MESSAGES GALORE ... 42
1. Monks must never be manipulative for money. That is the bane of monasticism, this exertion of spiritual power to extract donation. It is monastic aberration though.
2. আগেও মূর্খ ছিল | কিন্তু তারা মৌন ছিল | এখন গণমাধ্যমে মূর্খতা বাণীরূপ পেয়েছে | হিন্দুর দশা যে আজ কি তা ফেসবুক না করলে জানতেই পারতাম না | দুধের শিশুও কিছু না পড়ে, না বুঝেই ধর্ম শেখায় |
3. এই বিরাট বিশ্বে দিনরাত 'সংঘ, সংঘ' করা কুপমণ্ডুকতার পরিচয় |
4. এত 'জয় স্বামীজী', 'জয় ঠাকুর', 'জয় মা' না বলে যদি প্রতিবেদনগুলি পাঠ করেন ও সেই সংযোগে মন্তব্য করেন তো অধিক উপকৃত বোধ করি |
5. যে দেশে বেদবেদান্ত আবিষ্কৃত হয়েছে, সে দেশের মানুষ সামগ্রিকভাবে এত লঘুচিত্ত, ভাবতে অবাক লাগে !
6. রিপুকেন্দ্রিক সভ্যতা আর তার তলে ভগবৎভাব প্রকাশের প্রচ্ছন্ন প্রচেষ্টা | দেহ হতে দেহীর পথে এইমাত্র গমন---এই হল বিবর্তনের ধারা |
7. Like intermolecular attraction holds material bodies together, there is interpersonal attraction---soul to soul, mind to mind, body to body---that holds society together.
8. Atmajnana is the goal, the highest purpose of human life, the end towards which biological evolution is ultimately headed.
9. The Ramakrishna Movement is hardly a global movement as claimed. Not many people in the wide world have heard of it. The Catholic Church may be rightly called a global institution. The Ramakrishna Mission is nowhere near to being so as yet. There should be a greater sense of proportion when making these bombastic claims.
10. ব্রহ্ম নিরুপাধিক | অথচ অদ্বৈত সাধক সাধুরা নামের আগে উপাধি দিতে অতি তৎপর | যথা, পরম পূজনীয় শ্রীমৎ স্বামী ...ানন্দজী মহারাজ | এত অল্প কেন ? আরও ভাল হয় বললে, পরম পূজনীয় শ্রীশ্রী ১০৮ শ্রীমৎ স্বামী ...ানন্দজী মহারাজ | শুধু স্বামী ...ানন্দ বললে কি কম শ্রদ্ধা করা হয় ? গৌরবে বহুবচন বুঝি ?
11. 'স্বামীজী' বললেই তো হয় | ওতে তো জী-রূপ শ্রদ্ধাক্ষর সংযুক্ত আছে | আবার 'স্বামীজী মহারাজ' কেন ?
12. The most violent country today is U S.A. It cannot tolerate the rise of any other power. Hence, its animosity towards China.
13. Two trade towers were brought down. In retribution U.S.A. destroyed Afghanistan. Two cities were erased by U.S.A. Japan bore it patiently.
14. Stalin starved 7 million Ukrainians to death. Stalin was dubbed evil dictator. Churchill starved 5 million Bengalees to death. Churchill was hailed as greatest hero.
15. Every child in India must be exposed to Vivekananda literature.
16. আমি জানি আমি সাগর | তাই আমি জানি তুমি সাগর | তুমি ভাবো তুমি ঢেউ | তাই তুমি ভাবো আমি ঢেউ |
17. When people unduly irritate you or idly comsume your time, ignore them.
18. Work must progress fast and efficient. The world cannot wait. Either things get sorted out or they get messed up further.
19.
The mother and her daughter. Sister Nivedita's educational work for India's girl children has now blossomed into a mighty academic institution, 'Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Sister Nivedita Girls' School'. Founded in 1898, it is poised to celebrate its 125th anniversary this year.
20. Unless a country honours its own great men and women, it is futile faulting the world if it neglects to do so.
21. The task at hand is so monstrously huge and the means being employed to execute it so meagre that sheer complacency alone born of ignorance can allow oneself to bask in self-glory at having attained some success. The country sinks in booming population and its concomitant evils. We need work without advertisement---silent, dedicated, energetic, enthusiastic, pure application of soul-force for accomplishment of the mission we so glibly talk of.
22. Nivedita? Sheer inspiration!
23. The Grande Armee is moving unto light through the vale of recurring birth and death.
24. We burn to light the lives of people. The pyre takes its sacrifice of pure souls. Mother, raise us all.
25. Men dream and die. Then their dreams are fulfilled in future ages wherein they are born again in the work. Such has been the hallmark of civilisation, the progressive advance of man through the dark dungeons of ignorance unto the realm of light and love.
26. In the end all is cipher. Unto that nullity are we headed through the affirmations of earthly attributes. The summation of it all is the void of undisturbed bliss, for interactions cease in the singularly. The ayes and the nays have all resolved into the integrated whole that superconsciously keeps 'sensing' its unfractured identity. The Self keeps ad infinitum brooding on the Self.
27. যেখানেই দেখবে আনন্দ, সেখানেই জানবে আত্মার প্রতিবিম্বপ্রকাশ ।
28. 'অল্প বিদ্যা ভয়ংকরী'র যুগ চলেছে এখন |
29. Very few people have a constant focus on the divine ideal. Hence, their work never quite gets the authoritative stamp so very essential for its lasting success.
30. Constant repetition of the divine name purifies the mind till it is shorn of all dross and dissolves to reveal the Self.
31. The love that is in the human heart is God. Unlock the chest and let it flow. Live in God.
32. Love will release you from hondage.
33. How long can you hide a corpse? It festers and lets out its presence by its stench.
34. Acquaintance yesterday, dear love today, estranged relation tomorrow, forgotten entity thereafter. Such is the flow of selfish life.
35. God chooses the insignificant man to grant His vision. Such is the significance of His grace.
36. Let the holy name pulsate in your being till it ceaselessly rises from within spontaneously. This is called Ajapaa jap.
37. Silence is the way---alone with God in solitary contemplation.
38. Who is a Guru? The one who can make you aware of your divine nature.
39. যৌবনে সংযম পালন করলে চিরযৌবন রক্ষিত হয় ।
40. মন যখন বহির্মুখ সংগীত তাকে অন্তর্মুখ করে । আর মন যখন অন্তর্মুখ সংগীত তাকে বহির্মুখ করে । অন্তর্মুখীনতা ও বহির্মুখীনতার মধ্যবর্তী অবস্থান সংগীতের ।
41. মানুষকে মানুষের সম্মান দিতে হয় দোষগুণ নির্বিশেষে । তবে তো দেবত্বদর্শন, তবে তো বেদান্তবোধ । এর মানে এই নয় যে দুর্বৃত্তকে প্রশ্রয়দান । শুধু অপার অকুন্ঠ প্রেম সকলের প্রতি সৎ অসৎ বিচার বজায় রেখেও । হৃদয়ের ব্যাপ্তি এমনই হোক যে তাতে সর্বোচ্চ আদর্শ বজায় রেখেই সকল বর্জনকে বর্জন করা যায়, যাতে পূর্ণ প্রেমে গ্রহণ হয় সর্বগ্রাসী । এরই নাম একত্ববুদ্ধি, এরই নাম মানুষকে ভালবাসা । মানুষ---এই শব্দটাই মন্ত্র । মানুষই সর্বোচ্চ অর্থে ইষ্ট ।
42. Nivedita was Vivekananda reborn.
43. This, my country, is my beloved.
44. প্রার্থনার সার্থকতা অন্তর্মুখীনতায় |
45. শিক্ষা শুধু তমোনাশ ও রজোগুণ বৃদ্ধির জন্য নয় | শিক্ষা সত্ত্বগুণের বিকাশের জন্যও |
46. Nonpareil Nivedita, lioness of the Vedanta, India personified, one of the greatest figures in modern Indian history.
47. Root out selfishness, narrow-mindedness, all sectarian, fanatical, lowly outlook and rise to the task of rejuvenating India. Alone you are a million. Now draw others to the grand mission. Perfect self-effacement is the only condition. The rest will follow. 🕉
48. The fascination with photos must give way to pondering on principles. That is how the polity will come up. Read, reflect, realise. 🕉
49. কোনটাই স্বামীজীর কাজ নয় | সবই মায়ের কাজ | যে মহাশক্তি মহামায়া মানুষের বিবর্তন করে চলেছেন, যাঁর মহতি ইচ্ছায় সকল কিছু মুহূর্তে সংঘটিত হয়, যিনি ঘটন অঘটন পটিয়সী আদ্যাশক্তি মহাকালী---সেই মায়ের কাজ, স্বামীজীর নয় |
50. Shun desire, embrace devotion.
51. মায়ের যেমন ইচ্ছা তেমন হবে | দ্রষ্টামাত্র আমরা | আবার যন্ত্রস্বরূপ | তবে বালিতে চিনিতে মিশে আছে তো, তাই বিচারটি থাকা চাই | নইলে অবিদ্যাকে শক্তিশালী করা হবে যা চূড়ান্ত অধর্ম |
52. তেলা মাথায় তেল দেব না শুষ্ক, রুক্ষ মাথায় দেব ?
53. Love of life is the cause of death.
54. The practice of spirituality is its best preaching.
55. কে কার গতি ফেরায়? যে যার কর্মে চলেছে |
56. বেদান্তের ঘরে বেদান্তের প্রয়োগ নেই | মানুষকে যথাযথ সম্মান প্রদর্শনে বেদান্তের ন্যূনতম প্রকাশ |
57. This life is a passing play in which God alone doth stay.
58. কারাকক্ষ এই দেহ | কারাকক্ষ এই মন | দুটি দূর হলেই মুক্তি, অবাধ স্বাধীনতা, অপার আনন্দ, মৃত্যুহীন অনন্ত অস্তিত্ব |
59. Know love at its purest to be God.
60. They say, "Dream big." I say, "I refuse to dream. Am I asleep that I will dream? I am wide awake. I will by dint of merit and effort carve out my destiny. I will neither daydream nor nightdream. I will rouse myself to self-conscious activity and rise to success."
61. লোভ করে লাভ নেই |
62.
A powerhouse of spirituality. The pastoral king's playmate. First Abbott of the Ramakrishna Order. A spiritual enigma.
63. আজকাল বড় আত্মপ্রচার | নিজেকে অন্যের চোখে প্রতিষ্ঠা করাতে বড় বেশী ব্যস্ততা | এটি হীনমন্যতার পরোক্ষ লক্ষণ |
64. আধ্যাত্মিক প্রতিষ্ঠানে টাকা এসে পড়লেই তা অনাধ্যাত্মিক প্রতিষ্ঠানে পরিণত হয় |
65.
Like the water of the Ganga our lives must be,
Pure and holy and flowing towards the sea.
66. Detractors there will be. Move on in your mission of establishing truth and justice on earth on the basis of manifestation of man's inherent divinity.
67. Compromise with wealth ruins spiritual organisations.
68. Perfection in work will lead to perfection of the soul.
69. শ্রদ্ধাস্পদকে শ্রদ্ধা করুন, ভয় পাবেন না |
70. মোহমুক্ত হয়ে গুণীর আদর করুন | নিরুপাধিককে মিথ্যা উপাধি দ্বারা ভূষিত করবেন না | ওতে মায়ার আবরণ তৈরি হয় |
71. নিজের কীর্তি নিজেই জাহির? কীর্তির আর রইল কি তাহলে?
72. যাঁকে দেখে কেউ কোন অবস্থাতেই ভয় পান না, তিনিই অহিংস |
73. সর্বশ্রাদ্ধ সমাপনের পরও নিরুপাধিক আত্মস্বরূপের আত্মপ্রচার সংবাদ মাধ্যমে, গণ মাধ্যমে? চরিত্র কই?
74. Atman is the light that shines within. By its light the world is known. This Atman is hidden in the cavity of the heart.
75. যিনি মন্ত্রদ্রষ্টা, তিনি ঋষি |
76. প্রথমে পুরুষকার, পরে কৃপা---এই কর্মের ধারা |
77. যাকে 'আমি' বলে ডাকি, সেই 'আমি'ই 'তিনি' | শুধু এই 'তিনি' দূরে নন, 'আমি'র মধ্যস্থলে |
78.
একদিন নরেন্দ্রনাথ প্রমুখ ঠাকুরের সন্তানেরা খেতে পেতেন না বরাহনগর মঠ ও আলমবাজার মঠে | সেদিন আজকের প্রণম্য, প্রাতঃস্মরণীয় মহাপুরুষেরা ফিরে তাকাননি তাঁদের দিকে |
79. ইতিহাস সংঘটিত হয় তার এক অমোঘ নিয়মে | নির্মম, দুর্লক্ষ, দুর্লঙ্ঘ বিধান | বিবর্তনের কালচক্র | একে বলি ভগবৎ ইচ্ছা |
80. 'যত মত, তত পথ |' গন্তব্য কি? গন্তব্য ঠাকুর |
81. Exploiting in the name of religion is pernicious.
82. তুলসী মহারাজ কার শিষ্য যদি না ঠাকুরের হন ? প্রমাণসহ কেউ বলে দিন |
83.
Tulsi Maharaj (Swami Nirmalananda) with devotees and children. They did not have money but they had their hearts full of love for Thakur.
84. As devotees of Sri Ramakrishna who was the embodiment of truth, it is our bounden duty to uphold the truth that Tulsi Maharaj (Swami Nirmalananda) was the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. If we fail to do so and side with falsity, we will have failed in our devotion to Thakur. Silence in this regard is tantamount to collusion with untruth.
85. God is the summation of truth and the essence of truth.
86. Thank you for joining the group [GREATER RAMAKRISHNA]. This group aims at highlighting the activities of institutions and organisations which belong to the greater body of Sri Ramakrishna beyond his central mission founded by Swami Vivekananda. These orders are less in evidence and need our lent ears for their voice to reach us. Hence, the urgency of setting up this group. The wider message must not be lost amidst over-centralisation of the Order. Sri Ramakrishna was 'as wide as the sky and as deep as the ocean', to borrow Swamiji's phrase, and as such his workings through the tributaries and distributaries of the central Order need highlighting. It is with this noble purpose of listening to the footfalls of Thakur across the meadows of this wide earth that we must attend to these diverse orders which are doing seminal service to humanity as well in the light of their understanding and interpretation of Thakur's message and teachings. May our endeavour meet with success by Thakur's grace!
87. বাসনা থাকতে কি সাধনা হয়? নির্বাসনাই সাধনার ভিত্তিস্বরূপ |
88. তাঁরই মনের একটা সামান্য অংশ 'আমি' করে রেখে দিয়েছেন |
89. It is a great fortune to be born in spiritual India. It is a terrible misfortune to then become a materialist and a rank atheist.
90. Religions that bay for the blood of infidels are not religions. They are political cults.
91. This group [GREATER RAMAKRISHNA] is exclusively dedicated to highlighting all activities of the Ramakrishna Movement that are beyond the workings of the central organisation established by Swami Vivekananda. For instance, it will cater to Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Saradeshwari Ashram, Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission (Barrackpore), Vivekananda Mission, Vivekananda Nidhi and a host of other such organisations that are also working in the name of the Holy Trinity of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji but find not the spotlight on account of the smallness of their size and working capacity. Nonetheless, it shall be our endeavour to bring to the fore the accounts of these not so significant units of the Lord who like the unseen worm are doing their wee bit in His service. May our enterprise be worthwhile! May Thakur-Ma-Swamiji bless our endeavour even as they shower their blessings ceaselessly on all, especially these little, forgotten elements in their silent service!
Sugata Bose [Administrator]
92. It is best to be humble and not keep beating the organisational drum to a point of discordance.
93. There must be fire in the voice and fire in the spirit if the youth are to be inspired by the preachers of the day.
94. অর্থ যেখানে, ঠাকুর নেই সেখানে |
95. ভক্তিবিহীন জীবন পশুপ্রায় |
96. ঠাকুরের ছিল গঙ্গাশরীর, স্পর্শ করলেই মুক্তিপ্রায় |
97. ভগবান কি তোষামোদে তুষ্ট ?
'চালাকির দ্বারা মহৎ কাজ হয় না |' [স্বামীজী]
98. It is high time that some significant scholar translates the Kathamrita to Russian. It will, perhaps, be easier to find a translator of the same from the English version to Russian.
99. হাসি Fixed Depositএ | Mature হলে বেরোবে |
100.
যাদের একটু হাসতে যেন কর দিতে হয়,
তারা লোক বড় সহজ নয় |
COMMENTS GALORE ... 24
Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Wrong. You may not have read them but Swamiji did make pertinent observations on both Vidyasagar and Rabindranath.
Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Who has said that Swamiji wrote books on Vidyasagar or Tagore? He made references to them which are available to the thorough reader of 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' and to allied books on him.
Sugata Bose @Jayanti Rakshit : Because in Swamiji's view Rabindranath was in the thick of both Vidya and Avidya Maya, and Swamiji wanted Nivedita, who was by now an ordained brahmacharini, to eschew all connections with Avidya Maya which for sure would be a serious impediment to her attaining divine realisation and to her conducting the work of the regeneration of Indian womanhood for which she had been commissioned by Swamiji after her own hyper-eagerness to do the difficult job despite forewarning by Swamiji about the immensity of the difficulties she would have to endure in ravaged, colonised, poor, starving India.
"Remember that that family has poured a flood of erotic venom over Bengal." These were Swamiji’s words and the idea embedded becomes apparent only to those who have truly renounced lust and gold and will make no compromise with worldly vanities however camouglaged in art and poetry and lofty verbal idealism that cannot quite renounce fully the ephemeral taste of things, and not to those who are not so well renounced. The moment one has the clear light of spiritual discrimination, worldliness of whatever hue becomes toxic to him and rightly so. Hence you see.
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda came to deintoxicate humanity of its material inebriation and here was Rabindranath doing just the reverse, offering his readers the inebriating drink of refined sensory pleasure. It was directly going against the mission of the divine duo for which they had descended to our earthly habitat. Nivedita was key to Swamiji's mission and as her Guru he would spare no means to save her from material delusion which her association with Rabindranath would surely bring about. After all, associations and exchanges bring about exchange of gunas, such is the power of contact of the senses with the sensory objects and impressions. As a naishthhik brahmacharini it was bounden on Nivedita to eschew all such contact and adhere to her Guru's instructions which she eminently was failing to do despite Swamiji's repeated remonstrances. Hence, "As long as you go on mixing with that [Tagore] family, Margot, I must go on sounding this gong."
Sugata Bose @Sandhya Bhadury : Few, though, have the breadth of culture and magnamity of spirit to appreciate my thoughts penned thus on paper, so to say. You obviously do and I thank you for it. Unfortunately, niggardliness dogs the common man and the uncommon man so, that it seems to be a universal feature of enslaved mentality that routinely bows down only to the privileged and the powerful or to hackneyed ideas and customs. Few, alas, have the intelligence or the expansiveness of heart to encourage a fellow pilgrim who is labouring to cut through the ice of dead decadent deposit. Did not Swamiji in despair exclaim, "Let men be thinkers?"
Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : How? And specifically -- not vaguely stating -- who exactly is and are distorting his image and personality?
Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Had a beautiful visit of Nivedita School today. Saw the new Higher Secondary Section building. Very well made. The school needs big time support. Mataji was very nice and cordial and spoke at length on the history of the Sarada Math and her association with seven of the initial eight who were the founder sisters of the Order.
Sugata Bose @Smita Mukerji : You have missed the literary nuance. Anyhow.
Sugata Bose @Smita Mukerji : You have missed the literary nuance. Anyhow. Thanks for speaking devoid of due civility, though. But then each one, I suppose, has his or her own style of disparaging others 'when crossed in conference' or even when no such occasion has arisen. Your claims regarding Nivedita having falsified accounts with respect to Swamiji's affirmations need substantiation as well for they evidently malign the Dedicated One in no uncertain terms. You must---assuming you are privy to proofs that would substantiate what you have levelled against the Sister---immediately take it up with the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, and the Sarada Math and the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission. That is where your protest, issuing from personal reflections and realisations, even if it is, ought to be lodged. Futile vilification on Facebook like this doth not do your honour justice. Thanks for using vocabulary thus against me without understanding the literary import of the post. But 'men may construe things after their fashion'. God bless you with greater restraint hereon!
Sugata Bose @Smita Mukerji : I understand your motivations now. You have amply made it clear. So, I consider it beneath my dignity to continue conversation with you along this line anymore, especially when I know you cross limits of verbal decency with ease.
Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : Be a dynamic young woman with the fiery zeal to raise fallen womanhood in India. I expect you to do so. Build yourself for the grand task ahead. We needs lionesses, not weeping women anymore.
Sugata Bose @Abhijit Mandal : Succinctly stated, Abhijit. Thank you for rising in defence of our Sister against undue verbal onslaught by maliciously motivated pseudo-nationalists who think linguistic proficiency is attribute enough to launch a verbal tirade against iconic personalities without furnishing proofs to substantiate their unfounded allegations. This comment ought to be directed at the offender herself by tagging her name to it in the pertinent post by way of reply to her comment there so that a semblance of shame attends her and/or it acts as a warning against repetition of such offence in future.
Sugata Bose @Abhijit Mandal : But you should have tagged the maker of the offensive remark instead of tagging me there. Anyhow, let us move on instead of wasting time on inessentials. There are more important things to do than engage in online vituperation with fellow pilgrims who are 'wending their way to the same goal', in the words of Swamiji. 'Let us bid each other godspeed.'
Sugata Bose @[YouTube Swami Shraddhananda] : The hyperbole used in Shivamahimna Sotram is not a lie. It falls short yet of the glories of Shiva. Verily, infinite are the glories of the Lord, so to say, and finite the means available to describe them. It is a mission impossible. Hence the use of the failed hyperbole in approximating imagination to the actual truth.
P.S. The glory of the Lord being abstract, it is not possible to enumerate it as such, abstraction ever eluding the grasp of concrete description. Hence, the allusion.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sraddhaprana Mataji biographical profile] : Over-poetic presentation with undue modulation of voice, quite unlike what Swamiji liked. Strong womanhood would deem a presentation unmixed with delusive ultrapoetic sentimental manner and means. A robust verbal articulation would be a better adornment for such a tribute to a seminal sage. Terrible narration with undue modulation smacking of Avidya Maya.
Sugata Bose @Silvia Gort : Sorry to hear, Silvia Gort. Nobody dies, dear. The body which covered her has merely been cast away and she continues to live with you, near you, holding your hand and heart ❤️ ever. May Mother bless you and relieve you of your now inconsolable grief!
Sugata Bose @Deepankar Bagchi Addressing it would have been one of his prime objectives. He would have set about the task on a war footing, exhorting millions of youths to engage in the mission of saving the environment from a catastrophic collapse.
Sugata Bose @Nilanjana Chakraborty : তুমি শিশুকে নিয়ে আছো, তাই মা আছেন তোমার গর্ভে |
Sugata Bose @Soham Pain : সত্যিই তাই, বিশেষতঃ যখন তাঁদের ভাষায় ও ভাষণে বরাহনগর মঠের, আলমবাজার মঠের ও বেলুড় মঠের আদি ও মধ্য যুগের অর্থনৈতিক দুরবস্থার কথা প্রায়শঃ শুনি অথচ তাঁদের মূল কেন্দ্র ও নানা শাখা কেন্দ্রগুলিতে তার বিপরীত রীতিনীতি, আচারআচরণ ও কর্মানুষ্ঠানের ধারা লক্ষ্য করি | এই দ্বিচারিতা দুঃখজনক শুধু নয়, সত্যভিত্তিক ভবিষ্যৎ স্থায়িত্বকে সংকটে ফেলছে কারণ যা সত্যের ওপর প্রতিষ্ঠিত তা পরিশেষে আংশিক মিথ্যা ও অবিদ্যামায়াকে কেন্দ্র করে স্থিতিশীল হতে চলেছে | অসত্যেরও স্থায়িত্ব আছে, সম্প্রসারণ আছে | এ কথা স্বয়ং বিজ্ঞান মহারাজের | উচ্চ ফলিত আদর্শ আজ লুপ্তপ্রায়, সত্যাসত্য অঙ্গাগিভাবে সংঘে জড়িত | এই আজ সংঘগত ব্যবহারিক সংস্কৃতি যার প্রতিকারসাধনে কাউকে দেখি না প্রতিবাদী কথা বলতে | এও মর্মান্তিক | ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর আদর্শ আজ ভূলুন্ঠিত |
Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Ganga! Ganga! Ganga! Be as holy as Her.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Kathamrita Bhavan --- Swami Jyotirupananda] : Swami Siddheshananda and a certain lay gentleman accompanying him always in these lecture series take up a lot of useful lecture time other than making the pre-lecture and post-lecture parts insipid. Would it were that Swami Siddheshananda refrained from undue introductory elaboration and the other gentleman did not speak to spoil the fragrance of the lecture at the end of it at all! This is a recurring thing happening in every lecture arranged by the Kathamrita Bhavan and it ought not to be, both for the sake of propriety as also for the sake of aesthetics.
Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal :
ঊর্ধ্বমুখী অমৃতনিদ্রা, শিক্ষার ঊর্ধ্বমূলের সন্ধানে |
Sugata Bose @Sandhya Bhadury : আমরা স্পর্শ করলে নয়, তিনি কৃপাপরবশ স্পর্শ করলে চিত্তশুদ্ধ, ভাবসমাধিস্থ মুহূর্তে, বাসনাবিবর্জিত মুক্তপ্রায় হব আমরা | মুক্তপ্রায় কারণ পূর্ণ নির্বাসনা না হলে মুক্তি হয় না | আমরা স্পর্শ করলে তাঁকে এমনটা যে হবেই তা নয়, তবে সে আমাদের গ্রহীতাশক্তিনির্ভর ও তাঁর কৃপাসাপেক্ষ | অখণ্ড পবিত্রতাসহায়ে অনন্যমনে চিন্তা করলে হবে বইকি | সেখানেই তো আশা | তবে ভাবের ঘরে চুরি করলে চলবে না | অহংবিলুপ্তপ্রায় কায়মনোবাক্যে ব্রহ্মচর্যপরায়ণ হওয়া চাই, অকপট, সরল, শরণাগত | তবে হতে পারে | পুরুষকারের শেষে ঈশ্বরকৃপা | সেই কৃপায় মুক্তি | পুরুষকারের সাধনা শুধুমাত্র প্রস্তুতিপর্ব, ক্ষেত্রকে প্রস্তুত করা প্রভুর পূর্ণাবির্ভাবের জন্য |
Sugata Bose @Parthasarathi Mitra : স্বরবর্ণগত অনুপ্রাসের অনুসন্ধানে |
Sugata Bose @Sandhya Bhadury : True, true, if the feeling be true and its extent and sweep all-embracing with no bounds barred.
Sugata Bose @Sandhya Bhadury : কর্ম প্রকৃতিজাতঃ, নিজের নয় | এই বোধ পরে আসে | প্রথমে মনে হয় সব আমিই করছি | কর্তাবোধ থাকে | সাধনপথে অগ্রসর হতে হতে এই ভ্রম দূর হয় |
আপনার প্রশ্নের উত্তরে বলি এবার---হ্যাঁ, সৎ কর্ম করতে করতে ও মুক্তির তীব্র বাসনা হতে ক্রমে চিত্তশুদ্ধি হয় ও সদ্গুরুর সন্ধান মেলে | এ এক দৈব সংঘটন | কোথাও ছুটোছুটি করতে হয় না | সংযোগ ওমনি হয় | তবে সদ্গুরু আছেন খুব কম | একইভাবে সদ্ শিষ্যও পাওয়া দুষ্কর | শিষ্য প্রস্তুত হলে কিন্তু প্রকৃতির এক অমোঘ নিয়মে গুরু এসে উপস্থিত হন শিষ্যের সন্নিকটে | তাই উপনিষদ | 'উপনিষদ' কথাটির অর্থ হল গুরুর সন্নিকটে শিষ্যের পরা বিজ্ঞানপ্রাপ্তির নিমিত্ত উপবেশন |
Sugata Bose @Rai Kamal : দারুণ ! কত আনন্দ হল শুনে ! ঠাকুর কল্যাণ করুন এই কল্যাণীর ! 🕉 [Reference: daughter has passed H.S. from Sri Sarada Ashram Balika Vidyalaya with 91% marks.]
Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : Marvellous! Uniquely creative as usual. Few, alas, are able to appreciate your devastating wit and otherwise pure magical humour! The daily current of such witty posts, the recurring flow of it is unbelievable. Simply amazing!
Sugata Bose @Prashant Mishra : Have you read the post? Comment with reference to it and do not digress to extraneous matters. A post demands a certain focus. Regarding other aspects later dialogues may be pertinent.
Sugata Bose @Jayanta Bhattacharjee : It will be not of much use to include his writings and speeches in the academic curriculum given the paucity of space available in it. It will be better if civic organisations keep propping up to propagate his life and message. Today social media provide unique outlets for such propagation en masse. But good speakers, writers, anchors and presenters are few and far between. Therefore, we need to take up the challenge of educating ourselves in Vivekananda literature and equip our diction with the right perfection to become able presenters of the Swami's life and message to the masses. Even the Ramakrishna Mission is woefully short in this regard, in so far as perfected presentation is concerned. They have no organised wing that caters to preaching Swamiji effectively. In fact their presentation of Swamiji is awfully poor.
Sensuality has overcome the race like anything and cowardice characterises the educated Hindu. We have to go direct to Swamiji's works for guidance instead of choosing the via media of his Mission to teach us his thought. Remember, organisation has its compulsions and so do political parties have their electoral banks to cater to. Swamiji alone did a herculean task to regenerate our country and each one of his children would have to be a hundred times greater than him was his wish that he had expressed to his disciples. The Ramakrishna Mission is providing us the published literature of Swamiji. It is for us to take it up from there to reach it to every child and youth, beginning from our very homes. The question is---are we ourselves sincere? That is for us to answer and work on. A single sincere soul can work wonders. Let us then be sincere ourselves instead of expecting governmental sincerity, for a government is as good or as bad as we are.
Sugata Bose @Utpal Aich : 'Mahatmaism'---nice new word coined. It could be the name of a future religion in Gandhiji's name.
Sarcastic to a flagrant fault! Lovely exposure of a well-draped cover-up. Indeed, this was his singular successful Satyagraha full of malicious intent, mischievous manoeuvring and Mahatma-like machinations that led to India's eventual Partition, for in evicting Subhas Chandra Bose he had severed the Indian freedom struggle of its right arm of revolution. That Subhas Chandra Bose along with Rash Behari Bose yet achieved so much from alien soil that precipitated freedom is proof of the duo's revolutionary fervour and seemingly superhuman strength. But with the singular success of Gandhi at Tripuri he managed to maim the revolutionary movement at home largely which with British Machiavellian policy armed Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the teeth to carry out the carnage of Hindus that led to Partition post the patriarch's (Gandhi's) precipitation despite solemn vows and pious protestations to the contrary. The rest is history.
And history, indeed, with fabrications and hyper-emphasis on Gandhian non-violence as being the sole cause of freedom, a lie propagated to perfection to a people precipitated with poverty and ignorance that took in whatever was dished out to them. Now the hour of lies is up and history is avenging the injustice that has been heaped on it, albeit slowly but surely. The nation is awaking to the long-suppressed truth of armed revolution as being equally complementary to passive resistance as the cause of the country's freedom. The martyrs to the motherland are being resurrected one by one even as the mockery of calling the assassination day of Gandhiji 'Martyrs' Day' continues, for Gandhiji had been sadly felled by a fellow Indian and not by the alien oppressor, and, so, cannot be hailed as a martyr in strictest terms.
Anyhow, a lighthearted, heavy-themed presentation which has successfully highlighted Gandhiji's seminal singular contribution to the motherland independence. And kudos to you for presenting it in mock-Mahatma terms!
A REQUEST TO ALL ANCHORS WHO OVERDO THE ACT
Do not destroy a grand oration with superficial thanksgiving and summarising of its content subsequent to the discourse. It completely takes the flavour away from the spiritual atmosphere pervading on account of the talk. This routine observation during a lecture series is patently offensive to a sensitive audience. It betrays a lack of aesthetic sensibility. Kindly desist from such excessive anchoring that nullifies the effect of a lecture.
Once in London Swami Vivekananda gave a powerful speech. Immediately after the lecture Swami Abhedananda announced that there would be a Q and A [Question and Answer] session. The Q and A followed as announced. Later Swamiji chided his brother disciple for spoiling the effect of the lecture he had delivered by calling for an after-lecture Q and A session. Swamiji said, "When I speak to the audience, I give them something solid. You spoilt the impact of the lecture and diluted its effect by calling for the Question and Answer Session thus." Let this observation of Swamiji's be in the minds of all who overdo the anchoring act.
Written by Sugata Bose
LOVE
Human love is conditional, subject to circumstance, faltering and failing, full of fettered frustration and pain. Where it makes no demands but gives wholly while preserving purity, there love transcends such lowly limitations and assumes ascendancy to the heavens that leads to liberation. Perfect purity makes all the difference. The test of love is that it should quicken spiritual consciousness and keep one blissful beyond body bounds. Where it fails, it is to be deemed camouflaged fleshly desire.
Written by Sugata Bose
PRINCIPLE ABOVE PERSONALITY, PLEASE
If religion is based on truth, why worship divine incarnations, messiahs and prophets? Why adore them at all? Let us seek truth instead, independent of all such adoration of personality. Let principle prevail over personality. Science does it and has emerged triumphant. The Vedic dharma did it once and a wonderful civilisation emanated out of it.
If personality be eschewed from its infantile adoration, much of the fanaticism and persecution centring religion will vanish. This is what Swamiji must have wished for when he had said, "Let the lion of Vedanta roar."
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo: top -- the nameless monk in his wanderjahre of discovery of the soul of India; bottom -- the same Swami in the twilight of his life with shattered body about to give way. The interim period had been given to the world to regenerate it.
THE NEED OF THE HOUR
Very few monks have fire in their voice when they preach from the podium. Without such power lectures are in vain. It is character born out of austerity and realisation of the principles preached and an uncompromising life lived in consonance with it that generates the fiery power that can run through the nerves of the audience and set them aflame to transform them for good. Such men are few and far between although the demand of the hour for such is inordinately high. We need a renaissance in our spiritual culture that must retrace its steps to the pristine principles enunciated by Ramakrishna and Vivekananda.
Written by Sugata Bose
THE HINDU IS RIGHT AND THE HINDU IS WISE
The Hindu has a pragmatic sense of God. He does not carry his whole bank balance to office but just the required sum in his purse. So, he is happy to worship the Avatar and the concise version of God in His image and cares not to befuddle his brain with thoughts of the Infinite right away. After all the water in the cup and the water in the sea are the same water. And the Hindu knows it. He also knows that there is no other way to know God save through the anthropomorphic way, of seeing the sea in the saucer, of sensing the atmosphere in the puff of air inhaled.
The Hindu is practical and the Hindu is wise. He has made bread and butter of philosophy while the tall talkers of monotheism gasp for breath in the void of their imaginary infinitude which they term God. The Hindu has solved the dimensional problem, harmonising differences in magnitude in the zero he has discovered and attaining peace in realising that the small is but the big if in kind they agree, notwithstanding differences in degree. After all the standing figure is the lying figure with height transforming to length while volume and mass remain conserved.
Written by Sugata Bose
