COMMENTS GALORE ... 6

COMMENTS GALORE ... 6

Sugata Bose @Debashish Paul : Swamiji said that it is the householder's duty to earn in abundance along ethical lines and to be ever economical in the discharge of such wealth accumulated because the wealth so earned is for the upkeep of society and not merely for personal pleasurable disposal. Swamiji told America's first millionaire John D. Rockefeller that he was the trustee of God's wealth which it was his duty to spend judiciously for the welfare of the world. Rockefeller stormed out of Swamiji's audience but returned a fortnight later with detailed plans of his first public philanthropy amounting to an enormous sum of money. In general also Swamiji advised people to be economical in their disposal of money and never to be wasteful. So did Sri Ramakrishna. Hence, earning handsomely Swamiji enjoined as the householder's duty as mentioned in the Mahanirvan Tantra but burning money in fruitless ways he never espoused. Thrift when well-directed is a virtue par excellence. So you see why Swamiji's photograph has been appended to the post. I hope I have sufficiently answered your casual query and in a like manner expect an acknowledgement of the same with due deference.

Sugata Bose @Anal Hajra : May I save this picture, Anal, for future use? The photographs you append your posts with are simply nonpareil.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Rajdeep Sardesai is superficial, shallow and dubiously dull. He is not qualified to interview a celebrity seriously for all his apparent levity. He is hyper-talkative and snatches precious time from the interviewees by indulging in fruitless gibberish himself which ruins the very tenor and temper of the conversation. This undue dilution that he causes with his unwarranted remarks which are totally out of character with the general drift of the conversation makes for a ruined programme always whenever he is in his anchor's seat. Such interviewers as Rajdeep Sardesai should take lessons in interviewing from experts before they hazard interviewing men of eminence who should be spared far more time and occasion to express themselves free of irritating interference that is totally uncalled for. When will he learn, alas, when?

Sugata Bose @YouTube : This Rajdeep Sardesai talks too much. He deprives the interviewee valuable time to express himself. This is not the art of interviewing. Constant wandering at a surface level from one point to another without interlink also characterizes his interviewing. At the end of an interview one has heard a lot of Sardesai but hardly much from the interviewee.

Sugata Bose @Utpal Aich : Very well written. Beautiful language, crisp, pointed, the apt usage of words.

Sugata Bose @Lata Mangeshkar on YouTube - Akaash pradeep jwaalo : Flawless rendition. Uniform tonal quality throughout in every phase, every pitch of the song.

Sugata Bose @Surya Sarathi Roy : Fact. Not a religion but a fanatical political ideology designed to destroy humanity.

Sugata Bose @YouTube Kathamrita Bhavan : The introduction and interludes are too long-winded and, so, unduly time-consuming. Unnecessary repetition needs to be avoided. Overmuch of thanksgiving may please the speakers, perhaps, but is a delaying diversion which may be done away with. Also, the moderator's pronunciation must improve. The 'r' as in p'r'anam is ever missing and is sounded as panam. Diction must improve. The same applies to Swami Siddheshanandaji. His diction needs a radical improvement. He is too repetitive and really tests the audience's patience by his long and circular speeches at the beginning and at the end of the programme. As Shakespeare said, brevity, indeed, is the soul of wit. Economy of expression by the moderator and by Maharajji needs to adorn these otherwise wonderful programmes. Right now they are being much tarnished on account of these defects in presentation and moderation. Greater moderation in moderating would do the programmes a world of good.

Sugata Bose @X : You have become immune to my admonition. Henceforth, I will refrain from reproving you on any count. Y has attained a like status in self-determination and in consequence thereof from my side. Such a development is what in floral terms would be called immature fruition of an infertile kind.

Sugata Bose @Garry Kasparov : Grandmaster's grand prophecy now come true, and chillingly so.

Sugata Bose @Ranita Indic : Also Imran imposing economic sanctions on Russia by refusing to repay Pakistan's 1 billion dollar debt to the country because of its dastardly invasive daring.

Sugata Bose @Subrata Sengupta : Islamic ummah is one in repudiating its perceived enemies. This is jihad.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Expression, articulation must be bold and not constricted, constipated, a feature sadly missing and evident in the sequential order in the gentleman speaking on Mohendranath Datta. Such a folly in diction should never be. Bengalees seem to be addicted to effeminate ways.

Sugata Bose @Parivrajika Shantihridaya : Wonderful. I feel inspired by these kids taking Thakur's name in such innocence with a glad smile beaming on their faces. Today Thakur has been served through them. Glory unto these buds who shall in time bloom into fragrant flowers!

Sugata Bose @Shubhalakshmi Bagchi : Yes, it is. The Ashram is in dire straits financially and needs urgent monetary help from devotees and well-wishers. If you are interested in serving the cause, leave your whatsapp number on Messenger with a little introduction and I will on behalf of the Mekhliganj Math forward you the relevant details how you may proceed therefrom in terms of giving the said financial help.

Sugata Bose @Sipra Kar : Your competence in judgement is now being judged.

Sugata Bose @Saptarshi Samanta : Right you are. But Swamiji, unlike you, had infinite patience. All tolerance, acceptance flow from him. Your refracted vision does not allow you due comprehension. But, as Shakespeare said, "Men may construe things after their fashion." My friend, be not small-minded thus and interpret things narrowly. Leave Swamiji to do his job. Do not attempt to conjecture what he would or would not do. You rather see to it that you may serve Swamiji's cause to the best of your ability.

Sugata Bose @Rakesh Sharma : These words are not Swamiji's. They are mine and pertinent to the times, not ahead of it as such.

Sugata Bose @Saptarshi Samanta : To articulate opinion is not to divide the polity. Free discourse demands it and you are being extraneous in your comment which has nothing to do with the post proper. But, alas, such are the ways of the times! You are unnecessarily wasting time on an insignificant person like me when you could better utilise your precious moments pursuing the higher objectives of life. Anyhow, you are entitled to your opinion. Good wishes and great hopes for your rendering yeoman service to the motherland which, perhaps, I, in your opinion, am failing to do. Godspeed unto your success! Stay secure and safe in this pernicious times of the pandemic.

Moreover, I merely put in present perceptions on pertinent issues without posing to proselytise such views. They are my understanding of an element of a matter at that moment through a certain refracted vision of the truth, never complete or unadulterated as it must necessarily be when viewed through the dispersing prism of Maya. Hence, to label me this or that, as you are doing, must be deemed puerile and presumptuous. But, nonetheless, you are free to criticise as such indiscreet deliberations of your mind will in their maturity lead to understanding and the rightful conception of me and my thoughts, assuming you keep to track in following what I have already intimated to you as fruitless pursuit to an insignificant end. Complex it may be to comprehend my views as my thoughts are often meandering and tortuous, convoluted even to the casual reader, but deeper deliberation will reveal their truest intent and, why not, aspiration, for I truly aspire for the release of humanity from its frothy moorings in life. But that is in Mahamaya's hands. It is Her dispensation that things ought to be the way they are in the course of unfolding evolution of sentience and it is Her decree that I should be thus vilified by the likes of you. Mother guides it all. Jai Ma!

Sugata Bose @Saptarshi Samanta : Read the passages from 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' cited above before you articulate immature opinion about me dividing and all such gibberish.

Sugata Bose @Amalesh Maharaj : Yes, Swamiji infused in me that self-belief in early youth. We will work his plans out. Help and service are forthcoming.

Sugata Bose @Subhadeep Banerjee : No. I show the various facets of life, never unilinear as the average person likes it to be but varied and variegated in all its diverse aspects and beauty. A composite of all such apparently contradictory and conflicting elements make up the universal set we term life. Hence, every facet needs study and the attempt must be to seek synthesis thereof without lowering level or diluting standard, maintaining the golden mean of all such endeavours as requisite in national life. Democracy deems maximum exposure to culture. Else, it degenerates into dictatorial dispensation as the commoner is prone to being subjected to on account of flawed understanding of the complexities of life which autocrats then abuse to their nefarious advantage. Discretion is not to be given up but judgement must be formed after due deliberations on all aspects pertinent to the historical happenings of a nation.

Sugata Bose @Deepanjan Mitra : 

Okay then.

Meet shall we this eve, 

And night befalling leave.

Sugata Bose @Parivrajika Shantihridaya : More such infusion of Thakur's grace in the form of motherly feeding of prasad will fill children with holiness and imprint on their impressionable minds thoughts of the Master. I request you to do one such prasad programme again on 1 May, 2022 to mark the foundation day of the Ramakrishna Mission.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Swamiji had 16 other brother disciples and not 15 such, as mentioned by Swami Balabhadrananda. The one Maharaj left out is Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj). Belur Math refuses recognition to this leonine disciple of Sri Ramakrishna for whatever reason.

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : My blessings are on you. You must not ever forget India. You must serve the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission which, unknown to you, lies at the core of your consciousness and is at the root of all your success thus far and your prospective future success, for Swamiji's vision of the future Indian womanhood lies at the base of your unfolding earthly career. Remember, the individual lives best in the collective, in the aggregate, in the universal. There are so many unseen faces, unheard voices who you must bring to the mainstream of life, whose mute aspirations must find utterance in your service.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Horrible logic provided by Swami Purnatmananda about the failure of the communist leader in bringing his wife to the fold of atheism. Utter irrational nonsense! This is proof of shallow spirituality donning the robes and overreaching limits into logical fallacy where better discretion and verbal restraint should have saved honour. What a fall, Swamiji, from your days! Abysmal state of your descendants! A revisitation by Thakur and his entourage is the call of the hour as his followers have lost their spiritual moorings. If the said communist leader had his whole family as atheists, would Swami Purnatmananda have been satisfied as to the veracity of communist atheistic philosophy? No, he would then have shifted gears, altered the goalpost to launch into a fresher, foolish tirade couched in pretentious civilised talk.

Sugata Bose @डॉ रामचन्द्र : Thanks for enquiring. That indicates interest.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Reading is good, reflection better, realisation best.

Sugata Bose @Alok Sarkar : And I thank you despite your terrible ordeal that you did return to your motherland and, so, set up a glorious example for others to follow who having settled in the West have conveniently forgotten the motherland and left her bereft of the technological knowhow they acquired. After all we must build our nation like all other nations have done and our best brains cannot absolve themselves of their duty in doing so.

Sugata Bose @Alok Sarkar : Indeed, we are in the trough of civilisation now but the upward trend is visible to the perceptive eye through all the murky atmosphere of the moment. In the last years of the nineteenth century Swamiji had prophesied that his ideas would hold the imagination of the generations fifth and sixth from the day who would play with the treasures he was leaving behind in the Belur Math. Today's teenagers are that fifth generation and their progeny will be the sixth who will transform India, taking power away from these rogues who will rot and be cast away into the wastebin of history. India, slowly and imperceptibly, is rising but the motion is so much in its nascent state that it is well-nigh invisible now. But the seeds are there, germinating and maturing, and will before the lapse of forty more years set India vibrant and alive with the pulsations of a fresher growth. India, hunted and humbled, desecrated and disabled, devastated and destroyed, will yet arise to conquer the world with her spirituality.

Sugata Bose @Suvasish Ganguly : Study the 'Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' thoroughly and you will get to know. Develop shraddha and exert yourself dispelling exclusive materialistic delusions and you will come to a definitive understanding of the spirit of India and its workings which men devoid of the aforesaid attribute can hardly comprehend.

Sugata Bose @Suvasish Ganguly : There is no short-cut to understanding. Swamiji is a spiritual personality and as a Bengalee I would have expected you to have been already well-versed with his writings extensively. But intellectual information is not spiritual knowledge and you need to lead the life of the Spirit to apprehend his thoughts properly. From the look of it it is clear that you aren't sincere in your queries beyond pricking people with casual caustic questions. If you are truly sincere even at this advanced state in years you will with due diligence read up Swamiji's works wholly and fully before venturing into further fruitless forays with one who has spent his lifetime studying him but cares not to inform men who have chosen to remain beyond the periphery of Swamiji's seminal influence out of their own characteristic compulsions. Swamiji is not every child's play nor can he be within the comprehension of casual questioners. So, I leave you to find the relevant books much like the bee finds its destiny being led by the fragrance of the unseen flower. God guide your search, the God who you, perhaps, have rationally rejected, being led into superficial conclusions based on fallacious logic as suits the commoner of uncommon pretension of being scientific and rationally inclined which in truth is the blind man's perception of a luminous world. So with the life of the Spirit and its derivatives thereof. Swamiji is, as of now for you, a distant dream in cognition, not yet with the vision cone of your dreaming state. Swamiji is not a figure that anyone at a moment’s desire can hope to haul up into understanding from the depths of the superconscious. As I have earlier said, first attain shraddha which is the intense aspirational mood seeking perfection. Great savants like Romain Rolland have gone gaga over Swamiji. Read them and come to conclusions.

Sugata Bose @Manjit Dada : Very attractive way of propagating the message, befitting for the age of short attention-span that we live in. The colour holds, the appended photograph grips attention and the message percolates unobtrusively into the inner consciousness. Thank you, Manjit Dada.

Sugata Bose @YouTube RKM Vadodara  : These trends are backward. What is needed is not pompous show of bygone events, albeit of momentous historical significance, but modernisation of the youthful mind through the coupling of science and spirituality as was aspired for the coming age by the Swami of epochal vision. We must not be dated but must creatively move ahead taking the baton from past masters unto creating the civilisation of the morrow.

Sugata Bose @A devotee : Never mind. Do not give much importance to any such opposition in the way of your bid to God-realisation. Be composed and carry on like the rhinoceros. In so far as holding me in esteem is concerned, he does not need to do so, neither do I seek his recognition or approbation in the least. Do not spend a minute more on useless worldly conflicts. Raise yourself to higher heights. Don't worry. This is the price Thakur extracts to accept into his fold. This world is selfish and false. Thakur alone is true. Insults do not affect me, they taint the giver of such. Lord bless them! Remember I did not even touch a morsel or drink a drop at your place. I have been well-born and not a beggar that I shall be insulted and fed at the same time. Apologies do not heal. Self-realisation and the realisation of the insubstantiveness of the world does. I am not beholden to any that I shall have to grieve. I am your Guru and shall remain so despite these insinuations as to my credibility as an honest human being of some merit and character.

Sugata Bose @Parivrajika Shantihridaya : The young lady tending the fire seemed to me to be the real follower of Thakur's simple principle of service, although she may have been utterly unconscious of her inner spiritual compulsion in doing so. These unknown, unheralded ones are the real saints in the making, veritably the salt of the earth. Service that is in self-effacing serves humanity best and it is these simple folks who carry God's charge and in the fullness of time are blessed with His vision. Thakur and Ma have testified to this truth in having appeared in person before simple folks in the least of life's circumstance and in so doing fulfilled them spiritually without they having ever consciously aspired for anything like that. They were too simple to even contemplate such an end but God knows best and does what is rightfully deserved by His simple devotees.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : The analogy of invasion by Swami Suddhidananda is ill-founded, violent and gross, totally incongruous in reference to Thakur's spiritual attainments. It is ugly and destroys the very beauty of one who was the quintessence of elegance, charm and peacefulness. Better by far would have been to say that Sri Ramakrishna eased into the different aspects of world religion with a fluid movement of the soul. The raging spirit within him, the torment of his aspiring soul need not be compared to a ruthless invasion with its plunder, pillage and havoc wreaked. Monks must learn better diction before they venture into such holy territory as speaking on Thakur. Else, it will be, as in this case, foraying into forbidden terrain and making a sacrilege of that which is indubitably sacred.

Sugata Bose @Amalesh Maharaj : Mother must empower us. She will for sure. There is no way that we will let Her go without Her acceding to our demand.

Sugata Bose @Delphine Vanderydt : There is no creation. It is all a seeming reality, the manifold manifestation of Maya, Brahman, he Absolute Reality, seen through the magical prism of the seeming senses. This is the Vedantic view, that of Shankaracharya's non-dualism (Advaita Vedanta). This is in sharp contrast to Tagore's Vedantic dualism.