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Friday, 27 September 2024
Thursday, 26 September 2024
COMMENTS GALORE ... 64
COMMENTS GALORE ... 64
Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Once converted to Islam, such a one is no more Hindu, hence, no more brāhman.
Sugata Bose @Ramakant Tiwari : No. It will last for centuries probably like the other three yugas, for the exhaustion of an age takes time before its fuel runs out and a fresher page of evolution opens up to replace it. The shudras are the multitude and it will take a good deal of time to raise them to a sense of civilisational sanity, to a more refined sense of cultural perception. If brāhmans can fall to shudrahood, is it small wonder that for shudras to rise to brāhmanhood it will take ages? Hence, in a world of slow organic change despite rapid technological change, it will be presumptuous to think that the shudra yug will be so short-lived. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Siddhartha Roy : I do and I will. Please see my profile wall deeper down and keep an eye regularly on my posts, time and occasion permitting. English I am relatively proficient in but, Hindi is not my forte, literally speaking. Hence, my bilingual posts in English and Bengali will continue.
Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Al taqqiah being practised to subvert the Sanatan Dharma structure.
Sugata Bose @Kolkata Literary Meet : The anchor should speak either in English or in Bengali. The unfortunate admixture of the two languages which she has indulged in and that too with erroneous English interspersing her discourse leaves much to be desired in proper discharge of her anchor's role. Proficiency in a language prevents such frequent forays of another tongue in it which is what ought to qualify in the first place an anchor in a literary meet. The author Manishankar Mukhopadhyay was in sharp contrast the exemplar of proficiency in the language in which he spoke without the undue necessity of invading it with an alien tongue. The actor Abir Chatterjee was also rather indecent in putting up leg on top of leg before the venerable octogenarian author. Better culture expected in such a civilised set-up as the Kolkata Literary Meet. Even the director Srijit Mukhopadhyay was not up to the mark in refinement of culture as his address revealed to the discerning ear.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Crony capitalism and dastardly development at the expense of mass exploitation and consequent servitude of the masses.
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : Wrong. First the Vedic Rishis studied external nature and enunciated principles. But as investigation continued, they came to the dead-end of reason and understood that Nature and Reality were both incomprehensible while standing within Nature and investigating, using the finite mind which was itself a part of Nature and, hence, subject to its laws. They then proceeded to transcend the limitations of the senses and the mind through methods that have thereafter come to be termed yoga, and arrived at the supersensuous substratum of things which has been termed Brahman. Thus, even in India the study of empirical science preceded that of spiritual science. Hence, we need not precede and succeed these studies but must do them simultaneously as per propensity and reap their conjoint benefit. This is what Swami Vivekananda wanted and this is what we must do for the renaissance of the Sanatan civilisation.
Compartmentalising knowledge since Vedic times has never been the Sanatan way but this has unfortunately been our wont, following blindly the way of the West. There religion has historically been faith-bound and doctrinaire, arbitrary and absolute, which has stunted civilisation in medieval times ushering in the Dark Ages which the Italian Renaissance followed by the general awakening in Europe and the Enlightenment fought against to create modern western scientific civilisation. But in India even in pre-Independence days such rigid compartmentalisation was never there as has been gradually the case since Independence when sensuous Hindus chose to progressively alienate themselves from the Dharma, and craftily since 2014 made Nehru the scapegoat for it. It is the average Hindu, mired in material desires, who has neglected his dhārmic study and indulged in worldly pleasures to bring down civilisation to its present decadent state and it is he who will have to restore it, as you have rightly pointed out, through his studious effort. To this end we have started a movement called the VIVEKANANDA READING MOVEMENT which you may join if you please and bolster our common cause. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Samarbijoy Chakraborty : It's a barbaric medieval misogynistic practice to cage women thus within limitless apparel. Patriarchy has reached its limits in Afghanistan and will now wane with the decline of the wave under its own weight. But millions of mothers, sisters and daughters will have to be the human sacrifice to usher in modernity in this Muslim and erstwhile Buddhist and further back Hindu country, Kandāhār redolent of its earlier name Gāndhār from where hailed Gāndhāri, Shakuni et al. That women are so sacrificed at the behest of religion emanating from the deserts is the biggest blot on humanity in this modern age. 'The selfish gene' of the animal in man has yet got to be sufficiently mutated before civilisational sanity prevails in these benighted parts of the human world.
Sugata Bose @Manab Pal : Intolerance has its theological backing and, unevolved as humans are in large sections as yet, coupled with the brain's capacity for conditioning, it is but natural that madrassas and mosques should be churning out fanatics by the millions when political masters can use such perversion to their advantage. Islam declares itself to be the only true religion and with the mandate to convert the whole of humanity to its fold, destroying all other 'imperfect' faiths in the process. It is the avowed enemy of so-called idolatry and, hence, popular Hinduism must be its object of persecution unto its eventual annihilation. So, given the 90% Muslim majority in Bangladesh, it is small wonder that such demonstrations against the forthcoming Durga Puja should take place.
Fanaticism is endemic in Islamic societies as it is the theological foundation of the faith. Believers, daily and hourly indoctrinated by Islamic scripture, must necessarily get conditioned into behaving the way they do, especially when such mass behaviour is engineered by crafty politicians and their clerical cronies. West Bengal, Assam and Kerala are following suit and it is but a matter of time before the toxic fruits of Islamisation render these states sterile too. Meanwhile, let people sing and dance and live in a utopian world while the perfidy of Partition of the last century is reenacted within the next couple of decades with what results one may only conjecture but cannot quite predict as such, for the tortuous path of history springs surprises as well. Awakened citizens must speak up and kindle the fire of knowledge about the stated danger to save the Sanatan civilisation from utter annihilation. Demographic change is assuming dangerous proportions and can only spell the doom of a community immersed in denial of the demographic danger. Till then let us dance to our delirious delight while the danger draws nearer like the charge of Nadir Shah upon the capital city of the Mughal Empire, Delhi. "Abhi bhi Dilli durast," said the indolent Emperor when urged by his ministers to prepare for the defence of the capital city. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : Ever the other perspective in deflecting contrast. Brilliant.
Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava: No, there is a higher bliss, that of Self-remembrance which is opposite to that of the lower one of self-oblivion. The former is life-building, the latter life-destroying. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : Yours is a dying breed of commentators who use words to devastating effect with humour as armoury and sarcasm as guided missile. After all in a scenario of declining culture consequent on demographic transition from the upper echelons to the proletariat of little literary sense or civilisational refinement, it is but natural that men like you should increasingly become decreasing in numbers till they become museum pieces of 'once upon a time wonder'. Till then, doctor, carry on!
Sugata Bose @Bolaka Roy : Bolaka, see the difference now in the post with perfected presentation replete with rectified punctuation and space-gaps. This is the way to God realisation, performing every act perfectly. Spiritual perfection is the ultimate resolution of all material acts executed perfectly even as Nature functions perfectly, and then transcending the material web of Maya. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : You are as humorous as Thakur.
Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Yes, every act must be perfected before presentation before the public or before one's very own private self, for perfection is all that we must chisel out in this our terrestrial incarnation. Yes, every act including addressing all and sundry as veritable divinities which is not at all evident in your authoritarian telephone tone in what ought to be a welcoming 'Hello!' Alas, human beings know not that the ones they deal with are God in so many garbs, in so many guises! Would to God they knew that they were divinities themselves! This tone would then have altered to the sweetest music the ears ever laid themselves open to. But there is hope. Every dry season is followed by a wet one of flourishing flora, every parched root gets nourished by the mercy of the skies. So also in human affairs as the soul trudges its way to the destination divine. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Crony capitalism instead of enlightened socialism. Capitalism is a silent bloodsucking system for all its democratic welfare pretensions. It is an exploitative order of the worst kind, economic barbarism that clothes in costly apparel the handful of rich while denuding the vast majority, the teeming millions who it deems objects of exploitation. The rich capitalist countries owe their riches to the exploitation of poorer nations where they export their poverty to by exploiting their resources through all means of neocolonialism. The dictatorial regimes of socialist countries have unleashed horrors unthinkable on their citizens not because they did not adopt capitalism as their economic order but because those countries could not rise to humanistic levels in governance under the undemocratic one-party socialist system. Democracy for all its defects checks such inhuman administrative imbalances through periodic elections which the Marxist socialist system denies, thereby invariably bringing in authoritarian oppression. A humanistic system has to be evolved which theoretically is welfare economics but being capitalistic at base will in practice again be sadly built on and fuelled by greed that will overtime entail untold misery for the masses. Here lies the practical problem. No system is perfect but the aspired one ought to be the correct combination of welfare socialism built on democratic principles, a system that can be possible alone through international cooperation and not cut-throat capitalistic competition that places the human soul upon the altar of profiteering sacrifice. International cooperation that deems the world a single family can bring about an end to gross injustice and exploitation using the helpful advantages of science instead of utilising the latter for mutual destruction of nations. One more thing about the 'barbarism' of socialist states and the 'humanism' of capitalist ones. The throttling economic boycott of socialist states by capitalist ones, the arms race, the Cold War against them, the sabotage and the subterfuge aggression brought about the latter's downfall as much as the very wrong idea of 'applied socialism' to stifle the conscience of its masses in the name of liberation. Freedom, the cherished possession of mankind, was taken away in these countries by hanging the pie in the sky, the happy hope of a prospective brighter day, which never came as dictator after dictator spelled their doom in the old imperialistic manner instead of the promised way of rosy 'dictatorship of the proletariat'. All dictatorships are bad as they stand against the fundamental urge of evolution to throw off shackles, and the installation of political dictatorship to supplant the economic one of capitalism also cannot work. Another Marx will have to be born with Vivekananda vision to be able to formulate principles of governance along democratic lines while rooting out the ills of capitalism. That will come along only with society evolving further globally but the date seems as yet distant. Humans are everywhere largely animal in appetite and that is perfect ground for the flourishing of capitalism till it crumbles under the weight of its own contradictions as Marxist theory predicts.
P.S. For all their democratic pretensions the capitalist countries like USA, to name only the paterfamilias, have been no less, if not more, brutal against the wide world militarily than their socialist counterparts. A cursory glance through truth-telling history books should make one aware of this glaring gory fact. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Did you not comprehend the import of my comment or did not care to thoroughly read it? The comment contains the answer you seek.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Since 1947 till 1991 it has been mixed economy---part socialist, part capitalist. Since 1991 till 2014 progressively increasing capitalism leading to crony capitalism. Since 2014 till date unashamed crony capitalism.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Yes, by exporting poverty to other nations, by exploiting them by monstrous means. Prosperity cannot be the index of civilisation or of happiness. The commoner is fooled by crafty politicians and business barons everywhere. Pride bordering on narrow nationalistic vanity is a vice not worth possessing if one is to deemed human in any remote sense of the term.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : We have dreamt that dream (mixed economy) and it has been a historic reality. That it did not pay adequate dividend is another matter. But it has been a lived experience and happily, sadly so.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Competition has to be humanistic, not Darwinian which capitalism in the current scenario is. It is Social Darwinism with its toxic fangs injecting the poison of profit by any means into the bloodstream of society.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : 'Dream' is a word you introduced in this comment stream and I merely responded to it in like terms taking the cue from you. Your introduction of other ideas into this discussion do not pertain to the post and do not merit response.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : You are welcome to your experience and inference which I am neither privy to nor do I share. Few, alas, can comprehend the human condition in totality beyond their experiential biases and personal prejudices and predilection! The overall conception of an idea is accessed by few and most branch out into diverse channels following the dispersion of their distracted minds. The essence of a discussion is thus lost on most as conscious and unconscious filtering out of the original and essential idea gains ground. Here concentration is the key to comprehension which unfortunately is not common. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Prabir Datta : Yes, indeed. Dialectics deems it so. After all it is a dualistic world, a relativistic universe.
Sugata Bose @Anirudha Bhattacharya : Probably you have misunderstood my statement. I referred to the armed struggle for independence which our forefathers had fought and which we, their descendants, have not lived up to and are meekly surrendering our legitimate Constitutional rights of freedom of speech and expression to the dastardly governors of our fate that be. If we lose our Constitutional rights thus and must have to fight for them by seeking legal redress each time, then it is democracy gone down the drains despite the bloody sacrifices of our forebears. This is what I have implied in the post.
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
MESSAGES GALORE ... 86
MESSAGES GALORE ... 86
1. Utter anarchy in West Bengal.
2. Frothy interactions on the surface. Deeper rumblings are in subterranean realms. There evolution breeds its offspring. There revolution broods on future course.
3. The heart opens up for one that works for others. And what a benediction is showered on one that does so out of love for the served ones, beholding all such as one's own!
4. Sycophancy has eaten into the vitals of our nation. A self-reliant Bharat also means a Bharat composed of citizens who are self-reliant, possessed of self-dignity and not unduly of a slavish mentality that urges them unto slavish cringing before leaders. After all a nation of upright individuals is truly self-reliant.
5. We as individuals must develop character, rather manifest it from our inner resources. Then alone we as a nation will be strong enough to make our presence felt in the world. What is the use of looking to the US for everything when we have it in us to provide ourselves with it?
6. Why do the PM's associates needlessly keep harping on his personality instead of only talking about the pros and cons of policies set in motion by him? Why build this personality cult that is so antithetical to the functioning of a true democracy? Remember what Swami Vivekananda had said. He had urged his followers to stress on principle and not personality. Regarding his Master Sri Ramakrishna he had said that it would be proper to spread his message and not his personality which would automatically spread if his message duly reached the masses.
7. Unless the whole of India takes to the reading of Swami Vivekananda, India will not rise.
8. ভগবান আছেন বইকি | অনুভূতির বিষয় |
9. সমাজের শিরদাঁড়া সোজা হবে কি করে ? দিবারাত্র তো বিজ্ঞাপনের বাহার, চরিত্রের বাণিজ্যবিক্রয়, লোভের নির্লজ্জ উদ্রেক |
10. 
হে মা, বিশ্বজননী,
ব্রহ্মাণ্ডজননী, মাতঃ !
উৎপীড়িতের ক্রন্দনধ্বনি
শোনো মা, কর্ণ পাতো |
ধরিত্রীর বুকে যারা
নব উন্মিলীত, জাত,
তাদের ধৌত কর,
নব কিরণে কর স্নাত |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
11. বুদ্ধি আছে, বোধ নেই | তাই এই দুর্দশা | বিবেকানন্দপাঠ আবশ্যক, অপরিহার্য | নইলে সমাজজীবনে দুর্ণীতি বাড়তেই থাকবে | ব্যষ্টির চরিত্র গঠিত না হলে সমষ্টির চরিত্র গঠিত হবে কেমন করে ? অগ্নিযুগে স্বামীজীকে কেন্দ্র করেই বৃটিশবিরোধী ভীষণ আন্দোলন গড়ে উঠেছিল এই বাংলায় |
12. শুধু প্রতিক্রিয়ায় হবে না | সাথে সাথে প্রগতি চাই | তার জন্য চাই অধ্যাত্মচৈতন্য | সেইহেতুই তো আহ্বান করছি সকলকে, "আসুন, সকলে মিলে স্বামীজীর 'বাণী ও রচনা' নিত্যনিয়মিত পাঠ করি; চরিত্রগঠন, জীবনগঠন করি | তবে তো সমাজজীবনে যথাযথ পরিবর্তন আসবে |"
13. ভাল লোকদের শুধু ভাল হলে চলবে না | তাদের আধ্যাত্মিকভাবে শক্তিমান হতে হবে | ব্যক্তিত্বের যথার্থ স্ফুরণের দ্বারাই দুর্বৃত্তের মোকাবিলা সম্ভব |
14. The political parties are so corrupt that it is difficult to have faith in any of them. Hence, justice becomes a difficult proposition.
15. We are little inlets to the Divine and little outlets too. And yet we are the Divine Itself. 🕉
16. Love is the L.C.M. of life and knowledge its H.C.F.
17. This life? 'tis a daily decree of death.
18. কাপড় কাচা হচ্ছে, কাপড়ের খবর নাই |
19. সাহস ও শৌর্যের পরিণতি সংহতি হোক |
20. There is a difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. And the spirit is the law itself.
21. সনাতন ধর্মের পুনর্জাগরণ হবে যদি সর্বসাধারণ স্বামীজীর বই পড়েন |
22. মানুষ জানেন না মানুষ অন্তর্গঙ্গা |
23. হরির লুটের ন্যায় ঠাকুর এবার মনিমুক্তো ছড়িয়ে গেলেন | শুধু কুড়লেই হল |
24. It is best to work from one's core consciousness, radiating from the centre. Running helter-skelter hardly helps much.
25. Do not imitate the West, western modes and mores, western ideas and ideals, western manners and mannerisms. Be Indian in every sense. To be rooted to one's soil is stability and life; to be transplanted unduly is fragility and death.
26. 
এই মানুষটাকে নিরর্থক স্তুতিবাক্যে ভূষিত না করে তাঁর 'বাণী ও রচনা' পাঠ করুন ও সেইমত জীবনগঠন করুন | চরিত্রের তেজ আবশ্যক, অলস ভক্তিপ্রদর্শন নয় |
27. Swamiji said, "Let the lion of Vedanta roar," not, "Let the lamb of Vedanta bleat."
28. মাথা ছেড়ে সবাই বাদবাকি অঙ্গপ্রত্যঙ্গকেই লক্ষ্য করে বাণ ছোঁড়েন | সমস্যা সেখানেই | দুর্নীতির মূল উৎখাত না করে সভয়ে নিরবতা পালন অথবা পরোক্ষভাবে বিষমূলে সার, জল ইত্যাদি প্রদান করায় শিক্ষার কোন মাহাত্ম্য প্রকাশ পায় ? এ কি গণতন্ত্র যে শুধু দুর্বলের ওপর শক্তিপ্রয়োগ ও প্রবলের ভয়ে তাঁদের অনায়াস ছাড়পত্রদান ? কারোর সাহস নেই দুর্নীতির চূড়ায় ও গোড়ায় যথাযথ প্রহার করেন ? যাঁরা তিলোত্তমার নৃশংস নিধনের জন্য মূলে দায়ী পরোক্ষভাবে, তাঁদের দিকে অঙ্গুলিমাত্র কেউ তুলছেন না ? তাহলে কি এরই নাম গণতন্ত্র, এই জনশক্তির পরিচায়ক ?
29. Trust not the corrupt politicians. They are all in conjoint conspiracy against the commoner's concerns.
30. Free speech must not be curtailed. If people are not permitted to express their criticisms of the government, democracy will die.
31. One Tilottama died so that a hundred million Tilottamas may live. But can such an end ever be validated even in poetic terms? No.
32. 'Where women are worshipped, there the gods rejoice.' (Manu)
And where women are done upon, there demons dwell.
33. Tilottama sank when she struck the deathly ice. But the iceberg stretches deep and wide, its tip visible, base in a fathomless pit.
34. Not all are averse to reading Vivekananda, although many are. Yet, the movement carries on even as bigwigs and tall-talkers disappoint.
35. দীর্ঘদিনের শ্রদ্ধাবিহীনতা, নাস্তিকতা, নিম্ন জড়বাদের অন্ধ অনুগামী হওয়ার ফলে বাঙালীর আজ এই পতিত পরিণতি | উদ্ধারের উপায় বিবেকানন্দ |
36. রামকৃষ্ণ মঠ ও রামকৃষ্ণ মিশনের প্রতিটি শাখাকেন্দ্রকে আন্তরিক আহ্বান করি, " 'স্বামী বিবেকানন্দের বাণী ও রচনা'--এঁর বহুল প্রচার করুন |" বর্তমানে বিশ্বব্যাপী দুর্নীতি, মূল্যবোধের অন্তিম অবক্ষয় ও মানুষের মেরুদণ্ডহীনতার পরিবেশে স্বামীজীর বাণী সভ্যতারক্ষা ও তার উন্নতির মহৌষধি | সমাজের বুকে যে লক্ষ ছিদ্র আজ সর্বত্র পরিলক্ষিত, সেই প্রবেশপথেই স্বামীজীর শিক্ষা সহজে অনুপ্রবিষ্ট হবে ও মানুষের চরিত্র গঠন করবে | তাই উপযুক্ত প্রচারকের দ্বারা দেশদেশান্তরে স্বামীজীর বাণী প্রচার আজ এতই আবশ্যক, অপরিহার্য |
37. An earnest request, nay, an exhortation to all branch centres of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission to massively propagate 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda'. In these days of eroding values it is an urgent necessity. The cracks and crevices, faultlines and fissures obtaining in the country and in the world today make conditions ideally pervious for the mass penetration of Swamiji's message.
38. রাক্ষসকে যদি মিঠেবাক্যে সৎপথে আনা যেত তো শ্রীরামচন্দ্রকে অরিদমনে যু্দ্ধ করতে হত না | এখানেও তাই | ভাল কথায় কাজ হয় কই ?
39. সমাজকে 'জন অরণ্য' আখ্যা দিয়েছিলেন লেখক শংকর | সেই জন অরণ্যের নরপশুদের বিরুদ্ধে সংগ্রামের নাম 'ধর্ম' |
40. সামান্য স্বার্থসিদ্ধির জন্য মানুষ দেশকে পর্যন্ত বিক্রি করে দিতে পারেন | এই না হলে 'সভ্যতার সঙ্কট' ?
41. আন্দোলন ত্যাগের ওপর প্রতিষ্ঠিত | তৎপরবর্তি সমাজব্যবস্থা লোভের ওপর প্রতিষ্ঠিত হতে পারে না, বৃত্তিরূপে ধনতন্ত্রের যা মূলধন |
42. বাংলাদেশের হিন্দুরা বুঝেছেন ইসলামের প্রকৃত স্বরূপ | এ দেশের হিন্দুরা কবে বুঝবে ? কুরান, হদীস, সিরা পড়ুন |
43. India will not remain a secular state once Hindus become a minority. Alarming situation looming large as demography silently shifts.
44. Patriots, read and realise the implications of Ghazwa-e-Hind for India. The defence of the motherland demands that you do so.
45. The Sanatan Dharma is the sum and substance of Indian civilisation. Sanskrit must be taught universally in schools across India.
46. The eyewash that ruling dispensations give to the masses they rule is increasingly being exposed in these days of mass media. Henceforth public resistance will rise against such mischief and bring politicians to book. Eastern Europe in 1989 saw such a popular uprising that brought down authoritarian Communist regimes across nations at a climactic point in history beginning with the breaking of the Berlin Wall. Elsewhere politics continues to play dastardly games at the expense of the commoner's blood, sweat and toil. As capitalism shows its poisonous fangs more and more blatantly and human suffering increases, popular revolts will take place worldwide despite governmental oppression using sophisticated state of the art technology. But brutality cannot stifle human conscience nor annihilate human consciousness. The path of evolution is tortuous and it may take as yet a deal of time before this political-industrial nexus is fully exposed and people comprehend the cause of their suffering which in turn will prompt corrective action to improve the state of things. It is a tall order, especially with crafty politicians and their intellectual cronies devising ever-renewed means of public deception and the state using force, overt and covert, to suppress popular uprising. But the power of the people none can resist and must eventually make its way. Unto that day of fulfilled dreams we work in our mission to raise public awareness about the dastardly forces they have placed themselves under that operate in the name of different sorts of controls exercised over them. Freedom has remained a cherished dream for ages of bondage almost mutely suffered by the masses. Read, reflect, realise what is at stake and what may be achieved if you rightly exercise your options that alone can free you from the tyranny of perfidious politicians who you in gullibility idolise but who fool you day in and day out. 🕉
47. Hyper-curiosity about others is bad. Curiosity be better restricted to impersonal subjects for civilisational good.
48. Swamiji had desired that every Indian be taught Sanskrit.
49. We are Hindus and we ought to be rooted in our Sanatan culture whose vast repository is in Sanskrit literature. So, study Sanskrit.
50. Brāhmans should 'defend the treasury of the Sanatan Dharma' instead of casting aspersions on those who do so. Brāhman, awake!
51. The brāhmans of this holy motherland of ours must take to defending the Sanatan Dharma instead of trying to pull down its edifice.
52. The balance of the varnas is essential for the harmonious functioning of our nation. Rooting out privilege must not mean that you uproot civilisation itself.
53. I find so many plain apathetic to our cause of spreading the word of Swamiji and one outright antagonistic to it when he sees it as coming from me. What we need is greater sympathy for the cause, cooperation and concern at a time when propagation of Swamiji's message remains our one lifeline in a polity that has simply lost its spiritual moorings despite the tallest of pretensions. Come ye and join in our movement to spreading the word around. Also participate in our 'Vivekananda Reading Movement' that is geared at galvanising a critical mass of readers in the act of absorbing, assimilating and activating the Swami's message in real life.
54. Hindus must no longer remain under the delusion of religious harmony draped over them by pious preachers. The persecution of Hindus yet again in Bangladesh should stir them unto the wakeful state. Enough of sleep, enough of daydreaming, enough of loving the enemy in a one-sided manner. Now it is time to wake up and unite in self-defence.
55. Religious harmony can never be achieved but human harmony may be if people rise above doctrine to emphasise humanity which as of now is a far cry, for the world is torn by sectarian tension drowning that very humanity.
56. 
The great Ram Swarup (left) and Sita Ram Goel (right), the duo of divine deliverance whose lives' work created the theoretical and investigative base for the future flourishing of the Sanatan civilisation, its survival and defence, its reclamation of the eternal heritage of Bharatvarsha.
57. গোমাংস খেয়ে কুসংস্কারমুক্ত হয়নি হিন্দু, ধর্মভ্রষ্ট হয়েছে | কুসংস্কারমুক্তির প্রকৃত ও প্রকৃষ্ট উপায় পবিত্রতা, ব্রহ্মচর্য, ঈশ্বরপ্রেম, ত্যাগ, বৈরাগ্য, সৎ-অসৎ বিচার, তপস্যা, তিতিক্ষা, সত্যপরায়ণতা, মনঃসংযম, নিষ্কাম কর্মসম্পাদনাদি সদ্গুণসাধন ও বিকাশ যার দ্বারা অন্তঃশক্তি জাগ্রত হয় ও কুলকুণ্ডলিনী জাগরণহেতু দিব্যজ্ঞান ও দিব্যপ্রেমের যুগপৎ স্ফুরণ হয় | জন্মজন্মার্জিত সংস্কাররাশি নিছক গোমাংস ভক্ষণে সহসা বিলুপ্ত হয় না | চিত্তের ওপর অগণিত জন্মের যে ছাপ পড়ে, তা বহু আয়াসসাধ্য দূর করা এবং একমাত্র সিদ্ধগুরু প্রদর্শিত যথাযথ যোগমার্গেই তা সম্ভব হয় | 🕉
58. মার্ক্সবাদ একটি জড়বাদী ধনতন্ত্রবিরোধী গভীর দর্শন | তা পড়ুন, বুঝুন, তার যৌক্তিকতা, যৌক্তিক সীমাবদ্ধতা বিচার করুন, তারপর রায় দিন তার সম্বন্ধে |
59. রাজা মহারাজের চিন্তা করলে, তাঁর সম্বন্ধে আলোচনা করলে মনে গঙ্গা বয়ে যায় |
60. পবিত্রতাই সাধুতা |
61. চরিত্রবান আগ্নেয় মানুষ আজ বিরল | সবই ধনতন্ত্রের দাস | শোষণে মানুষের সর্বনাশ হোক, তাতে কি ? নিজের স্বার্থটি রক্ষা করা চাই |
62. Someone recently responded to a Bengali post of mine and asked me to write in English so as to reach a wider national and international audience. Some others have asked me earlier to write in Bengali for their ease of understanding. I have in accordance written in both English and Bengali. What is your view in this regard? In which language would you like me to write more?
63. Religion is not converting people of other faiths to your own and attempting to go to heaven of infinite sensual delight after death but realising that you are Divinity Itself here on this very earth while living.
64. Mahaprabhu made chanting easy by initiating all to the 'Hare Krishna' Mahamantra. Chant and be blissful.
65. It is better to die game on the battlefield than to live the life of a coward. Out of such sacrifice will be born a hundred heroes.
66. This world of man is such a curious mix of attributes in play such that the least bit of improvement in one sphere causes a decline in some other sphere. This is in accordance with the Law of Conservation of Energy which rules all finite universes.
67. আগে সামন্ততন্ত্রে ছিল বলপ্রয়োগে অর্থাগম আর এখন ধনতন্ত্রে ছলপ্রয়োগে অর্থোপার্জন |
68. I write with effort. Please make an effort to write a comment rather than post an emoji in its place. It is puerile to emojify post.
69. শ্রুতির পর স্মৃতি, তারপরই বিস্মৃতি | সভ্যতার এই গতিপথ | তবে কালক্রম চক্রাকারে, তাই রক্ষা | নববেদ এসেছে--'কথামৃত'; নববেদান্ত--স্বামীজীর 'বাণী ও রচনা' |
70. দুয়ারে দুর্নীতি |
71. দুয়ারে দুষ্কৃতি |
72. দুয়ারে দুশমন |
73. আরে মশাই, স্বামীজীর মেজো ভাই মহেন্দ্রনাথ দত্তও বেশ পুরুষ মানুষ ছিলেন | তাঁর চিন্তা করলেও, রচনা পড়লেও পৌরুষ পাবেন | করে দেখুন না একবার |
74. জড়বাদের বর্ধনে সমাজে দানবীয় ভাব বৃদ্ধি পাচ্ছে ক্রমাগত স্বাধীনতার নামে | সংযম বলে আর কিছু বাকি থাকছে না |
75. কেউ কেউ রচনা সম্বন্ধে অবাধে প্রশ্ন করেন কিন্তু কষ্ট করে ব্যাখ্যামূলক দীর্ঘ উত্তর দিলে পড়েও দেখেন না | এটা দুর্ভাগ্যজনক !
76. The audiovisual advertising culture is the worst character-weakener. Celebrities earning thus are doing disservice to the nation.
77. ধর্মনিরপেক্ষ বাংলাদেশ ! এরা অন্ধকারকে আলো ভাবছে, জানে না কোন দুর্দিনকে আবাহন করছে দেবীর পূজার বিরোধিতা করে | সময়ে মেওয়া ফলবে | সে মেওয়া বড় সহজ মেওয়া হবে না |
78. ধনতন্ত্রের বিষবৎ ফল আজ ভারতবর্ষ জুড়ে লক্ষ্য করছি | এ তো রামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দ প্রদর্শিত পথ নয় | এ তার সম্পূর্ণ বিপরীত |
79. অর্থনৈতিক বৈষম্য এমন জায়গায় যাচ্ছে যে তাকে আর নৈতিক বলা যাচ্ছে না |
80. ধনতন্ত্রের দংশনে আজ সমাজ জর্জরিত |
81. দুর্নীতির মূলে লোভ---ক্ষমতার ও অর্থের | তৃতীয় রিপুর শাসনে বিশ্ব পরিচালিত | 'মা গৃধ' আজ বিস্মরণের অতল গহ্বরে |
82. কাব্য সৌন্দর্যের প্রকাশ, সে বীরগাথা হলেও তাই |
83. মানুষের শরীরে, মুখে, চোখে প্রকাশ হয়ে পড়ে তার মনের ভাবগতিক | শরীরের লক্ষণ আছে যা দিয়ে বোঝা যায় মনোবৃত্তি |
84. নেতানেত্রীদের চেহারা দেখলেই তো বোঝা যায় কে কত বড় মহাপুরুষ, মহানারী |
85. যিনি পদ'কে ব্যবহার করে বিপদ ডেকে আনেন, তাঁর মান্যতা জনমানসে কতটা থাকা কাম্য ?
86. বাক-স্বাধীনতা গেল তো গণতন্ত্র গেল | রইল কি ? রইল পদলেহন, রইল দাসত্ব | এই কি বহুরক্তক্ষয়ী স্বাধীনতা সংগ্রামের সুপক্ক ফল ?
87. কাজের চেয়ে কথা বেশি | এর নাম রাজনীতি |
88. অবিদ্যামায়া দুটো শক্তির দ্বারা কাজ করেন---আবরণী শক্তি ও বিক্ষেপ শক্তি | যে সব রাজনৈতিক নেতানেত্রীরা আবরণী ও বিক্ষেপশক্তি ব্যবহার করেন ক্ষমতারক্ষার জন্য, তাঁরা অবিদ্যাশক্তির আধার, অতএব বর্জনীয় |
89. The hypocrisy of the ruling dispensation regarding the R.G.Kar episode and the corruption nexus that exists defies description.
90. দেশের ঘোর দুর্দিন | রাজনীতির জগত ভয়ঙ্কর সব দুর্বৃত্তে ভরা যাঁরা অগঠিতচরিত্র, ক্রূর, অর্থলিপ্সু, ক্ষমতালিপ্সু, দুর্নীতিপরায়ণ ও স্বার্থান্বেষী | দেশের ভবিষ্যৎ সঙ্কটে | এখনও সময় আছে দেশোদ্ধারের | উপায় বিবেকানন্দ |
বিবেকানন্দ পাঠ করুন | বিবেকানন্দবোধে জাগ্রত হ'ন | দেশকে ভালবাসুন | দেশবাসীর সেবা করুন | রাজনৈতিক নেতানেত্রীর পদলেহন বন্ধ করুন | আত্মসম্মানে জেগে উঠুন | সংযমের দ্বারা শক্তিমান হ'ন | অর্জিত শক্তি দ্বারা নিজবন্ধন, পরবন্ধন ক্ষয় করুন | দেশকে সমৃদ্ধ করুন সর্বভাবে | সকলের সম্মিলিত প্রচেষ্টায়, সাধনায় অবশ্যই এই দুর্দিন কাটবে | বর্তমান কোনো রাজনেতানেত্রীর মিথ্যা আশ্বাসে ভুলবেন না | স্বীয়শক্তিতে স্বদেশসেবা করুন, মাতৃভূমির সম্মান রক্ষা করুন |
91. কাজ তো ভাল জিনিস | কাজে জড়িয়ে না পড়লেই ভাল, জড়িয়ে গেলেই মন্দ |
92. নির্বিষয় মনই আত্মা | একেই ঠাকুর এক অর্থে শুদ্ধ মন বলেছেন ব্রহ্ম যার গোচর, অর্থাৎ, আত্মগোচর |
93. Let the power grow till the gentlest push becomes a tidal thrust, not in destructive vengeance but in creative sublimity.
94. শোনা ভাল | বিজ্ঞেরা শোনেন, মূর্খেরা বলেন |
95. ব্রহ্ম কিছু সমষ্টি নন, ব্রহ্ম স্বতন্ত্র |
96. শীর্ষ নেতানেত্রীরা আত্মবিজ্ঞাপন করেন কেন এত ? এ তো বড়ই দৃষ্টিকটু, শ্রুতিকটু, জনবিরোধী |
97. দুষ্টের ব্যবহারে, বাক্যে, চাহনিতেই তো স্পষ্ট প্রকাশিত হয় তার দুরভিসন্ধি, মিথ্যাচার, কপটতা ও কলুষ |
98. বীরেন্দ্রকৃষ্ণ ভদ্রের মহালয়ার মাহেন্দ্রক্ষণে ওই অপার্থিব চণ্ডীপাঠ শুনলেই সনাতন ধর্মের শ্রেষ্ঠত্ব সহজেই প্রতীত হয় |
99. গলার কেরামতি রাগসংগীত নয় | সৃজনশীলতা চাই, চাই রাগিণীবোধ, সুরের গভীরতর অনুভব, ভাবগাম্ভীর্য, নিরন্তর স্রোতস্বিনীর ন্যায় সুরপ্রবাহ |
100. গলার কেরামতি রাগসংগীত নয় | সৃজনশীলতা চাই, চাই রাগিণীবোধ, সুরের গভীরতর অনুভব, ভাবগাম্ভীর্য, নিরন্তর স্রোতস্বিনীর ন্যায় স্বতঃস্ফূর্ত সুরপ্রবাহ |
Thursday, 19 September 2024
THE VIVEKANANDA READING MOVEMENT
THE VIVEKANANDA READING MOVEMENT
The 'Vivekananda Reading Movement' in a nuclear form is carrying on steadily. But noticeable is the general apathy and lack of earnestness. Nonetheless, all good things begin small and gradually gather momentum, events ever being functions of time. So, merrily we proceed in this charge for transformation of national consciousness, a big ideal no doubt, even a bloated one perhaps to speak of at this stage, but aspired for and achievable nonetheless by Swamiji's grace and by earnest effort on the part of the members. 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
THE TOXIC BLOCK THERAPY OF FB
THE TOXIC BLOCK THERAPY OF FB
FB unnecessarily blocks people who voice legitimate concerns over contentious social issues such as the dangers of growing Islamisation of non-Islamic societies with their concomitant loss of freedom under the prospective Sharia. Such a policy of Muslim-appeasement is ruinous.
Technology used stupidly to block people making innocuous posts is another concern. It fails to interpret the import of posts correctly and penalises unduly. Freedom of expression is being curtailed to facilitate so-called communal harmony when that very harmony is under threat.
If people aren't allowed to voice their concerns over prospective societal dangers--the Partition of India having been its historic illustration--just to facilitate commerce, then it invalidates the very purpose of setting up a social media platform. The protest being lodged here is not regarding vicious and vitriolic attacks against particular communities but regarding posts written in civilised language warning sane societies about the dangers of insane sections working to undermine social cohesion and imposing medieval monstrosity on free societies. That FB does not possess due discretion as to what is good or bad for society is regrettable and requires urgent introspection on its behalf regarding its policy on censorship of free speech. If such censorship is so badly done, where will freedom of speech remain?
X fortunately allows freedom of speech in its true essence and we are grateful for that. People's concerns about their safety and security are not trampled upon here by checks and blocks of an undiscerning character and that allows free venting of public anguish over wrongs being done to them.
Written by Sugata Bose
Monday, 16 September 2024
COMMENTS GALORE ... 63
COMMENTS GALORE ... 63
Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Nath : It is presumptuous for you to assume so. 'Tumi' refers to a superior or senior person affectionately addressing an inferior or junior person, none of which apply to your assumed relation to or attitude towards me. As far as knowledge of my mother tongue (Bengali) is concerned or the alien one in English, I humbly submit that the world will testify that I stand in equal or better comparison to you. Hence, such puerile arguments are necessarily invalidated. I do not wish to further deliberation as I have earlier stated. So, do not invite me unto further forays which may progressively turn toxic should either of us transgress limits of civilised conversation as your opening comment had done which opened up this Pandora's Box of infertile inveighing. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : The Vedanta is the endpoint of the Vedas. It is the climactic realisation of the Vedas, its philosophical evolutionary culmination which is the spiritual oneness of existence behind the seeking multiplicity of material phenomena. The Upanishads form the recorded body politic of the Vedanta. Most have been lost but some 110 remain of which Shankaracharya had selected 10 and written copious commentary on. Behind this plurality of phenomenal or relative existence lies a unitary spiritual basis whose nature cannot be expressed or defined but which has been in language expressed as the triune of Absolute Existence, Absolute Consciousness and Absolute Bliss integrated into a Singular Whole. It is inconceivable by the finite mind for it is transcendent but the purified intelligence shorn of all desires, all fratured and fracturing thought, can in essence self-behold. Thus us called 'the Atman witnessing the Atman', 'the Self brooding on the Self'. The substratum of the universe is called 'Brahman', although no name abides to this Reality, and the substratum of the individual is called 'Atman', meaning the deepest self or the Self. This Brahman, the essence of the infinite series of universes, collectively called universe here for the sake of simplicity, is the Atman, the spiritual essence of man and of all sentience. There are four Mahāvākyas in the Upanishads which attempt to illustrate the nature of this Atman/Brahman and they are as follows:
1) 'Prajnānam Brahman'---Brahman is Absolute Knowledge;
2) 'Ayamātma Brahman'---This Atman is Brahman;
3) 'Tattvamasi'---That thou art, meaning, you are Brahman;
4) Sarvung khalvidung Brahman---everything is Brahman.
The Vedas are divided into two portions:
a) Karma Kānda or the Work Portion;
b) Jnāna Kānda or the Knowledge Portion.
The former relates to ceremonials, rituals, incantations etc. whereas the latter relates to pure philosophy and that too the highest affirmations humanity has ever seen.
🕉 stands as the dividing line between the Absolute and the Relative and is the seed of creation, preservation and destruction of the universe which has been going on in cyclical manner without beginning and without end, a fact encapsulated by the words 'Anādi srishty, ananta srishty'.
Brahman is a singular that has no plural real counterpart. It is the indivisible essence of things which transcends the triune of space-time-causality but seemingly appears as the manifold universe even as rope appears in the dark mistakenly as a snake, the delusion being dispelled on the awakening oc knowledge which goes by the titular ascription 'Brahmajnāna/Tattvajnana'. It is like a person dreaming in his sleep and witnessing things which he takes to be real but on waking up is dispelled of that delusion. He now knows that it was a dream after all, in essence unreal.
Sugata Bose @Amit Kumar Mukherjee : Sādhanā required on the basis of perfect purity. Continence (brahmacharya) in thought, word and deed in youth necessary for at least a protracted period of twelve years and continuing which results in organic transformation and the opening up of the nerve of spiritual intelligence (medhā nāri) which makes this psychophysical instrument fit for supersensuous perception of the Divine which is the Self (Ātman) within. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Kamala Venkatraman : By ourselves beginning to daily read. The individual ever is the nucleus of a prospective movement. Historically it has been so and so shall it remain. Hence, by ourselves reading religiously his works, we can set in motion a mighty movement overtime which shall catch the wind and influence change that will alter the destiny of this nation. We have with a small group of individuals initiated such a movement and it has been carrying on for a month now, this collective movement of ours. Join in if you will and add fuel to it. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty: Yes, that is an associated factor in this sādhana as well, a secondary feature in terms of receiving environmental help---primary in the case of association with Divine Incarnations or Avatars, the rarest of rare phenomenon, where divine grace directly, often instantly transforms human consciousness---and flourishing within that atmosphere, but carrying on nonetheless with individual effort providing primary means for achieving advancement in the spiritual path. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Suvadeep Sen : What an irony! What a shame! Each one of us need to actively participate in the grand project of reviving the Bengali language.
Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : The demographic danger looming large. Bengal in peril.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : It is to the political parties in power that one looks for just governance in the country.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : Here administrative justice is being hinted at, the execution of law in governance instead of its infringement as is the wont in our benighted state these days quite evidently.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : That is what the junior doctors are protesting against and seeking redress for, which they have termed 'justice'. The administration has failed consistently on multiple counts regarding the R.G.Kar episode which is but the tip of the deep-seated unlawful activity nexus that has drawn public ire in the titular form '#Wewantjustice.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : That you must tell the junior doctors by meeting them personally and conveying the message with conviction and force enough to convince. Who knows? they may listen to you. Also make sure that you address the vast body of protesting citizens as well and bring them to your sense of civic sanity.
Sugata Bose @Sulekha Basu : রচনা প্রলম্বিত হয়েই চলেছে | অনুগ্রহ করে সম্পূর্ণটি পাঠ করবেন সমাপনান্তে | জানিয়ে দেব পূর্ণ হলে |
Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Do not imitate the West, western modes and mores, western ideas and ideals, western manners and mannerisms. Be Indian in every sense. To be rooted to one's soil is stability and life; to be transplanted unduly is fragility and death.
Competition must not corrode your career. Let confidence career your life's course. Comparisons are odious and arise from the desire to outwit others and in the process often getting outwitted and thence suffering from complexes. Self-containment and contentment are the way out of this toxic turn of events. We are free and must assert our freedom. We must not live in constant bondage to this world that shifts its allegiance every moment, this faithless harlot that squeezes our vitality dry before dumping us in the deathbin. Why live such a life of constant stress, perennial strain on the self than can never rest in peace under such fluctuating fortunes? Give yourself rest and peace, detached performance of work done not to satiate ambition but for chittashuddhi (purification of the mind-stuff). You will be healthier, happier and fulfilled through this altered course of action. And this is Karma Yoga.
Sugata Bose @Susanta Mullick : Join our VIVEKANANDA READING MOVEMENT and help spread the word through self-absorption and wide propagation. Swamiji must come alive in the life of the polity.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : Hyper-curiosity about others is bad. Curiosity be better restricted to impersonal subjects for civilisational good.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : Do not be unduly presumptuous about other's attainments, especially of those who you do not know personally. It is simply bad culture to barge into people's private affairs.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : Again you are being presumptuous. Without knowing me personally you are simply assuming things. I will not let you be privy to my personal affairs in the least bit. That is my prerogative in maintaining dignity and decency in public fora.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : I only know that you are terribly uncivil and that you need to rectify stance. I was taught in early childhood not to pry into others' personal affairs by way of maintaining decency of civic culture and I have ever since abided by that norm. Under no circumstance have I violated that parental injunction, nay, wholesome lesson imparted me in my early efflorescence. Swamiji who is my life's polestar has enjoined us not to reveal personal details in public as it is immoral and irreligious to do so. Your abiding interest in my affairs and presumptions about my attainments is a trifle irritating, especially as you persist in such folly despite not receiving my assent to such inquisitiveness. I could have easily argued my point pertinent to the post in another way but chose not to as I thought it more socially relevant to point out that such curiosity about others' affairs which incur their displeasure ought not to be undertaken, especially when one has been exhorted to refrain from it. Hence.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : You are being presumptuous and utterly uncivil. Anything wholesome for the nation may and must be exhorted by citizens who care for their country and fellow citizens. Individual scholarship or otherwise in such cases is irrelevant.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : This was by way of making someone, as impervious as he may be to civil reasoning, pervious to my line of thinking.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : You seem inordinately interested in seemonising me when all that I care about is to awaken my fellow countrymen to their civilisational good. Such absurd interest in my personal affairs is extraneous to the import and implication of the post and betrays a deflection quite unbecoming of one who for all intents and purposes other than this abiding interest in my personal affairs seems a decent enough individual with a wholesome concern for the nation. Better be focused on national affairs than bother me with irritants such as these personal queries which hardly resonate well with a civic conversation.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : It is my civilisational responsibility that I discharge as a servant of society, the society or samāj which Swamiji has in sublime terms addressed as the shadow of Mahāmāyā, and I shall continue to do so irrespective of carping criticism or caustic comments made by puny people of no better disposition than to do so at anything good undertaken by anyone for national welfare. How does it bother the elephant while passing through the mart when common curs raise their barks, as the celebrated saying goes? Besides you are engaging me in my best-loved vocation, that of writing a series of quick repartee, although it must be admitted that these personal forays of yours are a bit irritating.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : It is the biggest insult you have in your life made in regard to the great sage, my life's ideal, the god of India, Swami Vivekananda by assuming me even in sarcasm to be his reincarnated being. Better insult me direct than him thus by such unseemly insinuation.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Chakrabarty : Are you my master sitting in judgement over my knowledge about Swamiji? I must say I have indulged you a trifle too long.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Please visit my profile wall and find these passages from Swamiji instead of relying on your home page to do so, for the latter course will lead to partial discovery of my aforesaid posts which in the full are so pertinent to our mutual mission in awakening the citizenry to the light of Swamiji's message.
Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Progressive Islamisation, though the word 'progressive' as pun is a linguistic punishment inflicted on these ignoramuses who have forgotten their Sanatan roots owing to sustained brainwashing over generations which is the fundamental way of this fanatical faith whose objective is to destroy all other faiths and establish its singular hegemony.
Sugata Bose @Jawhar Sircar : গোমাংস খেয়ে কুসংস্কারমুক্ত হয়নি হিন্দু, ধর্মভ্রষ্ট হয়েছে | কুসংস্কারমুক্তির প্রকৃত ও প্রকৃষ্ট উপায় পবিত্রতা, ব্রহ্মচর্য, ঈশ্বরপ্রেম, ত্যাগ, বৈরাগ্য, সৎ-অসৎ বিচার, তপস্যা, তিতিক্ষা, সত্যপরায়ণতা, মনঃসংযম, নিষ্কাম কর্মসম্পাদনাদি সদ্গুণসাধন ও বিকাশ যার দ্বারা অন্তঃশক্তি জাগ্রত হয় ও কুলকুণ্ডলিনী জাগরণহেতু দিব্যজ্ঞান ও দিব্যপ্রেমের যুগপৎ স্ফুরণ হয় | জন্মজন্মার্জিত সংস্কাররাশি নিছক গোমাংস ভক্ষণে সহসা বিলুপ্ত হয় না | চিত্তের ওপর অগণিত জন্মের যে ছাপ পড়ে, তা বহু আয়াসসাধ্য দূর করা এবং একমাত্র সিদ্ধগুরু প্রদর্শিত যথাযথ যোগমার্গেই তা সম্ভব হয় | 🕉
Sugata Bose @Swami Arthobodhananda : Maharaj, with due respect it must be pointed out that your entire write-up, while certainly contentious, is littered with a couple of spelling errors and grammatical and spacing errors galore. Greater punctiliousness and accuracy in execution are deemed necessary for national perfection to be approximated aa is our aspired end. However, I thoroughly endorse your stated view about shallow devotion and online exhibition of such, societal traits that are indicative of degradation of common character and symptomatic of a civilisational downfall, if even temporary, before prophetic intervention restores equilibrium, perchance, as history has repeatedly testified to. Pranām. 🕉
[An amusing conversation :
Debaprasad Bhattacharya @Sugata Bose : Can the Hirakrani tolerate?
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Tolā rate!
Debaprasad Bhattacharya @Sugata Bose Isn't that fixed by the rani herself?
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Rains money in Rani's reign. One was Rāshmoni, the other one Rushmoney.]
Sugata Bose @Ramakant Tiwari : I am supporting. Likeminded ones are supporting as well. But the Shudrayug is on and brāhmanical privilege is going. Hence, a reactionary wave is afoot everywhere as the proletariat, suppressed for ages, gain power. Who can resist this evolutionary tide? Can brāhmans bereft of Sanskrit learning and seeking money or servitude of the capitalists do so? No, karma has its inexorable flow which is inviolable. The collective will will prevail, come what may. The brāhmanical age is gone, the kshatriya age is gone. This vaishya age is on but will not last. It will also go and the shudra age will prevail everywhere. Through all this churn the masses are being liberated. But as quantity increases, quality declines, they being inversely related somehow. So, as the brāhmans and the kshatriyas lose ground, culture declines with the rise of the vaishyas and further precipitates with the rise of the shudras. The task ahead is to arrest this downward decline of culture and civilisation for the sake of preservation at least of what has been best in human heritage. Here the preservation of brāhmanical culture becomes pertinent and to that end it is our responsibility to work without ascribing ulterior political motivations to it or the perfidious aim of securing pecuniary advantages in the classically corrupt way.
Culture must be saved. Else, civilisation will be decimated. Spirituality is the quintessence of culture and the brāhmans as a community of genetically highly endowed people as yet hold the key to it. It is their duty to defend the Sanatan Dharma, pure and simple, and open the gateway to its locked treasures for the masses to gain nourishment from. That will bridge the gap between the upper and lower varnas and those who are devoid of varna. For this the brāhmans must first recover their linguistic heritage, that of Sanskrit learning and then pass on knowledge to the other varnas, most importantly the toiling masses who are the backbone of the race and the nation thereof. It is a civilisational recovery act, a veritable mission to be accomplished, but it must be done if national life and world spirituality is to be saved. 🕉
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