EPISTLES TO 'DISCIPLES': DEEPANJAN MITRA ... 1

EPISTLES TO 'DISCIPLES': 

DEEPANJAN MITRA ... 1 

LETTER 1:

Dear Deepanjan,                            15.10.2025

    I look to your career with much expectancy for you are young and intelligent, enterprising and academically proficient. If you develop your intellectual faculties well while manifesting your latent spirituality by making a thorough study of the Sanātan scriptures and the relevant history of Bhāratvarsha along with assiduous practice of daily dhārmic disciplines, you will be a force to reckon with. Right now, though, completion of your doctoral study and a proper placement for post-doctoral study must assume prime priority.

With blessings on you and yours,

Sugata Bose

LETTER 2:

Dear Deepanjan,                         18.10.2025

    It is with a sense of urgency that we must apprise ourselves of what Sitaram Goel and Ram Swarup have had to say on the civilisational challenges we face at the hands of inimical Abrahamic and leftist forces. Sitaram Goel identified Islam, Christianity and communism as our three civilisational enemies, all of which are geared to bringing about the demise of the Sanātan Dharma and the Sanātanis in that cultural relation. And history testifies to the veracity of this statement. These two stalwarts of the Hindutva movement have left behind a plethora of literature on this subject, their unique publication division, 'Voice of India', fulfilling till this day their dreamt vision of publishing significant works that would build Hindu awareness regarding the civilisational dangers facing them. But there is no official governmental recognition of their works, as is characteristic of this country where Hindu interest, which ought to be uppermost on account of it being the defining feature of our civilisation, is sadly neglected to the decline and possible demise of it in the future. This must not be allowed to happen and it is upon committed Sanātanis like us that the burden of saving our civilisation rests. 

Knowledge is power and knowledge is austerity too. Therefore, we must make a systematic study of the following authors who have done, and some of whom are as yet doing, seminal work in the domain of what in popular parlance has come to be called Hindutva which essentially means 'Political Hinduism'. The authors worth reading are:

1) Sitaram Goel 

2) Ram Swarup 

3) K.S. Lal

4) Jadunath Sarkar

5) Ramesh Chandra Majumdar

6) Koenraad Elst

7) J. Sai Deepak

8) Anand Ranganathan

Besides these one must read the Qur'an by

1) Abdullah Yusuf Ali

2) Marmaduke Pickthall

and the books of Dr. Bill Warner. A thorough grounding in Islamic history is also necessary. This entails some amount of diligence and labour but one comes out the wiser for it. Lastly, one must definitely read M.S.Golwalkar's 'Bunch of Thoughts' and an authentic and unbiased history of the RSS by some reputed Hindutvavādi author so that at the end of this long reading journey one is able to diagnose the causes of Sanātan capitulation before conquering barbarians, the ideology and inspiration, mind and motivation of the Arabic hordes, and the ways and means of delivery from these proselytising and persecuting faiths which number two---Islam and Christianity. By way of philosophical self-defence one should thoroughly know the essential Sanātani scriptures as well which include the principal thirteen Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gīta, the Brahma Sutras, the Ramāyan and the Mahābhārat, the Ashtāvakra Samhitā, the Yoga Vāshishtasār, the Vivekachuřāmani, the Ramakrishna Kathāmrita and the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. This is phase one of the study. Out of this will arise the intellectual defence of the Dharma. Here I have spoken of defence in relation to Islam only.

Ruminate on this but maintain steadiness and emotional equilibrium. Getting agitated does not serve the purpose but calm, collected work like the unflickering flame of the lamp illumining all but not burning none save the oil, sacrificing itself selflessly for the Master who has lit it. So may your work be. "Accumulate power in silence," as Swamiji said, then throw your ideas broadcast to ignite receptive minds across the world. But the power must be there and so must knowledge be for mass enlightenment to follow. Therein lies your life's work in relation to the Dharma. The rest the Lord knows best. Let us fulfil His command as codified in the Gīta and leave the fruits of action unto Him who is the Lord of the gunas.

With blessings and eager expectations from a worthy son of the soil which you rightfully are,

Sugata Bose

LETTER 3: 

                                                          

Dear Deepanjan,                           21.10.2025 

     One's location in life should be in God. One should be stationed in the Self (Ātman). Wherever one may be physically, core consciousness must be one's abode and in essence it always is so, although, one residing on the surface mind is not usually able to sense it. The coming years will see more homecoming of non-resident Indians and their due employment in spaces that will be created in emerging India. Only then will India rise with its best talent serving the nation. That you wish to stay at home throughout is a welcome sign and a promise of what is going to be more normal in the coming decades as India rises to her feet, and is a very good mode of mind for you, I should say. Without being overly strict in this matter, though, because research opportunities may take you abroad as well for a while, that you deem it sort of an imperative to stay at home is patriotic enough to inspire confidence in others to do likewise.

Punyabhūmi Bhāratvarsha! Holy is the Himālaya, holy the Gangā, holy the very dust of this blessed land trodden by sages and saints from time immemorial unto this day when the grandest and greatest of them all, Bhagavān Sri Ramakrishna, sanctified this motherland of ours. But deeds must follow deep conviction and love for the ideal which in this case is love for the motherland that must boundless be and abiding deep for today's resolve to be tomorrow's resultant in the field of fighting forces drawing one in their respective directions. Many in the flower of youth have so promised patriotic return to the motherland they had milked their way to station abroad to study but have later betrayed the trust. I know of two of my students who had vouched a return to India after study but chose to break promise, seeking the comfort of affluent western life over poorer India. Experience has thus taught me circumspection in this regard and I choose not to indulge in wishes or blessings again, having been badly foiled earlier. But your own karma will make way for your future destination---Bhogyabhūmi Occident or Punyabhūmi Bhāratvarsha.

With blessings,

Sugata Bose