1. The soul of the subcontinent is the Sanatan Dharma. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan suffer for having forsaken it. đ
2. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan---return to roots. đ
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. đ
4. If you are a Hindu, first feel for every Hindu. And that is feeling enough, a billion-fold this small self. đ 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.
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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.
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His renunciation has been forgotten. His dance lives on.
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.
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.
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.
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 KhÄlsÄ 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.
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. YadrichchhÄlÄbh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. đ 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. đ
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!
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