THE BOY BILEY ... 1
Tuesday, 24 March 2026
Saturday, 21 March 2026
POESY : DEAR DISCIPLE
DEAR DISCIPLE
From wakefulness to sleep,
You're immersed in absence deep.
It's one-way traffic for me
With promises lots to keep.
The shepherd doth guide the flock,
Haywire can't go the sheep
But time ticks by the clock,
There'll be time lots left to weep.
Composed by Sugata Bose
Thursday, 19 March 2026
MESSAGES GALORE ... 131
MESSAGES GALORE ... 131
1. I do not believe in a single leader neither do I consider them such. He who is full of dark desire, can he be called a leader?
2. The world is full of fools governed by a handful of crooks.
3. The wicked wield power, the meek submit.
4. Words are the missiles I launch and the launcher is my inflamed heart. There is no hope for man unless national selfishness is superceded by global interest.
5..Dawn means life to some and death to many. Meanwhile, war rages on. Brutality continues in the name of civilisation.
6. We, Bengalis, know the magnanimity of Churchill. He engineered the Bengal Famine that took away 5 million lives.
7. The Axis Powers were wiped out but the Allied have ever since continued the tyranny. Neocolonialism/neoimperialism have gone on.
8.
Democracy in name
But dominance is the game.
Tall though the claim,
In essence it's a shame.
9. Your health is my wealth.
10. Politics is a dirty game of self-interest.
11. Children need neither theological indoctrination nor missiles. They need space to flourish free of fear.
12. When the preceptor perveives the pupil prosper, peace prevails in his pious self.
13. All divisive theologies, ideologies and nationalisms are anticivilisation.
14. মন নির্মল হলে সৌন্দর্য্য বিকশিত হয় |
The pure mind manifests beauty.
15. ঘরে ঘরে মা, মা হয়ে রয়েছেন, তবু খুঁজে মরি মাকে | এরই নাম অজ্ঞান |
16. ঠাকুর বললেন, "আমি ও আমার---এটি অজ্ঞান |" আর চারিদিকে দেখি এই 'আমি ও আমার'এর ছড়াছড়ি |
17. Might is right today as it has been in the past. Whole peoples have been wiped away by invasion, violence, extermination and endless oppression. Whither justice till date? Arms rule, not wisdom. Whither civilisation except in titular terms? But karma works its way in subtle modes and will repay.
18. Straighten your life and be happy. Love all.
19. Do not be bothered by others' opinions about you.
20. Through a hundred hurdles man races to the finishing line. Be not downcast if you trip. Rise and run again. You will win.
21. সরল হও, আনন্দ পাবে |
22. Youth squandered in chasing material dreams, vitality will not remain to 'see' the Self.
23. Do not claim God's wealth as yours. That is thought robbery.
24. 
The modern Buddha. Soon he will redescend to complete his spiritual ministration and to save the world from catastrophe. His message unfinished will seek completion, his mission see fulfilment as he descends again, the prime apostle of Thakur who is due on earth soon along with his entourage of divine disciples. Ready yourself for the grand advent. 🕉
25. My love is my blessing, my blessing my love. Whosoever has it is blessed indeed.
26. রজোগুণ ভাল কিন্তু অহংসর্বস্ব, কর্মের উন্মাদনায় ভগবানকে ভুলিয়ে দেয় |
27. Have faith in yourself. Be happy. Gurudev holds you. Why fear?
28. Communication is life.
29. 
মন বড় না হলে কি গান হয় রে ভাই ? মন বড় হওয়া চাই | গান হবে আত্মার গহন হতে | নাহলে যে শ্রুতিবিচ্যূতি ঘটে | শুধু অভ্যাসে কি হয় ? চাই সুসংস্কার, সৌন্দর্য্যবোধ, সাঙ্গীতিক পরিমাপজ্ঞান ও সদগুরুর পথপ্রদর্শন | চাই চরিত্র ও হৃদয়ের উৎকর্ষ | সর্বোপরি সুরসরস্বতীর কৃপা চাই | তবে হবে গান | খেয়াল গায় ত' কতজনে কিন্তু গাওয়ার মত গায় ক'জন ? ছোট মনে ছোট গান হবে, তাও খাটো রবে | বড় গান হবে না | চাই বড় মন | তবে হবে বড় গান, গান হবে বড় |
30. Chant your way to bliss. Be deep divine. Have faith in yourself. Never be dejected. You are the mine of infinite glory. How little you know yourself!
31. Have tremendous enthusiasm for life. Only then can you combat the challenges it poses. Self-belief, vitality and purity will win the war, not vanity.
32. Massive chanting of the Ishtamantra through gradual increase spiritualises for sure.
33. নিজেকে ভুলতে পারলে নিজেকে পাওয়া যায় |
34. এক ভাষায় কথা বলতে শুরু করে আর এক ভাষায় চলে যাওয়া ইঙ্গিত বহন করে যে দুটির কোনটিই আয়ত্তাধীন নয় |
35. The war is proving disastrous for the world.
36. The war is taking a terrible toll on the world. When will man learn the way of peace?
37. Sri Ramakrishna realised God through 64 separate Tantric disciplines under the tutelege of his Gurvī Bhairavi Brăhmani and that too in just 90 days.
38. Capitulating under circumstance is the sign of weakness. One must assert oneself and tide over circumstance. In it lies the practice of freedom.
39. 'The rich must remember that that there are those that are richer. That will keep their ego in check. The glow worm thinks it lights up the world. Then starlight, moonlight and finally the sunlight pales its predecessor into insignificance. Likewise with the rich.' ~ Sri Ramakrishna
40. একটি ভাল সাধুর উত্থানে লক্ষ যুবক অনুপ্রাণিত হবে ত্যাগ-তপস্যা-স্বাধ্যায়-সেবার পথে | সাধ্বীর ক্ষেত্রেও তাই | যুবতীরা অনুপ্রাণিতা হবে অনুরূপভাবে |
41. বেলুড় মঠের প্রাচীন সাধু, মহাপুরুষ মহারাজের মন্ত্রশিষ্য, স্বামী নারায়ণানন্দ বলেছিলেন আমায়, "ওই কথামৃতই সাধু |"
42. 'Likolarm', the 'Liked your status' Whatsapp alarm to updates that wakes me up in the morning.
43. বাংলাদেশে হিন্দুদের অবস্থা শোচনীয় | ভেবে দেখবেন গভীরে সবদিক দিয়ে এর কারণ কি |
44. Expand the horizons of knowledge by advancing along the intuitive-rational path towards truth in all its relativity and its absoluteness.
45. Tireless work done by me goes by the drain as receiver there is none.
46. Repressed emotions often find vent in dreams when loud outbursts occur that break through the dream state to the wakeful state.
47. What do prosperous politicians know of poverty? They make war and impoverish nations. The incalculable cost of war is borne by bleeding people. Capitalism!
48. War, thy other name is Capitalism!
49. Life is nipped in the bud, civilisations destroyed when monomaniacs wage war to appease the hunger of capitalists for money. Domination at any cost!
50. Read 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' religiously every day. Thakur will bless you with his vision.
51. বলা-নরেনকে চিনেছ, না-বলা-নরেনকে চেননি---ওটিই আসল । এদিকে বারো আনা, ওদিকে ষোলো আনা ।
52. Have a commitment for truth, maintaining word of honour.
53.
मक्का या बक्का
तु सोच ले भाई पक्का |
54. Politicians are perfidious people. Leaders are liars.
55. I am a cipher in the immensity of the universe.
56. The calmer you are, the nearer you are to God.
57. What is a biography? A biography is an insult to the life of a person. Its brevity, its concise formulations are scant description of the hourly pulsations of its subject. Encapsulation in such discrete terms is indiscreet and an injury to the holiness of a person's deeper sense of being and his emotional expressions thereof. Breath is life, yet, life is so much more.
58. 
যুদ্ধান্তে নেতাজী প্রায় অজাতমিত্র |
59. What we need now is leadership that is founded on sterling character.
60. Truthfulness is increasingly becoming a casualty.
61. There is hope as yet. Follow Vivekānanda.
62. If lapse occurs, try again. You'll make it. Try.
63. Worldliness has to be given up for spirituality to dawn. Chant your way to freedom. Cast off all worldly ways.
64. He who lies will be laid low. Truth holds.
65. Truthfulness is the spiritual seeker's lifeline.
66. Beauty flowers in purity. If purity is lost, so is beauty. The impure can never be beautiful.
67. One's looks reveal one's mind. The seer can see.
68. The wave is the sea.
69. There is a single matter-mass.
70. Life goes in vain in idle talk, in puerile pursuit of pleasure. Life's end is missed. Time ticks till the end draws near and the form's reduced to dust.
71. While it is not good to sell oneself cheap, one should not set oneself at too high a premium as well. Relations are at par excellence when kept at par.
72. অহংকার ভাল না | ওতে পতন হয় | নিজের কষ্ট কেন টেনে আনে মানুষ ? অবিদ্যা ! অজ্ঞান !
73. To close associates: If you do not keep in touch as you ought to, the philosophical loss will be yours alone. Hence, alter stance, rectify.
74.
Preceptor's words flouted,
In failure life will be routed.
May this never be doubted!
75. Constant affirmation of one's divinity manifests it. This is the magic of repetitive impression on the brain to which the system invariably responds.
76. Apparent man you feel you are. Now be the Real Man which you truly are. Ceaselessly aver your true nature. Constantly say, "I am the immortal Atman."
77. 'Muhūrtam jvalitam shreyo nā tu dhūmāyitam chiram.'
[It is better by far to momentarily ignite than to smoke away forever.]
78. গুরুভক্তির অভাবে সুসুপ্ত শক্তি |
Owing to lack of devotion to preceptor the disciple's latent power slumbering lies.
79. I never bow down to power. I bow down to purity.
80. আমি সাগর হতে চাই নে মা, ঘটি হতে চাই |
81. A nation rises, oppresses other nations, then falls. This has been the history of the world. Live and let live. Else, downfall is inevitable.
82. The first qualification for discipleship is reverence for one's preceptor. If that is not adequately there, spiritual progress is impeded. Sraddhā!
83. Learn up Swamiji's Svadeshmantra by heart and recite it daily till these ideas tingle in your very bloodstream and bring forth a character-transformation that will burn all temporal dross and raise you unto transcendental heights of glory and Self-consciousness with head soaring high in the heavens and feet firmly planted on this motherland of ours whose peans of praise have been sung by poet-hrishis thus: 'Janani janmabhūmishcha svargādapi gariyasi,' 'Atrāpi Bhāratam shreshthham Jāmvudvīpey mahāmuney / Yato hi karmabhūresah yato'nyā bhogyabhūmayāh.' 🕉
84. If life ends in ignorance, it was ill-spent.
85. Constancy of purpose and effort achieves wonders.
86. Black spot on a white sheet or white spot on a black sheet? Which is the higher state?
87. Vanity accompanies both wealth and learning.
88. Impediments you yourself put in your way and then cry foul. What should you do then?
89. The Avatār is the finite tip of an infinite iceberg, the flow of a frozen superconsciousness that simply is. He is the people's peep into the Divine.
90. সব কিছুর দাম আছে, শুধু কথার দাম নেই |
91. বক্রবুদ্ধি দিয়ে আর যাই হ'ক, ঈশ্বরলাভ হয় না | অবশ্য, ঈশ্বর লাভক্ষতির পার |
92. কমপক্ষে নামপক্ষ |
At least pro-nām, pranām.
93. আপাতত স্থূলশরীরে মানব-মানস-সরোবরে ভাসমান | এরপর সূক্ষ্মদেহে কর্মানুসারে অবস্থান | পরিশেষে সর্বদেবদেহরহিত বিদেহমুক্তিলাভ অথবা মাতৃ-আজ্ঞায় প্রকৃতিলীন অবস্থান বোধিসত্ত্ব যথা |
94. ইষ্টস্মরণে অনিষ্টনাশ |
95. Rapid responses are more welcome than delayed ones. The mood changes, making reception of reply less invigorating.
96. নৈপুণ্য সুন্দরম্ তত্ত্বোদ্ভূত |
97. Where are you in the midst of work?
98. Prying into others' private affairs is uncivil.
99. Self-containment is more productive than spraying about oneself in silly socialising.
100. Concentration is peace.
101. বেশি প্রশ্ন কোরো না | জর্জরিত বোধ করি |
102. Why do you wish to define even love? Let simple things remain simple. Analysis belongs to the fragmented mind. Innocence never splits.
103. বদ্ধজীবের আবার মাহাত্ম্য ! সে জগতে যত বড়ই হ'ক না কেন, ধনে, মানে অথবা জ্ঞানে | ব্রহ্মবোধবিযুক্ত বিষয়বুদ্ধিতাড়িত জীব ত' |
104. Humility is the sign of future greatness. But it must be true and not affectation.
105. বক্রবুদ্ধির বিনাশে ব্রহ্মবোধ |
106. 'Dhī' is not ordinary intelligence but spiritual intelligence, subtle and all-encompassing, undeflected by material desires. It apprehendes the Truth.
107. Vedānta should be preached by valorous souls in the midst of war-ravaged terrain, offering wise counsel and solace to sufferers, and not by effeminate ones choosing safe sites for preaching to puerile people flocking out of passive adulation for such dancing dispensers of divine truth.
108. Wicked souls waging war, innocent ones dying.
109. Sher Shah Suri was greater than Akbar. In truth it is Sher Shah who deserves the epithet 'The Great'.
110. God cannot be realised by a scheming soul. Simplicity is a sine qua non for spiritual progress culminating in vision of the Divine.
111. The crashing cup does not drop under gravity in a straight line but follows the available geodesic, here the last bit of a very long curve that towards its terminus on earth appears straight owing to relative dimensional imperatives of human vision, much like the apparent straightness of the curved surface of the earth.
112. Constancy of purpose and unshakeable will triumphs. A resolve, firm and committed, wins victories over the vicissitudes of life. Health, wealth, happiness, wisdom and peace follow as the soul soars to heavenly heights in pure and concentrated form, thoughts integrated unto purified consciousness and heart pulsating to the beat of the Divine.
113. When a person shuts shop, it is best to buy the commodities in time.
114. India, for 1238 years bonded to alien rule (712 CE--1950 CE), finally became partially free in 1950 as Partition continues to keep severed provinces in bondage to alien ideology and rule. Therafter, a further freedom in 2014.
Freedom is precious and needs to be preserved. Hindus and their siblings in faith must rise to the occasion to protect their heritage and further the spiritual evolution of the inhabitants of this land. Hinduism must reinvent itself as per the needs of the times and spread throughout the world, ushering in civilisation and peace across the continents. We must not only survive but must conquer. Dharmavijaya once more.
115. The Spirit comprehends deeper than words can go. Surface thoughts are bad intermediaries, emissaries of emotions that confound more than they convey.
116. পরিমাপজ্ঞানই শিল্প |
117. হৃদপদ্ম প্রস্ফুটিত না হলে, সৌন্দর্য্যবোধ বিকশিত না হলে, সঙ্গীত হবে কি করে ? শুধু কন্ঠের কেরামতিতে কি রাগসঙ্গীত হয় ?
118. The inability to feel happy in others' happiness, the incapacity to praise others' achievements of exceptional merit is symptomatic of a miserly soul hardly fit for God-realisation which requires a big heart.
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Wednesday, 18 March 2026
POESY : হে যুগান্ত !
হে যুগান্ত !
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অতলান্ত,
আমি ক্লান্ত,
দেব ক্ষান্ত,
হব শান্ত ||
পথভ্রান্ত,
হয়ে শ্রান্ত,
নিশিকান্ত,
কিবা জানত?
তারই প্রাণ ত',
জ্যোতি ভান ত',
কত টানত
সম গান ত'?
জলযান ত',
ভাসে বান ত',
নদে স্নান ত',
পারে আনত'
মুনি মানত',
তিনি ম্লান ত',
কী চাপান্ত!
ও হে পান্থ,
দুটি নান ত'
খেয়ে যান ত',
যাবে জান ত',
পেটে টান ত'
নেবে প্রাণ ত' ||
সন্ধান ত'
পেয়ে ক্ষান্ত,
দেব জান ত',
অতলান্ত ||
রচনান্ত : সুগতান্ত বসু মানত' [সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)]
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
COMMENTS GALORE ... 106
COMMENTS GALORE ... 106
Sugata Bose @Govind Raj : You mean you were there during the days of the Khilafat Movement?
Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : You are, though, highly original, and humorous too. Sarcasm as that of yours and the driving of your verbal vehicle in reverse gear is symptomatic of a style that characterised satire in a bygone era. Now it is in truth much imitation and much more language-lifting and content-copying from technotools. But still we have you as exception to the general rule and entertaining us at that with your sharp wit, inimitable and coloured by thoughts of your own school.
Sugata Bose @Amitabha Dutta Majumdar : The White House Library has all the volumes of Swami Vivekananda. So, don't worry on that count.
Sugata Bose @Swami Atmarupananda : Yet again such an empathetic piece, wisdom, heart, action, all synthesized in a grand harmony that is the essence of the Vedānta you profess, which we all profess whether we know it or not. Courage of conviction this is, in a humane way exhibited where the head and the heart are held in a delicate and dynamic equilibrium, emotions welling up, soulful and spontaneous, yet held in check by superior discrimination born out of sustained reflection on the eternal verities of life. Philosophy, plurality of positional perspectives, and principles have merged to produce a premier post that inspires as it guides one in assuming a considered stance in facing the challenges of these treacherous times when the world hinges on the whims of a handful of individuals who are more intent on feeding their bloated egos and sustaining their immediate self-interest than in promoting world peace and harmony. That you call a spade a spade and spare no names, however mighty, from your rapier assault before you apply the balm of genuine love that heals as it reveals hidden depths to one's being where all is harmonious and whole, that you address key issues that govern temporal life in the light of the transcendental, that you confront the devil with overwhelming love while calling out his misdemeanours and misdeeds with telling effect is truly in the line of your premier preceptor, Swami Vivekananda, who had in a different setting did much the same to a heretical world gone berserk on the eve of its own annihilation. Swamiji had famously said, "One man armed in truth can face the whole universe in opposition." And in you, Swami, we behold with veneration today such a one as has risen from the ranks of the followers of the leonine one of the nineteenth century, who in his twilight years is showing us the dual hues of the two worlds in a single synthesis where duty and freedom are beautifully blended to offer us the symphony of the soul in a world that is otherwise fragmented by a fractured understanding of life's essential truth. We are indebted to your luminous guidance and shall tread the path of light and love in resistance and in reflection, in submission and in suffering, in sharing and in caring, for we are all One. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Deepanjan Mitra, Bolaka Roy, Riya Bhattacharya, Nilanjana Chakraborty : Kindly read this revealing piece (the post proper) by our Swami Atmarupananda.
Sugata Bose @Diganta Sengupta : You are the only one to commend me on this piece (write-up). None else did. Not that I expect it, knowing the magnanimity of people's hearts. But you have a big heart, noble soul that you are.
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বেশ, বেশ !
বেশ, বেশ !
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বক্তৃতার মাঝে কথায় কথায় হাততালি দেওয়া লঘুচিত্ততার লক্ষণ | এ ত' হামেশা হচ্ছে | এটি এখন জাতিয় চরিত্র | দেশ এ'রকম হালকা লোকে ভরে গেছে | গম্ভীরাত্মার বড়ই অভাব, অভাব গভীর চিন্তাশীল ব্যক্তির |
সাধুরাও দেখি আজকাল নববৈদান্তিক নৃত্যে রত | এর আগে বৈষ্ণব সংকীর্তনের নৃত্যে অভ্যস্ত ছিলাম | ইদানিং নববৈদান্তিক জ্ঞানমিশ্র দোদুল্যমান 'রমণীয়' নৃত্যে নয়ন ধৌত হচ্ছে | জগতের এত গুরুগম্ভীর সমস্যার এই ত' সহজ সমাধান | বক্তৃতায় মারো তালি, রাজনীতিতে দিনরাত চুরি আর মারামারি, আধ্যাত্মিকতায় রমণীসুলভ নৃত্যগীতের ছড়াছড়ি | বেশ, বেশ ! স্বামীজী বোধ হয় পৌরুষ ধারণ ও প্রদর্শন এবং বৌদ্ধিক বিকাশ ও চিন্তাশীলতা বিষয়ে এমনই মত পোষণ করেছিলেন | নাকি শ্লেষাত্মক বাক্যবিন্যাসে সত্যভ্রষ্ট হলাম ? যাই হ'ক, এখন নাচার পালা | যত পারো নাচো, নাচাও, ভুলে থাকো, ভুলিয়ে দাও জগতের বড় বড় সমস্যাগুলির কথা | এই ত' গুরুতর, থুরি, গুরুতম শিক্ষা |
রচনা : সুগত বোস (Sugata Bose)
SWAMI NIRMALANANDA (TULSI MAHARAJ), THE 17TH DIRECT DISCIPLE OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA ... 1
SWAMI NIRMALANANDA (TULSI MAHARAJ), THE 17TH DIRECT DISCIPLE OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA ... 1
Among the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) was a prominent member. Following in the footsteps of Swami Ramakrishnananda (Shashi Maharaj), his (Tulsi Maharaj's) tireless exertion set afoot the Ramakrishna Movement in Southern India and spread it far and wide. A true karmayogi established in unflinching devotion to his great Master, Sri Ramakrishna, and to his venerable brother disciple, Swami Vivekananda, who considered his beloved Tulsi an ideal monk, Swami Nirmalananda today is a forgotten monk thanks to his name having been deleted by Belur Math from the list of direct disciples of Thakur. This is indeed unfortunate as despite the sad wrangling over management of the Bangalore Ashrama which was being duly managed by Tulsi Maharaj under the express wish of Swami Brahmānanda who had legally authorised him (Tulsi Maharaj) to act on his (Swami Brahmānanda's) behalf in Southern India but which under altered circumstances unfortunately led to litigation by Belur Math against Tulsi Maharaj, the latter was and remains in truth Thakur's direct disciple, a holy member of His holy entourage of earthly companions this time. That Tulsi Maharaj should be reinstated in the pantheon of Thakur's direct disciples was the lifelong mission of one his dedicated disciples, Sri Brahma Gopal Dutt, whose umpteen attempts in this regard were not considered favourably by Belur Math. He published a book providing the details of the Bangalore controversy and allied materials called 'SWAMI NIRMALANANDA (TULSI MAHARAJ) -- A direct disciple of SRI RAMAKRISHNA : A focus on facts and facets'. This book provides all the evidence and proof of the fact that Swami Nirmalananda was a direct disciple of Thakur. A must read for all.
Written by Sugata Bose
Monday, 16 March 2026
POESY : MARCH PAST
MARCH PAST
The world is split
Between the right
And the left.
Left cancels right
And right cancels left
As we march ahead.
Left right left right
Left right left...
Downward march...
Left right left...
Let's see what is left
As we march down and down
And reach Tumbletown.
Left right left.
Composed by Sugata Bose
Sunday, 15 March 2026
MESSAGES GALORE ... 130
MESSAGES GALORE ... 130
1.
একদিন নবদ্বীপে হড় তর্ক হইল,
কি, তৈলাধার পাত্র না পাত্রাধার তৈল ?
For once in Navadvīp there was great verbal toil,
Doth the oil hold the cup or the cup hold the oil?
2. Celebrated by the masses, mediocrity shines dull.
3. One's average consciousness must be spiritual.
4. Simplicity of soul is conducive to spiritual progress, not crookedness of heart. Simplicity, rectitude, they come in one's last earthly life.
5. Hurt your Guru and pay the price. Law of Karma.
6. If there is a sin on earth, it is to lose faith in oneself. From it follows weakness that sins repeatedly. Hence, build up self-belief and be strong.
7. The life of an individual is in his compassion.
8. Words come freely to me from Mother who is the only authoress of all manifestation. We claim credit for Her compositions. This indeed is plagiarism.
9. Humanity is hardly human. Violence vitiates life.
10. Today's victor will be tomorrow's vanquished.
11. When rogues rule, the rule of law is no more.
12. Transnational capitalism drives premeditated wars.
13. The fifth vice, Mada (arrogance), is a killer. It destroys the possessor. The Long March has but begun. History will resolve issues as yet.
14. Politeness is the first attribute of a gentleman.
15. Ones's greatest friend and one's greatest enemy both abide in one's home. The home is the heart of all good and of all evil. And the heart is home, too.
16. The impolite become impoverished.
17. The evildoer is always a first class liar.
18. Do not fall for propaganda. Study a subject well.
19. Which nation has the right to inflict death on children?
20. Do not believe in wartime propaganda. Watch contrary news channels, read contrary versions and intelligently form your views.
21. It is not good to disrespect, insult or displease the Guru in any way.
22. গুরুকে অসম্মান, অপমান, অপ্রসন্ন করা শুভ নয় |
23. Leaders lead less, lie more. The result is that the led, the lied to are laid low.
24. The best way to raise one's failing nation is to use military might to lower other rising ones. It is a toxic way though.
25. A nation that is largely intellectualy dead cannot hope to be a world power despite apparent advances in GDP.
26. Neglect the Guru and pay the price. Law of Karma.
27. Neglect parents/children and pay the price later.
28. Neglect of Guru is a most serious mistake. It retards spiritual growth.
29. No good chasing wild material goose. Ignorance!
30. They who neglect the Guru fall from divine grace.
31. One must revere one's earthly mother to get the grace of the Divine Mother.
32. The udder gives milk, the rudder guides. The Guru is both and much more.
33. Intelligent is the one who sits at the feet of the Guru and learns.
34. Foolish is the one who insults the Guru.
35. To think of the Guru as human is productive of no spiritual good. The Guru is God. God has become the Guru to lead the disciple to the Truth.
36. A Brahmajnāni is a fully realised soul but the Avatār is infinitely greater. He is God Himself in the guise of a human being.
37. The ideal of work is detached attachment---attachment to the means of work but detachment to its end.
38. Learn to be original thinkers. Be creative.
39. War is messing up the world. Peace will not be able to restore it easily.
40. The disciple should be such that the Guru will be saying,
"You are the best,
Far above the rest."
41. Should life lead me somewhere, may it lead me to people who value relations above material work.
42. Work is work so long it is unselfish. The moment selfishness creeps in, it becomes a source of evil.
43. গুরুর প্রতি দুর্ব্যবহারে শিষ্যের/শিষ্যার ক্ষতি হয় | তাই তা কদাপি করা উচিত নয় | গুরু ঈশ্বর | তাঁকে সেইমত সম্মান, শ্রদ্ধা করা কাম্য |
44. গুরুকে অগ্রাহ্য করা গর্হিত অপরাধ |
45. Disregarding the Guru is a grave offence.
46. Shishupāl was forgiven by Krishna a hundred insults before the Sudarshan Chakra beheaded him.
47. যত সব খারাপ লোক রাজনীতি করে | তাই দেশের এই দুরবস্থা |
48. 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' offers solutions to life's problems. Read it and shape your life in line with the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna.
49. Do not destroy what you have not built. War is wicked. It is the crime of the mighty against the weak. Organised mass violence cannot be condoned.
50. Rushing to resist the Norwester? Well, good luck!
51. Sudden onset of what ought to have happened on the eve of the Ides of March if Shakespeare says it right.
52. Ideological divides should not be so deep as to make human beings behave like brutes towards perceived enemies. Civilisation then is in peril.
53. Your loss is also my loss. This is humanity.
54. Nations are no longer secure under international law. No such law in practice exists. Only titular, nominal existence. UN is powerless to protect.
55. Security lies in self-dependence.
56. Leaders ought to have balance of mind. Else, they throw the world into chaos. Sanity is necessary for governance. Selfish impulsiveness is for movies.
57. Devoted ones will react to all my updates. This is the litmus test.
58. Those that ignore noble thoughts aren't devotees.
59. Work engages all. God is workfree.
60. Busy? Busy with what? Mundane stuff? Is that all there is to life, a material preoccupation? Is human life of no better worth, of no greater value?
61. Small hearts cannot be devotees. It is the big heart that finds God. All crookedness must go and the soul cleansed of lowliness. The pure alone see.
62. Let not work rule you. Rule over work. But do not rule it out. Work freely, not like a slave.
63. From dawn to dusk you labour like a slave. Is this life? Work in freedom. Work like a master. Always work but never be busy. Give up this business of busyness.
64. Like breath is while you work, so let freedom be while you work. Never be so busy as you pose to be. Pretence can be seen through by God.
65. Make not thy Guru a member of thy Etcetera Club.
66.
Was the sea free of salt once?
Will it ever be free again?
Will the waves cease?
Will the turbulence ease?
Will the water rise, never to rain again?
67.
Photographs of old---
Have they all been sold?
Had I but so told
That they'd be valued in gold,
Sure sans being cajoled,
Well packed and rolled,
They'd have been bowled
Over and across the cold
To warm my heart, to enfold
My vision fair that'll behold
In rapturous joy to unfold.
68. Impossible to realise God without simplicity.
69. Man celebrating death of man. Humanity indeed!
70.
Pray,
Something say.
Not in poesy though.
In prose thou mayest write more.
I wait to see the shore.
71.
My words are sweet
But I am sour.
Passeth the hour,
I lose all power
In chasing wild dreams
That'll enervate it seems.
So here I stop,
This skip, jump and hop.
72. Karma is recoiling. Karma will recoil. None will escape, nor now nor on the morrow. Cause sorrow today. Suffer tomorrow.
73. The sheet is being balanced. All debts will be recovered. None will be written off. History will avenge injustice. The sheet will be balanced.
74. Heartlessness cannot be condoned in the name of natural justice. Nature also knows mercy.
75. Brave are the weak who dare to stand up to the tyranny of the mighty.
76. Cowards support the tyrant.
77. Men quote scripture when they are bereft of original thinking. Scriptures were written by men of original thought.
78. Ideologically based humanity is no humanity. Same with theological humanity. Both are divisive, hence not human in the truest sense.
79. Is God formless? Yes. Is God with form? Yes. Is God immanent? Yes. Is God transcendent? Yes. God is the alpha and the omega of existence. God is the manifest and the unmanifest. God is all that is and all that is not. God is the summation of all positives and all negatives. God is the Shūnya, the Void. God is the Pūrna, the Whole. God is God. 🕉
80. Life is so fractured. There is no continuity of communication. It is a stupid broken dream that hurts only to heal, heals only to hurt, endlessly.
81. Cunning and might used to dominate the world is not civilisation. It is barbarism cloaked in its garb.
82. If between two breaths there is a large gap, death results. So with relations. Constancy of communication is the key to sustenance of souls.
83.
প্রথমে বহু, পরে এক,
আবার বহু, দেখ রে দেখ |
84.
First many, then One,
Again Many, watch the fun.
85. West Bengal has been laid waste by an intelligent people gone left to becoming anti-Sanatan. Also because of utter loss of manhood.
86. Swamiji had exhorted us to produce a succession of Hrishis. What we are producing instead are effeminate dancers.
87. Constant quotation and banking on the thoughts of others. Why so? Be original. Be creative. Be thinkers. Be men of self-capacity. You can. Now do it. Do not copy.
88. Why does the West keep on talking about its self-interest? Is the West the world? What about the Rest? Field for exploitation?
89. Does anybody know the cost of human blood?
90. Those who are young, think constantly of Thakur. Many years later in the evening of life these thoughts will integrate to produce great bliss. Life will then become a mansion of mirth, a wellspring of spontaneous joy. This life is a golden chance. Do it. Do not spend it in vain pursuits. Drown in the recollection of Thakur. You will emerge immortal. Believe it.
91. Through the trackless paths of Māyā the little Buddha travels.
92. Frustrating futile war leading to needless suffering and chaos and, if unchecked now, potentially spiralling out of control.
93. To feel you need to rise above circumstance.
94. God alone is true. You are God.
95. Haunts the memory of a former life.
96. One must overcome all expectations from life now and hereafter. Only then will one be free. This is real renunciation. 🕉
97. The Gīta has a flat meaning and a deep meaning.
98. There's an inner gospel within 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna'. Likewise, there's a subtle world behind the facade of this outer world. Seers see it.
99. Will be beginning scriptural classes. Interested ones may contact. Naturally no charge. Spirituality is a free gift.
100. Communication is a real difficulty with people of the world in hot pursuit of puerile desires. Meanwhile, life flies fast towards death. Time is short.
101. Assert yourself over circumstance. Be free.
102. Be pure. Purity is superlative strength. Purity of thought, word and deed. Purity of intent.
103. Men live in abject misery out of their own volition, own ignorance. Live like a king, an emperor of the Spirit. You are God.
104. Vedānta is the only religion that says, "You are God."
105. Aver your greatness. Let not the world pull you down. Remember you are the infinite Spirit in essence. This body-mind cover you are not. Awake!
106. When I wrote on Fb, they did not read. I wrote on X. They did not see. Now I write updates here (Whatsapp) and they casually ignore. Fools, they never will learn!
107. Before the hour arrives realisation never dawns. You have to renounce all before you see the Self within. The Beloved cannot brook neglect.
108. A life of dependence is a life of misery. We must be self-reliant in every way. For this each one of us has to comtribute to national welfare. Onward!
109. Thakur was devamānav or godman. As superseer he was godly. As participant in human affairs he was man. Look upon him in as many ways as you can.
110. Do research on Ramakrishna Vivekānanda and earn a PhD.
111. Look beyond photographs and see the man standing within.
112. 'Aparigraha' means non-receiving of gross gifts or subtle sensory impressions.
113. Do research on Ramakrishna-Vivekānanda and earn a PhD.
114. Sri Ramakrishna's body was an exceptionally refined organic system that allowed him easy access to the realm of the Spirit. It was like Jacob's ladder connecting heaven and earth. He strode up and down this ladder with effortless ease to plumb the secrets of the sacred and laid before man his findings. Not only that, he trained a band of disciples along the line divine, taking care to help them along their own evolutionary lines.
115. The war in the Middle East is ruining the environment. Irresponsible leaders with little knowledge of science are playing with the future of the world.
116. Hatred is polluting the world more than burning oil. Man gloats that he is hunting down brother man who he considers his enemy. Hunting? Is man wild game then?
117. Keep your mind fixed on the fourth plane, that of the heart ❤️. Spirituality begins there.
118. Trump needs to read Vivekānanda urgently.
119. We need to send emissaries across the world preaching Ramakrishna-Vivekānanda. The world needs peace. May Thakur find us the right preachers!
120. Capital must not create war to sustain itself.
121. The Arms Industry to sustain itself needs constant war. 'Dollar imperialism' in the words of Vivekānanda. Venezuela, Iran. Cuba next? Greenland?
122. The fourth plane of consciousness is the heart-centre, the confluence of love and light. Bliss tingles in every pore of the being. This is the Hardwār of spirituality. Mount Kailāsh is higher up in the seventh.
123. Loving concern about the people of the world and robustly addressing the world's problems without shying away from them on the pretext of being apolitical is spirituality.
124. Assert your individuality and shake off society.
125. এখনও সময় আছে | রামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দ পড়ো | গবেষণা করে PhD নাও |
Even now there is time. Do research on Ramakrishna-Vivekānanda and earn a PhD.
126. ব্রহ্মভ্রষ্ট জগৎ |
The universe is off-Brahman.
127. কর্ম যার স্বয়ংক্রিয়, তার আবার ব্যস্ততা কি?
For whom work is spontaneous, what is busyness for him?
128. অবতার কে জানো? ঋষি তৈরির factory |
Do you know who the Avatār is? He is the factory manufacturing seers of transcendental truth, the Hrishis.
129. চরিত্রগঠন না হলে, ঈশ্বরের অনুভূতি না হলে আর রাজনেতা !
What sort of a leader is he whose character has not yet been formed, who has not had the experience of God?
130. We are a speck in the universe and, yet, we are greater than it. We can free ourselves from its deathclasp on us.
131. God is within our reach. But we reach elsewhere.
132. Swamiji was transformed by a touch of Thakur.
133. If one woman or man of sterling strength arises, the whole world will be revolutionised. I await the rise of such a one.
134. The first step in character-building is truthfulness. Keeping one's word is an imperative. It is dishonourable to break it. With it breaks character.
135. 
He (Sri Aurobindo) understood that the forces of evil were to be tackled at subliminal depths where the subtle causes of all deeds are. Dastardly and devilish deeds are seed-born in subtle subliminal layers of the mind before they manifest in mature form to wreak havoc on the gross plane. Hence, work will have to be done at source to counter evil. Swamiji said as well that he wanted root and branch reform. Aurobindo attempted this root reform.
136. এত ধ্বংস ! এর পরিণতি কি ? সভ্য এবং অসভ্য এমনভাবে জড়িয়ে আছে যে ভালমন্দ বিচার করা কঠিন হয়ে পড়ে | ভগবান জানেন কোনটা ভাল |
Such destruction! Good and evil are so entwined that it becomes difficult to discriminate between them. God alone knows what is good.
137. ওই ভালবাসাটুকুই জীবন | That bit of love is life. ❤️
138. ঠাকুরের নিরন্তর স্মরণনননের একটি উপায় তাঁর সম্বন্ধীয় বই পড়া | 'কথামৃত', 'লীলাপ্রসঙ্গ', 'অনুধ্যান' ও 'ভক্তমালিকা' |
One of the means that may be adopted to effect constant recollection of Thakur is to read books related to him. Significant such are 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna', 'Sri Ramakrishna The Great Master'/'Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play', 'God Lived With Them', 'They Lived With God' etc.
139. প্রকৃতির নিয়মে মৃত্যু আর মানুষের অমানুষিকতার দ্বারা মৃত্যু---এই দুইয়ের মধ্যে অন্তর আছে |
Death through natural cause and death through human inhumanity---between these two there is a gulf of difference.
140. Is might then right still as it has been throughout history?
141. Whither is the world headed?
142. Is human life of variable value as per the material strength of a nation?
143. প্রেমের প্রকাশ পবিত্রতায় |
Love manifests in purity.
144. নিরন্তর ঠাকুরের স্মরণমননই ঠাকুরের প্রতি প্রেম | এর দ্বারাই প্রভুর প্রীতি সম্পাদন ও পরিশেষে দর্শনলাভে জীবনের অন্তীম অভিলাশপূর্তি, যুগযুগান্তব্যাপী ক্রমবিকাশের চূড়ান্ত সার্থকতা |
Constant recollection of Thakur is love for him. This is the way to please him and eventually be blessed with his vision which is the fulfilment of life's ultimate aspiration, the climactic fulfilment of evolution lasting ages.
145. ভোগে ক্ষয়, যোগে জয় |
There is energy-depletion in enjoyment ; there is victory in union (yoga).
146. অনাসক্তিতেই আনন্দ |
In detachment is bliss.
147. There is no glory in savagery.
148. Dark forces rule the world. Dawn is yet to be.
149. There is no justice in this barbaric world.
150. Where business ends, life begins.
Tuesday, 10 March 2026
DREAM NO MORE ... 1 [EDITED]
DREAM NO MORE ... 1 [EDITED]
The surface mind is an illusion. Consciousness is deep. It is an integrated being within. It does all the work and dispenses the fruits to itself. The prism of Maya refracts the rays of the Sun of Truth along variant paths, producing the optical spectrum the phenomenal universe is. We are the trapped beams of light, dispersed into flora and fauna, the radiant hues of the Bright One that knows no dimming nor darkening like our lot is here, lost on Earth. The Ocean waveless lies beyond cognition of the faculties that the senses provide. Supersensory is the Truth percolating through sensory modes. The vast universe is the play-field of the Divine, the realm of primeval ignorance, Maya's dream. The infinite trapped in the finite --- how preposterous a proposition, how impossible the event! And yet, the impossible is made possible, and this is Maya. Souls we are but are duped into believing we are bodies. Unstructured free beings we are but find ourselves hopelessly bound in mortal coil crushed by the wheel of Fortune. Worst of all, so deep is the inebriation that few realise that they are caught in a nightmare, that they are wakeful dreamers and that life is but a passing dream of no substance whatsoever save the opportunity to break through the network of Maya and emerge mighty lions that have overcome this dreaded delusion.
Ordinary folks, let us leave them aside for a while. Even men of genius are souls trapped, however tall their creative stature, however pretentious their philosophical posturing. The whole world is in bondage. We are bond-slaves of Nature at her beck and call. Dare we say we are free citizens of the world when the world holds us in terrible bondage? Sense-bound, sense-clad, sense-duped creatures, dare we assume to dictate terms to Nature when She holds us at Her mercy at will? No, such pretensions will not work. Hypocritical stances must be shed if we are to emerge into real freedom far beyond the domain of the senses, beyond this very universe which is but the shadow of the Divine. We must assert our real nature if we are to be free. The cross linkages of Maya we must break through, not by force, for the very reaction of it will hold, but by deft dealing with the wiles of the Enchantress Divine, by advancement through the maze of Maya along the freedom routes which are the exit paths in this intricate network of the Cosmic Web.
This world is a numeral construct delineated along coordinate axes whose intersection is the Origin of life, the focal point of phenomena, yet transcending it, for the Origin exists in principle, never in phenomena which revolve round it. It is not a hypothesis, it is the Reality, not a concept but the core, the substance behind this Ancient Poem, the dream of the One that knows not a second, the One Eternal Being, alone, alone through all eternity without hope of company from any, for none else is but the One that is. And yet the multiplicity abounds, but for whom? Not for the Ancient One but for the many. The many 'exist' for the many for a long but limited time, stretching across vast but limited space, a continuum that is self-manifesting and self-dissolving in cyclical order without beginning or end. To this realm of ignorance belongs the mind whose construct this all is and which is self-constructed. The Self remains beyond, everfree, Consciousness Absolute, Existence Absolute and Bliss Absolute, ever a Unity and never the Trinity that dreams it all. Infinite is the dreamer dreaming finite dreams, to quote Vivekananda with a variance.
So, dream no more. What value do you attach to this momentary motion called terrestrial life that does not in essence derive from your infinite Self? So, smash the dream. Let bonds go and with it bondage. Let all earthly affections dissolve in the Brahman which is the source of all love. May all that you receive and all that you renounce find fulfilment in oblation to the Cosmic sacrificial fire that devours it all to light up the night sky, the screen of this dualistic delusion that hides the Radiant One! May your souls purged of all earthly dross stand revealed as the luminous beads of the Rosary Resplendent whose orbits about the Cosmic Core keep the universe in its cascading rhythms! May you all merge in your final fall into the shoreless sea of radiance whence there is no return! May all souls dissolve in the One that is the Self of all! Om Tat Sat Om!
Written by Sugata Bose
Monday, 9 March 2026
WHERE THE OWL HOOTS NOT NOR THE COCK CROWS ... IN THE DEPTH OF THE MIDNIGHT HOUR [EDITED]
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WHERE THE OWL HOOTS NOT NOR THE COCK CROWS ... IN THE DEPTH OF THE MIDNIGHT HOUR [EDITED]
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When past the mid-night hour, the screen shifts a little, I behold the stillness of a reality behind the facade of unceasing change. Silent, calm, unruffled stillness without a whirl or a bubble, deep conscious existence. Unconnected, parallel background reality that defies description save in tranquil memory. And yet the page opens in the depth of consciousness in the deep of the nocturnal hour. What a silent revelation! What profundity of perception, integrated, total! Seems then I am alone since eternity without possibility of company. Clear perception of an integrated ethereal space where there is not a dot nor mark, plain wholesomeness, how to express in tangible changeable terms that which is the Beyond. This phenomenal universe then melts away revealing that which is the stillness of Truth. When I now try to express, oh, how language deflects the intended meaning and covers it up all! Perhaps, it may only be kindled in sympathetic souls, the purport of this verbal intent of a consciousness and an existence so unlike this manifold world, so separate, as if hanging alone by itself, self-brooding, consciousness turned back upon itself, unsplit, yet fully conscious, unanalytic, yet knowing, a strange unitary understanding, seamless, total. There no thoughts reach for they have been resolved into their integral base and have so lost their very entity. It is a timeless zone or, should I say, a realm where the flow of time is so faint that the ordinary dissolves and the Real is perceived through the fine mist of Maya. But it is a revealing mist, distorting Reality, true, but removing the grotesque facade that external Nature is, moving and mystifying. The revelation is but incomplete, yet, it is a powerful indicator of the deeper status of things till at the deepest there is a strange disconnect, a quantum leap, so to say, into the realm of the Infinite.
Reality is not what it seems. Reality is fundamentally different from the appearance we call Phenomena. But it is hidden or, should I say, obscured from vision by incessant flow of thoughts which are the derivatives of integral consciousness that transcends this ceaseless fractured flow. Neurobiologists may disagree with these affirmations of mine, dumping them as so many misinterpretations of psychic phenomena capable of neural explanation, hallucinations of the heated brain, the scientifically untrained mind's superstitious averment and I hold their thesis in high regard knowing that they are the product of the best minds over a great period of scientific evolution but I still cannot subscribe to their summary dismissals of these claims of the divine without adequate scrutiny or the right means and methods of doing so. For this is a terrain that lies, as of now, beyond the domain of the physical sciences and therefore demands investigation using the right tools. Even as distant celestial bodies are explored through the telescope, even as miniscule matter is investigated using the microscope, so must these perceptions of the human mind at an altitude be investigated using, if I may coin a term, the 'introscope'. By 'introscope' I mean the introspective analytical mind that sifts the spiritual grain from the material chaff and arrives at spiritual realization. Sages and saints down the ages have vouched for their spiritual experiences and these were men of character whose lives were blemishless and based on truth and who brought about beneficent changes in human society giving civilization purpose and meaning beyond the mundane. But age-old religious affirmations, codified creeds and archaic spiritual myths are all breaking down under the sledgehammer blows of reason and it is right that they should seek their quick cremation in the fire of scientific knowledge. Like the fire of the Inquisition which burnt saint and savant alike, let not, however, this time over, a second such fire be lit which shall consume the best of human culture in the form of its brightest discoveries of the Self of man and the ground of phenomena. Let reason go as far as it can but let reason temper reason and let not wild assertions of over-zealous scientists be misconstrued as the findings of reason for men, scientific or otherwise, are so often perverse in their denunciations and carry personal agenda, preconceptions and prejudices so very delusive that arrogance of material knowledge abrogates sublime realizations of the Spirit even as Church power annulled scientific truths in the Dark Ages.
So it is that while so-called spiritual assertions of the bygone ages may have been in error in many places and, indeed, ancient myths about gods and goddesses are very much so if absorbed literally despite protestations about their so-called historicity and allegorical implications ever shifting in interpretation, though, in the light of the findings of modern science to which these upholders of archaic myths resort to to fulfil their bogus philosophy, and in this I am not particularizing any specific religious tradition but am generally reporting about religious tradition down the ages worldwide, it is equally true that much of mythology contains germs of the sublime truths of life and the transcendence beyond and the evolving culture of man which to discard wholesale in the name of surface reason will be as primitive an act as the most heinous crimes of the burning down of the ancient library of Alexandria and the destruction of civilization by tyrants down the ages. Science is an attempt of the human mind to grapple with the puzzle of existence by empirical means while religion is the same endeavour to unravel the mystery of existence by the exploration of the mind itself through introspection. Religion and science are not antagonistic in their mission. Rather, they are the complementary aspects of the unified quest of man to arrive at a fundamental understanding of Reality. As such, mutual respect can foster a more holistic approach towards the comprehension of the riddle of existence than mutual denunciation can. Great truths of the subjective world have been discovered by sages and saints and equally grand truths of objective reality have been discovered by scientists and these truths, though seemingly contradictory often, are but interpretations from two different standpoints of a single Reality that is not partitioned as men have through their divisive modes reduced them to. Nature is whole and integrated, free of the trappings of the human mind in its present state of evolution and sees no conflict between the spiritual and the material for essentially they are the same, the finer and the grosser states of a unified entity. These artificial distinctions of the subjective and the objective world are constructs of the human mind and have no bearing on the functioning of Nature beyond the deflections caused by the conscious mind in the observation of particle behaviour and therefore have their domain strictly confined within the spectrum of consciousness, thereby leaving the vast field of the superconscious and the subconscious as uncharted zones over which presumptuous pronouncements cannot be passed off as rationalization. Since this is the scenario, it stands to reason to have camaraderie of spirit rather than ideological acrimony if humanity is to arrive at comprehension of the core truth which is the harmony of all forces and therefore is to be approached in a harmonious way, if at all.
Revelations abound in millions of lives in greater or smaller degree and this keeps the cycle of life turning. Discoveries are not the domain solely of scientists but each soul is a conduit of the divine and may perceive truth in whatever miniscule form even in the thoroughfare of life and much more so if one is devoted to the pursuit of truth. All these are cultural enhancements and conglomerate to build civilization. Harmony is the key and is ever the basis for advancement of humanity towards final fruition in the discovery of the underlying oneness of things, be it be approached from the material scientific standpoint or from the spiritual standpoint for it is oneness that all are seeking however unconsciously they may do so. When Einstein explored the universe, he did so to find out the ultimate basis of phenomena, The Unified Field Theory that would explain it all. Today's cosmologists are attempting to find The Theory of Everything in their bid to unravel the cosmic mystery and harmonize the apparently contradictory theories of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. The concept of the 'singularity' in astrophysics, the black hole, the Big Bang and the Big Crunch are all portentous of human knowledge steadily advancing towards the discovery of the oneness of existence, a fact which the Vedic Rishis ages ago had discovered through their introspective vision, the Self which is the ground of all that exists. Atman = Brahman was the equation they discovered and in trumpet voice declared before the wide world. The forests retreats of the Rishis and their Himalayan caves resonated to the celestial vibration of Om which is the first manifestation of the unmanifest Reality. The waters of the Ganga, the Sindhu and the Saraswati carried along their current the sublime message of the Upanishads, the symphony of the soul. The One had dispersed into the many and the many were rushing on to oneness. The dewdrops had split up the sun rays into the rainbow colours and the colours were conspiring to resolve into their unitary solar status.
All through Nature this game is on, the One manifesting as the many and the manifold tending to resolve into the One. This contrary phenomenon in Nature, the disintegrating mode and the integrating mode, the tendency to fly apart and the reverse tendency to gravitate inward keeps the universe oscillating from cycle to cycle. These contrary modes work in opposition to each other and thereby bring about the grand interplay of cosmic forces and create the ripple we call life. So let science and religion co-exist as comrades-in-arms as humans battle to demystify creation and discover the basis of life.
And yet in the dark deep of the cosmos a voice beckons us ushering us on to some unknown end. Whither do we rush on? Wherefrom the voice comes? Is it from deep within us? And yet, the screen shifts, the curtain lifts a little revealing a stillness that is tranquil, a silence that is conscious. Who are we? I wonder, I wonder.
Written by Sugata Bose
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