MESSAGES GALORE ... 45

MESSAGES GALORE ... 45

1. If fools abound in this world seeking proof that the sun shines light on the earth, then they should school themselves better in experience and relevant data instead of indolently asking others to provide such. Guess the meaning if you can. Then I shall call you a perceptive reader.

2. The Jews are the most intelligent people in the world and historically one of the worst persecuted along with the Hindus.

3. Subjugated for 1300 years by Islam, how will the 'secular' Hindu remember his roots? He has been struck by the Stockholm Syndrome. Alas, he has lost his identity!

4. What is the future of West Bengal and Kerala where progressive Islamisation is going on through immigration and toxic proselytisation?

5. Wife-beating under any pretext is reprehensible even if it has Divine sanction. This is foul patriarchy in religious guise.

6. As Hindus do not carry your religious obligation to maintaining the purity of food to ridiculous levels. Be hygienic, that's all.

7. Deception carried to extreme can hardly be deemed a religious attribute. And, yet, it is, and is practised to perfection to further the religions cause.

8. We, Hindus, worship the cow and do not eat it. Without trying to sound supremacist, we are in truth the most civilised spiritual race in the world and the least violent.

9. Our problems are internal, limited to within our complex social fabric where indeed we find tensions and inequalities. But we do not extend them to beyond our boundaries. We do not persecute other people, other races,  religions, cultures. We are a peace-loving people content to solving the riddle of existence rather than busying ourselves in cutting the throats of people who differ with our religious realisations, beliefs, practices. We have learnt from ancient times the sanctity of life. Hence, we are non-violent. But when infringed upon too much, we also know how to deal a telling blow in self-defence. Our dharma differs from the Abrahamic concept of belief-bound faith. It is based on the discoveries of spiritual principles by spiritual scientists called Rishis. These principles are beginningless and endless, subtle as they are and transcending time. Hence, their conglomerate collection called the Vedas are also beginningless and endless and are co-equal with God who is the highest development of these ideas and is the unmanifest-manifest Being.

10. Our dharma is a tradition in much the manner of the scientific tradition. As such no dogma binds it or its adherents. Investigation into Truth is its life force and rational scepticism its method. Where it goes a step further than science is that dharma keeps its doors of investigation open to both the external and the internal world. Modern psychology also does not go as deep as the psychology of the Sanatan Dharma goes. It dives deep into the internal world of man and attempts to arrive at the roots of consciousness en route to its very root in the Being which is called for linguistic reasons the Brahman and the Atman.

11. Everywhere men are indoctrinated into irrational stuff masquerading as spirituality. This is hampering the natural progress of man.

12. Be at your best and you will be the best.

13. A God who punishes His children with eternal burning in Hellfire is no God of mercy or of love. He is a tyrant. He is no God at all.

14. Learn about Islam. Imperative of the hour. Ignorance will be grief. 🕉

15. In the melee of life, in its clashes and conflicts, the essential purpose of life must not be lost - God-realisation.

16. ভুলেও ভগবানকে ভুলবেন না |

17. [Sri Santosh Bose---26 June, 1923---26 June, 2023]

Our father's 100th birth anniversary went off very well. Meeting of kindred minds, delightful discussion, prayer meeting, a song sung by my sister, reminiscence by my brother-in-law, jokes, mimicry done by me, delightful dinner et all. A lovely evening, one that will remain etched in our memory forever. Memorable, memorable occasion!

Dated: 26 June, 2023.

18. বাংলার ঘরে ঘরে প্রতিদিন বিবেকানন্দ পাঠ শুরু হোক | এতেই বাঙালী তার হৃতগৌরব ফিরে পাবে |

19. Savage conceptions of hell must be rejected in the 21st century. Reject hell altogether and be free of fear. Do not make life on earth itself hell by believing in its existence hereafter.

20. Let not the scriptures frighten you. Override them and affirm your divinity. You are greater than any tyrant God of archaic conception. You are divine.

21. Do not remain captive within your sect. Break free and look around. The sun shines everywhere.

22. When the heart is rent and the body turns toxic, Mother, come to me as abiding love.

23. A simple soul is at peace. Our complexities unsettle us ever, making our selves a warfield.

24. Arrogance has its counterpart---ignorance.

25. Painful is the path of the vain.

26. Apathy has its pathetic end---loss of love, lonesomeness.

27. If love be dished out by God on a silver platter, reject it not. It may take aeons to recover it.

28. The loving soul heals. The loving soul cuts the corrosive bonds of life. The loving soul frees.

29. At times this old body, this warworn mind can bear no more. Then silent weeps the soul seeking deliverance.

30. Man is gregarious. Yet, he lives alone within a multitude of crowding souls. From the alone to the Alone marks the march of man.

31. The egotist cannot see God. Truth hides its face from the vain.

32. Sometimes a callous weariness descends on the soul when it cannot even feel pain but in a desperate last bid seeks a sinking into peace.

33. Sympathetic souls are rare. And, yet, such souls in unison do great deeds that lighten the burden of life.

34. Ramakrishna is the resolution of the ages, the summum bonum of past spirituality and future possibilities worked out in a mould of bliss in the present moment. 

35. Trust none but that final friend who has never left you since primal times.

36. The message falls flat, the picture holds.

37. Where does vanity lead one? Into the ditch.

38. The easiest way to be spiritually alive is to be in the presence of holy men, and who is holier than Sri Ramakrishna and his entourage of disciples and devotees that we to our delight discover in 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna'? Let us read the Gospel daily, especially before retiring for the night, and live in the presence of the Divine as we change phase from wakefulness to dream and deep sleep. Perchance, the fourth state of transcendence may open up for us and lift our spirit to its eternal abode. 🕉 

39. মানুষকে ছোট করে দেখার মধ্যে যে বিকৃত সুখ, মানুষকে বড় করে দেখার মধ্যে যে অনাবিল আনন্দ, তা তার থেকে অনেক বেশী |

40. Where pleasure is pain, there pain is pleasure.

41. 

Ram Swarup (left) and Sita Ram Goel (right)---the intellectual kshatriyas who exposed the malevolent designs of the anti-Hindu forces long before today's crop of defenders of the faith were even born.

42. Do not be cowardly in your disposition nor callous to pertinent observation. That betrays your shallowness.

43. 

A much misunderstood man but a man of epic proportions. [Reference made to Raja Rammohun Roy]

44. 

How can bodybound atheists understand the splendour of the soul that was Vivekananda?

45. Swamiji said, "Remember, women and the masses." Remember to help raise them, to free them from sufferance under tyranny and allow the free expression of their faculties for their fullest fulfilment. Then alone will India rise. Then alone will the world rise.

46. Study Swami Vivekananda everyday. This is vital for individual development and collective security.

47. What is the purpose of Dawah in Islam? Conversion.

48. 

Never forget the contribution the Sikhs made to defending the Hindus. The fifth Sikh Guru Arjan Devji is here seen being burnt alive under orders from Mughal Emperor Jahangir for the Guru having given refuge to his rebellious son Prince Khusrau during the latter's war with his father.

49. 

This Bengali monk did not meditate so deep for Bengalis of the day to be so shallow. Time to give up flippancy and study the Swami for a resurrection of our Sanatan culture in real terms.

50. Hindus have no clear conception of the designs of their ideological foes, and yet they glibly talk so much.

51. She is gone; her voice rings through the corridors of time.

52. There is yet time. A life must be given to save life. Humanity must be raised, resurrected unto divinity. Christ is not one but all of humanity must become Christ, not through the crucifixion in the flesh and the rising in the body unto Heaven but through the subduing of the identity with the flesh and the sublimation of the self unto the Self (Atman ).

53. Ramakrishna lives in the copper urn (Atmaramer Kouto) where he of his own volition lies captive, while his 'followers' rule free of his control, oblivious of his presence, neglectful of his core teaching of renunciation of the copper coin. His message does not spread in adequate terms while the world burns. Will he come again to set right the order, to douse the flames of enmity that burn the world, to ignite humanity afresh with the sparks of purity, peace and enlightenment? Must a Vivekananda visit earth alongside to redirect the world?

54. It is the age of mass enlightenment; it is the age of gross ignorance. Like Dickens recalling the times of the French Revolution, one must say, the contradictions of the times are extreme. The times are ripe for a great upheaval of ideas. The old order of Christian stranglehold on society passed during the French churn. The old order of Islamic throttle will pass now. Humanity is awaking, arising unto a newer self-proclamation, a newer self-incarnation. The Vedanta will have its way in real terms en masse in pockets of the world. But masses of men must lend their arms to pulling this chariot of the gods. Ramakrishna must not leave core habitat in the copper urn but must create a dynamic self in society. He must rule the order and not allow the order to be ruled by men deliberately neglectful of his core principles and directions.

55. France burns.

56. Why does France burn? Who fuels the fire from behind? What is the philosophy governing it?

57. Religiosity + Impurity = Fanatical Violence

58. Why is it that the Ramakrishna Mission does not aggressively preach Swami Vivekananda's life and works across the wide world?

59. Left liberalism in alliance with rising Islam, courtesy immigration, will destroy Europe. France is burning and the fire spreads.

60. Blessings attend those who excel in work and are peaceful. 🕉

61. ISKCON does not accept Sri Ramakrishna as God-incarnate, as the reincarnation of Shree Ram and Shree Krishna.

62. After Amogh Lila Prabhu will ISKCON ban their founder Srila Prabhupada as well for consistently passing derogatory remarks using indecent language against Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and the Ramakrishna Mission monks, and for making unfounded abhorrent observations contrary to fact on the divine duo? Then whither ISKCON?

63. What Ramakrishna Mission has done, ISKCON has failed to do, and what ISKCON has done, Ramakrishna Mission has failed to do.

64. The ochre robe represents renunciation. Reflect if it is being misworn. Is money becoming a dominant factor in spiritual life?

65. ISKCON belongs to Sri Ramakrishna as well who is Sri Krishna after all as all enlightened people know. Likewise, Ramakrishna Mission belongs to Sri Krishna as well who is Sri Ramakrishna after all as Thakur himself has testified. So, devotees of both organisations, end sectarian quarrel and Hindus en masse unite to defend the Sanatan Dharma against Abrahamic (Islamic and Christian) proselytisation and leftist/communist/secularist attacks! 🕉

66. 

The same Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came as Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to expand the base of spiritual understanding and propagation thereof. Vaishnavas had become intolerant overtime and had lost the vast heart which Mahaprabhu manifested. Hence, the Lord descended again as Paramahamsadev to rectify the common spiritual stance and establish harmony.

67. When Srila Prabhupada called Sri Ramakrishna names, he scarce realised that he was abusing his own Ishtadev Shree Krishna and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, for these divine personalities had in this modern age reincarnated as Sri Ramakrishna as was revealed to Swami Vivekananda and many others.

68. The Government of India must free all Hindu institutions from governmental control just as they do for minority religions. The Ramakrishna Mission had opted for minority status to free itself of such governmental inference in their institutions. If such interference by the then Left Front Government had not been, the court case seeking minority status for Ramakrishna Mission would never have been as well.

69. The beauty of the Ramakrishna Mission is that it is the friend of all and the enemy of none.

70. Why is the % population of Hindus decreasing in Bangladesh by the day?

71.

Up is height and down is depth,

And the twain forever do meet.

72. I cannot argue with people who entertain illusory ideas about Islam. Read the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sirah, then argue.

73. Today, it seems, ISKCON is the only Hindu organisation that is doing aggressive missionary work in the world. Hare Krishna!

74. Commend ISKCON for making hundreds of thousands of new Hindus in the world. Do not condemn your own ones. 🕉

75. All Hindu organisations, unite! Do not fruitlessly fight. 🕉

76. Do not let adversaries divide the Hindus to suit their nefarious ends. Hindus, cast aside petty differences and unite for the greater cause!

77. হিন্দু জাগছে | বিভাজনে বিনষ্ট করবেন না এ জাগরণ | সংঘবদ্ধ হোন | 🕉

78. What is the fundamental principle that determines the identity of a Hindu spiritual organisation?

79. Seeking and doubting are the seeds of civilisation.

80. We need the zealous spread of our Dharma. For this we need enthusiasm, joy and sympathy that will ignite, hold and spread the movement. The senses which are running amock and ruining our lives must be checked and channelised into the service of the Lord and made instruments for propagation of the divine message.

India, eternal India, holds the key and must deliver the world out of its manifold maladies by bringing out the treasures that lie in her sacred books and deluging humanity with its life-giving waters. This is the message of our spiritual masters who have trodden this holy land, Punyabhumi Bharatvarsha. This is the inspiration we derive from Swami Vivekananda in more modern times which we must give form and shape to. 🕉

81. Read Vivekananda, think Vivekananda, dream Vivekananda.

82. Character must be such that words issuing from the lips will be irresistibly infectious and will draw minds to higher realms.

83.

Brahman or the Absolute Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the transcendental basis of phenomena, the source of all life and the foundation of the Sanatan Dharma. Here immersed in superconsciousness is the sage of modern times, Swami Vivekananda, about whom it was said that he was 'young in years but ages in civilisation'.

84. I want to die unto eternal life. Death of desire and love of God is the way.

85. What Srila Prabhupada has done in the West is unprecedented. He has implanted Vedic culture in the modern West. Unbelievable!

However, in the name of the spiritual history of Bharatvarsha Srila Prabhupada has preached a lot of gibberish, utterly unhistorical. For instance he says that 5000 years ago Maharaj Parikshit was the emperor of the whole world and he ruled it from Hastinapur which is modern Delhi. This is utter nonsensical stuff bearing no historical corroboration and is patently false. Prabhupada is ignorant of world history.

87. The Sanatan Dharma in its pristine form must be preached in the world without diluting content by inserting superstition.

88. Prabhupāda's fundamental premise of goodness is faith-based and not reason-based which is problematic.

89. The crooked can never realise God.

90. Swamiji remains till date the greatest exponent of the Sanatan Dharma in modern times. No other preacher comes anywhere close to him.

91. Simplicity of living and sublimity of thinking ('simple living, high thinking', as the adage goes) is the way.

92. Love connects people, multiplies force, builds up a movement, integrates society. Love is the manifestation of humanity.

93. Properly punctuated sentences make for a better read. Do end your sentences with a full-stop at least.

94. Carelessness cannot be the progenitor of perfection.

95. Commerce is not spirituality. Spiritual organisations need not run after money the way they do.

96. Go against what Sri Ramakrishna taught and you will go down the slope of spirituality.

97. Fools fail to see through the outer form of God disguised as man. And even fools are gods in the making.

98. Truthfulness is the foundation of character. It eventually leads to the realisation of the Absolute Truth.

99. Srila Prabhupada has made a mockery of the Vedic philosophy, preaching a dualistic creed in an irrational way. He calls the apparel of a person the imperson and likens it to the Impersonal God while calling God the Supreme Person. This is the inversion of the Vedanta. However, it must be said in context that he was explaining in simple terms the abstruse dualistic philosophy of Gaudiya Vaishnavism to a lay audience but it was a stupendous inversion of the Vedanta nonetheless. 

100. In all my life I have read a few books but not found any set that was more comprehensive in its coverage of all the major issues affecting humanity than 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda'. None more uplifting, invigorating and inspiring as well.