MESSAGES GALORE ... 128

MESSAGES GALORE ... 128

1. Shankar, the great Bengali novelist of 'Kato Ajānāre' and 'Chouronghee' fame who passed away on 20 February, 2026 at 92 years age, had visited us in 1977 when I was 16 years old. Had a brief interaction with him when he talked to me on literature---Bankim, Rabindranath, Sharatchandra and Jibonananda Das. Illuminating experience, still etched in my memory. There have been similar such rare moments in my life when I came face to face with greatness. His humility revealed his greatness which, though, dawned on me in af'er years.

2. Value doubly the one that values you.

3. Love is a giving without thought of return.

4. It is the heart alone that conquers.

5. Wake, work, wither, sleep--what a life deep!

6. Solestar shines in the celestial sky.

7. রাজহংস হও পরমহংসের পথে |

8. 

নয়ন মুদে ছিলে তুমি মস্ত মনোযোগে |

সেই যোগ ছেড়ে বা কেন এলে বিষয় সম্ভোগে ?

9. Neglect and lose. This is the karmic way.

10. The problem is to harmonise the macro and the micro.

11. One injures, the other endures---the law of life.

12. Human relation must not be vitiated by commerce.

13. Gain being prompted by greed. Was that the need?

14. God has infinite patience, fathomless love.

15. The concentrated are calm, the calm concentrated.

16. The ignorant ignore. The wise respond. 

17. O those who wear human forms, whither thy humanity?

18. He who cannot stand on truth, his character has not been formed.

19. Power is in the soul, not in the body. Be soulful.

20. Know Hinduism from a realised soul.

21. God is man's innermost essence. He/She/It is existence-consciousness-bliss absolute.

22. প্রতিটি ব্রাহ্মণ পরিবার সাংস্কৃতিক ভাবে নষ্ট হয়ে গেছে সংস্কৃত চর্চা ছেড়ে দিয়ে | ব্রাহ্মণত্বের সর্বনাশে ভারতের সর্বনাশ সাধন ঘটেছে, ঘটে চলেছে |

23. In the dark night of despair, Lord,  you are my only hope. This night shall pass and dawn awaken a fresher morn.

24. Children, study to save our sinking civilisation.

25. Be deeper. Levity of bearing is killing India. 

26. Do not take a creative artist for granted. His trials and tribulations, tears and torment, his tortured self's lonely outpourings have all gone in to make who he is, an enigma, an alien, a mystery bound in measureless love. Love alone he comprehends and love he serves to all who care to receive what he of his boundless bounty gives, careless of return. 

27. As yet some close ones care not to read my messages. Their loss is my loss as well. So difficult to organise this disorganised mass that Hindus are.

28. May peace prevail!

29. Do not fear. Be secure. Be alert. Stay safe.

30. Prayer must be peaceful and never violent. 

31. Busyness is a big lie. It is business as usual. 

32. Enter this world and get trapped. Bhulbhulaiyā! 

33. Springtime has set in. Joy it is to be alive.

34. War is dangerous business, price paid in blood.

35. Mature people are peaceful.

36. Karma recoils, will recoil on all. 

37. The destiny of man is determined by his deeds.

38. Your hard work will build future India. Work!

39. War your way to solution? Never possible. 

40. Vice begets violence, violence vice.

41. Word of honour kept makes a man honourable.

42. Communication (Yoga) is spirituality. 

43. Know yourself to be the Spirit Divine.

44. Busyness is often a disease. God finds time.

45. Rudeness exhibited before one's Guru is sin.

46. The war will stop. Peace will prevail.

47. Selfishness is sin.

48. This selfishness is killing the world. 

49. The world could not have been selfish were the individual not selfish?

50. One neglects communication at one end to communicate at another end. All are ruled by the exigency of the hour and fall prey to its deathly grip.

51. Why rot in a well? Live in the sea.

52. Unselfishness is spirituality. 

53. The selfish cannot love.

54. Love is higher than work.

55. Duty is desire camouflaged.

56. The slave follows routine and remains bound.

57. Thakur found time for all, was never busy.

58. What you neglect, you lose.

59. The blind are bound by duty. The seer lives free.

60. One finds time for everybody but one's Guru. 

61. Of what avail is education if it produces slaves?

62. The arrogant, the fault-finder cannot love. 

63. Begging is not the language of God. God dictates terms. 

64. Selfishness makes oneself the centrepiece of life

65. The Hrishi merges in society, Prakritileen. 

66. Do not devalue the gem. Rectify your estimation.

67. They all finally betray. Still love all. ❤️ 

68. What work, what duty, what exigency of the hour binds thee, friend? Act in freedom. Give up this falsity, this despicable desire masquerading as work.

69. Trade is all that matters? In every deed a deal?

70. The master lives, loves, never the slave.

71. Inconstancy is materialism, constancy spirituality. 

72. The one whose moon has been eclipsed lives in perpetual dark.

73. They talk so much, they feel so little.

74. ভগবানের সাথেও স্বার্থের সম্বন্ধ ? শুধু চাহিদা ?

75. 

Never in life felt busy. 

Work is fun, easy.

76. One can sense at a distance. All space is within.

77. The Ātman has been eclipsed by Māyā.

78. Dark (Kāli) is Light, sheer depth of darkness!

79. The known is the unknown. 

80. Every step of dance, every beat of the drum is pulsation of the Divine. Shiva dances as Kāli on His own prostrate form stretching across universes. 

81. The devoted will prosper, the neglectful flounder.

82. Isn't it a shame that people are so ungrateful?

83. Solitude is better than company selfish.

84. Mother hiding in the dark writes Her script in light. 

85. দুদিন বাদেই সব ফক্কাকার | তবু ঘর সাজাচ্ছে যেন চিরকাল এখানেই থাকবে |

86. জীবন্ত বিগ্রহ ছেড়ে কাকে পূজা কর'? 

87. National academic standard is sharply declining. 

88. It is best to spend this colourful day reflecting on the glorious life of Sri Chaitanya Mahāprabhu. Shubha Dolpūrnima to all!

89. God is your essence. You are God.

90. The way to teach children is to affirm their divinity effectively. Affirmation done, awakening will take place over due course. Kālenātmani vindati.

91. Festivity is fine. But whither spirituality? 

92. Man is in the savage state still fighting wars.

93. Marksist in childhood, moneyist in adulthood, mercyist in old age--this is the life-mode of material man.

94. Nirgachchhati jagajjālāt pinjarādiva kesharī.

Breaking through the network of Māyā, he emerges a mighty lion that has broken through the bars of its confinement.

95. You are a free soul. You have always been so. You will always remain so. You were never bound, are not bound nor will you ever be. It is delusion that you hallucinate this bondage. Now listen to your Guru's words and affirm your freedom. Declare that you are free and live like that. 🕉

96. Chaitanya, Ramakrishna & ___? A 3rd incarnation ?

97. My eternal life's programme has been set. Now I am on song.

98. ভিখারী মানুষকে ভিক্ষা করায় |

99. As yet violence rules the world. Sheer savagery!

100. What is lost to man is preserved in Nature. 

101. What the pen records, the heart feels more, words failing to express emotion.

102. Single line fast-flipping Hindi film songs celebrating Holi. What a decline in spiritual culture!

103. We are such a decadent race today. There is no solemnity, no aesthetic attribute in our religious festivals which are characterised by degradingly loud and vulgar Hindi film music rendered in abysmally unmusical manner with fast-flipping songs sounding heavy over modern loudspeakers that create more noise pollution than soothe the ears. Simply distasteful and unholy!

104. Are people serious about the nation's progress? Can hooligans build a nation? If this is common culture, what remains of national decline? 

105. Awake? Not yet. The senses are, not you. Sleep then.

106. Holiganism going on. [4 March, 2026, Holi]

107. Breadth of the heart is depth of the soul. Spirituality is largely the largeness of heart. In the depths of the heart the Lord resides.

108. The world needs to be rid of selfishness which comes as exploitation, oppression and war. Peace can only prevail when man lives to learn and love.

109. Children, read story books. You'll enjoy and learn.

110. Satyajit Ray's movies must be seen multiple times for proper appreciation of the filmmaker's genius. The last of the Renaissance figures of Bengal.

111. From Rammohun Roy to Satyajit Ray ran the Bengal Renaissance. 

112. When will we be quality conscious? Damaged books shamelessly delivered while full charges are taken. How many times may a buyer ask for replacement?

113. Nature is nothing but the universal set of hurdles in the way of the advancing soul en route to freedom. 

114. When there is time at hand, you squander it. You'll repent when the hour is gone provided you have the heart to feel.

115. Waste not a moment of this ultraprecious life. Live every moment to the full in learning, loving ❤️ and diving to the depths of your being. Advance!

116. Hindus must marry earlier and have more children.

117. To facilitate bigger Hindu families foundations must come forward and provide medical and academic facilities. The cost of living must be reduced.

118. The 'sundaram' principle must be emphasised in India. We are generally lacking in aesthetic sense which is why our packaging of products is so poor, leave aside the quality of the products themselves. A certain casualness of approach, a lack of adequate care pervades our presentation in every sphere which is unfortunate for a historically seminal civilisation like India. We need to radically shift gear and amend the existent order of things. 🕉 

119. Love is the gravity that holds life. Love is God.

120. Meditate to peace and bliss. Chant the mantra. 

121. One's word of honour must be kept. Otherwise one loses character and credibility both. Truthfulness is the bedrock of character. Be truthful.

122. This day [6 March, 1987] was born a great soul. Happy birthday, Rohini! Let the day roll over. Then savour this moment of first awakening and freshen its flavour in the af'er light of reflection. For the first moment never repeats itself save in memory that has been lost to the soul but lives on in memory from stories heard from the lips of loving elders who were witness to that grand event, the moment of first reckoning. ❤️

123. Busyness that bars communication is bad for business.

124. Is life a business that you hold commerce at such a premium? 

125. Busyness is not busyness. It is business. 

126. God is busiest but is never so with His devotee.

127. The pure are beautiful. Beauty belongs to God. 

128. Spirituality is not business that you can make a quick deal of it or even a long bargain. All calculation laid aside, come to the House of God.

129. Live in the world of dreams. And when the dream smashes, you will know who you are. Till then enjoy and suffer your delusive dreams.

130. For some life is eternal merriment of momentary dreams. For some others life is perpetual misery, a never-ending nightmare. Both have missed the mark and serve their sentence on earth. Slaves to life's burden of joy and woe, give up this bondage and break free. 

131. "The camel bites the thorn-shrub, bleeds, yet bites it again." ~ Sri Ramakrishna 

132. If life is business, let's wind it up. 

133. Do not westernise yourself. Strike your Sanātani roots. Absorb what is best of the West but hold your indigenous ground.

134. Love is all-acceptance. ❤️ 

135. When love fails, logic comes.

136. Will reason gain access into the mansion of intuitive understanding? 

137. শ্রদ্ধাই সর্বস্য | শিক্ষা তারই প্রকাশ |

138. We are a large unwieldy country going haywire in diverse directions. National concentration must be improved. Greater cohesion, solidarity needed.

139. Cultured Hindus should have 4 children per couple.

140. Disobedience leads to despair. The Guru must be obeyed.

141. There are some who spare time for one after he is dead and gone. They then spare a moment or two reflecting on his life in ceremonial recollection. 

142. ঠাকুর দাসরূপে থাকতে বলেছিলেন | তাই আছি |

143. Consistency is necessary. Hard work alone pays dividend. Laziness, negligence of duty inevitably fails one. Work, work, work.

144. A long view is necessary. Farsightedness wins.

145. Life is not business. There is a depth to it.

146. Why seek anything when you yourself are God?

147. There is a great deal of business today in every sphere of life including education which is being destroyed by it. 

148. If greatness is to be achieved, listen to the greats. Their wisdom goes beyond achieving temporal ends and looks at transcendence in the face. Follow!

149. Accept each one as he is. Do not impose. Love.

150. The life of one is often the sustenance of many. 

151. Short gains and long losses. Bad bargain.

152. The busy never find time. They are enslaved to engagements. The free soul rules over time. He responds instantly to all who care to call on him. 

153. Intelligent is the one who does not strike a deal with life. Life is not business.

154. If valencies are not learnt, how can chemistry be?

155. Spiritual success is speedy for the one intensely devoted to the ideal. Fullest focus brings fastest results. But slowly build the base. 🕉 

156. Myopia can destroy a person in the long run.

157. Digestion of food is necessary, digestion of knowledge imperative. The former failing upsets a person. The latter failing may disrupt civilisation. 

158. A million lies are being uttered online everyday to earn money. Is this civilisation? No, this is decadence, degeneracy, decline in character. Greed!

159. If life holds a truth it is this that it is wastefully passing by. Just think how much the greats have achieved in one lifetime and how barren we are.

160. Value a thing while it is there. Later, ruing will not return the gift.

161. The river of reveries will keep flowing. Ford it now or never.

162. Why be a slave to desires? Rule over your mind.

163. Love does not calculate. Where it does, it is business, not love. There is no double entry in love, no suspense account. Its sheet is perpetually balanced with the faintest quivering there which is the vibration of manifested love, its body hidden in the depths of the quasi-Brahman consciousness. The Unmanifest holds more than the Manifest. So, stop doing deals with life.

164. The means not being adopted, the end is never served.

165. Faith is that intense aspirational mood seeking perfection. 

166. Live like a queen and assert your womanhood. But be feminine as true queenliness demands. 

167. Be a man. Yield not to cowardice.

168. Man killing man senselessly. The horrors of war!

169. May health come to all! May the ailing heal!

170. Communication is the soul of community.

171. বিষয়কর্মে প্রাণ গেলে প্রাণের কর্মবিষয়ের কি হবে ?

172. অবসরপ্রাপ্তিতেই ত' অবসর | এখন ঢের বিবেকানন্দ পড়' |

173. The world must not be held hostage to whims. 

174. Toxic ideologies must all go. Time to humanise.

175. ঠাকুর, স্বামীজী দুজনেই ছিলেন ক্রিকেটের পরিভাষায় all-rounder.

176. Hail sovereign of the earth, arise and rule!

177.  In a war of fools the bigger fool always wins.

178. Purity seeks peace, perfidy war.

179. মনের প্রশান্তিই পবিত্রতা তথা প্রজ্ঞার লক্ষণ |

180. প্রাণশক্তি ধ্বংস করে করে রচনা | তাই ভগবান তপস্যা করেছিলেন সৃষ্টির প্রাক্কালে | শক্তির সমষ্টি সংরক্ষিত কিনা |

181. বহমান নদী ফিরে তাকায় না | জীবনও তাই |

182. When life fails, death delivers.

183. Such a deal of hypocrisy civilisation is!

184. Constancy is love.

185. Deathless you are if you are the Spirit. Kāli! Kāli! Kāli!

186. This day a great soul was born. Thakur's son. [Posted on 8 March, 2026 -- Rajarshi Ghosh born on 8 March, 1996]

187. Love transcends necessity. 

188. Why plunge the world into a catastrophic war?

189. The world has been held hostage to uncivilised forces for far too long. Force itself is uncivilised. Real freedom constitutes true civilisation.

190. When the world is perilously close to catastrophe, what are the famed Vedāntists doing? Witnessing the unreality of phenomena? 

191. Hypocrisy is the other name of civilisation that righteously kills.

192. The resurgence of Asia despite western oppression is inevitable.

193. Persia will survive to triumph.

194. Why hit oil depots and pollute the environment?

195. National interest must not supercede global interest.

196. আত্মানুগামী হও |

197. The meanminded, the scheming are far from God.

198. শ্রীযুক্ত হওয়ার মধ্যে লক্ষ্মীর আবির্ভাব, আবাস |

199. The oil depots that are being hit are rendering noxious the air. Millions are suffering. Whither civilisation? 

200. The rich profit from war, the commoner suffers.