MESSAGES GALORE ... 132

MESSAGES GALORE ... 132

1. Sleep no more. Awake to your sleeping divinity. Awake! Arise!

2. Scepticism carried to a fault is counterproductive. 

3. Constant loving memory of God is Bhakti. 

4. Forget you are the body and reach the Spirit. Every moment aver your freedom from flesh and form. Manifest your divinity in every movement of life. Look upon all as divine, no less yourself.

5. The quality of the population is progressively going down. It is an imperative now for enlightened citizens to pass on the gene like ancient Brahma-nishthha Hrishis used to do. Marriage after enlightenment and progeny thereof to continue the seer-chain.

6. Versatility is the development of both width and depth of personality of which two of the best exemplars were Ramakrishna and Leonardo.

7. With limbs all open they use them to tie themselves up. And then they cry foul that all is amiss. Strange predicament. Māyā!

8. The Holy Name dispels Māyā, cuts the fetters that bind the soul to Nature. Incessantly chant. But then, who listens? They all know so much!

9. Apologising on behalf of weakness and deliberately persisting with it is sheer hypocrisy that can only drag a person down. Be sincere.

10. There are devotees galore, disciples in dozens of dozens, and, yet, not one is devotee or disciple worth the call.

11. How can the Divine dwell where desires rule?

12. The ghost of worldliness is on people. Unless one rids onself of this unseemly companion, there is not much hope for spiritual progress.

13. সরল না হলে হবে না | বাঁকাবুদ্ধিতে বাঁকেবিহারীলাভ হয় না |

14. There is a clothing and behind it two more such. Behind these is Truth.

15. Self-realisation is the solution to life's maladies.

16. বহুত্ব হতে সমস্যা, একত্বে সমাধান |

17. Simplicity is an attribute which manifests in one's last earthly life. If you have it, God-vision is at hand.

18. Is God last priority? Then ruin awaits us all.

19. Work, enjoyment, recreation---all are prioritised over spiritual practice and man complains he cannot find peace. Hypocrisy has its limits! 🕉 Shanti!

20. Business, Thou art today's God! 

21. Develop shraddhā for dharma, O youth of the day!

22. 

Do not worry,

Do not hurry,

Think of Hari.

23. We are free, never bound. This thought must be affirmed day in and day out. Then this freedom will be apparent, then realised. Free we are, free we were, free shall ever be. The part is the whole. This is the divine equation, paradoxical though it may seem. 'Jiva Brahmaiva nā parah'.

24. Neglect of God in pursuit of pleasure will fail to conquer death in the end.

25. পৃথিবী আমার স্বদেশ |

26. বৈভবে ঐতিহ্যনাশ | ইতিহাসের সংরক্ষণ চাই, ঐশ্বর্য্যস্তূপীকরণে তার অবলুপ্তি নয় |

27. Rely on the Ātmā. Be fearless. In this dark night of travel shine light on yourself and others. They all are you in so many forms. Onward!

28. The more you chant the Holy Name, the more beautiful you become in every sense and peace pervades your entire being. You become a blessing unto all.

29. Existence cannot not be. Existence simply is. Great insight is needed. By the grace of the Ātmā the Ātmā is perceived in the Ātmā by the Ātmā. 

30. Brahmajnān is immediate Self-consciousness by the Self. Brahman is nameless, attributeless, Absolute Existence. No relativity there. Substance, not Void.

31. A seed has been planted. Now water the soil around and let it shoot. When the tree comes to life, you shall savour its fruit.

32. Between thought and speech, speech and deed there must be parity.

33. Hindus, awake, arise and unite!

হিন্দু, জাগো, ওঠো, ঐক্যবদ্ধ হও! 🕉

34. A great spiritual movement is in the offing. Awake!

35. Why should you fear anything at all? Aren't you God?

36. Keep chanting night and day. Let the Word vibrate in your system and transform you. You are divine. Now realise it.

37. Mantrārūrha Guru. The Guru is mounted on the Mantra.

38. Guru means heavy. He is resting in Truth at the base of the causal ocean. Sachchidānanda Guru.

39. 'Tamaso mā jyotirgamaya', from darkness unto light leads the Guru.

40. An enlightened Guru can dispel delusions of the disciple. Too many people, many an aspirant, are in the dark owing to lack of proper direction.

41. Implicit obedience to the Guru leads to illumination.

42. After God-realisation a human becomes a numan (new man).

43. Beauty is of the Soul that reflects off the body onto the beholder's eye much like the rays of the sun reflecting off the moon on a fullmoon night to entrance the poetic soul. Hence, spiritual practices and purity manifest beauty in the body and in the mind. This is the Sundaram Principle in an aspect as well where symmetry, the essence of the beauteous form, has been drawn attention to in the localised human context.

44. Greed has become the dominant vice in this day and age. Online begging by way of doing business is an occurrence that has assumed universal proportions.

45. Praise of the Lord liberates.

46. The Holy Name is omnipotent. Chant your way to freedom.

47. The craving for sense-pleasure stirs the mind to restlessness and kills peace. Renunciation restores the lost balance and brings in a settled peace.

48. 

Guru-shishya, preceptor-pupil, Ramakrishna-Nirmalananda.

গুরু-শিষ্য, রামকৃষ্ণ-নির্মলানন্দ |

49. To prescribe only one way of living for all to the exclusion of all else by way of divine mandate is in itself the seed of dissension and war. 

50. ঠাকুরের অমৃতস্পর্শ থেকে বোঝা যায় তিনি ভগবান |

51. The immature Narendranath came to Thakur in his mature years of ministration. What transpired thereafter is history. 

52. ক্ষীণদৃষ্টি, দূরদৃষ্টি, ঊর্ধ্বদৃষ্টি এবং অন্তর্দৃষ্টি---এই চার প্রকার দৃষ্টি বিকশিত হয় ক্রমবিকাশের দ্বারা জীবজগতে |

53. For rapid spiritual advancement it is best to only follow ones's Guru's directions and stop all other previous longstanding practices. This saves time, concentrates effort.

54. If you wish to realise God, listen to Guru and rapidly advance. Disobey the Guru and you will miss the mark.

55. Guru and God are one.

56. How long will man retain his animal attributes and wage war on each other?

57. Constancy of concentration achieves pinnacle of success.

58. Bengal has a great future if Bengal is once more culturally set right.

59. পিসিমনির নতুন নাম মনিপিসি | (moneypc/gemaunt)

60. Have some good discussions at home for children to seek nourishment from. Sterile video-watching and worldly talk are making fertile minds infertile.

61. Islam and Christianity must learn universal acceptance from Hinduism. So must capitalism and communism. All these antithetical ideologies must be harmonised on the basis of the Vedānta. Ramakrishna-Vivekananda is the Way.

62. Be strong. Resist adharma. Do not make relatives of evil people posing as politicians.

63. If 'Hrishi' is wrongly written as 'Rishi', 'Hrig' as 'Rig', 'Hriya' as 'Riya', why is 'Hriday' not wrongly written as 'Riday'?

64. 

যত মদ (অহং) তত পদ |

টাকা খাঁটি খাঁটি টাকা |

65. If you wish to realise God, chant the Holy Name as per Guru's instructions without arguing your worldly case. Total submission necessary.

66. The worldly ought to finish off with their enjoyment and associated sorrow before they hope to advance spiritually. Then they will come to reason.

67. The deluded think that they are bodies, were born and will die. Running after money and pleasures they die every day. Yet they pursue shadows.

68. Are we animals that we think ourselves to be bodies? We are men, real men, spirits free and blessed, as Swamiji puts it.

69. Unqualified obedience and submission to the Guru is the sine qua non for a spiritual aspirant in the absence of which progress is impossible.

70. Seek within in the depths of consciousness that which you in vain seek without. Dive within. Chant. Follow the Guru.

71. Who are you? Where are you? Do you know?

72. I am the life of all, the breath that animates everything. I am the substratum of phenomena, the Absolute Existence-Consciousness.

73. Miracles are all matter, not Spirit. They prove nothing.

74. God does not plan. He wills.

75. Personality is fine but Impersonality is better.

76. Have faith in yourself. That is the way to God.

77. God you are. Know you nhot?

78. You are deathless, immortal. Dissociate from body.

79. Smash the citadels of matter. Take to flight free.

80. This routine is killing. Break free.

81. Will it and you will be free.

82. Do you know who you are? God.

83. When the body falls, the delusion drops. Freedom.

84.  Ātmajnān is Veda.

85. Seek sanction in your Soul. There authority lies.

86. The Lord never sleeps. His wakefulness supports the world.

87. There is but One. He partitions to seek company.

88. Deluded clowns, drunk with desire, are doing war.

89. The Divine transcends, yet in immanence is here.

90. Let not the heart desert be. Water it with love. 

91. In the letter is the alphabet complete. The microcosm holds the macrocosm. The point blown up is the cosmic extension.

92. The trotting point is the line, the plane, space-time, the cosmos. The point from core to crust pervades all. Whosoever knows the point knows it all.

93. কল্যাণ হ'ক কল্যাণীর !

94. Our children are our future. Nurture them unto fulfilment for our nation's well-being. 

95. If the world stands against you, must you budge?

96. Become an individual. Be whole.

97. He who sees greenery in the desert is the visionary. He sees man in his fulfilment. 

98. Past karma is resolving now even as fresh karma is being fed into the future. The movement of Māyā will continue ad infinitum.

99. We must return to our Vedic roots. 'Tat tvamasi'.

100. Life is in vain if not Self-realised.

101. Who knows when there will be a U-turn in life? Charaiveti! Freedom lies at hand. Onward!

102. Despondency is fruitless. You are omnipotent. Arise! Crush opposition. Despair not. Help is at hand. Seek within. Chant heavily. Follow your Guru.

103. Dance on the golden mean unto Truth.

104. Shiva lies as the axis of the universe.

105. সময় থাকতে চিনে নাও | বিলম্বে বাধা বাড়বে |

106. ভাব বোঝে না কেউ হে, ভাব বোঝে না |

107. কী সুন্দর হাওয়া ! মধ্যবসন্তের মধুসমীরণ |

108. All around you are God. This is the test. Pass it.

109. সংস্কৃতের বহুল চর্চা আবশ্যক শুদ্ধোচ্চারণসহ |

110. Teach your children Sanskrit. It is a must for our civilisational revival. 

111. The pure and the simple realise God.

112. God is not partial. He dispenses justice as per karma. Even His grace has subtle kārmic justifications although grace follows no laws as such.

113. Eventually, Islam and Christianity will have to fall back upon Hindu philosophy for sheer survival in an increasingly rational world.

114. Āchāryasevā leads to spiritual fulfilment. 

115. Love is felt only when the mind is stationed in the fourth plane of consciousness, that of the heart.

116. The famous Gurus are largely false. Much pretence.

117. A blessed one builds the world, a demon destroys.

118. Politicians ought to be imparted intermittent courses in the Vedānta. Only then may they discharge their duties like devas and not like dānavas.

119.

Krishna danced on Kāliya's hood. Let the dancing monks dare dance thus. Else, they ought to put up a braver front elsewhere in defence of the Dharma. Ill doth effeminacy in debilitating dance befit them. Swamiji desired manhood in his followers. He hated soft sentimentality, detested effeminacy. His life's gospel, he said, could be summed up in one word---'MANHOOD'. He must be mighty annoyed at the current state of degeneracy that has crept in his following in almost every phase. A second coming of the sage and his preceptor peerless has become imperative now to save the day and it ought to be in the offing as per prior promise of the Paramahamsa.

120. Whosoever you associate with, you absorb such ones' attributes.

121. All are slaves to Māyā. They wish to be bound. Who can free them? Alas!

122. ছোটবেলা থেকেই সব সমাধিস্থ | লেখাপড়া করিয়ে আর কি হবে ?

123. Michael Madhusudan Datta was a literary genius. His 'Meghnād Bawdh Kābya' is simply singular. Swamiji was absolutely right in his assessment.

124. A lot of fraud Babas, fraud Gurus duping people. The rest are making money out of lectures. Few are spiritual like Swamiji was.

125. Babas performing miracles have never impressed me who am a seeker of spirituality and not materialism which miracle-mongers cater to.

126. If you have genuine spirituality of a high order like Sri Ramakrishna had, you will not need miracles to attract people to yourself.

127. As the scrutiny of the camera increases, Babas and Gurus are resorting more to clever talk and unverified claims of their spiritual experiences in their bid to dupe willing devotees. Craftiness in popular Gurus is on the rise as spirituality touches its nadir. Meanwhile reputed spiritual organisations are busy raising funds instead of stemming the rot.

128. Miracle-mongering does not prove spirituality. On the contrary it is proof enough of downright materialism. 

129. Material life kills. Spiritual life saves. Chant heavily and be spiritual. 

130. Worldly life's a killer. Be spiritual and attain to immortality. Chant your way to freedom. 

131. Sanātan civilisation must be saved to save the world. Let it begin in Bengal for Bangladesh is long gone.

132. ধর্ম বাঁচাও |

133. অবতারের আবির্ভাব আসন্ন |

134. জীবনে অনেকে ভুল বুঝবে, অল্প কেউ ঠিক বুঝবে | এ সবের মধ্যে নিজের প্রতি অটুট আস্থা রাখাই একমাত্র উপায় | যে নিজেকে বিশ্বাস করে, সে নিত্যে পোঁছোয় | জগত মায়া এইমাত্র জেনে কারোর ভালমন্দ বলার বা ভাবার ওপর গুরুত্ব দিও না | ইষ্টের পথে চল', সর্বকল্যাণ হবে |

135. Sacrifice is the soul of life. 

136. জপের সংখ্যা অনেক বাড়াতে হবে যদি পরমার্থ প্রাপ্ত হতে চাও |

137. প্রেমপূর্ণ শ্রীনামস্মরণই উপায় |

138. Death can only be conquered by gaining insight into the Soul. That comes by Guru's grace and by disciplined dedicated devotion to the Divine, by diligent dispassionate execution of duties and distancing onself from delusive desirous dreams that inevitably destroy.

139. The world is at the crossroads. The Avatār's hour is come. The descent of the Divine is at hand. Behold!

140. The Sanātan Dharma must be revived. That is the way to human redemption.

141. Greed is consuming the land. This veritably is national illfare. It is absence of spiritual consciousness that is at the root of this degeneration. 

142. Duty must not reduce to bondage. Duty towards the world manufactured by the ego full of material desires is veritable bondage. Service, sevā, pūjā towards all, knowing them to be the Lord in disguise, must replace dull duty full of material compulsions Work like a master, not a slave who finds little time for spiritual practices because of household chores. Why so? All your hours should be spent in spiritual contemplation if even at work for maintenance of home. This golden opportunity you are squandering. Do not.

143. Greed is consuming the land. This veritably is national illfare. It is absence of spiritual consciousness that is at the root of this degeneration. Hence, the regeneration of India must be with the regeneration of genuine spirituality in the people, of ethical living, values and the expansion of the heart in service to fellow beings, a general awaking to the principles of truth, beauty and goodness in all its varied manifestations amidst the multiplicity that life offers.

144. রজোগুণের আধিক্যে কর্মবৃদ্ধি ঘটে কিন্তু ঈশ্বরের স্মরণমননচ্যূতি  হয় | গুণের সামঞ্জস্য চাই | 

145. All time is God's time. People live at the pleasure of God. And yet they say they find not so much time for their spiritual practices as they do for worldly purposes. Recreation time, vacation time for days together they avail of but they can find no time for God. Yet they want peace. How can that be? One must dedicate one's all to God and then seek peace. Otherwise it is a foolish aspiration never to be fulfilled.

146. The world is full of toddlers.

147. It is upto the youth now to read Swamiji and resurrect the Dharma. They are the only hope and they will deliver.

148. By pursuing material dreams of desire and delusion men become matter. The Spirit obscured, they are reduced to little better than creatures of comfort.

149. If this body falls now, let it pass into the Holy Name that holds all. If it lasts longer, let it absorb the miseries of the world and bring forth peace.

150. This life is spent. What remains, may it be used in the service of the visible God!