MESSAGES GALORE ... 57

MESSAGES GALORE ... 57

1. No religion that opposes Hindu spiritual principles will ever succeed in India. Indians are too rooted in the Vedic culture in all its evolutionary diversity to be converted wholesale to contrarian beliefs that are founded in faith but not founded in reason or spiritual realisation. 

Jai Shree Ram!

Jai Shree Krishna!

Jai Sri Ramakrishna!

2. Thank God the Hindu temples destroyed by Islamic invaders are now being rebuilt one by one. Somnath, now Ram Mandir.

3. Hindus must feel proud of their heritage, their Dharma, their culture and their civilisation. There is nothing to be apologetic and weak in regard to proclaiming our identity as an ancient race with the longest continuing civilisation despite terrible inroads into it historically. The Sanatan Dharma was, is and will forever remain. Proudly proclaim this till the earth reverberates to its thunderous tone. 🕉

4. Conversion is cultural imperialism.

5.

আমি অমর হতে চাইনে ঠাকুর,

আমি তোমাকে চাই,

আমি তোমাকে চাই ||

6. শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের সমগ্র পরিবার বংশানুক্রমে রামভক্ত | স্বয়ং শ্রীরামচন্দ্র শ্রীরামৃষ্ণরূপে আবির্ভূত হলেন সেই পুত পরিবারে যুগধর্মসংস্থাপনের জন্য |

7. 'সত্য কথাই কলির তপস্যা |' --- শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ

আর সেই সত্যব্রত শ্রীরামচন্দ্র, সত্যস্বরূপ শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ |

8. Ustad Rashid Khan is no more. His legacy lives on.

9. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi left behind Ustad Rashid Khan. Now the younger maestro also leaves us. The legacy of the twain lives on. Listen.

10. Shree Ram is our national ideal. He appeared as Sri Ramakrishna in this Age.

11. Religion does not consist in preaching sermons or printing pieces. Religion consists in living lives of boundless love and light.

12. যাঁর কোন ব্যক্তিগত স্বার্থ নেই, সঙ্ঘগত স্বার্থ নেই, তিনিই সাধু | 

13. "I am proud to be a Hindu," said Swami Vivekananda. His works must be studied to counter propaganda against Hinduism.

14. We are as old as we are new.

15. মায়ের চিন্তা করো, মায়ার চিন্তা কোরোনা |

16. The whole of life is an intensification of experience till the universe dissolves into nought.

17. Faith in oneself works wonders.

18. Wonderful news! New Delhi will be seeing the organised chanting of the Sundar Kaand every Tuesday.

19. India is being purified by the constant recollection of Maryaada Purushottam Shree Ram.

20. Western-educated half-baked intellectuals need not advise us, Hindus, as to what is right and what is wrong about our dharmic doings. Hands off! Our civilisational values we will learn from our Sanatan shastras and from our dharmacharyas and not from these cultural converts of the day whose only business is to undermine Hindu interests. That the Shree Ram Temple is coming up at the holy site and not a hospital or a school or a park or a Ram-Rahim temple as had been suggested by some wiseacres is a vindication of the age-old aphorism 'Satyameva jayate naanritaam' (Truth alone triumphs, not falsehood) and is an affirmation that Aryavarta is not dead but making its renascent rise yet again. India shall rise to conquer the world once more with the flood of spirituality, the mission that has been entrusted to her by the overseeing Divine who is the mover of this evolutionary force animating humanity through the dense cover of obstructing Maya.

21. India is nobody's private property, neither is God exclusively a particular individual's.

22. বুদ্ধিমানের কথা শুনিয়ো, বুদ্ধিমানকে কথা শুনিয়ো না |

23. We must propagate the Hindu Dharma on a grand scale. The nation needs it. So does the world.

24. I am a nationalist and am proud to be so. The Sanatan Dharma is in my DNA and I shall propagate it to the best of my ability.

25. ধর্মের বড় সঙ্কীর্ণ সংজ্ঞা দেন কেউ কেউ | ধর্ম নেশাগ্রস্ত করে না মানুষকে, বিষয়নেশা দূর করতে সাহায্য করে |

26. The Hindu renaissance began with the advent of Adi Shankaracharya and culminated in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda-Aurobindo via a galaxy of sages, saints, seers, savants, divine incarnations and defenders of the Dharma in the form of Ramanujacharya, Vallabhacharya, Nimbarkacharya, Madhvacharya, Guru Nanak, Ramananda, Kabir, Tulsidas, Chaitanya, Dadu, Surdas, Ramdas, Meera, Maharana Pratap, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Guru Gobind Singh, Shivaji, Ramprasad, Dayananda Saraswati and a host of others. The renaissance is going on even now with accelerated motion as eternal India rises to her feet, her true spiritual stature, dispelling the darkness of ages of political servitude and religious repression. Jai Shree Ram!

27. Sri Ramakrishna had initiated Narendranath (later Swami Vivekananda) with RAM MANTRA shortly before his Mahasamadhi.

28. I am proud to call myself a Hindu and have ever felt so since the great call came from Swami Vivekananda to all Hindus to serve the Sanatan Dharma. Vivekananda has given us this feeling of pride in our civilisational heritage, himself having once said, "I am proud to be a Hindu." Swamiji's 'Svadesh Mantra' resounds with this message and every Hindu should read it over and over again till it tingles in his/her very veins and courses like the current of the Ganga through the arteries. Then shall we rise as a nation in all our pristine glory and more.

29. What DEV utters is VED, the VED in words being the laterally inverted image of DEV, that is, the DIVINE.

30. The heart fills with joy to see orthodox India manifest the character which westernised Indian pseudosophisticates evidently lack.

31. An action programme by way of mere reaction is not as worthy as an action programme undertaken to achieve progress.

32. Swami Vivekananda had exhorted his countrymen to worship Ma Kali and Hanumanji. He had invoked Shakti to animate India suffering in servitude.

33. Just under five days to go before the grand moment of the installation of Ram Lalla arrives. What a momentous occasion!

34. Ayodhya is wearing a look which makes us reflect as to what it must have been on that momentous first day when Prabhu Ram had appeared on this earth in his divine incarnation. The Indian renaissance is on. 

Jai Shree Ram!

Jai Sri Ramakrishna!

Jai Acharya Shankar!

Jai Swamiji Maharaj!

35. অযোধ্যা আজ নব কলেবর ধারণ করেছে | সনাতন সভ্যতার জয়শঙ্খ দিকে দিকে নিনাদিত |

36. Veer Hanumanji at the lotus feet of Mother Seeta, bringing tidings of Shree Ram and exhorting her to return on his shoulders across the vast ocean to her lord which purity-incarnate Mother Seeta cannot accede to. Shree Ram's devoted servant later sets Raavan's Lanka afire, his elongated mighty tail blazing and reducing sections of the golden city to cinders. Hanumanji is our national ideal, the iconic deity whose worship will fire us unto valorous service for our motherland which shall help resurrect her Sanatan civilisation in right earnest.

37. Those who are patently anti-Hindu are calling the 'Praan Pratishthha' of Ram Lalla on 22 January a political stunt, a ceremony of no consequence for the nation, a wastage of public funds et al. May Prabhu Shree Ram enlighten them as to its true civilisational significance!

38. A scattered mind can do nothing substantial but an eternally concentrated mind can work wonders. The whole of cosmic manifestation is the handiwork of divine concentration. Hence, for national progress to obtain, national concentration has to be built up.

39. A scattered mind can do nothing substantial but an eternally concentrated mind can work wonders. The whole of cosmic manifestation is the handiwork of Divine concentration. Hence, for national progress to obtain, national concentration has to be built up. The Ram Temple at Ayodhya will be such a seat of spiritual concentration where Ram Lalla Himself will enhance our spiritual progress and guide us through the dark domain of Maya unto the sunlit peaks of freedom and joy.

40. কাশীপুর উদ্যানবাটিতে শেষশয্যায় ঠাকুর শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ তাঁর প্রিয় শিষ্য নরেন্দ্রনাথকে 'রাম মন্ত্রে' দীক্ষিত করেন | দীক্ষান্তে সারা রাত নরেন্দ্রনাথ উচ্চ ভাবাবস্থায় স্থিত হয়ে 'রাম', 'রাম' হুঙ্কারে উদ্যানবাটি আলোড়িত করেন | তাঁর উচ্চরব শুনে ঠাকুর তাঁকে ডেকে পাঠান তাঁর কাছে | নরেন্দ্র কাছে এলে ঠাকুর তাঁকে বলেন, "ওরে, তুই এক রাতে যা করছিস, এমনভাবে বারো বছর আমার কেটেছে | ... তোদের অত করতে হবে না রে | ... আমি ষোল টাং করলাম, তোরা এক টাং কর | ... তোরা শুধু দাগা বুলিয়ে যা |"

41. It is a civilisational recovery that we are witnessing in the rise of the Ram Mandir. 496 years have elapsed since the destruction of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir by Babur's forces. The Mughal ruler's iconoclasm has been finally totally defeated. Sanatan Bharatvarsha rises yet again to assert her spiritual civilisational values.

42. Political photoshoots are most unwelcome. They bespeak of self-involvement and not unselfish service to the nation.

43. Personality cult is not good for democracy. And yet it is the regional and national reality. Most unfortunate!

44. Westernisation indigenised is polluting our age-old national culture. Urban culture has been part-destroyed, mainly by the mass infiltration of cinematic and advertising influence. It is upto us to preserve our classical religious rural culture. Keep the village green and Bharatvarsha will be seen in her true light for ages to come.

45. Those who temper truth by calculated compromise are living in falsehood and cannot be deemed spiritual despite the tallest of ritualistic or scriptural pretensions. They are in essence quasi or pure political workers. Spirituality is founded on undiluted truth as Swami Vivekananda was established in. There's a lesson in his luminous life for pretenders to spirituality to learn from.

46. Singapore minister Iswaran's resignation at all levels on corruption charge should serve as a wake-up call for what should be the moral code for ministers here as well. After all we are supposedly the Vishwa Guru who should set up the global standard of public morality. But for the while let us follow the Singapore standard and raise our public moral code. That should do us a world of good. We may then talk of teaching the world morality, spirituality etc.

47. Never in my life have I witnessed such a nationwide excitement as today I see it happening centring the formal installation of Shree Ram Lalla on 22 January at the Ram Mandir, Ayodhya. Unbelievable national energy flowing. Blessed are they who are rejoicing on this momentous occasion. May Shree Ram Lalla bless all with health, happiness and spiritual light!

48. Politics is not rajneeti; principled politics is.

পলিটিক্স রাজনীতি নয়; নীতিগত পলিটিক্সই রাজনীতি |

49. We are all caught in our memory. Our data-bank of thought altered, purified, raised, we shall be free.

50. Politicians are opportunists. They have no morals. They are the worst exploiters of humanity and the biggest beneficiaries of democracy. Trust them not. Read. Study. Learn. Love the motherland and save her from this dreaded depredation.

51. Pity the ones who are unhappy with the rise of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. Myself with a multitude of Sanatanis feel privileged to be alive this day to witness this grand occasion. Jai Shree Ram!

52. The Ram Mandir at Ayodhya in especial is of greatest significance because it is coming up at the holy site of Shree Ram's birth. The place thus has its unique historical importance.

53. স্বামীজী মিতব্যয়ী হতে বলেছেন আমাদের | বিষয়বাহুল্য ভাল নয় | তা আধ্যাত্মিকতার বিপরীত ধর্ম |

54. সরল অনারম্বর জীবন অধ্যাত্মসচেতন মানুষের লক্ষণ | এর অন্যথা হলে তা বিষয়প্রেমীকে চিহ্নিত করে |

55. Just under a day left before Ram Lalla is duly installed at the very site of his birth. What a historic moment!

56. প্রতীক্ষার অবসান অবশেষে | ৪৯৬ বছর পর আগামীকাল রামলালা পুনঃপ্রতিষ্ঠিত হতে চলেছেন অযোধ্যায় তাঁর পুণ্য জন্মস্থানে | কত অত্যাচার, অবিচার সয়ে এই মাহেন্দ্রক্ষণের সন্নিকটে আজ আমরা সমুপস্থিত | বর্বর আক্রমণ, ধ্বংস, আইনি বিবাদ, বীরগতিপ্রাপ্তি---এই সমস্ত পার হয়ে এসে আজ আনন্দলগ্নের সমীপে উপস্থিত বিরাট সনাতন সমাজ |

প্রাণপ্রতিষ্ঠা রামলালার আনুষ্ঠানিক আর প্রাণপ্রতিষ্ঠা হিন্দুসমাজের আভ্যন্তরীণ |

ঐক্যই শক্তি | রামলালা দিব্যশিশু | তাঁর নির্মল প্রেমাকর্ষণে আমরা পবিত্র হব, ঐক্যবদ্ধ হব স্বদেশকল্যাণসংসাধনে | জয় শ্রীরাম !

57. Pretence people can see through. Hence, sincerity is best when in public communication. And it comes from honesty and simplicity.

58. Earlier we were nationalists. Now in this biting cold we are hibernationalists.

59. Ayodhya is really developed.

60. সরলভাবে হাসতে পারা চাই | কপট গাম্ভীর্য না যথার্থ ব্যক্তিত্বের না আধ্যাত্মিকতার পরিচায়ক |

61. Some hurricane musicians by creating musical chaos are soiling the sanctity of the ceremony.

62. A moment of seminal significance. A historic moment of unimaginable consequence to world civilisation. Jai Ram Lalla!

63. What a sublime speech by Shree Narendra Modiji! Inspired oration spontaneously flowing from the inner recesses of the Spirit. Jai Shree Ram Lalla!

64. All Hindus must every year celebrate 22 January as NAVADEEPAVALI.

65.

'Hare Ram Hare Ram Hare Ram Hare,

Bhaja mana nisidini pyare.'

--Ram bhajan sung by Vishnu Digambar Paluskar before consciously casting off his mortal coil while in the singing mode.

66. Despite so much antagonism by opponents of the Pran Pratishthha, the holy ceremony was a resounding success. Ram Lalla's grace has been showered on the entire proceedings as India's civilisational resurgence begins afresh from Ayodhya with renewed vigour. A spiritual flood has arisen on the banks of the Sarayu and at no distant date will inundate the world with its celestial current.

67. In this highly charged atmosphere of our civilisational resurgence let us as of yore strive for excellence in the arts and not settle for second-rate performances everywhere. Musicians must not perform in public if they are not capable of holding their 'sur' or modulations to perfection. Dishing out anything by way of semiclassical or popular music is not by any stretch of imagination service to the audience.

68. I have been dubbed a campaigner of the Sanatan Dharma by my caustic critics and I feel honoured by it. Jai Shree Ram!

69. Hindus must forget sectarian and caste differences and unite. In unity is strength and that will build the nation. Say like Swamiji, "I am proud to be Hindu." We are all one.

70. The family deity of Sri Ramakrishna was Raghuveer. And Sri Ramakrishna himself was Shree Ramchandra in his latest earthly incarnation. So, the Ram Temple at Ayodhya is also the temple of Sri Ramakrishna as the apparently two divine personalities are essentially one and the same divine being, the Poorna Brahma Sanatana.

71. যাঁরা মনু সংহিতা, রামচরিতমানসাদির প্রতি কটুক্তি করে থাকেন, তাঁরা কি গ্রন্থগুলি আদ্যান্ত শ্রদ্ধাসহকারে পাঠ করেছেন? তাঁরা নিজেদের চরিত্রচিত্র দর্পনে অবলোকন করুন আগে, তারপর মহাগ্রন্থাদীর সম্বন্ধে মন্তব্য করবেন | 'স্বামি বিবেকানন্দের বাণী ও রচনা' পড়ুন ভালভাবে | সব উত্তর পাবেন | সংশয় দূরীভূত হবে | তবে চরিত্রগঠন হওয়া চাই আগে | নচেৎ 'অল্পবিদ্যা ভয়ঙ্করী'---এই প্রবাদবাক্যের পরিচায়ক হবেন যে |

72. Buddhadev Bhattacharya was a very civilised Chief Minister of West Bengal. He is a thorough gentleman, decent and cultured.

73. আহারশুদ্ধির প্রয়োজন আছে | নইলে সংশয়বাদ, নাস্তিকতা, শ্রদ্ধাহীনতা বাড়ে | ত্রিদুষ্ট আহার পরিহার করে দেবপ্রসাদ গ্রহণে নাড়ীশুদ্ধি, চিত্তশুদ্ধি হয় ও শাস্ত্র, দেবদেবী, ঈশ্বর, মহাপুরুষাদিতে ভক্তিশ্রদ্ধা উৎপন্ন হয় |

74. Simplicity is the hallmark of greatness, simplicity of attire, attitude, aspiration.

75. In pre-independence days politics was principled. Now it is generally for personal gain and shamelessly so.

76. Politics today is conviction as per convenience.

77. We have to raise the bar of national spiritual culture by including Sanskrit education as essential part of it.

78. India is 5th in GDP in the world and 1st in population. Tough combination. We advertise the former. The latter advertises itself.

79. Leaders like flatterers who boost their ego. But the critic who deflates it is often their best friend.

80. I think a leader must follow the time-tested principle of 'simple living and high thinking'.

81. Pretence of simplicity is not simplicity. It shows itself in attitude, aspiration, words and actions.

82. Happy Republic Day! This is the day (26.01.1950) India annulled her dominion status and became a sovereign democratic republic.

83. If lying is a part of religion, it is not a religion but a political movement wearing the facade of religion. Truthfulness is incumbent upon genuine religion whose foundational principle is peaceful uplifting of people and not violent suppression, transformation of character from the demonic to the divine and not subversion of character and culture by clever or coercive conversion of faith.

84. Two words which are frequently mispronounced by TV news readers: SOVEREIGNTY as SOVREIGNITY and PUBLICLY as PUBLICALLY.

85. Today is Republic Day. In a republic is it right to promote personality cult of political leaders so much?

86. Dynastic politics is bad for a republic. But promotion of personality cult is equally bad. Principle and not personality please.

87. On this Republic Day let us pledge to renounce the worship of unprincipled politicians. Only the selfless ones deserve our veneration.

88. Shree Ram did not promote himself. That was his greatness. Self-effacement was his hallmark.

89. When will the INA War Memorial be built on the Kartavya Path? Are 26,000 martyrs to the motherland's freedom to sink into oblivion? Do their sacrifices matter so little as to merit such a prolonged neglect which shall end heaven knows when?

90. India on the rise like never before since independence.

91. Streeshakti at its best today at the Republic Day Parade.

92. From the Republic Day Parade it does not seem that we need our Bharat to be knitted together as it already seems whole enough.

93. What a humbling experience the Republic Day spectacle is! What richness of culture! What a fabulous diversity of such excellence! If this does not move our politicians to mend themselves and serve the nation better, they are pitiable indeed! India, holy India, is the repository of an unbelievable range of cultural tradition.

94. What a grand feminine participation in the Republic Day Parade! Netaji had done it decades ago. How proud he would have been today! Literally a huge feminine presence at the Republic Day spectacle today that has enlivened proceedings like never before.

95. It is best not to get dated. Charaiveti! Charaiveti!

96. মানুৃষের কষ্টে ভগবানের কষ্ট হয় | কারণ ভগবানই চারিদিকে মানুষরূপে বিদ্যমান |

-- প্রহ্লাদ সম্পর্কিত শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ কথিত অমৃতবাণী দ্বারা অনুপ্রাণিত উক্ত বাক্যটি যা পুনর্বিন্যাসে সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose) দ্বারা নবকলেবরে পরিবেশিত | অর্থাৎ, পাঠক যেন উক্তিটিকে শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের মূল উক্তিরূপে ভুল না করেন | এটি সুগত বসুর রচনা রামকৃষ্ণভাবানুসারে |

97. India's rising population is somewhat undoing India's undoubted progress. Our prestige today is highest of all time in the world.

98. Some people just cannot bear any post that bears praise of the rise of India as a world power. They must criticise at any cost. Why?

99. Patriotism would merit feeling a sense of pride in India's resurgence as a civilisational entity of momentous consequence.

100. Truthfulness must always adorn a political leader despite political exigencies that may tempt him/her to act otherwise.