COMMENTS GALORE ... 96

COMMENTS GALORE ... 96

Sugata Bose @Indic R : There is nothing called 'Political Islam' as such. It has been so named by Dr. Bill Warner to separate and emphasise Islam's purely political content. But truly Islam is political all the way. Therefore, softening it by segmenting it as 'Non-political Islam' and 'Political Islam' may serve the cause of euphemism but is misleading in the sense that it does not reveal Islam's real nature, that of force and power over those within and beyond its pale. A cursory glance through the Qur'an itself will validate this assertion. A proselytising faith that converts by persuasion, perversion and powerplay cannot be deemed anything but totally political in its content and intent, especially when global domination is its stated agenda with divine injunction inspiring and impelling it. Hence, a spade ought to be called a spade when there is as yet time to do so lest it turns into sword when the proverbial phrase will have opportunity no more to reinvent itself, for dissent by then will have been godsped to dozhak (hell).

Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : Arey bhai, where are you now? Perched up still on your vegetative watchtower?

Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : All over in Bengal. Just come over and be our guest.

Sugata Bose @Bharat Ojha : The Government of West Bengali should do likewise, buy one lakh copies of Swami Vivekananda's patriotic works in the Bengali language published from Udbodhan publication division or a specially published version from Belur Math and distribute them among the police, the administrative officers, and the students. Let it do so forthwith with fullest cooperation from the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission who shall surely welcome the move. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Partho Sarodi : শুভ জন্মদিন ! ভগবতপ্রেমে সঙ্গীতময়, চৈতন্যময় হ'ক জীবন ! ঠাকুর-মা-স্বামীজী আশীষ বর্ষণ করুন !

Sugata Bose @Snigdhodeb Sinha : ছেঁদো কথা | Excuses galore. দিনরাত ধুতি পরা, বাসে ট্রামে তা পরে যাওয়া আর ধুতি পরতে জানার মধ্যে অন্তর আছে |

Sugata Bose @Ritabhari Chakraborty : Forget not, my child, that youth and beauty are ephemeral things and will vanish with time. But things of the Spirit, spiritual realisations, abide forever. I say unto you this because you are at heart a lustrous soul full of possibilities that are not yet so apparent but whose pulsations you sure feel if even in fleeting moments of extreme joy or sadness when the limits of material life are momentarily transcended by the rising soul to touch the outer realm of the Self within. That Self (Ātman) you are whose resplendence in spectral dispersion gushes forth as this loveliness of flesh and form all too divine still. Look within, my child, and feel the glory therein. Thou art the sea, not the billows beauteous in their rise and fall. May Sri Ramakrishna bless you ever and ever! 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Stand Tall Israel--Āyān Hirsi Āli] : There is nothing called Islamism. It is a concoction of the West. Islam is Islam. And Āyān Hirsi Āli knows this better than most. Yet, she subscribes to Western narratives. Such are the pressures of circumstance, such the compromises made where service to humanity is coupled with service to self. Thd discerning mind reads the situation adeptly and comes to conclusions thereof.

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : If the Government does not, let Belur Math do it. But here also it will be a cry on my part in the wilderness, a more bitter cry perhaps and with even less sympathetic response. After all they are busy singing and dancing now to the oblivion of the coming oblivion that awaits us, courtesy the progressive Islamisation of West Bengal's polity if the current state of perfidious politics at the state level and the exhibited effeminacy on the part of the Mission monastics starting from the highest level to lowest rank and file continues. Being of an active nature, even aggressive with a missionary zeal that I am, I will personally take up the task of distributing free these 100,000 copies of Vivekananda's works among the youth of Bengal. Ramakrishna Mission charges exhorbitantly for the printed books in exquisite editions these days. I will distribute cheap editions like I have done all my life free. This I pledge today and I shall not die till it is done. So, help me Thakur! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Thank you. Together we devotees can pull it off.

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : Grand beginning. Keep it up. Mission Vivekananda.

Sugata Bose @Sue Shannon : Not at all. It is a beginningless, endless phenomenal manifestation as the Vedas say---'Anādi srishty, ananta srishty.'

Sugata Bose @Viswarup A R : So long as capitalism exploits the masses, leftists will thrive. No amount of repression can eliminate them as they owe their existence to a philosophy, albeit materialistic, that gives voice to the mute millions that are ground to the dust by the combined power of state and capital, and one that draws sustenance from the disgruntlement of the exploited masses. No one these days speaks against the silent blood-sucking machinery of capitalism but instead quite conveniently align themselves with its inhuman depredation of wealth at the cost of labour, compromising with the corruption of capitalism all the way. The demise of communism in the world has not seen the end of leftist politics which is still flourishing across the world and is raising its voice of protest, albeit with its specific political agenda, often nefarious, against the exploitative powers that be. 

That leftists resorts to all sorts of subversive activities is well known, historically chronicled and has been our experience during the pre-Partition days, the Sino-Indian war of 1962 and their attempted blockade of national development both industrially and militarily (refer to the Nuclear programme of the Government of India), their subversive alignment with Islam against Hindutva being of recent incident, especially over the last few decades. 

Islam and communism have a few things in common. Both believe in the rule of force and both are international movements with total domination of the world as their stated goal. They make cater-cousins thus, despite they being philosophically radically apart. Here we have a dual problem to deal with and we need well-thought out deliberations on it to arrive at comprehensive solutions rather than self-indulgent effusion merely venting our frustration. 🕉 

Sugata Bose @Shyamacharan Pandey : But this narrative will be deemed incomplete by devotees of Bhagavanji about which you may learn from them. Plenty of material in this regard available on YouTube.

Sugata Bose @Kaushani Chatterjee: Kaushani, barring the sparse quotations, the rest were penned straight from the soul addressed at you, post receiving your request for epistle.

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Spread Shuddhidanandaji's video. Make it go viral. The defence of Hindus makes it a move imperative.

Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : Wielding a gun but afraid of infection. Truly Islamic. Will not allow even a virtuous virus of polytheistic faiths challenge his God's singular sovereignty. They shirk from 'shirk' (partnering of 'The God') and we shirk from them. The barrel though befriends the twain with its fired bullets but the direction of projectile is uncertain as youths like these, weaned away from healthy living to hoor-hopes in heaven, count their days and hours before their toxic moments on earth are spent and they are fast forwarded onto the opposite end, that of hell of healing experience before reincarnation replaces toxic faith with a more fertile philosophy and renders life wholesome. To rectification of error here on earth, friend, lest the unhappy narrative become reality. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : But you are Rāmbhakt. As part of the vānarsenā you should fight. Why only watch from treetop?

Sugata Bose @Bolaka Roy : Forgive the off-tune Pandit Bhimsen Joshi who, despite  being a legendary khayāl singer, hardly ever sang to tune, devoid as he was presumably of a finer musical ear that would allow him differentiation between tunefulness and off-tuneness.

The second song is typically the effeminate Bengali version of current musical culture full of soft sentimentality and superficial frothy elation exhibited in catchy tunes hardly masculine or throbbing with a modicum of Upanishadic strength. This is the bane of Bengal that has become a land of effeminate men who can only sing and dance and die for sense-gratification, a trend Swamiji had lived and died to change but in vain. The crass sense-culture which is the sure sign of civilisational death continues.

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Advay has singular focus, great body balance and equilibrium of mind that allows him harmonic movement. This helped him to win the race and he will the race of life as well because of this fluid working of mind and body. Evidently he is a nation-builder and one in the final phase of transmigratory terrestrial life. You are ratnagarbhā (jewel wombed).

Sugata Bose @Jayanta Bhattacharjee : Monumental task to be fulfilled over God knows how long a period but the audacious aspiration is such. (Reference: the free distribution of 100,000 Vivekananda books among the youth of West Bengal)

Sugata Bose @Sulekha Basu : আপনি ত' জেগেছেন | আপনার প্রতিভা প্রকাশিত রচনার সৃজনশৈলীতে | তেজও প্রত্যক্ষ ভাবের গভীরতায় | আরও জাগান চারিপাশে সকলকে |

Sugata Bose @Raja Bhattacharjee : Love for the lion makes the deer lose its life. Let it. What do you say? How about the Ramakrishna Mission teaching the fanatical Muslims a bit of that fabled love for the Hindus, say, for instance, in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Kerala, Assam and West Bengal. Ramakrishna Mission need not teach the civilised world love. They have love enough. Let them go into war zones like Ukraine, Gaza and the like and preach peaceful piety. That would be humanity indeed, spirituality at its very best. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Aditi Sen Chattopadhyay : To remain hanging till the lion and the crocs die of frustration.

Sugata Bose @ঐশী রায় চৌধুরী : মাইক বন্ধ হইব ত' কি হইব ? সিল্লিয়া দিব আজান | আমাগো ঠেহায় কেডা ? সিঙ্গাপুরী কলা দ্যাখসো, মুমিনের ত্যাজ দ্যাখো নাই |

Sugata Bose @

Srijan Pal Singh : Still remains ordinary because it is a matter of perspective as to what 'ordinary' is. Nobel Prize is merely a human recognition as to things apparently brilliant. The real brilliance is, though, of the polonium and the radium that Nature in nuclear mode spontaneously keeps splitting to emit alpha, beta, gamma rays, although Nature Herself is perhaps oblivious of these name that 'brilliant' humanity has ascribed to these.

Sugata Bose @Subash Dhar : Then what was the deal about? Didn't you see the basic content of the post or were you ultra-hasty in response as per predetermination?

Sugata Bose @Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty : I was asking how we may bring Swamiji home to school children? You may begin the work with your local schools. The question is what ought to be the modus operandi to do so.

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : Not a bad idea at all. I am going to ask my associates to do so. Help me in this endeavour by yourself initiating the work. I will surely assist you by sending you Vivekananda's writings if you so desire.

Sugata Bose @Dipankar Biswas : Very good suggestion. But inclusion in syllabus isn't within our capacity to execute. I was unclear in my post having generalised the whole thing. Now on editing it, I have been specific about my intent. Accordingly I need suggestions please.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : But the government keeps on bragging about its 4th spot GDP overall and cleverly keeps silent on the 122nd or 144th spot (data differs) Per Capita GDP.

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Those who fail to recognise their Guru in time, demean him unduly, they are destined to losing their Guru. And with it they lose the golden opportunity to advance their spiritual life.

I will completely cut you off if you behave like this. Do not forget the fire and the ire within me.

Sugata Bose @Rohini Jalan : I have vowed I will not die till I have distributed afresh 100,000 copies of Swamiji-related books among the people of West Bengal. Earlier in my life I have distributed well over a thousand books of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda genre. Now this is a fresh venture, rather an ambitious one. But then I am a fool, and, as the saying goes, 'fools rush in where angels fear to tread.' I will as yet burst upon society like a bombshell, to copy-quote Swamiji's words. Rohini, if only you knew how much I love my motherland! Swamiji has entered my bloodstream.

Sugata Bose @Debapeasad Bhattacharya : Well, they (RKM) are not open to suggestions from devotees like us or even discussion. Perhaps, they can make alongside a huge fund from devotee-donation which will aid this movement towards proper payment of employees. But raising the fee has to be done as far as practicable and with proper exceptions for poor students. The main thing however is empathy which, being monastics of little personal requirement by way of temperament and by vocation, they evidently lack. I could be wrong in my assessment, though, but from my personal experience and association with monks, this is my strong feeling.

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Parnika, I am alive still. Won't be forever. Take what you can, the best of me, before I shut shutters.

Sugata Bose @Nabanita C Ganguly : You must. Because you have that leonine strength, that firepower in you which on thorough study of Swamiji will increase immensely in intensity. 

Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : Bring your foreign friend along. He fights well---karate.

Sugata Bose @Soumitra Banerjee : 

নেতৃত্ব দিতে ভাই,

লাগে শুধু ক্ষমতা

আর একটুখানি মমতা |

আরও ভাল হয় যদি

সাথে থাকে সমতা |

Sugata Bose @Disciple : You do not understand me nor do you appreciate my gifts enough. Alas, self-absorption is the bane of our current civilisational state! The river flows by unheeded while desires drive the desert storm.

Sugata Bose @Sarbari Sen : শুভ জন্মদিন ! স্বামীজীর বজ্রবাণীর আহ্বানে আর একবার জেগে উঠুন | জীবন ধন্য হ'ক !

Sugata Bose @Sandipan Biswas : The perception of truth, perhaps. No one is so sacrosanct that he must remain beyond the pale of legitimate criticism. If Ambedkar haa the right to criticise others, he has the right to rrceive criticism as well. Ought he to be denied such a right? 🕉

Sugata Bose @Soma Bhattacharjee : Of what avail is such passive piety that does not quicken the spirit to reduce the suffering of others?

Sugata Bose @Bolaka Roy : These types of videos cannot save our civilisation from destruction though. Unmanly representation of medieval compromise of the Bhakti Movement in India which dared not resist alien oppression, and the inertia through effeminate lineage carries on to this day. Swamiji was very much opposed to such sentimental soft culture, however apparently pleasing to the senses they may be. He invoked manhood in the people which unfortunately is still missing as people continue to pander to the vanities of the senses. This sort of soft bhakti is debilitating and can only weaken the race further into becoming even more what Swamiji charged Chaitanya Mahāprabhu as having done with his song and dance culture that in Swamiji's estimation had 'converted Bengali and Orissa (now Odisha) to a land of women.'

Sugata Bose @Saumak Podder : Saumak Podder Swami Vivekananda was of a different order of existence altogether, of a higher realm, the highest relativity that personality can aspire for while maintaining individual identity. In that almost undifferentiated zone where the Relative transits into the Absolute, that phase of phenomena where form melts and attributes become near existential, in that plane of superconsciousness abides the transcendental individual self of that being whose earthly incarnation was Swamiji. He was, in Sister Christine's estimation, far higher than any man of genius. Swamiji was simply nonpareil, a singular personality who had descended in our midst for a while, only to return to his real realm of near non-differentiation.

Tagore was another of those rare personalities, almost of mythical proportions, versatile beyond bounds, a la Da Vinci shorn of scientific attributes, a Wordsworth, Dickens, O'Henry, Shaw, Hazzlit, Goethe, Mozart, all combined harmoniously in a beautiful package, seamlessly woven into that wondrous poet about whom poetry alone can best eulogise, our Kālidās who had rejected Kāli though. That was owing to his Brāhmo bearings which is inconsequential in our discussion here. But he was, to quote Rolland, 'Quelle harmony!' Will such a one ever be again?

Sharatchandra was the pen of the people, the voice of the mute millions, the literary lion who could raise resistance against colonial consequence through his revolutionary novel 'Pawther Dābi' and had to bear British ban on his book in consequence. He had asked Tagore to intercede with the British on his behalf which the intelligent poet duly declined, finding the plea undue as the writer had knowingly incurred the wrath of administration and ought to be in the right spirit to bear the consequence. Of course, this has raised some controversy about Tagore's commitment to the nationalistic cause---which is puerile though, given his track record overall and his commitment to the cause of national education which he possibly could not compromise for even revolutionary political reasons---but the poet must have with his keen intelligence seen through it all how the British would refuse to budge from their stand even if such a seminal figure of world renown, a Nobel laureate et al like Tagore requested them to do so. Sharatchandra, though, in effect turned out to be the legatee of Bankimchandra about whom we shall next deliberate. These minor differences of perception and position perhaps apart, the relation between the two literary lions of Bengal remained affable throughout, reverence from the younger Sharat towards the poet patriarch and affection freely flowing from the sage of Shantiniketan towards the one that had by now become the voice of the voiceless.

But Sharatchandra did dare the British and so did Bankimchandra dare the civilisational enemies of Sanātan Bhāratvarsha in his British-banned novel 'Ānanda Math' whose 'Vande Mātaram' became the clarion call of the revolutionaries and the martyrs to the motherland's freedom till under unfortunate circumstances the song was relegated to secondary prominence behind the National Anthem in 'Janagana mana' and the revolutionary slogan sadly replaced by 'Jai Hind' of more universal national acceptance but evoking less spiritual fervour. Here again Tagore had been the first prominent figure to have pointed out the pronouncedly Hindu identity evident in the now National Song, then simply 'Vande Mātaram' being deliberated upon for being the emblematic song of the emerging free nation. Tagore, thus, long-lived and creatively active that he was, a revered figure even among the titans of the day in the national sphere, individuals who were the leading lights of the day who sought the poet's guidance in times of larger emotional crisis as was battered and betrayed Subhas Chandra in 1939, Gandhi, unable to cut the country's Gordian knot, Nehru and the like. Bankimchandra predated Tagore but had recognised the young eagle's mettle as he put his garland of honour as 'Sāhitya Samrāt' round Bhanusingha Thakur's neck in 1877 as his heir apparent. Straddling the decades, eight in number, from post-Mutiny (really the First War of Indian Independence) 1860s to pre-Partition 1940s, Tagore held as if the life-breath of Bengal's culture, even national culture by way of segmented extension, throughout his long life. Swamiji was more national in the truest sense of the term, being grounded in his Rishi realisations so very fundamental to national lure down the ages, but Rabindranath was the epitome of the 'Sundaram' principle that forms the symmetrical third base of national existence. How fortunate we are to have been the inheritors of such legacy, how much more ought to be our study of these seminal sages of epic significance!

Syamaprasad Mookerjee was another leonine son of Bengal but for whom West Bengal would never have been, as the Jinnah-Sohrawardy combine was plotting to integrate Kolkata as capital city of the eastern wing of the proposed Pakistan which would effectively gobble up the whole of West Bengal into it. It was the valiant resistance of this leonine son of the 'Tiger of Bengal' (Sir Ashutosh Mookerjee) that saved the day. He (Syamaprasad) was an astute observer of politics, academically proficient that he was, erudite and an orator par excellence which despite radical ideological differences drew the admiration of no less a communist than Hiren Mukerjee, a fellow freedom fighter and Parliamentarian of prodigious knowledge on varied subjects including the Sanātan scriptures, a thorough grounding in Sanskrit, hailing as he was from a family of Sanskritists, his (Hiten Mukerjee's) father having first bifurcated path by prewriting the speeches of Surendranath Banerjee which the latter later delivered in public. Such a one as Hiren Mukerjee, the doyen of Indian communists, a loyalist of the Soviet-led communist revolution of October-November, 1917, a thorough gentleman of universal intellectual appreciation and catholic sympathies while remaining a thoroughbred communist, praised Syamaprasad Mookerjee in effusive terms.

Syamaprasad resigned from the Hindu Mahasabha and post-independence formed his own political party called the 'Bhāratiya Jana Sangha' which later metamorphosed into the 'Bhāratiya Janatā Party' which in 'National Democratic Alliance' has been ruling the country for the past eleven years. Syamaprasad's differences with Nehru in the national cabinet induced his resignation and the founding of his own party. His vehement cry for the integration of Jammu and Kashmir fully to the rest of India via the scrapping of Articles 370 and 35A cost him his life amidst terribly unfortunate circumstances but saw its fulfilment in 2019 when the said Articles were finally scrapped. "Ek desh mey do vidhān, do pradhān aur do nishhān nahi chalenge, nahi chalenge, nahi chalenge"---this was Mookerjee's clarion call as he in 1953 entered Jammu and Kashmir without permit, never to return alive. But he had set the ball of national integration rolling which gained fulfilment almost seven decades later in 2019. Syamaprasad's soul animates the atmosphere of both Bengal and India and his legacy lives on.

These were all seminal figures in the history of modern Bengal and we can only profit from studying their lives and their works. They tirelessly worked for the freedom of the motherland from bit only colonial shackles but from all sorts of iniquities that beset the great civilisation in its perilous precipitous state. At this length of time from when they were alive and working out the salvation of India, their mutual differences fade into insignificance and all that remains is their larger impact on this grand country, the mother of civilisations.

Today, especially on the sesquicentennial anniversary of the birth of 'Vande Mātaram' (7 November, 1875 -- 7 November, 2025), we remember Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay with special pride as the harbinger of freedom, as the inspirer of its mūlamantra ('Vande Mātaram), as the composer of the song proper which reduced in size and content has been hailed somewhat indifferently as the National Song, playing a poor second fiddle to Tagore's 'Jana gana mana' and sadly so, for it was the 'Vande Mātaram' that had fired up the national imagination and set its spirit soaring along the path of service and sacrifice unto securing freedom from colonial consequence. Bankimchandra not only read national peril in the presence of the British on Indian soil but also the more camouflaged corruption of national culture in the continued presence of alien theocratic toxicity in Islam. In this latter reading he outwitted his gullible naive contemporaries who fantasized the impossible fraternity between Indian Muslims and Hindus but who were in their blind assessment eminently wrong. The novel 'Ānanda Math' was a literary work of revolutionary message which was widely banned by the British and permanently kept out of circulation during the Rāj. That Jinnah's opposition in 1937 to the 'Vande Mātaram' song being assigned the rank of National Anthem was yielded to by the Congress High Command was shameful, utterly contrary to historical precedence across the world and a compromised capitulation in the eventual relegation of second place to it behind 'Jana gana mana' evidently to appease the Indian Muslims whose allegiance to their faith (Dīn) was clearly more than that to their country. Furthermore, in 1943 Netaji at Abid Hassan's suggestion adopted 'Jai Hind' as the National Greeting which put 'Vande Mātaram' into cold storage.

Sugata Bose @Partha Bose : It is a great honour, a momentous occasion, an epic moment in your career. May Mā Sarasvati descend on your soul and form tomorrow at the right time that you may carry the audience with exhilarating music! 

Sugata Bose @Subhranil Ray : I am not Netaji's grand nephew. I am another Sugata Bose.