COMMENTS GALORE ... 44

COMMENTS GALORE ... 44

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Ghosh : No, we should appease, appease and appease more till we are no more.

Sugata Bose @Prabir Bhattacharya : And what about those that were destroyed by Islamic invaders. When will you become Sanatanis and give up this anti-Hindu stance?

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Tufail Chaturvedi] : What a contrast between the two voices, one of meekness and the other of valour, one of soft-citing instances and the other of bold assertion of truths!

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Tufail Chaturvedi] : Masculine personality necessary, vigorous voice sending out strong messages rather than meek recitation of poetry and shayari.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Tufail Chaturvedi] : To call Shree Ramchandraji Imam-e-Hind is an insult to His divinity. Hindus must not be fooled into acceptance of such a derogatory title conferred on their worshipped One by people who in truth reject Him as God, neither do they in truth believe in any such elevated status that they confer on Him beyond what political expediency impels them to do as is their wont. Hindus are not in need of any such patronising remark made on their Supreme Lord nor ought they to allow such references to be made about their Maryada Purushottam who stands in His divinity towering about all such human personalities as Imams and the like. Would these ascribers of title do so with their beloved Lord? Then how do they have the temerity to do so with the highest ideal of the Personal God that Hindus so cherish as their hearts' prized possession? 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Tufail Chaturvedi] : This is because other than rare personalities like Yati Narsinghanandji Maharaj most Hindu preachers and propagators are too selfish, money-minded and otherwise timid to be able to do any real good for the Hindus. About Hindu politicians the less said the better. 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Tufail Chaturvedi] : You talk of 'paurush' (manhood/manliness). Well, hankering for money is the first thing that robs one of manhood. The next is lust. If these lowly cravings are eschewed, the said 'paurush' will overtime manifest in many. This craving for commerce even on YouTube channel must be eliminated if in all sincerity the trust of the people is to be won. Otherwise, not only will character be weakened but mass mobilisation will be impeded on account of a perceived lack of credibility in terms of character attributes on the part of the propagator.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Manushi India] : If you are shocked by it, how can you smile at it? Be serious. Your smile proves your insincerity. Now do not say it is reverse psychology playing in you that impels you to smile at your own misfortune. 

Sugata Bose @Somnath Bandoapdhayay : What is so laughable about this post?

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Manushi India] : It is best that you do not advise Yati Narsinghanandji in a supercilious tone when you are nowhere near as valorous as he. His is the lone voice that intrepid trumpets the truth about this dastardly state of things.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Manushi India] : It is best that you do not advise Yati Narsinghanandji. You have not even a tiny fraction of the courage that Yatiji has. Your very tone is vain and your attitude supercilious but it did not work well with this warrior of the Spirit unfortunately for you and happily for us.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [MH One News] : Adi Shankaracharya was born in 788 CE, that is, 1236 years ago and not 2500 years ago as is so often wrongly stated. Kindly read history well.

Sugata Bose @Purbali Datta : It is no more a Hindu Rashtra. By Constitutional declaration it is a secular state now.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : I appreciate your bold, active, patriotic participation with full adherence to Sanatan values. May your name find fulfilment in the blessings of the dual divinity they comprise! Kindly read Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup (Voice of India Publications).

Sugata Bose @Subhadip Bhattacharya : Greater than that (internationally acclaimed writers). They were patriots perennial, not conspiring communists.

Sugata Bose @Umesh Magotra : Feverish observation.

Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : Personal questions are not entertained here.

Sugata Bose @Tapan Mukherjee : This is the order of the day in West Bengal, the most violent state in India, which is borne out by the number of fatalities that occur pre, post and during election time. This is not an isolated case but is in line with a continuous spate of violence that rages today hither, tomorrow thither, like a never-ending series that has now come to typify our province. Gone are the days when revolutionary struggle and enlightened thinking characterised Bengal. Now a roguish culture and degeneracy has become its apparel, hiding the soul of sublime Bengal far beneath. Unless a resurrection of Sanatan culture along the lines Swamiji had set before us happens, the days ahead are dark indeed with demographic change altering the cultural landscape progressively for the worse.

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : We must propagate the thought and writings of Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup by plentifully buying their books from VOICE OF INDIA PUBLICATIONS and presenting them to like-minded people. We must encourage our friends to do so as well. We must massively support this wonderful publishing house whose mission is the resurrection of our Sanatan civilisation, pure and pristine, unadulterated by invasive contamination. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Nilanjan Chakraborty : কুম্ভকর্ণের অনেক গুণ---শৌর্য, বীর্য, যুদ্ধকুশলতা ইত্যাদি | বাংলার 'বুদ্ধিজীবি' এ সব বিবর্জিত বিনষ্টবুদ্ধি কাপুরুষ | তাকে 'বুদ্ধিজীবি' আক্ষা দেওয়া বিজ্ঞানময় কোষে স্থিত মানুষকে অপমান করার সামিল |

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : True independence is of the soul and the mind in its higher faculties. The body is necessarily interdependent in a society functioning on the basis of division of labour and mutual help. But such interdependence must not call for slavery to any. A courageous soul, a man of character will be able to maintain independence of spirit even while operating within the confines of law and social restraints which is what the Geeta teaches in principle. Action flows thereof.

Sugata Bose @Khalid Umar : Solid reply. This is what they deserve, a right rebuttal head on.

Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Kolkata has never been safe. Remember the dark day of August 16, 1946, the dastardly day of the Great Calcutta Killing?

Sugata Bose @Indrakamal Majumdar : The post was not a joke on the great Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup as to merit such a derisive response.

Sugata Bose @Neeraj Atriji, you are no match for Yati Narsinghanandji.

Sugata Bose @Swami Nikhileswarananda : Maharaj, deliver thundering speeches and awaken sleeping India. Swami Satyarupananda is no more that one can look forward to hearing his volcanic addresses. Now it is upto you to fill up the gap, you who have been so blessed by the seminal sage of dewy remembrance.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [APN NEWS] : The anchor is typically an apologist for anti-Hindu forces. Shame!

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Ghosh : Law fails in a revolutionary situation.

Sugata Bose @Jhumur Kundu : Leadership ought not to degenerate into becoming a personality cult.

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Ghosh : Of course. Offensive personal comments are unwholesome, hence, wholly unwelcome.

Sugata Bose @Abhishikta Anuska Mukherjee : Nowadays, there is not a monk who can thunder like Swami Satyarupananda of sage-like sustenance.

Sugata Bose @Alan Larus : No, the piece has been written by me but the idea of the conservative mind and its movement along previously cut grooves, channels etc. are all his. The passage is not a replication of his as it has inputs by me as well in the light of my own experiences and realisations, and has also been composed in my own literary style. There are large intersections, though, of his thoughts and mine as I have been an ardent devotee of his with profound impressions on my very soul of his soul-stirring ideas.

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Ghosh : Late maturing to nationalistic impulse to freedom in Gandhi as opposed to childhood aspirations and actions thereof in Khudiram, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Bhagat Singh and the like as also youthful revolutionary vigour manifested in the rest who were laid to rest fighting for the motherland's freedom in the blossom of their youth. Sukhdev, Rajguru, Basanta Biswas, Rajendranath Lahiri, Chandrasekhar Azad and a host of others stand testimony to the assertion made.

P.S. The passage of the post is unambiguous about its import and, yet, you needlessly raise a query. Brood deeper before involving me in answering your questions. Your clarified consciousness will lead you to the answers and you will need no external clarification as in this case.

Sugata Bose @Ranjan Mitra : Because good people are simple and weak, and a deal cowardly in the face of evil.

Sugata Bose @Tulu Biswas : মা স্বয়ং আক্রান্তা | মা অপেক্ষায় আছেন এবার তাঁর বীর সন্তানেরা তাঁকে রক্ষা করবেন | বহুরূপে ধর্ষিতা যে মায়েরা, তাঁরাও মহামায়ার প্রতিরূপ |

Sugata Bose @Sunanda Kar [Twitter] : But, Sunanda, I hope you are not under the terrible misapprehension that I am the Harvard historian Sugata Bose as so many others over the years have unfortunately misidentified me with. I am quite another Sugata Bose of much humbler attainments that usually do not merit much worldly appreciation. However, I can be but myself and no one else and am proud to be so. I am not connected by blood-bond to Netaji's extended family, although, like so many others I am love-bound to the hero of premier, nay, peerless patriotism. If, however, you yet do feel happy to have received an earnest compliment from another of your kind -- I mean a writer -- who was moved to such explicit appreciation of your considerable powers in articulate self-expression, I shall deem my exercise to have not been in vain, rather, will deem it to have been extended to the right recipient of such sincere accolade showered. There are many who write but not too many do I come across who can power their way through to the reader's mind with words charged with conviction and clarity, they stemming out of a character forged in steel that minces not matters when it gives vent to its feelings, and thus have I ventured at long last to pen my thoughts on the profundity of your being and expression thereof. May God bless you, my child, and shower on you gifts such as He has already done which must be best put to use in the service of humanity and the resident God within.

Sugata Bose @Saibal Mohinta : I am my own authority. Who are you, by the way, to question me? Your opinion may differ from mine but that does not give you the privilege of being peremptory in addressing me. I thoroughly denounce your tone of talk. Civility of social address would deem exhibition of better courtesy. When one makes a post, one expresses one's own convictions and does not feel petrified to do so, that is, if one has character and courage of conviction. Keep your own counsel henceforth. May Swamiji bless you!

Sugata Bose @Saibal Mohinta : This is my page, not your parlour. Hence, my realisations, convictions, even considered opinions I shall voice here, if even to your slanted vision or dislike thereof. Thank you.

Sugata Bose @Girish Gaur : That would be carrying things a bit too far. Blocking, to my mind, is a proportionate response. Sri Ramakrishna has asked us, by way of self-protection against social adversaries who are intent on harming, to 'hiss but not to bite.'

Sugata Bose @Amyt Dass : Which is why Gandhi got prominence. Had Aurobindo Ghosh continued along the revolutionary line, the whole history of the subcontinent would have changed and with it the history of the world.

Gandhi emasculated India in his absence, post the demise of Tilak. Aurobindo's intellect would have outshone Gandhi's and, hypothetically speaking, made the Indian revolution traverse a different track altogether. However, two questions remain. First, was Aurobindo Ghosh truly cut out to be a revolutionary? If so, he would not have quit politics. If not, he would have failed had he persisted further in this dangerous terrain where the hangman's noose and the black waters of the Andamans martyred many a revolutionary and reduced the rest to 'skeletons of the past' in the confines of the Cellular Jail.

Was Aurobindo Ghosh rather cut out to be a poet, an author, a philosopher and a sage? If so, he had opted for the wrong career in the first place and corrected course in captivity in the Alipore Jail. 

Either way it seems Aurobindo was not innately a revolutionary and was more a contemplative who in effect fulfilled a vaster destiny of his self and of the motherland by laying the foundations of the Sanatan civilisational revival in modern times, however fantastic his Supramental claims may seem. Leaving aside that as well, Sri Aurobindo has through his voluminous writings relocated the Vedas in the modern mind, especially in the English-speaking West as his writings are nearly all in the English language and exquisitely so at that. This civilisational task was entrusted him by his higher conscience in the Alipore Jail and careered him onto the reflective life, 'the life divine'.

Indian history in the last century has been tortuous and calamitous with lots of 'ifs' and 'buts' dotting its meandering course. Who knows what would have happened if Aurobindo Ghosh remained in the direct political struggle for freedom? One may only contemplate the probabilities and the possibilities, and may conjecture thereof, but one can never be quite sure as to what might have chanced had things turned out another way. These are deliberations which are pertinent but perplexing, considering the complex historical processes that have shaped the geopolitics of the 20th century. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sushanta Roy Chowdhury : Contrary views are welcome in a civil discourse but not insulting remarks which are plainly offensive to one's self-respect. Such negative people need not be gathered to one's side by intellectual influence as 'rotten apples' can never be freshened to ripeness but can help rot other 'goodly apples' as well. In summation, the precondition to dialogue and discussion is civility of bearing which violated makes communication an unpleasant affair. At any rate, a supercilious tone and peremptory remarks are unwholesome and, hence, unwelcome. 'Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.'

Sugata Bose @Subhas Roy : Absolutely right you are. I wanted to impress upon readers an idea in a particular way. As it is, I do not consider Gandhi as a proper patriot, revolutionary or even a man of ethical excellence, given his track record in the different dimensions of his life.

Sugata Bose @Krishna Mondal : Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Forget about my adulation. Read Swamiji's estimation of Shivaji. Read 'Shivaji the Great'.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [chennai itmilan] : Sai Deepak has Swamiji animating him it seems. He has surely been blessed by Ma Sarada whose photograph dons the wall of his room.

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Gandhi during his lifetime fell woefully short in terms of ethical excellence to begin with, a fact that was bluntly brought to the fore by Bhimrao Ambedkar in his BBC interview. His ideas were unrealistic, impractical, even philosophically flawed and his text-torturing of the Bhagavad Geeta was astounding. His appeasement of the Muslims, his crude compromises to suit convenience and his dictatorial attitude, all go against the status of Mahatma conferred on him which he certainly was not. Gandhi's brahmacharya experiments place him on a peerless pedestal in terms of perverted piety and pretentious purity. How can such a person of unfulfilled predictions, failed promises, mischievous machinations and callous condemnations be hailed as a hero fit to follow and even model one's life on?

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : The need for Aurangzeb and other Muslim rulers to destroy Hindu temples is to be understood in terms of the Islamic scriptural mandates regarding jihad. So, Irfan Habib's queer question to the end of the posted passage is deliberately deflecting off the historical truth. Has Prof. Habib never heard of Islamic iconoclasm?