MESSAGES GALORE ... 19

MESSAGES GALORE ... 19

1. Muslims who thronged the streets in violent protest, consider. Whose image have you improved by your nation-wide vandalism for 48 hours? Has your venerated one's image not suffered more because of your own roguish behaviour than because of a television heated rant, though in truth?

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2. Barbarians are subverting our Hindu civilisation. We need to combat them and keep our civilisaltion flourishing.

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3. We are up against a very organised enemy that wants the destruction of Hindu India.

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4. Each and every Hindu, read 'Lectures from Colombo to Almora' by Swami Vivekananda to know how you must fight for your survival as a race.

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5. 'Philosophical Hinduism' is invincible but 'Political Hinduism' is vulnerable. That is where 'Political Islam' has been winning for over 1300 years. And, yet, we do not learn. It is time we understand the 'divine' commandments of Islam with respect to the kafir among which the 'polytheist, idolatrous' Hindu is the most despicable of creatures fit either for conversion or annihilation, whichever fate he chooses.

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6. After all this rioting by Muslims will they still say that Islam is a religion of peace?

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7. Before 1940 could anyone imagine really that the Islamists would succeed in partitioning India? Seven years later it was a reality. Yet, foolish Hindus are imaging that such a design Islamists have given up and Hindu civilisation is safe and secure despite constant threats being issued and constant rioting being conducted. This ostritch mentality will kill us. Awake to the defence of your dharma against an enemy that is far too ready to destroy you. Preparedness is civilisation, said Tagore.

Written by Sugata Bose

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8. Bengalis keep lecturing on the BJP polarising the polity. Pray, tell me what the word 'non-Bengali' (অবাঙালী) means, a word which Bengalis use at the drop of a hat.

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9. 

The great Swami Pranavananda, founder of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha. A great seer and a thorough nationalist, Swami Pranavananda is a beacon unto the storm-tossed confused Hindu in the tempestuous sea of national life. A true successor to Swami Vivekananda who was equally forthright in his affirmations as the cyclonic monk and thundered unto afflicted India his mantra for India's reconstruction. His fundamental dictum was : Hindus, unite!

10. 

আমার জীবনের, চেতনার, চৈতন্যের উৎসস্থল, পরিণতি, পরিসমাপ্তি, বদ্ধতা, মুমুক্ষা, মুক্তি -- সবের মূলে ঐ শ্রীমা সারদা দেবী | চিন্তার যেটুকু বিকিরণ সম্ভব হয়েছে এ দেহে, সমস্তই তাঁর দান | মায়ের অহৈতুকি কৃপায় ধন্য আমি | তাঁর প্রেম পাথেয় এ জীবনে | তাঁর দয়ায় নিশ্চিহ্ন আমি | এ তাঁর করুণার অর্ঘ্যমাত্র | জয় মা!

11. I think Muslims are over-reacting to the perceived Prophet-outrage. Time for sanity to return.

12. 

Is this attitude (calling for the beheading of the one who 'blasphemes' the Prophet) not patently antihuman and belonging to the dark ages, a medieval monstrosity that has no place in the modern age by all progressive standards? How do 'moderate' Muslims respond to this pertinent question that must trouble all conscientious people?

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13. Jai Bharatabhagyavidhaata!

Shree Krishna, the God of India, the God of the world, the God of the universe, the God of infinite universes (anantakoti brahmaanda), God the Greatest, the Saviour of the Dharma whenever virtue subsides and vice prevails, the God who has preserved the Sanatan Dharma for ages and will do so for aeons to come, to Thee I offer my heart's love, O Lord.

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14. ধর্মকে সম্মান করব, অধর্মকে কেন ?

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15. I will respect a religion which equally respects mine. Why will I respect a religion which rejects mine as false and fit for destruction? I have no faith in proselytising faiths.

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16. It is sin to tolerate the intolerant. But defence must be in ideological strength, proliferation of the Dharma and not in roadside rowdyism as the adversary exhibits.

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17. Hindus are a civilised race.

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18. 

Hindus, read Swami Vivekananda's 'Paper on Hinduism' read out by him on 19 September, 1893 at the Chicago Parliament of Religions. It is a classic, the encapsulated version of the whole Hindu philosophy and practice, a gist of the race's spiritual experience of 5000 years and more. Here is the sum and substance of the Sanatan Dharma in a nutshell, Hinduism redefined, redelineated in modern scientific terms in delightful lyrical language and sublime simplicity for the profoundest of philosophical truths to be accessible to the professor and the child.

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19. Man-made laws based upon universal human rights are above archaic, exclusive, absolutist laws based on so-called divine revelation.

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20. To speak against evil, if it is deemed blasphemous, then evil will abound in society.

21. Are we headed for a Hindu Rashtra or a Sharia State or neither? How will demography determine India's fate?

22. Our freedom is being progressively curtailed to accommodate medieval mores in modern times.

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23. Speaking the truth is now a cognisable offence? What legacy are we leaving behind for posterity? Falsity? Hypocrisy? Cowardice?

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24. A lesson for our leaders. The moderator in playing the Devil's advocate at times was an irritant, though. But Geert Wilders with his superb conviction, sensitivity to the case and great admiration for Nupur Sharma who he termed a 'heroic woman' showed what a real man is, one who stands up for his convictions even at a terrible cost, in his case that of losing his personal freedom for 17 years now after being dealt the death-threat by a fatwa from the Pakistani AL Qaeda for his having made the film 'Fitna' on certain Qur'anic verses.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MaIvdJjgOCk&feature=share

25. 

Cowards forever will remain cowards. It is the valiant that give effect to dharma. Our entire attitude needs a change. We must hold valour as virtue which is the kshatriya dharma. 

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : Rash Behari Bose, the epitome of kshatriya valour, virtue in action personified.

26. Shed cowardice if you are a devotee of Swami Vivekananda. Swamiji hated cowardice. 

কাপুরুষতা ত্যাগ করুন যদি বিবেকানন্দ-ভক্ত হন | স্বামীজী ঘৃণা করতেন কাপুরুষতা |

27. Read, reflect, realise. The threats to India's sovereignty are manifold. If we sleep, destruction awaits us wholesale.

28. আমার কাজই আমার ঠাকুরপূজো |

29. The flautist divine whose seven notes animate the world.

30. Thakur is the solution to the intractable problems of our individual and collective existence.

31. Veda means the utterance of the Divine through the universe.

32. 

হে ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের অধিপতি, হে জগৎপিতা, আমার নিঃস্বসত্তার প্রণাম গ্রহণ কর | হৃদয়ের শেষ কণিকাপ্রেম অর্ঘ্যরূপে তোমার হৃদয়ে সমর্পণ করি |

33. 

भगवान के सिवा कुछ नही है इस संसार मे | यह हमारा वेदो का सिद्धान्त है |

प्रतिकृति : महर्षि याज्ञवल्क

34. A one-sided effort by Hindus to harmonise conflicting faiths will not work.

35. মানুষকে সহ্য করা এক আর মানুষকে গ্রহণ করা আর এক | প্রথমটিতে প্রচ্ছন্ন বৈরিতা আর দ্বিতীয়টি প্রবাহিত প্রেম |

36. সবই স্বার্থের সম্পর্ক | এইটি ঠিক ঠিক বুঝে নিলেই বৈরাগ্য | তারপর সাধনা, বোধ |

37. অসহায় বোধ না হলে ঈশ্বর যে সহায়, তা বোধ হয় না |

38. All the Indian dharma traditions must unite to save Indian civilisation from destruction at the hands of alien faith impositions.

39. Human beings are programmed to persist in their prejudices. The conservative nature of man simply disallows a truthful fresher guard.

40. 

Bhimrao Ambedkar -- the man who viewed Gandhiji in a different light, for he objectively studied him and not through the lens of superficial or even ardent devotion. Gandhiji was a vast personality, though, with multiple seemingly contradictory facets to his being, manifest in tangible terms, caught as he was in the cross-currents of a highly tempestuous period of world history. Hence, Ambedkar's assessment must also be partial, seen from a particular perspective with his personal urgency on behalf of his depressed community who he fought for, colouring conception. But his analysis and estimate are worth consideration in our engagement with this towering personality of the world who humanised politics at a time when humanity had lost all sanity and gone berserk with fratricidal violence tending to annihilation of the human race. Gandhiji, thus, for all his follies and foibles, remains relevant even today and ever more so when humanity is standing at the crossroads of extinction from all ends, environmental, geopolitical and civilisational clash.

41.

India's greatest enemy, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the architect of Partition or the mutilation of the motherland.

42. 

The holiest person ever born. We know his name but who was he in real?

43. 

When Hinduism conquered the world. 11 September, 1893, the Chicago Parliament of Religions.

44. Let sanity prevail. 🕉

45. সমাজে তমোগুণ বাড়ছে | তাই এত হিংসা | এর প্রতিকার সত্ত্বগুণের পরিপ্লাবন |

46. It is very difficult to view television debates where multiple panelists shout at the same time with the anchor egging them on or speaking unduly to deflect discussion.

47. Learn to speak in focus with minimum number of words. This would do television anchors a world of good.

48. Unless television anchors learn to talk less and shoot pointed, pertinent questions, the shows suffer from lack of focus and direction.

49. Are religious rights above human rights?

50. সর্বগুণের সমষ্টি নির্বিষয় | তারই নাম বস্তু | এই ব্রহ্মবস্তুর আপাত বিভাজনেই বিচিত্র সৃষ্টি যা নির্বিষয়ের মায়িক প্রকাশ | এই হল বেদান্তের সার, রূপে ও অরূপে |

রচনা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

প্রতিকৃতি : মহর্ষি যাজ্ঞবল্ক

51. শূণ্য থেকে পূর্ণ আর পূর্ণ থেকে শুণ্য -- এই ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের গতায়াত, the oscillating flow of the universe.

52. Can religions that convert be peaceful? Is conversion an act of peace?

53. 

Is this harmony possible? Will religions ever come together leaving aside their fundamental differences? The Vedanta may be the foundation for such a harmony but is it practically possible? However, is this not a grand venture towards a future harmonic alliance? What do you say?

54. क्या सर्वघर्म समभाव वास्तव मे सम्भव? अकेले हिन्दु इस भाव को पालन करेते रहेगा क्या? बाकि घर्मोका क्या?

55. If submission to God be the imperative in human life, then scepticism which is the mother of science will have to take to its wings. What effect will it have on civilisation?

56. 

The power and the flow.

57. Hindus must not delude themselves into believing that they are not Hindus, that they are universalists of some fantastic conception. That is the surest way to self-destruction.

58. 

From where the revolution of ideas took place in modern times. Sri Ramakrishna's room in Dakshineshwar.

59. 

Hindu spirituality at its best. Swami Bhuteshananda, 12th President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, in a deep state of inner absorption,  perhaps samadhi.

60. If a religion considers itself as the last and the final Word of God, then it necessarily rejects all future evolution of spiritual thought. How inclusive is that?

61. Wherever scientific education spreads, faith in Islam and Christianity diminishes but not so in Hinduism. Why?

62. Faith that is divorced from reason is fated to death.

63. One man's way is posterity's perpetuation. How absurd!

64. Carl Gustav Jung, a great thinker, a physician par excellence, an explorer of the unseen part of human nature, of consciousness that lies embedded within the depths of the being.

65. Spirituality is creating heaven on earth, not post mortem. If the Divine has to be realised, it is here and now and not in some heaven hereafter.

66. জনসংখ্যা যেমন বাড়ছে, শ্রদ্ধা তেমনই কমছে | এই শ্রদ্ধার অভাবেই ব্যবহারের অধোগতি, সংস্কৃতির অবনমন, জাতির অধঃপতন |

67. বিনম্রতা মানে অহংশূণ্যতা |

68. হিন্দুরা মূর্তি পূজো করে না; হিন্দুরা মূর্তিমানের পূজো করে |

69. যিনি নিরহঙ্কার, তিনি ভদ্র | আপাত মিষ্টভাষী যথার্থ ভদ্র নন | তাঁর ঐ কপট মধুরতার পেছনে লুকিয়ে আছে সূক্ষ্ম হিংস্রতা যা কোনমতেই ভদ্রজনোচিত আচরণ বলে পরিগণিত হতে পারে না | অন্তরের সৌন্দর্য অহংশূণ্যতার মধ্য দিয়ে প্রকাশিত হয় | বাকি সামাজিক প্রবঞ্চনামাত্র |

70. যে বাড়ীতে অতিশয় সংশয়াত্মক জীবের বাস, সে বাড়ীতে মা লক্ষ্মী বাস করেন না |

71. How can we achieve maximum progress in India? What ought to be the optimal conditions for such a growth? Your suggestions please.

72. 

The great revolutionary Sachindranath Sanyal who was twice incarcerated in the dreaded Cellular Jail of Andaman Island, a lifelong uncompromising patriot who battled with Gandhiji verbally for four years on political-philosophical differences in the latter's 'Young India' and eventually breathed his last while yet in British confinement, wasted from disease and living under inhuman prison conditions. His seminal role in organising the extreme movements for freedom are not remembered much today. This brief note is but a reminder for earnest seekers to study his life from his autobiographical account 'Bandi Jeevan' (Life in Imprisonment)

73. 

I think all Hindus ought to study Swami Vivekananda diligently. That will awaken them to their religious obligations, lend them collective cohesion and unity of purpose. Hindus ought to study Swamiji and set up think-tanks for Vivekananda culture and the dissemination of his message.

74. Certitude comes either from ignorance or from realisation. In between we oscillate in doubt.

75. দীক্ষা একমাত্র ফলপ্রসূ হয় বৈরাগ্যের মুখে |

76. বৈরাগ্য সহজ জিনিস নয় | খুব কম সাধুরই হয় |

77. গতজন্মের কথা মনে নেই | এ জন্মের কথাও পুরো মনে নেই | অপূর্ণতার বোধ আছে, আছে অনিশ্চয়তার আশঙ্কা | তাই ভগবান সহায় |

78. যে নিজের ধর্মকে সত্য বলে জানে, সে পরের ধর্মকে মিথ্যা বলে ভাবে না | আর যদি তা ভাবে, তো নিজের ধর্মের প্রতি তার শ্রদ্ধা নেই অবশ্যই |

79. এক শ্রেণীর অপশিক্ষিত, নিরীশ্বর, শ্রদ্ধাবিবর্জিত হিন্দুই হিন্দুদের সবচেয়ে বড় শত্রু |

80. আমার ধর্ম সত্য, জগতের আর সকল ধর্ম মিথ্যা - এ কেমন ধর্ম ?

81. প্রতিটি হিন্দুর আজ জেগে ওঠার দিন এসেছে | রামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দ সাহিত্য নিত্য পাঠ করুন |

82. যে বলে অপরের ধর্ম মিথ্যা, সে পরোক্ষে নিজের ধর্মের দারিদ্র জ্ঞাপন করে থাকে |

83. জন্মাবধি মগজ ধোলাই হলে ধর্মের সত্যাসত্য বিচারের ক্ষমতা লোপ পায় | তখন নিজের ধর্মের দোষত্রুটি মানুষ দেখতে পায় না, চায় না | এর ফল ধর্মান্ধতা |

84. বেনেবুদ্ধি ছেড়ে হিন্দুর স্বধর্মরক্ষায় যত্নবান হওয়া উচিত |

85. হিন্দুদের নিজধর্ম সম্বন্ধে সুশিক্ষিত হওয়া উচিত |

86. 

কৃষ্ণপ্রেমে প্লাবিত হ'ক ধরিত্রী দিকে দিকে কিন্তু পূর্ণ শৌর্যবীর্যযোগে ! অনাহত চক্রে অধিষ্ঠিত হ'ন সুদর্শন চক্রধারী মোহনমুরারী যুগপৎ জ্ঞান ও প্রেমের সমন্বিত মূর্তিরূপে !  

87.

ওরা জানে কি প্রেমের যারা স্বর্গে সুতীব্র ইন্দ্রিয়সুখ কল্পনা করে জীবন অতিবাহিত করে ও অন্ধ আক্রোশে বিধর্মীর নিধনযজ্ঞে আত্মাহূতি দেয় ? এই মধুবনেই প্রেমের অপার্থিব মধুঃক্ষরণ ! দর্শনের প্রেমনেত্র চাই, শ্রবণের দিব্যকর্ণ |

88. ঈশ্বরের নামে মানুষকে জলাঞ্জলি দেওয়া অধর্ম | মানুষের মধ্যে ঈশ্বরের উদ্বোধনই ধর্ম | তাই স্বামীজীর মূলমন্ত্র -- ত্যাগ ও সেবা |

89. We have but our minutes to read, not a book in print but the Book of Life, and each one will decipher a different meaning whereby advance or retreat shall in consequence be. And the Wheel of Life goes on, rendering limitless scope of advance till perfection in understanding be.

90. Bengal needs to be disabused of retrograde leftist leanings.

91. We need to think more, act more, laze less in mind and body. That is the formula for individual and national advance.

92. কাজই বিশ্রাম | আবার বিশ্রামের প্রয়োজন কি ?

93. The life of things is in the soul which in turn seeks sustenance and support in the Self. The Self, though, is existence itself and, hence, independent. But all this has to be realised by way of immediate perception (Aparokshaanubhuti). Else, it is all so much verbal accretion that further covers consciousness.

94. A counter-movement needs to be launched to propagate the original principles of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda as opposed to its current variant. Swami Nityasvarupananda had initiated such a movement but it was aborted early on. The seeds are there, though, in wait for future fruition, for the eternal Veda 'can neither be stifled or stilled' by human antagonism to it.

95. The more so-called liberal Hindus oppose Hindu resistance to persecution of Hindus, the greater will this resistance grow in strength.

96. Hinduism, being based on the highest transcendental experience of Truth, will survive the onslaught of barbarism and triumph to win over the mass of mankind.

97. Submission is opposed to freedom. One is slavery to the senses, the other mastery of the senses.

98. জ্যান্ত ঠাকুরের জন্য কেউ চিন্তা করে না | মার্বল্এ মোড়া ঠাকুর - তাই নিয়েই সব চিন্তা |

99. Democracy is a game of numbers. Hence, demography matters. With every census the % of Hindus is declining.

100. Freedom of speech is virtually gone from India as unreasonable restrictions are seemingly being imposed.