PHILOSOPHISE LATER---FEEL NOW AND ACT---ILL DOTH IT BEFIT THEE TO BE MUTE WITNESSES TO HINDU HORROR ACROSS THE BORDER AND TO IT WITHIN !
When there is so much self-projection among most with their ephemeral selves being held up before the public for appreciation of their feeble talents in song and dance, where is there time for them to lodge strongly worded protests against the horror of Hindu persecution in Bangladesh? With desires unfulfilled and dreams of personal achievement dragging their selves down, how can these self-centred ones raise the defenceless Hindus in self-protection? Alas, these mute witnesses to Hindu torture being regularly and systematically perpetrated in Bangladesh, and their cowardly philosophising on it while maintaining a studied silence otherwise in terms of lodging protest, no doubt out of pursuit of self-interest of a sensate kind, leaves a distasteful idea about the degenerate state of West Bengali Hindus of flaunted intellectuality and cowardly capitulation. There are a few, very few, though, who are otherwise oriented and who are human enough to lodge their protest, patriotic enough to do their activism free of pecuniary or party interest, and it is these that are the remnants of erstwhile revolutionary Bengal. The rest are morally dead and are blissfully awaiting our cultural-civilisational annihilation while posing for selfies, posting videos of musical performance, dancing in monastic glee in the heart of spiritual Bengal, writing inconsequential poetry and remaining otherwise apathetic in their day-to-day pursuit of profit and pleasure to the tears being shed in the other Bengal. Meanwhile, the government watches in anxious expectation of electoral advantage that may be squeezed out of their tacit support to the oppressors and their deft maneuvering of moves that constitute the gamut of political activity these days.
Written in disgust by Sugata Bose
COMMENTS GALORE ... 90
Sugata Bose @Paramhansa Shikshangan English Classes : Don't you instead feel inspired to fulfil Bhuteshanandaji's aspirations, his rightful expectations from conscientious devotees? How can and for how long must truth be watered down to suit the pampered mind's pleasure-seeking proclivities? "Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die. Societies should be moulded upon truth, and truth has not to adjust itself to society." These were Swami Vivekananda's words pouring out like lava from the igneous Soul that he was, a Vesuvius among men.
Sugata Bose @Soumyadeep Dey : Really? RKM sadhus exhibiting anti-Muslim sentiment? Where have you seen it? Kindly disclose.
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Yes, from the causal perspective so but from the literary perspective the words have a certain bearing whose nuance must be apprehended.
Sugata Bose @Ashok Chakraborty : Is this what you read in the post? Is this how you read my labour of love for years? Or, have I read you wrong, misinterpreted your observation, that is?
Sugata Bose @Rajiv Banerjee : Do you not ever read my posts? Can you not stop all these silly responses once and for all? Can you not see what the post attempts to convey? Can't you write something worthwhile?
Sugata Bose @Ashok Chakraborty : আমি চাই না প্রশংসা | যা চাই তা হল বুদ্ধির ব্যবহার কিয়ৎ |
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Good one. Just the right tonic for the mind that has gone toxic with superficial or no knowledge of the relevant scriptures and scantier knowledge of history.
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SONG COMPOSED BY GURU NĀNAK DEVJI ON BEHOLDING THE HORRORS OF BĀBUR'S INVASION OF HINDUSTĀN
[FROM THE FILM 'NĀNAK SHĀH FAKIR]
https://youtu.be/OETtNQ7-who?si=ltPCoMoAjhr1xmao
As the word of the forgiving Lord comes to me,
So do I express it, O Lālo.
Bringing the marriage party of sin,
Bābur has invaded from Kābul,
Demanding our land as wedding gift, O Lālo.
Modesty and righteousness have both vanished
And falsehood struts around like a leader, O Lālo.
The Qāzis and Brāhmans have lost their roles
And Satan now conducts the marriage rites, O Lālo.
The Muslim women read their Kitāb
And in their misery they call upon the Lord, O Lālo.
The Hindu women of high social status
And others of lowly status as well
Are put into the same category, O Lālo.
The wedding songs of the murder are sung, says Nānak,
And blood is sprinkled instead of saffron, O Lālo.
Nānak sings the glorious praises of the Lord in the city of corpses
And voices this account.
The one who created and attached the mortals to pleasures,
Sits alone and watches this.
The Lord is true, and true is His justice,
His issue, His command, according to His judgement.
The body-fabric will be torn apart into shreds
And then Hindustān will ever remember.
Coming in seventy-eight (1521 A.D.),
They will depart in ninety-seven (1540 A.D.).
And again another of his disciples will rise.
Nānak speaks the word of truth.
He proclaims the truth at this, the right time.
As the word of the forgiving Lord comes to me,
So do I express it, O Lālo.
Having attacked Khorāsān,
Babur terrified India.
The Creator Himself does not take the blame
But has sent the Mughal as the messenger of death.
There was so much slaughter that the people screamed.
Didn't You feel the pain, O Lord?
O Creator Lord, You are the Master of all.
If some powerful man strikes out against another powerful man,
Then no one feels any grief.
If a powerful tiger attacks a flock of sheep and kills them,
Then its master must answer for it.
This priceless country has been laid waste and defiled by dogs
And no one attends to the dead.
You Yourself unite and You Yourself separate,
I gaze upon Your glorious greatness.
One may give oneself a great name and revel in the pleasures of the mind.
But in the eyes of the Lord and Master
He is just a worm for all the corn that he eats.
Only one who dies to his ego while yet alive,
Obtains the blessings, O Nānak, by chanting the Lord's Name.
Didn't You feel the pain,O Lord?
Didn't You feel the pain, O Lord?
Didn't You feel the pain, O Lord?
Song composed by Guru Nānak Devji
MESSAGES GALORE ... 107
1. We need to educate our people in science. That will be the first step to spirituality. Reason well defined, realisation will follow. Else, crude errors will creep in, corrupting course. Reason is the guardian of the mind.
2. Love is the great festival that is going on in the world. Demons spoil it by spreading hate.
3. Islam is not the 'Religion of Peace'. Neither is Christianity. Both convert. And conversion is war.
4. Conversion is war. Any faith that converts, in effect facilitates social division, obliterates culture, annihilates civilisation, creates war. Unless a faith has universal sympathies, it is bound to divide human society and create conditions that are not conducive to peace. Theologically Islam and Christianity are narrowly sectarian and divide the world into two antithetical sections. Islam divides the world into momin and kafir, and Christianity divides it into the Christian and the heathen. Islam dooms the kafir to hell and Christianity dooms the heathen to hell. Yet, for all the 'love' shown to the vast majority of non-believers, we are expected to accept that Islam is the 'Religion of Peace' and Christianity the faith that preaches the gospel of the 'Prince of Peace'.
5. শুভ জন্মদিন, পল্লবী ! ঠাকুর-মা-স্বামীজীর আশীর্বাদ মাথায় নিয়ে এগিয়ে চলো জীবনযাত্রায় অনন্তের অভিলাশে |
6.
Small boys play war games,
Big boys desist.
Small boys play the aggressor,
Big boys resist.
7. Tall names and taller claims maketh not a nation. Build the nation silently without self-glorification or with an eye to gaining electoral advantage. The nation will stand with you only when you place it above your person or party, and the nation will sure stand by you when it is on secure foundation standing. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose gets spontaneous adoration and support. Why do you need to manipulate it?
Reduce economic disparity. Control population. Generate employment. Replace dishing out doles with providing jobs. Build your own character and be an example before your sycophantic followers and the fooled multitude. Leave behind a legacy that would do justice to the martyrs to the motherland.
Build up the universities and clear out politics from their precincts. Develop science and technology instead of archaic pseudo-sciences.
Establish science universities in the names of Meghnad Saha, Satyendranath Bose, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Chandrasekhar Venkataraman and Srinivasa Ramanujan to begin with and keep politics out of them by way of law.
This is a scientific age and nations need science for combating both the forces of Nature and enemy nations. The masses need rationalisation, not induction of age-old superstition in the form of useless rituals, astrology and the like. Feed them reason and liberal philosophy as enshrined in the Vedanta expounded by Vivekananda, and see what a lightning change comes into the polity.
Children are the future of the country. Why does the government of the day not provide a nationalistic, yet true, version of Indian history? That is to say, why must our children be fed so much of world history and Marxist interpretation of history while being kept in the dark about the glorious phases and chapters of Indian history? Mere talk of nationalism will not do. It will only increase jingoism in the name of patriotism. What is needed is awareness about our civilisation in truest terms, neither coloured by political Hinduism nor discoloured by Marxist misrepresentation.
Swami Vivekananda's works must be popularised in the country. Popularised, that is, the people must be made aware of his works and his literature must be taught in institutions in a relevant manner so that the character of the citizenry is duly built.
People are suffering from shallowness. Levity fills the artificial atmosphere that is consumer culture of the day. The film industries of the land with all their frothy stuff, fantasy world et al, are careering culture precipitously down. The shepherd has turned toxic and the flock follow him to their doom.
8. এর নাম বৈশ্য যুগ ? এ তো অধঃপতনের একশেষ, চৌর্যবৃত্তির নির্লজ্জ প্রকাশ | অবশ্য 'প্রকাশ' না বলে 'গ্রহণ' বলাই ভাল কারণ সংস্কৃতির নিকৃষ্টতম স্তরে মানুষ এর প্রভাবে নিমজ্জিত, সভ্যতা, সংস্কৃতি, শিক্ষা, সবই অজ্ঞান অন্ধকারে বিলুপ্ত | আর মানুষেরও বলিহারি ! চরিত্র বলে কি বস্তু নেই যে বাণিজ্যিক অপসংস্কৃতিকে রোধ করতে পারে ? মানুষ তো দেখি দিব্যসুখে আত্মপ্রচারে ব্যস্ত, তাও শরীরসর্বস্ব আর অর্থসর্বস্ব যোগে | এই কি তবে বৈশ্যযুগের বৈশ্যযোগ ?
ভাল লাগে দিবারাত্র নিজের দেহের জনসমক্ষে প্রদর্শন, selfie, story আর reels বানিয়ে মানুষের দৃষ্টি আকর্শন ? লজ্জাশীলতা, শালীনতা, রুচিশীলতা, সংযম---এ সবের কি আর প্রয়োজন নেই তাহলে ? নৈতিক, চারিত্রিক, বৌদ্ধিক অবক্ষয় তো হবেই তাহলে | চিন্তাশীলতা, চারিত্রিক দৃঢ়তা, গভীরতা, ব্যক্তিত্বের বিকাশ, মনঃসংযম, হদয়বত্তা---এ সবের প্রকাশ তাহলে হবে কি করে ?
মানুষের ভিখারীর অবস্থা | সাধারণ মানুষ থেকে সাধু সন্তও দেখি সবই অর্থের পেছনে ছুটছে | কি হল এ দেশের ? কোথায় গেল আধ্যাত্মিক আদর্শ ? এ তো গোটা সমাজটাই যেন এক মস্ত বাজারে পরিণত হয়েছে আর মানুষজন সব অসংযমী অর্থলোভীর দল ক্রয় বিক্রয়ে ব্যস্ত |
9. ক্ষুদ্রে যিনি, ব্রহ্মাণ্ডে তিনি | তাঁর পূজা প্রতিপলে হয়ে চলেছে |
10. ভয়হীন হও |
11. There is an infinitude outside and there is an infinitude inside. In between I remain the interface, a layer of conscious perception.
12. One man's holiness starts a religion. Others follow and a tradition sets up. Thus the faith flourishes, so long as it does not kill to do so. Self-defence is one and killing to propagate another. Purity and service sustains the religion. Faith in the founder is its bedrock but he must be followed in truth and not in words alone. His principles must be practised in full and not tailored to convenience.
13. Sikhs are Hindus.
14. If he (Swamiji) cannot awaken India, none can.
15. অটুট গুরুভক্তি হোক !
16. মাতাপিতা আদি গুরু |
17. সেবা করব বলে লোভের বশবর্তী হয়ে অর্থান্বেষণে মনোনিবেশ করব, এমন দুর্মতি যেন না হয় |
18. হাত, পা, মাথা, বুদ্ধি, হৃদয়---এর সহযোগে যা সেবা হয়, তাই যথেষ্ট, তাই কল্যাণকর | এর বেশি করতে গেলেই লোভ, অহংকার এসে পড়ে | চারিত্রিক অধঃপতনের দ্বারোদ্ঘাটন হয় | তাই ভাবপ্রচারের যন্ত্রস্বরূপ সংঘের প্রয়োজনীয়তা সম্বন্ধে অবহিত থাকা সত্ত্বেও স্বামীজীর সাবধান বাণী---"Organisation breeds new evils."
19. Rest in the Lord and do thy duty.
20. ভগবানের বাণী প্রচার প্রয়োজন বলিষ্ঠ কন্ঠে---মৃদু, ভীরু, সকলকে তুষ্ট করার কন্ঠে নয় | তাই স্বামীজীর বাণী প্রচার প্রয়োজন | ওই সব অত্যুচ্চ বৈদান্তিক তত্ত্ব নয় যা সাধারণের না বোধগম্য হয়, না কোনো কাজে লাগে | চাই তাঁর 'ভারতে বিবেকানন্দ' হতে উদ্ধৃতি | বহুবার এ কথা লিখেছি কিন্তু কেউ কর্ণপাত করেন না | তাই নিজেই আবার পরিবেশন শুরু করব তাঁর জ্বলন্ত বাণীপ্রবাহ |
21. What we need is practical Vedanta, not theoretical Vedanta of no common consequence.
22. The problem with the Hindus is that they speak a lot and do very little to back up the words they utter.
23. The worst sufferer in this age other than the persecuted and the poor is the Lord Himself. Thakur has been forgotten. His words are openly floated. 'Taka maati, maati taka' has today been casually cast away as an impractical, archaic concept having no relevance in the current commercial world we live in. This is not just regrettable, as euphemism would have it for us, but downright despicable, as it truly is. Return to roots! Return to Ramakrishna!
এ যুগের সবচেয়ে বড় ক্লীষ্ট---নিগৃহীত ও দরিদ্র ব্যতীত---হলেন ভগবান স্বয়ং | ঠাকুর আজ মানবমনের বিস্মরণে অবস্থিত | তাঁর বাণী সর্বসমক্ষে উপেক্ষিত | 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা' আজ অনায়াসে বিবর্জিত অবাস্তব, আদিম আদর্শ বলে যার বর্তমান বাণিজ্যিক জগতে কোনো প্রাসঙ্গিকতা নেই | এ মাত্র দুঃখজনক ব্যাপার নয়, এ এক শোচনীয় পরিণতি | মূলে প্রত্যাবর্তন করো, হে মানব, রামকৃষ্ণে ফেরো !
24. রবীন্দ্রনাথ লিখতেন কবিতা | তখন তাই ছিল সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ সাহিত্য | আজ তার চেয়েও বড় সাহিত্য সৃষ্টি হয়েছে যার জনপ্রিয়তা সর্বাধিক | তার নাম 'ছবিতা', প্রতিকৃতিপ্রেম | যে কোনো প্রতিবেদনে ছবিরই জয়জয়াকার, বিষয়বস্তুর নয় |
25. সনানুভূতি is sympathy, not empathy.
'একটু সহানুভূতি কি মানুষ পেতে পারে না ?' - ভূপেন হাজারিকা
26. Talk nice things, give financial support, wean away the susceptible from their ancestral religion and convert them. Good game plan.
27. লড়তে হবে | রুখে দাঁড়াও |
28. Love is worship when it extends to all.
29. কোনো মহাপুরুষেরই দেখছি প্রকাশ্যে সম্পূর্ণ সত্য বলার ক্ষমতা নেই | সব মানুষকে তুষ্ট রাখতে গেলে যে সত্যের অপলাপ ঘটে |
30. সোজা পথ ভগবানের | বাঁকা পথ রাজনীতির | প্রথমটা বিদ্যামায়াশ্রিত আর দ্বিতীয়টা অবিদ্যামায়াগ্রস্ত |
31. দানব দেবের পূজো পায় | শান্তি আসবে কি করে ?
32. লাভ, ক্ষতি তো ধর্ম, অর্থ, কামে | মোক্ষমার্গে এর অনুপ্রবেশ নেই | সেখানে অটুট সীমান্তরক্ষা | প্রবৃত্তিরূপ কোনো আততায়ী ঢুকতে পারে না |
33. ভগবান নিজেকে নিঃশেষে দেন, হিসেব করে দেন না | তাঁর নিঃশেষে দেওয়ার মধ্যে থাকে অগণিত গণিত, চৈতন্যের সাম্যস্পন্দনে কৃত বিশ্ববিজ্ঞান | আর তারও ঊর্ধ্বে তাঁর প্রেম যার হ্লাদিনী প্লাবনে অনু হতে ব্রহ্মাণ্ড হৃৎকম্পমান, পরস্পর পরস্পরের আকর্ষণে চালিত যুগ হতে যুগান্তরে | ভগবানের প্রেমের বিচ্ছুরণেই প্রাকৃতিক নিয়মের পালা | নটরাজের নৃত্য, বংশীধরের বাদন যেন জ্ঞান ও প্রেমের যুগ্ম সংযোজন বেহিসেবীর মুক্ত উল্লাসে গগনে সংঘটিত | কে বুঝবে লীলাময়ের লীলা ? এইমাত্র অনুভূত হয় ধমনীতে তাঁর প্রেমস্পন্দন, প্রকাশিত হয়ে পড়ে জীবনের নন্দনকর্মে |
34.
Slaves to circumstance,
They know not even how to love.
O bondmen of the world,
Of what avail is life
If love be throttled thus?
35. বেদান্তের নামে যা প্রচারিত হয় তা অধিকাংশই হয় বেদাদি নয় বেদমধ্য |
36. চিন্তা করতে কি কাউকে শেখানো যায়, চাঁদু ? চিন্তা করতে পারে পৃথিবীতে গুটিকতক লোক | বাকিরা সব তথ্যের চর্বিতচর্বণ করে মাত্র |
37. Peace of mind comes from absence of animosity towards any.
38. Left movement will grow so long as exploitation by capital continues. Repression cannot root out revolutionary response.
39. The terrestrial drama is being enacted as on a silver screen. It is merely a mental projection, surface deep, insubstantial and hollow. Beneath is the substance, the consciousness-stuff, the reality of undying existence.
40. Where there is overmuch of material work, there can be no love.
41. Work but do not bend under its load. That is bondage, slave-like. Work happily, a free man.
42. বৈশ্যযুগের একটি বিশেষ বৃত্তি চৌর্যবৃত্তি, এবং তা লাভরূপ মুখোশধারী, আইনতঃ স্বীকৃত | এর বিরুদ্ধে নালিশ চলে না, শুধু শোষণসহন সম্ভব |
43. স্বাদেশীকরণ, আত্মনির্ভরতা---এ সবের মূল হল পুনরায় সনাতন সংস্কৃতিতে প্রত্যাবর্তন | শুধু বাণিজ্য বাড়ানো, সাথে সাথে সমাজে নির্লজ্জ লোভবর্ধন, বিজ্ঞাপনের বান ডেকে আনা, বাধাহীন আত্মপ্রচার, চারিত্রিক অসহনীয় অবক্ষয়, স্তাবকতা, ক্ষমতাভোগের ভয়ঙ্কর প্রবণতা---এ সবের দ্বারা দেশগঠন হয় না | দেশে সবরকম জিনিসপত্র তৈরি করলেই স্বাদেশীকরণ, আত্মনির্ভরতা হয় না | চাই স্বীয় সংস্কৃতিতে অবস্থান যথার্থভাবে, ওই ওপর ওপর নয় | ও সব পাশ্চাত্যপ্রভাবমুক্ত যথার্থ স্বাদেশিকতা নয় | ও সব প্রচ্ছন্ন পাশ্চাত্যপ্রভাব | চাই চরিত্র | চাই পুনঃ স্বীয় সংস্কৃতিতে গমন, তার সার সংগ্রহ, আত্মিকরণ, সনাতন আদর্শে অবস্থান, সনাতন ধর্মপালন, মনুষ্যত্বের, দেবত্বের বিকাশের পূর্ণ প্রয়াস | তবে হবে স্বাদেশীকরণ, আত্মনির্ভরতা, আত্মায় অবস্থান যার প্রথম ও সর্বশেষ শর্ত |
44. বাড়ীর এক প্রান্ত হতে আর এক প্রান্তে long-distance হাঁক না দিয়ে কাছে গিয়ে আস্তে করে, মধুরভাবে পরিবারের সদস্যের সাথে কথা বলুন |
45. Without absolute continence meditation is impossible. Brahmacharya is the precondition to concentration of the mind.
46. End your passages with a full-stop. Do not be so slipshod in your approach to online writing. Inaccuracy by persistent action becomes habit which then grips the soul in the reverse mode of imperfection.
47. সবাই দেখি হেতু নিয়ে ফোন করেন | অহেতুক কথা বলার জন্য প্রায় কেউই করেন না | অথচ, এঁরা নাকি ভগবানকে পেতে চান |
48. আত্মনির্ভরতাই আধ্যাত্মিকতা |
49. অর্থেই অনর্থ | তাই লোভকে প্রশ্রয় না দেওয়াই শ্রেয় | বিবেকহীন বিত্তবাসনা বিপদের কারণ |
50. বাসনা কমালে অভাব কমবে | বিজ্ঞাপনের প্রভাবে মানুষের বাসনা বাড়ছে | তাই অভাববোধও বাড়ছে |
51. A spiritual person ought to be humble. But those that are labelled spiritual are seldom so.
52. হতাশ হবেন না | ভেতরে আনন্দের ঘট বসিয়ে দিয়ে গেছেন ঠাকুর যেমনটি মায়ের হৃদয়ে বসিয়েছিলেন | তাঁর ভালবাসার অন্ত নেই | আনন্দ করুন |
53. দেহও আমার নয়, মনও আমার নয় | কি নেবে প্রকৃতি তুমি আমার থেকে ? আর আত্মা ? তা নেওয়ার সাধ্য তো তোমার নেই | তাহলে কি হারাবার ভয় ? এভাবে ভাবুন | হবে প্রকৃতির পরাজয় |
54. অভাব বড়লোকের, গরিবের অভাব নেই |
এর একটি অপরার্থ আছে | বড় মাপের মানুষের অভাব সমাজে, দরিদ্রচিত্তজনের অভাব নেই |
55. গুরুকে কাঠগোড়ায় দাঁড় করিয়ে বিচারের আসনে বসা শিষ্যের গর্হিত আধ্যাত্মিক অপরাধ |
56. মানুষেরই জন্য কাজ, কাজের জন্য মানুষ নয় | এমনই বিষয়ে মোহ যে বেচারারা দুদণ্ড কথা বলারও সময় পায় না | আমৃত্যু বিষয়রূপ দাসত্বশৃঙ্খল বহন !
57. কর্মে যদি বিশ্রাম না থাকে আর বিশ্রামে কর্ম না থাকে, তাহলে কর্মভোগ হল, কর্মযোগ নয় | আর ভোগই বা কি ? নেহাৎই দুর্ভোগ |
58. নিজেকে সম্মান করুন, শ্রদ্ধা করুন | আত্মসম্মান, আত্মশ্রদ্ধা হতেই জগতে বড় বড় কাজ হয়েছে | ভেতরে যিনি ঈশ্বররূপে বসে রয়েছেন, তিনি আর কেউ নন, আপনি স্বয়ং আপনার সর্বোচ্চ সত্তায় |
59. হেতুপূর্ণ প্রেম অনেক পাবেন, অহেতুক প্রেম কোথাও পাবেন না | যদি তা যথাযথ পান কোথাও তো জানবেন ঈশ্বর অবতীর্ণ সেথা |
60. জিলিপির প্যাঁচ শুনেছি কিন্তু এ যে দেখছি প্যাঁচের জিলিপি !
61. জীবন যদি জিজ্ঞাসা হয়, জিজ্ঞাসাও জীবন |
62. হেয়ালীর স্বার্থকতা তার অনন্ত সম্ভাবনায় | বিশ্বসৃষ্টি এক মস্ত হেয়ালী | এ কি খেয়ালী মহামায়ার ছন্দময় হেয়ালী ?
63. If life be of two days, let us live to love and not waste a moment in futile hate.
64. Politicians are Rhinodas and Rhinodis.
'Rhinoda' means elder brother with rhino hide and 'Rhinodi' means elder sister with rhino hide. They have such rhino hide that they shamelessly do what they do in public and do not need a dark cave to hide their darker deeds.
65. If Swamiji is preached in an effeminate manner, his person is being injured indirectly, his principles violated directly.
66. The very effeminacy which Swamiji wanted to root out from this nation, especially Bengal and Madras, has come to maturity now at its fullest. Vivekananda is being persecuted day in and day out by effeminate followers from commoner to top leader in the name of devotion to the mighty one. Culture has reached its corroded nadir. Hope there will be an upswing now. But who knows?
67. It seems it is a crime to be a Hindu in Bangladesh where Hindu women are regularly ..... Will the GOI not protest against this?
68. বাংলাদেশকে কি ওরা হিন্দুশূণ্য করতে চায় ?
69. When there is so much persecution of Hindus going on in Bangladesh, why don't you all daily lodge a Facebook protest against it?
70. বাংলাদেশে হিন্দু মেয়েদের ওপর অকথ্য অত্যাচার হচ্ছে আর আমরা মুখ বুঁজে তাই দেখতে থাকব ? আওয়াজ তুলব না ? অন্ততঃ কিছু রোজ লিখুন |
71. Calm the world, stop wars, plant trees. Else, victor and vanquished will both perish at the hands of Nature.
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ভূতেশানন্দজী ঠিকই বলেছিলেন রামকৃষ্ণ মিশনের দীক্ষিত ভক্তদের সম্বন্ধে | তাঁদের বহুল দীক্ষা সত্ত্বেও সমাজের এতটুকু উন্নতি পরিলক্ষিত হয় নি | বরং সমাজ ক্রমশঃ অধঃপাতে গেছে, যাচ্ছে | এর অর্থ দীক্ষিত ভক্তের নিঃসারতা | মহারাজ বিভ্রান্ত ছিলেন ভক্তদের সমাজপরিবর্তনে এই নিষ্কৃয়তা দেখে |
ভূতেশানন্দজী মহাসমাধিপ্রাপ্ত হন ১৯৯৮ সালে | তারপর দীর্ঘ ২৭ বছর কেটে গেছে | আজ ভূতেশানন্দজী দেহে থাকলে হতবাক হয়ে যেতেন মানুষের চারিত্রিক অবক্ষয় দেখে | এখন ভক্তদের, সাধুদের সম্বন্ধে তিনি কি বলতেন ?
73. বর্তমানের এই দুর্বল বাঙালীর পূর্বসুরী যে বঙ্কিমচন্দ্রের ন্যায় বীরপুরুষ, তা ভাবতে আশ্চর্য লাগে |
74. কি হবে লিখে ? ওই এক জোড়হাতে নমস্কার, 'Right', 'Super', 'Joy Vivekananda', 'Jayatu Swamiji', 'Joy Thakur' ইত্যাদির বাইরে বুদ্ধিদীপ্ত বক্তব্য প্রায় পড়েই না | ভাবজগতে যবনিকা পতন আর কি ! ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর বৃথা অবতরণ !
75. বার বার জন্মাতে হবে, কোনো নিস্তার নেই | অহংকার নির্মূল, নিশ্চিহ্ন হবে, তবে তো মুক্তি |
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কি পরিবার, কি বন্ধুবান্ধব, কি ভক্তবৃন্দ, কি সাধুসন্ত, কি বুদ্ধিজীবি, কি সামান্যজন---কেউই মহামানবের বাণীকে আজ আর আমল দেন না | সবই নিজস্বার্থে নিমজ্জিত | কী অধোমুখী মনোবৃত্তি !
মানুষটা হাঁক দিতে দিতে মরে গেলেন, তবু মূঢ় জাগল না |
77. ভালবাসার চেয়ে বড় আর কিবা সম্পদ আছে আমাদের মত সাধারণের কাছে ? সেই প্রেমে প্লাবিত হোক জগত !
78. ঠাকুর ছিলেন প্রেমঘন মূর্তি, love incarnate. মা সকলের আপনার জন, জননী সর্বতোভাবে | আর স্বামীজী ছিলেন ঘনিভূত ভারত, condensed India.
79. 'কথামৃত' নিত্যপাঠে যদি ঐশীভাব না জাগে, তো কোনো গ্রন্থপাঠে জাগবে না | প্রত্যহ প্রাতঃপাঠ শুরু করুন ঠাকুরের এই বাণীরূপ দিয়ে |
80. Swamiji was the confluence of the diverse currents of human thought, of human civilisation spanning ages, crossing continents. He was the harmony of them all.
81. When great souls come, they flood the world with love. Myself am a small soul but can add my tiny bit to the world's pool of love.
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THE REGENERATION OF THE HINDUS ... 1
We, Hindus, need to cultivate a greater martial bent of mind. Spiritual aggression is a dire necessity to overcome our civilisational odds. The Abrahamic faiths continuously convert us through persuasion, fraud, force and inducement. We must resist these. We must clean up our house first, place dharma above ill-begotten artha and strengthen our following. Vaishyavritti (commercial attitude) is ruining our religious discourse. We must clear such commercial corruption from our spiritual orders and from society in general. Then alone the kshatriya spirit will be quickened. Robust religiosity must replace passive piety. Manhood must supplant effeminacy of bearing. Self-dignity must define individuality and not slavish prostration at the feet of men donning the ochre or wielding the staff of wealth and political power.
Written by Sugata Bose
THE CURSE AND ITS ENDURING CONSEQUENCE
Jihad inflicted upon us for near 1400 years has cost us the loss of approximately 80 million Hindu lives. The worst Islamic atrocity it seems was reserved for the kafir-mushrik Hindu. What did the world gain out of it? Cipher. Death and destruction carried on for so many centuries only destroyed the best of civilisations the world has ever seen.
We must defend our Sanātan civilisation by becoming politically united as a warrior community much like the Sikh Khālsā founded by Guru Gobind Singhji. Swamiji in vain tried to infuse the martial spirit into us. All that we learnt was the exact opposite of what he so emphatically taught. Hence, Hindus continue to suffer from Islamic oppression wherever they are in minority in Islamic countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, and in provincial pockets within India. We are still singing and dancing and catering to every sense pleasure as if the time to defend ourselves has not yet come. This is gross effeminacy engendered especially in an emasculate atmosphere fraught with the ignorance of our horrific historical past. Perhaps knowledge of history will quicken us to the defence of our race. To this end Swami Vivekananda gave his life's energy. But he failed to awaken our dormant spirit of resistive action, so deeply immersed we have been in passivity for centuries. Where the Punjabi Hindus responded actively to their Guru's clarion call and even today lay their lives down to do their Khālsā Panth's duty, the Bengali Hindus, after their roaring response to Swamiji's call in raising revolutionary resistance to British imperialism, have fizzled out in enthusiasm and have resorted to a life of puerile pleasures and pastimes, and perfidious politics of alien atheistic origin and impulse. Thus, tragically enough, Swamiji's disciples at generations' distance have failed him completely whereas Guru Gobind Singhji's followers to this day carry out his commandments to the letter, aberrations notwithstanding.
Meanwhile, jihad sharpens its sword of destruction to fulfil scriptural injunction and prophecy. If we sleep, we will die in dream. If we wake up and choose not to act, preferring to pin our faith in fanciful interpretations of Islam, we will not survive the day, for the demographic transition has set in so as to alter the composition of our ancient culture here in partitioned Bharatvarsha as well, just as it has done so in the mutilated parts of the motherland which are all effectively Dar-ul-lslam. It is now or never. Decide.
Written by Sugata Bose
THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENCE THAT SWAMIJI COULD NEVER RAISE AFTER GURU GOBIND SINGHJI'S FIRST KHĀLSĀ
Swamiji had wanted in some sense to develop a khālsā-like spititual-warrior class of followers but sadly could not succeed as his followers failed in due course to manifest that spititual manhood that makes defence of the Dharma ethically mandatory even at the cost of one's life. Swamiji admired the great Guru Gobind Singhji and held him up as the exemplar of spititual manhood amidst a vast mass of men who have ever since become increasingly effeminate. This was the Swami's professed greatest misfortune that beyond the Bengal revolutionaries he could not gather a band of warrior spirits who would give manly representation to his ideas and wage a relentless war against the inequities that beset the world. His exhortations are there in his 'Lectures from Colombo to Almora' and it is for us to stop our demonstration of titular passive piety and start a valorous defence of the Dharma as he had desired.
Written by Sugata Bose
QUATRAIN ... 1
I famished lie.
I athirst die.
I through tears ply.
I in ecstasy fly.
SAND DUNE
One sets the tune.
One dances to the tune.
And yet the sand shifts.
Yet drifts the dune.
The bright stellar beams,
They wax and wane the moon.
Dawn drifts to morn
And morn moves to noon.
To live but a fleeting moment,
To die and mourn too soon.
Eve sets in with nightly shade,
The beams have bent their boon.
All things are born and die thus,
Now high afloat, now maroon.
Composed by Sugata Bose
ARJAN DEVJI, TEGH BAHADURJI, GOBIND SINGHJI---THE BLOOD OF THE THREE GURUS WHICH REVIVIFIED BHARATVARSHA
Sikh sacrifice. The fifth Sikh Guru Arjan Devji being burnt alive by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir by way of retribution for having given refuge to the Emperor's fleeing rebellious son Khusrau. Thus began the gory saga of martyrdom of the Sikh Gurus.
The execution by burning, though, is contested by counter-claims of execution by other means following the Guru's refusal to convert to Islam. However, it is universally agreed upon that he was tortured to death or executed otherwise, exactly how, as has been stated, is unclear. Guru Arjan Devji's supreme sacrifice in defence of the Dharma was a civilisational inflexion point as it proved to be the mainspring of inspiration for future Gurus to defend the Dharma militarily as against mere spreading the Shabad (Word of God). Thus began the grand fightback of the Hindus spearheaded by the Marathas and the Sikhs that eventually succeeded in overthrowing the Mughals and reducing Muslim political hegemony to near cipher.
Guru Tegh Bahadurji, the ninth Guru of the Sikhs, was likewise tortured and beheaded by Aurangzeb after he refused to convert to Islam. In a valorous response to such Islamic intent at annihilation of the Hindus, the martyred Guru's nine year old son Gobind Das was anointed as the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. In 1699 Gobind Das founded the Khalsa and became Guru Gobind Singh. This martial order of Sikhs waged war continuously against the tyrannical Mughals which laid the foundation of the future Sikh empire that reached its peak under Maharaja Ranjit Singh and effectively uprooted Mughal dominance over northern India. In this political transformation of India the Sikhs found a parallel contemporary power in the Marathas who in a like manner, inspired by their founder Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, brought about the doom of the Mughal empire.
Aurangzeb's forces got all four sons of Guru Gobind Singhji killed, his mother and wife killed as well before an assasin mortally wounded the mighty Sikh lion as well and ended the mortal line of the Gurus, to be replaced by the Eternal Shabad enshrined in the Granth Sahib which was thereon to be the eleventh and the everlasting Guru. The martyrdom of Guru Gobind Singhji's entire family, father, mother, wife, sons and the Guru himself remains in the annals of world history as an inspirational instance of sublime sacrificial suffering of a single family that inspired an entire community to martial living, service and sacrifice of unparalleled extent and altitude. Guru Gobind Singhji reorganised the Sikhs into a spititual-warrior class who would defend the dharma and civilisation of Bharatvarsha and her territorial integrity and political sovereignty post-Independence, a tradition that continues to this day. And it all began with the martyrdom of the fifth Guru Arjan Devji.
Wahe Guru ki Khalsa!
Wahe Guru ki fateh!
Sat Shree Akal!
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Written by Sugata Bose
THE WAVE AS IT SINKS
I want to be forgotten
Like my forefathers have been,
Buried in the womb of oblivion.
I came from nothingness,
Unto nothingness shall sink
Where aught is nought
And nought is aught
And none exists
Save the One that is.
🕉 Tat Sat 🕉
Composed by Sugata Bose
SONG OF THE SOLDIER
Boomerang, boom boom boom!
Save your soul or go to doom.
Boomerang, boom boom boom!
With every breath
I wait for my death
From womb to tomb.
Boom boom boom!
Boomerang, boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
Composed by Sugata Bose
P.S. I have set the song to tune but due to lack of Facebook facility I cannot play it here. I have recorded it elsewhere as is my usual practice.
BOOMERANG---BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!
Whatever I write backfires. Readers simply do not read. They are busy responding with emojis and pranams directed at the appended photographs, oblivious of the content of the post proper. And this sort of response comes from highly educated individuals. It is useless writing anything when there are no takers for it.
Written by Sugata Bose
DEPTH NEEDED, NOT DELUSIVE DELIGHT
We need deeper souls in India. Too much of frothy stuff is filling the brains of too many people, making their responses ultralight and their overall personalities too full of levity. A certain amount of seriousness of attitude and approach is necessary that would make national life deeper. One cannot entertain smiling, even laughing, faces discussing grave national losses, civilisational wounds as if they were matter-of-fact happenings that deserve no better dealing, no deeper demeanour.
The average personality density of the national population has diminished and national concentration reduced to nought such that at every instance the surfing mind further leaps into the air and can never quite manage to dive to any depth of significant findings. This is the sad spectacle despite mass pretension to the contrary. That martial spirit which seeks sacrifice above self, that discipline of the mind that refuses to yield an inch to the enemy, holds guard over post heavy, that steadfastness of nature, resoluteness of character---all these are missing in a polity invaded by crass commercial consumerism that places self above sacrifice, popularity and profit above self-effacement and service, and indisciplined individualism above collective well-being. It is a people gone wrong in an age that has been infected with crude commercial culture and the deathly virus of self-projection. Spirituality is at its ebb and the high tide of indiscriminate materialism is ruining the run of national evolution.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo: Revolutionary Hemchandra Ghosh who lived an exemplary life till 95 that was in radical contrast to the current decadence and in perfect alignment with what may be termed classical sacrificial living for the nation. Let not our leaders pretend to be a semblance of what this doyen of Bengal revolutionaries was and let not any such of the pretentious public pose to be bearing titular reverence for such a real sage as opposed to the singing-dancing sanyasis of scantier spiritual stuff.
ভ্রান্ত প্রবাদ, ভ্রষ্ট প্রবাদ, মিথ্যা আরোপ দূর হ'ক
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
ঘরের শত্রু বিভীষণ নয়, সত্যের মিত্র বিভীষণ | নইলে যে রামকৃষ্ণ অবতার মিথ্যা হয়ে যায় | তিনিই না রামচন্দ্র, সত্ত্বগুণী বিভীষণের একান্ত মিত্র ? বিভীষণ কিছু মির জাফর নন | স্বার্থশূণ্য, সত্যপরায়ণ, সত্ত্বগুণী বিভীষণ, রক্ষকুলে জন্ম তবু দেবস্বভাববিশিষ্ট | জাফর আলি খাঁ কিন্তু স্বার্থপর, লোভী, দেশদ্রোহী, বিশ্বাসঘাতক | বিভীষণ ন্যায়পরায়ণ, ধার্মিক, উচ্চমনা, আদর্শনিষ্ঠ, ভগবতপ্রেমী, আর মির জাফর নীতিভ্রষ্ট, অধার্মিক, নিম্নদৃষ্টি, হতাদর্শ, দানবচেতন | এই দুই ব্যক্তির কোনো তুলনাই হয় না | আজ থেকে ঠাকুরের ভাষ্য মেনে নিয়ে বিভীষণের ওপর বাংলা ভাষার অপপ্রবাদ 'ঘরের শত্রু বিভীষণ' অপসারিত হ'ক | ঘরের আয়তন কত বড় ? অসত্যে স্থিত স্বদেশ (রাজ্য) না সত্যে স্থিত আদর্শ ?
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
LOVE
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. 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
WHITHER CHARACTER THAT WILL ALTER ATTITUDES?
The problem of soft spirituality is that it cannot break through the crust of hard politics. And if it has to be hard spirituality, then it more often than not degenerates into hard politics itself. Here lies the predicament of spirituality today where, as Swami Vivekananda rightly said, "Religions of the world have become lifeless mockeries. What the world wants is character." And here may I add, what is needed is raw courage to face the brute, not soft preaching of unpractised principles, singing and dancing that are utterly devoid of character. The dilemma remains as to how best to forge character that will alter the attitudes of people in much the way Guru Gobind Singhji so successfully did. And this certainly cannot be done by the present-day effeminacy that goes by the name of monasticism with all its mercenary motivations and cultural compromise to pander to common human weaknesses. "Strength," Swamiji said, "is the watchword of the Upanishads." Instead of manifesting that masculine strength that can catch the bull by the horns, it is only idle quotation of Upanishadic verses that has come to characterise such Vedantic allegiance interspersed with social service with high-sounding spiritual names. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, the evil of allowing the devil to dance destruction while indulging oneself in platitudes and passive piety and the puerile pastime of song and dance.
Written by Sugata Bose
VIKASIT BHĀRAT IN 2047? ... 1
We need quality souls in India, not the overload of mediocrity and worse that is shifting the demographic balance and ruining public discourse that is the soul of democracy. There is an utter moral bankruptcy in our country today with corporates ruling defacto the nation and the government itself making commercial allowances to them to develop the nation. The deep divide between commoner and capitalist, despite a thriving upper middle class, with doles sustaining hundreds of millions, the ever-widening wealth gap, is by no means a wholesome aspect of a developing nation. The middle middle class and the lower middle class are being pushed down the socioeconomic ladder to merging with the poor and this is certainly a validation of Marxist theory which does not augur well for our country's future. The ever-increasing price of commodities and the consequent rising cost of living is weakening the nation. A nation thrives when its citizens en masse are empowered to live decent, healthy lives free of want. Today, the reverse is the case with a leadership deluded into believing that mere increase of overall GDP will take our country into the millennium. This is a puerile proposition and such chants by the leadership childish prattle which bear no substance. The government must reduce the terrible economic disparity between the rich and the poor, raise significantly the per capita GDP and ensure citizens' happiness before it can indulge in such grandiose posturing about India becoming a developed state (Vikasit Bhārat) by 2047. Inspirational talk, no doubt, motivating to many, but hollow within when one considers the real facts that after all will play out to determine India's future.
Written by Sugata Bose
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
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