COMMENTS GALORE ... 81

COMMENTS GALORE ... 81

Sugata Bose @Supriti Datta : Oh, I thought you meant Deen-e-Islam.

Sugata Bose @Supriti Datta : 'Sifting'? You mean society is selectively picking up what is beneficial to it while discarding what is deems regressive? Or, is it that you mean 'shifting', that is, society is shifting stance, moving away from traditional trappings and opening itself up to democratic human rights, liberty, equality et al which are the hallmarks of modernity and progressiveness?

Sugata Bose @Supriti Datta : True enough. The present progressiveness is very often a convenient cover for age-old exploitation of the masses, apologies for the sustenance of medieval regressive practices and a blind pursuit of ideological utopia whose career course is unknown, uncharted as its path of future progression is. Society like a river meanders along, often draining its resources in the desert sand of infertility, having lost its moorings in time-honoured traditions which despite accretion deserving weeding yet carry the seeds of perpetual renewal along wholesome lines as opposed to present-day wokism which threatens to uproot society and plant it in the vacuousness of social absurdities.

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : This book will be the beacon in your life that is now being tossed on the tempestuous ocean of limitless fanatical faith-based ignorance. Swamiji is at his conversational best here as he sweeps through the gamut of ideas and issues that face man in his temporal and transcendental struggle for life and light. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Parivrajika Shantihridaya : আর মন কিসের মধ্যে ?

Sugata Bose @Mitali Brahma : সাহসিকতার দ্বারা | স্বামীজীর বই পড়ুন প্রত্যহ | বীরাঙ্গনা হোন |

Sugata Bose @Chandan Bhattacharjee : One has to be valorous. Cowardice and compromise are killing the very spirit of the movement that was initiated to galvanise the country and the world unto indomitable life-giving action. The spirit has long ebbed and the movement is now a shadow of the past, largely owing to the spineless nature of the ordinary citizen from amongst whose collection called society are drawn the members of the monastic and the lay devotees. It is upto individuals like us to shed hypocrisy and cowardice, pompous unlived preaching and tall talk, and to galvanise ourselves unto bold words and bolder deeds that are the dire necessity of this ventilating hour when society is precipitating into its nadir. And the first thing we ought to learn is to appreciate each other's work, to cheer each other en route to driving to the destination divine. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Monalisa Paul : Don't even grieve for the Buddha, for the Buddha is not a person but a realisation, said the Buddha on his death-bed to his beloved and grieving disciple, Ānanda. 

Grieve that you are still grieving, and then grieve not. 

The Geeta says, 'Ashochyan anvashochastvam prajnā vādamscha bhāshasey/ Gatāsungshcha na agatāsungshcha nānushochanti panditā.' ('You are lamenting for those who you ought not to lament for and yet you utter words of wisdom. But the wise ones do not grieve for the dead or for the living.') This is Krishna's admonition of Arjuna in his mood of abject surrender to fear masquerading as love for his kinsmen in the field of war.

Everything is ephemeral, in a continuous flux, in the ever-changing cycle of momentary existence with no permanent basis in an enduring essence called the Atman/Brahman. So say the Buddhists. The Advaitists, on the other hand, hold that to the impermanent appearance of phenomena there is a permanent unchanging basis in the Atman/Brahman. 

Both schools of realisation and thought (the Buddhist and the Advaitist), however, uphold the impermanence of this world of name and form, and both agree on the point that one should not grieve for phenomenal things. Hence.

Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : Why do Muslms shave off their moustache while donning the beard?

Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : Sad fate that befalls the civilised at the hands of barbarians. Golden Egypt became regressive Arabic post Islamisation. 

Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : Even worse are the apologies on behalf of Islam. They must defend the cult using Greek philosophy or convoluted logic, twisting text and sectionally quoting, and using all sorts of deception and deflection, Al Taqqiah at every step.

Sugata Bose @Avinash Garg : But you will need a lot of pluck to pull this one out. Can you generate that much floral love in your heart to do the job? That will be weeding, sorry, gardening indeed.

Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : 

Love is in the air

Eating phuchkā with great care.

Sitting on the chair

And in secret making bare

The mouth in vanity fair

For a piece of 'love' to share.

If in spite of covered hair

And face and figure, thou dare

To rise in rebellious stare,

Thou truly art the rare

In this lovers' phuchka fare.

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AL TAQQIAH IN THE TERM 'ISLAMOPHOBIA'

 AL TAQQIAH IN THE TERM 'ISLAMOPHOBIA'

'Phobia' means the irrational fear of something. But given its track record, fundamental principles and history since inception, fear of Islam is very rational. Hence, the coinage of the term 'Islamophobia' and its wide currency is merely to shut down criticism of Islam as a political ideology which in effect helps proliferate the faith among the gullible masses of the world who are ignorant of the theological principles of Islam and their application in the life of the believer. 

Any ideology should be open to rational scrutiny, discussion, discourse and debate, and so must Islam like all else be subjected to open scrutiny. Such scrutiny and criticism are part and parcel of democratic civilised life and must not be met with violence by easily offended believers. Freedom of speech and expression must be upheld irrespective of its temporary costs where violence results from frenzied mobs. Such violence must instead be dealt with heavily by the law enforcement agencies and duly adjudicated by the courts of law, keeping free expression unfettered. Else, rogues will have their field day everytime and keep shutting down the right to critique and criticise regressive principles which retard human evolution in its wake. The term 'Islamophobia' must be seen in its due light and not as a convenient shield for saving the faith from rightful criticism.

Written by Sugata Bose

THEY FALTER, THEY FUMBLE, THEY FALL BUT THEY FAIL NOT TO RISE AND RUN AGAIN

THEY FALTER, THEY FUMBLE, THEY FALL BUT THEY FAIL NOT TO RISE AND RUN AGAIN

Children falter but learn to run eventually. So also masses of faltering humanity. Why condemn? Love and grease the path free of the unseemly obstacles that lie hindering the forward progression. The tide of civilisation must ride its run through the thick and thin of the terrain. Work at reducing the burden, making the path smoother for the pilgrims who traverse through the dark night of ignorance to the dewy dawn of the awakening sun. Errors are in course, not sin as Abrahamic scripturally suggested. Learn to see the true face of things through the forbearing eye of wisdom and love fused. These are temporary phases in the onward march of the Grande Armee. They are not to be deemed terminal movements. The middle phase we are in and the middle phase refines and shifts but does not thereby become the climactic phase of collective evolution. The end is far off for the general mass of humanity, the perfected individual merely running ahead of course to bring in the news of the sunlit summit as yet unscaled by the vast populace. 

Love, patience, forbearance and sympathy coupled with the light of knowledge will ensure the survival of our civilisation. It is in the interest of humanity that the Sanatan Dharma should survive. For that to happen, Hindus need to survive, for they are the carriers of the golden tradition of yhe Upanishads that in a thousand streams now flow from its Himalayan habitat onto the fertile plains where living humanity farms the fields and reaps the harvest of life.

Written by Sugata Bose

THE SINE WAVE OF SPIRITUALITY ... 1

 

THE SINE WAVE OF SPIRITUALITY ... 1

The stalwarts of the Ramakrishna Mission are largely gone. But what remains is powder enough to produce future stalwarts through the coming decades despite the clearly evident decline in cultural standards throughout the world which has evidently affected the Ramakrishna Mission as well. 

Society throws up monks and in a descent of cultural standards it is but natural that the quality of individuals in every sphere of human endeavour must decline. Monastics also arise from the said society and necessarily bear the signature of its current state. However, the ideals of the Ramakrishna Mission are exalted and if they are scrupulously adhered to instead of making convenient compromises with the copper coin, the Mission could lead society towards a higher order of existence instead of itself declining to a standard that may not be termed strictly spiritual. 

Apologetics notwithstanding, it is the duty of a spiritual order to be the beacon to the faltering societal ship in a rough sea of raging billows. How far the Mission is willing to compromise with the commercial age is to be seen before one may pass a definitive judgement on its future prospects. As of now there is a lull in its spiritual presence despite a plethora of insipid programmes periodically videocast online. Great renunciates who would invoke shraddhā in prospective devotees are almost not there. Lectures delivered by monks are generally insipid and uninspiring as one can clearly feel that these are unlived words, unrealised principles merely being churned out of the rational mind and not from the depths of the illumined Spirit. However, all this seems a passing phase and I am hopeful that with the passage of time and with the tasting of the bitter fruits of business, spiritual sanity will return to the Order the way it ought to be to claim for itself the name of the peerless Paramahamsa of Dakshineshwar, now hopefully still housed in the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, the Belur Math. A new generation of monks, young, idealistic and energetic must raise the banner of the Mission once more and render it seminally creative again. And they are coming! Long live the Mission!

Written by Sugata Bose

MESSAGES GALORE ... 96

MESSAGES GALORE ... 96

1. Superstition must be shunned before spirituality dawns.

2. Creative people always maintain independence of thought. Else, personality wanes, creativity suffers.

3. So, where do we stand today regarding Netaji's disappearance? What is the inferential stand of genuine disinterested researchers?

4. We need a certain streamlining of the Sanatan Dharma along the line of fusion of the ancient Vedanta and modern science. Once that is done, future generations will be spared the roguery of charlatans and will be empowered to judiciously follow thd pristine principles of the Dharma. That for sure will strengthen the citadels of our civilisation and culture and help usher in brighter days.

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কাশীপুর উদ্যানবাটিতে কর্কটক্লীষ্ট ঠাকুরের নরেনকে চাপরাশ প্রদান |

6. মানুষের অবস্থা অন্তঃসত্ত্বা নারীর গর্ভে প্রসবোন্মুখ জীবের ন্যায় | From conception to delivery is the progreesion of evolving man. Upon delivery begins free life, the rambling of the liberated soul through endless stretches of space and time, and of the frozen consciousness beyond.

7. চৈতন্যের চাপে চলে অংশচৈতন্য জীব অমাবস্যা হতে পূর্ণিমার তরে |

8. Be concentrated and creative. Learn to be creative and absolutely focussed. Concentrate with devastating power. Do not spray about your mental rays.

9. It disgusts me to see people converting to Islam when the faith has no philosophy whatsoever and is pronouncedly regressive.

10. Speaking the truth is a habit that is cultivated early in a person. If not, it never is. 

11. Character indeed is a rare thing to come by. Perfect truthfulness seems to be the sine qua non for character-formation.

12. In an open philosophical debate with a learned and realised Vedantist Muslim and Christian polemicists will be blown away.

13. Love is what cures the maladies of life. And there is no limit to this love. It can cascade through all.

14. The sun sees me often but the moon hides behind clouds.

15. আত্মচৈতন্য স্থীত | আপাত মনের আপাত আন্দোলনে দেশকালের আপাত বিক্ষেপ নিমিত্তাকার ধারণ করেছে | তাই জীববুদ্ধি | তাই জগতপ্রপঞ্চচের প্রতীতি |

16. Persecution complex results from insufficient rational training.

17. বসন্তকালের বৃষ্টি আসন্ন |

18. গৃহিণীদের স্বামীজীর বই পড়া উচিত |

19. পুরুষকে অত্যাচার করার মধ্যে কোন স্ত্রী-স্বাধীনতা ?

20. সংসারে ঝড়ের এঁটো পাতা হয়ে থাকা সহজ নয় |

21. দু'হাত ছাড়া তালি বাজে না | এ কথা প্রায়ই বলা হয় এটা বোঝানোর জন্য যে দুজন মানুষের সমভাবে যোগগান না থাকলে কোনো অপ্রীতিকর পরিস্থিতি সংসারে উপস্থিত হয় না | কিন্তু একজন মানুষের দুই হাতেও তো তালি দিব্যি বাজে ও সংসার তালিবান শাসনে পরিণত হতে পারে | তাহলে ?

22. একদিকে ধূপকাঠিতে অগ্নিসংযোগে ধর্মাচারণের ক্রিয়াবিলাস আর অপরদিকে মুখাগ্নিসংযোগে সংসারকে দহন---চমৎকার চলেছে গৃহস্থাশ্রম ! এই না হলে ধর্মবোধ ?

23. It takes 'super divine' powers in me to restrain the projection and harbouring thereof of negative emotions towards those who seemingly habitually neglect me.

24. জীবনসায়াহ্নে ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর আদর্শের অবমাননা দেখে যারপরনাই পীড়িত বোধ করি | এখন নিজদুঃখমোচনে নিজদুঃখবহন করা ছাড়া উপায় দেখি না | অবশ্য, উপায় এক আছে---ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর প্রদর্শিত পথে আদর্শপালনে আত্মবলিদান | মৃত্যু যখন সুনিশ্চিত, তখন মহান ব্রতাবলম্বনে জীবন উৎসর্গ করার চেয়ে মহৎ আর কি আছে ?

25. Women cannot absolve themselves from due criticism just like men cannot do so. Both are culpable for persecuting each other.

26. Swamiji wanted us to be manly in every movement of life. Art, literature, music, diction, gait, behaviour---culture in its comprehensive wholeness, in its diverse manifestations must all exhibit a measure of manhood that strengthens the soul, lifts it upward and weans it away from the debasing features of sensuous life, careering it toward the divine destination, Self-realisation. 🕉

27. I write to myself in this body and in kindred souls.

28. Does secular democracy mean that five times a day non-Muslims must be forced to hear over the loudspeaker that the Islamic God is the greatest? That is a strange way of establishing equal rights for all?

29. Does secular democracy mean that five times a day non-Muslims must be forced to hear over the loudspeaker that the Islamic God is the greatest? That is a strange way of establishing equal rights for all? Does equality of man not presuppose the idea of equality of principle and the supreme principle for all? Then why this inequality of Godhead, this superiority of the Islamic God over the Gods and Goddesses of all other religions in the land of democratic equality of citizens? Is it not a violation of the core concept of democracy, a blatant contradiction in terms, a power-positing of a certain theological principle over all else? Can it be truly justified in philosophical terms whose lower derivative merely is all legal allowance?

30. We should learn to appreciate each other for work well done, out of good feeling and sympathy and not by way of patronisation. It requires a big heart to do so. Mutual appreciation where due kindles greater individual and national output.

31. কী চেয়েছিলেন স্বামীজী আর কী হল !

32. Words are words but they are life and light.

33. Seal the bond once and for all, never to break, never to change. Speak with passion and power, intensity and inspiration, love and longing, dream and desire, aspiration and anticipation. Thus is the Divine is realised.

34. We need a massive Hindu revival. For this the Upanishads must be our guide. Swamiji's works are our modern Upanishads.

35. 'Moderate Islam' means 'Makki Islam' whereas 'Radical Islam' means 'Madinah Islam'. Read the Qur'an for clarification.

36. What radical Islamic organisations are doing in Europe, let them try their luck in China and find out the consequence.

37. The left and the right meet at their extreme ends. Such is the structure of political space.

38. 'Left, left, left-right- left. Backward march.'

39. Fear is the first thing you should cast off. Then come to fighting for the cause of the Dharma.

40. ভয় পেয়ো না | 'লজ্জা, ঘৃণা, ভয়---এ তিন থাকতে নয় |' ঠাকুরের এই বাণীটি অক্ষরে অক্ষরে পালন করব আমরা---এই সঙ্কল্প নেবো, সিদ্ধ হব এই মন্ত্রার্থ অনুভবে | যে রামকৃষ্ণভক্ত, তার আবার ভয় কি ?

41. Cowardice is sin, cowardice misery. Cowardice kills before the appointed hour arrives.

42. Those who are brave---the Lord takes care of them.

43. The more you fear, the more fear will grip you. This fear comes from the idea that you are body which you are not. So, shed it.

44. This clinging to the photograph of Thakur is directly opposed to his fundamental teaching---bodilessness, that is, the Spirit.

45. Christopher Hitchens was such a great man. Simply nonpareil. What diction! What delivery! What devastating wit and rapier-sharp intelligence! What waltzing through the written word of the world and what a verbal and literary outpouring thereof! We shall never see the like of him again.

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WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 2

WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 2

Our country is getting rapidly Islamised. Rogue politicians are paving the way for the advancement of Islam in India. Their lust for power is rapidly creating conditions for the destruction of the Sanatan civilisation. Once Muslim-majority obtains in India, her state will be what it was for centuries during Islamic rule, what has always been the state of Sharia-ruled Islamic states. For Islam is opposed to democracy, far more secularism, and is the rule of the Divine Dictator with a single holy book its avowed Constitutional basis. The Constitution of India will survive so long as Hindus are in the majority. Once the demographic balance tilts the other way, it will be amended beyond recognition, even perhaps annulled and replaced by one following the blueprint of the so-called Madinah Constitution. 

Indian civilisation has predominantly been Hindu or its variant in being Buddhist, Jain and Sikh in the tide of times. The Abrahamic faiths have forced their way in through conquest or eased their way in through the gullibility of Hindu kings who scarce suspected the toxic turn such allowance of entry would in course of time take. Centuries of raids, invasion, conquest and proselytism have supplanted much of Hindu culture with Islamic and Christian culture but have not succeeded in completely eliminating the Sanatan civilisation. This is because the erstwhile India or the Indian subcontinent is a vast landmass which was peopled with a huge population who could not be easily suppressed and converted, geographical and political conditions being such. But vast sections of the territory and the inhabitants were Islamised which eventually bore its toxic fruit in Partition. 

The Hindu-Muslim problem was sought to be solved by partitioning the country and assigning the Muslims a separate homeland for them to pursue their 'deen'. While Pakistan got her pound of flesh, the problem continued to fester in India with successive governments pandering to the vanities of India's residual Muslim population to gain electoral advantage over their political adversaries, a trend that has now turned so toxic that with the demographic balance shifting, it augurs not well for the sociopolitical stability of the country in the coming decades. Hindu India culturally and secular India politically are in danger of being run over by the radically different culture of Islam unless, of course, this ideological and in consequence the demographic war is won by the Hindus. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

IS IDOL THE IDEAL THEN?

IS IDOL THE IDEAL THEN?

The principle counts, not so much the personality. The latter illustrates the former and, hence, catches the public imagination. Gross we are and the grosser part comprehend. Thus, principle is lost in personality and the universal degenerates into the individual. Photographs appending posts invariably do this. The message is lost in the form, the substance lost in the image. And this is idolatry indeed.

Written by Sugata Bose

WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 1

WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 1

The growing threat to India today is progressive Islamisation. This has been happening since 636 CE when the first Islamic raids in the Indian subcontinent began and it reached its toxic peak in Partition in 1947. It was then thought that the partition of India would be the solution to the Hindu-Muslim problem. A transfer of population would solve the otherwise seemingly intractable problem. Ambedkar was in favour of a gradual complete transfer of population, perhaps over the next decade or so, as partial transference would keep the seeds of dissension alive and freshly brew problems in the future. But owing to the sudden partition of India in 1947 such a complete transfer of population was not possible and large masses of people belonging to both the religious communities stayed back in their homelands, namely, India and Pakistan. The issue of the residual minority populations was sought to be solved by the Nehru-Liaquat Pact of 1950 but predictably it was not solved, rather the problem with passing years became worse till we are now facing close to a similar situation in India today, Pakistan and Bangladesh having already settled the issue with the annihilation of Sanātan culture and Sanātanis in their typically Islamic way of kafir-treatment. Now India remains the last frontier for Ghazwa-e-Hind. 

To be continued...

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo: top--Jawaharlal Nehru; bottom--Liaquat Ali Khan

YOUR HIGHNESS HISTORIAN SIR!

YOUR HIGHNESS HISTORIAN SIR!

Inaccuracy in articulation and expression is the order of the day. This stems from shallow knowledge, poor concentration, hyper-estimation of one's intellectual capacity and the glaring greed for seeking the limelight at any cost. 

In an age of proliferating online avenues of self-expression it is but natural that much of what will be dished out as history will in reality be garbage. Romila Thapar, notwithstanding her leftist leanings which may irritate neonationalists, was right when she remarked that today there are two types of historians, the real historians who are trained to study the sources of information and do their due analyses, and the social media historians who peddle a whole lot of unverified data that then is poorly analysed to arrive at half-baked inferences. This is nothing but the truth. Today what is doing the rounds as dished-out history online is ill-digested stray bits of information gleaned online and reproduced imperfectly with an assumed authority of sorts. Prior to this recent trend in the popular presentation of history, never heard a historian call himself a historian in public repeatedly nor a professor shamelessly publicise himself as professor. 

What a age of self-advertisement this has been reduced to! What an age of superficiality indeed! What an age of raucous television journalism! Alas, what an age of plummeting culture!

Written by Sugata Bose

রাম নাম সত্য হয়

রাম নাম সত্য হয়

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ছোটবেলা থেকে সব ধর্ম সমান সত্য, এই মিথ্যা শিক্ষা দিয়ে হিন্দু সন্তানদের ক্লীব করে রেখেছেন ও তাদের স্বধর্মের প্রতি বিশেষ আনুগত্যের পথে বাধাস্বরূপ হয়ে দাঁড়িয়েছেন বিশিষ্ট জনেরা ও বিশিষ্ট সঙ্ঘেরা | সব ধর্মই যখন সমান সত্য তখন হিন্দু ধর্ম থাকলেই বা কি আর গেলেই বা কি ? ইসলাম ও খ্রীষ্টধর্ম তো রইল | তাহলেই হল | গরুর মাংস খেলেই বা কি আর না খেলেই বা কি ? হিন্দু ধর্ম ত্যাগ করে ইসলাম গ্রহণ করে নিকাহ্ করলেই বা কি ? প্রেমই ধর্ম, তাই না ? ইসলামের তাড়নে দেশ ত্রিখণ্ডিত হলেই বা কি ? ও তো ভৌগলিক ব্যবধানমাত্র, থোরী সাংস্কৃতিক বিভাজন ? ইসলাম আর খ্রীষ্টধর্মের প্রসারে ভারত সনাতন ধর্মমুক্ত হলেই বা কি ? ওই দুটো ধর্মও তো সনাতন ধর্মের ঈশ্বরের কথাই অন্য ভাষায় বলে | তাই নয় কি ? সর্বধর্ম সমন্বয় সাধন করতে গিয়ে যদি সনাতন ধর্ম ব্যবহারিকভাবে লোপ পায়, তাতেই বা কি ? থাকবে তো তাও সনাতন ধর্ম প্রকৃতির বুকে মানবমনের অন্তরালে অবিনশ্বর | তাই নয় কি ? অতএব, হিন্দু তার ক্লীবত্বে, ভোগেচ্ছায়, কাপুরুষতায় নিশ্চিন্ত | কিসের দরকার হিন্দুত্বের ? কিসের প্রয়োজন ধর্মরক্ষার্থে ধর্মযুদ্ধের ? চলো ভাই বাজনা বাজাই সর্বধর্ম সমন্বয়ের | সাথে ঢোল পেটাবো সনাতনের অন্ত্যেষ্টক্রিয়ার | রাম নাম সত্য হয় |

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

আলোকচিত্র : কে মানে এঁকে ?

DHARMA THAT IS SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

DHARMA THAT IS SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

The Sanatan Dharma is spiritual science. Hence it must be constantly scrutinised scientifically and updated in its phenomenal portions, its affirmation of the Absolute having been validated countless number of times through the transcendental experience of sages. Nonetheless, like a scientific theory is tested and retested, so must the averments of the Sanatan Dharma be put to spiritual scrutiny by following the prescribed paths and their validation or otherwise duly arrived at before accepting or rejecting the stated principles. Mere denunciation on biased basis is not the scientific way nor is blind faith of much value. Rationality must for sure be the ground for judgement but it must be inclusive reason that is not disconnected from spiritual experience, and not dry play of gross ideas and words. Sincerity in exploration is the key. 

Written by Sugata Bose

MESSAGES GALORE ... 96

MESSAGES GALORE ... 96

1. If a religion is cloaked fascism, shall we denounce it? Or shall we venerate it as a valid path to God however violent it may be?

2. Is the harmony of antithetical religions ever possible or is it a puerile proposition of the wise unlearned?

3. 

ব্রহ্ম যেথা,

সেথা সব কই ?

আর, সব যেথা,

সেথা ব্রহ্ম কই ?

4. 

একে ছিলেম ভাল |

এই দুইয়ে করেছে গোল ||

5. সৌজন্য সভ্যতার ভূষণ | কিন্তু ভূষণের পৃষ্ঠে সত্যবস্তু চাই | নইলে কিসের সভ্যতা?

6.

Scriptural study often makes a person heartless as over-rationalisation breeds its toxic progeny. But that must not be, for it is the heart that is at the heart of spirituality and renders it fertile. Reasoning that is abstruse is for intellectual pleasure alone if not appended with loving service of sentience. The combination of head and heart in the right proportion is conducive to human welfare and never the one divorced from the other.

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo: Raja Rammohun Roy, the pathfinder of the modern age in India, a seminal being of many parts, social and religious reformer, author, founder of the Bengali prose, Vedanta scholar, champion of the free press, founder of the Brahmo Samaj, successful campaigner for the abolition of Sati, multilingual intellectual, philanthropist, educationist, Hindu legal expert, poet, lyricist, composer, literally a polymath, a polyglot, a genius of staggeringly diverse talent but above all a wondrous synthesis of head and heart.

7. 

Why can't the Ramakrishna Mission give out a clarion call to Hindus not to convert to Islam and Christianity? Would that take away their apolitical status? Is defending the Hindus then to be deemed politics? Both Sri Ramakrishna and Swami were dead against conversion. Why can't the Mission be so? Why can't they be vocal about it? That would do the Hindus a world of good. Why this apathy on the part of the Mission, this utter indifference?

8. গীতায় ভগবান অধর্মনাশের জন্য যুদ্ধ করতে বলেছেন | অথচ কোনো গীতা ব্যাখ্যাতাকে যুদ্ধের আহ্বান দিতে দেখি না |

9. One does not meet God postmortem. One realises God, that is, the Atman, here and now.

10. Religions differ in their narratives and claims which is why they are suspect. Faith cannot be absolved of scientific scrutiny.

11. Who has seen God beyond himself? The self may enlarge but cannot be exceeded, for it is the Self in the final analysis.

12. Promote science and you promote both light and power. The nation can march ahead only on the shoulders of Vedānt and Vijnān. Original research needed, not supplementary work to western attainment. Deep thinking along challenging creative lines the call of the hour, not a conformist attitude that uncritically bows down to authority stemming from tradition. The scientific spirit must be kindled in the country, not superstition that stifles creativity. Human genius must not be laid waste thus by thrusting garbage on it in the form of irrational data galore that curb the spirit of critical inquiry.

13. Post the internet revolution there has been a proliferation of online ignorance masquerading as knowledge of Indian history.

14. If writers have to censor their literary self-expression, it no more remains literature. Better produce counter-literature than ban books. Let the right to express remain unfettered, free.

15. Does the universe/body know that it exists? I know it. But who am I? Consciousness projecting the trinity of space-time-causality?

16. Emperor Akbar was an Islamic apostate but none dared to charge him so and condemn him to death under the Sharia.

17. Dawah is dangerous. It is an invitation to join Islam and it is an elaborate system of seducing non-Muslims into the Islamic fold.

18. Cut the cause. The effect will cease.

19. After millions of meandering in the world of worship man gravitates to his soul and finds his own transcendental consciousness to be God. Duality dispelled, he abides in his own Absolute Self as the singular Existence-Consciousness Reality. 🕉

20.

ভারতের মূল চরিত্র---সনাতন ধর্ম, সংস্কৃতি, সভ্যতা | স্বামীজীর 'স্বদেশ মন্ত্রে' তারই প্রতিফলন | ভারতবর্ষের প্রত্যেকটি রাজনৈতিক দল এর সত্যতা যাচাই করুক, এর যাথার্থ অনুভব করুন |

21. Slaves command, masters request.

22. A God who frightens people into submission by injecting hellfear is a tyrant and no God.

23. দিনে দিনে রামগরুড়ের ছানা বৃদ্ধি পাচ্ছে | ঘরে বাইরে রসহীনতা | রসাতলে যাচ্ছে সূক্ষ্মবোধ |

24. There is no justice on earth. Neither will it be there in the hereafter. Justice will be rendered by means of karmic consequences.

25. No religion is above criticism and all must be subjected to rational scrutiny. Man has made God and it is not the other way round.

26. Boundless are you, boundless your soul, blest and free, abiding in luminous Self-consciousness. Indeed, it is strange that the infinite being that you are, you so consider yourself limited to this little self, this body bit with a little mind appended. The drop knows not that it is the ocean itself. The wave dreams of its separate existence, forgetting its oceanic self. The fragment holds itself apart from the vast whose part it is. In truth it is an indivisible whole, one unified pure consciousness, integrated existence, one unbroken state of being, blissful, free. The sky you are, not a dust particle floating, the tranquil sea you are, not its surface turbulence, the Spirit you are, not its ever-changing degeneration in body and mind. You were never born nor shall you ever die. You are the eternal witness to births and deaths of bodies floating up and down the current of time. You are the very God you so ardently worship. You are the alpha and omega of existence. There is no limit to you. 🕉

27. জীবের আন্তর্সত্তাই শিব |

28. What is detachment? Detachment is floating on the ocean of life.

29. Atman is greater than God, so to say, as God is manifestation and Atman is the Real, God is relative and Atman is the Absolute.

30. God realises the Atman while Atman projects God.

31. The Vedanta is the last word on religion, not Islam or Christianity. The Vedanta alone speaks of the Atman/Brahman. Hence.

32. It is cowardice to control others. It is courage to let all abide in freedom. Faith fanatics are cowards.

33. If a faith feels it must dominate the world, its days are numbered.

34. There is no closure to the Avatār line unlike the terminal Islamic claim on the prophetic line.

35. There is nothing called Islamism or radical Islam. It is simply Islam.

36. The religiocultural invasion of our country led eventually to Partition. And yet the invasion continues. Will Bharat survive?

37. There is no Hell. Give up all fear of Hellfire. Live free of fear happily. Shubha Sarasvati Puja! 🕉

38. 

পাঁচ বছরের খুকি,

মারছে দেখো উঁকি |

হামা শেষে দৌড়ে বেড়ায়

নিয়ে মস্ত ঝুঁকি ||

39. Monotheists are monotheists, always behind. MAN is well and clear ahead of God.

40. The greatest person ever born on earth by a distance is Sri Ramakrishna.

41. Islam defends itself using Greek philosophy, itself being based on faith and not philosophy. What a predicament!

42. We, Hindus, have the highest conception of God in the Atman/Brahman which the Abrahamic faiths do not have. Hence, the Sanatan Dharma is superior to the others. 🕉

43. Monotheism as a spiritual way is way lower than the non-dualism of the Vedanta. This One God idea is inferior.

44. The Indian identity is essentially Hindu. 🕉

45. If you want to serve the cause of the Hindus, read Sitaram Goel and Ram Swarup (Voice of India Publications).

46. The descent of God is not from the heavens but from the depths of consciousness.

47. চৈতন্যলোক হতে অবতরণ, কোনো স্বর্গ হতে নয় |

48. রাজনৈতিক তোষণনীতির ফলে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের যে উত্তরোত্তর ইসলামীকরণ হচ্ছে তার বাংলাদেশসদৃশ বিষধর পরিণতি অবশ্যম্ভাবী |

49. If God has no progeny but only creatures, He will naturally be devoid of love for them however merciful He may be made to appear.

50. Parents are continuous gods, the progenitor line the divine chain. Hence, ancestor worship.

51. You cannot be moral, far less spiritual if you believe in the doctrine that unbelievers are to be killed. Such killing is undivine.

52. A religion expanding through war and violence is no religion. It is just an expansionist political ideology masquerading as religion.

53. Bhakti is self-unification. It is integration of the elements of the scattered self. In simpler terms it is total loving concentration on the Divine.

54. Today Bharatvarsha is largely a Hindu nation. Tomorrow will she be largely an Islamic nation? Demographic change threatens her so.

55. The love of life is the kiss of death.

56. Is fanaticism all that is there to this faith? Whither philosophy, truth, realisation of the Self? Yet must it be labelled faith?

57. Your very existence is Brahman. You in essence are That. You in non-essence are It's modification, body, mind et al.

58. God does not create, He manifests. He is not the Creator but the Manifester. God becomes phenomena through Self-modification.

59. The Vedanta must be properly preached in the West in bold manly terms and not with a double dose of effeminacy.

60. How strange that Islam should proliferate from Deoband which is the land of the Hindu gods and goddesses by its very name!

61. The birth of Islam is the most significant political event in history. Its effect is still in full force 1400 years since inception.

62. প্রকৃত শিক্ষক শিক্ষার্থীর তমোগুণ পান করেন, সেই অর্থে নীলকন্ঠ |

63. এত গীতা পাঠ করেও কর্মের ফলাকাঙ্ক্ষার প্রতি এত প্রবল আকর্ষণ ?

64. শিক্ষার মান যেভাবে নামছে, আগামী প্রজন্ম এই সভ্যতা রক্ষা করতে পারবে তো ?

65. ধর্ম, অর্থ, কাম, মোক্ষ---এই চতুর্বর্গ উদ্দেশ্য সিদ্ধি সমন্বয় রক্ষা করে করা শ্রেয় | এখন কিন্তু লোভের বশবর্তী হয়ে শুধু অর্থের প্রতি ধাবমান মানুষ | এতে সংস্কৃতির সর্ব স্তরে বিপর্যয় ঘনিয়ে আসছে |

66. To limit one's needs is to be in even proportion independent. And independence is bliss, said Swamiji.

67. Nothing exists beyond Me. But who am I? The father of God. God and the universe are twins born of Me and they die in Me each moment.

68. India produced Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and yet Indians continue to neglect their teachings. Hence, India suffers. 🕉

69. Apocalyptic faiths are a danger to the world for they are in some sense death cults intent upon the destruction of the world.

70. Brahman wears the burkhā of name and form. 🕉

71. Brahman is the highest, the deepest, the one Reality in a world of delusive dreams extending from grossest matter to subtlest God.

72. The 'I' deludes as the 'i'.

73. The purpose of education is God-realisation, in the Vedantic sense, though.

74. God's grace is eternal and endless. Hence there is nothing called the final revelation. His revelations like He Himself are endless.

75. Brahman is the greatest, Brahman is the greatest, Brahman is the greatest. 🕉 Brahman!

76. গাম্ভীর্য চাই | বড় হালকা জাতিতে রূপান্তরীত হয়েছি আমরা | রাশভারী ভাবের বড়ই অভাব | সবই যেন অবিদ্যাশ্রিত, অগভীর |

77. Does a dead man have a sense of prestige? So is the man dead to the senses.

78. They are in the montessori of religion. Guess who? Operation Desert Storm.

79. Why follow one man's injunctions forever unquestioningly? There is nothing more regressive than it.

80. If a religion remains doctrinally static, it is bound to stagnate and die. Upon continuous evolution depends the life of a faith.

81. ভগবৎ প্রেম, অর্থাৎ, আত্মপ্রেম |

82. Heaven post-mortem with infinite pleasure awaiting? What a low religious ideal! Nothing spiritual about it.

83. Who saved Christ? He saved himself. So also must you save yourselves. None else can save you.

84. Self-reliance is spirituality.

85. জীবনে যত অপমান, বৈরাগ্য তত সুদৃঢ় |

86. যুগমন্ত্র 'কামিনীকাঞ্চন ত্যাগ |' এই মহামন্ত্রের পালনেই ইষ্টসিদ্ধি, জগতকল্যাণ, ব্রাহ্মিস্থিতি |

87. গঙ্গা পবিত্র করে মানুষকে আর মানুষ পবিত্র করে গঙ্গাকে | সত্ত্ব, রজো, তমো---এই ত্রিগুণের ক্রিয়ায় জগত চলেছে ব্রহ্মাভিমুখে |

88. যাকে অপমান করো, ভুলে যাও সেও তুমি অন্যরূপে |

89. শরীরটাতো নই | তার আর মায়া কিসের ? ভগবান সমাজ রক্ষা করবেন  অন্যকরে | দায়মুক্ত পার্থিব স্তরে আমি |

90. সনাতন ধর্ম তো ব্রহ্মবিজ্ঞান | তার নাশ নেই | নাশ আছে সনাতনীর বর্বরহস্তে | তখন কে হবে ধারকবাহক সনাতন ধর্মের ?

91. আত্মা অমৃতকুম্ভ | সেই আত্মস্নান ত্রিগুণের সঙ্গমস্থলে করে মুক্ত হব সর্ববন্ধন হতে | তখন সাম্যে অবস্থান |

92. তোমার দুঃখে আমার দুঃখ, এই তো চৈতন্য |

93. এক অখণ্ড বোধ বিভাজিত ব্রহ্মাণ্ডরূপে |

94. যার কেউ নেই, তার মা আছেন |

95. সাম্যবাদ আর সাম্যবোধের মধ্যে অন্তর আছে |

96. এ শরীর থাকবে না | কাল বুদ্বুদ বাষ্পে মিলিয়ে যাবে | পড়ে থাকবে অখণ্ড জলরাশি |

97. গহন চেতনে আত্ম অন্বেষণ | দেখা মিলবে |

98. প্রকাশ সীমিত কিন্তু অখণ্ড | নামরূপে ভাঙতে পারছে না ব্রহ্মচৈতন্য |

99. আমার আদর্শ গড়ে গড়ে এগিয়ে চলেছি আমার আদর্শলোকে | সেখানে দেখা হবে আমারই সাথে ঘনচৈতন্যে |

100. সন্ন্যাসী আত্মশ্রাদ্ধকৃত সর্বত্যাগী, জগদ্গুরু, আলোকবর্তিকাস্বরূপ এই তমসাচ্ছন্ন ভূলোকে |

101. We all thirst. But where is water? In the wellspring of the heart, the source of solace, of love, of support for all.

102. 'Miracles' do not prove God. They prove human credulity and the common capacity of being insufficiently rational.

103. It is the quality of thought that makes us what we are, the density diving deep into the subliminal consciousness and transforming it till it is rendered divine. Then all the phases of the mind sing in unison the 'song celestial'.

104. Is it not best to go to hell to serve the suffering ones there if indeed 'Paapi devo bhava' and if indeed there be a hell where people postmortem suffer the burns? Perhaps, along with developing altruistic attributes we should take some sophisticated training in firefighting as well to serve the cause better. A just God indeed! 

105. Man, Thou art Thy own Saviour. No God has ever been greater than Thee. Thou art God and greater.

106. The movement of the self towards the Self is the progression of evolution. From darkness to light indeed.

107. Dualistic man has created the dualistic God. There is no God beyond human conception. Man is the father of God.

108. Atheists are right in their rejection of the dualistic God but they err in their material conception of reality. The Spirit they fail to apprehend. They are halfway to truth.

109. Words fail to convey the message. The life touches the soul.

110. The power of the lived word is simply immense. The word alone is impotent. It is life that inspires life.

111. বাংলাদেশে হিন্দুনিগ্রহ বিষয়ক কোনো প্রশ্নোত্তর হল না কিন্তু | যখন হিন্দুই থাকবে না বাংলাদেশে, তখন ধ্যান করবে কে? যা চলছে বাংলাদেশে, তাতে রামকৃষ্ণ মিশনেরও তো কোণঠাসা অবস্থা | নবী দিবস পালন করে পার পাওয়া যাবে তো ?

112. কাপুরুষ কি কখনও ধার্মিক হতে পারে ? অরাজনৈতিকতার অছিলায় নির্যাতীত হিন্দুদের পাশে না দাঁড়ানো কি আধ্যাত্মিকতার যথাযথ পরিচয় বলে পরিগণিত হবে ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর দরবারে ? হিন্দু ধর্মীয় প্রতিষ্ঠান 'নবী দিবস' পালন করে সর্ব ধর্মের যাথার্থ প্রমাণে তৎপর | পক্ষান্তরে কি পাচ্ছেন তাঁরা ? রামকৃষ্ণ-ভজনা মসজিদে মসজিদে ? একপাক্ষিক উদারতা উদারতা নয়, কাপুরুষতা, ত্রাসে আত্মসমর্পণ | এর ইতি হওয়াই হবে স্বধর্মপালন | 🕉 হিন্দু !

113. It is best to stand alone independent of support. Society supports at any rate. One must serve to discharge one's obligations to society. But mentally one must be free.

114. It is virtue to be valorous.

115. রামমোহন, বিবেকানন্দ | তিন নম্বর এখনও কেউ আসেননি | প্রতীক্ষায় আছি |

116. Education is the panacea for the problems of the world.

117. Valour must be the better part of virtue.

118. এই ভাবটি রাখা চাই যে আজ হিন্দু সমাজকে কি দিলাম |

119. অদ্বৈত বেদান্তের অদ্বয় অনুভূতিই ধর্মের শেষ কথা |

120. রামমোহন, বিবেকানন্দ | তৃতীয় সর্বব্যাপী বিস্তৃত ব্যক্তিত্ব এই স্তরের কে এসেছেন ? এসেছেন কেউ ?

121. রামমোহন, বিবেকানন্দ | তৃতীয় সর্বব্যাপী বিস্তৃত যুগান্তকারী ব্যক্তিত্ব এই স্তরের কে এসেছেন ? এসেছেন কেউ ?

122. It is vital for Hindus to study the Islamic trilogy of the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira for their civilisational defence. 🕉

123. It is an ideological war and it must be won ideologically. The Sanatan Dharma must be studied, understood and lived in its pure form.

124. 

Hail, vanishing one! 

When will you be won?

Ever on the run,

Chasing earthly fun,

When will you be free?

Do care to tell me.

125. লাভের ইচ্ছা লোভ থেকে |

LETTER FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON

LETTER FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON

Dear Abir,

You are the carrier of the family's tradition. For untold generations from remotest antiquity where history dares not peep into nor imagination conceive of, this light that is now in your keeping has been genetically handed down to you, a light that must shine bright for your own evolution, for the glory of the family line and for the welfare of humanity. 

Happy Republic Day!

Yours affectionately,

Baba

Dated: 26 January, 2025

THE DIVINE DEMOCRACY OF HINDUISM

THE DIVINE DEMOCRACY OF HINDUISM

The multifarious religious culture of the Hindus is the necessary evolutionary growth of the Hindu civilisation. It is this phased democracy that keeps it vibrant and strong despite its apparent and not quite real divergence from its pristine philosophical fountainhead.in the Vedanta. The stratified structure of this spiritual civilisation allows every Hindu to catch a glimpse of the Divine from his own vantage point. It is this relativity of spiritual perception that makes for the most rapid radial advancement of the individual towards the centre of his spherical consciousness where in the Absolute Self he perennially abides whose degeneration had thus far been the relativity of phenomenal experience. Hinduism thus stands true in its vast variety centred in its core truth of the Sachchidānanda, an exploration of spiritual truth along diverse channels leading to the same divine destination. And Hinduism has its solid philosophical basis in the Vedas with their illustrative narrative in the Purânas to serve as its rationale. Which Abrahamic faith can claim likewise? And yet they in their stupendous vanity born of their abounding ignorance of the philosophical profundity of Hinduism denounce the same and constantly try to seduce Hindus into their narrow folds. Wondrous are the meandering modes of Maya! 🕉 Hindu!

Written by Sugata Bose

STUDY SWAMIJI

STUDY SWAMIJI

Read Swami Vivekananda's Complete Works daily. It will strengthen you and make you fit for serving humanity truly. This is the need of the hour, this the nation-builder, the world-saver right now. Flood the world with Vivekananda's words, undiluted, unedited, as they had flowed out of the hero's heart. This is the panacea for the world's maladies, this the doctrine of the day. 

Vivekananda was ushered into the world by the Master, the Lord Himself, to reshape humanity, redirect its lost course en route to its divine destination. These are not puerile priestly proclamations from the pulpit that are directed to increasing the flock of a particular religious denomination but are words pregnant with potent ideas that will save humanity at this critical juncture when the threat of mass annihilation looms large on many fronts. 

Vivekananda is the junction of the ancient, the medieval and the modern, their transcendent-immanent synthesis. Hence, he is of significance today as he was yesterday and as he will be in the foreseeable future, the messiah of man in the widest sense, in the deepest sense and in the loftiest sense, the ideal made real, the harmony of seeming opposites, the synthesis in a world of hopeless contradictions. 

Read Vivekananda, study him deep till he permeates your being, till every nerve current resonates to his ideas and you see yourself transformed in the light of the Divine that shines from within, shedding lustre on aught of earth. At this transitional stage of evolution when modernity is being slow-born of the womb of medievalism, let Vivekananda be the midwife for the delivery of the human babe, the new civilisation that is awaiting its first breath on earth. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

COMMENTS GALORE ... 80

 

COMMENTS GALORE ... 80

Sugata Bose @Mahesh Mj : Can personality be ascribed to the Divine Will? And can personality be the source of the Cosmic-Supracosmic Will? Also, where does the Will begin to make its manifest mark and by what is the modus operandi? One more thing. Where does the Impersonal assume Personality, that is, where lies the critical transition zone/line where the Impersonal assumes Personality? Can enumeration be done on the Divine by human mathematical divisions? 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Arpita Sadhu [Wedding day, 24 January, 2025] : May Thakur-Ma-Swamiji bless you two as you embark on your marital life as equal participants in the onward movement towards the Divine! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Why not? Rammohun Roy was the most modern of them all and to my mind the pioneer of modernity in India, the forerunner of Vivekananda and the father of the so-called Bengal Renaissance which then awakened the rest of India. Read his biography written by Sophia Dobson Collett and study his varied activities for the rejuvenation of inertial India so as to form your considered opinion about this seminal being, one of the premier personalities of why alone India but that of the wide world, sweeping the gamut of history.

Sugata Bose @Mohit Ranjan Das : You are rather brash, something not acceptable in civilised society. Please restrain your arrogance in communication.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Clear Cut Talks] : J. Sai Deepak ought to speak things straight and not so much in roundabout terms. That would make him more comprehensible to the commoner which is the need of the hour. Communication in simple and direct terms is necessary. Moreover, he should name the parties he speaks of rather than resorting to pronouns or indirect references. A certain boldness of diction is necessary rather than clever manipulation of words to send the message. The latter effort while safer for his professional life is certainly less effective in awakening public consciousness about the pertinent issues of the day that beset the Hindu's life and civilisational prospects. 

Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : Inevitable as demographic change is rapidly happening. The Islamic ideology has to be ideologically defeated and politicians who help the proliferation of Islam in India brought to book. For this consistent and continuous campaigning must be undertaken to awaken Hindus en masse to the peril that stares them in the face. You are doing your job and so am I doing mine, and so must we through our activism and exemplary life led quicken others to do the same so that a critical mass of activism is reached whereby the looming civilisational threat may be faced head on and our body politic saved from the horrors of Islamisation. Godspeed to you in that direction and godspeed to myself! 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Not quite. Gandhi’s Khilafat Movement predated the formation of the Republic of Turkey whereupon Ataturk started his reform programmes as President of the new nation. But the essence of your message is quite correct in that Ataturk was progressive in his political programmes regarding Islam as opposed to Gandhi’s viciously regressive policies of Muslim appeasement. The former liberated Turkey from medieval Islamic shackles while the latter thrust chains of bondage on a freer nation which have permanently held it in captive bonds with a civilisational peril looming large in its horizon that ever draws nearer by the day. Ataturk was the liberator of Turkey from Islam whereas Gandhi was the broker of bondage to it. The two stand poles apart and it is strange that Gandhi is so often spoken of as the messiah of man while Ataturk remains a forgotten character although in such contemporary relevance really. Ataturk through his application of law and its due enforcement succeeded in harnessing the fanatical Islamic forces of the erstwhile Ottoman Empire then in full operation within Turkey while Gandhi through his debilitating non-violence and pretentious universal love succeeded in inadvertently bolstering the barbaric Islamic forces in India as experienced in the Moplah massacre of Hindus and in the pre and post Partition genocides of Hindus at the hands of Muslims. Ataturk is being undone by Erdogan in Turkey and Gandhi is being propped up by the Hindutva leaders hypocritically in India. Alas, it is the slow and steady victory of Islam either way much like the gravitational slide of a body down a slight slope till it acquires critical velocity to precipitate headlong into the abyss! 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Disciple : Be brave, bold, upright and firm, fearless to the marrow, intrepid warrior of the Spirit, a peerless person on phenomenal pilgrimage. Unfettered, free, abide in bliss, for bliss is thy nature that has broken bonds with Nature's fetters and forged links of divine love. This love purified, raised and deified is premā bhakti that leads to God-realisation. Arise, awake, and stop not ever, even after the goal is reached, for it is an endless journey should you wish it to be so. And should you wish it to stop, the wheel of karma will exhaust its fuel and then run on for a while to consume past momentum before it perennially comes to rest in its last refuge the stable, immobile self-conscious Brahman. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : You are simply too much. Wherefrom issues so much mirth in you that sets the audience alight unless of course men are by nature shorn of this simple sense of humour? Carry on, doctor, for the medication you administer is patently potent for the Antonios of the day with their longfaced pretences and affected superciliousness. But those that are intelligent will revel in the double-edged data that you deliver in your inimitable style replete with gutkā spicing of sarcasm and scorn. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Shivananda Aum : For you to thoroughly go through, for a well-read person will not make such a presumptuous remark as you have made. For the past five decades Ramakrishna and Vivekananda have been my constant companions so much so that they have helped evolve me to the level where I can get beyond being a stupid apologist as you are who dares not address the questions raised, residing in far off, God knows where, perhaps Russia, and cannot even apprehend the civilisational danger faced by Hindus in the Indian subcontinent from the proselytising Abrahamic faiths, namely, Islam and Christianity. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Provided below is the online link of 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' for your thorough study, for evidently you have either not read them well enough or have failed to comprehend their massive import which includes Swamiji's warnings about the dangers faced by the Hindus in the coming days, a fate, alas, it seems the Ramakrishna Mission is oblivious of or is utterly apathetic to, despite their sad exodus from Pakistan in 1948 and utter humiliation in Bangladesh time and again where they are somehow surviving the Islamic threat. And yet they do not voice a word on behalf of the persecuted Hindus in terms leonine that would befit their being worthy successors of 'the Lion of the Vedanta', their fearless founder, that foremost among men, the intrepid Hindu, Vivekananda. 🕉 Hindu!

https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/complete_works.htm

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : These are affiliates to the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, hence their apologists beyond reasonable measure who cannot counter the points raised in the post but must sidetrack the issue by calling names etc. Such have ever been the faithful who have hastened the downfall of a spiritual movement by removing rational scrutiny of the observances and practices of a erstwhile spiritual order, their altered attitudes and amended stances to suit temporal conveniences that would be utterly abhorrent to their founding fathers. God bless such apologists galore who are the bane of every spiritual order en route to degeneration, decay and demise in pristine principled terms! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : You should compile your comments and compose them in the form of a book. It will be a book of such rollicking humour that even the pages will laugh which though will need a tough bind to keep them from hilariously falling off the mother's arms. Indeed, your humour is beyond bounds literally.

Sugata Bose @Jayanti Rakshit: Bodies come and bodies go. You were never born nor will you ever die. You are the eternal, the boundless being abiding in Self-consciousness, luminous, free. 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Clear Cut Talks] : J Sai Deepak must speak in simpler terms for him to be understood by one and all. He is too indirect and verbally sophisticated for essy understooinng. He fails in mass communication thus. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : And we all are dharmabound to fight for it (the preservation of India whose survival is at stake in light of increasing Islamisation).

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Your erudition amazes me. Thanks a lot for bringing out these precious gems to the light of day. 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Prasenjit Dass : Oh my God! This is an unbearable loss. Prasenjit, take care, brother, and live in her loving memory, making each day of your life now a song offering unto the divine departed. My heartfelt condolence at this hour of inconsolable grief. May her loving memory and living presence as yet impel you into the forging further of a perennial bond which no physical separation can sunder! 🕉 Shanti! Shanti! Shanti! Hari 🕉 Tat Sat!

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : What a supplement! Breathtaking! My goodness, wherefrom do you get such superb ideas that are then couched in such devastatingly robust language? Salutations! 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Prasenjit Dass : What a beautiful piece, befitting of heartfelt pulsations of a never-ending love!

Sugata Bose @Ranjan Mitra : What do you think? Am I? Does my cover photograph and profile photograph look like I am that? Does my profile detail staring in the face make me appear to be so?

Sugata Bose @Ranjan Mitra : No, not at all. The photograph is of this body of mine. So, you are being misled by your own misconception and your own inability to discern between shapes, contours, forms, lines and whatever else. And you are in effect falsely accusing me of falsification of identity when you say, "YES IT DOES MIS LESD THE PICTURE IS FOR SURE IS OF TMC MP sUGATAI BOSE!". This is abhorrent, most unwelcome from a gentleman that you otherwise are. 🕉

There's your former TMC MP. Now can you discern? Or, are you still confused? See the glaring difference between the two photographs and do not henceforth harbour such superficial, flawed notions about the photo-identity of others and in consequence unthinkingly pass on them ill-considered judgement. Alas, such carelessness has become the characteristic of the commoner! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya But 'Jayatu Swamiji Maharaj' comment while ignoring Swamiji's message which you posted? I was irked by that and wrote in response this rejoinder. And this is common 'devotion'. You call it devotion? Not I. This is low idolatry, not even exalted worship of the idol, the ideal et al. 🕉

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A1rKgoCgo/?mibextid=oFDknk

P.S. Nobody is contesting the validity of idol-worship or the worship of God with form as a means to realising the Divine who does manifest in unnumbered forms as per the worship offered Him or Her by the devotee. The contentious point is about shallowness, this indolence, the sheer laxity of attitude, the refusal to read the content of a serious post as one from Swamiji's Complete Works while shallowly commenting on the appended photo in the typical manner, oft-repeated and by such repetition rendered sterile and stale. I have in consequence decided to write posts henceforth without adorning them with such photographs anymore to prevent such silly commenting. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Mahua Banerjee : You have to consider the import of the post yourself. Rammohan and Vivekananda were multifaceted geniuses operating both in the spiritual and social spheres in all their respective comprehensiveness. Has there been a third in this line of versatile sociospiritual greatness that is simply overwhelming in its scope and scale? Now you yourself start thinking and adequately answering without messing up response with insufficient rigour. 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Bilwadal Tapadar : Vidyasagar belonged strictly to the social sphere and his activities did not include the spiritual. Hence he cannot be placed alongside Rammohun and Vivekananda. 

Sugata Bose @Bilwadal Tapadar : Posts carry their implicit meaning. Rammohan and Vivekananda both were religious reformers as well which Vidyasagar was not. Hence, your misapprehension of import of post is entirely your personal matter. Moreover, the post carries my own estimation of greatness even otherwise, and I do not consider Vidyasagar to be of the epic stature of Rammohun and Vivekananda, inestimable though his social, literary and educational contributions may have been which we are forever indebted to. Sri Ramakrishna famously said about Vidyasagar, "Vidyasagar lacked in introspective vision. Had he had it, his external activities would have diminished by far." Vidyasagar was not a spiritually illumined person which, if not Rammohun, Swami Vivekananda certainly was. Vidyasagar was a great reformer but his reforms were not founded in the Spirit of man. They were on the social plane. The trio thus cannot come together quite. Rammohan and Vivekananda simply stand peerless in the realm of great personalities, and of the two my unhesitant vote will be for Swamiji. 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Sulekha Basu : Well punned as usual. A translingual treatment but a linguistic treat nonetheless. Emoji pun from my side as well, all in good humour.

Sugata Bose @Disciple : My blessings fall in the desert sand to be sucked up to sterility. Alas, minds never meet because of mundane stuff! So busy remain the children the world that they miss the very elixir of life.

Sugata Bose @Gargi Sengupta : না, কারোরই অত্যাচার করার অধিকার নেই কারোর ওপর | তবে এ ক্ষেত্রে স্ত্রীজাতির পুরুষ মানুষের ওপর গৃহমধ্যে অত্যাচারের কথা বলা হয়েছে | এবং বহু বহু ক্ষেত্রে তা ঘটে থাকে কিন্তু বিশেষ আলোচিত হয় না | তাই এ প্রসঙ্গের অবতারণা | পুরুষকর্তৃক নারী নির্যাতন তো বহুল আলোচিত, সমালোচিত, নিন্দিত, দণ্ডনীয় অপরাধ | কিন্তু গৃহে স্ত্রী দ্বারা দুর্ব্যবহারের দুঃসহ নির্যাতন সম্বন্ধে সমাজ মৌন | তাই প্রসঙ্গোত্থাপন |

P.S. 'Women, slaves to their own irritable, jealous tempers, are apt to blame their husbands, and assert their own "freedom", as they think, not knowing that thereby they only prove that they are slaves. So it is with husbands who eternally find fault with their wives.

Chastity is the first virtue in man or woman, and the man who, however he may have strayed away, cannot be brought to the right path by a gentle and loving and chaste wife is indeed very rare. The world is not yet as bad as that. We hear much about brutal husbands all over the world and about the impurity of men, but is it not true that there are quite as many brutal and impure women as men? If all women were as good and pure as their own constant assertions would lead one to believe, I am perfectly satisfied that there would not be one impure man in the world. What brutality is there which purity and chastity cannot conquer? A good, chaste wife, who thinks of every other man except her own husband as her child and has the attitude of a mother towards all men, will grow so great in the power of her purity that there cannot be a single man, however brutal, who will not breathe an atmosphere of holiness in her presence. Similarly, every husband must look upon all women, except his own wife, in the light of his own mother or daughter or sister. That man, again, who wants to be a teacher of religion must look upon every woman as his mother, and always behave towards her as such.'

https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_1/karma-yoga/what_is_duty.htm