Saturday, 21 February 2026
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
MESSAGES GALORE ... 127
MESSAGES GALORE ... 127
1. Great souls are those that are grateful.
2. Fearlessly proceed. Charaiveti!
3. There is no end to karma till jnāna eliminates it.
4. Extricate yourself from the whirlpool of others' thoughts. Be free thinkers, creative to the core. Be original. Only then can you reach the Origin.
5. The life of one has the deeds of many.
6. Extricate the Avatār from organisation. God is without institutional appendage. Let devotion be devoid of organisational trappings.
7. Oneness is never achieved through effort. Oneness either is or is not.
8. Genius unfolds sometimes in constrained conditions, being ignited by circumstantial inhibitions and responding to the challenges thrown.
9. Dawn calls for the dewdrops. Dewdrops call for dawn.
10. The right call never comes at the right moment. Endless wait wanes expectation.
11. Character calls for serious response, subtle sensitivity, empathy that heals. Else, life is a dreary desert fit for cactuses, not men.
12. আজ ঠাকুরের জন্মতিথি | আমাদের নবজন্ম হ'ক |
13. Today is the birthday of Sri Ramakrishna as per the almanac. May we be reborn unto godliness and glory!
14. Booing that happens in the British Parliament is so unsavoury, quite unbecoming of a decent discourse.
15. Non-reaction is the ideal way to peace.
16. Let busyness not become a disease incurable.
17. It is best not to depend on anyone.
18. When the ego becomes wafer-thin, God comes and fulfils.
19. Ramakrishna was a scupltor of the soul.
20. Humility is one's greatest defence against aggression coming from unseemly quarters, non-reaction one's best armour against possible predation.
21. If there is a friend I know, it is this body that I have borne since birth. My constant companion it has been, is, will be 'till death do us part'.
22. When candles die, the wax reforms for a fresh ignition. Thus the cycle goes on ad infinitum.
23. I write, some read, some even give the ❤️ sign, some don't. But they are all welcome to the chamber of my thoughts, ideas, ideals, inspiration.
24. Life is of two days---the first of expansion without and the second of contraction within till the core consciousness is reached.
25. 'Thank you' to all who are supporting me ❤️ily.
26. Happy b'day to one whose sunrise it was today.
27. Value loved ones while they are there.
28. Through the dark of one fateful night Naren and Thakur sang 'Āmār Mā tvam he Tārā'. Naren's resistance to Kāli broke down. He surrendered to Her.
29. The sky assumes its colours, then darkens again.
30. You can never keep up with the flowing Ganga. You may dip in it sometimes.
31. I only wish I had a second me.
32. The busier the being, the more time he has at his dosposal till he totally conquers time.
33. Life is ceaseless, without beginning, without end.
34. If at times you find a full-stop left out, know it is deliberate to accomodate a bolder type.
35. When deeply hurt, stay calm. Do not react.
36. One must remember no one owes one anything. But one does owe everyone so much. It is with a deep disquiet that realisation comes till peace prevails.
37. Is man the master or the slave?
38. If sadness strikes, know happiness is at hand.
39. Sri Ramakrishna is the Ganga of spirituality. Take a dip in it and be pure.
40. Blessed be they who are truly devoted!
41. Devotion to Guru? Who has? The one who values him above work. For such a one illumination awaits, for none else till such devotion awakes.
42. Miserliness of ❤️ is not good. It creates misery.
43. Breadth of ❤️, width of mind, depth of soul---the holy trinity of attributes that takes one to the vision of one's Self, the Ātmā.
44. It is a sea of souls in perpetual procession.
45. Reject Nature to conquer it. She will yield.
46. Thakur disliked miserliness.
47. Busyness is another name for pursuit of desires.
48. For most ideas do not matter. Money matters. The gross grips the masses, the subtle eludes. And yet it is the subtle that fathers the gross. Culture is scarce in most. Thus civilisations rise, thus they in due course fall.
49. The busy can never love; the loving are never busy.
50. People are just too busy to hold communication.
51. When my hour runs out, hold me in memory fading.
52. How can the material man know the Spirit?
53. Do not expect anything from anybody. Just give.
54. Work, work, never-ending work! Is it work after all that keeps one busy or is it pure pursuit of pleasure that largely contributes?
55. The idle write. The busy do not read. God watches.
56. Life's harvest will be empty if seeds are not sown. Even the dark has its seeds sown in time immemorial whence the universal harvest is being reaped.
57. Without harbouring hatred keep a distance from those people who harm you.
58. শংকর চলে গেলেন | কত অজানারে জানিয়ে গেলেন জন অরণ্যে যোগ বিয়োগ গুণ ভাগে সীমাবদ্ধ না হয়ে | এপার বাংলা ওপার বাংলা উভয়ের সাহিত্য জগতে আজ আর এক যবনিকা পতন |
59. Read 'Kato Ajānāre' by Sankar. A classic!
60. The way to greatness is to focus on the essence of man and not on his foibles and failings.
61. I would request those who can read Bengali to read Sankar's great novels 'Kato Ajānāre', 'Chouronghee', 'Nibeditā Reasearch Laboratory' and the like.
62. Never be niggardly in your ways. Encourage talent wherever you find it. Nurturing talent creates culture which is the prime necessity of the times.
63. Keep clicking the ❤️ button at the base of the page to express your support. This is the 'Great Expectation' from those of you who as yet refrain.
64. Be a man. Be a woman. Stand on your own feet.
65. Make time for those that matter. Else, they'll disappear. Your neglect will cause their departure. Life is meant for meeting, not vanishing thus.
66. Study the works of our own great men and women.
67. The shortsighted suffer. The farsighted conquer.
68. It is hardly holy to offer one's spiritual preceptor the crumbs of ones's plate. His divinity deserves better. As you sow, so shall you reap.
69. Myself replicated ad infinitum is the universe.
70. The union of spirits is the union of selves.
71. Brāhmans still have that extraordinary depth of spirit, that penetrative vision, that recounting which journeys through time to bring back photographic memories of the past.
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72. Culture cannot come from visiting places. Culture comes from visiting within.
73. Your word of honour is your strength.
74. The generous prosper.
75. Isolation hurts. Man is by nature gregarious.
76. Have a long view of life. Do not rush in for quick results. That is the shortest path to longterm failure.
77. Constancy of aim and effort achieves the end.
78. Sweetness is the essence of life. Raso vai sah!
79. Sincerity is the foundation of worthwhile work.
80. Curiosity is the mother of knowledge.
81. Great ideas give birth to great deeds. Think.
82. Fill the mind with great thoughts by studying the lives of great people. That is the way to your own greatness.
83. Great minds rest while working hardest.
84. Life is precious. Time should not be wasted. Read.
85. Try and excel in studies. You'll be respected by all, one of the least of the dividends earned. Knowledge will nourish, illumine. Study.
86. Misers will never prosper despite being rich.
87. Can little hearts love?
88. If God were as miserly as these little hearts?
89. Sri Ramakrishna found miserliness distasteful.
90. How can the mean-minded have God-vision?
91. Be of large heart ❤️. Else, in vain has been life.
92. Busybodies will find God too busy to bless them.
93. Expand your heart ❤️.
94. You are your own friend. You are your own enemy.
95. Titular discipleship is no good. Be real ones.
96. Fortunate is the one who knows how to love. And, yet, how few do so! Most behave as if they are devoid of this vital attribute enough. They miss life.
97. Constancy, the criterion. Concentration with it.
98. Where there's life, there's hope. Where there's hope, there's life.
99. He who has loved the world, the world will weep for him.
100. The Hindu's fluid idea of God makes him the most spiritual. He can access God easily as he has made Him homely.
101. Tears convey what words do not.
102. The heart is the soul of the Self.
103. It is broadness of spirit that gains sympathy.
104. Try to deepen your personality. This is the road to resurrection of culture which has reached its nadir owing to shallowness of soul. Read.
105.
COMMENTS GALORE ... 105
COMMENTS GALORE ... 105
Sugata Bose@YouTube [BBC NEWS/Roland Hughes] : Amit Chaudhuri and Chandak Sengupta, you being Bengalis should lap up the opportunity to learn how to pronounce Satyajit Ray's surname properly from the Westerners in this show. It is Raaye and not Ray, and it is quite a shame that you should be mispronouncing thus. And Chandak, you are Satyajit Ray's biographer at that. Shame, both of you!
Sugata Bose@YouTube [Adnan Parvez] : I am surprised to see Satyajit Ray pronounce his surname as Ray instead of Raaye which it truly is, a fact made amply clear by Audrey Hepburn while announcing the Honorary Oscar Award for Lifetime Achievement for the master filmmaker months before his death. So, the popular mispronunciation of Satyajit's surname was partly on account of his own doing as well which under the then circumstances may have seemed alright but does sound odd today. At any rate I believe Satyajit Ray never mispronounced his father Sukumar Ray's surname thus but pronounced it right as Raaye.
Sugata Bose@Oneness is never achieved through effort over a period of time. It either is or is not. It is a spontaneous understanding of union that ever was from the very beginningless beginning and will continue till the endless end.
Sugata Bose@To see my messages going unobserved and, naturally, unresponsive to, is no longer distressing.
Sugata Bose@A goodly wait, a godly wait.
Sugata Bose@Jyoti Prasad Das : You have flattened opposition by this single discovery of the Deen, the birth of the flat earth.
Sugata Bose@Anuradha Bera : একেবারে ঠিক কথা বলেছেন | যে সকল রত্ন সব চলে যাচ্ছেন, তাঁদের জায়গা কেউই নিতে পারছেন না | এর থেকে বোঝা যায় যে সাংস্কৃতিক অবনমন ক্রমাগত হচ্ছে যার পরিণাম বড় ভাল নয় কারণ সংস্কৃতিই সভ্যতার ধারক ও বাহক | এই জন্য আমাদের নিজেদের সংস্কৃতিসম্পন্ন হতে হবে বেশী করে, অনুপ্রাণিত করতে হবে তাঁদের যাঁরা প্রতিভাধর | তাঁদের রচনার যথাযথ সমাদর করতে হবে | উপযুক্ত পরিবেশ তৈরি করতে হবে পরিবারে যথাসম্ভব যাতে সংস্কৃতির বিকাশ ক্ষেত্রবিশেষে ক্ষেত্রের অভাবে অঙ্কুরে না বিনষ্ট হয় | আসুন, সকলে মিলে শংকরের উপন্যাসগুলি আবার পড়ি, পড়ে আনন্দ পাই | আমরা তাঁর পাঠককুল যদি তাঁর বইগুলি আবার পড়ি, ত' আমাদের কর্তব্যটি অন্তত পালন করলাম, এইটিই সন্তুষ্টি | স্বামীজী আক্ষেপ করেছিলেন যে আমাদের দেশে একটি নেতা গত হলে তাঁর জায়গা নেওয়ার মত সমকক্ষ আর একটি নেতা পেতা অন্তত একটি প্রজন্ম অপেক্ষা করতে হয় কারণ দেশে সর্বসাধারণ শিক্ষিত নন | আজও সেই অবস্থা | শিক্ষার বহুল প্রসার হয়ে থাকলেও মান নেমেছে এবং সংস্কৃতির এমনই অধঃপতন ঘটেছে যে বড় বড় ব্যক্তিত্ব কোন' ক্ষেত্রেই আর বড় একটা জন্মাচ্ছেন না | তাই সাহিত্যিক শংকরের প্রয়াণ সত্যিই অপূরণীয় ক্ষতি হয়েই থাকবে, এই রকমই মনে হয় আমার | এখন তাই প্রাচীনকেই পুনঃগ্রহণে সমাজ, সভ্যতা ও সংস্কৃতির রক্ষা---এই মনে হয় |
Sugata Bose@YouTube [Debdatta Thakur ---Agantuk] : Dipankar De is too loud and theatric, utterly inharmonious with the rest of the cast. He remains one of those actors who become stars simply on the basis of looks and whatever else but certainly good acting skills. One wonders why Satyajit Ray could not or did not temper down his over-acting.
Sugata Bose@Ipsita Mukherjee : Grand news. Bless you! Bless you! Bless you! And bless the baby to be!
Sugata Bose@YouTube [Adda Station--Alokananda Roy (Kanchenjungha)] : Why does the interviewer interrupt the flow of the interviewee's recollection?
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Friday, 13 February 2026
POESY : UNTO VALENTINA
UNTO VALENTINA
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Springtime it is,
Love is in the air,
High rides the Queen Moon.
Buds will bloom,
Bees will hum,
The blossoms shall fruition soon.
Composed by Sugata Bose on 14 February, 2026 (Valentine's Day)
Wednesday, 11 February 2026
WHEN BLOCKING BECOMES IMPERATIVE ON A STICKY DOG OF A WICKET, HOBBS-SUTCLIFFE STYLE, OR NEARER HOME A LA GAVASAKAR
WHEN BLOCKING BECOMES IMPERATIVE ON A STICKY DOG OF A WICKET, HOBBS-SUTCLIFFE STYLE, OR NEARER HOME, A LA GAVASKAR
After attempting lengthy rationalisation in a civil manner without success and with undue wastage of time and energy, I resorted to that unfortunate means of blocking two irritating observers whose paucity of understanding of the purport of my posts and responses to their comments thereof prompted them to launch personal attacks against me along typically deflected lines. Henceforth, I shall not tolerate such nonsensical remarks and shall resort to this quick recourse to carry on with my work of awakening public consciousness about contentious matters unimpeded.
Written by Sugata Bose
POESY : আমি ও আকাশ
POESY :
আমি ও আকাশ
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ছোটবেলার সে আকাশ আর নেই |
আকাশ পালটে গেছে |
আমিও আর ছোটটি নেই,
বড় হয়েছি |
কেউ বলে বুড়ো হয়েছি |
আকাশও বড় হয়েছে,
বুড়ো হয়েনি |
তবু আমার 'আমি'
ও আকাশের 'আমি'
এক |
এক, অদ্বিতীয় |
সেইখানে মিল,
চিরযৌবন |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
MESSAGES GALORE ... 126
MESSAGES GALORE ... 126
1. Spirituality is movement from the Alone to the Alone through a million manifestations of material company that nonetheless do not last forever.
2. This Atman is self-revealing. None else knows It.
3. Rammohun gave his life for the country and how well he has been forgotten by the ungrateful recipients of his grace.
4. Great souls are grateful. Ingratitude is betrayal. And ingratitude citing busyness in work is so common among little men and women. The unfeeling heart!
5. Even love is trade?
6. Life is a rare opportunity to love Thakur and to live in Him. Do not squander it in idle pastimes. Love from childhood or whenever the Guru graces.
7. Creativity in abundant measure approaches God.
8. How deeply man loves his unreal self!
9. Awards and accolades are futile if character be not built. Upon the richness of the heart depends the worth of a person. Love your way to bliss.
10. The wakeful soul awakens others. Jāgte raho!
11. It is a 'pain' to be bereft of company for endless stretches of time which is why 'Yo ekoham bahushyām.' [I am One, I wish to be Many.]
12. How much of heart we can put in communication, in work, in worship, adoration et al marks the measure of that refined attribute called love before which even God bows down as Krishna did before Rādhā when he bent low to appease the aggrieved beloved and win her back to her pristine mood of blissful loving union.
13. Routine messages are assuring no doubt but in terms of inducing boredom, they are a killer. Creativity sparks off the fire in man.
14. The busy can never love. The loving are never busy. Materialism masks its methods in a million garbs.
15. Revise or remain a fool all life.
16. Guru's grace is everything. Realise!
17. Sanskrit is not a dead language. It is the very life of Bhāratvarsha. Study Sanskrit to know your motherland. Study Vivekananda alongside.
18. I spend my ruddy drops writing. But how many read?
19. Life is more than a business deal, much more.
20. Of what use is education if it makes mercenaries of men?
21. In the name of Ramakrishna they renounced. Now they have renounced Ramakrishna himself.
22. যে আদর্শের জন্য ত্যাগ, সেই আদর্শই ত্যাগ করলে আর রইলটা কি ?
23. Most are dead to the higher life. Few even know of it. Those that do, care not to pursue it. Men wallow in the material mire of life.
24. How people are in love with their fleshly form!
25. Awake at last. Kumbhakarna has risen.
26. গাড়ী গর্তে পড়েছে | গাড়ীকে তুলতে হবে | আসুন, হাত লাগাই | কিন্তু যাঁরা গর্তকে শিরোধার্য করেছেন, তাঁদের সম্বন্ধে আর কি বলা যায় ?
27. What Thakur practised was meta-Islam and not Islam. For three days he became a meta-Muslim and not Muslim. In it there was neither apostasy nor heresy. This is the future of religion and humanity which he in his temporal location then apprehended in advance for posterity to follow.
28. Stand on your own feet, not on borrowed crutches.
29. The problem of the harmony of faiths lies in fanatically following the dictates of erring scriptures rather than relying on personal spiritual experience post practising prolonged perfect purity.
30. No faith should say that it alone is true.
31. Love, the panacea of all evil.
32. There is work at hand and no time to waste. Act!
33. A free soul has all the time in the world. Time cannot shackle him nor duty. We works in freedom, the master of time.
34. Cowardice it is when one compromises with evil.
35. Revelation needs rationalisation for its veracity.
36. Be intense. Vagueness gains not the aspired end.
37. As dawn sets in, hope springs high in the healing heart. It is blissful bird-like, chirping in their perch, just woken from their nocturnal slumber.
38. The life of the Spirit is one of endless love.
39. Can't people intensify more? Vagueness dilutes, misses the mark. It is concentration that kills the demon of ignorance and sets one free.
40. One set comes in, another exits. The eternal procession is on, men marching through the stage of this world. Ephemeral appearance of the Eternal.
41. Inconstancy is the bane of both material and spiritual life. Progress needs focus, massive concentration on the means to achieve the aspired end.
42. The worst enemy of man is absence of commitment.
43. Revise constantly if you wish to have vision.
44. When brothers meet over long distances after lengthy stretches of time, the result is pure bliss. Early affections die hard. Love sustains life. ❤️
45. The trivialities of life engage us so that we fail to apprehend the purpose of life, far less achieve it.
46. Is it possible that such a vast impersonal universe with its intricate mechanisms is run by a Personal God? And there are countless such universes.
47. When you break a word, you fail a relation.
48. Even spirituality is up for sale?
49. Where money is, Thakur is not.
50. From the Unmanifest through the Manifest to the Unmanifest is the movement of man.
51. Be confident about yourself and you will work wonders.
52. Success kisses the doorstep of the peaceful.
53. Peace means embracing all as one's own.
54. Exclusiveness is opposed to peace.
55. Bathe in the Ramakrishna Ganga and be pure.
56. The Hindu does not worship the landmass of India as God. The Hindu worships its Spirit which manifests as the motherland. Vande Mātaram!
57. An idea grips mankind, then enslaves it. Break free and stand in the clear sunshine of reason and truth.
58. Body we are not. We have a body. Mind we are not. We have a mind. Soul we are not. We have a soul. We are the infinite Ātmā that is existence itself.
59. From strength to strength you shall move. Arise!
60. Meditate on the lifestory of Ramakrishna.
61. Depth × Spread = Volume. This is Ramakrishna math.
62. Do not insult others in gross or subtle way.
63. Truthfulness goes far in building character.
64. You will get back the treatment you give to others.
65. Heaven is good but freedom (mukti) is best.
66. Jews all over the world must be protected. They contribute so much to the world, yet face the worst violence. Modern science owes so much to the Jews. Save the Jews from persecution. Resist antisemitism. 🕉
67. Religion must undergo critical scrutiny.
68. Is it not a supremacist attitude to convert?
69. Waste time now and repent later. Awake!
70. Be established in God-consciousness by studying Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature heavily.
71. Diversity is the law of life. Religious exclusiveness and divine totalitarianism are utterly antihuman and detrimental to human evolution.
72. Those who keep you waiting teach you patience.
73. Those who break their word teach you detachment.
74. Reading 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' 12 years uninterrupted awakens Brahmajnān." ~ Swami Brahmānanda.
75. The ways of the world are endless and endless are the ways to God. To posit that one religion alone is true and to force it on all is madness.
76. অধ্যয়ণে অগ্রগতি আধ্যাত্মিকতার আয়োজন | তাই স্বাধ্যায়ের ওপর এত জোর |
77.
Life lessons are there
But takers are so rare.
78. ফলাকাঙ্ক্ষা করলে বিফল হতে হয় | কর্মটি পূর্ণ মনোযোগে নিপুণভাবে করলে ফল মেলে |
79. Religiosity is not necessarily spirituality.
80. Act today or suffer tomorrow.
81. The erstwhile colonised are now becoming colonisers. A kārmic reversal of history?
82. Islam allows polygamy, not polyandry. Equality of the sexes, eh?
83. You must contribute something to the nation. Not in a self-serving way but to help rebuild this much-molested motherland of ours.
84. Repeatedly I say, "Read Vivekananda." Listen to me if you care for the motherland. Else, pretend not patriotism. Our revolutionaries studied Swamiji.
85. Lives the one who loves the Lord animate in all.
86. Courtiousness must not be read as cowardice.
87. One is miserliness of money, the other of attitude, that of narrowness of spirit, the inability to support whole-heartedly a worthy cause.
88. Britain reaping the dividend of their 'Divide and Rule' policy now as experiment in alien lands reaches home in fullest sway.
89. Destruction of others' lands by infection reaches home. UK in disarray. Civilisation in peril yet again. The house of man is never safe it seems.
90. Europe in disarray as cultural invasion is in full sway.
91. The great migration is on. Europe in disarray.
92. How long will denouncing critics of Islam as being Islamophobic shield it from critical scrutiny? In this day and age of information revolution can such tactics work for long? The doctrine of Islam is out there in the open for all to read, reflect on and realise its implications.
93. Inordinately high intelligence is a rare commodity. It must always be activated to one's defence and to fostering human welfare.
94. When line changes, life changes too. Stay put.
95. Return to ancestral roots. Conserve culture.
96. Convert not others from PhD to Montessori class.
97. Time passes by. Life flows on. Hold onto the permanent and not the fleeting fancies of the hour.
98. If there be a vision, be it thy divinity.
99. Arms cannot win. Ideas must combat ideas.
100. Noble ideas are more precious than jewels.
101. Thoughts make civilisation. Learn to think.
102. Confront evil. Do not conpromise.
103. শিবের পূজোয় অহং নাশ, ব্রহ্মানুভূতি |
104.
শিবের পূজো করছ ভায়া,
নিঃস্বার্থ হও |
105. The Lord lies prostrate across countless cosmoses.
106. Shiva is the axis of infinite universes.
107. শুদ্রের সম্মান যেন ব্রাহ্মণের অপমানে না হয় | সকলের সমসম্মান হ'ক | এতেই হিন্দুর সংহতিরক্ষা, জাতিগত কল্যাণ |
108. অহংসর্বস্ব হয়ে কি ধর্ম হয় না উন্নত জীবনযাপন হয় ?
109. গুরুকে অসম্মান করব, অশ্রদ্ধা করব, অবজ্ঞা করব আর নিজের কল্যাণ হবে ? তাও কি হয় ?
110. Let us not reduce life to so much commerce. It is much more than that. A true businessman would know the real value of life.
111. Subterranean currents shape human history, the subliminal consciousness of man. There work has to be done to ensure world peace.
112. Concentrate on the works of the geniuses that India has produced. One such was Satyajit Ray.
113. You are divine. Let there be no doubt about it.
114. Doctrines are nothing. Experience your divinity.
115. Sleep is meditation, Montessori level.
116. Life goes on life after life. Reincarnation is real. The Abrahamic religions have got it wrong. The Sanātan Dharma and its derivates are right.
117. Where musicality is a feature in everyday life, there harmony holds. Symmetry is the hallmark of beauty. And beauty is simplicity, truth.
118. UK is experiencing the retribution of karma. 'Vināshkāley viparīt buddhi.' Unless she awakes fast, her destiny is sealed in equal reaction to deeds done.
119. Back yourself. Let not the world beat you down.
120. Upon you, my young friends, lies the fate of civilisation. Awake to your sense of purpose and discharge your duties, invigorated, inspired, invincible.
121. The darkening sky reveals the stars. Fear not the dark that has enveloped you. Starlight soon will light up your path. Light, light, everywhere!
122. The fool fights, not the philosopher. He sees the wave as the sea, the crust as core, circumference centre. The dust to him is divine. 🕉 Shanti 🕉
123. Man is not flesh and form but is the Spirit Divine.
124. The apparent man you are not. You are the Real Man---God. In samādhi you will experience this truth, satyasya satyam, the truth of truths.
125. The demographic war is being lost. The ideological war must be won and reconversion root out evil.
126. Countless cases testify to rebirth. Self-experience, however, dispels doubt. Dive deep into memory and you will see your past.
127. Today's friends are yesterday's associates.
128. Tomorrow will roll back to yesterday. Cyclical time runs, oscillates, freezes unto freedom, the zeroing in of phenomena unto the Self-conscious Core.
129.
Cheat not to earn.
Your merits thus burn.
130. May the hurt mind be the great source of healing to others! One lives in all. Kindred spitits flock as memories dormant spring anew to forge fresh friendships.
131. Be not on the side of lies. Truth pays off better.
132. For this flimsy world of no consequence man forsakes his freedom. Deluded by desires he leads a despicable life till death alters his misery.
133. Heed not heartless atheistic intellectuals denouncing religion as superstition. They are themselves slaves to the senses. What know they of the Spirit?
134. Little learning darkens the soul, obscures vision of the Spirit. Great learning deepens thought, suspends judgement, checks caustic criticism of culture rolling down millenia of richly lived experience. Reformers by their denunciation of the common man's culture ruin civilisation more than they create it. Art, literature, music are good, but they are all inferior to the deep devotion that runs in the common man's blood, his impulses, inspiration, insights, his religion, his soul. 🕉
135. If you wish to be a real man, a real woman, read Vivekānanda. His words are of great strength, purity and light.
136. Let not a little bit of reason feed your vanity so much as to denounce religious practices in common currency as so much superstition. Dive deeper.
137. The common man is wiser than the atheist intellectual attempting to illumine him. His simplicity reaches into Reality deeper than his mentor's reason.
138. Bengali 'intellectuals' should dedicate themselves to lifelong study of Vivekānanda so that their characters are built up duly.
139. Ramakrishna Mission should propagate the life and works of Vivekānanda far more. It is our civilisational imperative.
140. Give up your colonised mentality & train yourselves to be thoroughly Indian.Base imitation of alien cultures does not conduce to national well-being.
141. Why allow money to dictate terms to you? Reject the copper coin. Affirm the sovereignty of the Self. You are God. Must you chase matter?
142. How few value life! They value diamond instead.
143. Genetic potential needs effort for fulfilment.
144. Gene is of the body, tendency of the mind.
145. Lying is a persistent habit. Get rid of it.
146. Education has become a hop, skip and jump mockery.
147. When life is there, value it. Soon the curtains will go down and the swansong sung. Brood not. Work out your own salvation.
148. When frustration in work creeps in, be detached.
149. Man is not the body but lives within the body, a bound soul, and lives beyond, a soul unfettered, free.
150. Bound souls everywhere, nor conscious nor seeking freedom.
151. Memory springs from the depths of the soul of a life gone by, who knows if ever to rerurn?
152.
আমার আমি আছি
আর আছো তুমি,
আমার আর এক আমি ||
153.
চেনা বন্ধুর রূপ চেনো না,
চিনে নাও অরূপের মাঝে ||
154. Wisdom is when bereft you are of all sustenance.
155. Symmetry is the soul of art that is beauty.
156. The whole of human life is fraught with ignorance. Awake to the truth within. Work your way towsrds it. Smash the delusive dream of desires. Unbind.
157.
We live in Mother,
We die in Mother.
Mother, Mother, everywhere!
158. What are these faces around? You see yourself in the mirror of life.
159. For some life is eternal merriment, for some others untold misery. Each burns the wax of life in his own way. The endoint is the same for all---light.
160. If you wish to be great, look beyond triflles.
161. Value life. Spend it fruitfully gathering light.
162. Love alone can ensure peace and bliss thereof.
163. Send positive vibrations across the world. Peace!
164. Do not get caught in the web of words. Just love.
165. Read Romain Rolland's biographical studies of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. They are literally literary symphonies. They will transform you.
166. Do not fall at the feet of every ochre-donner masquerading as monk. Have a semblance of self-respect. Too much adulation is getting to their heads.
167. The more culture is democratised without unduly diluting it, the better. Principle, not personality, must be the focal point of discussion. Sraddhā must not reduce to slovenly adulation devoid of self-respect, a refusal to engage in critical scrutiny of traditional teachings that have now largely become traditional trappings of thought thwarting the forward movement of man. May man be freed from futile fetters and permitted the privilege of self-stancing in thought and action that does not harm others unduly!
Saturday, 7 February 2026
WHEN GOLD AND GAIN HAVE DISPLACED GOD AND THAKUR HAS LEFT HIS EARTHLY SEAT TO REDESCEND TO EARTH TO SAVE HIS SINKING MISSION
WHEN GOLD AND GAIN HAVE DISPLACED GOD AND THAKUR HAS LEFT HIS EARTHLY SEAT TO REDESCEND TO EARTH TO SAVE HIS SINKING MISSION
The times are ripe for Thakur to be reborn to save the sinking Hindu civilisation from its current rot, especially when his very own ones have completely forsaken him and chosen money over God. It is disgusting to see the rampant selling of Vedānta lectures on an annual basis all over the country by the very organisation that had not many decades ago upheld the Master's pristine principle 'Money is mud, mud money.' Whither Swami Shankarānanda, Swami Virajānanda, Swami Vijnanānanda, Swami Brahmānanda who could have stemmed this rot and reversed the direction of delusion to that of divine delight?
Written by Sugata Bose
Tuesday, 3 February 2026
MESSAGES GALORE ... 125
MESSAGES GALORE ... 125
1. Criminals are created by a criminal ideology.
2. We as a nation must be more quality-conscious. Right now profit-motivation sadly is the primary driving force in most of our endeavours.
3. Parokshānubhūti is mediate perception and aparokshănubhūti immediate perception. The former is relative, the latter absolute.
4. Respectfulness wins respect, transparency sees.
5. Work is worth it only when it is service.
6. He who loves, learns; he who learns, loves.
7. Truthfulness with some is a daily habit.
8. When Nature's clock is matched and beaten, God-vision opens up.
9. Self-respect is paramount, not arrogance.
10. He who can control his thoughts has power indeed.
11. The man of truth is the man of power.
12. Soft words strike deep.
13. Light obscures. Darkness discovers the depth.
14. Enforced or induced conversion is cultural warfare often with aspired political ends.
15. Deluded by devious desires, the devout dream of divine delight.
16. Desires delude. Delight turns to despair. Degeneracy sets in.
17. To dance on the wave of life is the art of Krishna.
18. The profit-motivated are ever busy. The culturally alive find time to read.
19. Neglect recoils.
20. The seed 'rots' to blossom flowers. So is life.
21. Buying and selling for profit is a poor consumption of life that is meant for a higher purpose. God-vision is the goal. That done, fulfilment is yours.
22. If to do is good, to know is better, best to be.
23. You wear an apparel which you are not.
24. Let spiritual speakers speak with fire and life that awakens the sleeping mass of humanity.
25. An idea grips man, alters life, ushers in civilisation.
26. Life's a hurdle to be crossed unto freedom.
27. Develop a personality that is self-sovereign.
28. The ignited soul inspires humanity.
29. Within you is a great potency. Awaken it.
30. Meditate by relaxing thoughts. Watch the mind.
31. Spirituality is self-discovery.
32. Think highly of yourself. Never hate yourself.
33. It will be greenery soon once again. Rejoice!
34. A great austerity dawns, the redemption of all.
35. The heart expands to engulf all.
36. Heads I lose, hearts I win.
37. Education is the manifestation of the heart.
38. The pure of heart are the simplest of souls.
39. A great heart will soon sweep over the world and render humanity whole. ❤️
40. Head = Heart = Soul = Self is the divine equation.
41. Scholarship is in vain unless the heart be big.
42. Dwell upon the greatness of our great men and women and yourselves become great.
43. Swamiji's words, 'the heartless intellectuals' must be borne in mind when dealing with modern ones who keep undermining Hindu interests.
44. Thoughts integrate unto superconsciousness.
45. In silence reigns the king.
46. If there is one way to success, it is sincerity.
47. Does not the dark reveal more than it conceals?
48. Study itself is austerity.
49. Word given is word kept.
50. Friends depart to meet again.
51. There is no death for any. It is an eternal life.
52. Where soul calls for soul, there union illumines.
53. Memories, they rush in as silent soars the soul.
54. Exists and entrances keep the cycle going. Life!
55. From the One to the Many and the Many to the One runs on the cycle of evolving-involving life. 🕉
56. Why fear fall, friend, when rise is within reach?
57. We need a leonine lecturer on Ramakrishna today.
58. He who fears, falls. He who loves, rises.
59. Conquer circumstance if you dare to be free.
60. All submit before the pure soul. Spontaneous.
61.
Play the harp
If your sense be sharp.
Else, spare the ear,
Dear.
62. The duty-bound can never be spiritually free.
63.
When needs are none,
Then gives the run,
The selfish soul.
That's the fun.
There are many such,
In the world of much,
Not just one.
64.
Let none believe his day is done.
Till freedom be you'll be on the run.
65. The modern man is a hurried man slave to the duty of desires.
66. Online activity has revealed the levity that is the apparent man. In depth lies in wait though the Real Man, undisturbed, whole.
67. Be not like a hunted hare fleeing for sheer life.
68. A great responsibility lies on us to keep the movement green. Thakur's movement through greed of gain is floundering, lying low. Arise! Awake!
69. Read 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' daily and realise God. It is a guaranteed way if you are sincere.
70. Give up all rituals and straighten your worship.
71. Selfless service is the highest ritual.
72. The knocks of life fire up the spirit. Arise!
73. The savage side of the primitive man as yet rules his modern self. Where is spirituality in this savage scenario?
74. It's a savage world. Life is difficult among predators poised to pounce.
75. Stop your business with God. Love God in man.
76. Those who are in spirit related are my own.
77. Where might is right, there savagery is.
78. Crave power and lose God. Now choose.
79. Art flourishes where love is.
80. The killer soul is a killjoy. Let beauty be.
81. Not by blood-bond but by bond of spirit.
82. I love Swamiji in so far as he is a rebel.
83. The primitive man dies in his modern setting.
84. Savages fill society. Primitive rites persist.
85. A perfect memory is the sign of the spiritual genius. Swamiji and Thakur both had outstanding memories.
86. Hindus must see to it that their family lines are not obliterated, that their numbers do not decline.
87. Here spirituality will never be sold. Everywhere else it is. Thakur's ideals are being murdered. Is this Vedānta?
88. To roll back in time and live in the company of Thakur in Dakshineshwar, to go on pilgrimage with him and visit the houses of devotees in Kolkata and elsewhere is a great sādhanā.
89. It's time to stop commerce in the name of Thakur.
90. What you neglect, you lose.
91. Insult a person brimful and the overflow shall be yours.
92. Is it because classified information about the Deen will be leaked out that makes apostasy a treasonous offence in Islam, punishable by death under the Sharia?
93. Air you neglect because it is so easily available. Now polluted it stands and stifles you. Breathe in your own karma.
94. Hollow men and their hollow words.
95. If you allow people to take you for granted, you stand devalued in their eyes. The fruitseller knows not the worth of a diamond.
96. We do not know how to honour the honourable.
97. Neglect ye it and it shall be taken away from thee.
98. What liars these 'liberals' are, rotten in character and core, spreading misinformation by the millions and subverting the civilisation of the Hindus here, of the Christians in the West, and combining forces with a toxic theology that aims at the annihilation of the world. These are not intellectuals of good intent but are the 'heartless intellectuals' Swamiji has warned us of.
99. কাঞ্চনত্যাগী সঙ্ঘ চাই, কাঞ্চনকামী নয় |
100. ভগবানের প্রসাদ এবং আধ্যাত্মিক বক্তৃতা বিনামূল্যে দেওয়া শ্রেয় |
101. মানুষের প্রতি আনুগত্য করলে সত্য খর্ব হয় | সত্যের প্রতি আনুগত্য করলে মনুষ্যত্ব বর্ধিত হয় | সবার উপর সত্য সত্য, তাহার উপর নাই |
102. আপনার অস্তিত্বই ব্রহ্ম | ব্রহ্মজ্ঞানী আবার কি ? ব্রহ্মই ব্রহ্মজ্ঞানী | উপাধিযুক্ত মুক্তপুরুষ শুদ্ধসত্ত্বগুণী, ব্রহ্মজ্ঞানী নন | উপাধি গেল ত' ব্রহ্ম | তখন জ্ঞানী, জ্ঞান ও জ্ঞেও এক ও অবিচ্ছেদ্য | এই ব্রহ্মই তাই ব্রহ্মজ্ঞানী অখণ্ডার্থে, অদ্বয়রূপে |
103. You have to be a rebel to arrive at Truth. Conformity and compromise go together. They cannot lead you to Truth.
104. Many affirm but few believe. Doubt lingers on.
105. মুখে বলে অনেকে | বিশ্বাস করে ক'জনা ? সন্দেহ যায় না সহজে |
106. ব্রাহ্মণদের ব্রাহ্মণত্ব সম্বন্ধে অবহিত হওয়া আবশ্যক | ব্রাহ্মণের পতনে সনাতন সভ্যতার পতন |
107. Silence of the mind reveals depths of the heart.
108. Imagination binds and imagination frees as image resolves to Reality.
109. Devaluing merit is symptomatic of the slave.
110. To find the inner association one shuns company.
111. The dull deal in dollars. The intelligent delight in the Divine.
112. Grants are not to be taken for granted.
113. Man becomes a joker in contact with many.
114. May the mind be holy! May speech not sully soul! May words profane not fragment self nor spread foul odour to pollute the air!
115. The selfish can never be spiritual.
116. The mind in isolation remains pure.
117. The Ganga keeps purifying but herself gets surface-sullied. Leave her alone. Let her live. 🕉
118. ভদ্রলোকের সংখ্যা কমছে ক্রমাগত |
119. কৃপণের আধ্যাত্মিকতা অসম্ভব |
120. উদার না হলে উদয় হয় না সত্যসূর্যের |
121. পড়বে না | পড়লেও 'লাইক' দেবে না | হৃদয়বত্তার পরাকাষ্ঠা !
122. যার জীবন আছে, তার আশা আছে, তার সব আছে |
123. মন যদি ছোট হয়, বিরাটকে পাবে কি করে ?
124. The mind is like malleable metal. Beaten by many it changes shape, failing to fulfil its early promise.
125. ওদিকে পশু কমছে, এদিকে পশু বাড়ছে |
126. Jokers are many, jokes are few. Life itself has become a mockery.
127. The tragic part of life is that its comic part is being lost.
128. ভদ্রতা আর কি ? সংযম |
129. Figuring out how to keep vigour amidst the rigour of life is learning the secret of Karma Yoga.
130. The volcano erupts to metamorphose life.
131. ভরসা যখন ফর্সা হয়, তখন বর্ষা এসে রক্ষা করে | কৃপাবর্ষণ !
132. A joke ends in laughter. But laughter should not become a joke.
133. People have time for self-interest, not for pursuit of the Self.
134. The balance sheet of life unbalanced, life goes on.
135. We have to save civilisation from barbarism. The latter is gaining ground with learning leading the way to usher in an impossible utopia. The Red-Green Alliance is rupturing world order. Fight it to save civilisation.
136. In self-serving the self is least served.
137. The wave is the sea. Advaita.
138. Never be rude. Soft words heal, inspire, build.
139. Let not money make you arrogant. It won't last.
140. When monks run after money and matter, God descends to save Dharma.
141. Unfortunate are the ones who dishonour their Guru.
142. My young friends, read Vivekananda to build yourself. Here is a mine of infinite strength.
143. Do not incur sin by donating to super-rich spiritual organisations stooping low to make money.
144. My whatsapp updates have helped me measure the hearts of a few. They have revealed much. I see it as clear as daylight now.
145. গুরুবাক্যগ্রহণে কাঁটা বেছে খেলে ভগবান লাভ হয় না |
146. The hypocrisy of organisational preaching of the harmony of religions while neglecting core contentious issues of fanatical exclusiveness, conversion and political intent pertaining to Islam and Christianity that keep on harming the Hindus is detestable.
147. Cherry-picking the Guru's teachings does not conduce to spiritual growth. One must absorb them undiluted, whole.
148. Message today and receive the answer tomorrow. If this is not communication, what is?
149. Fakeness galore goes on in the name of Gurubhakti. Money matters much more to these titular disciples, crafty careering concerns more.
150. If life ceases, worth will be realised for a day or two. Then back to money-hunt. Selfishness rules life. This has been, this will be. Prophecy!
151. I keep writing. If you find them irksome, ignore.
152. The universe updates every moment. I fail to keep the pace. Ever beaten by the clock since childhood, I once beat it in youth for good.
153. My writing caters to not just you but it caters to one and all. Feel free to read, reflect, realise, or to ignore, reject, cast away as refuse.
154. 
আধ্যাত্মিকতার আকাল পড়েছে | এমন জায়গা দেখি না যেখানে আধ্যাত্মিকতার নামে অর্থব্যবসা হচ্ছে না | এখন 'আপনাতে আপনি থেকো মন, যেয়ো নাকো কারু ঘরে |'
আলোকচিত্র : স্বামীজী গুরুভাইসহ বরাহনগর মঠে | তাঁদের অপার্থিব ত্যাগের পথ পরিত্যাগ করেছেন তাঁদের অনুগামীরা | বক্তৃতা, প্রসাদ, ইউ টিউবের গ্রাহকতা---সর্বত্র অর্থের বিনিময়ে ব্যবস্থা আজ যা কয়েক দশক আগে এঁদের পূর্বসূরীরা কল্পনাও করতে পারতেন না |
155. Freedom comes when infatuation goes.
156. Have infinite faith in your own self.
157. God is bliss. Be blissful. You are divine.
158. Time stops where God is.
159. Wealth is within.
160. Never give up hope. The future will be better than the past.
161. There is no harm in hoping even if reality rules otherwise. It has been a rough ride in the past but the ride itself will take you to brighter places.
162. Night rules the day and day rules the night. This is the seesaw of life. History bears testimony to this even tide.
163. Move on through the dark night by the inner light.
164. Live in the fourth plane of the heart. Conquer!
165. Truthfulness tells.
166. Rejoice in others' success and bliss is yours.
167. The ochre awakes to sound the soul. Arise! Awake!
168. Love the good. Shun the wicked. Avoid evil.
169. Breathe even. That will keep you concentrated.
170. The price of pleasure is the pain of death.
171. Renunciation is the reverse flow of life.
172. Go beyond time to see the Self.
173. The illumined soul alone can help illumine.
174. To stand straight in a bent world is the test of spirituality. No God is judging. Pure practice of the science of yoga. Freedom is the fruit.
175. Commerce is ruining relations, even spiritual.
176. The storm rose and broke its bounds. Ramakrishna was born. 1857 was the tumultuous year. India was in turmoil. And here in Dakshineshwar? A swansun.
177. To be soft-spoken is spirituality.
178. Animality as yet reigns garbed in human attire. Spirituality a far cry!
179. Justifying bad behaviour towards others? Rectify.
180. In an age of declining culture upon you lies the burden of upholding it. Read, reflect, realise the best elements of the history of man. Upward!
181. Religiosity isn't necessarily spirituality.
182. Truth destroys the dream.
183. What happened to Netaji? No interest?
184. God seeking God. This is what life essentially is.
185. সমাজে মূঢ়তা দিনে দিনে বাড়ছে | সংস্কৃতির বিপর্যয় | এর থেকেই সূচিত হয় 'সভ্যতার সঙ্কট' |
186. উদার যে, ঈশ্বরীয় সে |
187. Fanaticism is of tribal animal origin.
188. Power is embedded in the soul. Unlock it.
189. Two streams are running--selfish and selfless.
190. The gateway to God is open. Read Vivekananda.
191. আলোচনা করতে গেলে দীর্ঘ সময় লাগবে | দু'কথায় হয় না | সভ্যতার মারপ্যাঁচ অনেক |
192. Nowadays mediocrity masquerades as maestro.
193. কোন বিদ্যাই অন্তের কথা বলতে পারে না | অন্তরের অনুভবেই অন্তের দর্শন |
194. কেমন অনুগত ? অবাধ্য কি অনুগত ?
195. Those who are devoted respond quickly to message.
196. The call of desire you call duty. What is devotion then?
197. When the candle burns out, the sun shines bright.
198. Life is a giving of oneself unto all. Love!
199. In this world real men are rare.
200. Marry early, have children 3. Otherwise, Hindus will be in demographic decline. Sri Ramakrishna recommended 2 to 4 children which averages out to 3.
201. If Hindu numbers go down, India will be gone.
202. Live selfless lives in the Sanātan tradition. 🕉
203. The Sanātan Dharma is the Bhāratiya way of life.
204. The revival of the Dharma will revive India.
205. The world is threatened by Hindus losing numbers.
206. Demography is destiny in democracy.
207. The Sanātan Dharma alone is all-inclusive.
208. Vivekananda's warnings about India must be heeded.
209. Individual freedom must be coupled with social responsibility for a nation to flourish and prosper. Greed and gain cannot rule national life.
210. Neglecting Vivekananda we've paid a heavy price. Return to Ramakrishna. Back to Vivekananda.
211. অর্থের প্রলোভনে আধ্যাত্মিক অনর্থ ঘটছে আজ | তবুও অগ্নিতে ঘৃতাহূতি দিচ্ছেন স্তাবক 'ভক্তের' দল | চৈতন্য কিছুতেই হয় না |
212. The purpose of human life is God-realisation.
213. To those who care: "Meditate deep on my words."
214. Words are not mere conglomeration of letters. They are ideas born of the soul, pregnant with power. Read and reflect. Assimilate them in your system.
215. Cyclical karma will end in freedom. Rejoice!
216. Consciousness manifests everything every moment including the moment. The brain is the filtering device manifested too.
217. You are paying homage to dead men and an unseen God. Touch your own feet and revere yourself. You are the highest God. Realise it. 🕉
218. 
কতিপয় অতিবিজ্ঞ পাঠকের যে কোন' লেখার যথার্থ তাৎপর্য বোঝার এত কম ক্ষমতা যে ভাবি লিখে আর কি হবে ? সবজানতাদের কি আর চৈতন্যের উদ্ভব নতুন করে হবে ? তাঁরা ত' সর্বজ্ঞ | আমার মত মূর্খ আর কি জানাতে পারে তাঁদের ? এঁরা সব তাবড় তাবড় ভক্ত, চোখকানরুদ্ধকারি নবানুরাগীর দল, নয় ত' রক্ষণশীল মনোভাবাপন্ন যেনতেনপ্রকারেণ সমর্থকের দল যাঁদের সঙ্ঘগত আদর্শচ্যূতি কিছুতেই চোখে পড়ে না, এমনই অন্ধ ভক্তি | বোধের নিতান্ত অভাব ! দু'পাতা স্বামীজী পড়েই জ্ঞান দিতে শুরু করে দিচ্ছেন সব | আমরা কি স্বামীজী পড়িনি, নাকি মহামূর্খের দল কিছুই বুঝি না ? অনেক দুঃখে লিখি যখন দেখি ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর আদর্শ আজ ভূলুন্ঠিত, তাঁরা তাঁদেরই গৃহে পরিত্যক্ত | আজ অর্থের জয়জয়াকার, আধ্যাত্মিকতা নামমাত্র | বৈষয়িক নানা অজুহাত | এই কি স্বামীজীর স্বপ্নের রচনা ? তাই কি স্বামীজী হেদুয়ার রেলিং ধরে বাল্যবন্ধু ব্রহ্মবান্ধব উপাধ্যায়কে চোখের জলে বলেছিলেন, "ভবানী ভাই, আমি আর বাঁচব না |"? তাই কি মহাসমাধির কয়েক মাস মাত্র পূর্বে শিষ্যকে আক্ষেপ করে বলেছিলেন, "দৈবদুর্বিপাকে যদি বা দেহ হ'ল কিন্তু কোন' কাজে লাগল না | মাথাওয়ালা ছেলেগুলো সব বে করে বসে আছে, নইলে শরীর অপটু নয় ত' মানযশখ্যাতির বশ | আর যারা আসছে, তারা অধিকাংশই উচ্চ উচ্চ ভাবগ্রহণে সমুৎসুক নয় | এই দেখে মন হতাশায় ভেঙে পড়ে | তবে হ্যাঁ, ঠাকুরের যদি ইচ্ছা হয়, তো এদেরই মধ্য থেকে কালে সব মহাবীরের জন্ম হবে |"?
219. আমি ত' বিক্রি হইনি |
220. We have entered an age when people quickly react adversely without reflecting on the nuances of a write-up. Intellectual decline is at its nadir.
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