COMMENTS GALORE ... 89

COMMENTS GALORE ... 89

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Chakraborty : You couldn't follow me. '🕉 Hindu!' is a mantra by way of greeting that I have invented to foster solidarity among our disunited lot. The 🕉, Swamiji said, is the unifying divine symbol for all Hindus which is why in Swamiji's memorial temple at Belur Math we have the 🕉 Temple on the first floor. All Hindus including Sikhs accept the 🕉 as sacred symbol of the Divine with their Ishta Dev/Devi suffixing it. For instance, 🕉 Kali! 🕉 Krishna! 🕉 Ram! 🕉 Durga!

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha: Correct. That which was a provincial part of eternal Bhāratvarsha must inevitably return to it. Partition was artificially effected. Integration is natural and inevitable in the long run as the inviolable outcome of historical evolution.

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : But rapid demographic change is the danger. Hindu population is declining and Muslim population sharply increasing, creating this dangerous bridging of the demographic gap. Unless this pertinent issue is effectively addressed, India will be Islamised in the decades ahead like its severed provincial parts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Sugata Bose @Paramita Moitra : Love is seeing oneself mirrored in another through spiritual perception of the same Atman in all. Unless the Kulakundalini Shakti awakens and rises to at least the fourth plane of consciousness, the Anāhata Chakra, where disembodied consciousness for the first time dawns and love and light, bliss and knowledge simultaneously manifest before the peeled off vision, love in its essence is not understood beyond the encumbrance of the body. 

The body binds and does not allow the free flow of love which is why it degenerates so often into an admixture of love and lust. Pure love is a bodiless experience emanating from the spiritual heart and has little resemblance to aught of earth if even ennobled in sacrificial terms. There in sacrifice and selflessness of sorts a bit of the real love percolates through the cracks and crevices of this darkened mass of flesh and form, bringing tidings of a higher order of enlightened existence. But that is not to be confused with the Gangā of unalloyed love flowing from the glacial melt of the Spirit residing in Himalayan heights. 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube [India Today] : Karan Thapar has the bad habit of putting words into the mouth of his interviewees (here, A.S. Dulat). This is bad journalism, slightly crafty.

Sugata Bose @Ashok Adha : Hindus targeting Hindus are by definition anti-Hindu elements.

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : Not 'cocktail' but 'henhead'. How can you make such a gender error, bring about such a positional dislocation? That is a 'Baganside' surgical strike you have done, I must say.

Few, alas, detect greatness while the hour is on! Most shall mourn the loss when the lady's gone. Just imagine, what an 'aajob collection' (Bhooter Bhobishyot) it would have been had our PM been judicious enough to have sent her on this diplomatic mission (Operation Sindoor) to Markin Muluk! It would have been a literal literary coup. Modi has missed his 'turuper taash'.

Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : You are innovative beyond imagination.

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : We'll play waterpolo. Season change, game change. It's a game-changer rain.

Sugata Bose @Ipsita Mukherjee : You have painted it? Just superb. Seems a masterpiece. What a talent you are!

Sugata Bose @Murtaza Rashid : What about the miscreants who death-threatened, rape-threatened her? Should they be punished soft?

Sugata Bose @Little Moorthy Siva : They (Bengali Hindus) are wide awake and busy singing, dancing, play-acting, painting, film-acting poem-composing et al. They will not go beyond this, the Lakshmanrekha of their sympathies for persecuted Sanatanis. They are doomed by their cowardice.

Sugata Bose @Facebook friend : Obviously, since Pakistan was born out of India and a mother is always a generation back in time. 10 years is interesting since Islamic law allows a girl's marriage post-maturity at 9 followed by birth of baby at 10 which makes the generational gap at 10 years, thereby validating Shahid Afridi's stupendous statement.

Sugata Bose @Harshita Mishra : The problem is that people refuse to read real history as chronicled by Jadunath Sircar, Aeli Shrivastav, Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, K. S. Lal, Sitaram Goel, Ram Swarup and several others which are available in print and online but they keep on harping that the real history was hidden to them. Who reads? tell me. History is readily available if you seek it but who cares to do so and read? Mere criticism of leftist historians may suit the commoner in his puerile pastime but does not serve the cause of being educated and helping spread the gained information, not in irrational terms but in a systematic, rational manner for the awakening of mass consciousness of tradition and heritage in historical terms. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Protap Mondal : Come on, be more sensible. Here a persecuted person has made light of his close encounter with death and you are philosophising thus.

Sugata Bose @Swami Nikhileswarananda : Swami Vireshwaranandaji used to exhort the youth to join the Armed Forces. You must also send out like exhortations. Our Armed Forces are short on officers. The jawans are in plentiful supply but qualified personnel are in short supply. So, here's serving Vireshwaranandaji right.

Sugata Bose @Anirudha Bhattacharya : Will have to read up a lot more on Sikh history before I can answer this one. But will not spare myself the effort.

Sugata Bose @Anirudha Bhattacharya : Your observation is a pointer as well, if inadvertently so, that even eminent spiritual orders of our country have forsaken their pristine spiritual principles and have resorted to marketing principles that are characteristic of corporate bodies. To pay employees so poorly by exhorting them to sacrifice due remuneration in the name of offering service to the Lord is downright detestable and is exploitation of human labour that cannot be condoned. I know of several such instances which for propiety's sake I cannot divulge here but which have shaken my faith in the 'spirituality' of these bastions of renunciation. Scepticism could have dawned in but for the saving grace of my discretion in separating order from its founder-preceptor, the latter continuing to inspire and energise me even as I have been compelled to distance myself from the order as such. It has been a sad turnabout of events, given my long association with such an organisation, but one that has been in keeping with the natural evolution of the truth-bound soul that makes not compromise with a collective that has forsaken ideals for the copper coin. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Few, alas, few understand Vedanta!

Sugata Bose @Ramakant Tiwari : Cyclical or undulating in irregular patterns? A cyclical world would be absolutely symmetric which would not allow the imbalance of 'gunas' (attribues) in quite the way evolution deems it necessary for its progression if even in undulating terms. It seems, therefore, reasonable to hypothesize that the world, like universal space-time, is asymmetric within limiting bounds that irregularly alternate in its rise and fall. It is not quite a sinusoidal wave as you perhaps suggest.

Sugata Bose @Reels : It is a shame that Satyaiit Ray himself pronounces his surname here as 'Ray' (Rae) rather than 'Ray' (Raaye) which is the way it is and ought to have been uttered by him, an erroroneous practice set straight in Audrey Hepburn's Oscar address on the filmmaker during the latter's 'Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award' ceremony, presumably at the request of Satyajit Ray's family itself.

Sugata Bose @পল্লবী রায় : Even if the followers of Sri Ramakrishna give up the ideal of 'taka maati, maati taka', the ideal is valid still. Today, because of economic compulsions they say that taking money for every little service done is okay. But that is hardly spiritual. Thakur would not have approved of it, I believe. So, even if devotees and monks of the Order have forsaken this high spiritual ideal citing pragmatic considerations, the ideal remains valid still and will remain so for this entire Ramakrishna Age which Thakur has ushered in but which has already been polluted by his ideal-defying, ideal-denying, commercially compromising followers.

Sugata Bose @Pinaki Sarkar : Few, perhaps, would recognise him in time for the spotlight to be on him. Such would be his secrecy. As Sri Ramakrishna said, "This time the king is overseeing affairs in his kingdom incognito."

Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : Superb! Layers of humour, caustic in cover.

Sugata Bose @Ramakant Tiwari : While there are nuances that may in terms of philosophical profundity be read in the passage, the obvious reference is to the 'full-stop' which most people leave out at the end of a penned passage online. Eg. We went holidaying through France. We saw the Louvre, visited Versailles, relived the Revolution through our minds' eyes, then crossed the Channel to England. The United Kingdom was a study in contrast, though

P.S. Note, the final full-stop is missing. It is duly present at the end of every sentence barring the terminal one. It is an online linguistic representative disease that is endemic.

Sugata Bose @Disciple : Nowadays it's always a long wait for me. I am learning patience, a virtue the Buddha had extolled as the highest prayer.

Sugata Bose @Nirmalya Roychowdhury : Yes, earlier it was Britain that used it to the hilt and now it is USA that does it. Imperialism has its divisive methods of ruling.

Sugata Bose @Atmabodhananda Puri : Important to realise this. Alas, few, so very few ever realise! Most merely speak like parrots that have been taught their utterance thus without comprehension of linguistic import.

Sugata Bose @Ramakant Tiwari : Is not the universal manifestation of love that sustains the world itself the greatest continuous human festival?

Sugata Bose @Atmabodhananda Puri : These are volcanic words empty-quoted. They need practical application by the preachers themselves. Who among his followers follows Swamiji in truth today? All are quoting or not even quoting his words as they go about the business of openly flouting his teachings with their pecuniary pursuit and above the world aloofness in regard to the contentious issues that threaten human survival in the twenty-first century.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Kirtan Sewa (Malaysia)] : What a lovely rendition, full of fulfilling devotion, a mellifluous manifestation of the heart's ardour pouring out in seemingly endless streams, cyclical, sublime, soulful expression of love!

Sonorous beyond measure. Male voice of such mellifluous quality. A memorable rendition. As the poet Keats said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

https://youtu.be/pp5kfouCWSY?si=fwKdilRSOBE3h-Ve

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : 'রামকে পেলাম না বলে কি শ্যামকে নিয়ে থাকতে হবে ?' -- স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ

But in capitalist society the income gap between the exploitative rich and the exploited poor ever widens. This has been the historical experience which is in perfect conformity with Marxist theoretical prediction.

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : In the depths of despair shines the light of God. Thakur glows bright in the depths of your heart. He awaits you there. 

Outer conditions are inhibiting but you are free within. Your mother will smile if you smile in the midst of adversity. Give her that gift of love even as she had given you the gift of life in that first instant of cosmic awakening. 

Smile in adversity and that is the manifestation of bliss (ananda) which with discrimination (viveka) the Sage of the Age unfailingly gave us to bear as his worthy legatees. Must we fail him? Must we fail the Mother who in disguise unfailingly loves you as your earthly mother? There is no distinction between the twain. 

There is but One and you are That. Which God shall ye seek but the One waiting by the riverside for you to finish your chores and board the boat that He shall ferry across the river of the a'ferlife? 

Awake, my son, and casting no glance at the imperfections of the world around, seek the perfection within and rejoice in the bliss abounding in the recesses of your rhapsodic soul. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Yes, very much so in USA. The income gap is abysmally large there. Welfare measures were forced on the European nations post the revolution in Russia, much like democratic reforms were forced on Britain post the revolution in France.

Sugata Bose @Prabir Datta : Yes, the application of Marxism is necessarily faulty, flawed to a devastating degree. But the silent blood-sucking machinery of capitalism is also equally brutal, though its subtle mechanisms elude the eye of the commoner who can scarce see through the malicious, mischievous machinations of the Machiavellian masters who minister mercy to the mindless millions.

Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : No, not at all. It at its extreme is dictatorial and disastrous. Nonetheless, it is the antithesis to the thesis of capitalistic exploitation.

Sugata Bose @Harshita Mishra : The grand patriot, Mahārānā Pratāp Singhji of Mewār who fought for the motherland's independence centuries before the national movement took off. Despite heavy odds he never gave an inch away to the Mughal invader Akbar who, following his grandfather Babur's earlier example in the Punjab region,  had sacked Chittor in 1568, killing 35,000 innocent civilians.

P.S. A wonderful post. Posts like this go a long way to kindle patriotism in the hearts of many a sleeping citizen.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : The Arms Race begun by USA ruined things in USSR. Communist dictatorship, Stalinism, did the rest. But a medieval country was pulled out of its terrible backwardness into becoming a superpower within two decades by the socialist system, an unprecedented event in human history. The West won the World War II because of the 27 million lives lost of the Soviet Union, the valiant resistance of the Red Army et al.

Sugata Bose @Sutanu Chatterjee : Yes, doubt lingers always till realisation comes. 'BHIDYATEY HRIDAYAGRANTHI CHHINDANTI SARVASANGSHAYĀ.' (BHAGAVADGEETA)

Sugata Bose @Saswati Bhattacharya : Why address someone, if even in sarcasm, by a relation she does not deserve? That way one provides relational legitimacy, emotional bonding to rogue rule. The sisterhood that has been appended is a slur on this holy sibling relation and should be forthwith withdrawn by conscientious citizens from the public discourse. I have never addressed her as 'Didi' or a certain cricketer as 'Dada', holding such venerable addresses as too sacred to be so sullied by commonplace calling of undeservers.

Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : You are posting more or less on a regular basis pertinent posts on the persecution of Bangladeshi Hindus. I thank you for it. The Hindu horror is simply heart-wrenching and will quicken vigorous Hindus to redemptive action. However, your profile not being public, the posts cannot be shared. The only option is to 'copy link' which I have desisted from.

Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : I know. You are doing good work. But the apathy among the general mass of West Bengali Hindus about the plight of their siblings across the border is pathetic. I have only condemnation for it. I detest this attitude of singing and dancing and taking selfies, posing before the camera in the delicious delight of self-projection of a base kind while Hindu women are being denuded and desecrated by Muslim mobs in Bangladesh with impunity. And why should they not do so when it is mandated by their scripture to do so? But hasn't Krishna also mandated on us to fight in self-defence? Didn't he chastise Arjun for his cowardly capitulation which is the text of the Geeta? Whither our fulfilling our scriptural mandates? 🕉