যথা পূর্ববৎ তথা পরম
Wednesday 31 May 2023
Tuesday 30 May 2023
HUMANITY ON PAPER, ANIMALITY IN PRACTICE
HUMANITY ON PAPER, ANIMALITY IN PRACTICE
The West for all its clamour about liberal values and human rights cannot but keep up with its neocolonial agenda of violently controlling the weaker nations of the world. The horror of death by the tens of millions that USA alone has caused worldwide in the past hundred years leaves us to wonder as to what depths of hypocrisy can western high talk of civilisation sink. Needless to name, country after country has been destroyed by America following close upon the heels of British imperial dastardliness over the past few centuries, not to mention France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium and their like European siblings. Human rights? What is it save on paper? We in India have suffered no less at the hands of the British and we unthinkingly give in to buying this moralistic talk of the merciless West. Enough of civilising the uncivilised world. Now, civilise yourself.
Written by Sugata Bose
THE CONVERSION PROBLEM ... 4
THE CONVERSION PROBLEM ... 4
Gullible Hindus, ignorant of the basic tenets of the Sanatan Dharma, often fall into the trap laid before them by their Muslim friends and associates who practise Dawa as their obligatory religious duty. These friends and associates have a singular purpose and that is to prepare these innocent Hindus gradually for their eventual conversion to Islam.
The Dawa is practised by almost each and every Muslim in some capacity or the other. Dawa is to invite infidels to join Islam. For this Muslims are trained to ask certain specific questions to infidels to at first create doubts in their minds about their own faiths and then to throw them into utter mental confusion before craftily supplanting their earlier held and now rejected beliefs with the beliefs of Islam. Islam is presented as a beautiful religion of peace, as the greatest religion on earth, as the last and only true and perfect way (Deen) to God, all earlier faiths being either imperfect ones or corrupted versions of God's original revelations to rectify which state God sent His final prophet on earth to present in finality His perfect message through the intermediary of His chosen angel.
It is an elaborately designed trap that is laid before the innocent victim who generally falls into it and turns wiser perhaps later when to apostasise becomes difficult and very often dangerous. It is a one-way entry whence there is no return unless one wishes to run the risk of death. Apostasy is punishable by death under the Sharia (Islamic law) in Islamic states. Elsewhere as well, apostasy is highly injurious to the one who dares to leave the Deen (Islam) as one's very family usually turns viciously against the apostate. This being the case, it is dangerous to enter the Deen that is Islam for believers of other faiths. There is nothing to gain but there is much to lose anyway. So, beware!
Written by Sugata Bose
Monday 29 May 2023
THE GREAT CULTURAL CHURN
THE GREAT CULTURAL CHURN
As the world transits en masse from medievalism to modernity, a great cultural churn is on which is visible on many fronts as conflict. Western neocolonialism is being resisted, especially American militarism. There are multiple dominant world cultures which are fighting it out for sustaining their influence on human society and advancing their ends. One such is Islam. Christianity has lost its war at home itself during the Age of Enlightenment but is still a force to reckon with in so far as its ability to confront Islam is concerned, being backed up by Euro-American nations which still use it to serve their neocolonial ends. Islam, struggling with its medieval past, is sluggish but is nonetheless putting up a brave fight against Western onslaught on its civilisational values. It is for both good and bad today representative of medieval orthodoxy against the modern heteredoxy of the West. Where lies Hinduism in this conflict zone? What role has it to play to harmonise the conflicting forces of the world? Much of grandiloquent talk we hear of. But how sincere are we to contribute our mite to at once ourselves survive as a civilisation and to contribute to the survival of warring humanity?
Written by Sugata Bose
WHERE THE CHILDREN OF THE LORD KEEP AWAKE
WHERE THE CHILDREN OF THE LORD KEEP AWAKE
Night draws on its veil and covers consciousness. But the children of the Lord are wide awake when the children of the senses sleep. So in alternate bands of light and shade this interference pattern stretches across the world of men, undulating life with its rise and fall. Most men sleep to God who is ever-awake though, awaiting the ripe hour of the slumbering soul's waking. Meanwhile, the drama continues with its blossoming and withering following seasonal changes through life after life till one crystal morn the dream breaks releasing the soul unto the limpid spaces of pure freedom. The sun shines unhindered, its radiant darts piercing through the dispersed clouds of desire that had thus far obscured vision. The seer, seen and sight have unified in a flash of dissolving oneness, the Self manifesting to reveal its self-brooding for eternity. The dream has been smashed but returns with altered character to place the perceiver within the ambit of space-time once more without being able to bind it anymore with the tentacles of Maya. Such is the saga of the seer's life.
Written by Sugata Bose
READ VIVEKANANDA AND FIND OUT
READ VIVEKANANDA AND FIND OUT
Swamiji wanted aggressive Hinduism. On the contrary his followers have gone on progressively with defensive Hinduism that hypocritically harps on harmony with roguish religions intent on the destruction of Hinduism with a gory history of dastardly acts against Hindus and Hinduism for over a millennium to testify to this averment. It is time to shed this hypocrisy and come to terms with the civilisational challenge from inimical religions that faces us.
Harmony even Swamiji wanted but he was not shy to criticise roguish core tenets of an alien religion that had ruined our Hindu civilisation till the life of a Hindu for centuries remained uncertain each day under the tyranny of the zealot's sword. He, thus, constantly exhorted the Hindus to shed cowardice and rise in defence of the Dharma.
But we have failed him. Partition with all its preceding and succeeding horrific genocide of Hindus followed. We still did not learn. Now as Bharatvarsha is increasingly getting demographically changed and in proportion challenged, as the Sanatan civilisation is under threat of being wiped out in a century's time under this contrary demographic deluge, it is time to set everything aside and give topmost priority to the defence of our Dharma. Else, Bharatvarsha will die.
Written by Sugata Bose
ঠাকুরের কজন সাক্ষাৎ সন্ন্যাসী পার্ষদ ?
ঠাকুরের কজন সাক্ষাৎ সন্ন্যাসী পার্ষদ ?
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তুলসী মহারাজ কে তাহলে---ঠাকুরের মন্ত্রশিষ্য না স্বামীজীর নাকি কারোরই নয় ? ঠাকুরের ১৭ জন নয়, ১৬ জন সাক্ষাৎ সন্ন্যাসী পার্ষদ---এই মিথ্যাপ্রচার আর কতদিন চলবে ? কবে আবার স্বীকৃতি পাবে ঐতিহাসিক সত্য তথ্যের ভিত্তিতে, ভ্রষ্টপ্রচারের শক্তিতে নয় ?
মিথ্যা দীর্ঘস্থায়ী হয় অনেক ক্ষেত্রেই, যেমন যীশুশিষ্যা মেরী ম্যাগ্ডালীনের ক্ষেত্রে | তাঁর মিথ্যা পতিতাপরিচয় পঞ্চদশ শতাব্দী ধরে বজায় রয়েছিল ক্যাথলিক চার্চের সৌজন্যে |
তুলসী মহারাজকে এভাবে সংঘব্যবহার হতে সরিয়ে রাখায় ক্ষতি হয়েছে এযাবৎ সংঘেরই প্রভূত | আর ক্ষতি হয়েছে সাধারণ মানুষের যাঁরা এই মহামানবের জীবনচরিত হতে বঞ্চিত রইলেন | বিষয়টি গভীর ভাবনার | সত্যকে সংঘগত কারণে চাপা দিলে সত্যের ক্ষতি হয় না, সংঘেরই ক্ষতি হয় | আর ক্ষতি হয় সমাজের, সংঘ যার ক্ষুদ্রতম সংস্করণমাত্র |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Sunday 28 May 2023
COME ON, NO MORE PRETENCE, NO MORE HYPOCRISY IN THE NAME OF SURFACE HARMONY WHILE CORE CORROSIVE TEXTS LIE UNATTENDED TO
COME ON, NO MORE PRETENCE, NO MORE HYPOCRISY IN THE NAME OF SURFACE HARMONY WHILE CORE CORROSIVE TEXTS LIE UNATTENDED TO
https://youtu.be/Vu8KgncN2Iw
Preach harmony of religions in the name of Ramakrishna to these brutes who have no respect for human values. Pointless preaching to Hindus harmony of religions. They already practise it and have been doing so for ages. It is time to stop hypocrisy and visit the dangerous places with the message of peace and harmony. Pointless preaching peace to peaceful people which we, Hindus, are. Address the intolerance problem scripturally where you very well know they exist and do not pretend that all is well with these intolerant and persecuting faiths by cherry-picking passages from their scriptures or from the sayings of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda while conveniently forgetting to mention the criticisms which Swamiji made about them. Come on, be sincere in the name of truth and stop pretending harmony where there isn't any nor is likely to be. Think of these poor girls, the veritable emblems of the Divine Mother who have been reduced to objects of sensual gratification of the worst kind simply because specific scriptural texts allow such exploitation of the infidel. And these are not isolated cases. Over a millennium of world history bears testimony to such dastardly acts in the name of religion. We, Hindus, in the subcontinent have ourselves suffered such tyranny for over 1300 years such that we yet are 'a wounded civilisation', to quote Naipaul.
Written by Sugata Bose
Saturday 27 May 2023
THE CONVERSION PROBLEM ... 3
THE CONVERSION PROBLEM ... 3
From age 22 Swamiji has been inspiring me to live and die for the cause of propagation of the Sanatan Dharma. I am now a fortnight short of 62. And yet he continues to fire me up even today. Strange hold Swamiji has on me! He has, as it were, as prophesied by him in America, 'eaten into my brain' with his 'words' which 'are spirit and fire' and I can 'never get away from them'. Neither do I wish to. Let Swamiji's words find utterance in my awakened soul and resound in every seeking soul so that the cause of the Sanatan Dharma is well served and Hindus 🕉 find security everywhere at a time that is most treacherous for them with proselytising cults on full prowl here in Aryavarta itself.
Written by Sugata Bose
P.S. Sorry for personalising the post on a spontaneous spur. But the impersonal message remains nonetheless.
COMMENTS GALORE ... 25
COMMENTS GALORE ... 25
Sugata Bose @Rohini Jalan : Do you know that in India Hindus are being targeted by Muslims and converted to Islam on a systematic basis? More so the Hindu girls so as to reduce the number of Hindu births and increase instead the number of Muslim births to gradually tilt the demographic balance in favour of the Muslims for the future imposition of the Sharia as in Pakistan and other Islamic countries.
Much more needs to be done than routine chanting and reading. Feeling for the motherland and her Sanatan Dharmic culture and rising in defence of it is the duty of every Bharatiya. What feeling is there that prompts you to bed at the right time but makes you not wonder why I burn my deep-night fuel of life rising in defence of the Dharma, inching every hour evermore closer to the pyre to set alight the lives of fellow Hindus with its burning blaze? Upon the shoulders of the Braahman rests the defence of the treasury of the Dharma, says the divine Manu, and Swamiji adds on to that saying that upon every Hindu rests this responsibility of the defence of the Dharma.
Sugata Bose @Murthy Kvvs : My writings these are. Don't you see it's written below the post? In coloured boxes often it is inconvenient to put up such affirmations owing to paucity of space. Hence, needless advice, a trifle supercilious, is not solicited. Had it been Swamiji's writing, I unfailingly would have mentioned him as the author. Therefore, rest assured that such lapses, unpardonable as they are, are unacceptable by me, too. Plagiarism is not my forte. Thakur-Ma-Swamiji have blessed me graciously with the due resources to serve them in the manner I best can, in the literary mode. May the Holy Trinity keep blessing you and yours as well is my earnest prayer at their lotus feet!
Sugata Bose @Murthy Kvvs : Your arrogance bespeaks the little learning that prompts it. Great men think alike and so also small men. Ideas overlap, converge and coalesce. Your following or unfollowing the page depends entirely on you and does not require my solicitation. However, civility would have deemed a better attitude while addressing someone else's writing notwithstanding your democratic rights to speak the way that you have thought it prudent to do, perhaps. The royal road is open in all directions and you are welcome to any one of them. May Sri Ramakrishna be with you!
Sugata Bose @Murthy Kvvs: Your arrogance bespeaks the little learning that prompts it. Great men think alike and so also small men. Ideas overlap, converge and coalesce. Your following or unfollowing the page depends entirely upon you and does not require my solicitation. However, civility would have deemed a better attitude while addressing someone else's writing notwithstanding your democratic right to speak the way that you have thought it prudent to, perhaps. The royal road is open in all directions and you are welcome to any one of them. May Sri Ramakrishna be with you!
P.S. Despite it having been clearly mentioned below the post that the writing is mine, you have raised suspicion of possible plagiarism on my part which is discourteous, to say the least, a direct affront in the intermediate and an outright casting of aspersion on my character, if you understand what it means after all. Desist from such offences in the future. My first response to your rather caustic comment was comprehensive in consequence but it did not satisfy you for your doubt lingers. A doubting Thomas is never satisfied thus. Only post realisation does he come to sanity. 'Bhidyate hridayagranthi chhindanti sarvasangshayaa.' (Bhagavad Geeta) Hence, instead of having deliberated on an issue thus where you eminently are the offender, you ought to have been civil enough to appreciate the writing as duly this author's and not his plagiarised material from Swamiji.
Sugata Bose @Alok Sarkar : You are one person who does not insult my posts by posting emojis by way of comment. Thank you.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : সত্য সর্বসময় সত্য, ত্রিকাল অবাধিত | তত্ত্বকে খর্ব করে সময়োপযোগী করে নেওয়া চলে না | অনুশাসন এক, তত্ত্ব আর এক | আদর্শ সর্বসময় প্রযোজ্য, ক্ষেত্রবিশেষেমাত্র নয় |
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : বিচারকালে জগৎ মিথ্যা | ব্রহ্মজ্ঞান হতে বুত্থানকালে সব কিছুই ব্রহ্ম বলে প্রতীত হয় | তখন এই বিচারকালীন মিথ্যাবোধ অন্য মাত্রা লাভ করে | প্রপঞ্চ ব্রহ্মরূপে সত্য বলে প্রতীত হয় | তখন উভয়ই সত্য---অদ্বয় ব্রহ্মরূপে সত্য, আবার মায়িক ব্রহ্মপ্রকাশরূপে সত্য |
Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Stability is of the Self (Atman). All else are unstable in oscillating, undulating, disintegrating Maya.
Thank God that net is unstable there in the hills. A stable network of Maya would have held you in its clutches perpetually. But that can never be so. Maya holds but, itself being unstable by its very nature, has to loosen its grip on souls at times which allows them to escape to freedom in the discovery of the ever-free Self.
Sugata Bose @Vivekananda Mission (Biman Panti -- administrator) : Does this post deserve a place in this group? I would like to draw the attention of the administrator. Sorry for the intervention if it is deemed as an overriding of my rights as an ordinary member of this not so ordinary group, established, I believe, for the purpose of propagating the ideals of the Vivekananda Mission which, to my knowledge, had no culinary intentions to begin with akin to what the post proper improperly hints at.
Sugata Bose @Sanjoy Sankar Guha : Islamic brotherhood is limited to Muslims alone and not for the infidel (kafir). It is not universal brotherhood at all. And within the Islamic fraternity as well each sect calls the other a kafir, Sunnis and Shias providing the highpoint in this regard with fratricidal war raging between them since the death of Muhammad.
Sugata Bose @Ranita Indic : I am at last relieved to see someone write Ahalya instead of Ahilya which is the linguistic aberration in currency these days. Thank you, Ranita, for setting the spelling right. Regrettably, the wrong version is becoming right by dint of constant repetition online, much like Haridwar which originally was and still ought to be written as Hardwar. When I was a child I remember having seen at Hardwar railway station the name written as Hardwar. Today I see it written as Haridwar. Satyajit Ray has spoken about it in his final film 'Agantuk'. Thanks, nonetheless, for setting the narrative right in regard to Ahalya Bai Holkar of revered memory.
Sugata Bose @Manoj Sivan : But haven't you written elsewhere that the photograph posted by me (here appended as well) was taken by Sister Devamata? If it has been edited and added on, then my posts to the same effect on my profile, page and group stand nullified. Kindly confirm.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : আমার তো পশেছে | অপরের কথা অপরে জানে | শুধু আমি জানি যে তাঁরা আমারই রক্ত, আমার জ্ঞাতি, স্ব-আত্মা, বন্ধু, প্রাণাধিক প্রিয় | তাই তো শতবর্ষ পরে হুঙ্কার দিই থেকে থেকে সেই ঋষিলব্ধ বাণী---ওঠো ! জাগো ! মরতে হয় তো স্বধর্মরক্ষায় মর | আর বাঁচতে হয় তো স্বধর্মরক্ষাকল্পে বাঁচো |
Sugata Bose @তাপস ঘোষ : Then why did you edit and alter its content? It is so misleading in that case for it is unhistorical and conduces to spreading misinformation.
Sugata Bose @Manoj Sivan : Yes. It's ready information now to be judiciously used so as not to cause undue offence. Otherwise likely to brew up controversy that will limit online activity. Truth becomes often unpalatable to people, organisations and the ruling dispensations, you see.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [J Sai Deepak arguing in the Supreme Court] : J Sai Deepak is a brilliant intellectual. He is superbly articulate as well which makes him a formidable foe for opponents and an insubordinate subordinate to superiors, his lordship in this case. Sai Deepak is the luminous star in a darkened Hindu sky, his lustrous presentations setting alight the horizons with the message 'Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached,' the clarion call which Swami Vivekananda had given over a century and a quarter ago. Sai is the representative voice of the Hindus 🕉 in many a sense, his accurate analysis of the current conspiratorial situation in India and its comprehensive solution, and his robust defence of the Dharma awaking thousands of Hindus and making them aware of the existential challenges that face them making him eminently fit for that epithet. Glory unto his movement, and boundless gratitude and love for this son of the soil who in heroic fashion is battling it out both in the law courts and in the Kurukshetra of life. May Sri Ramakrishna bless J Sai Deepak with life, longevity, health, happiness and power to carry on with his defence of the Dharma! 🕉
Sugata Bose @YouTube [ANI News] : This man is a fraud. That dance of his that has gone viral is not of spiritual ecstasy but of pronounced sensuality. That people get caught in his trickery is proof of the gullibility of the commoner, especially of the consumerist kind. The interviewer is either purposely pandering to this pretender's vanity or is herself of a superficial sort having no clue whatsoever as where genuine spirituality lies. Such men, as the interviewee is, are today the bane of our Hindu society, a scourge unto us and pertinent proof of the fact that time it is for a genuine spiritual revival to take place which these charlatans are patently working against. Be not deluded by these false prophets, as the saying goes. A genuine sadhguru would never name himself so but a fake one would to advance his self-interest. We need a Vivekananda today for the regeneration of the Hindus in particular and for humanity in general, and not these fraudsters who are bringing us as a polity to ruin. 🕉
Sugata Bose @snjpverma : Exactly. These are not men of God but are messiahs of moneymaking.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Jaggi Vasudev staging deplorable Shivaratri dance] : What a fraudster! What a gimmick! What a waste of money! Misleading the people from the true dharma. An absolute charlatan and the consumerist commoners are gullible fools too.
Sugata Bose @Bidhu Bhusan Behera : Study Swami Vivekananda. The disease will be rid off.
Sugata Bose @Bidhu Bhusan Behera : But Swamiji himself advocated this view that the whole nation must be taught Sanskrit. It will revolutionise the national psyche and anchor Indians firmly in their cultural roots whose basis is Sanskrit literature, especially the literature pertaining to the Sanatan Dharma in its progressive phases beginning from remotest antiquity and rolling down to modern times.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [ANI News---Smita Prakash] : The interviewer (Smita Prakash) disturbs too much. She breaks the flow of talk by the interviewee (J Sai Deepak) by her needless interruptions. Sai is simply brilliant as usual despite all this.
Viewers are not as foolish as Smita Prakash imagines. It is an insult to their intelligence to keep on repeating that J Sai Deepak has sarcastically said something in reverse order to drive home the point better which, in Smita Prakash's considered and considerate estimation, the intellectually challenged audience will scarce be able to otherwise apprehend. Such low expectation from the audience is uncalled for and shows up the interrupting interviewer in a rather poor light. J Sai Deepak, brilliant as he is, was courteous enough to bear with her, albeit with flow interrupted, his level of thinking dipping and the grain of talk shifting at times. Brilliant interviewee, poor interviewer, shallow to a fault.
Sorry Sai. You have made a slip in saying that Aurangzeb was the Subedar of Bengal. He wasn't so. Aurangzeb was the Subedar of Deccan and Gujarat but never of Bengal. His elder brother Shah Shuja was the Subedar of Bengal who he drove away to the Arakans during the fratricidal War of Succession in which he (Aurangzeb) triumphant emerged.
Smita Prakash is too dull, too superficial to be able to interview this brilliant erudite and articulate well. Sai Deepak simply has to lower his intellectual level to accommodate her.
Sugata Bose @Narayanan P D Namboodiri : Support my writings by regularly reading them. That itself will be inspirational for one striving alone in the desert-sand of an unsympathetic, cowardly, hypocritical section of the Hindu community which is more prone to pleasure than the preservation of their identity against marauding Abrahamic cults. Shame on us that we have sunk so low! Here work is to be done. Come along and join hands with me. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Amar Khanna : Sri Ramakrishna did not go the feet of the Mother. He himself was the Mother incarnate.
Sugata Bose @Amar Khanna : Amar Khanna : And Ishwara (God in the Vedic sense) because he was the essence of all deities, as you have rightly pointed out. Swamiji went further. He called Thakur 'Bhagabaner Baba', that is, the Father of God.
Sugata Bose @Comal Mahadevan Amrtheswaran : Sufism is a ploy to lure converts into Islam. It has historically worn a soft facade to camouflage its true intent. It is deception through and through. Read Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup to get a clarified understanding of Islam.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Oh, I see! You 'have read'---that is what you meant. I thought you were asking people to 'read' Ram Swarup alone. The word 'read' was used by you in the past tense whereas I thought you were asking people to 'read' Ram Swarup alone to the exclusion of Sita Ram Goel.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sangam Talks] : Robert Spencer is not only well versed in his subject but he is articulate and rationally persuasive as well.
Sugata Bose @Binita Ghosh : প্রগতির সাথে সাথে লিঙ্গভেদ বহুলাংশে দূর হবে বইকি | কিন্তু তা তো শুধু দেহভিত্তিক, মনভিত্তিক, বাহ্যিক | প্রকৃত অভেদবুদ্ধি আসে নির্বিকল্প সমাধিতে ও ব্যবহারে তা প্রকাশ পেয়ে থেকে সমাধি হতে বুত্থানের পর | তাই অনেকটা ভেদ কাটলেও সম্পূর্ণ কাটবে না | তাতে ক্ষতি নেই যদি উভয়লিঙ্গের সুযোগসুবিধা সমান হয় সমাজে | এই প্রতিবেদনটিতে সামাজিক অর্থে নয়, অধ্যাাত্মিক অর্থে এ কথা বলা হয়েছে | বাইরের বৈষম্য অন্তরের বিভেদজ্ঞান থেকে হয় | তা দূর করা সাধনার অঙ্গ | যেমন যেমন বৈষম্য কমে, তেমন তেমন সাম্যবোধ জাগে | আধ্যাত্মিকতার এই হল সূচনা |
Sugata Bose @Tapan Bhattacharya : Terrible photo of mine. Me at my thinnest, emaciated and at my photographed worst. Thanks for your labour of love, Tapan Babu, nonetheless, and for your good wishes.
Sugata Bose @Soma Das : Your birthday is the same as mine. I discovered just now to my surprised delight. Happy birthday!
Sugata Bose @John Embrey : That (hellfire) is essentially the devised ploy to frighten people into submission and to contain them within the specific faith. It is devised ploy and not revealed truth.
Sugata Bose @Rohini Jalan : Your qualifications are outstanding. Now you need to deepen your study in your specific field to be able to contribute pathbreaking insights into it. You must also broaden your academic perspective by enlightening yourself in your motherland's history and civilisation.
Sugata Bose @Shusobhan Charit : Study Vivekananda and you will see sense in what I have written. You have misread the content of this profoundly philosophical post and reduced it to superficial stuff which it is not. It is Vedanta in its inmost sense. This, alas, is the predicament one faces in terms of reader response to online posts! However, you are welcome to your own understanding but not so to imposing your characterisation of the writer's status in knowledge or understanding, if you understand what I mean. That sort of a supercilious attitude in terms of ascribing attributes on another is not only uncalled for but is positively uncivil and untrue as well, for none knows the other person's depth of knowledge or shallowness, as the case may be. What I have written is philosophically sound and corroborated by references to be found in the talks of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, leave aside personal experiences that may not be divulged here or be of interest to any anyway.
THE CONVERSION PROBLEM ... 2
THE CONVERSION PROBLEM ... 2
For a while manifest some manhood in fighting the menace of conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity. Educate Hindus about their dharma. Mere make-believe religious harmony does not match the deep differences that lie in the scriptural texts of Islam and Christianity with respect to those of the Sanatan Dharma. Harmony cannot be one-sided. As Sri Aurobindo had famously said, so long as Islam and Christianity continue to convert Hindus to their fold religious harmony can never be.
It is time to set up educational cells for Hindu adolescents and the youth so that they may get a fair idea about the core principles of their dharma and are thus able to ward off the real challenge they so often face of conversion attempted on them. We must organise academic institutions that will cater to this end. Right now we, Hindus, are a disorganised, disoriented mass of men [read humans] with poor knowledge of our scriptures. This is a serious problem which we must address and solve. How we may do so will be dealt with in future discussions on this subject.
Written by Sugata Bose
THE CONVERSION PROBLEM ... 1
THE CONVERSION PROBLEM ... 1
Ramakrishna Mission should conduct regular classes on an organised basis for Hindus 🕉 with the specific aim of resisting the conversion of gullible Hindus to Islam and Christianity. No wishy-washy harmonic talk please but rigorous addressal of the conversion problem that is weakening Hindu society by the day and posing increased threat to national security. Swamiji was against even one man going out of the pale of Hinduism to Islam. He had said, "And then every man going out of the Hindu pale is not only a man less, but an enemy the more." The following interview of Swamiji by Prabuddha Bharata will testify to the veracity of my statement. Please read it.
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ON THE BOUNDS OF HINDUISM
(Prabuddha Bharata, April, 1899)
Having been directed by the Editor, writes our representative, to interview Swami Vivekananda on the question of converts to Hinduism, I found an opportunity one evening on the roof of a Ganga houseboat. It was after nightfall, and we had stopped at the embankment of the Ramakrishna Math, and there the Swami came down to speak with me.
Time and place were alike delightful. Overhead the stars, and around — the rolling Ganga; and on one side stood the dimly lighted building, with its background of palms and lofty shade-trees.
"I want to see you, Swami", I began, "on this matter of receiving back into Hinduism those who have been perverted from it. Is it your opinion that they should be received?"
"Certainly," said the Swami, "they can and ought to be taken."
He sat gravely for a moment, thinking, and then resumed. "Besides," he said, "we shall otherwise decrease in numbers. When the Mohammedans first came, we are said — I think on the authority of Ferishta, the oldest Mohammedan historian — to have been six hundred millions of Hindus. Now we are about two hundred millions. And then every man going out of the Hindu pale is not only a man less, but an enemy the more.
"Again, the vast majority of Hindu perverts to Islam and Christianity are perverts by the sword, or the descendants of these. It would be obviously unfair to subject these to disabilities of any kind. As to the case of born aliens, did you say? Why, born aliens have been converted in the past by crowds, and the process is still going on.
"In my own opinion, this statement not only applies to aboriginal tribes, to outlying nations, and to almost all our conquerors before the Mohammedan conquest, but also in the Purânas. I hold that they have been aliens thus adopted.
"Ceremonies of expiation are no doubt suitable in the case of willing converts, returning to their Mother-Church, as it were; but on those who were alienated by conquest — as in Kashmir and Nepal — or on strangers wishing to join us, no penance should be imposed."
"But of what caste would these people be, Swamiji?" I ventured to ask. "They must have some, or they can never be assimilated into the great body of Hindus. Where shall we look for their rightful place?"
"Returning converts", said the Swami quietly, "will gain their own castes, of course. And new people will make theirs. You will remember," he added, "that this has already been done in the case of Vaishnavism. Converts from different castes and aliens were all able to combine under that flag and form a caste by themselves — and a very respectable one too. From Râmânuja down to Chaitanya of Bengal, all great Vaishnava Teachers have done the same."
"And where should these new people expect to marry?" I asked.
"Amongst themselves, as they do now", said the Swami quietly.
"Then as to names," I enquired, "I suppose aliens and perverts who have adopted non-Hindu names should be named newly. Would you give them caste-names, or what?"
"Certainly," said the Swami, thoughtfully, "there is a great deal in a name!" and on this question he would say no more.
But my next enquiry drew blood. "Would you leave these new-comers, Swamiji, to choose their own form of religious belief out of many-visaged Hinduism, or would you chalk out a religion for them?"
"Can you ask that?" he said. "They will choose for themselves. For unless a man chooses for himself, the very spirit of Hinduism is destroyed. The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta."
I thought the utterance a weighty one, for the man before me has spent more years than any one else living I fancy, in studying the common bases of Hinduism in a scientific and sympathetic spirit — and the freedom of the Ishta is obviously a principle big enough to accommodate the world.
But the talk passed to other matters, and then with a cordial good night this great teacher of religion lifted his lantern and went back into the monastery, while I by the pathless paths of the Ganga, in and out amongst her crafts of many sizes, made the best of my way back to my Calcutta home.
Friday 26 May 2023
RAMCHANDRA AND RAMMOHUN---A CASE OF CAUSTIC COMPARISON BY DELUDED BENGAL
RAMCHANDRA AND RAMMOHUN---A CASE OF CAUSTIC COMPARISON BY DELUDED BENGAL
We, Bengalis, have a propensity for making fun of great souls. We, insignificant in knowledge and realisation as we are, think too much of ourselves and deem ourselves worthy of castigating even such seminal souls as Shree Ramchandra by calling him a wife-burner. We say that Ram cast woman (in his case, his holy consort) into fire and Rammohun saved woman from it. This sort of puerile comparison in utterly different circumstances and ages is hardly justifiable. There are rationalisations to the episode as well that will clarify conception and restore sanity to such disoriented thinking. Such unwarranted remarks exhibit our utter lack of scriptural knowledge, reverence for the greats and lowliness of nature. Bengal has plummeted to an abysmal low and a further degradation can only make us extinct as a community worth the call.
Sri Ramakrishna himself has testified to the divinity of Shree Ram and showed up his form as both Ram and Krishna in his dying days at Kashipur to young sceptical Narendranath [refer, Ramendrasundar Bhattacharya's interview published in Udbodhan in mid 1970s, and later in Prabuddha Bharata of August 2007 issue]. Swamiji had like visions of Shree Ram later as well and so have Tulsidas and countless sages and saints of India. Seeta Devi is Queen Mother of Bharatvarsha according to Sister Nivedita and the epitome and exemplar of the highest ideal of womanhood here in Punyabhumi Bharat and elsewhere. Such derogatory words cast against her beloved Prince and King does no service to her womanly esteem.
Rammohun was the saviour of the modern Indian woman from the funeral pyre no doubt and he was much more besides. But to draw such stupid comparisons to cast calumny against Bhagavan Ramchandra who remains our Maryada Purushottam (the self-established ideal of life and living) shows us up as base human beings shorn of fundamental civility. The sooner Bengal gets out of this rut of rotten rationality, the better for its survival and sustenance. Where progressive Islamisation continues in this land of the Sanatan Dharma, these caustic critics are careful not to utter a word of condemnation, such is their courage of conviction in standing up against corruption and evil! And, yet, they have the temerity to criticise our beloved Lord, our ideal Man, our God, our Soul, our Self, our everything. May Shree Ram bless these deluded children of his and restore their sanity!
Written by Sugata Bose
Thursday 25 May 2023
WOULD IT WERE !
WOULD IT WERE !
Our intellectual culture is very poor. People are merely attracted by photographs that append posts and care not to read their content. Most are as well attracted by sensationalism in posts that either reek of controversy or calumny. Perhaps common culture has always been thus and it is only the advent of mass journalism on social media that has come to highlight it. But when highly educated people are lazy enough to post emojis by way of comment instead of putting in a word of two it becomes a case of a pernicious precipitation of culture. They ought to be sensitive enough that upon them as well depends the future of our country's culture, not merely on some overworked writers who pour in heart and soul to arrest the decline. Would it were that they had been a trifle more dedicated to the cause!
Written by Sugata Bose
RELIGIOUS HARMONY---POSSIBILITY OR FANCIFUL DREAM?
RELIGIOUS HARMONY---POSSIBILITY OR FANCIFUL DREAM?
Will religious harmony ever be possible? Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda have initiated the process. But how far is it feasible when the Abrahamic religions are so intransigent in their dogmatic scriptural positions? Will the spiritual wave that Swamiji has said Thakur will inundate the world with in time to come be able to overcome the spiritual dissension that has rocked the world for nearly two millenia? Will perhaps a future descent of the Avatar usher in a new harmonic order of things? We do not know but may only hope that man will rise from this medieval tribalism and mature unto an enlightened modernity.
Meanwhile, the work for future harmony must go on along realistic lines and not along wishful lines that endanger the existence of the more accepting communities like the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Jains, the Sikhs and other like orders. Human evolution along spiritual lines, as opposed to communal religious lines which may hardly be termed as evolving, must make the future man more accommodating and accepting of mutual cultural differences and, so, amenable to living peacefully as brethren aspiring for the higher ends of life. To that end let us aspire and exert ourselves. May future harmony be along the universal Vedantic lines reinforced by the discoveries of modern science! May man finally be human!
Written by Sugata Bose
Wednesday 24 May 2023
কেবা নাস্তিক, কেবা আস্তিক ? বিদ্যার বড়াই বটে ! অবিদ্যার হাট বসেছে |
কেবা নাস্তিক, কেবা আস্তিক ? বিদ্যার বড়াই বটে ! অবিদ্যার হাট বসেছে |
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শিক্ষায় অহংকার বাড়তে ঢের দেখেছি | একটু মার্ক্স, একটু বার্ট্রণ্ড রাসল্, একটু কমিউনিস্ট ম্যানিফেস্টো পড়েই নাস্তিক | অথচ বিবেকানন্দ পড়েন না বিবেকানন্দের অনুরাগীগণ | শুধু দোষারোপ করেন নাস্তিকদের | এ কেমন আস্তিকতা ? [তাই স্বামীজী বলতেন, বিশ্বের সকলেই প্রায় নাস্তিক |] আস্তিকরাও শুধু মুখেমাত্র আস্তিক | সংস্কৃতিতে, আচরণে, ব্যবহারে, বিশ্বাসে, হৃদয়ের সম্প্রসারণে সে আস্তিক্যবুদ্ধির কিঞ্চিন্মাত্র প্রকাশ দেখা যায় না | সবই দেহবুদ্ধিতে, ক্ষুদ্র স্বার্থচিন্তায় আবদ্ধ---নাস্তিক, আস্তিক, উভয়ই | এইখানেই সকলের মিলন, সঙ্কোচনবৃত্তির বিশ্বজনীনতায় বিশ্বসৌভ্রাত্র |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Monday 22 May 2023
MESSAGES GALORE ... 43
MESSAGES GALORE ... 43
MESSAGES GALORE ... 43
1. 'নানান মুনির নানান মত |' এ প্রবাদবাক্যটি আমরা অবলীলায় বলে থাকি প্রায়শঃই | কিন্তু মুনি তো হতে হবে প্রথমে | তবে তো মতপ্রকাশ | নইলে মুনিমত হল কি করে ? একটা বলে দিলেই হল বুঝি ?
2. অলস কখনও বড় হতে পারে ? The indolent cannot rise in life.
3. Why do people advertise themselves so much? Communication? Or the attempt to bask in the sunshine of others' estimation?
4. কোথায় নিজের শেষ আর কোথায় সমাজের শুরু ? সব যে ওতপ্রোত, অঙ্গাঙ্গিভাবে জড়িত | তাই জগৎকল্যাণেই আত্মকল্যাণ |
5. নিজের হাল নিজেকেই ধরতে হবে | সমাজ তো অনেক করছে আমার জন্য | আমি সমাজের জন্য করলাম কি ?
6. নিজের মুক্তিলাভের ইচ্ছাটাই তো মুক্তির পরিপন্থী । সকলকে নিয়ে মুক্ত হব---এ তত্ত্ব অশাস্ত্রীয় হলেও নিজমুক্তির সহায়ক কারণ এতে ক্ষুদ্র অহং সমূলে বিনষ্ট হয় ।
7. দিনে দিনে রসবোধ হ্রাস পাচ্ছে সমাজে | বুদ্ধির সূক্ষ্মতা কমছে বলেই ঘটছে এরকম | জনসংখ্যা বৃদ্ধির সাথে সাথে শিক্ষার মানের অবনমন ও তৎকারণবশতঃ সংস্কৃতির অবনমন এই রসবোধকে করছে endangered attribute. UNESCOর কাছে সংরক্ষণের আবেদন সত্বর করা আবশ্যক | নইলে নিশ্চিহ্ন হওয়া নিশ্চিত রসবোধের | রসবোধ বুদ্ধির ভূষণ | এখন ভীষণবুদ্ধির যুগ, তাই ভূষণবুদ্ধি হালে পানি পাচ্ছে না |
8. 
স্বামী মাধবানন্দ (নির্মল মহারাজ) ছিলেন রামকৃষ্ণ মঠ ও মিশনের নবম সংঘাধ্যক্ষ ও সংঘগুরু | শ্রীশ্রীমায়ের মন্ত্রশিষ্য ছিলেন তিনি | মা তাঁর বিবেকবৈরাগ্য দেখে ও প্রগাঢ় পাণ্ডিত্যের কথা শুনে বলেছিলেন, "বাবা, এ যে দেখছি হাতির দাঁত সোনা দিয়ে বাঁধানো ! এ যেন জন্মে জন্মে আমার ছেলে হয় |"
9. Remember, the body that you cater to is not yourself. It is somebody's body but not you, not even yours. Cater to yourself.
10. আসক্তি বড়ই ভয়ঙ্কর ! মায়ায় ডুবিয়ে মারে | যন্ত্রণা, অপমান, অশেষ দুর্গতি !
11. বাঁচতে চাও তো বাবা কথামৃত পড়ো | নইলে মৃত্যু অনিবার্য | ঘোর অজ্ঞানতা, তমসা, মোহান্ধকার ! কথামৃতে মোহ কাটে |
12. সংস্কারবদ্ধ জীব | গুরু গতিপথ পালটে দেন | তাই নিস্তার | তবে সদগুরু হওয়া চাই---নামে নয়, যথাযথ | তারপর পথনির্দেশ পালন |
13. মুক্তি আর কি ? বাসনা হতে পরিত্রাণ | তাহলেই সূর্যোদয়, স্বরূপদর্শন |
14. ব্রহ্মবুদ্ধির বিকাশ, সংসারবুদ্ধির নাশ |
15. Neglect is a terrible sin.
16. The way some of these beasts have tortured me. I have suffered so much at their hands. But Thakur has been gracious and here I live.
17. Merciless are the mercenaries among men. And women too.
18. This life cares for none. Just self-interest.
19. The selfish get repaid in equal coin in due course. Inviolable is the law of karma.
20. কী ভয়ঙ্কর ফাঁদ এই অবিদ্যার সংসার !
21. There is so little of heart today in human affairs, so less of love. Feeling seems to have taken to flight as unfeeling thoughts dominate.
22. He who feels for others sees God.
23. প্রতিদিন সন্ধিক্ষণে সত্ত্বগুণ প্রবল হয় | কিন্তু অবহেলায় তার কার্যকারিতা ব্যর্থ হয় |
24. ঠাকুর কত রূপে আসেন---শ্বেত পারাবতরূপে অমরনাথে আর কৃষ্ণ পারাবতরূপে গৃহকোণে |
25. 
The indolent, the insincere, the inebriated can never achieve anything worthwhile. It is the industrious, the disciplined, the diligent and the dedicated who attain to greatness in whatever meagre a measure it may be. But achieve they do. And it is this cumulative achievement that over lifetimes builds up to produce the great architects of culture and of civilisation. Bit by bit diligently proceeds the soul towards perfection, accelerating all the while through the turbidity of circumstance, through the hindering course of coarse terrain, through the tempestuous sea of lost horizons unto the sunlit summit of eventual realisation.
26. ফেসবুকে যে কোন প্রতিবেদনে ছবির প্রতি আর চাঞ্চল্যকর অথবা বিতর্কিত বিষয়ের প্রতি অতিমাত্রায় আগ্রহ সভ্যতার অগ্রগতির পরিপন্থী |
27. The channels of money open up only at the cost of character.
28. How many of you would consider it honourable to accept INR 1100/- only per month for a clerical job, INR 2500/- only per month for a teacher's job? But it is happening in the name of nation-building, this fleecing of people, this exploitation of labour, and all in the Holy Name?
29. ইঁটকাঠপাথর, সব অনিত্য মরণশীল বস্তু | তার মধ্যেও মধু সংরক্ষিত, তাই প্রাণ টানে | কিন্তু বিপরীতবুদ্ধিতে মধুলাভ হবে না | প্রেম পাথেয়, পথ্য, সঞ্জীবনী সুধা, পরমপ্রাপ্তি | পারো গাড়োয়ালের বাচ্চাগুলোকে ভগবৎজ্ঞানে সেবা করতে ? বিধর্ভার চাষার বীজ জুগিয়ে আত্মহত্যা হতে রক্ষা করতে ?
30. We won't allow poison to enter the bloodstream of India. We will purge it of base sensuality. We will drive all toxic ideology away. We must purify the line of all alien dross.
31. This body is India. Cleansing it is cleansing India. But that is a service unto the Mother, the Motherland in specific. It is a submission, an act in holy humility. Hail Mother, Mother of all! Unto Thy altar of freedom I lay down my soul.
32. This life is a vanishing dream. But within the dream a nucleus remains---my motherland Bharatvarsha.
33. দোষদৃষ্টিই দোষ | তবে বিচারের প্রয়োজনে, আদর্শ সংরক্ষণের আবশ্যকতায় গুণগত শৈথিল্যদর্শনে মন্তব্য দোষের নয়, বরং অপরিহার্য |
34. Why is it that a minuscule percentage of the audience to a post comment with reference to the post and almost 99.9% merely engage in saying, 'Jai Thakur', 'Pranam Thakur' etc.? This ought not to be. Readership should not be so poor. This sort of offering pious platitudes does not conduce to either the intellectual or the spiritual well-being of a nation. Did not Swamiji say, "Let men be thinkers?"
35. Thought seems to have little value. It is the picture that counts. What a sad state of affairs indeed!
36. যাই লিখি না কেন, শুধু ছবির জয়জয়াকার ! সংস্কৃতির এই অধঃপতন দুশ্চিন্তার বিষয় |
37. We are not advancing as a nation because of our fascination for the superficial. It is the sign of mass ignorance, a failure to think deep and grasp at essentials.
38. Nobody has the guts to speak the truth. It is appeasement all the way. Democracy after all has its demographic challenges.
39. Harmony or hypocritical cowardly appeasement?
40. Numbers rule after all in a democracy. If today this is the situation, what about tomorrow?
41. Superficiality cannot attain to greatness. Naming is not knowing. Rationalising is not realising.
42. Cling to the Dharma. Live it. Breathe it. Let it become vibrant in your life as life-giving action. No egotism but service to all, beholding the divinity of man.
43. Idolatry is universal without exception. Man's very mental constitution forces him to worship through forms and symbols.
44. এক গুণীই গুণীকে বোঝেন | গুণীই গুণীকে মর্যাদা দেন | এ সাধারণের কর্ম নয়; সাধারণের সাধ্যাতীত |
45. Knowledge only scratches the surface. The truth lies deep within.
46. Let the idea take hold of you even as you hold on to the idol. May the idol and the idea coalesce into the ideal!
47. স্বামী সোমেশ্বরানন্দ এক অনন্য প্রতিভা!
48. যা সহজ, স্বাভাবিক, তা কিন্তু ভারী আশ্চর্য | এই যে সূর্যের আলো আর জীবের দেখার ক্ষমতা---কি অদ্ভূত কার্যকারণ সম্বন্ধ! অদ্ভূত আকাশে অদ্ভূত আলোর গোলক!
49. Evolve the God out of you. Affirm your divinity. Let none superimpose on your soul ideas of weakness. Shun all such contact that demeans you, belittles you, be they sinners or saints.
50. Islam and Christianity will have to accept the glory of the Sanatan Dharma in the end. As man evolves, these exclusive religions will find it hard to find a following. Amendment must come in time, if not in scriptural position but in selective emphasis on doctrine that shall conduce to integration of humanity instead of divisiveness.
51. Youth, read Vivekananda.
52. বাসনাক্লিষ্ট মানুষ | তাই স্বামীজীর বই পড়তে চায় না | বীর পড়বে স্বামীজী | এ ইন্দ্রিয়পরায়ণ কাপুরুষের কর্ম নয় | তবু পড়লে বীর হওয়া যায় | অবিদ্যামায়ার বিরুদ্ধে যুদ্ধ ঘোষণা করা যায় | বিদ্যামায়া সহায় |
53. Why is this group [Vivekananda Mission (1929)] so silent? Why not flood it with posts? So, here I go. Commitment is a must.
54. Vivekananda cannot be contained within an organisation. His spirit outstretches all organisational bounds. And this spirit is working through countless organisations in lesser or greater degree in proportion to the purity and commitment of their composite elements towards fulfilling his grand mission of the resurrection of the spiritual man.
55. Do not spoil the mood of a spiritual lecture by puerile summarising of it by the anchor at the end of it. Do not pursue money in a manner that calls for public announcement of a prospective PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND in the memory of a departed great soul. Such an open call for money is uncalled for.
56. Kabir lives, Tulsi lives, Meera lives, Dadu lives. And these great ones live in the memory of the nation not on the basis of money or architecture or power wielded through organisational collaboration but simply through soul-force, through the simplicity of their lived lives, through the sympathy they brought to bear upon the masses groaning under centuries of alien religious and political persecution, through their absolute unselfishness that cared not to trade piety for earthly gains. Such sublimity of spirit, such humility, such absolute identification with the lowliest of the lowly have made these simple souls pervasive among the people. They have permeated the culture of the commoner and raised all to a holier level where God has become not just the protector but the playmate of all.
57. Every young adult must be taught the LECTURES FROM COLOMBO TO ALMORA delivered by Swamiji in 1897 as the gospel of nationalism to Indians.
58. একজন মানুষ হলে স্বামীজীর ভাব বলিষ্ঠভাবে প্রচার সম্ভব | চাই অখণ্ড বোধ, সাহস, পবিত্রতা ও পৌরুষ | বীরের কাজ, এ কাপুরুষের কর্ম নয় |
59. Democracy in India will survive so long as Hindus are in an overwhelming majority. The day roles are reversed, democracy will vanish into thin air.
60. What does GREATER RAMAKRISHNA group stand for? It is to highlight the service activities of spiritual and social/philanthropic organisations other than Ramakrishna Mission and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission that are dedicated to serving humanity, being inspired by the spiritual ideals of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. It is to explore this wider realm of the Ramakrishna Movement that this group has been constituted.
Sugata Bose [Administrator]
61. Shed cowardice. Be men. There is no spirituality for the coward. Swamiji hated cowardice. Read the 'Svadesh Mantra' and find out.
62. If you are a mercenary, you cannot be a missionary. Hence, 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা'.
63. I am burning my life's fuel to defend the Sanatan Dharma. Must you sleep on an assumed security when everywhere our citadels are shaking? Will you wait for our eventual capitulation before your reverie breaks?
64. Service to man is worship of God, for God has appeared as man and man in essence is God.
65. যত সহজ করে বলা যায়, ততই ভাল | এবার তাই চেষ্টা করব | কিন্তু পারি কই ?
66. বিশেষণে বিশেষণে ভাষা অতিঅলঙ্কৃত করলে ভাবের আন্তরিকতা ব্যাহত হয় | কথ্যভাষাই সাহিত্যের শ্রেষ্ঠ মাধ্যম | তারই মধ্যে রসপরিবেশন ও সৌন্দর্যপ্রকাশ সাহিত্যকৌশল |
67. কে চায় ঠাকুরকে শেষ সময়ে দেখতে ? এই মুহূর্তে তাঁকে সবার মধ্যে দর্শন করব, সেবা করব | নইলে জীবন বৃথা !
68. বাক্যরক্ষা না করলে কি চরিত্র তৈরী হয় ? সত্যরক্ষাই চরিত্রগঠনের মূল উপাদান |
69. Is heaven in the heart or the heart in heaven ?
70. স্বর্গ বুঝি মর্তলোকে ? নাকি মর্ত আবার স্বর্গলোকে ?
71. Stop appeasement. Check growing demographic imbalance. Protect Hindu civilisation. Hindus, be committed, be brave.
72. Life is a bit of dancing on the waves before the sea swallows you up to throw you up on a fresher wave. Wave after wave thus rises and falls till its seemingly interminable sequence stops forever to release you from this transmigratory existence and the ocean wavefree lies, then disappears altogether.
73. Truth, Truth, Truth is my God, none else.
74. Read Swami Vivekananda. Do not believe what the doctored leftist history of India says. Go to Vivekananda. Dig deep. Strike your roots in the soil of Bharatvarsha and know her glorious past, her 'wounded' intermediate state and her prospective glorious future. 🕉
75. The United States of America should look at her colonising history and her militarism over the past hundred years before she preaches human rights to the rest of the world.
76. If adults are so keen on catering only to pictures without caring whatsoever for the ideas underlying the associated write-ups, can they blame their children for attending to the trivialities of life and not concentrating at all on their school study?
77. পাপ তোমার নয়; পুণ্য তোমার নয়; তুমি আভ্যন্তরীণ চিরপবিত্র সত্তা---শুদ্ধম অপাপবিদ্ধম আত্মস্বরূপ |
78. The only 100% honest leader of our country who in no way appeased the Muslims and bared his mind about Gandhi was B.R. Ambedkar. Erudite, upright in character, forthright in views and uncompromising in attitude, Ambedkar assumes increasingly a greater stature and significance by the day.
79. চোরের বাজারে কে যে বড় চোর আর কে যে মেজো চোর বোঝা ভার |
80. The body is a pointer to the mind behind. Thoughts reveal in the eyes.
81. Deepen your thoughts and speak less. Let the tranquil mind feel.
82. Do not imitate others. You can be but yourself. Be then at your best.
83. Purity concentrates. The moment purity is lost, the mind is scattered in diverse directions. Energy is depleted and spiritual focus lost.
84. "Ceaseless recollection of the Lord is bhakti," says Shree Ramanujacharya. "One moment of forgetfulness will cause intense misery."
85. Love wells up in the heart, not in the lowest three centres where lust dwells.
86. Death stealthily approaches even as the party of life goes on. Wise is the sadhu who readies himself to embrace death.
87. What is spirituality but conquest of death?
88. Purity is spirituality.
89. The baby lives free of the gunas but in the senses. The sage lives free of the gunas and free of the senses, too.
90. 
'Das Kapital' --- নামটির অন্য তাৎপর্য বটে কিন্তু বাংলা ও হিন্দিতে সারমর্ম বুঝিয়ে দেয় | সবই তো আজ সত্যিই ক্যাপিটালের দাস |
91. আজকাল কিছু না পড়ে, না চিন্তা করে, না বুঝে মন্তব্য করার প্রবণতা খুব দেখা যায় | সবাই না পড়ে পণ্ডিত !
92. ঋষি বলি তাঁকে যিনি মনোলোককে অতিক্রম করে চৈতন্যলোকে অবাধে অবস্থান করেন ।
93. This universe, differentiated though it may seem, in the realised soul's vision is an integrated whole.
94. The Dalits must be saved from conversion traps of Islam and Christianity. Hindus must dispense with divisive caste system and in solidarity stand. Treat each snd every Hindu as your own, taking care, however, not to patronise the wicked, whatever religion he may belong to.
95. The one virtue whose absence is eating into the vitals of the nation is sincerity.
96. Architecture is not spirituality. The Lord must be manifested in the body and in the mind and spirit, and not in superior building construction.
97. Of what avail is scriptural poetic beauty if its core content is rotten?
98. Hindus are being persecuted in their own country with the demographic balance steadily shifting in places. How long will you maintain your cowardly silence and remain unconcerned onlookers?
99. এখন বজ্রবেদান্ত চাই, সখীবেদান্ত নয় |
100. Population boom and illegal immigration leading to dangerous demographic imbalance, intolerant ideological indoctrination since birth, widespread political appeasement for securing votes and ignorance of the enemy's inimical intent will destroy us as a nation. We continue to live in a fool's paradise and precipitate our doom. We have not learnt from history. We never will.
এঁরাও ভক্ত যাঁরা সর্বনাশকে ডেকে আনতে সাহায্য করেন ?
এঁরাও ভক্ত যাঁরা সর্বনাশকে ডেকে আনতে সাহায্য করেন ?
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অন্ধভক্তি ভক্তি নয়, অন্ধতামাত্র | ভক্তি আলোকসম্পন্ন, চৈতন্যদায়ী | অতিমাত্রায় কাঞ্চনকামনায় আজ সংঘগত আদর্শ বিপন্ন | ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর ভাব ক্রমশঃ হ্রাস পেয়ে চলেছে | ভক্ত যথার্থ ভক্ত হলে এর প্রতিকারে যত্নবান, যত্নবতী হবেন | কিন্তু 'ভক্ত' তোষামুদে হলে অর্থের অনর্থকারী প্রভাব দেখেও হৃত আদর্শ, ভ্রষ্টচরিত্র, ভ্রান্ত দিশায় ধাবমান সংঘকে উচ্চৈঃস্বরে সেই পথেই চলতে উৎসাহিত করবেন, সহায়তা করবেন ও সংঘের প্রকৃত শুভাকাঙ্ক্ষী প্রতিবাদী স্বরগুলিকে দমন করার ব্যর্থ প্রচেষ্টায় নিযুক্ত থাকবেন | এর কারণ মোহ যা শুভবুদ্ধিকে গ্রাস করে | 'বিনাশকালে বিপরীত বুদ্ধি |'
আজ সাধুসমাজ, ভক্তসমাজ বহুলাংশে আদর্শভ্রষ্ট | তাই ঠাকুরের ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী অনুযায়ী তাঁর এক শত (মতান্তরে দুই শত) বর্ষ পরে আগমন হয় ঘটে গেছে নয় আসন্ন | ধর্মগ্লানি আজ চূড়ান্ত পর্যায়ে পৌঁছেছে | অবতারের আবির্ভাবে নতুন সংঘ গড়ে উঠবে যা কিছুকাল এই গ্লানি দূর করে সত্যাদর্শকে স্বমহিমায় পুনঃপ্রতিষ্ঠিত করবে | এই আশায় ভগ্নচিত্তে দিন গণি |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
পুনশ্চ : ভাই, আপনার নামটি না দিয়েই আপনাকে সম্বোধন করে আমার পূর্ব মন্তব্যটি এই প্রতিবেদনে পুনঃস্থাপন করছি |
'সত্যিই তাই, বিশেষতঃ যখন তাঁদের ভাষায় ও ভাষণে বরাহনগর মঠের, আলমবাজার মঠের ও বেলুড় মঠের আদি ও মধ্য যুগের অর্থনৈতিক দুরবস্থার কথা প্রায়শঃ শুনি অথচ তাঁদের মূল কেন্দ্র ও নানা শাখা কেন্দ্রগুলিতে তার বিপরীত রীতিনীতি, আচারআচরণ ও কর্মানুষ্ঠানের ধারা লক্ষ্য করি | এই দ্বিচারিতা দুঃখজনক শুধু নয়, সত্যভিত্তিক ভবিষ্যৎ স্থায়িত্বকে সংকটে ফেলছে কারণ যা সত্যের ওপর প্রতিষ্ঠিত তা পরিশেষে আংশিক মিথ্যা ও অবিদ্যামায়াকে কেন্দ্র করে স্থিতিশীল হতে চলেছে | অসত্যেরও স্থায়িত্ব আছে, সম্প্রসারণ আছে | এ কথা স্বয়ং বিজ্ঞান মহারাজের | উচ্চ ফলিত আদর্শ আজ লুপ্তপ্রায়, সত্যাসত্য অঙ্গাগিভাবে সংঘে জড়িত | এই আজ সংঘগত ব্যবহারিক সংস্কৃতি যার প্রতিকারসাধনে কাউকে দেখি না প্রতিবাদী কথা বলতে | এও মর্মান্তিক | ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর আদর্শ আজ ভূলুন্ঠিত |'
Saturday 20 May 2023
'যত মত, তত পথ' | তবে 'মত'টি সর্বাত্মকভাবে বিশ্বজনীন হওয়া চাই | তবেই তার 'পথ' হিসেবে যাথার্থ | তবেই ঠাকুরের বাণীর উপযুক্ত পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে সত্যতা |
'যত মত, তত পথ' | তবে 'মত'টি সর্বাত্মকভাবে বিশ্বজনীন হওয়া চাই | তবেই তার 'পথ' হিসেবে যাথার্থ | তবেই ঠাকুরের বাণীর উপযুক্ত পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে সত্যতা |
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'যত মত, তত পথ' যেকালে ঠাকুর বলেছেন, সেকালে তা অবশ্যই সত্য | কিন্তু কোন মত যদি বিধর্মীর প্রতি অসহিষ্ণু হয়, ঠাকুর তাকে 'মতুয়ার বুদ্ধি' বলে নিন্দাও করেছেন | কোন ধর্ম যদি বিশ্বের সকলকে নিঃসর্তে আলিঙ্গন না করে ছলেবলেকৌশলে নিজ মতে ধর্মান্তরিত করে আনার চেষ্টা করে, তাহলে সেই মতও কি ঈশ্বরলাভের পথ, যেকালে ভোগসর্বস্ব স্বর্গে ইন্দ্রিয়পরায়ণতাই তার সর্বোচ্চ লক্ষ্য বলে শাস্ত্রবর্ণিত? এটিও ভাববার বিষয় | নইলে তো নরসংহারকারী বৈপ্লবিক সব মতও তুরীয় সত্যলাভের পথ বলে বলতে হয় | এ বিষয়ে কি বলেন? ঠাকুরের বাণী শাশ্বত সত্যদর্শনের ওপর ভিত্তিশীল কিন্তু তা নির্বোধের ন্যায় বিচারবিহীনভাবে গ্রহণ করলে হিন্দুর সমূহ বিপদ | এ বিষয়ে স্বামীজীর সাবধানবাণীও প্রণিধানযোগ্য | ঠাকুরের ভাষ্যকার তিনি, এ কথা ভুললে চলবে না |
রচনা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
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