🕉 HINDUS, AWAKE ! ... 3

🕉 HINDUS, AWAKE ! ... 3

Political parties and religious organisations have both betrayed Hindu interests. A sham of an impossible religious harmony with inimical cults going on!

Greed and dharma cannot coexist. The Upanishad says, 'Ma gridha.' [Covet not.] The opposite is happening, though. It is hypocrisy all the way. Money is now the ruling deity. All else in the name of exhibited piety is pretence. Compromised men preaching piety while all the while filling up their coffers, corrupt politicians colluding with the anti-Hindu forces to spell India's doom. Where does the average Hindu go for succour when such corruption feeds the life of those who hold positions of power, be it in the political or the religious sphere? Is there a religious institution today that has not fouled its following by giving in to the despicable dollar? Show me one and I'll prove you wrong.

Wake up, Hindus! Be brave. Arm yourselves ideologically to wage the war of self-defence. There is none else to help you but yourselves. All are cheats intent on self-serving. So, stand on your own feet and defend your Dharma. Be valorous. Song and dance, poetry and art will prove ineffective when the battle lines are drawn. Remember what Bhagavan Krishna inspired in Arjun on the warfield of Kurukshetra -- not the notes of the flute but the philosophy of righteous war. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo: Maharana Pratap Singh

🕉 HINDUS, AWAKE ! ... 2

🕉 HINDUS, AWAKE ! ... 2

Swami Vivekananda has been forsaken by followers, targeted by foes and fed on selectively by apologists who unwittingly advance anti-Hindu interests to the peril of the Hindus. It is time for Swamiji to return to earth to redress this situation. Else, catastrophe awaits the callous Hindu, the cowardly Hindu and the solely commercially carried Hindu. Bhagavan Krishna must fulfil his promise once more now. Hindus, awake to a sense of reality, to the danger encircling you and to the duty that is bounden on each one of you to defend the Dharma. Prepare to receive the Avatar. He is due anytime for you have failed him miserably. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

🕉 HINDUS, AWAKE ! ... 1

🕉 HINDUS, AWAKE ! ... 1

Aggressive Hinduism is needed today. Martial valour instead of weeping piety, strength instead of soft sentimentality, a clear-cut integrated philosophy and active programme instead of a plethora of puerile opinions cast about in the air by self-serving people and institutions is the call of the hour. Practicality must combine with philosophy in combating the threats that face Hindus everywhere. Secure defence against proselytising Christianity and Islam must safeguard Hindu interests. And all this cannot be achieved by the singing and dancing of devotees, idle verbal adoration of the Divine and soft lecturing by monks that induce passivity in people while concealing the real intent of the enemies of Hinduism under the cover of imagined harmony of religions which has never been nor will ever be.

Hindus, awake to the threat of your impending demise in the coming decades at the hands of your historic enemies who are even today slowly advancing towards your citadels and working their way in to precipitate your doom! Just look around to behold what is happening to your brethren wherever they are in a minority or wherever their self-declared enemies are in a sizeable proportion of the polity. Sleep no more. Arouse your kshatriya power. Defend the Dharma like your valorous ancestors of yore. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

THE GRAND ATTEMPT AND THE FAILED MISSION

THE GRAND ATTEMPT AND THE FAILED MISSION 

Christianity and Islam have a common failed mission, 'Mission India'. They have for tens of centuries failed to Christianise and Islamise India wholly. But do not be hard on them in judgement. They have tried hard and are still at it. Persistence pays but we have been niggardly in our Semitic engagement. Where we have been generous in keeping with our grand old principle 'Atithi Devo bhava' ['Guest is God'], we have succumbed to their snares with wholesale alienisation of our provincial polity post-perversion and eventual dismemberment of our motherland. But where we have seen through the demonic camouflage [reference: Raavan], we have restricted our movements within the bounds drawn by Lakshman to save ourselves for a future day when we can with increased vigour, altered circumstance and added arsenal wage a wider war to reclaim lost territory and influence, and restore our civilisation to pristine proportions. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose

'অতিথি দেবো ভব' -- এই মন্ত্র কি শুধু মুখেই কব?

'অতিথি দেবো ভব' -- এই মন্ত্র কি শুধু মুখেই কব?

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অর্থের পেছনে ছুটলে স্বামীজীর প্রদর্শিত 'ত্যাগ ও সেবা' সম্ভব নয় | ঠাকুরের শ্রীমুখোক্ত 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা' মহান আদর্শ যা দেশগঠনের মূলমন্ত্র | তার পরিবর্তে 'টাকা খাঁটি, খাঁটি টাকা' হয়ে পড়েছে আজ | চরিত্রগঠন, জাতিগঠন, দেশগঠন হবে কেমন করে? বৈশ্যবৃত্তি অবলম্বনে কি ব্রাহ্মনত্ব প্রকাশ পায়?

লোভরূপ তৃতীয় রিপুর কবলে মানুষ আজ | এমনকি সাধু প্রতিষ্ঠানগুলিও আতিথ্য ভুলে বাণিজ্যে রত | অর্থকে কেন্দ্র করে এমন অবক্ষয় কল্পনাতীত | চরিত্র বলে আর কিছু অবশিষ্ট রইল না |

এখন উপায়? নিজ নিজ জীবনে আদর্শস্থাপন, আদর্শপালন, ত্যাগ ও সেবার মূলমন্ত্রে পুনর্দীক্ষা, 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা' -- এই সমদৃষ্টিতে নিজের জীবনকে গড়ে তোলা ও স্বদেশের, স্বজাতির, স্বধর্মের রক্ষাকল্পে, সার্বিক কল্যাণসাধনে আত্মনিয়োগ করা |

নিজে শ্রদ্ধাশীল হ'ন, মিতব্যয়ী হ'ন, আতিথ্যপরায়ণ হ'ন ও ন্যূনতম মানবতার খাতিরে অতিথি সৎকারের আগে তার থেকে অর্থমূল্য দাবী করবেন না | ওতে না হয় সেবা, না সৎকার, না ধর্মরক্ষা | শুধু মুখে 'অতিথি দেবো ভব' বললে হবে না, কাজে তার প্রয়োগ চাই | আপনার প্রতিটি আচরণ প্রসন্নতা দান করুক সকলের মনে, প্রসাদরূপে প্রকাশিত হ'ক সুন্দরের সাধনে |

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

WHO IS THE 'PROSELYTISING ENEMY'? [IN RESPONSE TO SAGATA BANERJEE'S QUESTION]

WHO IS THE 'PROSELYTISING ENEMY'? [IN RESPONSE TO SAGATA BANERJEE'S QUESTION]

Proselytising religions which wish to subvert our Sanatan culture and civilisation by mass conversion of Hindus 🕉 to their Semitic fold with their consequent alienisation in cultural terms and in intent from our motherland's welfare. Partition has proved the point as has mass conversion of Hindus 🕉 and their inhuman persecution for over 1300 years which has cost an estimated 80 million Hindu lives according to credible sources. The shrinking of Hindu influence across wide Asia and the secession of the Sanatan subcontinent's border provinces of Gandhara [Afghanistan], Punjab-Sindh [Pakistan] and East Bengal [Bangladesh] with their wholesale Islamisation and forcible conversion, eviction and annihilation of the resident Hindus, not to mention the humiliation, taxation and suppression of their spiritual culture, are glaring testimony as to what Islam has done for well over a millennium in India, a land that had built Islam's second mosque in Southern India after the first one at Medina, a country that had sheltered the Prophet's persecuted descendants and saved their lives. Add to this the nefarious role Christianity has played in perverting the tribal people of the North East from their indigenous faiths to the Abrahamic one, a force whose evangelical elements in the guise of philanthropy have ever plotted to undermine India's security by facilitating separatism. The Ramakrishna Mission and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission have regularly faced enormous hardship in conductng their service activities there with their institutions having been vandalised repeatedly. Wherever Muslims have been or are in majority, or are even a sizeable minority, there Hindu rights have been regularly infringed upon, nay, literally trampled upon. Our cultural integration has been thwarted and our civilisational progress retarded for over a millennium by these nefarious political forces masquerading as religions. The Portuguese have conducted mass inquisitions, so to say, in their western colonies in India, converted and murdered hundreds of thousands of Hindus, and yet must you ask as to who the 'proselytising enemy' is? Who has historically proselytised at the point of the sword -- the Hindus or the Muslims and the Christians with their dastardly domain thus spreading over the entirety of the blood-drenched globe? Hindus and Buddhists have never been aggressive by arms in their spiritual ministration and spread throughout the world. Theirs have been the silent sprouting of the spiritual seed in the hearts of men everywhere by the power of exemplary asceticism, philosophy, love, benediction and service. Now comprehend. 🕉

P.S. Invading Islam has subverted our civilisation in a horrendous way from which we have never recovered. Bakhtiyar Khilji torched Nalanda University. Thousands of Buddhist mobks were murdered. The flames consumed 900,000 ancient and medieval manuscripts and books for three months. After ninety days of infernal fire that raged over this premier academic institution of India and the world, it lay in ruins, its library reduced to ashes and with it India's past history, the sciences and the arts, the coded culture and civilisation gone for good. The once flourishing seat of national and global knowledge had been reduced to rubble and 'raakh' [ashes] by the barbarous hordes who could not tolerate any learning that lay beyond the bounds of the Qur'an. India lost her millenia-old learning, her vast body of all-round knowledge that lay enshrined in these sacred and sanctified books, which is why we, Hindus, are now clueless as to our early civilisational history beyond what the epics and the itihasas have conveyed to us through their complex tales and narratives wherefrom it is difficult to extract the actual episodes and events in strictly historical terms. The Islamic invasion has rendered India's early history blurred and obscure.

Now to remind you of the genocides Islam has perpetrated in India on account of its divisive doctrines. Remember the Moplah genocide of 1921, the Great Calcutta Killing of 1946, the Noakhali and other genocides therafter throughout East Bengal the same year and, worst of all, the murderous mutilation of the motherland by the All-India Muslim League's demand with its post-Partition Pakistani armed aggressions involving four wars, countless terror attacks and systematic subjugation and slaughter of resident Hindus in the partitioned parts. Add to that the eviction of Hindus from Afghanistan and Kashmir, and you have the perilous picture perfect. 

Approximately 44,000 Hindu temples have been historically razed to the ground and mosques raised over them through the use of the temple material throughout India, the Ayodhya, the Kashi Vishvanath and the Mathura temples being only three such of seminal significance. The Somnath Temple was looted, desecrated and destroyed umpteen times and raised its spire yet again with the blood and toil of the motherland's valorous sons and daughters. Hindu women have been mass-molested, pregnant women murdered, their foetuses in womb laid to rest, and Hindu girls enslaved and traded to Arabia and Turkey to please there the imperial Islamic masters. The Hindukush Mountain bears testimony to the continued slaughter of Hindus en route to the Middle East.

The Bamiyan Buddhas, the pride of Gandhara, have been blown down before our very eyes. Buddhism and Hinduism have been replaced by Islam in these conquered regions. Kashmir, the ancient and medieval seat of Hindu and Buddhist culture has been reduced to ruins by its total Islamisation. 

The Sikhs have suffered no less. Three of their great Gurus, Arjan Devji [fifth Guru], Tegh Bahadurji [ninth Guru] and Gobind Singhji [tenth and the last Guru] have been killed by the Mughals mercilessly. Gobind Singhji's two youngest sons, Baba Zorawar Singhji and Baba Fateh Singhji, were bricked alive by Aurangzeb's Governor Wazir Khan.

How much more must I recount for there yet remains an endless list of atrocities committed by these Islamic invaders, very often inspired and activated by religious zeal, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of our Rajput women in the Jauhar and the deaths of their men folk in the Saka? Let me rest my case here and leave you to reflect, mother, you who in Islamic eyes are the 'Najis Kaffir' [unclean infidel] fit for the Muslim right hand's possession in war but who in the Hindu eye are the emblem of the Divine Mother, the purest representation of Shakti on earth. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose

প্রসাদ, অর্থাৎ, যা চিত্তকে প্রসন্ন করে

প্রসাদ, অর্থাৎ, যা চিত্তকে প্রসন্ন করে 

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প্রসাদের জন্য 'অর্থদান' বাধ্যতামূলক করলে অথবা সেইহেতু টিকিট বিক্রয় করলে তা আর প্রসাদ থাকে না, বাণিজ্যিক বস্তুতে পরিণত হয়, দৈবস্পর্শবর্জিত সাধারণ মলিন অন্নে পতিত হয় | ভারতবর্ষের অনুপম আতিথেয়তা আজ বৈশ্যবৃত্তির কবলে লুপ্তপ্রায় |

ভগবান 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা' -- এই মন্ত্রে মানবকুলকে, বিশেষতঃ সাধুসজ্জনকে, এবার দীক্ষিত করে গেছেন | যুগাবতারের সেই যুগান্তকারি মন্ত্র যার পরিধি পুরো যুগ ধরে, তা আজ তার ব্যাভিচারে বিপন্ন | আজ যথার্থই সাধুকুলও বৈশ্যভাবাপন্ন হয়ে পড়েছেন | বিপুল ঐহিক সম্পদের মাঝেও এমনই অর্থাভাব বোধ যে প্রসাদও বিক্রয়ের বস্তু হয়ে পড়েছে | একদিন নিদারুণ দারিদ্রমাঝে তাঁরা নিজে না খেয়েও সারাধণ ভক্তজনে প্রসাদান্ন বিতরণ করতেন | আজ তার বিপরীত প্রথা প্রচলিত করা হয়েছে |

এই অর্থযুক্ত অন্ন প্রসাদ হতে পারে না কারণ ভগবান বিষয়বিবর্জিত নিবেদিত শুদ্ধান্নই তাঁর জীহ্বার পূতস্পর্শে ততধিক পবিত্র করেন তাঁর ভক্তসন্তানের ভক্ষণের জন্য যার দ্বারা তার অধ্যাত্মকল্যাণ সংসাধিত হয় | অতএব, তার বিপরীত ভাবযুক্ত বিষয়সম্পৃক্ত অন্ন তিনি পরিহার করবেন, এমনই হওয়া শাস্ত্রসম্মত | 

অবতার-অনুসারীর এমন অবক্ষয় কালক্রমণে হয়েই থাকে --- ইতিহাস তার বারংবার সাক্ষ্য প্রদান করেছে | সেই ইতিহাসেরই পুনরাবৃত্তি পরিলক্ষিত হচ্ছে আজ বিবেকবানের দৃষ্টিতে | হা বিবেকানন্দ ! 

অনেক সাধু ও ভক্ত আজ বীতশ্রদ্ধ এই অবক্ষয় অবলোকনে | বুঝি অবতারের পুনরাগমনের মাহেন্দ্রক্ষণ সমুপস্থিত | ভগ্নচিত্তে, তবু অধীর আগ্রহে, সেই অপেক্ষায় রইলাম |

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

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