Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Monday, 9 June 2025
64TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY, 10TH JUNE, 2025 [EDITED]
64TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY, 10TH JUNE, 2025 [EDITED]
The hour dawns when one revisits one's moment of first inspiration. At that pristine moment when everything was new and a fresh awakening had reinforced life into things, when everything that was old was renewed in a magical spell of cosmic proportions, one must have wondered at the enormity of the celebrations that Nature had stored for one's first moment of truth. In those baby eyes that have gazed over aeons at the myriad mysteries of Nature were fresh awakened perhaps the cosmic rhythms of life in ripples of light streaming across the vast reaches of forgotten space, of times unborn only to meet familiar terrain in distant kinship, in bonds of old fresh-forged in the rapt wonderment of the baby eye. Who will tell how that first moment was, for we all infer from the reference point of maturer years when modes and methods have robbed the vision that the babe did see at its first inception ?
So it is that I do stand sixty-four summers from that distant day even in the sunshine of that primal morn. Behold I today the womb that held in loving care the babe to be, the arms that held me high over the waves that menacing came like onrushing death; behold I now the peerless love of a sister who ever saved her lozenges gifted in school, for a brother at home and never ate them once in folly ever. Behold I my boyhood days in ardent study and frolic and fun, my growing years in intense thought, metamorphosed by poetic flights till in the high noon of youth the blazing light of life and truth and the God within alters the very form of things and renders all divine. The dream doth break only to reform into a fairer shape and greener meadows unfold before the peeled vision. A clearer sight, a more painful plight, so often is heaven the heart that is, so far yet the heaven to be.
Afternoon it is when the dawn arrives once more in the awakening sun, the harbinger of hope, the promise of fulfilment of unspelt moods, aspirations divine. A rebirth it is and a constancy of soul, the progression unto a maturer self. And then the cascade of living streams, rushing, whirling, rippling through, dainty brooks and cataracts, eddies, fountains, lakes and seas, flowing mass of innocence, they have filled my life with fathomless joy that life itself is ecstasy.
What more to say but to wind up now that benediction be the lot of all that did love me so and brought anew every time the sun did cross my path of old, this monsoon morn that had thundered heavens the first time on, so be it, so let it be ! Many a summer perchance will come in its wake as yet, many a monsoon will herald times unborn, my life to be, many a familiar face flitting by, so many sweet ones bedecking me now, how many more will flow in yet to fill, fulfil the even-moods. Thus perchance will the swansong be, heard even in a fresher birth in distant clime, in unborn time, the self-same fool to jest again in this playhouse of life to seek applause from kindred souls. But the play is on, let's rejoice, lest the hour pass by shorn of fruit. Welcome to all in the mansion of my life, my playmates, my helpmates, my soulmate, my all.
Written by Sugata Bose
Sunday, 8 June 2025
REACH OUT TO THE WORLD WITH VIVEKANANDA ... 1
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REACH OUT TO THE WORLD WITH VIVEKANANDA ... 1
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Ramakrishna Mission should go all out to propagate the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda, his lectures and talks, letters and messages. In a world that is on the brink of collapse, both environmental and nuclear, at a time when the very character of man in general is at its lowest ebb, when corporates are bent upon squeezing the last drop of blood of the masses, when capitalism and its pleasure-providing progeny in myriad modes are ruining the very basis of disciplined civic life and fostering nervous weakness in people, inducing them unto sensuousness to a debilitating degree, Vivekananda remains the antidote to such degeneration. Here the Ramakrishna Mission has a huge role to play. With their massive organisational strength they can easily reach Swamiji's message across the length and breadth of the world but choose not to do so which is, to say the least, regrettable. Hope this lapse is rectified soon.
Written by Sugata Bose
'৪৭এ বিকশিত ভারত ? ... ১
'৪৭এ বিকশিত ভারত ? ... ১
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যে দেশে গুণের মর্যাদা নেই, সে দেশ বিকশিত হবে কি করে ? 'বিকশিত ভারত' বললেই তো আর ভারত বিকশিত হবে না ? গুণের অবনমনে কি আর যথার্থ বিকাশ ঘটে ? শুধু জনসংখ্যা আর GDP বৃদ্ধির দ্বারা কি ভারত '৪৭এ বিকশিত হবে ? শিক্ষার উৎকর্ষ কই ? সংস্কৃতির মানোন্নয়ন কই ? দিনে দিনে মূল্যবোধের অবক্ষয়, চপলতা, লঘুচিত্ততার ক্রমবর্ধন, রাজনীতিতে অপরাধির সংখ্যাবৃদ্ধি, নানা বর্ণে, জাতিতে, ধর্মে বিভাজন---এই সব সম্বল করে কি বিকাশ সম্ভব, নাকি সে বিকাশ যথাযথ বিকাশ ? ধর্ম তো কিছু অর্থ নয়, অর্থও কাম নয়, আর মোক্ষপথ এত সহজলভ্য নয় যে তা বিজ্ঞাপনের জোরে প্রাপ্ত হবে | মানুষ কই যে এই যথাযথ বিকাশ ঘটাবে, ঘটিয়ে ধারণ করবে ?
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
'৪৭এ বিকশিত ভারত ? ... ২
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'৪৭এ বিকশিত ভারত শুধু GDP বাড়লে হবে না | অতীব অর্থনৈতিক বৈষম্য দূর করতে হবে | বেকার সমস্যা দূর করতে হবে | জনসংখ্যা নিয়ন্ত্রণ করতে হবে | PER CAPITA GDPর ওপর জোর দিতে হবে | সেখানে ভারত ভয়ঙ্করভাবে পেছিয়ে | শুধু বড়লোকের ভারত নয় এটা, উচ্চ মধ্যবিত্ত মানুষের ভারতও শুধু নয় | মধ্য মধ্যবিত্ত, নিম্ন মধ্যবিত্ত ও নিম্নবিত্ত মানুষেরও ভারত এটা---এ কথা ভুললে চলবে না |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
This is my dream. As a child I had wanted to be a historian. My mother implanted this idea in me. It has remained unfulfilled. What a great and lovely mother I had, I have, shall perennially have! My father provided all the practical ingredients for my future blossoming as a literateur of sorts.
I am simply amazed when I to my delight discover how my mother had apprehended my future development till date and perhaps beyond when I was barely five years old.
Saturday, 7 June 2025
MESSAGES GALORE ... 106
MESSAGES GALORE ... 106
1. গভীর যিনি, তিনি গুরু |
2. The Bengali body has to be built up along with the Bengali mind in order to be combat-ready in the military sense. All sensuality in the name of art must be discarded. There is a glory in living brave and dying brave, far more than leading effeminate, sensual lives in the name of soft culture.
3. The internal enemies must be flushed out before we may successfully combat the external ones. These termite cells are eating into the vitals of our nation. And then there are the more violent ones perpetrating regular horrors in their bid to disintegrate India. How many more lives will go on vain, how many valiant soldiers lost while the inner foes flourish and are allowed to do so by way of upholding democratic rights which they will first destroy once they come to power?
4. মিতব্যয়ীতা একটি উপায় পরিবেশ দূষণ রোখার |
'Simple living, high thinking.'
5. দান নেওয়া ভাল, নিয়ে কর্মচারীদের ভাল মাইনে দেওয়া আরও ভাল |
6. এক বাঙালীরাই পারে বাঙলার তথা ভারতের দিকপালদের এহেন অসম্মান করতে | অশ্রদ্ধার চূড়ান্ত আজ বাঙালী হিন্দুদের গ্রাস করেছে | স্বয়ং রবীন্দ্রনাথ তাঁর 'আত্মপরিচয়' গ্রন্থে এ কথার উল্লেখ করেছেন এই ভাষায়, "আমরা মহতকে শ্রদ্ধা করি না |" 'মহৎ' শব্দের অবশ্য আর এক মহত্তর অর্থ হয় | তা হ'ল ঈশ্বর | বাকিটা উহ্য রাখলাম | বুদ্ধিমান, বুঝিয়া লও |
7. A woman's capacity to idealise is matchless. No wonder she is chosen by Nature to be mother. Her unique ability to concretise the ideal, the idea into flesh and form, makes her germinate the seed into sapling, plant and tree before it afforests the world. Woman, thou art the mother of humanity! Thou art the mother of all! Thou art Mother Herself!
8. The man (Swami Ranganathananda) we miss today. But here also philosophical apathy to human suffering citing historical happening is sadly evident. There is a certain lack of urgency, an inability to see things in scale and a superficial appreciation and analysis of historical events and the very nature of human evolution. Of course one cannot expect too much depth of articulation in an interview but depth of personality would surely show up in terms of depth of analytical approach to world events and articulation thereof. A cursory view of things, a distant approach and the inability to empathise enough are predominant features evident here. Also, the inability to catch the bull by the horns, to effectively articulate what needs to be said in forthright terms, stating the undiluted truth without watering it down in linguistic adornment, while making the preacher pleasant, leaves his message moderated to a fault. "Truth does not pay homage to society ancient or modern. Society must pay homage to truth or die," said Swami Vivekananda. This courage that the 'Lion of Vedanta' had manifested in alien, inimical conditions in America and Europe nine decades before this interview is sadly missing in this septuagenarian monk. Overall, though, the Swami is as usual sectionally comprehensive in his approach to the spiritual side of things and his 'matchstick' allusion is matchless. Much to learn from this condensed, if passive to a fault from the side of the interviewee, interview. Ron Martin characteristically excels as anchor.
https://youtu.be/MgUiU6jrGVM?si=0UQNuECgE7Yl2tuR
9. ঠিক ঠিক সাধু | স্বামীজীর মেজভাই মহেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত যাঁর অমর গ্রন্থ 'শ্রীশ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের অনুধ্যান' সকলকে পড়তে অনুরোধ করছি | ঠাকুরকে নতুন আলোয় দেখবেন |
10. If your heart be full of hate, how will you love your Lord?
11. If you raise donations by the hundreds of millions, pay your employees better who help you serve humanity and help keep up your goodwill. Charity begins at home. You cannot serve society with a heart that is not moved to generosity for its own workers. There is an ethical consideration here which if you fail to understand, you have lost your spiritual moorings. Time to ponder over this pertinent point and adopt corrective measures. I reiterate: pay your employees well.
12. ভুলে যাবেন না শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের আসল রূপ কিন্তু শ্রীরামচন্দ্র, শ্রীকৃষ্ণ, Army Commander-in-Chief. তাই তাঁকে নাচগান দিয়ে তুষ্ট করার প্রয়াস হতে বিরত থাকুন |
His worship is best rendered by the blood of the brave and the worst done by effeminate singing and dancing before his image. Stop all this effeminacy and follow his General, Swami Vivekananda, who was valour personified and who bled to his bones to awaken that martial spirit among his Bengali brethren but fabulously failed to do so.
Now, if you are devotees of Swamiji who was the anointed one of Thakur to carry his message, must you continue to fail him by persisting in your effeminacy?
ঠাকুর-স্বামীজী রক্ত চান, তাই তাঁদের শ্রেষ্ঠ সন্তান নেতাজীর উদ্ঘোষ, "Give me blood and I promise you freedom."
স্বামীজী বলেছিলেন, "Freedom, freedom, freedom is the song of the soul." এই freedom ওই blood দিলে পাওয়া যাবে, নাচলে গাইলে নয় |
13. The Sardars are our national pride. They should not cut off their hair, shave off their beard but should sport every sign of the brave Khalsa after the tradition set in by the great Guru Gobind Singhji.
Shaving off the signs of the Khalsa reduces national might. Desist from doing so. Strengthen your Sardar resolve in the defence of the Dharma, in the saving of civilisation and in the preservation of everything that is glorious in our much-wounded motherland. I reiterate, do not shave off. Rather save that one great, glorious race that has given so much to our motherland, that band of warriors of the Spirit, the Khalsa, and feel absolutely proud to do so.
Wahe Guru ki fateh! Wahe Guru ki Khalsa! Sat Shree Akal! 🕉
14. I feel ashamed of the indecency exhibited on night-time TV shows by both anchor and panelists. Bad advertisement for the nation.
15. Undue aggression is a sign of weakness. The brave are gentle in demeanour.
16. There is no justification for monastic materialism as is evident now. Return to roots. 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা |' What leaders do, the flock follow. So, lead front the front. Renounce this propensity for wealth-building and stop justifying it as welfare measure. You cannot hide intent thus. Architecture is not altruism, concrete is not consciousness. I reiterate, return to roots. Return to Ramakrishna.
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Thursday, 5 June 2025
WHITHER JUSTICE?
WHITHER JUSTICE?
Free speech is increasingly becoming a Constitutional casualty. If actual criminals and their political backers go scot-free, and social media influencers are selectively apprehended to execute the letter of the law, then what remains of the rendering of the promised justice as enshrined in the Preamble to the Constitution? After all the Constitution is a book and cannot enforce itself its codes but has to depend upon the administrative machinery to do so. When such a machinery turns malefic and turns upon the lesser offenders with all its administrative might, citing violation of Constitutional clause, when its political bosses at the helm of such machinery themselves violate the norms of the Constitution far more with impunity, democratic civic existence is imperilled and citizens have to curb their spontaneous self-expression, much to the detriment of the very flowering of democracy whose fundamental and inviolable principle ought to be the protection of free speech, the right to criticise and go against established religious and social practices and principles. There are limits imposed on such a freedom but to impose blasphemy law by default when it comes to a particular religion or even religions is to go against the very spirit of free speech. If to offend is blasphemous on the probability of hurting mass religious sentiment, then the time for democracy in its true colour and essence has not yet come for such a polity. Such a one as yet lives in the dark of medieval mindset and must with due rational training be modernised. If somebody offends with the written word, then countering it with the written word ought to restore parity.
The aggrieved community cannot in a democracy impose its blasphemy laws on those outside of its pale. But today increasingly all over the world the blasphemy law is being overtly and covertly being imposed on all. This isn't quite democratic. If a religion can openly preach, even blaring over the loudspeaker, that it alone possesses the absolute truth and that, by implication, all other faiths are partial truths or downright falsities, heresies in the eyes of their 'The God', then that also ought to be deemed highly offensive to adherents of those other faiths. What about the law on that? Must law be enforced only to facilitate in effect rogue elements who take to the streets and vandalise in the name of 'hurt feelings', and, so, must law be enforced to silence criticism of Abrahamic religious principles which are not in keeping with the spirit of inclusiveness that the Sanatan Dharma espouses? Must Sanatanis alone bear the cross of secularism, inclusiveness and all-acceptance while adherents of absolutist, exclusive, fanatical faiths and ideologies can with impunity keep calling our gods and goddesses names and defame our spiritual traditions?
Written by Sugata Bose
Sunday, 1 June 2025
COMMENTS GALORE ... 89
COMMENTS GALORE ... 89
Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Chakraborty : You couldn't follow me. '🕉 Hindu!' is a mantra by way of greeting that I have invented to foster solidarity among our disunited lot. The 🕉, Swamiji said, is the unifying divine symbol for all Hindus which is why in Swamiji's memorial temple at Belur Math we have the 🕉 Temple on the first floor. All Hindus including Sikhs accept the 🕉 as sacred symbol of the Divine with their Ishta Dev/Devi suffixing it. For instance, 🕉 Kali! 🕉 Krishna! 🕉 Ram! 🕉 Durga!
Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha: Correct. That which was a provincial part of eternal Bhāratvarsha must inevitably return to it. Partition was artificially effected. Integration is natural and inevitable in the long run as the inviolable outcome of historical evolution.
Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : But rapid demographic change is the danger. Hindu population is declining and Muslim population sharply increasing, creating this dangerous bridging of the demographic gap. Unless this pertinent issue is effectively addressed, India will be Islamised in the decades ahead like its severed provincial parts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Sugata Bose @Paramita Moitra : Love is seeing oneself mirrored in another through spiritual perception of the same Atman in all. Unless the Kulakundalini Shakti awakens and rises to at least the fourth plane of consciousness, the Anāhata Chakra, where disembodied consciousness for the first time dawns and love and light, bliss and knowledge simultaneously manifest before the peeled off vision, love in its essence is not understood beyond the encumbrance of the body.
The body binds and does not allow the free flow of love which is why it degenerates so often into an admixture of love and lust. Pure love is a bodiless experience emanating from the spiritual heart and has little resemblance to aught of earth if even ennobled in sacrificial terms. There in sacrifice and selflessness of sorts a bit of the real love percolates through the cracks and crevices of this darkened mass of flesh and form, bringing tidings of a higher order of enlightened existence. But that is not to be confused with the Gangā of unalloyed love flowing from the glacial melt of the Spirit residing in Himalayan heights. 🕉
Sugata Bose @YouTube [India Today] : Karan Thapar has the bad habit of putting words into the mouth of his interviewees (here, A.S. Dulat). This is bad journalism, slightly crafty.
Sugata Bose @Ashok Adha : Hindus targeting Hindus are by definition anti-Hindu elements.
Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : Not 'cocktail' but 'henhead'. How can you make such a gender error, bring about such a positional dislocation? That is a 'Baganside' surgical strike you have done, I must say.
Few, alas, detect greatness while the hour is on! Most shall mourn the loss when the lady's gone. Just imagine, what an 'aajob collection' (Bhooter Bhobishyot) it would have been had our PM been judicious enough to have sent her on this diplomatic mission (Operation Sindoor) to Markin Muluk! It would have been a literal literary coup. Modi has missed his 'turuper taash'.
Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : You are innovative beyond imagination.
Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : We'll play waterpolo. Season change, game change. It's a game-changer rain.
Sugata Bose @Ipsita Mukherjee : You have painted it? Just superb. Seems a masterpiece. What a talent you are!
Sugata Bose @Murtaza Rashid : What about the miscreants who death-threatened, rape-threatened her? Should they be punished soft?
Sugata Bose @Little Moorthy Siva : They (Bengali Hindus) are wide awake and busy singing, dancing, play-acting, painting, film-acting poem-composing et al. They will not go beyond this, the Lakshmanrekha of their sympathies for persecuted Sanatanis. They are doomed by their cowardice.
Sugata Bose @Facebook friend : Obviously, since Pakistan was born out of India and a mother is always a generation back in time. 10 years is interesting since Islamic law allows a girl's marriage post-maturity at 9 followed by birth of baby at 10 which makes the generational gap at 10 years, thereby validating Shahid Afridi's stupendous statement.
Sugata Bose @Harshita Mishra : The problem is that people refuse to read real history as chronicled by Jadunath Sircar, Aeli Shrivastav, Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, K. S. Lal, Sitaram Goel, Ram Swarup and several others which are available in print and online but they keep on harping that the real history was hidden to them. Who reads? tell me. History is readily available if you seek it but who cares to do so and read? Mere criticism of leftist historians may suit the commoner in his puerile pastime but does not serve the cause of being educated and helping spread the gained information, not in irrational terms but in a systematic, rational manner for the awakening of mass consciousness of tradition and heritage in historical terms. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Protap Mondal : Come on, be more sensible. Here a persecuted person has made light of his close encounter with death and you are philosophising thus.
Sugata Bose @Swami Nikhileswarananda : Swami Vireshwaranandaji used to exhort the youth to join the Armed Forces. You must also send out like exhortations. Our Armed Forces are short on officers. The jawans are in plentiful supply but qualified personnel are in short supply. So, here's serving Vireshwaranandaji right.
Sugata Bose @Anirudha Bhattacharya : Will have to read up a lot more on Sikh history before I can answer this one. But will not spare myself the effort.
Sugata Bose @Anirudha Bhattacharya : Your observation is a pointer as well, if inadvertently so, that even eminent spiritual orders of our country have forsaken their pristine spiritual principles and have resorted to marketing principles that are characteristic of corporate bodies. To pay employees so poorly by exhorting them to sacrifice due remuneration in the name of offering service to the Lord is downright detestable and is exploitation of human labour that cannot be condoned. I know of several such instances which for propiety's sake I cannot divulge here but which have shaken my faith in the 'spirituality' of these bastions of renunciation. Scepticism could have dawned in but for the saving grace of my discretion in separating order from its founder-preceptor, the latter continuing to inspire and energise me even as I have been compelled to distance myself from the order as such. It has been a sad turnabout of events, given my long association with such an organisation, but one that has been in keeping with the natural evolution of the truth-bound soul that makes not compromise with a collective that has forsaken ideals for the copper coin. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Few, alas, few understand Vedanta!
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Saturday, 31 May 2025
POESY : সংঘ যখন ভাবে মনে
সংঘ যখন ভাবে মনে
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সংঘ যখন ভাবে মনে,
"আমি হয়েছি শক্তিমান,"
সংঘ তখন হয়েছে দুর্বল |
অর্থে নহে শক্তি,
শক্তি আদর্শে,
তাহাতেই বল |
আদি বাণী ভুললে চলে ?
ওরে, আদিতেই চল |
জগতজুড়ে পেতেছে ফাঁদ,
ভুবনমোহন কল |
তোরা সেই ফাঁদে
শেষে পড়লি নাকি ?
সত্যি করে বল |
এখনও আছে সময় ফেরার
দখিনমুখো চল |
ওই পরমহংসের ঘরটি জুড়ে
পরমাশ্রয় স্থল |
তোরা সেই দিশাতেই চল |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Friday, 30 May 2025
MESSAGES GALORE ... 105
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MESSAGES GALORE ... 105
1. এবার দেখছি বোকা বোকা পোস্ট করতে শুরু করতে হবে | সূক্ষ্ম বস্তু দিলে যা যন্ত্রণা ভোগ করতে হয় 'বিজ্ঞজনের' হাতে, তা আর বলার নয় |
2. দেখছি কি সুন্দর 'ইত্যাদি' ক্লাবের সভাপতি হয়ে বসেছি |
3. Leftist historians, no less their Bengali edition, have done tremendous damage to the true chronicling of India's history. And they continue to do so. It is for us to rewrite the counter-narrative along nationalistic lines without giving it false ideological slant. Truth has its own strength to stand on and let us state the truth free and fair through detailed study, reading and research before chronicling our own version of the way things actually happened.
4. The Atman beholds the Atman by the Atman. It is a self-reflective vision, perfectly subjective.
5. The history of the world is rolling down the ages right till this day in an endless series of cause and effect.
6. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was love personified. Who would have thought that he would reincarnate as Sri Ramakrishna on the very date of his own birth exactly 350 years later, love personified yet again, this time reinforced with a universal sympathy encompassing the whole gamut of spiritual experience that humanity has been subject to and stretching its arms beyond known borders unto the realm of newer experiences unravelled and lived? Mahaprabhu was born on 18 February, 1486 and Paramahamsadev was born on 18 February, 1836, the intervening period exactly 350 years.
7.
'Shrinvantu vishve amritasya putrā
Ā ye dhāmāni divyāni tasthu
Vedāhametung Purushung mahāntung
Ādityavarnung tamasa parastāt
Tvameva viditvāyati mrityumeti
Nānyahapanthhā vidyatey ayanāya.' ~ Svetāshvatar Upanishad
Translation:
Hear ye, O children of immortal bliss.
Even those who reside in divine realms, hear.
I have known the Great Being
Whose colour is of the radiant sun
That abides in the realm beyond darkness.
Even ye will have to know It
If ye must conquer death.
There is no other way.
8. Swami Nirmalānanda was a direct We need to spend much more in defence to keep up with China which is our principal threat.monastic disciple of Thakur. He has been derecognised by the Order of this status. Time to restore it.
9. We need to spend much more in defence to keep up with China which is our principal threat.
10. The world periodically seeks war. We are as yet as savage as that. But the question arises: Is this the way to peace, prosperity and progress?
11. Bengal must learn to culturally integrate herself with the rest of India. She must never forget that she is a provincial part of India and not a separate, disjoint unit that should pride itself in calling the rest of Indians non-Bengalis, as if there is such a sharp divide between her and the rest of India that would lend her such a distinctly divisive cultural identity. We do not hear of non-Biharis, non-Gujaratis, non-Punjabis, non-U.P.ites, non-Harianvis. Then why non-Bengalis?
12. Sharmistha Panoli has been arrested. The question that arises is this: How far does freedom of speech and expression extend?
13. Are Hindus even free to express their opinion in a Hindu-majority state?Or, is democracy being used to undermine democracy itself?
14. How long must we suffer from Pakistani cross-border fire targeting our civilians? Blasphemous, isn't it?
15. O strong, thou shalt persecute the weak! This is the Darwinian Principle. But should this be Divine Law as well?
16. Are we allowed to speak uncomfortable truths? Or, ought we to abide by blasphemy laws that by default operate to stifle freedom of speech? Whither maturity of democracy when people cannot digest the hard facts of history and must perforce be made to live in fair fantasy by politicians who gain by driving wedges across society, otherwise well integrated, by citing insignificant instances of breach of civic decency? Who are to blame really? The malicious politicians who scheme out others' downfall and stir up controversy that would never in the first place gain ground without their active assistance, even intervention, or, the foolish commoners seeking attention and unable to restrain emotions preprogrammed by daily night time television ruckus? One wonders how long the gullible will continue to be influenced by crafty politicians seeking petty ends? Millennia have passed and yet the fools suffer the schemes of their Machiavellian masters. It is time to be better educated and to reject the roguish moves of these mass fashioners of public opinion. Jai Hind!
17.
এটাও জামা, ওটাও জামা |
এটা দুদিন বাদে বাদে ফেলি,
ওটা জীবনশেষে ফেলি ||
18.
Love questions not.
Love answers not.
In silence abides love.
19. Hindus persecuted in Hindustan. What an irony!
20. We are so powerless against fate. Time will kill us all and, yet, we kill each other as if accomplice to Time. Kali! Kali! Kali!
21. বাণিজ্যিক বিজ্ঞাপনগুলো সব মিথ্যের ওপর দাঁড়িয়ে আছে | একগাদা প্রতিশ্রুতি, অসত্য আশ্বাস, প্রবঞ্চনা প্রতিপদে |
22. Do not reduce love to cellular mechanism. Let its music be not lost in the babble of reason. May art adorn, poetry paint what is lost so often in loaded logic, in metreless prose of a mundane kind!
23. Why does an Indian girl suffer incarceration in contradicting a Pakistani's false claims? Is it because she went overboard with unparliamentary language in her verbal duel or is there a malicious political motivation moving her arrest? Sharma first, now Panoli---the casualties multiply. Where are we headed when our youth are thus targeted by malicious elements to serve perfidious purposes in the name of pretended patriotism whose purported end seems to be to undermine democracy itself in the name of preserving it? #sharmistha
24. মানুষ দৈবস্বভাবসম্পন্ন হলে কি হবে ? জাগতিক বাসনায় বদ্ধ আত্মবিস্মৃত জীব | দুদিনের জীবনে গ্রাসাচ্ছাদন, থাকার জায়গা হলেই হয় কিন্তু তাতে আশ মেটে না | আরও চাই, আরও চাই করে দুঃখময় জীবন যাপন করে | তায়, বাসনা আবার সহজে পূর্ণ হওয়া চাই | খাটতে পারব না বাবা ! ভগবান, গুরু, এঁরা আছেন কি করতে ? এঁরা যদি বৈষয়িক ভোগের সামগ্রী যথেচ্ছ নাই দিতে পারলেন, ভোগের অপরিসীম আকাঙ্ক্ষা নাই মেটাতে পারলেন, তো এঁদের ডেকে লাভ কি ? জীবনের সব সম্পর্ক লাভক্ষতির নিরিখে দেখে মানুষ, সব আসলে বেনে নাস্তিক |
25. মানুষ চাই, মানুষ---যারা স্বার্থ ছাড়া বাঁচতে জানে, বীরের ন্যায় মরতে জানে, অর্থে যাদের অনর্থজ্ঞান সম্যকরূপে স্থিত, ত্যাগের জ্বলন্ত বিগ্রহ যারা | এমন মানুষের সন্ধানে ভারতমাতা, গর্ভ হতে যারা তাঁরই 'জন্য বলিপ্রদত্ত,' এতটুকু পাশ্চাত্যভাব যাদের স্পর্শ করেনি, ভোগের প্রচ্ছন্ন প্রভাব হতেও যারা পূর্ণমুক্ত | এমন মানুষ হাজারে হাজারে চাই---তবে এ দেশ উঠবে |
26. দেশের বৌদ্ধিক স্তর নেমে গেছে, নেমে যাচ্ছে দিনে দিনে | মধ্যমেধার জয়যাত্রা আজ নিত্য অনুষ্ঠিত |
27. বহির্শত্রুর চেয়ে অন্তর্শত্রু বড় কম নয় | এরা দৃশ্য, আবার অদৃশ্যরূপে নিত্যনিয়ত দেশের সর্বনাশসাধনে |
28. সিঁদুরের রং লাল, রক্তের রং লাল কিন্তু দেশোদ্রোহীতার রং কৃষ্ণকালো |
29. Most of our Sanātan sages and saints lie buried in obliterated history beyond the reach of recovery. But their thought vibrations live among us, forging a collective mass unto becoming beacons of light.
30.
'Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached.' -- Swami Vivekananda
These words of Swamiji, freely translated from the Kathopanishad invocation, are sounding and resounding across the length and breadth of Bharatvarsha, arousing the leonine spirit of the ancient Hindu race unto life and action. They are pregnant with divine energy, the power that Swamiji has come to bear upon us, his legatees, who have been charged with fulfilling his mission of awakening the divine in man, not debilitation in superficial devotion but royal, masculine strength that serves, suffers and sacrifices all unto the ushering in of a higher order of terrestrial existence en route to the Existence Absolute. The Geeta in action was Swamiji, and so must we be, live torches of the Ancient Spirit that must triumph over the darkening ignorance of delusive Māyā. Jai Swamiji!
31. হিন্দু ঐক্য চাই | সংহতিই শক্তি | শক্তিই জয় | জয়েই সংরক্ষণ |
32. What goes on in most television channels is not journalism but hooliganism.
33. Greed is opposed to God.
34. আমাদের ভোগসর্বস্ব জীবনই ভাগাড় | মুক্তি নেই তাই | গঙ্গাতীর এখনও অনেক দূর |
35. Bengal has fallen behind with its pronounced intellectual pretence which is sharp contrast to real intellectuality.
36. Bengal's rise lies in her adopting the martial culture that is so characteristic of the Sikhs, all of course in the Bengali way.
38. সারা ভারতটাকে জাগাবার জন্য স্বামীজী তপস্যা করলেন |
39. We have to raise the average IQ level of our countrymen.
40. Rising knowledge, valour, commerce n labour welfare in proper proportion are the indices of progress, not so much mere rising GDP.
41. When Hindu girls are targeted by anti-Hindu elements, it is our dhārmic duty to stand by them.
#sharmistha
42. What sort of retribution is this when unconditional apology cannot seal matters, and seeks vengeance thus?
#sharmistha
43. Is there no end to Hindu suffering? Earlier it was invaders persecuting us. Now it is elements within who strike us the hard legal blow. Forbearance and forgiveness have been our national attributes. Now no more so with political perfidy perverting purpose.
#sharmistha
44. So many great men and women were born in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Why has the fountain dried up?
45. Cast off fear. Stand firm. Defend the Dharma.
46. ঠাকুরের ভক্ত হতে গেলে কিন্তু সাহসী হতে হবে | ভয় ও ভক্তি সহাবস্থান করে না | ঠাকুরের প্রথম কথাই হল,
"লজ্জা, ঘৃণা, ভয়,
এ তিন থাকতে নয় |"
47. Unite against jihādis who threaten Hindu safety and security. 1300 years of bondage have been experience enough. Now no more.
48. Freedom of speech which is so fundamental for the thriving of a democracy is being restricted more and more using those very democratic means. This is autoimmune syndrome afflicting democracy which will kill it in the long run as its perpetrators gain ground with demographic change deliberately effected to ensure this end. This simply is a sinister design that must be resisted en masse.
49. We should have character enough to hold on to our Dharma, live for it, if necessary die for it, but never to give it up. 🕉 Hindu!
50. In defence of the Dharma lies immortality. 🕉 Hindu!
51. Swamiji said that every Hindu's suffering ought to affect all of us and we should try to alleviate it.
Question: Does it?
52. 
'বৃক্ষ ইতি স্তব্ধ |' -- শাস্ত্রবচন
শান্ত সমাহিত মহাপুরুষ সেই স্থিতধী বৃক্ষতলে |
53. Merely being good is not enough. We have to be strong as well, strong to defend the Dharma and defeat adharma in its wake.
54. Insignificant offence, great punishment. Significant crime, remaining scot-free. Divine dispensation, dada, divine dispensation!
55. Getting hurt at the drop of a hat is the sign of immaturity of emotional make-up. Time to grow up, buddy!
56. A good dose of Swami Vivekananda, Sitaram Goel and Ram Swarup can do wonders for Hindus. Let's begin.
57. Swamiji used to detest such effeminate rendition of soft sentimental music. স্বামীজী সংগীতে নৃত্যে, হাবে ভাবে, ওঠা বসায়, চলা ফেরায়, সর্বব্যবহারে পৌরুষ অবলম্বন করতে বলেছিলেন | এহেন মেয়েলী ভাব ত্যাগ করতে বলেছিলেন যাতে জাতির চরিত্র সবল হয়, মেরুদণ্ড সোজা হয়, আক্রান্ত সভ্যতা আবার উঠে দাঁড়াতে পারে স্বমহিমায় | কিন্তু আজও তাঁর সে কথা তাঁর অনুগামীরা শুনছেন না |
"খোল-করতাল বাজিয়ে লম্ফঝম্প করে দেশটা উৎসন্নে গেল। একে তো এই dyspeptic (অজীর্ণ) রোগীর দল, তাতে আবার লাফালে ঝাঁপালে সইবে কেন? কামগন্ধহীন উচ্চ সাধনার অনুকরণ করতে গিয়ে দেশটা ঘোর তমসাচ্ছন্ন হয়ে পড়েছে। দেশে দেশে, গাঁয়ে গাঁয়ে যেখানে যাবি, দেখবি খোল-করতালই বাজছে! ঢাকঢোল দেশে তৈরি হয় না? তুরীভেরী কি ভারতে মেলে না ? ঐ-সব গুরুগম্ভীর আওয়াজ ছেলেদের শোনা। ছেলেবেলা থেকে মেয়েমানষি বাজনা শুনে শুনে, কীর্তন শুনে শুনে দেশটা যে মেয়েদের দেশ হয়ে গেল! এর চেয়ে আর কি অধঃপাতে যাবে ? কবিকল্পনাও এ ছবি আঁকতে হার মেনে যায়! ডমরু শিঙা বাজাতে হবে, ঢাকে ব্রহ্মরুদ্রতালের দুন্দুভিনাদ তুলতে হবে, 'মহাবীর, মহাবীর' ধ্বনিতে এবং 'হর হর ব্যোম্ ব্যোম্' শব্দে দিগ্দেশ কম্পিত করতে হবে। যে-সব music-এ (গীতবাদ্যে) মানুষের soft feelings (হৃদয়ের কোমল ভাবসমূহ) উদ্দীপিত করে, সে-সব কিছুদিনের জন্য এখন বন্ধ রাখতে হবে। খেয়াল-টপ্পা বন্ধ করে ধ্রুপদ গান শুনতে লোককে অভ্যাস করাতে হবে। বৈদিক ছন্দের মেঘমন্দ্রে দেশটার প্রাণসঞ্চার করতে হবে। সকল বিষয়ে বীরত্বের কঠোর মহাপ্রাণতা আনতে হবে। এইরূপ ideal follow (আদর্শ অনুসরণ) করলে তবে এখন জীবের কল্যাণ, দেশের কল্যাণ। তুই যদি একা এভাবে চরিত্র গঠন করতে পারিস, তা হলে তোর দেখাদেখি হাজার লোক ঐরূপ করতে শিখবে। কিন্তু দেখিস, ideal (আদর্শ) থেকে কখনও যেন এক পা-ও হটিসনি। কখনও সাহসহীন হবিনি। খেতে শুতে পরতে, গাইতে বাজাতে, ভোগে রোগে কেবলই সৎসাহসের পরিচয় দিবি। তবে তো মহাশক্তির কৃপা হবে।"
~ স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ
'My mission is not Ramakrishna's nor Vedanta's but simply to bring manhood to this people.' ~ Swami Vivekananda
P.S. The musical tune has also been conveniently copied from S.D. Burman's famous song
'Bondhu, rongilā, rongilā, rongil re,
Āmāre sariyā bondhu koi gelā re.'
That much for devotional honesty!
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58. Here there are fools galore. Wonder where?
59. Would it were that devotees of Thakur exhibited greater manhood as Swamiji wished!
60. ঠাকুরের বাণী মাঠে মারা যাচ্ছে, বেঁচে আছে তাঁর ছবি |
61. Bilawal Bhutto's press conference at the UN was marked by a deep sense of fear of India that Pakistan is now suffering from.
62. Bilawal Bhutto has inadvertently equated Pak terrorists with Pak civilians by harping on the lie that India had targeted Pak civilian locations when India has with film footage proved it categorically that she had only target terrorist camps.
63. Was Bilawal Bhutto looking at a mirror and speaking about India? I wonder.
64. A hammered Pakistan wishes to talk to India but cannot give up threatening her with nuclear war still. As they say, 'Old habits die hard.'
65. যে প্রদেশের ভক্তেরা ঠাকুরকে নিয়ে এমন ন্যাকামি করে, সেখানকার যুবসমাজ সামরিক বাহিনীতে বহুল যোগদান করবে, এমন আশা করা অবাস্তব |
66. আগে পৌরুষ, পরে ভক্তি | বীর্যহীনের আবার ভক্তি কি ?
67. এবার ঠিক করেছি আমার প্রতিবেদনে কারো মন্তব্যের আর কেনো উত্তর দেব না | বিরক্তিকর লাগে এলোমেলো মন্তব্যের উত্তর দিতে | খুব কম লোকই গভীরে কোনো লেখার অর্থ অনুধাবন করতে সক্ষম, এই তো অভিজ্ঞতা | অতএব, অজ্রস্রধারে লিখে যাব কিন্তু কোনো মন্তব্যে নিজেকে জড়াবো না | যার যা খুশি লিখুক |
68. দুর্বলতাকে, ইন্দ্রিয়পরায়ণতাকে, কাপুরুষতাকে, বিষয়বাসনাকে ভক্তি বলে চালালে চলবে না | তা ভোগের নামান্তর |
69. "You may not believe in the vengeance of God but you will have to believe in the vengeance of history. And it is coming. What are these handful of Englishmen? Look at the Chinese, millions of them. The Chinaman is the vengeance of history. Once more there shall be an invasion of the Huns. They will sweep all over Europe. Men, women, children---all will go. Once more the Dark Ages will come. What if you Englishmen are thrown all into the North Sea? And you richly deserve that. And it shall not be a millennium till it is done." Then dropping the seer, he said, "Myself, I don't care." ~ Marie Louise Burke (New Discoveries) [For exact quotation verification needed. Quoted from memory.]
70.
ভগবানকে মানা সহজ নয় |
সব কথা তার মানতে হয় |
সেইমত তায় চলতে হয় |
রিপুর ওপর জয়লাভ
তবেই হবে, হবে নির্ভয় |
মুখের কথায় হয় না রে ভাই,
যুদ্ধ এ যে, পেতে জয়
লড়তে হয়, লড়তে হয় ||
71. I will not take money away from this world but shall fly with my mind from this encasement in flesh and form. My wealth is my mind.
72. Pakistan was but a fraction of erstwhile India. Hence, there can to be no equivalence between the two.
73. স্বামীজীর ভাষা বীর্যবান | যেমন ভাব, তেমনি ভাষা | স্বামীজী কথ্যভাষাকে সাহিত্যে রূপান্তরীত করেছিলেন ও তাকেই সাহিত্যোপযুক্ত মনে করতেন | My personal ideal of language is that of my Master, the colloquial style, এইমত মন্তব্য করেছিলেন স্বামীজী | কিন্তু ভাষার দুর্বলতা পছন্দ করতেন না তিনি | ক্রিয়াপদের বাহুল্য ভাষাকে দুর্বল করে বলে মনে করতেন, এবং যথার্থই তা | তার পরিবর্তে বিশেষণের প্রয়োগ ভাষাকে বলিষ্ঠ করে | সেইমত নিজে রচনা করে বাংলা ভাষাকে পৌরুষসম্পন্ন করেছিলেন তিনি এবং সেই ছাঁচে চেলাদের লিখতে বলেছিলেন | সর্ববিষয়ে এই পৌরুষ, বীরভাবের বিকাশ চেয়েছিলেন স্বামীজী | মূর্তমহেশ্বর ছিলেন কিনা !
74. স্বামীজীর চেলা হয়ে দুরাচারের বিরুদ্ধে, হিন্দুনির্যাতনের বিরুদ্ধে রুখে দাঁড়ানোর ক্ষমতা না থাকার অর্থ হল চারিত্রিক দুর্বলতা, আপসপ্রিয়তা যা স্বামীজীর মোটেই অনুমোদিত ছিল না |
75. Your contribution to the nation matters. Work incessantly for the motherland. Strengthen her, empower her, raise her to see her enthroned as the spiritual preceptor of the whole world.
76. আমি সেই দিনের দিকে তাকিয়ে যেদিন সারা ভারতীয় উপমহাদেশে প্রত্যেকটি ব্যক্তি সনাতন ধর্মে প্রত্যাবর্তন করেছে সানন্দে |
77. দেশ রসাতলে গেল, এদিকে বিল্ডিং বানিয়ে আনন্দ |
78. আমরা দেবস্বভাব | আমরা দমব কেন ? মনের বল হারাব কেন ? মহা উৎসাহে বাঁচব | স্বামীজী সেনাপতি | আমরা পদাতিক | তাঁর নেতৃত্বে চলব সমরাঙ্গনে | বিজয় নিশ্চিত |
79. আমাদের একে অপরের সাথে মধুর ব্যবহার করা উচিত | এতে সমাজে সংহতি রক্ষা হয় | অহেতুক উত্তেজনা প্রদর্শন দুর্বল মানসিকতার লক্ষণ | ধ্যানের দ্বারা নিজের মনকে শান্ত রাখলে, সেই শান্ত ভাব আর পাঁচ জনের মধ্যে সংক্রমিত হবে জীবনব্যবহারের দ্বারা | এতে সমাজের কল্যাণ |
80. আমাদের মেয়েদের রক্ষার ভার আমাদের | তাদের শিক্ষিতা করে তোলা যেমন আবশ্যক আধুনিক অপরা বিদ্যায়, তেমনি পরা বিদ্যায়ও যাতে তারা পারঙ্গম হতে পারে, সে দিকে দৃষ্টি রাখা দরকার | একদিকে শিক্ষা যেমন শক্তি, বিশেষতঃ ব্যবহারিক জীবনে, তেমনি দেশীয় সংস্কৃতি, আধ্যাত্মিক ভাব, সংস্কার, এর দ্বারা চরিত্রের সৌকুমার্য প্রস্ফুটিত হয় |
স্বামীজী মেয়েদের সামনে সীতা, সাবিত্রী, দময়ন্তীর আদর্শ তুলে ধরেছেন | এই আদর্শ সেভাবে পালিত হচ্ছে না | ফলে মহিয়সী নারীর সংখ্যা কমে যাচ্ছে |
সনাতন সংস্কৃতির সঙ্গে আধুনিক শিক্ষার দুরূহ মেলবন্ধন সাধিত করতে হবে | অসম্ভব নয় | আধ্যাত্মিক আদর্শের ভিত্তিভূমির ওপর দাঁড়িয়ে জাগতিক জ্ঞানলাভ, প্রয়োগ ও জীবনযাপন অবশ্যই সম্ভব | তাই করতে হবে |
দেশের মেয়েরা আমাদের সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ সম্পদ কারণ এরাই জাতির ভবিষ্যৎ জননী | এদের যত্ন, লালন পালন সর্বোপরি | তাই করব আমরা |
81. Ultimately it is the individual that runs the collective show, the man of strong will, the man of might, the man of unbending resolve.
82. Work, work and work. And out of that is forged a will irresistible that can conquer the world.
83. অনাসক্তিই আনন্দ |
84. দুদিনের জীবনে একদিন জীবনগঠন, আর একদিন সেবা |
85. ক'জনের সাথেই বা দেখা হল | বেশিরভাগই রয়ে গেল অপরিচিতের তালিকায় | কিন্তু প্রাণে প্রাণে একাত্মতা অনুভব দেহবুদ্ধি ছাড়িয়ে |
86. The second Sarsanghachālak of the RSS, Guru Golwalkarji, was the initiated disciple of Swami Akhandanandaji, the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. Guruji was thus the grand-disciple of Thakur.
87. With so much war going on, the environment is being polluted beyond measure. When will we combat instead the looming environmental disaster?
88. মানুষ যত মানুষকে যন্ত্রণা দেয়, তত যন্ত্রণা প্রকৃতি আজ আর দেয় না সম্ভবতঃ | মানুষকে যন্ত্রণা দেবেন না | এইটি নিবেদন |
89. যত বিপর্যয় আসুক, আশাহত হবেন না | মেঘ কাটবে | আবার ঝলমলে দিনের মুখ দেখবেন | দুর্দিন ঘুঁচবে |
90. জগতরূপী সমস্যা | সমাধান সমাধিতে |
91. Sacrifice of selfishness is better than sacrifice of dumb animals. God can never be pleased by violence to His creatures.
92. Every sacrificed animal is God Himself in disguise. Sacrificing it means sacrificing God Himself. What merit may accrue from it?
93. কর্মফল তো আছেই | তাই কর্ম সাবধানে করাই ভাল |
94. Smartness is the key to national efficiency.
95. Keep your morale high. Never give in. Fight like a soldier who has pledged his loyalty to the country and shall never budge, come what may, life or death.
96. That martial spirit is missing which would make Bengal great again.
97. Arab culture has overshadowed Sanatan culture in large sections of the Indian subcontinent. These regions must be freed of such foreign influence and brought back to their cultural roots in the Vedas.
98. ভগবানে ভক্তি থাকলে কি আর নাচগান, দানভিক্ষা---এই নিয়ে ব্যস্ত থাকে মানুষ ? বলি, টাকায় আছে কি ? কোন যাদু আছে তাতে যে জপধ্যানতপস্যা ছেড়ে এই অবিদ্যামায়ার পেছনে ধাবিত ভগবৎভক্ত সাধু ? 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা'---ভগবানের এই বাণী বুঝিবা আজ ব্রাত্য |
99. এনন স্বামীজী থাকতে স্বামীজীর প্রচার নেই ?
100. বাবা, সব নৌকোয় পা দিয়ে কি চলা যায় ? 'ঝালে, ঝোলে, অম্বলে' থাকা এক আর সব নৌকোয় পা দিয়ে থাকা আর এক |
101. যে জাতি এই পরিমাণ প্রতিকৃতিপ্রিয়, তার কি উত্থান সহজে হবার ?
102. সবাই বলেন যে ঠাকুর ইসলাম ও খ্রীষ্টধর্ম গ্রহণ করেছিলেন | কিন্তু কেউ বলেন না যে তিনি এই দুই ধর্মই কার্যতঃ পরিত্যাগ করেছিলেন সাধনশেষে কারণ তিনি পুনরায় সনাতন ধর্মের বৈদিক, তান্ত্রিক এবং পৌরানিক পন্থাগুলোর সিদ্ধান্ত ও পূজাপদ্ধতিসকল মেনেছিলেন এবং পালন করেছিলেন যা কিনা ইসলাম ও খ্রীষ্টধর্মে নিষিদ্ধ |
Thursday, 29 May 2025
ONWARD AND IGNORE THOSE WHO ATTEMPT TO IMPEDE THE ROLLING OF THE CHARIOT OF NATIONAL LIFE, THE YUGADHARMACHAKRA!
ONWARD AND IGNORE THOSE WHO ATTEMPT TO IMPEDE THE ROLLING OF THE CHARIOT OF NATIONAL LIFE, THE YUGADHARMACHAKRA!
We are progressing fast as a nation. Swamiji's prophecy is proving true. The Ancient Mother is awakening, rising rejuvenated to her feet, never to sleep again.
We have a leader now who is a committed nationalist unlike his carping critics steeped in corruption who have nothing but jeering to do at him. These petty politicians must be ignored as inconsequential to the 'growth story' that is emerging India. They have their meanness to feed their bloated little egos with and have nothing to contribute to the nation save leechlike to drain its lifeblood. But the generations are changing and the baton is being passed on to the aspirational youth who will cast away like dirt politicians who play the rogue's role in the drama that is evolving national life. Hence, hands off these antinationals and hope high for the prospects of the nation proper!
The masses of India are not all in pockets provincially located that they may be seduced into subversive submission by sly dealers selling cheap wares free while buying electoral allegiance in return, but they are spread across the length and breadth of the motherland in active effort for her revitalisation into becoming the preceptor of the world perverted from the pristine principles of humanity and love.
Vande Mataram! Jai Hind! 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
THE FORGOTTEN PROPHET OF EMERGING INDIA
THE FORGOTTEN PROPHET OF EMERGING INDIA
Raja Rammohun Roy was a seminal giant of the Indian renaissance. For him to have been thus forgotten by our nation at large is a shame. He was the founder-father of the modern age in India, the first truly universal modern man perhaps of the entire world, a harmoniser of the East and the West, a junction point in human civilisation. For him to be thus neglected in national affairs is indicative of the fact that we are not truly progressing as a nation the way we could but are only making smaller strides towards progress than we need to to hasten our national evolution. Traditional trappings are still binding us and we need to disentangle ourselves, while preserving heritage and history, to develop faster. To that end I pen these lines tonight with the hope that it may kindle a few hearts and minds to taking up the study of this renaissance man of the then emerging India, this prophet of progress of the yet emerging India. If we study his life, heed his message, we will move into the modern world that much faster and with that much secure step. My salutations to this heroic spirit of eternal India.
Written by Sugata Bose
IT IS A DEARTH OF CHARACTER, MY FRIEND!
IT IS A DEARTH OF CHARACTER, MY FRIEND!
The problem today once more is this absence of character in people, in leaders arising out of this mass of men, the lack of courage of conviction, the capacity to fearlessly articulate the truth, the fact of things, without compromising content or commercialising end. The problem that beset the world when Swamiji addressed it plagues it today as well. The world is a complex web of contradictory elements jostling for scope and space, opposed forces fighting for resolution. Here, addressing all and trying to place your point will necessarily be either naive or insincere and is bound to be manifestly weak. This is the predicament the leaders of the world face. As it is, most are not of integrated character and are desirous of personal position, profit and in megalomaniac cases even inordinate glory. Their words are weak, more often hollow and lack in the aforementioned 'courage of conviction'. Devoid of sincerity that springs from selflessness and a genuine concern for human welfare, these 'hollow men' fail to inspire confidence in the bulk of humanity as the latter continues to suffer from the iniquities that beset the world. The only way out of this cesspool of perfidious politics, this crass commercialisation of life and love, is to build character along the lines laid down by Swamiji (Swami Vivekananda). Do it and in a flash the world changes! But there isn't a single taker for his words today, leave aside his peerless preceptor, the Paramahamsa of Dakshineshwar. Alas!
Written by Sugata Bose
UPDATE YOUR WINDOWS AND DOORS, SIR!
UPDATE YOUR WINDOWS AND DOORS, SIR!
Pakistan must update itself. It has got stuck up in 7th century Arabia. But we are in the 21st century. It is 1400 years of updating that the Pak psycho-computer will have to do and that is a tall order to achieve, it seems. From camels to F-16s has been quite a leap in the air but with other upgradations missing, the fall naturally is precipitous each time before the desert dust of victory is raised amidst the fog of war where obscure lies the vision. It is no more Bin Qasim versus Raja Dahir, Sir, nor barbaric Islamic hordes versus scattered and in-fighting Hindu forces. It is a backward-thinking misadventurous force versus the modern might of a unified nation that India today is, and the consequences are predictable and obvious in their inevitability.
The Pakistani Punjabis, perverted from their civilisation by conversion, armed more in greed and the last for power, and held together for geopolitical reasons by the powers that be, rule the roost in this partitioned province of erstwhile India, and it is with their dislodgement from this dastardly base of power that must release 230 million Pakistanis unto freedom. Meanwhile, Balochistan has declared its freedom and must win international recognition in due time.
Pakistan bleeds internally and bleeds India externally. What a perfidy was Pakistan in the very principle of its creation by partitioning India! Jinnah and the British have a lot to answer for. And Gandhi's non-violence, laudable in principle but laughable in application in a warring world yet ready for it! Add to it Nehru's weaknesses, and you have your 'picture perfect'.
Written by Sugata Bose
Monday, 26 May 2025
WHEN RESTIVE I REST
WHEN RESTIVE I REST
When I am dead and gone,
There will yet be dusk,
There will yet be dawn.
But the new morn
Shall of a leaf shorn
Be whole and wholesome though.
The tree of Life
Will bloom its blossoms
Fragrant fair
Though I be not there
In form, worn and old.
The sun will shine,
New lovers embrace
And say, "I am thine,"
Till they pass too
Unto the morrow
That in shades of sorrow
Beckon a birth afresh
Of youth and vigour,
Life and joy.
So must I move on
Through the vale of death
And the vale of life
That must follow in its wake
Till wide awake
I'll sleep no more.
Right now
In the mist of life,
In the din and strife,
In this fool's paradise
Must I labour alive
And gather honey
Till my beehive
In a deathly strike
Doth break to free
My captive soul
That must wear a form
Ever and ever
Till shorn of all,
Of the big and small,
Of the tiny, tall,
I'll rest in peace
Shorn of work
In a last release
That'll know no end
Nor turn nor bend
But shall bide in rest
In conscious crest
That knows no fall
Unto an earthly dawn.
To such a flight
This song of love
I send tonight
In a final call,
To such a light
That shines within
And beckons me
To quit it all.
Composed by Sugata Bose
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