COMMENTS GALORE ... 14

COMMENTS GALORE ... 14

Sugata Bose @ Rajdeep Chatterjee : But our area of governance has decreased through the ages and with it our influence in the world at large. This must be reckoned as we view our future because forgetting it could risk our shrinking even more to the point of eventual obliteration. Pragmatism must prevail over pious hopes and we must in accordance take worthwhile steps to preserve our interests and increase our sphere of spiritual and cultural influence.

Sugata Bose @Supriya Majumdar : Every person is a manifestation of Brahman which is pure divinity. The vilest of individuals, the darkest of souls are at base full of this divine consciousness. Right now such divinity has been covered up by material dross. Thus, ignorance prevails in them which prompts them unto evil action. But in the fullness of time the lowliest of creatures will come to realise its innate and essential divinity, the godhead concealed within its being. Hence has it been said, "Every saint is a past sinner, every sinner a future saint." It is all a matter of evolution and time before God in the Devil unfolds.

Sugata Bose @Supriya Majumdar : Read my following essay, the one above this one. There you'll get some response to your question. A detailed response is not forthcoming, though, as of now, for I write spontaneously and not to responsive compulsion necessarily.

Sugata Bose @Arindam Paul : A legitimate rejoinder has been provided to set the agenda straight and straighten such proselytising agents who work against our civilisaltional interests.

Sugata Bose @Sougata Hui : Philosophy must not be confused with practitioners.

Sugata Bose @Sougata Hui : I am not the historian you mistake me to be. He is my namesake. However, you could legitimately label me an ardent reader of history, a passion that has animated me since early childhood, an attribute passed on to me by my gifted mother. Let me clarify in case your confusion is by now worse confounded. I am not the grandnephew of Subhas Chandra Bose, the Harvard historian, ex-Parliamentarian et al, Prof. Dr. Sugata Bose. I belong to another lineage completely but bear the same name which somehow confuses my identity with the aforesaid gentleman through no fault of ours. I hope I have made myself clear enough by now.

Sugata Bose @Anouska Alicia Thakur : You are nineteen today. I thought so. Now at the edge of the teens savour it for the last time before stepping in to mature adulthood.

Make something of your life. I cannot be of any service to you today beyond sending my heart's ardent wishes that you may prosper for the good of the many, for the happiness of the many (bahujana hitaayacha bahujana sukhaayacha).

Sugata Bose @Divya Sarkar : Well said. But dharma must not here mean merely the third tier of the progressive order of human evolution along kama-artha-dharma-moksha, for moksha being excluded, the entire edifice will fall which stands on the foundation of that which moksha attains to. Again, dharma must not merely mean the chaturvarna dharma but must bear its universal connotation in denoting the Sanatan Dharma.

Sugata Bose @Rohini Jalan : I am alright, hither and thither hopping mentally so long as the body takes it all in till it drops dead one day. Thus far struggling along alone somewhat in the world of ideas, waging a lone war on my eastern front.

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : There is something called constancy of concentration and you epitomise that attribute through your consistency and single-minded focus on a select endeavour, that of bringing to everyone's eyestep the wonderful life-story of Swamiji. Few, alas, have this discipline of labour and you happen to be a member of that elect league, your daily diligence in this regard being of seminal service to all and sundry who care to profit by the great one's life and experience. Carry on with your noble enterprise, something which I had expected some others also to have done this way but who fell short of such expectation as is the common lot of humanity.

Sugata Bose @Khalid Umar : Ah, what a lovely piece! It immediately spread peace through my being.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : Historical evolution cannot be ruled out despite source violence and course corruption. Man evolves out of his barbaric past unto light and love. So may Pakistan when she has rid herself of her religious baggage that aims to destroy everything that is good and civilised in human society.

Sugata Bose @Deepak Prajapati : Indeed it is but how else may we move forward? We cannot dismiss discussion altogether. Rather, the force of ideas must hold sway eventually. History is as yet in the process and has not yet become a 'has been'.

Sugata Bose @Jitendra Abhyankar : Hope of the world. She has kept Islamism in check. She is also attempting balance of power in the world. However, the odds are heavily tilted against her as the united West is far too strong for iher. Curiously, China is following a myopic policy in relation to India and instead of being unduly threatening to her neighbour, she should harbour friendly feelings towards her. This will help both countries grow better. That, alas, is not the scene today and the undue enmity China bears  towards India citing border issues is counterproductive for her longterm prospects. China, though, is a lesser threat to the world than the all-conquering United States which, to quote Noam Chomsky, is the world's biggest terrorist state and its greatest security threat. Islamism, China and India's domestic corruption are destroying us right now. Peaceful Pakistan, apparently a contradiction in terms, as perhaps rightly pointed out, if ever achieved through her sociopolitical evolution, will be a boon for India and the world, for Pakistan is the springboard of global Islamic jihad which has initiated a clash of civilisations with the rest of the world.

Sugata Bose @Rahul Saha : At any rate he (Mr. Narendra Modi) belongs to the 21st century and the century is as yet unfolding to reveal its sinister figures and its greats.

Sugata Bose @Vaibhav Kaushik Joshi : The Sanatan Dharma says, 'Anaadi srishti, ananta srishti' (Beginningless creation, endless creation). Apparent manifestation truly and not creation. Hence, no Creator is necessary. The idea is superfluous.

Sugata Bose @Vaibhav Kaushik Joshi : Maya. Cosmic manifestation is essentially unreal. Hence, Ishvara as apparent controller of the source, course and dissolution of things is as unreal as this cosmic manifestation. 'God and the universe rise together and God and the universe fall together,' says Swami Vivekananda. Creation is only apparent, not real. Also, the apparent God is principle, not person.

Sugata Bose @Arijit Chatterjee : Sanatan Dharma's conclusion about cosmic manifestation is this. Maya. Ishwar also is Maya, not real in the ultimate sense.

Sugata Bose @Soham Pain : You are right. Whole life I have written it wrong despite the knowledge of proper placement of the apostrophe in the plural. Rectifying it forthwith. On this blessed day you have turned out my teacher in this regard, Soham. Happy Teachers' Day!

Sugata Bose @Nirmal Ghosh : আমি এই ভুল এ যাবৎ করে এসেছি | আজ সংশোধন করে নিলাম | ভুলের শেষ আছে, জানার শেষ নেই | "যাবৎ বাঁচি, তাবৎ শিখি |" -- শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ

Sugata Bose @YouTube : She wears the diamonds of theft in her crown, the legacy of ancestral loot from the colonies, especially from that jewel in the Crown, India. Elizabeth II has like all monarchs passed into the very dust monarchs in their royal vanity think they can avoid, else, why would they pretend a position that is purchased at the price of public pain, here, especially, that of the people of suppressed nations. The rotten legacy of royalty ought to end.

Sugata Bose @Debashish Paul : Pilfered the idea from 'Is Vedanta the Future Religion?' by Swami Vivekananda and wrote it down after my fashion in response to a reader's query about a previous post to the same effect. The original words of Swamiji were as follows: 'What does Vedanta teach us? In the first place, it teaches that you need not even go out of yourself to know the truth. All the past and all the future are here in the present. No man ever saw the past. Did any one of you see the past? When you think you are knowing the past, you only imagine the past in the present moment. To see the future, you would have to bring it down to the present, which is the only reality — the rest is imagination. This present is all that is. There is only the One. All is here right now. One moment in infinite time is quite as complete and all-inclusive as every other moment. All that is and was and will be is here in the present. Let anybody try to imagine anything outside of it — he will not succeed.' Hence, honour is due to Swamiji and not me for coming up with this profound philosophical idea whose poor caricature I have managed with my feeble articulate representation.

Sugata Bose @Inderjit Kaur : I responded to your request for a response to Dr. David Frawley's post on individual karmic responsibility. Perhaps, you have not had the occasion to view it as yet.

Sugata Bose @Inderjit Kaur : Here humanity means terrestrial life. Hence, it is applicable for all, although the context then becomes entirely extraneous to the intent of the post proper unless of course you are implying thereby the possibility of inclusion of the Avatars prior to the Divine's manifestation in the human form, that of the Matsya Avatar, the Kurma Avatar, the Varaha Avatar and the Nrisingha Avatar. If, however, you are talking in general terms, then the discussion may be stretched but loses meaning with respect to the post.

Sugata Bose @Jayanta Bhattacharjee : Yes, of course, and well said, too.  After all 'breadth' is the abstract noun derived from the adjective 'broad'. This, to all intents and purposes it seems, is unconscious grammatical punning by you of a singular significance, shows how much more there is to language ever than is ordinarily apparent which is why mathematics was invented to clearly outline ideas in rigorous terms that define territorial boundaries.

However, to answer your question now. Yes, you are right in your observation. Yet, you must consider that despite the broader outlines that you have drawn, life and death are the obverse and reverse of the same coin in the philosophical sense, one following the other in consequential terms unfailingly, and in the material sense in the grosser world happening all around with barely a gap that may allow a lingering certainty as to when one may pass out of this earthly frame. Disease, natural calamity, sudden demise, accident, war and the murderous moods of man that break the rhythm of life, constantly challenge its duration, lending bodily life an unwholesomeness that has prompted human imagination about its heavenly continuance. Indeed, as Tagore says, "Life, youth, wealth and honour float as on a lotus leaf," our breath lasting but that hair's breadth we lovingly call 'life'.