WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS POWER
Friday, 28 February 2025
COMMENTS GALORE ... 82
COMMENTS GALORE ... 82
Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : No, the toxic jihādi ideology of which you are ignorant of apparently---hence your periodic objection on superficial basis---must be countered, defeated and Muslims like European Christians of the Enlightenment rationalised and assimilated in the body politic on the Vedantic basis. Read the Islamic scriptural trilogy of the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira and infer. We shall discuss post your awareness of their contents and their application over the last 1402 years since the Hijra in 622 CE right till this day. And by the way, do I look like a fool or a maniac who would propose the exodus of 220 million or more of Indian Muslims from their homeland? It is the Islamic jihādi ideology that has to be defeated just like the Nazi ideology had to be. For that massive awareness is necessary which myself and kindred souls of mine are night and day doing while people like you keep watching idly from the sidelines and quip in a carping one-liner hither and thither, deeming that to be democratic divine deed done. Enough unto the day is the evil thereof. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : Read my earlier observation and be illumined about my objective, intent and modus operandi. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Swami Vibhatmananda : This is exactly what the Ramakrishna Mission in Bangladesh should do instead of meekly capitulating before the powers that be. They should stand up to the fanatical forces and defend the rights of the Hindus there who are in the most terrible plight of Islamic persecution. Follow Swamiji and resist. Remember what Swamiji said, "Face the brute." No running away citing apolitical apology. Fight. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : We are eagerly waiting for you to lead us. And we will follow you in real earnest. You will be our real rallymaster.
Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : Yes, and that common sense and logic means making casual caustic comments from the sidelines while exhibiting copious cowardice in calling co-religionists sarcastically as 'Pindus'. Courage indeed! 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : অধিকাংশ হিন্দু কাপুরুষ |
Sugata Bose @Disciple : In this way whole life will go and opportunity there will be none to spare a moment for me.
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : Your sustained campaigning is sure opening eyes. The movement is on, imperceptibly though at the outset it may seem to be and a despairing one at that but the momentum will pick up in bursts later just as evolutionary motions do. Keep up with your good work and our support shall not be wanting. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Nilanjana Chakraborty : Oh, you have not befriended sarcasm yet! Meet him and shake hands soon.
Sugata Bose @Amarnath Ghosh : Remember Knott keeping at the Gardens in 1972-'73 in the second Test match of the series. Unbelievable acrobatics. But keeping Gilchrist's incomparably better batting prowess in mind---arguably perhaps the wrong line of thinking when selecting keepers---, I have gone for the Australian. In a Test match, though, a dropped catch could make all the difference. So, you have a point for sure. But Gilchrist kept admirably well to the likes of McGrath, Lee, Gillespie and Warne, thereby proving his mettle against both pace and spin. Knott did no less, perhaps better against Snow, Willis, Underwood and the like. So, the selection balance swings from end to end making it a personal choice at the end of the day.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [SPORTS HUB] : Don Bradman's favourite pastime was to compare players across generations, analyse and assess their respective strengths and weaknesses and infer thereon their relative greatness. So, Gavaskar's statement in this regard is highly uninformed and in consequence erroneous. This mode of drawing comparisons of cricketers across generations is one of the best ways of interconnecting the different ages of cricketing history and one of the brightest features of cricketing history retelling.
Comparing and contrasting are natural modes of intellectual activity and it is the very way in which distinctive cognition takes place. Cricket cannot be an exception to this and happily more intelligent people than Gavaskar do engage in these comparisons throughout the cricketing world, thereby nullifying Gavaskar's averment to the contrary.
Sugata Bose @[Belur Math monks in dance-mode] : Disgusting to see such open effeminacy.
Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : Your humour is simply nonpareil.
Sugata Bose @Christopher Stone : Yes, arguably the best batting all-rounder of all time along with Garry Sobers but then I prefer Sobers for his greater bowling versatility, better fielding, either close-in or in the country, and for his doubtlessly better batting ability as manifest in his 254 at Melbourne in 1971 for the Rest of World XI against Australia when he taught the brat Lillee a lesson or two.
Sugata Bose @Rana Bose : Many like you would prefer leg-spin to off-spin but Murali's doosra is deadly.
Sugata Bose @Shirish Nadkarni : But Murali was cleared by the Australian university that did biometrics tests on him, calling his undue flexing of arm while bowling a natural disability which generated the optical illusion of chucking which it was not.
Sugata Bose @Rich Barlow : I tend to agree, Graeme Pollock being my favourite as well. But I simply could not ignore Viv Richards and had to take in Hammond for his additional attribute of fast bowling plus great slip catching.
P.S. Rich Barlow On afterthought Graeme Pollock is in. He has replaced Viv Richards. Thanks for your forthright suggestion. Alan Knott likewise has replaced Adam Gilchrist.
Sugata Bose @Sanjib Mukherjee : Warne's record in India went against him during the selection.
Sugata Bose @Pronab Chakraborty : You missed the surname by a mile. You bowled a wide ball. Now bowl again.
Sugata Bose @Naveed Yazdani : Bias? Can you not get past your insinuation even in cricket? It's simply not cricket for you to allege so.
Sugata Bose @Swami Vibhatmananda : Disgusting effeminacy from an organisation whose founder advocated manhood in every phase of life and upheld it as his central message.
Sugata Bose @Martin Crothers : Murali's doosra should do for the concealed leg-spin for the right-hander and his conventional off-spin would be leg-spin for the left-hander.
Sugata Bose @Martin Crothers : You have a solid sense of humour.
Sugata Bose @Sukanta Datta : But Viv Richards, I thought, was better. Hence, Sachin goes out on account of none of his 51 Test centuries having been single-handed match-winning efforts.
Sugata Bose @Kailash C Sharma : Improve your understanding. The Arabic words clearly enunciate the import of the post. Before questioning first concentrate.
Sugata Bose @Amarnath Ghosh : Brother, Knott is in. He has replaced Gilchrist. A reviewing of video footage of past wicket-keeping greats as well as my own experience at the Gardens tilted the balance quite easily in favour of the Kent keeper.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Unplayable bowler, hardly ever in history seen since the days of Sidney Francis Barnes of England whose record was as prodigious but whose career was cut short by lordly high-handedness of Lord's. Murali's career was likewise plagued by suspicions regarding his action and continues to mar estimation of his bowling prowess as popular narratives catch on fast giving the lie to biometric analysis inferences of his bowling action in Australian universities which cleared him of all illegality.
Sugata Bose @Majid Jehangir : Probably Don Bradman who habitually did this sort of 'mental gymnastics' had an idle mind. Clever definition of indolence, eh?
Sugata Bose @ Manis Kumar Banerjee : Sobers provides the spin bowling balance. The exclusion of Roberts would upset the pace bowling balance.
Sugata Bose @Paul Cowley : Murali was not a chucker. That is a misperception that persists in people who are unaware of the fact that successive biometric tests conducted by specialists in Australian universities had cleared him of all alleged illegality of bowling action, the illusion created by his innate physiological incapacity to straighten his arm completely and his wrist being hyper-supple to be able to rotate beyond normal limits.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Gad Saad] : Piers Morgan ought to study the trinity of Islamic scriptures before casually making superficial statements about Islam.
Sugata Bose @Steve Maconachie : So, you tilt the balance in favour of Hammond yet again. This is really becoming quite a selection process really, but closing in on the best combination at that. Thanks.
Sugata Bose @Rohini Jalan: Rohini, it is impossible to understand whether you have seen my messages or not as you have removed the blue tick mechanism and brought your Whatsapp profile under the veil. Seems to be the tide of the times, though.
Sugata Bose @Vaskar Dutta : Yes, many are of that opinion. But Murali's indecipherability and matchless record tilted the balance in his favour, although the sheer aesthetic appeal of Warnie's bowling may as yet move me to move him in, especially on a turning track as at Sydney, Port of Spain or in the subcontinent.
Sugata Bose @Boddhisatya Tarafdar : It has been a tough ask to leave Tendulkar out but his lack of match-winning Test performances did the deal against him. But who knows? Post-pondering and further research may as yet make for his inclusion.
Sugata Bose @Sumit Mukerji : Owing to absence of footage on Sydney Francis Barnes I was in no position to judge how good he was. Don Bradman excluded him in his All-time World XI (team selection published post mortem, courtesy, Roland Perry). However, Richie Benaud included him in his All-time World XI. Bradman included him in his All-time England Ashes XI (courtesy, Roland Perry). Old-timers have been unanimous in describing him as the greatest bowler that ever lived. But my predicament was as narrated above. Hence.
Sugata Bose @Sujoy Mukherjee : There are cricketers galore who are strolling on the periphery of selection to this great team but only eleven may be included. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Sugata Bose @Martin Crothers : You have a point for sure but I have gone by whatever video footage I could lay my hands on and by what experts like Don Bradman have had to say on Barry Richards. Also, his phenomenal performances in the World Series Cricket seasons in Australia against the best fast bowlers of the world, especially when he was nearing the last phase of his career.
Sugata Bose @Martin Crothers : But the huge majority are agreeing and where contrary opinions have come in, they have been duly considered, the content researched and adjustments made by due replacements.
Sugata Bose @Kaushik Kumar Ghosh : Did consider Bland initially but on viewing their respective video footages settled for Rhodes eventually.
Sugata Bose @Narendra Borkar : But Bradman is the God of cricket. Perhaps Sobers as well. They are sporting merrily with the men though.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : And how right they were! But T20 is worse and I can scarce mention the apparel to define its features.
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : Bengali Hindus are today utter cowards covering up their cowardice behind pretence of liberal culture while being spititually depleted and devoid of strength of character.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Z Cricket] : The background music is too loud and disturbing. Words softly spoken by the interviewees can scarce be distinctly heard.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Kolkata Literary Meet] : Was Kishore Bhimani a part of the cricketing squad in 1976 that he keeps on with his endless gibberish while spectator Gavaskar watches in mute 'wonder'?
Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : To the Sanatan Dharma. It will be homecoming, not deportation. By the way, is your Qur'an study over? I had long back requested you to go through the Islamic trinity of scriptures thoroughly before making passing observations on the subject to which you are fully entitled, though, but which does not deepen your understanding of the civilisational crisis we, Hindus, face on account of multiple counts, the Islamic count being uppermost on this list. Demographic change and indifference of a large section of, so to say, educated Hindus, to the well-being of the Sanatan Dharma, civilisation and the Sanatanis is the reason which is making conscientious observers lose their nocturnal rest while casual commenters keep insincerely making off-the-cuff unthoughtout remarks to the detriment of our existential cause. This is regrettable and will prove disastrous to us as in the 1940s which led to the bloody vivisection of our beloved motherland. Hindus such as these who are callous to learning about the dangers that face their own civilisation are doing as great a disservice to our motherland as her very enemies in intolerant ideology. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Zahid Mollah : What sort of a profile picture have you put up? It seems a curious hybrid of the cow and the crow, perhaps to be dubbed the cowcrow or the crowcow. It is distasteful, to say the least, because it is a deliberate attempt to hurt Hindu sentiment. Have you forgotten your Hindu roots and have you turned thus against your ancestors? Even aesthetics should deem you to harbour better sentiment towards the faith and culture of fellow citizens which has sadly been sacrificed to satisfy some curious bent of mind of yours. May better sense prevail !
Sugata Bose @🕉Nilanjana Chakraborty : Ah, yes! I mistook it to be cowcrow or crowcow.
Sugata Bose @Boddhisatya Tarafdar : I appreciate what you say and may in a future adjustment to the team consider his inclusion. Right now Headley seems to be on at no.4 although Bradman had gone for Tendulkar there (courtesy, 'Bradman's Best' by Roland Perry).
Sugata Bose @Readers of the All-time Test Match World XI post : Yes, to have left out Shane Warne, Sachin Tendulkar, Andy Roberts, Keith Miller, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Glen McGrath, Michael Holding, Wes Hall, Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards, Len Hutton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Charlie McCartney, Neil Harvey, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell, Fred Trueman, Frank Tyson, Harold Larwood, Ray Lindwall, Joel Garner, Godfrey Evans, Wally Grout, Bert Oldfield, Denis Compton, Dudley Nourse, Glenn Turner, Peter May, Ken Barrington, Graeme Pollock, Mike Proctor, Eddie Barlow, Jacques Kallis, Hedley Verity, Jim Laker, Bishen Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, Vinoo Mankad, Subhas Gupte, Kumar Sangakarra, Andy Flower, Glen Turner and a host of other greats of the game has been a tough task and I hope to put up more All-time World Test match XIs in the future to complement this list. Thank you all for participating so ardently in this entire affair of selection through your critical observations which have largely modified my original choice and helped me put up a more universally acceptable Test XI.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : But He is the summation of all attributes and the sum should include the parts. If He is only beyond attributes and not within our attributed reach as well, how may we ever address Him or send our prayers to which He will respond?
Sugata Bose @Kevin Chowdhury : Don't worry. You are through to Class X. But reform yourself to deserve the passage to a higher class, especially in this critical year which will have lifelong repercussions.
Sugata Bose @Abid Sk : But Imtiaz Mahmood speaks the truth and funnily too to spice up reading and realising thereof.
Sugata Bose @Abid Sk : But what is the rationality upholding your faith? The rationality called 'faith'?
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : Gopal Mukherjee (Gopal Pānthhā) was the real hero, a forgotten one along with countless others owing to our cowardice and complete loss of character.
Sugata Bose @Bilwadal Tapadar : I will if you accompany me. But first prove your credentials by doing whatever I am doing for the defence of the Dharma and our people, persecuted and robbed by crooks of the day masquerading as politicians. Idle comments such as you are indulging in prove your station in life and give out your intent. Had there not been countless such in our society, such rogues that rule today would not have dared destroy the aspirations of our all-suffering and sacrificing martyrs to freedom. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Bilwadal Tapadar : It means you are an apologist for the current corrupt political leaders.
Sugata Bose @Bilwadal Tapadar : আমি তো আর প্রতারক নই যে অনশনের ভান করে ভোজন চালিয়ে যাব পূর্ণোদ্যমে | আর মহান যতীন দাসের স্মৃতির অবমাননাকারীও নই | অতএব, লেখার কাজেই আমার দেশসেবা, ভণ্ডামিতে নয় | আপনার বোধবুদ্ধিতে যদি আমার লেখার তাৎপর্য যথাযথ প্রতীত না হয়, তো তার দায় আমার নয় | বুদ্ধিতে শান দেওয়া আপনার কাজ |
Sugata Bose @Readers of the All-time Test Match World XI post : There have been significant changes in the team composition. Jack Hobbs has replaced Barry Richards, Alan Knott has come in for Adam Gilchrist as wicket-keeper, George Headley has replaced Viv Richards and Sydney Francis Barnes has come in for Wasim Akram. And now Brian Lara has replaced George Headley.
HAIL THE QUARTER-BAKED POSERS WITH THE PRETENCE OF SCHOLARS!
HAIL THE QUARTER-BAKED POSERS WITH THE PRETENCE OF SCHOLARS!
This country has as yet a long way to go before its great men and women get their due recognition. Right now it is hype and hoopla holding sway. Genuine progress is as of now a far cry, a distant dream. Unless the race honours its great men and women in the rightful way, it will neither get direction nor arrive at its destined end which it must, though, in the long run when the greats have been duly honoured and their message heeded to. Popular culture is on now with 'quarter-baked scholars' posing as preacher perfect for a public that knows little other than how to dance to the tune of these dance-masters. The stage is now set for such pretentious practitioners of piety and policy pleasing and appeasing the public of puerile pastimes. This is the scene now of increasing GDP and decreasing culture, increasing desire and decreasing satisfaction, increasing aggrandisation and decreasing effacement. Where is there room enough for progressive thinking, progressive means and measures other than such ones of a grosser breed? So, let the greats languish and let charlatans and hypocrites take their place. Let less than mediocrity reign, that of the 'quarter-baked' scholars infertile to a fault.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo: Bāchchudā, a genuine intellectual with a seminal sense and a philosophical profundity that was singularly brilliant, an uncommon character of concentrated culture, a solo soul in solitary sojourn through the desert-sands of desire-stricken life that yields but its secrets to only snatch away its carriers before comprehension be complete. Above all, a devotee dipped in divine love, never quite so immersed as to find fulfilment in peace, never quite so straying as to forsake his inheritance, that of the nectarine spray of the sea of love---Ramakrishna. Ever a man floating in limpid spaces of the Divine, ever a man struggling to break through the network of Maya like a lion enmeshed and battling for freedom. Bāchchudā remains the 'song celestial' in my life which was fashioned first in philosophy by his ardent assertions, by his creative, inventive genius, and guided along the route to the endless end where perchance we shall meet again to discuss the deep divine. My salutations to my earliest mentor in the spiritual line.
Thursday, 27 February 2025
FORGET NOT THY HEROES
FORGET NOT THY HEROES
Rammohun has been forgotten as has been the Buddha. Both have been to our detriment. Resurrection of these heroes in the common consciousness will do us a world of good. The heart of the Buddha and the modernity of Rammohun, absorbed and assimilated, will raise India and save her from Abrahamic invasive influence. This is certainly the imperative of the times.
I do not see such fanfare in celebrating Buddha Jayanti or in observing Rammohun's birthday at all as I do witness in the celebration of Abrahamic religious festivals by Hindus and by premier Hindu religious organisations. This is not only unfortunate but perhaps detrimental for us as well as it gives these proselytising faiths leeway to converting us. Or, am I wrong? Does this celebration of Abrahamic faith festivals immunise Hindus from undue conversion?
Written by Sugata Bose
BARRY RICHARDS---GENIUS IN THE WILDERNESS (EDITED)
BARRY RICHARDS---GENIUS IN THE WILDERNESS
Barry Richards was arguably the greatest opening batsman the world has ever seen with no less than Sir Donald Bradman vouching for his excellence. A gifted South African of that mercurial team of Ali Bacher, Barry Richards could showcase his formidable talent in only four Test matches played against the touring Australian team in 1970 when he scored two scintillating centuries to secure the appreciation of critics worldwide. Then came the ban on South African cricket for the government's policy of apartheid and Richards fell into the shade of county cricket in England and for a season Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia while lesser mortals kept playing the game and getting accolades. But the legend of Barry Richards kept building up as he kept on producing brilliant hundreds and double and triple hundreds against quality opposition, be it the visiting cricketing nations in England or the strong county sides replete with foreign acquisition to bolster their ranks, when Richards produced his masterful knocks against them to cement his place in cricketing history. But the best was yet to come. Finally, Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in Australia gave him the opportunity to test his mettle alongside the best players of the world, albeit a trifle too late, for Barry Richards was now well past his prime. But as usual, the mercurial South African was at his best when the occasion demanded and produced a string of scintillating knocks yet again, and for the last time, to carve out for himself a permanent niche in the hearts of fans and a luminous place in the history of cricket. After Don Bradman's death in 1999 the dream team that had earlier been selected by him which was dubbed 'Bradman's Best' was found to have named Barry Richards as one of the opening batsmen with Arthur Morris his opening partner. The Don had evidently chosen a left-right combination and had given pride of place to Barry Richards as his choice of his right-handed opener. What more needs to be said about Barry Richards than that he was, in the estimation of Sir Donald, the numero uno opening batsman with his rare blend of aggression, an immaculate defence, a perfect technique and the natural ability to score fast and dominate the bowling?
This then is Barry Richards for us, the legendary South African batsman with his repertoire of strokes and talent which never saw the light of day but which remain embedded in the hearts and minds of those who were privileged enough to witness his batting, a veritable virtuoso of batsmanship who will remain etched in our memory as the genius that walked not the cricket green as often as his merit warranted and who had to live with this terrible sense of denial and devastation. Glory unto Graeme Pollock, Eddie Barlow, Mike Proctor and Barry Richards. But for you cricket would have been poorer and with you too the politics of the times made cricket the poorer for it. Hail batsmanship at its highest! Thou never did witness the maestro in full flow. What a tragedy, what a shame!
Written by Sugata Bose
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 4
WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 4
Mohammedan ruination of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples has veen one of the most savage attacks on our culture. Thousands of years of artististic labour lost. With it universities destroyed, literature lost, historical records obliterated. This was the curse thrust on us since the seventh century when the first Arab attacks began and we have never recovered from it. History testifies to it. But who reads? Those that do are in horrors. Ours is indeed a 'wounded civilisation' as Naipaul puts it. I would say, even worse, a savaged civilisation. And the remnant is a civilisation of sorts for the best part has been lost for good. We need to resurrect Sanatan civilisation. That will be Bharatvarsha reborn.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo: Bakhtiyar Khilji's massacre of Buddhist monks
Oppression of woman in Islamic societies has retarded the growth of such societies. Woman gives birth to man. Let no man cover a woman up nor tell her what to do. Freed of her fetters she is more capable than man for she is the mother of man. Which is why the motherhood of God is celebrated in the Sanatan Dharma. Unfortunately, even among Sanatanis patriarchal high-handedness is rampant but it is much less today than in Islamic societies which literally observe scripturally sanctions to the letter so often. "Where women are worshipped, there the gods rejoice," says Manu. This has been forgotten by Sanatanis. But modernity has ushered women's liberation in the West and that is spreading all over the world. But Islamic societies continue to lag behind with oppression of women maximum wherever the Sharia rules. In Iran the hijab ruling is so draconian that women there are in open revolt which is being ruthlessly repressed. Scriptural sanction of beating wives when perceived to be on the verge of disobedience has compounded matters worse. Women are of intelligence half as much as men, need male escort for travel, are contractually wedded, divorced at will by their husbands, have to undergo halālā before remarriage to the same divorced husband, have inferior inheritance rights, are endowed a paltry sum by way of alimony and for merely a three month period
POESY: MEASURE FOR MEASURE
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Measure for measure
In pain and pleasure,
In work and leisure,
In bankruptcy and treasure.
So in life the opposites dwell
As dual is life in its uneven swell.
Today, tomorrow, yesterday that was,
All are, will be, have been the cause
For life's rollercoaster ride that's been,
Is ride on now and ride that'll be.
From rags to riches and riches to rags
Youth blooms now and in old age sags.
Thus measure for measure's the best way to be,
The golden mean that keeps you free,
And lets you waltz through eternity.
Composed by Sugata Bose
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 3
WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 3
The difference between the West and us is that within a few short years they have awakened to the dangers of Islamisation of their society whereas we continue to sleep to it despite suffering nearly 1400 years of it. Spain suffered 700 years and salvaged her civilisation over the next several centuries but we continue to pander to the vanities of Abrahamic proselytism and pave the way for the annihilation of our Dharma and culture.
The Sanatan Dharma must be saved by saving its carriers, the Sanatanis. If Sanatanis are converted to Islam and Christianity, where will the Sanatan Dharma seek habitat? It is this grand universal Dharma that alone can harmonise the conflicting creeds of the world and bring humanity to a semblance of sanity from its barbaric present when theocratic expansionism is going hand in hand with its political sibling.
Abrahamic cults are all exclusive, intolerant and violent in greater or lesser degrees but history has shelved some of their regressive practices through centuries of violent struggle. Judaism has few adherents as it is not a proselytising faith and Christianity has been forced to undergo reformation by European renaissance, enlightenment and revolution. Islam, though, has resisted reformation and stuck to its scriptural rigidity. It is now one of the biggest threats to world peace as it threatens imposition of the Sharia on the West through Dawah and Jihad. India has already suffered at the hands of this totalitarian doctrine but refuses to learn from her experience. The West is fast waking up but has internal enemies in the leftists to fight who allying with the Islamists are breathing their utopian virus into the air. Added to this are the newly-bred viruses of wokism. All this churn in western society, all such confusion in comprehension of the Islamic intent are making the West progressively vulnerable to Dawah and its Sharia consequence. But, as stated earlier, saner western minds are awaking to the danger of the Dawah in all its institutional penetration and subversion thereof. They are by way of denigration dubbed 'the far right' but they are the due defenders of western civilisation now cracking under demographic pressure and its twin offspring, the Dawah and the Jihad. Meanwhile India sleeps, although in far greater danger of a complete overhauling of civilisation in the coming few decades.
This is an ideological war and it must be fought and won ideologically. Political Islam which is what the Sharia is all about must be rendered toothless. How that is to be done is a matter of meditation and mention in the following few essays in this series.
End of Part 3
To be continued...
Written by Sugata Bose
MESSAGES GALORE ... 97
MESSAGES GALORE ... 97
1. The soul of the subcontinent is the Sanatan Dharma. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan suffer for having forsaken it. 🕉
2. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan---return to roots. 🕉
3. Each one in your own way increase the influence of the Sanatan Dharma. Swamiji used to say, "Expansion is life." Let us live then. 🕉
4. If you are a Hindu, first feel for every Hindu. And that is feeling enough, a billion-fold this small self. 🕉 Hindu! Make this your mantra in this revival of love, in this saving of the Sanatan civilisation.
5. Help the Hindus along by serving them in right earnest. Your labour of love will usher in a new civilisation which is the ancient one reincarnate sans the aberrations that have accreted.
6. Insult not the idea by childish remarks. Deepen consciousness by absorbing ideas, processing them and refashioning life along creative paths. Thus will the saffron spread its wings along soulful lines.
7. 
Is there a way out of the Self? None whatsoever. So, return to it. In this rediscovery lies the real resurrection and not in its mythical representation.
8. 
His renunciation has been forgotten. His dance lives on.
9. ছবিস্তুতির দেশে ভগবান লুকিয়ে থাকেন | তাই জাতির এই দুর্দশা |
10. Mahadev, make my brethren as brave as your rightful incarnations whose best exemplars were Shivaji, Gobind Singhji and Swamiji.
11. Why does religion seek validation from science for its truth wherever it sees the chance to do so? Is this not opportunism?
12. I take the holy dip daily in my work. Therein lies my Ganga whose active flow will take me to freedom. I shall work my way to freedom.
13. Love of death for reward in heaven cannot be religion. Transcendence of death by realisation of the undying Self is religion.
14. The levity affecting us now is degenerate. One hopes that heavier souls soon lead the charge and improve social density.
15. "লজ্জা, ঘৃণা, ভয়---এ তিন থাকতে নয় |" ঠাকুরের এ বাণীটি কি তাঁর অগণিত তথাকথিত ভক্ত মনে রাখেন ও সেইমত অন্তত আচরণ করতে প্রয়াস পান ? তাহলে পদে পদে এত ভয় কেন ? অথচ ঠাকুরের নামে ভক্তির জাহিরের কিছু কমতি নেই | এ কেমন দ্বিচারিতা ?
16. লিখে কিছু লাভ নেই | এ দেশে ছবিরই জয় |
17. It is not right to delude people into conversion. Such a practice is pernicious, yet rampant. It retards individual evolution.
18 Oh, how gullible are those who are converted and how scheming are those that convert!
19. এ বৈশ্য যুগ, সবেতেই ব্যবসা | তাই ঠাকুর যুগমন্ত্র দিলেন তার বিপরীত---'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা |' কিন্তু মানছে কে ভায়া ? এমনই যুগের মায়া যে অর্থই পূজিত, ভগবান আজ ব্রাত্য |
20. যতই সনাতন সভ্যতার নামে উচ্চৈঃস্বরে আস্ফালন কর, সভ্যতা কিন্তু ভায়া দ্রুত নামছে | কবে সত্যজিত রায় তাঁর শেষ ছবিতে বলে গেছেন, "আর, এখন তো সবই নিম্নগামী |" যথার্থ মানুষ না তৈরি হলে কি সংস্কৃতি রক্ষা পায় না কি সভ্যতার মান বজায় থাকে, ঊর্ধ্বগতি তো দূরের কথা ?
21. Social journalism has terribly reduced journalistic standards. Now every fool is a historian.
22. Whither intelligence? Whither humour?
23. Bangladesh must go back to Tagore if she is to survive. Else it is anarchic destruction ahead.
24. This self has to be rooted out if society is to be raised. Depth-study by deep souls lays history bare, not surface-study by superficial souls with capacity extending to insufficient reasoning, inadequate understanding and inferential leaps that betray a gaping ignorance.
25. Democracy raises the masses, lowers culture. (Idea source: Vivekananda)
26. A thousand years we have suffered. Pray, how much more? Are we going to perish perennially at the hands of inferior invasive culture?
27. Collapse of culture in commoner's corner that the world has become.
28. Bangladesh will not take to Vivekananda because of Islam. Hence Tagore is the next best alternative for its rescue from chaos.
29. Swamiji is far greater than anybody I have ever met, known or heard of. He was simply nonpareil.
30. বোঝা বড় বোঝা |
31.
ভেগোন্মত্ত, মদিরাসক্ত,
মোহগ্রস্ত মানুষ,
বিষয়নেশায় ছুটিয়া বেড়ায়,
ধরিবারে চায় ফানুস |
32. America peacemaker? Laughter has had its last laugh. [Proposed Russia-Ukraine deal brokered by USA---February 2025]
33. USA + EUROPE -- RUSSIA = NATO. This political equation is weak. Whenever USA withdraws support, NATO breaks down exposing European defencelessness against Russian aggression and worse if aided by China.
34. The only way to develop India is to encourage science. Original research and not absorbing late what the West does today.
35. We all have a duty to be honest in our dealings so that human misery is minimised.
36. West Bengali Hindus ought to rise up in defence of Chinmoy Krishna Das. If we fail to do so, we will have re-proved our cowardice before the wide world for which we ought to be rightly reproved.
37. যিনি এখনও প্রতিশ্রুতি দিচ্ছেন, তাঁর প্রতিশ্রুতি পালনের সময় এখনও আসে নি | পালনকারী প্রতিশ্রুতি দেন না | সে কর্ম আগে তিনি আগে করে ফেলে মানুষকে সেই সেবায় অগ্রীম ধন্য করেন | তাই ভগবান আগে তপস্যাপূত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড রচনা করে রেখেছেন জীবের পালনের জন্য | পক্ষান্তরে রাজনীতিবিদরা প্রতিশ্রুতি দেন প্রত্যহ, তা পালন করেন না যথাযথ কদাপি | মাত্র এই প্রভেদ প্রতিশ্রুতিদাতা ও কর্মসম্পাদকের মধ্যে |
38. সংস্কৃতের ধ্বংসে ভারতবর্ষের ধ্বংস সংসাধিত হয়েছে |
39. Truth is truth despite scripture, despite science, despite the right and wrong affirmations of great men or supposedly great ones.
40. If the Vedanta at all has to be preached in America, it must be done robustly so in order to humanise American foreign policy.
41. British sporting spirit was best exemplified in BODYLINE. Bodyline embodied the fair face of England across the colonised world.
42. Truth is greater than God, for truth is Man in his ultimate 'sense', in his very essence.
43. I am not a fanatical nationalist. I respect the best of the world, being a globalist as I prefer to put it.
44. Culture is going down and it is our duty to resist its precipitous fall. Cultivate culture to preserve it.
45. সংস্কৃতির অধঃপতন রোধ করা আমাদের সকলের কর্তব্য | এর জন্য সকলের সংস্কৃতিচর্চা আবশ্যক |
46. ছোঁয়াছুঁয়ি মানলে অশরীরী অধ্যাত্মোপলব্ধি ব্যাহত হয় |
47. Constancy and concentration, fiery focus, volcanic vigour, tsunami sweep, electric energy, illimitable intensity, blinding blaze, perennial potency, supreme self-belief, unending endurance and sublime submission. These are attributes essential to realise the essence.
48. সমাজের তো বারোটা বেজে গেছে | এক আধটা ভদ্রলোক চোখে পড়ে | বাকি সবই নিম্নগামী, বর্ণহীন, কপট সাম্যের স্লোগানধারী | এই নিয়েই গণবিপ্লব ! যেমন সমাজ, তেমনি সাধু, তেমনি অসাধু, তেমনি নেতানেত্রীর অধঃপতিত দল | সামনে বিপর্যয়, সভ্যতার পুনঃসংকট | নাকি এ সবই আমার পর্যবেক্ষণের ভুল, দৃষ্টিসমস্যা, দর্শনদোষ ?
49. We are just too loud. We need to tone down. That would be observance of 'sundaram' indeed. Inharmonious loud talk isn't music.
Loud laughter, loud talk---
Both must take a walk.
50. We have lost our sense of music. We have lost our sense of beauty.
51. India lacks spiritual leadership today. Our whole spiritual set-up needs to change. Martial order like the Khālsā is the need of the hour and not debilitating music and dance culture with monks leading the charge from spiritual headquarters with the Abbot inspiring the moves. Culture has to be invigorated along virile lines. Else, demographic change and consequent cultural corrosion will obliterate us. If we refuse to learn from history, history will not spare us. It will repeat its roguish outcome to its logical conclusion which shall be our annihilation.
52. মানুষকে ছেড়ে 'ভগবানের' পূজো | এই না হলে ভীমরতি ?
53.
To make a mistake is good,
To learn from it better,
But not to repeat it is best of all.
54. যে দেশে গুণীর সম্মান নেই, সে দেশের উন্নতি হয় না |
55. If you are not a gentleman, you are unfit to practise spirituality. The same applies to woman.
56. ঠাকুর 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা' বলেছিলেন | তা তার উল্টোটাই মানুষ নিল | অনুগামীরাও আজ তাই | ধেয়ে চলেছেন অর্থোপার্জনে 'জনহীতকল্পে' শুনি | কিন্তু ঠিক শুনি কি ? আদর্শের হত্যায় তো সভ্যতার সর্বনাশ হয় |
57. Man must ultimately stand on his Self. There is no one to support him. No God, no universe, no nothing. All dreams die, they dissolve into nothingness. Delusions in desolation die a desert-death. Interdependence in the phenomenal world to the bare minimum, independence in the spiritual world total. There is but one and that you are. Who else? Support others if you can. Seek no support for yourself beyond what in the societal scheme of things naturally comes. Yadrichchhālābh.
58. বিজ্ঞাপনের বোকা বোকা জিনিস দেখে নির্বুদ্ধি তৈরি হয় দেশবাসী | দেশের উন্নতির চূড়ান্ত লক্ষণ !
59. টিভির বিজ্ঞাপন দেখলে মনে হয় গোটা দেশটা ভাঁড়ে পরিণত হয়েছে |
60. O soul that suffers the toil of life, love hard, so hard that the vast suffering that life presents dissolves to nought by its sheer intensity. Just pulverize the hurdles that bar the way to freedom and joy by its sheer potency, by a concentrated consciousness that irresistible prevails. Let the Spirit by its maddening intensity resolve life's perplexities and raise matter unto ethereal heights. Let the antithetical elements of tortuous life find a superior synthesis that simplifies into foundational unity and a peace that passeth understanding.
61. ভারতবর্ষের বেশ বড় মার্গ এখনও ছুঁৎমার্গ | ঘরে ঘরে এর সাধনাশ্রম |
62. Democracy ought to lend the individual dignity and not slavishness to authority. The latter propensity has marred our nation.
63. পদমর্যাদাসম্পন্ন ব্যক্তিদের প্রতি দাসত্বকে শ্রদ্ধা বলে ভুল করবেন না | আত্মসম্মানবিহীনতা অশ্রদ্ধার নামান্তর |
64. When life becomes a burden, it drops off of its own.
65. Where are the takers for truth?
66. This is the time for exhibiting martial valour, not effeminacy in the form of debilitating monastic dance, quite antithetical to Swamiji's ideal of manhood which he upheld as the central message of his life. Nerve-tittilating, soul-paralysing music and dance that he abhorred have now become staple, it seems, in the order founded by him. It is a decadence that must needs be checked now, else a precipitous fall in its downward course is inevitable.
67. If one's house is on fire and one dances away, that too in an effeminate monastic manner, what does it speak about oneself?
68. It is wrong to divide the world into momins (believers) & kafirs (non-believers). It is an inappropriate way of viewing humanity.
69. How can even one contemplate comparing Sachin Tendulkar with Don Bradman? It is ridiculous. The Don is simply nonpareil.
70. The greatest spin bowler in the history of Test cricket is Muttiah Muralidaran.
71. I am of utmost concern for none. This world is a fine business house where men trade and women trade too.
For whom to sleep? For whom to rise? Life ebbs away futile, meaningless, purposeless, to no avail.
72. Figures speak for the Don. Everest of cricket. No batsman in history comes anywhere near him. To compare any with him is sheer cricketing ignorance despite the difference in playing conditions over time and space. Generations have passed, will pass but another Bradman will never be. The summit of batsmanship he scaled will never again be achieved.
73. By going against the dictates of Swamiji, by pursuing effeminacy in the name of religion, the nation is being pushed back.
74. Spirituality is not commerce nor commerce spirituality. The two must be kept completely apart. There can be no organisational apology for raising funds by whatever means affords the inflow of money. The intent being commercial, the means will be mean and the consequence corrupt. Beware!
75. Death cults are dangerous. The promise of Paradise makes them worse. Juicy reward for deadly deed! A serious threat to peace.
76. আমি যদি ধ্যান না করি, জপ না করি, তার জন্য কি গান্ধীজী দায়ী নাকি জহরলাল নেহরু দায়ী?
77. Revealed truth? What revelation? What truth? Truth or arrant superstition?
78. T20 has destroyed cricket. Cricket has become baseball. Cricket has become a circus now. It's simply not cricket!
79. I know of many a fine gentleman endowed with that strength of character which so-called saints are devoid of.
80. Those who are subject to circumstance know not how to love. Love overrides circumstances. It is the bond-forger and bondage-breaker. The bondmen of the world---what do they know of love? It is so much an accessory in their life than an imperative without which breath will stop. Love conquers fear, breaks fetters, illumines and frees. Social people know not the way of love. For them society is the god they must appease, not love that has transcended social bounds. The one who cares for nothing in life has become eligible for love. He alone can love, none else. For the others it is circumstantial dealing, commerce in ultimate analysis, measured means and ends in life's great trade. He who loves, lives. Aught of earth is not for them. Lives may come and deaths may go but love abides, endures beyond the dual fling of time. If you can love, breathe it out. Do not make circumstantial commerce out of it.
81. জীবোদ্দশায় মানুষ এত অসম্মানিত হন, শ্রাদ্ধে সম্মান দিয়ে কি হবে ? আমি অন্তত জীবিতকালে সম্মান দিতে চাই |
82. এ পৃথিবী পুরোই স্বার্থের খেলা |
83. If compromise be the currency of life, let's strike it fast that peace may prevail. Enduring peace may thereon be built on secure philosophical foundations. The Sanatan and the Platonic ideal of righteous philosophical governance must be approximated in due course but without undue delay. Meanwhile, let us quickly settle for peace everywhere so that such philosophical ideals be duly achieved. But earnestness must be in pursuing these noble objectives and not a tinge of hypocrisy sully course. Proper education that is free of religious or political dogma must be imparted to the younger generations to eradicate fanatical traditional trappings and emancipate humanity en masse for its future flourishing.
84. মানুষ মানুষকে এত ঘৃণা করবে, এ আর সহ্য হয় না |
85. দেশে এত অসাধু কেন ? একটা সাধুও নেই---তাই |
86. Where is your social life, not to spend time partying but your commitment to the well-being of society at large?
87. সোমবার এসে গেল রে ! এই শুরু হল---খাও, দাও, অপিস যাও |
88.
সারা সপ্তাহ shock খাই,
আর weekendএ শখ মেটাই |
89.
যদি শাস্ত্র শেখায় ঘৃণা,
তুই হৃদয়পথ নিবি না?
90. স্বামীজী বলেছিলেন মিশনের সাধুদের জনসেবায় আপ্রাণ কাজ করতে কিন্তু কোনমতেই সে সেবাকর্মের কোনপ্রকার জাহির বা বিজ্ঞাপন যেন না হয় | তাতেই আধ্মাত্মিক উন্নতি, পারমার্থিক কল্যাণ ও কর্মানুষ্ঠানের যথার্থ সাফল্য | সে কথা কি পালন হচ্ছে ?
91. দেশে দুর্বল, মেয়েলি, তথাকথিত ধার্মিকতা বৃদ্ধি পাক, এমনটা চান নি স্বামীজী যা তাঁর অনুগামীরা অবাধে প্রচার ও প্রসার করছেন আজ | স্বামীজী বলিষ্ঠ, পৌরুষপূর্ণ, মহাবীর্যবান আধ্যাত্মিকতার উদ্বোধন চেয়েছিলেন যা আজ ভিন্নার্থে সমাধিপ্রাপ্ত | স্বামীজীর যথার্থ অনুগামী আজ আর অসামরিক তথা সুশীল সমাজে, এমনকি সাধুসমাজেও প্রায় দেখি না | তাঁর আদর্শের নিত্য নিধন সংঘটিত হচ্ছে আজ বাণিজ্যের বিষবাণে ও কাপুরুষতার করালস্পর্শে | যদি আদর্শের এইভাবে হত্যা হতে থাকে, তো হয় অবতারের পুনরাগমনের পুণ্যক্ষণ সমাগত, নচেৎ সমাজের সর্বনাশ সমীপবর্তী | তাই বলি, সন্ন্যাসী, সাহসী হও; গৃহস্থ, কাপুরুষতা বর্জন কর | বকধার্মিকতা অনেক হল | এবার চরিত্রের হোমানলে ধর্মজীবন পুনঃনির্মাণপূর্বক সনাতন সমাজকে সংগঠিত কর | সংগচ্ছদ্বং !
92. India must whole hog go Hindu. That is the one way we can save our timeless civilisation that now faces existential threats.
93. This world is intoxicated with the idea of body. Spirituality begins where all idea of body has been sublimated. Hence, organisational justification for raising funds in a shameless manner to stabilize social service cannot be condoned. If spirituality itself be lost in the pursuit of lucre, of what avail is tainted social 'service'?
94. The only ideology that can save India and the world is the universal dharma of the Vedas. 🕉 is the primal and the final unifying spiritual symbol of the Divine. Beyond that Truth in its absolute state lies inexpressible in linguistic terms.
95. 'Hate the sin, not the sinner.'~Bible
Hateful ideology must be rejected and its adherents sanitised of all such non-spirituality.
96. Study Swami Vivekananda thoroughly and defend the Swami against orchestrated attacks on his personality and principles by vested parties in the West. This is being done deliberately to weaken our civilisation and spell its doom. Swamiji stands as the greatest hindrance to the fulfilment of this malicious intent. As such he is being targeted by sections of the left and the right both. As responsible citizens it is our duty to defend our civilisation and the first step towards it would be to provide effective intellectual rejoinder to all such malicious attacks on Swamiji. For this knowledge is necessary. Therefore, gear up and read, study, reflect and realise Swamiji's works. Therein will have been motherland served well. 🕉
97. Song and dance in the name of religion cannot save the Hindus. Effeminacy must be cast aside and the martial spirit absorbed. Guru Gobind Singhji was right in organising the Khalsa. A like organisation is needed now, especially in the intellectual plane which will trigger moves for a general defence of our Sanatan civilisation at every level in every phase.
98. He who has lost his sense of self-criticism and has started resorting to self-justification by any means has lost his foothold in life's fertile firmament and plummeted to this delusive world of repetitive dreams.
99. Endless are the miseries of life and endless are its longings.
100. The word 'batsman' was beautiful. Its modern version 'batter' is simply so unmusical, literally batters the ears. Gender accommodation to a battering end!
BANGLADESH ... 1
BANGLADESH ... 1
The situation in Bangladesh is worsening by the day. Hindus are suffering horrendous atrocities. Chinmoy Krishna Das lies languishing in jail. And yet will you say that 'all religions are valid paths to God'¹ when patently some are persecuting proselytising cults bent upon the destruction of the Hindus and with it Hinduism? Come on, 'shake off this sterile curse'² and stand in the sunshine of light and truth. Be sincere. Appeasement of intolerant cults gives them more leeway to conduct their corrosive agenda. Tolerance of intolerance ought to be intolerable. 'Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal us reached.'³ This was Vivekananda's clarion call to the sleeping Hindus. And the call rings still in the air. Hearken! Respond to it and rise in defence of the Dharma.
Written by Sugata Bose
Notes:
1. The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda dictum.
2. 'Julius Caesar' by William Shakespeare.
3. Swami Vivekananda's free translation of the Kathopanishad verse.
Monday, 24 February 2025
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এই পৃথ্বীতলে,
আবার আসিব ফিরে আমি || ... ১
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
অবতারের আগমন আসন্ন | আবার নতুন সঙ্ঘ হবে, আবার নতুন ছাঁচে সনাতন ভাব সাধন, জাগরণ, প্রচার | বর্তমানের অর্থবিকারে জর্জরিত সমাজে 'টাকা খাঁটি, খাঁটি টাকা' কে পরাভূত করে নতুন আদর্শে সমাজ সঞ্চালনকর্ম---এই মহতী প্রচেষ্টা সংসাধিত হবে নব কলেবরে আবির্ভূত নব অবতার ও তাঁর চিরপার্ষদদের জীবনযাপনে |
সমাজ আজ পথভ্রষ্ট, হতাদর্শ, ভোগাচ্ছন্ন, কলুষিত | এর মহৌষধি হাতে অবতীর্ণ হবেন শীঘ্র শ্রীভগবান ভবব্যাধি নিরাময়ের নিমিত্ত | বর্তমানে সনাতন ধর্মের প্রতিভূ যাঁরা, তাঁরা সঙ্ঘের অর্থস্বার্থকেই সত্যসাধনের ঊর্ধ্বে রেখে অধর্মাচারণ করছেন | এতে সামান্যজন ধর্মপালনে হতবুদ্ধি | এর প্রতিকার প্রয়োজন | তারই নিমিত্ত ভগবান নররূপ পুনর্ধারণ করবেন সনাতন ঐতিহ্যকে পুনঃপ্রতিষ্ঠা করার জন্য |
শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ তো বলেইছিলেন, "জানি কিনা আর একবার আসতে হবে | ... বায়ুকোণে দেহ হবে | ... পার্ষদদের পূর্ণজ্ঞান দিলাম না | পূর্ণজ্ঞান দিলে তারা আবার আসবে কেন ?"
শ্রীমা সারদাদেবী বলেছিলেন, "ঠাকুর বলেছিলেন একশ' বছর পরে আবার আসবেন | তখন তাঁর অনেক শ্বেতকায় ভক্ত আসবে, এই যেমন এখন নিবেদিতা টিবেদিতা সব আসছে না | আমি বললাম, 'আমি আর আসতে পারব না |' লক্ষ্মী বলল, 'আমায় তামাককাটা করলেও আর আসব না |' উনি বললেন, 'যাবে কোথা ? কলমীর দল, এক জায়গায় বসে টানলেই সব এসে পড়বে |' ... বর্ধমানের পথে যাবেন বলেছেন | গেরুয়া কাপড়, আলখাল্লা, এতখানা দাড়ি | হাতে ভাঙা পাথরবাটি | যাচ্ছেন তো যাচ্ছেন, খাচ্ছেন তো খাচ্ছেন, কোনো দিকবিদিক খেয়ালই নেই | পথে কাদের ছেলে বাহ্যে করবে |"
ক্রমশঃ
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Sunday, 23 February 2025
POESY: BENGALI
পৃষ্ঠের কথা পৃষ্ঠায় লিখি,
অতীত বর্তমান |
কে বা কবে অতীত দেখেছে,
কে বা ভবিষ্যৎ ?
আন্দোলিত মুহূর্ত মায়া,
জীবন উড়োযান |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Saturday, 22 February 2025
POESY: IF DREAM BE DONE
IF DREAM BE DONE
If dreams are over
And the body is fresh,
Wake up to
The light of life,
Wake up to
Love and learn.
If work be singeing
And the heart doth burn,
Do thy duty
To merit earn
And spread the love
And light around
To course of life
Reverse turn.
If life be long,
A hollow urn,
Fill the gap
With loving churn
And read deep
Through the night-time veil
To see the sun
In illumined burn.
So waltz through life
And death beyond,
With work that frees
And never binds
Makes you see
And never blinds
To the constancy
Amidst life's myriad turns.
Be blessed thus
And not as now,
For the route is wrong
You know not how,
Nor care to know
In the dark of joy
When life itself
Has turned to toy,
To spend but moments
In the deep divine
While whiling hours
In wealth and wine.
A shift in stance
To dive and dance,
Not earthly prance
But blissful trance,
To that end dear,
I steer you clear
While kinsmen cheer
Some jeer, some leer,
Some frighten, some fear
But all far and near
Have missed the mark
And in madness spark
The sensuous joy
Death's envoy.
Here flows the stream
Beyond the dream
To join the river
That in ripples shiver
In the thought that it'll be
Soon one with the sea,
Never ever to sunder
And in bondage go under,
Losing freedom, bliss
For eternity.
Composed by Sugata Bose
Thursday, 20 February 2025
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.
Sugata Bose @Disciple : Not responding to my messages promptly is tantamount to irreverence. I have resolved to distance myself from those who use me only as a springboard to diving in delight or to rise from the sea of sadness and not as a means of healthy correspondence that keeps a human relation vigorous and strong. Excuses of work or busyness otherwise notwithstanding, this shall be my stated stance henceforth unless sincere changes to attitude are made.
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : And this crime is consciously being allowed in democracies where these proselytising cults are bent upon subverting and obliterating those very democracies. Where are the Egyptian, the Babylonian, the Persian and the Indian subcontinental civilisations as of yore? They have all been destroyed and supplanted by desert culture largely. Fertility of soil has now become the sterility of sand. And this is 'Operation Desert Storm'. And the saga still continues in the name of democratic freedom being offered them who wish to impose the Sharia and throttle that very freedom which is now nurturing it. If sanity has its limits, certainly insanity has none such. Medieval monstrosity is being actively nourished unto becoming the Frankenstein that will destroy its maker. Democrats denounce fascism but nurture Islamofascism without turning a hair. This is the insect walking into the spider's web unknowingly. The result will be catastrophic. This war has to be ideologically won and the defences must be built up in the head, the common consciousness of the citizens who are the potential preys. The predatorial ideology will have to be identified and eliminated from the human discourse and all protagonists of its absolutist violent political imposition identified, isolated and, need be, incarcerated as well till this toxicity infecting billions of minds be weeded out for good. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Superb! Cactus : lotus -- what a study in contrast!
Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Thanks for your sustained support in propagating the message that needs must see the light of day if civilisation is to be saved from the hands of horrendous heretics in humanistic terms.
Sugata Bose @Ramakrishna-Vivekananda stood against the tyranny of the times. Must we who pride in being their followers compromise with the current corruption that has spread its tentacles to the very root that sustains the movement?
Sugata Bose @Devdutt Pattanaik : It is time for you to admire him too as he has not shunned you apparently. It will do your drifting self a world of good for your drift is in the direction most undivine. Swamiji had given a perfect epithet for half-bred scholars like you---'heartless intellectuals'. And it suits you perfect, that is, if we kindly make for you the allowance of the terms 'scholar' and 'intellectual' which, given your paucity and, thereby, superficiality of knowledge, would be too much of an allowance rendered unto you. Babies prattle and so do you. But babies are babies 'and must submit to be taught' (Vivekananda). So must you be at the blessed feet of Vivekananda. This sort of cultural treachery ill befits your deeper nobler self which you are unaware of and, hence, prattle on.
Sugata Bose @Jasoda Raut : Why call him (Devdutt Pattanaik) 'Sir'? He is not a knighted coloniser. He is its modern derivative. What evidence has he collected to prove what he dubs you, a paid agent of Catholic missionaries.?
Sugata Bose @Devdutt Pattanaik : No, a pointer. Jealousy is such a lowly emotion that it has never had access in this incarnate form of mine. Perhaps you have been privy to its inner workings in relation to peers who have outmatched you in creative excellence. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Hammered home your homage to this erstwhile Hindu-hater whose reverse rebirth has for sure happened. Else, how in all sanity may such horrendous howling seek verbal release from the pen of any articulate individual of proportionate civility? Would it were that he could muster the courage of conviction to criticise Islam thus and come to its expected consequence. Kudos to your categorical castigation of one so profane in deliberate denunciation of everything the Hindu holds holy for due reasons, aberrations notwithstanding, for even such must be understood sympathetically in historical terms and, if criticised, must be so with genuine feeling and love for one's brethren and not for serving ulterior motives as evidently is the case here. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Aman Jain : Miscarriage of name. Ill doth it befit the one. A latter letter-synthesis would be truer to purpose and serve the form better. Name must reveal identity and not conceal it. Such contradiction misleads followers and confuses comprehension of party (in the group sense) affiliation.
Sugata Bose @Jitesh Agarwal: Pray, spare them the ordeal. They sure deserve from their grandfather a better deal. Make them read Swami Vivekananda instead of such current corruption gaining currency in the name of literature. Best wishes to your blessed grandchildren and blessings added to them as well. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Devdutt Pattanaik : Deign to end your sentence with a full-stop. Or, is it that yours is an unending foolery with words full spelled but their aggregate scarce ended? Even foolery has its limits but these days apparently sentences have not.
Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : You are humorous to a fault which is why most fail to catch the finer tenor of your cracked tunes. Alas, these are days of deliberation of the dullards!
Sugata Bose @Chandan Bhattacharjee : কারা করবেন ? যাঁরা সঙ্ঘাদর্শের সর্বনাশ সাধন করছেন, তাঁরা ? তাঁরা তো সব 'মহাপুরুষ' বলে পাদপূজিত | পদলেহকের দল আজ এত বিস্তর যে তাঁদের অর্থসংগ্রহের অনর্থকর্ম আজ এই পর্যায়ে পর্যবসিত | নইলে, তাঁদের সাধ্য কি সঙ্ঘের আদর্শগত আদি ঐশ্বর্য পরিত্যাগ করে ভৌতিক ঐশ্বর্যের পৃষ্ঠে এভাবে ধাবমান হওয়ার ?
Sugata Bose @J Sai Deepak : must speak directly in simpler terms. He is too tortuous in his speech.
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Watch it, one reaction only hours after posting. Cowardice of the Hindu. Can cowardice sustain a civilisation? Do cowards deserve to remain free? 'Veerbhogyā vasundharā' (the valorous enjoy the earth).
The present attitude of the Hindus, at least those on my friend list, is of abject cowardice, compromise with the powers that be and capitulation before force. It is a small sample but indicative of the general trend at least in West Bengal, I guess, and more especially with respect to the devotees of the Ramakrishna Mission whose monastics for idle inconsequential posts draw prostrations by the plenty while ouf labour of love lies neglected. Alas, Swamiji lived in vain to see this day happen as did the Bengal revolutionaries who bled to breed these as generations in posterity! It is a sad state in which our hoary civilisation finds itself today, that of meanness, jealousy, sensuousness, selfishness, slavish cringing before authority---in short all that constitute the negative aspects of a colonised people, of an enslaved race. With this as our army do we expect to wage our civilisational war against the enemy that is armed to the teeth and waits for the correct demographic transition before it strikes the deathblow?
Alone we are in this debilitated race today like alone we were a millennium ago when the first invasive onrush sent our citadels into disarray. A handful of us will fight and die and the rest will surrender to the enemy and embrace Islam to complete the triumph of the 'Religion of Peace'. Peace indeed it will be when under the Sharia they'll breathe the dusty breath of the desert and in due course forget the fertility of their erstwhile civilisation. So must cowardice pay its ultimate price. Meanwhile we, warriors of the Spirit, Rajput-like will embrace Sākā but not in the selfsame way of innocent annihilation but using all our martial tactics, our best war strategies, to outwit the opponent before we fall in the field of virtue, our famed 'Dharmakstrey Kurukshetrey'. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : Book a hotel then where to stay. Right now Hotel Hypothesis is better. At least accommodation has been possible there.
Sugata Bose @Alokananda Mukherjee : When my mobile says that it is switched off, kindly give a Whatsapp call for good measure as my mobile owing to some technical glitch plays truant oftentimes. In case you still do not see me responding, know for certain that I am otherwise occupied and will rapidly respond as soon as I am relieved of the said preoccupation.
Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : A moving point makes a line. But we have to be moved first by Swamiji and line up to study him so that we may read life better. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi Muslims may make a beginning with Tagore and with thirst for spiritual knowledge awakening---which it must in the long run---, may move on to Swamiji to complete the spiritual circle. This is the only way out of the subcontinental anarchy now evident in all of the subcontinent's Islamic sections, namely, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, not to mention India's perverted parts where Hindus are being persecuted. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Cheenmoy Saha : Practical is to read the Qur'an. Please practise doing it so that you are better aware of the tremendous 'truths' of Islam.
Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : Oh! Too good. You are so subtle. There are so many layers to the tale. The active faithful was what he 'was'. The lazy bugger was so clean and cheerful. The faithful are so 'fertile'. The faithless are so 'sterile'. The hen is the mother of the chick. The three times 500/- were displaced payment for this uncontrollable hen, totally unintended. They missed their real mark in the other hen who must have been game or was being manipulated into being so. Faced with the fact of faith the lazy one's wife came to her sweet sanity and cooked the hen home to make ends alright. Chick, hen, money, mullah, mazhab---quite a pentagon of piety.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : That is why the panacea must be it. Else Bangladesh will go to ruins as all Islamic nations that adhere to the doctrine proper must necessarily in a fast-evolving world. Tagore despite uis Hindu/Brahmo lineage has his millions of followers in Bangladesh on account of his identity as a poet which Swamiji on account of his being a Hindu monk has not. Hence Tagore must be followed by them if Bangladesh is to ve humanised. Vivekananda is not followed by his followers themselves. So, to expect Bangladeshi Muslims to follow him as of now will be a far cry. Once Islam has had its run completely, Vivekananda will find acceptance in all erstwhile Islamic nations and their golden age will begin. 🕉
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