COMMENTS GALORE ... 34

COMMENTS GALORE ... 34

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : It will when the world will be a thinking one. In much the same way humanity had to wade through irrationality and superstition to universally accept science in its lowest technological denomination at least. It is strange to see that you are against the rise of the spiritual consciousness of the world which is what Hinduism is all about and so often quote Vidyasagar to denounce the Vedanta. One recalls Sri Ramakrishna that Vidysagar was unaware of his inner self where gold was hidden and was, thus, busy working so much in the outer world. Had he been aware of this inner treasure, his outer welfare work, noble though it was, would have reduced. Vidyasagar was a Sanskrit scholar no doubt but, being a spiritually unrealised soul, was in no position to deliver judgement on the veracity of the Vedanta. Sages like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Ramakrishna and Shankaracharya are authorities in this field and not the Pundit. There is a gulf of difference between the understanding of a realised soul and a mere scholar in so far as spiritual truths are concerned. Hence. Moreover, it is curious to find Hindus, especially braahmans, batting against Hinduism quite so often. Such self-betrayal obviously harms the Hindu cause and the sooner we secure solidarity within our ranks, the more secure will be our future. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Vidya K : Swamiji meant the same. In his judgement Vedanta or the Vedic Dharma was the more appropriate name for Hinduism, but elsewhere he has copiously referred to our Dharma as Hinduism and rarely as the Sanatan Dharma as is the wont these days, and rightly so. Swamiji disliked the Hindu propensity of securing petty 'word victory' and stressed on realising the essence of a statement made. His famous paper read out on 19 September, 1893 at the Chicago Parliament of Religions was titled 'Paper on Hinduism'. He had elsewhere said, "I am proud to be a Hindu." Swamiji most often used the terms 'Hindu' and 'Hinduism' and never called himself a 'Sanatani' as is the wont these days. So, these differences of terminology are of not much consequence so long as the meaning is clear. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Zsuzsi Puruczki : You are more of a Hindu than most Hindus are, especially those who are intent on harming the Hindu cause as it rises worldwide in a renascent mode. Your conviction has brought you across cultural and religious barriers to the Sanatan fold and your belonging there is thus built on the secure foundation of experience and understanding which none can take away. Those who are born within the braahman fold and choose to betray the Hindu cause, as is so often unfailingly evident, have scant understanding of spirituality, materially and sensually inclined as they are. You see, rationality has its intermediate pitfalls and they fall into these, the vanity of little learning predisposing them towards such a precipitation. 'Shraddhaa', an untranslatable Sanskrit word, roughly translatable as deepest reverence born out of deep yearning and aspiration for realisation of the highest spiritual truth, has gripped some of those who cross cultures to embrace Hinduism, whereas this very shradhaa has departed from the souls of those Hindus who in their delusion of secularism and humanism et al denounce Hinduism as so much regressive religious stuff. I welcome you wholeheartedly to the Hindu 🕉 fold and offer you my brotherly love and warmest greetings. Jai Ramakrishna!

Sugata Bose @Shyamacharan Pandey : True, deprivation from the side of the converted but corruption from the side of the proselytiser.

Sugata Bose @News Nation (YouTube) : Adam Seeker is brilliant, focussed and irrepressible.

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Vidyasagar, noble and scholarly as he was, was not a Brahmajnani qualified to vouch the veracity of the Vedanta or otherwise. Simple as that. Read Ramakrishna-Vivekananda thoroughly to arrive at a better understanding. Without transcendental realisation no scholar can comprehend the profundity of the Vedanta. Simply impossible. Hence, it is puerile to posit such a proposition or to deem such a scholar as having had the capacity to understand the truth of the Atman which is beyond the domain of intellectual cogitation. Vidyasagar is venerable but not invulnerable in his supposedly puerile pronouncement to the effect to which you so eloquently testify.

Sugata Bose @John Embrey : Hindus must be aggressive in self-defence. Else, they will wiped out of existence in the future as they have been for the last 1300 years.

Sugata Bose @Suvasish Ganguly : That was an expected reply from you considering your past pronouncements in the comment section of my earlier posts, although, what the exact connotation of such a usage would be remains to be revealed.

Sugata Bose @Sumit Baran Basu : Thanks for your sincere appreciation, solidarity in stance and encouragement provided me to carry on with the task of raising our Hindu consciousness. My gratitude in especial to you for recognising the neutrality of my position which none else thus far has had the civility to do. I am rather forthright in my assertions and often impatient in my criticisms but am never partisan or politically motivated in my activism. My only goal is to raise human consciousness through my felicity with the keypad, feeble though it may be in terms of quickening the fire of a slumbering mass of people who would prefer to dive deeper into the icy chill of death in an avalanche rather than seek deliverance while hour there is yet at hand. Thank you once again. May Thakur-Ma-Swamiji preserve you and yours! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Suvasish Ganguly : Speaking sincerely is one and making quick money is another. Haven't you read, 'Note the Devil doth cite the scripture for his purpose?' Does it falsify scripture? It merely exposes intent perceivable by the discerning eye. Work for Bharatvarsha. Contribute your ploughshare of work to make her great. Mere sarcasm is sterile. What we need is fertile ideas, effective execution, sincerity of feeling for the motherland and her hoary heritage, and aspiration for her future glory. 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed is an enlightened individual who speaks the straight truth in a civilised way.

Sugata Bose @Arghyaprana Mataji : And the seed of downfall for a civilisation on the verge of being wiped out in the immediate or the not so far off future. Herein lies perspective, context and the relativity of values applicable to microcosmic and macrocosmic situations. What is food for one is so often poison for another. Thus, democracy in deliberation, dialogue and discourse directs the national ship towards the desired destiny. The problem has ever been this tangling relation of the individual and the collective. The ideal in sublime spiritual terms is one and the practical in terms of mundane reality another, the duo much at mutual variance. The ascetic in his reclusive hermitage broods on transcendental reality in one way while the current of common life flows in grosser brutal terms in quite another manner. The balance between the ideal and the practical is ever to be sought and realised for maximum benefit to all and sundry, divorced from which fate deals a race or a nation the hard blow from which it scarce recovers and perishes more often than not, leaving not a trace behind but hieroglyphics that are difficult to decipher. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debesh Choudhury : 'DAHEJ' and 'JEHAD' are laterally inverted words seen in a plane mirror.

Yes. Except for the letter J which is slightly asymmetrical. But you are innocent of the significance, the inner meaning of the post. Go and reset your inner mirror of reflection before posting such anomalous reaction to a writing.

Sugata Bose @Deep Mukherjee : I have not found anybody till date quite fathoming the import of what I write. And this is my submission in all humility and truthfulness. Hope none finds this offensive.

There are layers of meaning and significance in my words, nuances which pass common, even uncommon, comprehension, for reading these days has been reduced to cursory glancing, surface focussing of attention that can scarce read into the import of a post unless the post be a puerile one for everybody's easy understanding which in essence is such a pity.

These are days of demographic transition with its consequential decadence of culture in every aspect of civic life. We are a vanishing breed of writers in the public domain, an endangered species who are now marooned on an isolated island that is soon to be swallowed up by the tsunami of pervasive common culture without depth or breadth of vision. These are the dying embers of a rich aristocratic literary tradition in flames now from the ignition of coarser mental stuff. I speak not for myself as such but on behalf of all those seminal giants who have given us the best of thought in bygone millenia but whose fruits we failed to absorb and assimilate adequately so as to equip ourselves to avert the fate that now awaits us. But such are the cultural consequences of demographic transition for the worse which needs must be the case in this day and age of mass literacy and the proliferation of 'little learning'. Pardon me if I sound self-aggrandising, but if I do, then I will have proved my own poverty of culture which would be self-defeating and defeating of the cause I here represent. These are not individual matters but mass changes that are eroding erstwhile refinement of thinking and expression, understanding and appreciation.

May Mother bless all with wisdom, grace and the capacity for patient study of serious literature and reflection thereof! Then alone will culture take off on its upward swing. Right now, though, it is a precipitous course gravitating downwards till the asymptote sends culture coursing upwards. Population worldwide must diminish for it to eventually take place. Till then, till kingdom come!

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : I personally am not much of a believer in rituals. I have no idea whether these rituals have any spiritual value beyond binding society through certain norms and practices. Someone better equipped with scriptural knowledge may answer your question to your satisfaction perhaps.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : No. Religions are diverse paths through greater or lesser error that ultimately lead to the Transcendental Truth which is the Absolute Reality.

Sugata Bose @Amara Iftikhar : Brave girl. Honest person, sincere to a fault in a country gone wrong since inception and going down each day along the rigidities of theological absurdity in a modern world that has embraced multiculturalism as its credo. Pakistan ought to review its theological stance, withdraw power from the clerics, democratise the political system, free the three organs of government from army control, educate the masses, free women from masculine stranglehold and improve relations with India. Overall, a modern approach must be adopted in order to save it from imminent disintegration. Corruption is eating into the vitals of this nation which needs immediate sanitisation. Islamic indoctrination to such an excessive degree even in the academic course is proving toxic for the nation. Separate the state from religion which seems impossible unless an overhauling of some basic features of the Constitution is done. But only such a radical change can firmly establish democracy and help empower the people for the future progress of Pakistan.

Sugata Bose @YouTube (Arvind Saharan) : Amara Iftikhar is a highly sensitive and compassionate soul living in a country totally antithetical to such values. Brave girl battling against seemingly insurmountable odds. My best wishes and moral support for her humanistic crusade against religious regression degenerated to the near-destruction of a nation.

Sugata Bose @Khalid Umar : Thought ghosts were spirits gone wrong but spirits nonetheless. Spirit has no mass and hence no weight. Hence, the weight gain cannot be attributed to direct addition from the ghost. The ghost then must be inducing a secondary effect on the body by increasing appetite which causes the weight gain in which case injection of ghost should be healthy prescription from the doctor (Zakir Naik) for anorexic patients tending to die and becoming ghosts owing to lack of nourishment. This medical man is a marvel of sorts, a mischievous missionary with malefic intent, eminently loved by the lunatics of the world and laughed at by the lords of ghosts. Sufficient unto the night is the ghost thereof!

Sugata Bose @Khalid Umar : Rishi Sunak is such a good person. His very face is expressive of his sincerity, of his simplicity, his humility and his flexible strength. He is a wonderful blend of modernity and tradition, of rootedness and progressive instincts, overall a fine spimen of our age-old Sanatan culture despite his birth and habitat in a country far removed from his ancestral one. Sunak's open averment of pride in his being a Hindu warms our hearts and is a great step ahead in the forging of harmonious relations between Britain and India as also furthering the cause of the spread of Sanatan culture across the world, for Britain is not an inconsiderable power even today and her Prime Minister no mean representative of the dominant western culture where Hinduism now is making its marked headway.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Poor Maulana! Hopping and dancing and beating about the bush to defend the indefensible. A thinking brain engaged in the futile exercise of propping up a collapsing sandcastle.

Sugata Bose @Goutam Ghosh : Dwivedi, that's why. Once she is Chaturvedi, she'll trace her roots alright.

Sugata Bose @Shyamacharan Pandey : Not possible as it is a printed version. Moreover, Swamiji did move from Calcutta to Chicago as he had set out on his wanderjahre from his hometown. So, the post is alright after all. In many a writing we may come across such technical flaws, so to say, which we must overlook and take to the thematic intent. The spherical core matter more than the undulating crust.

Sugata Bose @Amarnath Ghosh : A moment of momentous significance for the modern world, a point of convergence of cultures, a historic meeting point of civilisations across clime and time, overall a point of fulfilment of the best elements of the past in the just-born present en route to the glorious future of humanity lying dormant in the pregnant womb of time.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Amara Iftikhar] : You have a wonderful humanistic balance. Quite extraordinary in the circumstances that you are.

Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : You mean this time I.N.D.I.A. will be split into 13 parts?

Aha! That's what I meant with full stops intervening between the elemental letters of the word I.N.D.I.A. signifying the prospective segmentation of it in its original connotation which unhappily is the country. 

Sugata Bose @Ramen Chatterjee : ধর্মের অপমান সহ্য করে, শুধু তাই নয়, হিন্দু পারলেই নিজের জাত ও ধর্মকে অপমান করে | আর এই প্রবণতাটা উচ্চবর্ণ উচ্চশিক্ষিত বাঙালী হিন্দুর মধ্যেই সবচেয়ে বেশী পরিলক্ষিত | বামপন্থা ও বামাচারের বিকৃতি !

Sugata Bose @Shusobhan Charit : Pertinent question. I am ignorant about the genesis of this dietary divergence between the Bengalis and a large section of the Noth Indian Hindus. It is indeed baffling how co-religionists have widely differing diet with contrary claims of the same religion attempting to justify their respective dietary positions. Geography, history and local demographic composition have, I guess, to play a pivotal role in defining diet. But this is my uneducated surmise, not data-based investigative inference.

Sugata Bose @Geeta Sridhar : I am talking about the tears of Swami Abhedananda for Thakur's grace on him, that is, for his unbounded love for his disciple. But no tears were shed apparently, at least from the quotation, for the hundreds drowned. I am shedding tears for those other ones as well who being myself in other forms having drowned, I myself drowned in agony with them. 🕉