden age for itself and the whole of humanity. To that end Swamiji has exhorted us to 'work and die in harness' and to the fulfilment of his dream we must sacrifice our living selves. May Mother give us the strength to achieve and renounce ! May Thakur bless us with light and direction ! May we conjointly labour towards that glorious destiny which lies in wait for us for ages !

Written by Sugata Bose

102. যখন আমি আছি, তখন প্রশ্ন নেই |

        যখন প্রশ্ন থাকবে, তখন আমি নেই |

103. 

Marxism has one war embedded in its very DNA - class war, which is why it is inherently so violent and invariably leads to diabolic despotism wherever it gains a foothold. Where philosophical justification is there for perpetrating violence, barbarism necessarily follows, leaving its trail of gruesome mass murder dubbed the 'Great Purge'. The history of practised Marxism is a pointer to this effect. 

104. I am in every pulse of humanity, I am the breath of the universe.

105. Oversimplification of Truth is not good. There must be absolute rational rigour to one's pronouncement on Truth and not a pandering to social vanities to catch the popular attention. Practicality must not reduce theory to laughing stock, neither must theory remain in its ivory tower with connection severed from social life. But for all that, Truth must retain its essential enunciation and not be reduced to its social derivative in terms of its very definitive articulation. 

106. Power is common to God and the Devil, purity is God's alone.

107.

Khudiram gave his life for us to sing and dance to film tunes now, at best to Tagore tunes, and for us to ruin our country's future with our indiscriminate living, our power-hungry, desire-crazy consumerist ways and means which have made a mockery of his cherished dreams for his beloved motherland, right? What a price the boy, barely stepping out of innocence, paid to free dancers and singers galore, alas, what a price !

108. এদেশে মানুষ কই যে স্বামীজীকে, রাসবিহারী বসুকে, হেমচন্দ্র ঘোষকে, নেতাজীকে বুঝবে ? সব কাপুরুষের দল !

109. 

One is simply amazed to see Gandhi's denunciation of the revolutionaries amidst his double talk praising their patriotism in places. Shrewdness is welcome in politics but unbecoming in a supposed Mahatma. So, was he ever a Mahatma? In a like manner, was he a true patriot as well? I have my doubts. What about you?

110. 

হৃদয়ের ব্যাপ্তি যেন পাণ্ডিত্যের পরিধি দিয়ে নিয়মিত না হয় | সহজ, সরল হোক তার চলন | সাধারণের মধ্যেই লুকিয়ে আছে অসাধারণ, চাই শুধু চেনার চোখ | অসামাণ্যা এই নারীকে চিনতে গেলও একই ভাবে শুধু নিজের মাকে, বোনকে ও বান্ধবীকে চিনলেও তার খানিক চেনা হবে যদি হৃদয়ে যথার্থ প্রেম থাকে | তাঁকে বৃহৎ পরিধিতে চিনতে গেলে পরে তাঁর জীবন ও কীর্তির অনুধ্যান তো আছেই | সরল ও গভীরের সমন্বয় হবে হৃদয়ের ত্রিবেনীসঙ্গমে,স্বচ্ছসলীলা তরঙ্গিনীর স্বাভাবিক উচ্ছাসে | এমনই হোক আমাদের জীবনে মানুযের প্রতি আচরণ, কঠিন নিয়মে বাঁধা নয়, সরল প্রেমে উচ্ছসিত |

111. আমি বুদ্ধিজীবী নই, আমি হৃদয়জীবী |

112. 

হাতে হীরকখণ্ড পেয়ে তাকে ত্যাগ করা, এ কৌশল জগতের ভারতবাসীর কাছে শেখার আছে |

113. First generate wealth. Then distribute it ill. Create poverty. Then do charity. Lovely order of socioeconomic life ! Lovely sense of surface religiosity and a great sense of complacent self-satisfaction at one's benevolence ! Godly after all !

114. 

Which Gandhian including Gandhi could match this self-sacrifice? Answer, which Gandhian? Could Gandhi? He called Jatin Mukherjee 'a divine personality'. But was he any match for him? These were the real heroes, not the notable Nehrus and the gallant Gandhis !

115. গুণহীনের কী আনন্দ, গুণের বোঝা নেই ! নির্গুণেরও কি একই আনন্দ, নাকি আনন্দও নেই ?

116. পাণ্ডিত্যে কি হবে ভাই যদি হৃদয় না থাকে ?

117. স্বয়ংসম্পূর্ণ ভাবটি ভাল কিন্তু স্বয়ংসম্পূর্ণ হওয়ার পরই ভাল, তার আগে নয় | আত্মনির্ভরতা আর স্বয়ংসম্পূর্ণতা এক নয় |

118. Give up dependence on astrology and start depending on yourself.

119. Independence in material terms is enlightened interdependence but in spiritual terms is the realization of the solidarity of the Being.

120. 

The revolutionaries loved the motherland more than anything else whereas the votaries of constitutional reform and later of Gandhian non-violence 'loved' humanity above the motherland. This was the essential difference. But as Swamiji said, "He who cannot love his own mother, how can he ever love someone else's mother?"

121. মহা সংঘর্ষ এখানে | আবার বিবাহ নিয়ে বাকযুদ্ধ এবং বিশ্রী ভাষায় |

ভারতরত্ন ? কেন ? কি তাঁর (অনীতা দেবীর) অবদান ভারতের জন্য ? আর হঠাৎ বিদেশিনীকে নিয়ে টানাটানি কেন দেশের রত্ন বিতরণের অভিপ্রায়ে ? তিনি ভারতের কে ও কি কাজ কবে করেছেন আমাদের দেশের জন্য যে তাঁর ভারতরত্ন পাওয়ার যোগ্যতা হঠাৎ জন্মাল আজ ?

122. প্রচার না অপপ্রচার ? হঠাৎ এতো এভাবে সোচ্চার কেন ? কি ঘটেছে যে নেতাজীপ্রেম আজি উথলি উঠিছে ঐ ? সবটাই কি রাজনৈতিক স্বার্থ নাকি ব্যক্তিগত স্বার্থও জড়িত ? সত্যই কি সত্যপ্রকাশের যথার্থ অভিপ্রায় নাকি আর কিছু ? নাহলে এহেন দুর্ভাষণ কেন এই সকল লেখার আনুষঙ্গিক মন্তব্যস্থলে (comment stream এ) ? এই প্রচারের/অপপ্রচারের হেতু কি ? সে যাই হোক, এইটুকু বেশ পরিস্ফুট যে নেতাজী পণ্যরূপেও বিক্রয় হচ্ছেন আজ ও রাজনৈতিক স্বার্থেও ব্যবহৃত হচ্ছেন চমৎকার তাঁর প্রিয় দেশবাসীর দ্বারা | এখন আপনারা মতামত জানান |

123.

আত্মবিজ্ঞাপনের শ্রেষ্ঠ উপায়, নেতাজীর নামে কুৎসা রটাও | আর দেখতে হবে না, মুহূর্তে post viral | এরকম এখন চলছে এক জায়গায় | অধঃপতিত জাতির আর জাতিত্ব রইল না | তবে প্রতিপ্রহারও খাচ্ছেন বাবাজীবন ! এখন দেখা যাক কতদূর গড়ায় ব্যাপারটা, কত নীচে নামতে পারেন ভদ্র |

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124. 

আজও কেন এত দ্বন্দ নেতাজীর বিয়ে নিয়ে ? কেন প্রমাণের অভাবকে মেনে নেওয়া হয়না ? যা প্রমাণিত নয় অকাট্যভাবে তা কি গ্রহণণযোগ্য বুদ্ধিমানের কাছে ? তাহলে ? তাহলে এই ভ্রান্তি আজও কেন ? কেন কলঙ্কলেপনের প্রয়াস পবিত্রাত্মা এই মহানায়কের প্রতি ? মানুষ তো মানবেন না এই সব উদ্ভট আরোপ | তাহলে বৃথা পণ্ডশ্রম কেন ? কি স্বার্থসিদ্ধি হবে আর এর দ্বারা ? যা এতদিনেও জনমানসে স্থান পেল না তা কি আর আজ তাঁর অন্তর্ধানের আট দশক বাদে নতুন করে স্থান পাবে ? সত্য উদ্ঘাটন ভাল কিন্তু বৃথা বাক্যব্যয় ? ভেবে দেখুন, পড়ুন, জানুন, তারপর স্থির সিদ্ধান্তে উপনীত হোন |

125. প্রেমে বিশ্ব বিধৃত |

126. Adieu fifties !

127. 60 years old.

(10.06.1961 - 10.06.2021 +)

These numbers fail to give the feel of the stretch of life in love and loss, in bliss and beauty, in dark despair, in soulful flight to sunlit peaks, in fulfilment in blessed ecstasy. But they have all encompassed the gamut of Me.

128. STRAY THOUGHTS 

What is the use of maintaining a body whose spiritual, intellectual and cultural output have no value for the concerned people?

Sunfall -- streams of sunlight falling from the sun onto earth like water from a mountainous waterfall.

I know I will wait for all but that none will wait for me. So I hurry on my way to serve others, so I hasten to clear others' path, so I serve myself the least and the last lest I should inconvenience others.

Tearfall -- the dewdrop that rolls down the cheek from the eye that sees into the heart of things.

Swamiji composed 'Song of the Sannyasin' and I have composed in my life 'Song of the heart'.

It is best to cut one's anchor now and die when the high tide is there and life's ebb tide has set in. There is no purpose to living anymore when all one's hopes are betrayed, when life has lost its lingering love of the morrow and a furtherance will only decay today's freshness when departure, if even in pain, can still be delightful for it will relieve the misery while still sensation remains to feel it.

129. প্রশ্ন : কর্মের কৌশল কি ?

উত্তর  : আত্মপ্রচেষ্টা ও ভগবৎ নির্ভরতা |

130. Those who serve others, serve themselves best. Let this be the motto of life. But care must be taken of oneself as well, for there is no partition between others and oneself, the selves being all integrated in the Self.

131. We must never forsake our culture for the borrowed culture from the West.

132. The British came, plundered and reduced us to poverty like never before. Let our rich men remember this and not reduce us to poverty further by despoiling us.

133. Sincerity is a function of character, not of age, energy considerations notwithstanding.

134. India is most beautiful in her diverse currents of life. Preserve it to keep her beautiful.

135. Modernisation is the way. But it must be a modernisation of the mind, of attitudes, aspirations and the struggle, the struggle to free oneself of treacherous traditional trappings, the struggle to liberate the masses from their beasthood of existence unto the true liberty of the Self. The current religious revivalism, archaic and regressive, steeped as it is in capitalist vested interests in the dubious garb of pseudo-nationalism, all this must be replaced with a wholesome assertion of progressive ways and means, an affirmation of the eternal truths of the Vedas which are consonant to modern rational thinking and superceding it in beauty and wisdom, and the catching of the current of the liberal, advancing ways of the enlightened of the world.

Written by Sugata Bose

136. Common tendency is to classify people. But truth consists in declassification.

137. We, as aspirations, float on the sea of causation till we embody to fulfil our dreams, then dissolve again in the same old sea. Thus we proceed from life to life till, desires satiated and desires sublimated, we like bubbles burst to be the sea itself, never to rise to frothy form again. 

Written by Sugata Bose

138. The immediate future of our country seems dark as children become increasingly lax in their academic studies and take to the frivolities of life.

139. Life is to learn and love. Do so and be free.

140. এই দুটোই তো বই - কথামৃত আর লীলাপ্রসঙ্গ | পড়বেন রোজ | ভাল লাগবে, ভাল হবে |

141. যে পরিমাণে পাণ্ডিত্য, সেই পরিমাণে হৃদয়ের প্রসার না হলে বৃথা শিক্ষা |

142. A willingness to obey instructions, do the bidding and fulfil the aspirations of the preceptor is the precursor to spiritual realisation. Desire must not come in the way and bar communion.

143. Hard work heals, perseverance pays.

144. 

The British ill-treated us. We have won our freedom. Now let us not ill-treat each other. In the dignity of each Indian lies the validity of our freedom. Else, we are not yet free. We are our own bond-slaves. It is self-colonisation. Never forget the sacrifice of the revolutionaries nor pretend to be their sole legatees through vaunted true and supposed association. Obliterate ego and do not act in a supercilious way as if you are the absolute arbiters on patriotism. Contain your vanity within reasonable bounds. You are not the only true inheritors of the nation's culture nor the sole successors of those who fought for freedom. A sane sense of equality should deem this an imperative in your daily dealings. 

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo : Bhupendranath Datta

145. HOW COULD TAGORE TAKE THE KNIGHTHOOD IN THE FIRST PLACE ?

I have often wondered how Tagore could have accepted the knighthood of the British Empire in the first place from the rapacious colonisers before somewhat redeeming himself in renouncing it. Would Swamiji or Netaji or Rash Behari Bose have accepted such an 'honour' from the molesters of the motherland? And knight? Whose knight? A knight of the most dastardly regime of all time, the wicked British Crown that tyrannised over a third of the world for centuries and reduced flourishing peoples to penury? Serving as a knight of such a savage imperial order and then to be hailed as supreme renouncer of title at the awakened consciousness about British dastardliness post the Amritsar massacre? Would a right-feeling man have accepted such an 'honour' as Tagore did from the bloodstained hands of the hangmen who were regularly sending our brave revolutionaries to the gallows or to animal incarceration in the Andamans? Hemchandra Ghosh decried the deed. What would Khudiram say?

Written by Sugata Bose

146. Our helpnessness we call God, our beloved we call God, our ignorance we call God and our enlightenment we also call God.

147.

কাপুরুষের দেশ ! নাচো, গাও, আনন্দ করো, কবিতা লেখো, বিপ্লবীদের মিথ্যামালা দাও আর লোকসমক্ষে ও লোকান্তরে নিজস্বার্থ রক্ষা করো | এবার বলো জয় হিন্দ, বন্দে মাতরম্ আর জয়তু স্বামীজী !

আলোকচিত্র : সেকালের মানুষ, একালের নন, বিপ্লবী হেমচন্দ্র ঘোষ | একটু ব্যতিক্রমী বটে !

148. মা লক্ষমুখে না খেয়ে বসে আছেন, খাওয়াবেন কাকে ?

149. দুই ধরণের মানুষ আসেন -- এক মায়ায় বাঁধবার জন্য, আর এক মায়া ছাড়াবার জন্য | এবার বুঝে নিন কোন 'মহাপুরুষ' কোন শ্রেণীর |

150. That which binds you is not religion, that which frees you is.

151.