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. You cannot raise the masses by lowering culture. Spread Sanskrit to raise Bhāratvarsha. This, though difficult but possible, must be the way. 

106. The language of the heart all understand, not so the language of the head. ❤️ 

107. Through the heart conquer, not through force.

108. 

একি ঠাকুর, এখানে কেন, মুদ্দাফরাশের মাঝে ? 

আমি ত' এখানকারই |

109. If life be in shambles, hold on to Swamiji.

110. তপস্যা নেই, তাই অর্থলীপ্সা |

111. যাঁরা ছিলেন, তাঁরা আছেন, তাঁরা থাকবেন | মৃত্যু নেই অমৃতের |

112. Poetic words are pathways to freedom.

113. আজ যেটা আধুনিক, কাল সেটা ইতিহাস ; কালক্রমণে যদি বা ফিরে আসে |

114. Communication is the soul of writing. The reader's delight is the joy of the writer.

115. ভুলনা কখনও তুমি ব্রাহ্মণ তনয়া |

116. অপসংস্কৃতির সাথে আজ সংস্কৃতির যুদ্ধ চলেছে | সংস্কৃতিবান, সংস্কৃতিবতী সংখ্যালঘু, তাই সংস্স্কৃতি পর্যুদস্ত |

117. Culture is a delicate thing which is becoming difficult to conserve in an age of progressive degeneration owing to all-round demographic shift.

118. ব্রাহ্মণত্বের বিকাশে বাংলার পুনর্জাগরণ হবে | তার জন্য বিদ্যাবুদ্ধির বহুল চর্চা চাই | সদ্বুদ্ধির প্রকাশে সংস্কৃতির পুনঃপ্রকাশন নবরূপে অবসম্ভাবী |

119. হালকা হয়ো না, উড়ে যাবে |

120. হৃদয়ের কার্পণ্য অনাধ্যাত্মিক বৃত্তি | ❤️ 

121. Be not envious of others' achievements. Love ❤️.

122. When life becomes weary, wake with the sun.

123. The inability to communicate regularly is a definite sign of indifference. One does not neglect one's dear ones. Exceptions are there of course.

124. The dark background sharpens life's coloured contrast. Let life be not dark, though. May springtime freshen hues in everyone's life!

125. If life holds a truth, it is this that it is never-ending. You were never born nor will you ever die. Disengage from the body and stand free.

126. Infinity partitioned into space-time bits is Māyā bred in avidyā (ignorance). Māyā is that which is not, yet appears to be. Be illumined! 

127. Have tremendous faith in yourself. Conquer fear.

128. Associate with the great and become great.

129. Manifest a big heart ❤️ and life will ease.

130. Royalty belongs to all. Why live like a slave?

131. Why pull the brāhman down? Raise yourself up.

132. Wish becomes will, will work, work fulfilment. 

133. নিজের প্রতি বিশ্বাস না থাকলে চলে ? কে রক্ষা করবে বিপদে ? স্বাবলম্বী হও |

134. Combine the forces of good to combat evil. Cast aside pettiness of all sorts. If you yourself are mean, how can you lift others out of the pit? ❤️

135. Live like a queen and be not mean. Love ❤️ to live.

136. Bhakti cannot spring in the dry heart. Water it.

137. Daylight brightens sight but shortens it. Night reveals the depths of the cosmos. And beyond the twain the Self reveals Reality reflexive, free. 

138. It is impossible to imagine non-existence.

139. Desires conjure dreams. Dreams kindle desires. Thus the fire springs. The cycle of life goes on. 

140. Upon your effort rests your success.

141. The updates are a legion. If I can write them, can you not read them for they are all for you? And ❤️ them too for that inspires one to pen more.

142. All life I've intensely worked, never felt busy.

143. This busyness is basically business. Shun it.

144. How lonely does the artist feel till he finds his audience!

145. God laughs when people say they are busy.

146. Just for a copper coin or two! What a waste of life! 

147. Gold and silver are worth more than life spent in chasing them. What a travesty of human life!

148. Career is the pathway of the soul. 

149. Wasting youth chasing money? Call it career?

150. Be the master of work, not its slave as you are.

151. Ideas needn't be converted to hard cash. Ideas are wealth in themselves. Be full of golden ideas and yourselves become gold.

152. The material man running after the material monk. Result: buildings while the Paramahamsa strolls alone in the Panchavati awaiting a fresh return. And when he comes, he will resurrect his own teachings and prove that they are not outdated but are very much valid and more so in these days of drunkenness of desires, verily the very need of the times, the medicine for the madness of monk and man.

153. Many a mother has died giving life to the child. Maternity care has improved much, needs to far more. Children, study hard and become good doctors.

154. None but Swamiji inspires, none else, none else.

155. হালকা লোক, বকে বেশি | Pretentious culture, mediocrity masquerading as mastery! Self-publicity, disguised and brazen!

156. How selfish can people be? Despite repeated requests they will view but not react heartily ❤️ to the updates. It is like seeing a film free. 

157. The mean can never realise God nor find peace.

158. The heart of the matter is that people lack in heart. That is why they suffer. Else, life is bliss. Rejoice in others' happiness for we are all one. ❤️ 

159. None that is niggardly can be spiritual.

160. The stagnant pool stinks. The broad river freshens in its very flow. Flow like the river and keep your fragrance free.

161. In the darkening night of deep despair, never lose hope. There's someone dear waiting for you with the tidings of a dewy dawn. Love ❤️ can never fail. 

162. You may have forgotten Ramakrishna but Ramakrishna remembers you. Rest assured. This deep dark is She who remembers all.

163. Consciousness is the light of the soul. 

164. Heart is all there is to a movement. Head strikes not a resonant chord. The heart does, pulls in the masses, moves them along the direction divine. Spirituality, humanity, happiness, love are all founded in the heart. The Lord Himself is seated there. Expand the heart and be blissful.

165. Where head fails, heart fulfils. Love is strength. 

166. Dive into the Ganga of Thakur. Cling to the pillar of light snd strength that is your Guru. Both will save you from fear and foe.

167. In doing charity organisations reduce themselves to becoming greedy beggars. Better not do such charity with pompous spiritual proclamations. 

168. বাংলা বানানের অন্ত্যেষ্টিক্রিয়া, আদ্যশ্রাদ্ধ সকলই সুসম্পন্ন হয়েছে | এখন পুনর্জন্ম ঘটেছে তার রকমারি পোশাকে, নব নব কলেবরে | তা বেশ, বেশ !

169. How precious life is! One can learn. One can love.

170. Perseverance pays. 

171. Sincerely seek. 

172. Hold hard onto your ideal with a deeply feeling heart. Let not the common currency of life distract you from your goal. Concentrate on the Divine.

173. Be as intense as the blue end of the spectrum.

174. Do not beggar a loving soul. It will recoil.

175. Distance does not distance. Dryness does. 

176. The perennial life-principle pervades the perishable form. Seek ye that which is enduring amidst this collapsing cottage of cards.

177. Help each other bear the load of life. Love all. 

178. Love is a power nonpareil, the cure for all ills.

179. 

A fair bit of freedom,

A fair bit of space

To fly to ionian heights,

To bolt, to run the race.

180. Practise listening to Hindustani classical music. 

181. যা দেবার আছে দাও | কি পেলে তা নিয়ে ভেবো না | এখন দেশ গড়ার সময় | ও সব স্বার্থচিন্তার সময় এখন নয় | ত্যাগী কি ও সব ভাবে ?

182. Be not slave to circumstance. Rule over it.

183. পরিস্থিতির দাস হয়ো না | পরিস্থিতির ওপর প্রভুত্ব কর |

184. বঞ্চিত করলে বঞ্চিত হবে | দেওয়ার মধ্যেই পাওয়া | তবে, হুঁশিয়ার !

185. চলার পথেই বাধা | নাকি বাধার পথেই চলা ?

186. Be strong. Nature spares not the weak.

187. The weak are miserable; the strong self-sufficient and happy. Be strong.

188. Sharp will your success in life be if prompt be your responses to its challenges. Speed of response to stimuli is the prime determining factor.