Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Sunday, 28 September 2025
MESSAGES GALORE ... 114
MESSAGES GALORE ... 114
1. হিন্দুর জাগরণে ঐক্য, ঐক্যেই জাগরণ | আর জাগরণেই সংহতি, সংরক্ষণ ও সম্প্রসারণ | সম্প্রসারণেই শক্তিলাভ, জগতকল্যাণ, ইষ্টসিদ্ধি |
2. Hindus must not be apologists for their dharmic cause but must aggressively pursue it along spiritual lines.
3. Any religion that claims itself to be the only true religion and rejects all other religions as false is itself a false religion.
4. A spiritual organisation has a life of its own, its elements wedded together by a common ideal, that of love for the Ishtadevata/Ishtadevi and for the Sanātana Dharma. Come ye and be my associates in this grand venture to revive the Dharma and to spread it across the world for the benefit of all and sundry. 🕉
5. Evil cannot be eliminated unless evil ideology that generates it, is done away with. Herein lies the real Durgā Pūja.
6. Toxic theology grips the lowly mind and generates evil. Work at roots to eliminate it. Supplant theological toxicity with wholesome Vedanta.
7. Hindus must strengthen themselves. Strength is life. In it lies dharma. Study the scriptures daily, religiously to acquire this strength. Then practise the principles enshrined therein. 🕉
8. Each and every Sanātan sect must strengthen itself along individual lines but harmonise each other in the common 🕉 and the Brahman transcending all dualistic differences of Ishta and approach.
9. Hindu activists must be far more informed so that they can hold their own in debates concerning contentious historical issues.
10. কাজ করলেই হবে না | সে কর্ম নিষ্ফল যদি না সনাতন ধর্মের রক্ষণাবেক্ষণের জন্য করা যায় |
11. হিন্দুদের আরও গভীর এবং গম্ভীর হতে হবে | বড় বেশি চাপল্য, লঘুচিত্ততা, নিজধর্ম ও পরধর্মবিষয়ে জ্ঞানলাভে অনীহা | লক্ষণ ভাল না |
12. Do not be a coward. Fight it out. Life is struggle. And in the tribal present when our existence itself is under threat, we must arm ourselves in superb spiritual strength that will vanquish the enemy that is spreading within our ranks. Vice must be countered at all levels in every phase of life. There is much to do. Can you sleep? Or, worse still, when awake, can you idle away posing before the camera and present your physical self for others' compliments? Is this living a worthwhile life with selfies occupying centrestage and defence of the Dharma relegated to becoming last priority or of no consequence at all?
13. আমি নিরবয়ব, নিরুপাধিক চৈতন্যসত্তা, অটল অস্তিত্ব, অপ্রকাশ, স্বপ্রকাশ, পূর্ণ |
14. Sanātan interest must be upheld. That alone will preserve the nation and the world.
15. Reverting all Sanātani converts to Islam and Christianity back to the Sanātan Dharma is the only way to bring about the solidarity of the subcontinent and to ensure lasting peace.
16. Your faith in the Sanātan Dharm must be very strong, well-nigh unshakeable. Then alone will you be able to withstand the onslaughts of faiths hell-bent upon destroying the Sanātan Dharm by doctrinaire injunction and executive practice of such perverse principles.
17. Blame the ideology, not the individual. The individual is the victim and needs to be extricated from the ideology's toxic grip.
18. Speak direct. Speak the truth. Do not beat about the bush. Speak concisely, in a civil way, but the brutal truth. No compromise there. Truth cannot bear watering down anymore.
19. Today is the birthday of so many insignificant souls whose cumulative work has significantly swayed the fortunes of the nation for the better. In unity lies strength, in coordination construction. Unity of purpose, unity of end, unity of aspiration bring about fulfilment that is the happiness of all beyond dual distraction, the bliss that boundless abounds in the depths of the heart of all. 🕉
Happy birthday to all born this day from time immemorial!
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কর্ম হ'ল ধর্ম, মোক্ষ হ'ল লক্ষ্য |
জ্ঞান হ'ল ধ্যান, সর্বত্র আত্মপক্ষ ||
21. Vice will die and the Sanātan Dharm will be restored in all its comprehensiveness. Bhāratvarsh will become Akhand Sanātan again. 🕉
22. We are held in the vision cone of Thakur. But a gracious glance from him, and we are liberated.
23. The victory is yet to be won. The demon dances around still, changing form to confound the faithful. It is a battle that is raging. It is a victory in the wait. Let us fight on while Mother witnesses our valour that will vanquish the enemy and seat her firm, not in the firmament but in her earthly heartland that is Akhanda Bhāratvarsha.
24. Do not be enamoured of heaven or frightened of hell. Depend on your karma and carve out your destiny.
25. India won her independence through armed struggle. It was these martyrs to freedom who actually freed us, not the protagonists of passive resistance who falsely claimed the credit or were falsely credited with.
26. We need Sanskrit universities all over India to revive our national culture. Science and Sanskrit must be the two wings of our academic flight.
27. Those Hindus who have been converted to Islam and Christianity are unfortunate indeed as they are being deprived of Sanātan study and practice. Conversion has indeed been a vice for two millennia in Bhāratvarsha. The sooner the converts revert to the Mother Faith, the better for them and the better for the Great Mother embodied as the motherland who awaits their return.
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Thursday, 25 September 2025
SAMBHAVĀMI YUGE YUGE ... 1
SAMBHAVĀMI YUGE YUGE ... 1
Man is slave to circumstance. The free man is rare. And yet how passionately the slave clings to its chains in the name of personal rights!
The dust of desire has clouded vision. Love of the little has so settled in that the universal has been obliterated from sight. Insight is missing as a feast of the eyes in objects sensuous has assumed omnipresence with a misguided mind making its myriad mischiefs staple to his crass consumption.
Man professes love but it is all trade in the senses. Located in the lowest three centres of consciousness, what does he know of love? Love corrupted, light dimmed, desires darkening life's discourse, whither moveth man but to a blind destruction?
But the Lord is merciful. He descends from time to time whenever the load of life becomes unbearable and a piteous cry goes out from the heart of man, "O Lord, save us!" The Lord listens to the passionate pleas of the pious and assumes earthly form to sport and deliver.
Such an hour has come again when He must reappear amongst us to deliver us from destruction, to destroy the evil-minded, to protect the pious and to reestablish righteousness that is nowhere to be seen today. He is the embodiment of the Sanātan Dharma and He shall set the Yugadharmachakra in motion once more to the life and light of all.
Written by Sugata Bose
Monday, 22 September 2025
RUN IT WELL AND RUN NOT OUT OF TIME
RUN IT WELL AND RUN NOT OUT OF TIME
The inability to focus and concentrate thought-content in a few words is the reason why our programmes run short of time. Anchors introduce speakers too long for speakers to get time enough to speak. Invariably the initial speakers take up too much time leaving the latter ones barely minutes to deliver their words. This sort of mismanagement of time mustn't be.
Effective moderation requires effective planning. The available time must be apportioned wisely, limiting the number of speakers and sticking to time-limits. Elaborate introduction and conclusive thanksgiving to each speaker by the anchor kills time unduly. This must be avoided. It is better to keep the number of speakers fewer in such programmes that would allow each such greater delivery-time. Also, such wastage of time by way of musical introduction, interlude and conclusion must be avoided in a tight programme schedule. Most important is skilful moderation of the programme which unfortunately never is. Thank you.
Written by Sugata Bose
Saturday, 20 September 2025
মহাবাহো !
মহাবাহো !
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নির্বীর্য জীব গীতার মাহাত্ম্য কি বুৃঝবে ? গীতা সমরগ্রন্থ, ধর্মরক্ষার্থে যুদ্ধকৌশল, কাপুরুষের শাস্ত্র নয় | গীতার কোন' পাঠে কোথাও শুনি না কোন' প্রচারকের মুখে শ্রীকৃষ্ণের ন্যায় যুদ্ধপ্রস্তুতির উদ্ঘোষ | এমন সবল শাস্ত্রের কাপুরুষের হাতে কী করুণ পরিণতি ! স্বামীজী 'স্বদেশমন্ত্র' যেমন অগ্নিময়, গীতা তেমনই | বাণীব্রহ্ম বারুদ ! এর প্রচার পুরুষে করুক, কাপুরুষে নয় | হিন্দুরা রাষ্ট্রসংকটে পড়েছে আবার | এখন ঘরে ঘরে বীর, বীরাঙ্গনার জন্ম চাই, ইন্দ্রিয়পরায়ণ ক্লীবের নয় | মহোৎসাহে, মহোদ্যমে ব্রহ্মচর্য পালন ও সনাতন ধর্মের রক্ষাকল্পে জীবনযাপন ও মরণ, এই হ'ক হিন্দুর জীবনমন্ত্র | গীতা হিন্দুকে সমরসক্ষম করুক, বাক্যবাগীশ নয় মাত্র | গীতা হিন্দুকে সাহসী করুক, রণাঙ্গনের রথী-মহারথী করুক, প্রবল পরাক্রান্ত পদাতিক করুক, নৃত্যগীতকাব্যবাদ্যপটিয়সি সখীসুলভ ইন্দ্রিয়পরবশ দুর্বলতার প্রতিমুর্তি হতে অনুপ্রাণিত না করুক | এতে গীতাহনন হয়, সেই সাথে আত্মহনন | সাবধান !
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Friday, 19 September 2025
LET NOT THE SPIRIT SINK INTO MADNESS
LET NOT THE SPIRIT SINK INTO MADNESS
My mother is a human being, not a cow. Thank you. The proposition of certain spiritual leaders exhorting the government to declare the cow 'Rāshtra Mātā' is preposterous. While veneration of the cow which is even scripturally sanctioned is doubtlessly a noble attitude, to aver that it is not an animal but is in a separate category altogether as 'Mother of the Nation' is stretching things a bit too far. Such hyperstretch of religious conviction is tantamount to madness and cannot be counted as spiritual at all. The cow like all sentient beings is in essence the Spirit but cannot be singularly ascribed the epithet of 'Rāshtra Mātā'. I do not know a single human being who has been born of a cow despite the fact that most humans have been bred and brought up, fed and preserved on the cow's milk and its related products. Such nourishment derived from the cow's milk does not however make the cow the mother of man. That much for 'Rāshtra Mātā'. The episode in regard to this involving Swami Vivekananda and the propagator (prachārak) of the 'Cow Protection Society' ('Gorakshani Samiti') is pertinent. Swamiji's observations replete with devastating sarcastic wit is worth remembering. The nation ought to follow this modern sage of age-old wisdom if it aspires to rise to the due position of the spiritual preceptor of the world ('Vishva Guru'). Listening to half-cracked brains preaching mythological stuff as if they are literal truths to be followed will lead us back to the dark ages. Beware! Let discretion direct devotion. 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
STICK TO THE YUGĀVATĀR AND THE YUGĀCHĀRYA
STICK TO THE YUGĀVATĀR AND THE YUGĀCHĀRYA
The resurrection of the Sanātan Dharm must be along the right lines. We must not revert to regressive practices and modes but must be progressive in every phase of this resurrection. The Shrutis being eternal will automatically persist but the Smritis must be duly adjusted as per modern necessities. The evolution of the race must not be impeded by institutionalising archaic practices but the bars that thwart the forward movement of the race must be carefully removed to allow the principles of the Shrutis due fulfilment in practice. Thus the nation will advance along the blueprint laid down by the Rishis and not as per the whim of every politically motivated selfish propagator of myths masquerading as real religion.
Real religion is philosophy, the science of the Spirit, and not fantastic tales bearing no relation to actual reality. The inner essence of these mythological tales must be absorbed in the light of the Upanishads and applied duly, not their hyperbolic narratives believed in as having happened as described in Purānic texts. Discrimination, discernment, judgement lost, the country fall into superstition, into weakness, into ruin. This must not be. Hence the attempted popularisation of jnānmishra bhakti (devotion admixed with discrimination) by the Avatār of the Age, Sri Ramakrishna, and his principal disciple, Swami Vivekananda.
Written by Sugata Bose
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
MESSAGES GALORE ... 113
MESSAGES GALORE ... 113
1. চাই ইষ্টনিষ্ঠা, ভগবতপদে ঐকান্তিক প্রেম | তবে হবে চিত্তশুদ্ধি, গুরুকৃপায় ইষ্টদর্শন | তৎপরে আত্মজ্ঞানে একত্ববোধ যার দ্বিতীয় নাস্তি |
2. 'মাম্মি', 'পাপা' বলছে বহুল ভারতবাসী মুম্বাইয়ের চলচ্চিত্রের নকলে | ঢং দেখলে বাঁচি না |
3. We have a lot to do for our beautiful people, especially the young girls who in marriage suffer agony owing to unsympathetic familial conditions. And yet what simplicity, what innocence they bear, what sublimity of soul, and all such with a loveliness of spirit that suffers but never loses its inner glow despite it all! Liberation of women along lines of love and light following the ancient traditions is the call of the Age in this our benighted motherland where as yet we fail to understand the great Manu's golden aphorism 'Yatra nariyastu pūjyantey ramantey tatra devata'.
4. Long after we are dead and gone, this beautiful motherland of ours will yet live to bear her fragrance across the world. And we will then with fondness remember from our altered abode that we, her children, did once serve her with our insignificant means made mighty with love to usher her on to this age of light when her grace abounds in the wide world, lifting souls unto the light within, deepening the very bonds of heart. We are this day working out that track, building bridges to unite all with the world within that waits in silence to in light and love and bliss and beauty be depth-revealed, be depth-revealed. 🕉
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Hold on tight
With all your might.
Ever keep track
And never lose sight.
Life is misery
If love be lost.
When bliss is there,
Why invite plight?
6. Be like the mango that sweetens the taste but māngo mut kuchh pratidān mey. Yeh jagat denewāle ki, lenewāle ki nahi.
7. ব্রহ্মাণ্ড ব্রহ্মের প্রতীক | এই প্রতীকের পূজা চলেছে অনাদি অনন্তকাল ধরে | চলবেও | অনাদি সৃষ্টি (প্রকাশ), অনন্ত সৃষ্টি (প্রকাশ) | ব্রহ্ম ত্রিকাল অবাধিত | তাই ব্রহ্মাণ্ডরূপী প্রতীকপূজাই ব্রহ্মোপলব্ধির ভক্তিমার্গ যার অন্তর্গত করকমলে ইষ্টপূজা | আবার জ্ঞানমার্গে বিচারপূর্বক সর্বস্ব বর্জন, নিজ মায়িক সত্তা পর্যন্ত সূক্ষ্মাতিসূক্ষ্মরূপ অবধি, তৎপরে কৈবল্যপ্রাপ্তি, পরে বুত্থানপশ্চাৎ সমস্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের স্বরূপদর্শন নবোন্মেষিত দৃষ্টিতে | তখন সেই বহুমধ্যে একত্ববোধ, বহুর পূজা একজ্ঞানে | তখন আর 'তখন' নেই---'এখন', 'সেথায়' নেই---'হেথায়', প্রতীক নয়---চিন্ময় রূপ দর্শন, স্পর্শন, আলিঙ্গন, সমাধি, বুত্থান, পুনঃ প্রেমপরিক্রমণ |
8. Believe in yourself, not in your stars.
9. Read the Ramāyan and the Mahābhārat. Then encourage your children to do so. Hold religious reading sessions at home.
10. In the wake of rising Hindu-consciousness the opponents of Hinduism have suddenly turned hyper-Constitutionalists.
11. Mā, not Mummy.
12. Fame is not the test of spirituality for a Guru. Internationally famous Gurus are often spiritually hollow. In silence teaches the realised soul.
13. Do not keep your parents in old age home. Your mother kept you in her womb, breast-fed you, remember.
14. Flood Bhāratvarsh with Ramakrishna temples and Ramakrishna Mission centres. May Thākur-Mā bless our motherland and keep the Sanātan flag flying.
15. Hindus, beware of proselytising Islam and Christianity! Convert not to these faiths. Strengthen your own Dharm, the Sanātan Dharm.
16. Muslim fertility-rate in India well exceeds that of the Hindus. The demographic change thereof augurs not well for Bhāratvarsh.
17. Brāhmans must not forsake the study of Sanskrit. They are the custodians of the Sanātan Dharm. 🕉
18. ভগবদ্ভক্তিই সার |
19. Do not westernise India. Return to roots. This is Punyabhumi Bhāratvarsh and must remain so. 🕉
20. সামান্য বুদ্ধি দিয়ে কি বৃহৎ সত্য ধারণা করা যায়? তাই এত অশ্রদ্ধা, নাস্তিকতা, ধর্মবিরোধীতা |
21. প্রথম আবশ্যক স্থিরতা | অশান্তচিত্ত পদে পদে ভুল করে, ঠকে | সাধুসঙ্গে ঈশ্বরে অনুরাগ জন্মে | প্রভুর স্মরণমননে মন শান্ত হয় | পরিশেষে সমাহিত চিত্তে স্বরূপদর্শন |
22. Strike at the roots of religious roguery. Trimming the shoots will scarce mend matters. Toxic theology must be rooted out. The leaves then will freshen green again.
23. 🕉 Jnānvāpi Mandir 🕉
24. The sin of killing cows is on all of us.
25. Life is not for personal achievement of an earthly kind but is for service to the motherland, to her culture and dharm.
26. সমাজের বৌদ্ধিক অধঃপতন হচ্ছে | পাশ্চাত্য ভোগবাদী সভ্যতার শিকার নাগরিকগণ | আশা গ্রামেগঞ্জে | ছেলেপিলেরা লেখাপড়া করে কই যে সমাজের উত্থান হবে ? বড়রা যদি তুচ্ছ বিষয়ভোগে ব্যস্ত থাকে, ত' কাদের কাছে শিখবে বাচ্চারা ? কাকে আদর্শ করে বড় হবে ? নিয়মানুবর্তিতা, অনুশাসন, ইন্দ্রিয়সংযম তথা মনঃসংযম কই ? বিক্ষিপ্তচিত্ত, বাণিজ্যিক, লোভাতুর সমাজ কি উন্নত প্রজন্মের জন্ম দেয় ? এখন ত' সবই নিম্নগামী লঘুমার্গে গমন | এভাবে চললে ত' দেশের ভবিষ্যৎ অন্ধকার | এখনই প্রতিকার প্রয়োজন |
27. ভাবের চর্চায় অর্থ ও শ্রী দুই আসে | তাই সরস্বতীর যথার্থ আরাধনায় লক্ষ্মীর সম্যক আগমন |
28. আজ এমন দুর্দিন যে ভাববাচক কথা বললে কেউ শোনে না | শুধু টাকা, টাকা আর টাকা---এইমাত্র ব্যক্ত ও গুপ্ত আকাঙ্ক্ষা |
29. যে জাতি অর্থলোলুপতায় ভাবকে বিসর্জন দিয়েছে, তার উত্থান এমত অবস্থায় অসম্ভব | অবস্থান্তরে হতে পারে |
30. In God's kingdom the Devil rules. Time for the Great Descent.
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You know who is a devotee?
A damn lazy person who expects God to do all his work.
32. Where is Bengal's commitment to Hindutva? 🕉
33. It is not good enough to rejoice at being the 4th largest economy of the world. We should keep progressing till we have reclaimed our historical numero uno position in this regard. Charaiveti! (Onward!)
34. Courage, comrades, and commitment to the cause! Above all, character, concentration on core content and consistency with a zeal to hold. Convert to the cause countless souls that on the border lie in crossed conference with conscience confused by care-fed lies. Eliminate the self and manifest the Many as a single body with a single aim, that of reestablishing Dharm in Sanātan Bhārat, our mistreated, molested, mutilated mother by murderous hands for a millennium now. Lokasangrahārtham is the clarion call. Unite! 🕉
35. আর কত হালকা হব? এবার যে দেখছি উড়ে যাব |
(This is an observation on the current state of progressive social levity.)
36. Evil will be eliminated. Krishna will resurrect himself from the ruins inflicted by Aurangzeb.
37. Life lived in the Spirit in accordance with the Geeta, in line with Guruvākya, is itself a continuous 'tarpan' for ancestors. 🕉
38. Cowardice is sin. Be brave, bold and defend the Sanātan Dharm. Reclaim lost Sanātan heritage. Do not cower in fear and apologise. 🕉
39. Secular when minority, theocratic when majority. Lovely duplicity!
40. Unapologetically affirm your Hindutva and defend the Sanātan Dharm. We must save Bhāratvarsh from being Abrahamised. 🕉
41. Apologetic representation by Hindus for the Sanātan cause is a weakness that first needs removal by effective Hindutva training. 🕉
42. Hindus must exhibit manhood to fight for their rights. No wonder Swamiji stressed so much on manhood, declaring it to be his life's message in a nutshell.
43. Demographic change is a major threat to Sanātan existence in Bhāratvarsh in the future. Partition must not repeat. Hindus, beware!
44. Nobody seems to understand that the 1300 year old persecution of Hindus by invaders stems from toxic theology. Unless that is addressed, the motherland is doomed.
Photo: Ram Swarup (left) and Sitaram Goel (right). Unless you read their writings, you will never understand the core issues concerning the destruction of Sanātan civilisation at the hands of invaders and their theologically inspired intolerant descendants.
47. Penetrate the moment and be free. Stand in the Eternal Presence. Nor past nor future is in frozen undulation. All movement has stopped. It is Consciousness Absolute that is Absolute Existence.
46. Unless Bengali Hindus become strong in defence of the Sanātan Dharm, the fate of Bengal will be the same as that of Bangladesh. Follow Swamiji in a manly manner and stop all effeminacy. Sense enjoyment may be deferred for some future date when things will be easier. Right now the Hindus are declining in strength day by day and history is being repeated. Build up the body politic of the Hindus and exhibit kshatriya valour. It is a shame to call oneself a follower of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and yet behave like weaklings. Therefore, arise, awake and defend the Dharm. 🕉
Photo: This is the man who bled to death not for you to sing and dance in desirous delusion but for you to rise and defend the Sanātan Dharm and save your civilisation from falling into ruins at barbaric hands. Now determine your duty and do the needful.
47. Are 1313 years (712 CE--2025 CE) of invasive insult and injury not enough? Must Hindus still sleep?
48. Bhāratvarsh is the birthplace of the Hindus and if she dies, she shall be the crematorium of the Hindus. From Ānturghar to smashānghat extends the stretch of the Hindus here in Bhāratvarsh from time immemorial even as it extends from Kashmir to Kanyākumāri in space that has been rendered holy by the footfall of sages. Must Bhārat die? If she does, the world will become a forest of brutes prowling and preying on each other. Whither civilisation then? Therefore, arise and defend the Dharm, the eternal path to freedom and light, to bliss and well-being. May our ancestors bless us, those ash-clad sages who dared the heavens and released the fountain of eternal life in the heart of humanity! 🕉 Satya Sanātan!
49. We have a Prime Minister who is through and through a Sanātani, being blessed by Swami Ātmasthānandaji and brought up by the RSS.
50. Begging for donation while holding thousands of crores in the coffers has become the malady these days of spiritual organisations.
51. Rām and Krishna must now be principally preached as warriors in defence of the Dharm rather than in their other aspects.
52. If you are followers of Swami Vivekananda, then fight for the preservation of the Hindus. Your idle devotion Swamiji detested during his lifetime. Do not be deluded that serving humanity as Shiva incarnate will save the Hindus. You have to fight like Arjun did after powerful exhortation by Krishna. All these songs and dances, hospitals and schools, preaching soft scriptural principles will not help. You have been wiped out of Pakistan. You are being wiped out of Bangladesh. You have been wiped out of Kashmir. You are being persecuted in West Bengal. How can you still be deluded that your religiosity is on the right track? It is sheer cowardice. If the soldiers were as cowardly as you, you would not live a day. Therefore, give up this religio-spiritual pretence and learn to fight. Struggle, Swamiji said, is the sign of life. Ask yourself then, are you living?
53. Leaders are so irresponsible. The drainage system is so bad and they are indulging in inconsequential things.
54. If life be of two days, why waste it over trifles?
55. Does a responsible community populate so much?
56. If there is a uniform penal code, why not a uniform civil code?
57. It rains but drains not. In 21st century London-like Kolkata it waterlogs!
58. The revolutionaries bled so that rogues would rule?
59. Whither headed the world when the heads of states are headless? It's time to heed this and combat consequence head on.
60. Peace is necessary for prosperity. In a world of proliferating population and abounding poverty peace is the only solution.
61. Muslims must be given less of religious indoctrination and more of scientific training. Then they will be effective participants in the advancement of civilisation. Overmuch of theological training to the exclusion of science has kept them backward in a fast-moving world.
62. কিছু লোকের কাছে সব আছে | অধিকাংশের কাছে কিছু নেই | সংযম সম্বল |
63. মিতব্যয়ীতার দ্বারা বাঙালী আবার ক্রমে ধনী হতে পারে | স্বামীজী মিতব্যয়ী হতে বলেছেন |
64. এত ক্ষুদ্র মানসিকতা ! কেউ কারও ভাল দেখতে পারে না | মাৎসর্য্যপ্রবণ মন | এদিকে মুখরা, মনে মনে নিন্দুক, বাইরে ভদ্রতার ভান যতক্ষণ না গায়ে সামান্য খোঁচাটি লাগছে | তখন পূর্ণ পশুবৎ স্বভাব প্রকাশ পেয়ে যাচ্ছে, সভ্যতার মুখোশ খশে পড়েছে | এই হীন তমোভাব নিয়ে কি সমাজ সংস্কার হয় নাকি লোককল্যাণ হয় ? পরস্পর সংঘাত ভিন্ন এর গতি কি ? ক্ষীণজীবি মানুষের ক্ষুদ্রমনা আচরণ, তাই নিয়ে এত আস্ফালন ? বাংলার ভবিষ্যৎ কি ?
65. Grow much beyond the capacity of others to reach you. Outgrow people's personality-range and emerge a superwoman, a goddess of peerless presence, of attributes 64, perfect, potent, luminous, whole. The world is in need of such glorious ones with electric personality, dominant, divine. Love and light are the dual attributes of the divine. Manifest them in abundance and blissfully abide. Then out of the fullness of the heart spread the waves around and raise humanity. 🕉
66. ভাবের সম্মান না হলে উন্নতি অসম্ভব | চিন্তা, বুদ্ধি, ভাব---এ সবের প্রতি আগ্রহ, শ্রদ্ধা চাই | নইলে অবনতি রোধে কে ?
67. Let Prime Minister Narendra Modiji openly venerate Sri Ramakrishna as Ishvar-incarnate just as he does in regard to Shree Rām and Shree Krishna. The whole of Bhāratvarsh must accept Sri Ramakrishna for what he truly is and not relegate him to being just a saint or a sage of the modern times. But does Modiji who had in adolescence thrice unsuccessfully tried to join the Ramakrishna Mission consider Sri Ramakrishna as Shree Rām and Shree Krishna? If he does so, let him say so openly. It will go a great way towards fostering national well-being, for Ishvar in his latest incarnation is most suited for meeting the exigencies of the times, Himself having adjusted His teachings to the requirements of the Age. Failure to recognise the Avatār of the Age is not productive of the best benefits that His descent into mortal clay potentially brings. Hence it is of utmost moment that the ardent Sanātani that the PM is, he should try to see Sri Ramakrishna in the right light and activate his principles and the principles of his principal protégé, Swami Vivekananda, so that the spiritual evolution of Bhāratiyas and of humanity world over is hastened. In this, I reiterate, lies the well-being of all. And it is a curious feature that the monastic community in general in Bhārat are completely unaware of the true identity of Sri Ramakrishna as Ved-Purush Parabrahma, Nārāyan in narakāya (human body). They also need spiritual enlightenment in this regard for in effect fostering the solidarity of the Sanātanis in these treacherous times when they are being divided and weakened. Ramakrishna-Vivekananda would help the cause of lokasangraha (gathering in of the Sanātanis into a single unified body politic despite surface divergences of approach towards the Ātman/Paramātman. 🕉
68. Life is a stretch within limits. The moment the limits are approximated, death seizes. If the limits are somehow crossed, illumination results leading to freedom beyond bounds, all fastening fetters having fallen.
69. Break through the network of Māyā. Tear it apart and emerge free.
70. From alone to alone man proceeds amidst the delusion that he is with all. And then he discovers that he has never moved at all. All movement is Māyā and it has been this shadowy oscillation all the way about the axis of the One Presence.
71. বাঙালীরা আজও চেনেননি স্বামীজীকে | দক্ষিণ ভারতীয়েরা কিন্তু তাঁকে চিনেছিলেন ১৩৩ বছর আগে |
72. Mobile shut-down তেমন বিপজ্জনক নয় | Brain shut-down অধিক বিপজ্জনক | সমস্যা ত' ওই দ্বিতীয়টিকে নিয়ে | সমাজে, সংসারে চিন্তাভাবনার মূল্য কমে গেছে | পশুবৎ দু'পা দৃষ্টি | সেইমত অগ্রগতি, পশ্চাদ্গতিই বেশি |
73. It is presumptuous on the part of Muslim maulvis to attempt to honour Shree Rām as Imām-e-Hind. It is hardly an honour. Rather it is a terrible dishonour to label the Lord so, a boundless blasphemy. It is an insult to call Shree Bhagavān, who is the Lord and Master of all that is, an Imām of a country as the honorific Imām-e-Hind signifies.
74.
কলকাতা ডুবু ডুবু, জলে ভেসে যায় |
মম বলে হায় হায়, তমো বলে আয় |
75. অসন্তোষ দারিদ্রের চিহ্ন |
76. এত উচাটনে কি উন্নতি সম্ভব ?
77. ঝলমলে বুদ্ধি না হলে সরল হওয়া যায় না |
78. Peace is the greatest possession. The Self-possessed are peaceful.
79. Sanātan strength must not be exhibited by way of reaction to Muslim show of it but it must be a growth from within that will stand the test of testing times when courage of conviction will be called for.
80. দেবাসুরের সংগ্রাম আজও চলেছে | এখনও সেই দেবতাদেরই দুর্বৃত্ত দানবের হাতে ক্রমান্বয়ে প্রাথমিক পরাজয় | অবতার কি এবারও দানবদমন করবেন না?
81. অসুরের ওপর বিজয়লাভ ? নিত্য অসুরের সংখ্যা বাড়ছে |
82. শরীরবোধ দূর হলে ধর্মলাভ |
83. শাস্ত্র এবং শস্ত্র---এই উভয়েই সুসজ্জিত সনাতন সমাজ | আজ কি হল তার ?
84. Simplicity, sincerity and sublimity---these three things are necessary for spirituality.
85. যাঁরা জোরগলায় কলি যুগ রোধের কথা বলছেন, তাঁরাই বেশি করে কলি যুগের প্রতিনিধি | তাঁদের কথায় ও কাজে অনেক অন্তর |
86. হিন্দুরা কেন নিজেদের শক্তিমান করেন না ? শুধু প্রতিক্রিয়াশীল হলে কি চলে ? তাতে কি সনাতন সমাজ সবল হবে কস্মিনকালেও ?
87. রক্ষণশীলতা ও প্রগতিশীলতার সমন্বয় চাই, প্রতিক্রিয়াশীলতা নয় | হিন্দুর ভাগ্য হিন্দুর হাতে | বিধাতা কি করবেন ? চাই আত্মকৃপা |
88. ত্যাগীর এত লোকমান্যের বাসনা কেন ?
89. Social media has shown how hollow people by and large are, oblivious of their divine depths.
90. শ্রদ্ধাবিবর্জিত উচ্চশিক্ষার দ্বারা দেশের শত্রু তৈরি হচ্ছে কাতারে কাতারে | নিছক বৌদ্ধিক বিকাশের দ্বারা ত' আর চিত্তশুদ্ধি ঘটে না | তার জন্য ব্রহ্মচর্য ব্রত যথাযথ পালন করতে হয় | নইলে বুদ্ধিমানের কুবুদ্ধিমান হওয়ার সম্ভাবনাটা অধিক থাকে | তখন সে স্বদেশস্বার্থ ভুলে গিয়ে আত্মস্বার্থ ও শত্রুস্বার্থ দেখতেই ব্যগ্র হয় | এ ধরণের স্বদেশবৈরী, স্বীয় সংস্কৃতিবৈরী স্বার্থশিক্ষিতের সংখ্যা বেশি বেড়ে গেলে বিপদ | এখন দেশের সেই অবস্থা | অতএব, সম্মুখে সংকট !
91. Truthfulness is the call of this Age where the Avatār himself exemplified it during his earthly sojourn. All other austerities are time-consuming and hard of attainment. He who holds on to truth, lies on the lap of the Lord. These are the words of Thakur and must be reposed faith in. The light within ever shines but is obscured by the dust of desire. As soon as the breeze of discrimination blows, the cloud-cover shifts, revealing the effulgent sun behind. Such are the divine depths within that must be plumbed and peace attained that passeth understanding. 🕉
92. The young, the energetic and the inspired must labour for the light of all. And this light consists in the Spirit within, not in its outer dark cover that the body is. The Atman is the source of all light. The mind and the body are non-luminous chambers lit up by the light of the Atman which is self-luminous. Seek the Atman. It is you in essence. All else is Its projection, not Itself as such.
93. Cast aside all superstition and incessantly take the Name of the Lord. The Lord and His Name are one. 🕉
94. শত্রুবোধ থাকা ভাল | নইলে শত্রুর হাতে ধ্বংস হতে হয় | যে জাতির শত্রুবোধ নেই, তার ধ্বংস অনিবার্য |
95. Stop trading in the name of God. If you wish to trade, do so in an ethical manner and not by cheating people by inducing superstition.
96. Our poor people are moral. The force of labour keeps them pure. 'Daridradebo bhava!'
97. ভক্তির মধ্যেও ক্ষাত্রবীর্য চাই | নইলে জাতি শক্তিমান হবে না | মহাশক্তির উদ্বোধন হ'ক | সাহিত্যে, সঙ্গীতে, সংস্কৃতির প্রতিটি ক্ষেত্রে বলবীর্যের বিকাশ হ'ক | এই হেতুই স্বামীজী বলেছিলেন যে তাঁর জীবনবার্তার সমষ্টি মাত্র একটি শব্দে প্রকাশ সম্ভব---তা হ'ল পৌরুষ |
98. The younger generations are rising. They will cast aside all superstition and establish the pure religion of the Vedas. 🕉
99. সুরাসুরের ক্রীড়াযুদ্ধ চলেছে | দেখা যাক দেব জেতে না দানব জেতে ?
100. It seems the world has become irresponsible towards the fate that awaits it.
Monday, 15 September 2025
THE SCOURGE OF CONVERSION ... 1
THE SCOURGE OF CONVERSION ... 1
Do not pervert our children from the Sanātan Dharm to Christianity and Islam. To do so is to readmit a PhD scholar to a Montessori school. Christian and Muslim preachers, follow the best elements of your own faiths and become better human beings instead of wasting your lives and that of others by engaging in this unholy practice of converting others even if your faiths exhort you to do so. Do not subscribe to the political elements of your faiths. Rather focus on their spiritual elements. That way you will be a blessing unto all. Right now this abuse of the Constitutional freedom to proselytise in India is hurting India's civilisational interests and must not be engaged in. Social tension arises out of such proselytism. India's best interests will be preserved in the harmonious maintenance of diversity which conversion completely destroys. It is this thousand year conversion of Hindus to Islam that eventually led to Partition. History repeats itself and we are seeing the nastiest things in this regard happen in front of our very eyes. Thus, we must all resist, nay eliminate, this scourge of Abrahamic conversion and build a healthy harmonious society that helps advance all citizens to their divine destination. For this to happen Hindus must study their spiritual traditions, faiths and philosophies and practise their best tenets to the good of all. 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
Sunday, 14 September 2025
এক দুরূহ তত্ত্ব
এক দুরূহ তত্ত্ব
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ভগবানের সাকার রূপও সত্য | সমস্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড নির্গুণ নিরাকার পরব্রহ্মের বহুধাবিভাজিত চৈতন্যময় প্রকাশ | সমাধি হতে বুত্থানকালে এই স্বতঃপ্রকাশ দর্শন হয় | অদ্বয় চৈতন্যলোকে অবস্থানকালে এক অসীম অনন্তকালব্যাপী পরিব্যাপ্ত একাকীত্বের বোধ হয় যার দ্বৈতভান অসম্ভব বলে প্রতীত হয় | তখন অখণ্ডচিত্তে এই ভাবমন্ত্রের উদ্ভাস হয়---'ইয়ো একোহম্ বহুশ্যাম |' ( 'আমি এক, আমি বহু হব |' ) তৎক্ষণাৎ বহুত্বের প্রকাশ শুরু হয়ে যায় আর এই বহুত্ববিশিষ্ট জীবজগৎ তথা বিশ্বব্রহ্মাণ্ডের উৎপত্তি মানসলোকে প্রতীত হয় | এ এক অদ্ভূত রহস্য কেমন করে নির্গুণ তত্ত্ব সগুণ হয়, নিরাকার হতে সাকার প্রকাশিত হয় | এরই নাম 'মায়া' যার নিয়ন্ত্রী সাক্ষাৎ 'আদ্যাশক্তি মহামায়া' যাঁর ইচ্ছায় জগতসংসার ক্রীড়াপুত্তলিকার ন্যায় চলে | এই জগতরূপ প্রকাশের তত্ত্ববোধ এক দুষ্কর ব্যাপার যা জড়বিজ্ঞানী ও অধ্যাত্মবিজ্ঞানীকে ভাবিয়ে চলেছে কত সহস্র বর্ষ ধরে কিন্তু কোন সুরাহা হয়নি সমস্যার আজও | দুরূহ ব্যাপার, প্রায় দুর্বোধ্য কিন্তু সমাধিভূমিতে স্বচ্ছপ্রকাশিত অপরোক্ষ-পরোক্ষের সন্ধিস্থলে | চাই পুরুষকারসহায়ে সাধনা, ঈশ্বরে সম্পূর্ণ শরণাগতি ও ঈশ্বরকৃপা | তবে সিদ্ধি, সমাধি, বোধ ও স্বচ্ছ ধারণা, যতটা সম্ভব এই মায়িক জগতে |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Saturday, 13 September 2025
A BENEDICTION
A BENEDICTION
Be utterly confident, supremely so, without being arrogant, strength merged in sublime surrender to the Supreme. A positive mindset works wonders. Never be in despair even in the teeth of trouble as the sunlit summit of truth and light are just near the horizon as yet in the womb of futurity, approaching nonetheless with steady steps unto your expanding universe even as your concentration contracts to lesser and lesser zones till in pointed end it dives into wholeness, the integrated essence where duality has ceased.
Faith in one's self is an attribute that conquers all, that fearless self-belief which is the stuff of great souls that have striven and achieved to transform life and civilisation. The tranquil mind is unruffled by surface disturbances as it quietly broods on the eternal verities of life. The sattva predominates and suppresses rajas and tamas to illumine the being. The sunlit mansion becomes a heaven on earth, the radiance spreading through the casements to the environs, illumining all who chance to come within the charmed sphere with a willing mind, a wholesome heart and a submissive spirit. The soul rendered resplendent then shines as a beacon of light in the turbulent sea of desires that afflict the mortal man. Such a one who abides in the Self or in the Beloved is a blessing unto mankind and has attained to supreme peace. Be thou such a one! Let the mind be emptied of earthly aught. Let the soul be chastened with the Ganga of pure flow. Let the heart be focussed on the One Beloved whose form in broken trifurcate fills it with blissful waves from end to end. May life be dedicated to the Ishtadevatā now and forever! 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
Thursday, 11 September 2025
MERCENARIES MASQUERADING AS MESSIAHS
MERCENARIES MASQUERADING AS MESSIAHS
Fraudulent gurus galore are operating freely, minting millions while fooling people in the name of high-sounding spiritual principles which they themselves do not practise but use to good personal profit-making effect. It is, thus, imperative that the Ramakrishna Mission goes on a war-footing in their propagation programme, much like Swamiji wanted, that aggressive missionary zeal which the founding Āchārya of the Ramakrishna Mission had aspired for, hopefully not in vain.
Scientific education is the way out, the cultivation of scepticism which Einstein had averred was his birthright, that attribute of investigation and inquiry which is the bedrock of both science and spirituality as was affirmed by Swamiji himself.
The masses must not be thus deluded by fraudulent gurus who are often bereft of both knowledge and a progressive attitude that would have otherwise helped evolve society along luminous lines, but are regressive and patriarchal in their preaching, quoting for good measure some quaint scriptural passages to suit convenience. The masses are simple, gullible folks who pin implicit faith in these fraudulent pretentious preceptors and are siphoned of money and morality as they are misled by these mercenaries masquerading as Messiahs. It is a sorry state of affairs indeed, especially as one feels helpless to prevent these fraud gurus from misutilising our Sanātan scriptures to swindle the people through their charging of exorbitant fees for their preaching and teaching programmes.
Religion should be taught only by qualified gurus who have had spiritual realisations of a high order, if not the ultimate of Ātmajnān, the latter realisation, though, qualifying the preceptor perfectly to preach to his pupils and the people. If commerce dictates spiritual preaching, we are indeed in both a spiritual and a material mess, and the sooner well-intentioned truly honest spiritual personalities and institutions come forward to redress the issue the better. Till then let us put in our individual and collective effort to raise awareness among the masses. Social media provides us a perfect platform to do so. 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
THANK YOU, MONSIEUR ROLLAND
THANK YOU, MONSIEUR ROLLAND
The great European savant who spread the message of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda across the western world through his twin biographical studies on the divine duo. Posterity has and forever will owe indebtedness to him who in the inter-war years had tried his utmost to lower the political temperature of the world through a myriad measures amongst which his priceless biographies of the swan and the lion doubtlessly stood out as his premier contributions. Written to cool the world then, a task he eminently failed in owing to historical reasons, his works remain perennial pathfinder for future humanity as it progresses through the blind alleyways of tortuous Māyā unto the sunlit summit of spiritual realisation. Monsieur Rolland, we can never thank you enough. Here in India we express our reverence in quite another way, perhaps not so foreign to you after your protracted association with Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. Our humble prostration at your hallowed feet. Blessed be the mother that had borne you! 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
POESY: THE LOTUS BLOOMS
THE LOTUS BLOOMS
Float like a lotus on water.
Water wets it not.
So may the world
With all its fetters
Bind not you
Who have given all up
Unto the Lord of love,
Vāsudev Krishna Bhagavān
Who sang the Song Celestial
That resonates through space and time,
Age after age,
Aeon after aeon,
Unto the present moment
Of shining memory,
Of shifting bounds
And brightening horizon,
Till in the noonshine of blissful vision
The veil lifts
And lifts you up
Unto ethereal heights
Of resplendent bliss,
And leaves you thence
On earth hither
At the cowdust hour
To glide by the Yamunā,
Listening rapt to the Yaman
Flowing from the flute
Of the flautist perennial,
The Lord of notes,
Of the split spectrum
In its coloured joy,
The peacock-plumed one,
The one and only one who plays,
Who sports in the groves,
By the riverside banks
And the hills that pull
With their heightened charm.
Live by Him and live in Him,
The primal and the final friend
Who never leaves but ever loves
Till life and death have all ceased
In ecstasy that endless is.
Even today the Rās goes on
In eternal Vrindāvan's eternal groves,
The Nidhu which in nightly dance
Yet holds them all,
In a sublime mix,
Thirty-two thousand and two, one, six.
Composed by Sugata Bose 🕉
Dated: 11 September, 2025, the Chicago Day.
Time: 10.25 p.m.
Place: Saptaparni, Kolkata.
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
SANĀTAN DHARM AND SANĀTANIS UNDER ATTACK ... 1
SANĀTAN DHARM AND SANĀTANIS UNDER ATTACK ... 1
Today the Sanātan Dharm and the Sanātanis are under attack from all sides. Abrahamic proselytism is the biggest threat which we must resist with all our might. Wish the Ramakrishna Mission were more active in defending the Hindus. They ought to lead the charge as the leading spiritual organisation of the Sanātanis. [N.B. Sanātani = Hindu]
Hindus must unite. Sectarian fights over surface theological differences ought to be kept aside and a general unity sought under the umbrella of the unifying divine symbol of the 🕉. Political intervention to divide the Hindus must be thwarted and Sanātan solidarity achieved through mutual love and respect. Above all, Sanātanis must study the Sanātan scriptures and practise their dharm. If we stand on the bedrock of character forged in the fire of spiritual austerity, none will be able to prevail against us. Rather our influence will spread and win us adherents in the form of reverts to the Sanātan fold and fresh entrants from non-Sanātani faiths. The Dharm is under attack and the Dharm practised properly is its greatest defence. This is the solution.
Written by Sugata Bose
Saturday, 6 September 2025
'দা বেঙ্গল ফাইল্স'
'দা বেঙ্গল ফাইল্স'
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বাঙালীরা একটু লেখাপড়া করলেই জানতে পারবে ১৯৪৬এ ১৬ অগস্ট কলকাতার বুকে কি ঘটেছিল, তারপর নোয়াখালি তথা গোটা পূর্ববঙ্গে কী নারকীয় অত্যাচার সহ্য করতে হয়েছিল হিন্দুদের যার ফলে শেষে জিন্নার পরিকল্পনা মত দেশভাগ হয়েছিল | হয়ত' 'দা বেঙ্গল ফাইলস' ছবিটা দেখলে সে বিষয়ে সাধারণ বাঙালী একটা আঁচ পেত | কিন্তু ছবিটা প্রেক্ষাগৃহ না পেলে ত' আর বাঙালী সে সুযোগ পাবে না | বাংলা বিভক্ত হয়ে পূর্ব পাকিস্তান, পরে বাংলাদেশ হয়েছিল | দেশভাগের পরে পশ্চিম ও পূর্ব পাকিস্তানে সমানে হিন্দুনিগ্রহ হয়েছে | আজও পাকিস্তান ও বাংলাদেশে তা অব্যাহত |
গণমাধ্যমের যুগ | নিছক প্রেক্ষাগৃহে চলচ্চিত্র দেখাতে দেওয়া না হলেই কি সত্য চাপা যাবে ? যাবে না | যদি বাঙালীরা আলস্য ত্যাগ করে একটু পড়াশোনা করে, ত' সব জলের মত পরিষ্কার হয়ে যাবে | এ ত' একটি বছরের কথা মাত্র | হিন্দু ত' মুসলমান আক্রমণকারীদের দ্বারা সেই ৬৩৬ সাল থেকে আক্রান্ত, অর্থাৎ, প্রায় ১৪০০ বছর | ৭১২ সালে সিন্ধুপতন | সেই সময় থেকেই ত' হিন্দুর মন্দির ধ্বংস, সংস্কৃতিবিনাশ, হিন্দু নারীর বলাৎকার, আরব বাজারে দুই দিনারে বিক্রয়, হিন্দুহনন, ধর্মান্তরণ, আরও কত অকথ্য অত্যাচার | এসব যদি বাঙালীরা না জানতে চায় আলস্য ও ইন্দ্রিয়াসক্তিহেতু, ত' একটি চলচ্চিত্র সেই আত্মবিস্মৃত জাতিকে কতটা জাগাতে পারত সে বিষয়ে সন্দেহ থেকে যায় | অতএব, ছবিটা না দেখতে পেলে খুব যে একটা কিছু ক্ষতি হবে চেতনার, তা মনে হয় না | এই ভাবে সান্ত্বনা পাওয়া আর কি |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Friday, 5 September 2025
🕉 SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTIONS 🕉
🕉 SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTIONS 🕉
There is a nirgun nirākār essence in you which you are. Its manifestation this outer mind-body entity is which you in error identify yourself with. The Guru is to be worshipped, none else, none else, none else ever. He is your all in all and will guide you to this innermost glory. Therefore, focus wholly and with complete concentration on the Guru. Only bear his instructions and carry them out to perfection with absolute allegiance. May you be illumined! Tat tvam asi! 🕉
P.S. Constancy of will and fullness of concentration will take you to Atmajnān. The Guru forever holds, never forsakes. He is the only one to be worshipped. His words are Veda. His form is the temple. His mind is the vigraha and his soul is the anantasagar which is Parabrahma. 'Gurur sākshāt Parabrahma Tasmai Shree Gurave namaha.' The Guru and the shishyā are one in essence. Post-realisation all distinctions disappear. 🕉
Ego is the principal hindrance to arriving at the essential principle, that of Ātmajnān. Absolute self-surrender is necessary to witness the Self. The slightest trace of ego blocks vision. Therefore, in the spiritual path the means is obliteration of the ego. That comes easy to the one who is simplicity itself. But for the crooked realisation cones not till the twisted self is straightened. The Geetā says, "Bhidyatey hridayagranthi chhindanti sarvasangshayā" when the realisation of the Self dawns in samādhi. The knots of the heart are sundered and all doubts are dispelled. This simplicity, if it be there through past good karma, makes spiritual progress possible. The crooked never reach the goal. Desires galore, they bar the way and take one to the alleyways of the material world far from the royal avenue of God. A life is wasted in chasing mirage when with simplicity, rectitude and the spirit of surrender to the preceptor the ultimate purpose of life could have been achieved. But who cares to follow the Guru? Omniscience before Self-realisation is the pitiable state of all. Therefore, be you different and align yourself to the preceptor's laid-out principles, to his inspired instructions, and make a heaven out of life. Transcend life itself to arrive at the Truth which you in essence are. Be blessed! 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
Thursday, 4 September 2025
A WARNING FROM HOLY MOTHER SRI SARADA DEVI
A WARNING FROM HOLY MOTHER SRI SARADA DEVI
Spiritual gurus there are galore who ask you to renounce wealth and donate sums to them which they will then enjoy while utilising a part of it for social service to keep up the pretentious show. There are others who are craftier and devise a myriad means of fleecing the rich and the gullible in the name of offering spiritual guidance by means of conducted programmes which are moderately or exorbitantly charged as the case may be.
[Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi has even on occasions uttered, "There will be many in the Kali Yuga who will take up sannyasa and having sung and danced will go to hell."
ক্কচিৎ এমন কথাও তাঁহার মুখ হইতে বাহির হইয়াছে, "কলিতে অনেকে সন্ন্যাসী হইবে, নাচিয়া, গাহিয়া তারা নরকে যাইবে |"
~ Refer 'Sri Sri Sarada Devi' by Brahmachāri Akshaychaitanya in the Bengali original version.]
Written by Sugata Bose
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
A PALACE TALE
A PALACE TALE
A person built a palace at night with its hundreds of rooms filled with the choicest of edibles, entertainment and other objects of desire. He then quietly slipped away keeping the palace gates wide open. As daylight dawned, pedestrians started streaming in and became mad with delight at the delicacies on display and for free consumption as much as possible. As the crowd swelled, the available material of pleasure seemed inadequate for so many. Competition set in and fights started. This led to the formation of rival groups vying for supremacy and group-fights began. Meanwhile, some clever few began wondering as to who had built the palace and had kept all the tools of joy there open to all. They began searching for the palace-maker everywhere in the palace but could not find him. Then the most intelligent among them had an idea. He thought that may be the palace-maker had left the palace and had gone outside. So, he ventured forth from the palace leaving its pleasures and pains behind to seek the palace-maker out. There was a huge park just beyond the palace with lushgreen grass. There he saw an old, shrivelled man sitting on a bench smoking a bidi (cheap small version of a cigarette). He enquired of the stranger as to his query but met with an ambiguous answer. Upon further probing he became convinced that that man was the owner of the palace who had many more such palaces in many places for everyone. As his vision cleared, he was filled with a surpassing peace and bliss which he felt he had received owing to his association with that withered old man. He now felt the urge to communicate his knowledge and blissful experience with the inmates of the palace. So, the intelligent seeker left the park and went inside the palace to tell the inmates what he had learnt and how he now felt. But few listened to him. Most kept on at their greedy grabbing and intermittent fighting oblivious of the news that had freshly come from outside.
Such is our world and such our predicament. We are caught within the palace of this world and will not budge from it. Who cares for what lies beyond the walls of the palace cast in concrete and to seek the lush greenery of eternal youth and freedom, to forsake the puerile pleasures of the mind and the body and seek the bliss beyond, that of the Reality behind the phenomenal drama that is fraught with the dual syndrome of pleasure and pain and perpetual conflict and chaos? Who cares after all? 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
COMMENTS GALORE ... 94
COMMENTS GALORE ... 94
Sugata Bose @Saswati Bhattacharya : We are also suffering because of own negligence in studying him (Netaji) and his spiritual preceptor at a distance, Swami Vivekananda. Were we sincere, we would have activated the Swami's principles with complete concentration in our lives to transform ourselves and in cumulative consequence our nation. Alas, we neglect them and carry on with our lamentations to little effect! We must overcome our inertia thus and forthwith set ourselves to altering the current status of our country in all its prevailing negative aspects. This has been enjoined upon us as our dharma and this we must execute rightfully. And, imperishable souls that we are, divine in essence and potent beyond measure, we can. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Satyaki Das : National holidays are inconsequential. What is needed is activation of the grand principles of Swamiji which had inspired Subhas Chandra Bose to metamorphose into Netaji. And this can and must be done by ardent admirers and devotees of the duo for self-transformation and national reconstruction. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Premānandji is not a realised soul. I have arrived at this definite conclusion after sufficient investigation of his videos. He has the grace of Mother but is in clear pretence, unclear to most but easily understood by the discriminate. Egotistical reaction in argument, overmuch of humility before some monks and priests, bad concentration when listening to Vedic shlokas (periodic opening of eyes), undue talk of own kidney problem, uproarious laughter that breaks the inner rhythm, disturbing walk through the city at night that creates problems for residents, unnecessary repeated talks on adolescent self-abuse etc. Mainly, over-awareness of the outside environment and the lack of indrawnness. Spiritual dramatis personae all. As you say in colloquial Hindi, 'drāmābāz'. Moreover, शरीरलक्षनम | From physical characteristics which are evident, the discriminate eye can make out. Besides, realised souls do not advertise themselves online all the time.
Sugata Bose @Sumit Mukerji : But Bradman averaged 89 against England overall and 56 in the Bodyline Series. Important to note in the context of the post.
Sugata Bose @Deepak Kandpal : I know. I did not mean here historical greats like Swami Vivekananda but have drawn attention to the plethora of fake Gurus making money by fooling the gullible masses, especially with their popularity being propped up by political parties to sway the electorate to their fold. Besides, there are crony capitalists who are in collusion with this racket that goes in the name of spirituality but which is essentially commerce of a corrupt kind.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [TV9 Bharatvarsh] : Chanakya through Chandragupta Maurya had got Dhanananda punished, not Mahāpadmananda as Rāmbhadrāchāryaji has averred.
Sugata Bose @Vikram Rana : No, not this sadhu. Sri Ramakrishna's Vedanta Guru was another Totapuri whose photograph has not been possible to trace as yet, if any existed or exists, that is. 
Sugata Bose @Stephen Murphy : Body-bound people measure men by the body. We Indians are spiritual and do not castigate people thus.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [ABP News @Swami Avimukteshwaranandaji] : The interviewer is deliberately trying to trap a Shankaracharya into making some inadvertent comment which will be useful for the channel's commercial purpose. This is Avidyā Māyā of the worst kind. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Nirmal Kumar Dey : ये बहुत दुखभरि परिस्थिति | संशोघन करना चाहिये | रोघ करने लिये कुछ तो किजिये |
Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : Let us join hands in defence of the Dharma. Our conjoined effort will inspire others to join in. In the Sangha is Shakti. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Shivananda Aum : The fate of Hindus over 1300 years in India at the hands of Islam and their fate in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh even today as also in different provincial pockets of India will illumine you in this regard. Christianity has hit the Hindus hard as well in this regard during colonial occupation with its associated proselytism and the proselytism going on ever since Independence, courtesy the policy of ultraliberalism in this regard of the Nehru government, a tradition which carries on. Vivekananda's works are pertinent in this regard. My struggle in my own small way is to save the Sanātanis and the Sanātan Dharm in India, to prevent its Islamisation and Christianisation. Bhāratvarsh must remain Hindu which progressive demographic change is threatening in parts and overtime over the whole of India. We have suffered enough for 1300+ years. Now no more. This is the motivation, the inspiration, the dharm which impels me on. As regards Satya Dharm that to be established in the wide world, it will take a very long time as yet as the races of the world, varied and variegated, and at different levels of spiritual evolution, need that time to experience the hollowness of the phenomenal world and gradually come to the Vedic understanding how to make it meaningful and spiritual in the truest sense of the term, overcoming the superstitions that creedal codes impose on the submitting fearful mind. 🕉
THE VEDANTA
(Delivered by Swami Vivekananda at Lahore on 12th November, 1897)
... 'When the Mohammedans first came into India, what a great number of Hindus were here; but mark, how today they have dwindled down! Every day they will become less and less till they wholly disappear. Let them disappear, but with them will disappear the marvellous ideas, of which, with all their defects and all their misrepresentations, they still stand as representatives. And with them will disappear this marvellous Advaita, the crest-jewel of all spiritual thought. Therefore, arise, awake, with your hands stretched out to protect the spirituality of the world. And first of all, work it out for your own country.' ...
https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_3/lectures_from_colombo_to_almora/the_vedanta.htm
Sugata Bose @Shivananda Aum : It is not so. I do have a universal perspective as well but that is another part of my programme, the missionary part. I thought you were asking me your question in the context of my Facebook posts in defence of Hinduism. So, I gave my answer relevant to that. As a devotee of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and an ardent Sanātani, what you have mentioned is certainly part of my greater objective but my outreach as of now in this regard is minimal. However, that does not make me indifferent to its importance whether I am able to pull it off now or not. Many of my posts, especially the earlier ones of earlier years when I was somewhat oblivious of the political consequences of Abrahamic proselytism in India in the light of Thakur having accepted both the faiths, Islam and Christianity, as true, were pronouncedly philosophical and addressed the whole of humanity as such, eventhough even then I was unintroduced to the wider world of humanity as such. But your mention of it has made me once more remember Swamiji's dictum unto us, that of carrying forth the message of the Vedanta to distant lands with verve and vigour, an aggressive missionary zeal, for it would conduce to the well-being of the world. Thank you, dear friend from Russia, for reminding me of my wider responsibility towards the world which in effect will, as Swamiji believed, also strengthen the position of the Hindus in the Indian subcontinent as well. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Jisnu Bhattacharya : But leftism that way is a more recent phenomenon. Abrahamic proselytism and cultural conquest have been going on for nearly two millennia.
Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : That is why the Sanātan conception of Mahāmāyā is that of the gender female, Māyā being tortuous and twisted, entwining by attraction and releasing temporarily by repulsion before repeating process ad infinitum. The Guru (the spiritual preceptor) has been conceived of as the Purush who in His saguna aspect (aspect with attributes) appears before the shishya/shishyā (the spiritual aspirant) to initiate him/her in the science of sublimation of the self unto merger in the Self (Ātmajnān). Shakti in the feminine form binds and Shiva in the masculine form frees. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Ādi Shankarāchārya resurrected the Sanātan Dharm to save Bhāratvarsha from the decadence of latter-day Buddhism, Buddhism in its third phase of left-handed worship (Vāmāchār), which was ruining the character of the nation.
Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Buddhist tāntric Vāmāchār of a horrendous sensual kind incorporating every form of carnal practice that bound the monk more to flesh than the spirit and by mass influence was destroying the character of the nation.
Sugata Bose @Paramhansa Shikshangan English Classes : But RKM is too passive in their preaching work as opposed to what Swamiji had wanted. The self must be rooted out to serve people but operational scaling must also be done to arrive at a critical mass of influence that will alter the current declining societal status in this regard.
P.S. The commercial instinct seems to be rampant in society today with altered circumstance and declining morality facilitating the dominance of the copper coin on the corroded mind that can stoop to any level to sell self-respect in exchange for a handful of silver bars as Judas had in Biblical narrative engaged in. Here, of course, the Christ betrayed is one's own conscience whose beats are taking a heavy beating these days to the individual's and the aggregate's perceived precipitous fall. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Terrible touch-up on the photograph. Has made a monkey out of Shiva, to quote Swamiji in the Ramakrishna context when the premier disciple was exhorted to write the biography of his peerless preceptor. In a like manner has been this brutal brushwork that has rendered a god into a demon, to put it in hopefully forgivable hyperbolic terms. Swamiji's message, though, is as usual matchless eventhough delivered extemporaneous.
Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Irrespective of whether you touch a raw nerve or two of deliberate supporters of proselytising faiths antithetical to Sanātan sentiments, you must carry on unapologetically speaking the truth. Your apology will embolden apologists for Abrahamic worship by Hindu institutions like RKM to criticise you as intolerant Hindutva fanatic which they unapologetically will do without turning a hair. So, why bother about hoping not to displease such crypto-Abrahamists within the Hindu fold? Be bold and speak the truth and nothing but the truth, so grace you God (Sanātan Īshvar). 🕉
Sugata Bose @Choudhury Sujata : 'When ignorance is destroyed', this 'we' consciousness is also destroyed. 'We' are no more there, neither 'nature' but it is 'The One' and 'The Being' that in 'knowledge' abides. No more 'we', no more 'nature'. 'Infinite nature' is a contradiction in terms, what in common parlance today is dubbed an 'oxymoron'.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Gauri Gopal Ashram---Aniruddhāchārya] : One should address s question with pinpointed accuracy and focus. Spraying about deflecting data and beating about the bush instead of providing a straight answer to a pertinent question leaves much to be desired in these religious discourses given by seemingly all-knowing spiritual masters. Of course, the deflection and indirect inaccurate approach itself proves the contrary proposition and produces further scepticism amongst the younger thinking generation.
Sugata Bose @Prasenjit Ghanty : এক প্রজন্ম আগেও কিন্তু মানুষ অনেক বেশি ভাববাচক বার্তালাপ করতেন | তখনও কিন্তু এই তথাকথিত কলিযুগই ছিল |
Sugata Bose @John Embrey : Blessed indeed are you that you have now understood it that you had then not understood it! Blessed indeed are you that you have now understood what you had then not understood! 🕉
Sugata Bose @A Facebook friend : Be established in concentration and become a dominant personality. Then spread the Sanātan Dharm around. Your magnetism will catch souls within your orbit and transform them. This is the duty, the dharm which entails on you.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : মুষলপর্ব | শব্দটি ধ্বনির দিক থেকে বিশেষ তাৎপর্যপূর্ণ, ভিন্নার্থে ভীষণ | এ পর্বটি ত' সহস্রাধিক বর্ষ প্রবহমান | এর অন্ত কোথায় ? কবে ? কিভাবে ?
Sugata Bose @Gauri Gopal Ashram : Love jihad because the Qur'an does not allow a Muslim girl to marry a non-Muslim unless the bridegroom converts to Islam. Hence, it seems these Muslim girls have converted their husbands before marrying them as otherwise as per Islam their marriages are in the eyes of Allah invalid. The girls have here avowed that they are namāzis. Hence, it is highly likely that the Hindu boys they have married have been converted to Islam. A clear case of love jihad then, it seems.
Sugata Bose @Harshita Mishra : Practise the Dharma under my strict instruction, observing implicit obedience. Build your spiritual life. That is the only way to influence other Sanātanis to rise in defence of the Dharma. Your life must be a beacon for others. This is the sine qua non of the hour. Remember, implicit and absolute obedience.
Your concern for Bengal is my concern as well. But the solution lies in accumulating power in silence as instructed by Swamiji.
Sugata Bose @Dola Mukherjee : Wake up to the Spirit within and be blissful. This form is divine and so is the Spirit that animates it. And there is a formless superconsciousness behind which is existence itself, birthless, deathless, perfect and whole, a boundless being that sustains this phenomenal form. May the Mother awake in you and draw you towards Her, your own highest self!
Sugata Bose @YouTube [SHASWATAM--The resl Face if Life!--Swami Dr. Umakantananda Saraswati] : Maharaj, Bakhtiyar Khilji lived much before the Mughals invaded and conquered Northern India in 1526 CE. Bakhtitar Khilji set fire to the Nalanda University in 1206 CE during the reign of Qutub-ud-Din Aibak, the first Slave Dynasty ruler of the Delhi Sultanate.
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