MESSAGES GALORE ... 49

MESSAGES GALORE ... 49

1. Wash everything except your brain. Keep your faculties alive and fight conversion.

2. Don't seek heaven. Don't fear hell. All archaic superstition. Reject. Study. Build your life. Be self-dependent.

3. Swamiji has given us a mantra which no one follows. He said, "Unite the forces of goodness." Swami preached strength and expected us to be strong in every sense.

4. Reject superstition. Be rational. Seek truth on the basis of evidence and not blind faith. This is the way to strength.

5. Use your brain and scrutinise religion. Let it stand the test of reason. In so far as it does, accept it. Where it fails, reject.

6. Islam was forced onto India through Arab conquest. Christianity was forced onto India through European conquest. Sufferer? Hindus.

7. Continuous brainwashing creates robots out of men to be manipulated at will and create chaos in civilised society. Ponder.

8. Stop cruelty to animals in the name of religious sacrifice. Give life a chance.

9. The resurrection of the Sanatan Dharma and the complete restoration of subcontinental Sanatan culture is the goal. 🕉

10. Do not mortgage your brain to faith.

11. When in the land be of the land. Alien culture doth ill befit thee. Gayatri, Geeta, Ganga ought to suffice.

12. It takes a lifetime to overcome inbuilt superstition. Blessed are those who are free of such cramping beliefs, blessed indeed!

13. Submission has its limits. How much must women submit to men in the name of obedience to God when men may rule as they please?

14. Give up fear. You need fear no God, no fire to fear. Make paradise on earth by declaring your inherent freedom. Submit to none.

15. Stand on your own feet. Be independent. Fear none. Let courage be your guide through life. Be self-confident. You will triumph.

16. Why fear God when you are in essence God? Give up childish conceptions of a creator omnipotent God. Affirm your own divinity.

17. With deep distress I see helpless people suffer the tyranny of a created God of archaic attributes, of medieval tribal conception.

18. Honouring women holds the key to a rising civilisation.

19. Question religion. Seek evidence. Do not blindly believe. Test. Reason. Train your brain. Reject authority that dictates. Be free.

20. Release the stranglehold of religion and you will see civilisation rise in all its varied facets. Civilisation thrives in freedom.

21. Be not a slave to ambition. Work in freedom. Enjoy every bit of it. Be unattached.

22. If you are brainwashed from birth into believing in the doctrines of a religion, it becomes mighty difficult to rationalise and come out of it. But try and come out. Your reason will help you, your self-belief, so far stifled and crushed but never quite extinguished, will make you triumph. Stop believing blindly in God or any other divine or human agency and start believing in yourself. You will be at peace. Best wishes and all support in this difficult endeavour. You must win and you will.

23. Swamiji says that the Abrahamic scriptures are said to have been inspired but the Sanatan scriptures have been expired. Meditate on this essential difference. By this Swamiji means that the Abrahamic scriptures have an external source outside of the prophets whereas the Sanatan scriptures have as their source the very heart of man. A crucial fundamental difference with huge philosophical implications. 

24. Halal and halala! Hai hai!

25. When you love God, you are loving yourself. All prayer, reflection, meditation, concentration are self-reflective.

26. Ignorance about the principles of the Sanatan Dharma is the primary cause of conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity.

27. Your karma judges you every moment. The Sanatan Dharma does not postpone it to the Last Day or the Day of Judgement. That is an Abrahamic concept which is philosophically untenable as per the Sanatan Dharma.

28. How can Sikhs convert to Islam ever after knowing what the Mughals did to their Gurus and their families?

29. Organised conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity is going on. Hindus must organise themselves to resist it. Moreover, Hindus must go missionary and propagate their Dharma far and wide while educating their children in its essence. We need activists, think-tanks and preachers of quality. Each Hindu must be a missionary on behalf of the Dharma. Reconversion of perverts from the Dharma must be widely organised. The Arya Samaj has been doing this since inception through their Shuddhi Movement. May more such reconversion channels open up!

30. Varanasi and Mathura must be recovered by the Hindus and purged of inimical influences. Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura---these are our trinity of holiest places.

31. The uttam bhakt anticipates the Guru's needs.

32. It is the heart that feels that sees God, not the head that quotes scripture and moralises.

33. Holiness and unholiness are the moralising done by the unfeeling man. Love all such who have fallen.

34. Who am I? Who are you? Who are we all?

35. 'Greed' for God must not degenerate to hankering for heaven.

36. শ্রদ্ধাবিহীন অধ্যয়ণে বিদ্যা নয়, অবিদ্যা বৃদ্ধি হয় |

37. বাইরের ভেতর আর ভেতরের বাইরে অনুস্যূত ব্রহ্ম |

38. Manhood, Swamiji said, was his last gospel. That manhood is most absent in some of his followers who are effeminacy personified.

39. "বালিতে চিনিতে মিশে আছে |" ঠাকুরের এই বাণী গভীর তাৎপর্যপূর্ণ আধ্যাত্মিক, দার্শনিক, ঐতিহাসিক, রাজনৈতিক, সব দিক দিয়েই | বোঝা চাই |

40. I am a worshipper of God, His myriad images, multiple gods as representations of His multiple aspects. Any problem?

41. Bharatvarsha is my mother. I have no grandfather that way for my motherland is unborn, eternal and has no father.

42. Maharana Pratap Singh, Chhatrapati Shivaji and Guru Gobind Singhji are our heroes.

43. If a spiritual organisation becomes rich, it loses spiritual power. Spiritual decay then sets in causing its eventual demise.

44. "Arise! Awake! Approach the one who has at the Truth arrived. Seek his counsel. Then proceed along the path that is like the razor's edge and difficult to traverse." --Kathopanishad.

45. Is it good to support the rot in a spiritual organisation or is it better to resist the rot by refraining from doing so?

46. To stand on one's soul is spirituality.

47. 

Thought, speech and action must match and in purity abound if one is to be deemed spiritual. But the preachers of spirituality in the mass market that they milk seldom fulfil the trinity of obligations. Caught on camera above was one that did.

48. Ragging has reduced education to rags.

49. Less word, more work.

50. If universities become the hub of decadent culture, what remains of civilisation?

51. University students, study Vivekananda and become luminous citizens of this great nation.

52. Spread Vivekananda. Do not run after money in the name of welfare work. See how our university students are turning into degenerate materialists tending to smoking and drinking on campus, and justifying such license as legitimate natural rights. Let the words of Swamiji spread like a forest conflagration consuming all material dross that afflicts left-leaning West Bengal today.

53. নিজের প্রচার ছেড়ে স্বামীজীর প্রচার করো | তবে জাতি জাগবে |

54. ফল পেতে গেলে ফলের আকাঙ্ক্ষা ছাড়ো ।

55. Ragging অশুভশক্তিসম্পন্ন অসংস্কৃত কাপুরুষে করে | Ragging is evil.

56. বৈরাগ্য না এলে ভগবানকে চেনা যায় না |

57. যে ভগবান তোমায় বাঁচান, তুমি তাঁকেই মারো?

58. It is better to be reasonable and rational than fanatically religious.

59. Conversion is not only a cultic conquest but a cultural conquest as well with deep civilisational ill effects. Hence, deplorable.

60. Ragging is not innocent indulgence in pranks. It very often is tantamount to criminal offence.

61. মেধা থাকলে কি হবে? জড়বাদ, ভোগবাদকে আশ্রয় করে শ্রদ্ধাবিহীন যে মেধা, তা অধার্মিক, নিষ্ঠুর, অমানবিক কর্মের জনক |

62. Fanatical faiths take freedom away from their followers. Reason should help you to reject such faiths that curb your freedom.

63. বুদ্ধি ও শিক্ষা থাকলেই হয় না | শ্রদ্ধা, পবিত্রতা, সুরুচি, সুসংস্কৃতি, সংযম ও সর্বোপরি চৈতন্য থাকলেই মানুষ যথার্থ মানুষ পদবাচ্য হয় |

64. Don't fear. There is no God waiting to cast you into the Fire. That goes against the very spirit of God who is all love.

65. Reject fear born out of brainwashed faith in damning scripture. Be spiritual. Be compassionate. Be free.

66. Man-made words masquerading as God-made ones. Falsity from first. A bit of reason would reveal the truth about it.

67. If rebirth is true, you will have to be reborn even if your book tells you otherwise. Truth is higher than what your book reveals.

68. How many decades more will fanatical faiths last?

69. Liberalism must not be built upon quicksand foundation. The brute must be faced square on and combated. Low preferential politics engaged in to bring about progressive changes will backfire in the long run as in Iran prior to and post the Iranian Islamic revolution.

70. স্বামীজীর ছবি ছেড়ে স্বামীজীর লেখা পড়ুন |

71. (5/7500) × 100 % = 0.066% of my followers on an average 'like' my posts. A stupendous success rate, indeed!

72. Today I met a few young people at a family function. I was saddened by the utter lack of Vivekananda-awareness among them. 🕉 

73. Nobody will go to hell. Reject such hellish ideas born of primitive ignorance.

74. The percentage of practising Muslims is far higher than that of practising Hindus. Herein lies a 'striking' difference.

75. Fear not. You are the imperishable Atman, the one permanence behind this ever-changing perishable universe, the sole constant behind all universal variables. Let fear fear you, let death die upon you. Move on resistless along your onward path. Who can stop your progression unto eventual fulfilment? 🕉 

76. Don't believe in any scripture that damns you to burn in hell for so-called failure in faith. Be fearless. Be free. 🕉

77. We need virile, bold expositors of Swamiji's message in like lightning terms, thunderous personalities cutting through the veils of Maya and lifting the audience to rarefied heights of soulful Self-awareness and sacrificial self-giving.

78. We need pure souls today who do not run after politicians in the name of being apolitical and money in the name of renunciation.

79. It is best to pride on one's own achievements and not bask in familial glory of a past great of divine descent.

80. মানুষ মেরে যে বিপ্লব, তা দানবরাজে পরিণত হয় | চাই চরিত্রগঠন যা সনাতন ধর্মের সারমর্ম, স্বামীজীর বাণীর নির্যাস |

81. স্বামীজীর বাণী নিজে পড়তে হবে আগে---তন্ন তন্ন করে |

82. Language has its limitations. Which is why pleaders find out loopholes in law. Interpreters of the law are thus necessary who must pass judgement on what the scope and intent of the said law is and how far it has been observed or violated.

83. On Facebook I find many anti-Swamiji elements. Surprised to discover such pernicious persons. They are also patently anti-Hindu.

84. As I see online malicious maligning of Swamiji, my resolve to spread his message grows stronger. Swamiji's devotees, support.

85. Swamiji being judged by every হরে প্যালা পঞ্চা !

86. শ্রদ্ধাবিহীন তথাকথিত উচ্চশিক্ষিতজনের একটি বেশ বড় অংশ, বিশেষতঃ উচ্চবর্ণের বঙ্গবাসী, যে স্বামীজীর প্রতি বিরূপ মনোভাব পোষণ করবেন, তাতে আর নতুন করে আশ্চর্য হওয়ার কি আছে ? বর্তমান ভোগমুখী সমাজে জড়বাদী শিক্ষা যে মানুষ তৈরী করতে পারছে না, তার এর চেয়ে বড় নিদর্শন আর কি হতে পারে?

87. All of India over the moon.

88. You must pretend that all is hunky-dory with the world you live in. If you raise your voice, you'll be held accountable for it.

89. বড় দুঃখের বিষয় যে যাঁরা সবচেয়ে বেশী 'হিন্দু, হিন্দু' করে সোচ্চার, তাঁরা প্রায় কেউই স্বামীজীর 'বাণী ও রচনা' ভাল করে পড়েন নি, পড়েন না, পড়ার প্রয়োজনও সম্ভবত বোধ করেন না |

90. ব্রহ্মচর্যবিহীন উচ্চশিক্ষা মনকে ঊর্ধ্বমুখী করতে বিফলকাম হয় |

91. ভোগাকাঙ্ক্ষা থাকতে ভগবৎ চেতনা সুদূরপরাহত |

92. ভারতবর্ষের সনাতন আদর্শ আত্মজ্ঞানলাভ | শিক্ষার উদ্দেশ্য তাই ব্রহ্মচর্য অবলম্বনসহায়ে এই উচ্চতম শিখরে মানবমনকে প্রতিষ্ঠিত করা |

93. যে উচ্চশিক্ষা বিদ্যার্থীকে দেহবুদ্ধি অতিক্রম করতে সহায়তা করে না, বরং তাকে দেহবুদ্ধিতে অধিক আবদ্ধ করে, তা ঘনীভূত অবিদ্যা |

94. Lunar landing on the south pole a new feather in the cap of ISRO.

95. 

Squadron leader Rakesh Sharma, India's first spaceman.

96. "I reached America, as you know, through the help of a few friends of Madras."-Swamiji 

Mark, Madras and not Calcutta!

97. I want neither good nor evil but God who is beyond both.

98. বিনয়ভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের সন্ধানে আছি | সবই দেখি আত্মশ্লাঘা আচার্য | বিনয়বাবু, কোথায় গেলেন ?

99. Hindu girls, be careful of the marital conversion trap!

100. Moderate fanatic? What is that? Hindus, guard your religion. Do not convert.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY (15 AUGUST, 2023)

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY (15 AUGUST, 2023)

Today is the day to remember the martyrs to the motherland who died to win freedom for us, a day to mourn the loss of millions of lives that were laid waste by centuries of colonial oppression and a day to celebrate that despite a dismembered territorial sovereignty gained after endless suffering, we at last stood a dominion in direct control of state affairs, a state that achieved fulfilment two and half years later on acquiring republic status. Our forefathers have suffered that we may breathe the fair air of freedom. Our prostrations at their feet, our reverential love ❤️ and resonant feel of their every pulsation of heart that yearned for freedom and groaned under the tyranny of the times. Vande Mataram!

Written by Sugata Bose

SPARE THE BRAIN AND SAVE THE CHILD

SPARE THE BRAIN AND SAVE THE CHILD

Do not frighten children into submission to faith. Let them grow up and reason for themselves. If you love them, you will spare them this ordeal.

Taking away the faculty of rational thinking by substituting irrational doctrines in the growing consciousness is injurious to the growth of children and produces either lame followers of fanatical leaders of faith or transforms them into fanatics themselves. From birth to death let them not be haunted by the fear of hell and the lust for heaven. This is the way to developing healthy citizens of the future. 

Break away with the octopus-grip of archaic superstition passing off as faith. Religion, if it has to be a positive factor in the onward march of human civilisation, must allow men the freedom to think, question, doubt and reject it if necessary without the penalty of death following it. Scepticism must be the foundation of the discourse in faith just as in science. Only then is faith worthy of being followed. Else, it is archaic superstition fit to be rejected. 

Written by Sugata Bose

ভাববার কথা

ভাববার কথা 

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পড়ুন যা লিখি | চিন্তা করুন | শুধু ছবিতে আকৃষ্ট হবেন না | চিন্তা না করলে চৈতন্য আসবে কি করে ? স্বামীজী বলেছিলেন ১৯০০ সালে তাঁর বিখ্যাত বক্তৃতা 'Is Vedanta the Future Religion'এ, 'Let men be thinkers.' ['মানুষ চিন্তাশীল হোন |'] তাঁকে কি আমরা হতাশ করব ? তিনি তো মহাসমাধির অব্যবহিত কাল পূর্বে দুঃখ করেছিলেন যে তাঁর উচ্চ উচ্চ ভাবগ্রহণে তাঁর অনুগামীরাই অপারক | তাহলে আজও কেন আমরা শুধু তাঁর নামে শূণ্য জয়ধ্বনি দিয়ে ক্ষান্ত হব ? তাঁর ভাব বোঝার দিন এসেছে | ভাবুন | রামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দ ভাবান্দোলন আজ ভাবজগতে বহুলাংশে ব্যর্থ আমাদের লঘুতিত্ততার জন্য | আসুন, গভীর অনুধ্যান করি তাঁদের জীবনবেদ | সেই অধ্যয়নে আছে পরম কল্যাণ, তার অনুসরণে দেশগঠন, জাতিগঠন, আর বিশ্বমাঝে তার প্রচারে মনুষ্য সভ্যতার রক্ষা |

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

THE ROAD TO RUIN OR REDEMPTION ... 2

THE ROAD TO RUIN OR REDEMPTION ... 2

The problem with the world is that hardly anyone dares to 'face the brute' as Swamiji said one should. Nearly all wish to hide behind a facade of nicety even if they are well aware of the wickedness that threatens them, the doctrinal dastardliness that creates disharmony and deliberate violence the world over.

We as a nation have suffered a millenium of persecution till our national life has well nigh been reduced to a feeble existence of sorts with our pristine civilisation much contaminated and perverted by proselytising cults that have sapped its erstwhile vitality and continues to do so. Our reforms have been reactionary, our progress impeded, thwarted by contrary cultures emanating from alien lands, and our civilisational identity blurred and blighted.

For well over a millennium we have been undoing the damage done even as fresh inroads and assaults continue to wreck us from within and without. Swamiji has said that harmony eventually shall be but it shall be the resolution of clashes and conflicts whereby a strong nation will emerge to recover its heritage and shower its spiritual blessings on the whole of humankind. We await such a development even as we work towards it. But, to reiterate, few, alas, dare to catch the bull by the horns and tame it or overcome its aggressive thrust. Most are too weak, too cowardly to combat the evil that has bedevilled us for so long.

Written by Sugata Bose

COMMENTS GALORE ... 33

COMMENTS GALORE ... 33

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Proceed slowly but surely towards God-realisation. Advancement (Charaiveti) is the key. Life after life this baggage of body-mind holding the soul seemingly in the captivity of ignorance must be got rid of. This is the grand goal towards which we are all advancing and often going backward as well. This is the human body, the highest chance to see Him who is the one unchanging subject in an eternally changing objective world. So, make utmost effort to see Him who is the source of all knowledge, all peace and all bliss, the beautiful beloved enshrined in the heart of hearts in the depths of our being. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Bejoy Bandopadhyay : The child here in this photograph does not seem to be Satyajit Ray because Tagore here is in his late seventies and Ray is just a child, and yet Ray was much older when Tagore was as old as he looks here. It must be some other child.

Sugata Bose @Henry D'Almeida : Nonetheless, everything said and done, we ought to advance in the right direction and one such measure in regard to it, and a significant one at that, must be to popularise Sanskrit. The country's heritage and culture must not be lost to the people and Sanskrit holds the key to preserving it, for it is the preserve of it.

Sugata Bose @Jisnu Bhattacharya : Shameful denial of TAKA MATI MATI TAKA. Lajja! Nirlajja arthalipsa!

Sugata Bose @Vidya K : Marriage often results in conversion. Hindus quite conveniently convert when cross-religious marriage dictates conversion as condition. Subsequently, the offspring from such marriage become Muslims or Christians, so obliterating the Hindu lineage. Hindu father--Christian mother=Christian children; Hindu mother--Christian father=Christian children; Hindu father--Muslim mother=Mulim father and Muslim children; Hindu mother--Muslim father=Muslim mother and Muslim children. This is the way it goes. Besides this there is monetary inducement and academic advantages offered by missionaries to convert to Christianity. Such conversions are done voluntarily as well by opportunistic Hindus eager to secure easy advantage. We must create schools to outmatch Christian missionary schools.

Sugata Bose @Deep Mukherjee : Unconcerned they are and unconcerned they'll remain, for literacy and learning, religiosity and spirituality, patriotism and piety are all well-nigh absent in a polity that is famished, wounded as the civilisation is from a millenium of alien oppression.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Ganguly : না | আপনি টাকার দাস বুঝি ? তাই দর্পনে দেখছেন অপরের মাঝে আত্মবুদ্ধিতে নিজেকে ?

Sugata Bose @Falguni Chatterjee : বড় বড় সঙ্ঘগুলি সকলেই | বেশী তথ্য দিয়ে লিখলে বেদনাদায়ক হবে | এই আদর্শ রক্ষার সর্বোচ্চ ভার যাঁদের, তাঁরাও আজ অর্থের পেছনে দৌড়োচ্ছেন | মর্মাহত, দিগ্ভ্রান্ত ভক্তকুল তাই হতাদর্শ অবস্থায় কালাতিপাত করছেন | ভগবান কি পুনরায় আবির্ভূত হবেন তাহলে আজ ধর্মসংস্থাপনের জন্য ? সেই প্রতিক্ষা করব না আত্মসংগঠনে ভূলুন্ঠিত আদর্শকে হৃদয়ে সংস্থাপিত করে জনকল্যাণে নিজেদের নিয়োজিত করব ?

Sugata Bose @Subhamoy Banerjee : Let us daily study Swamiji. I exhort you to do it. In it lies a great good which should serve our motherland well. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Buddhadeb Mukherjee : নিজ নিজ জীবনে সত্যযুগের মূল্যবোধ ও গুণগত উৎকর্ষ আনলেও স্বামীজীর এই অমোঘ ঘোষণার সার্থকতা কিয়ৎসম্পাদন সম্ভব | আপনি আমি যদি এই উদ্ঘোষশার চরিতার্থতা নিয়ে বৃথা সংশয় প্রকাশ না করে তা চরিতার্থ করায় মন দিই, তাহলে এই বিফলতা বোধ হবে না | জীবনে কতটা ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর অনুগামী হতে সচেষ্ট হয়েছেন, সে বিষয়ে ভাবা কাজের কাজ, মিছে রসিকতায়, কপটপ্রশ্নে, লঘু বিদ্রূপে কোন কার্যসিদ্ধি হবে ? তার চেয়ে তাঁদের পদাঙ্ক অনুসরণ করলে সত্যযুগের প্রভাব অধিক উপলব্ধি হবে | প্রয়াত কলির প্রভাব ও আগত সত্যের সত্ত্বগুণের সংঘর্ষ চলছে ঠাকুরের আবির্ভাবের ক্ষণ হতে | ঋষিদৃষ্টিতে যা প্রতিভাত, তা অভ্রান্ত, আপ্তবাক্য অমোঘ | তা বোঝার জন্য অনুরূপ জীবনযাপন করা চাই | এ সূক্ষ্ম তত্ত্ব, ভোগার্থে বোধগম্য নয় | স্বামীজীর বাণী ও রচনা প্রত্যহ শ্রদ্ধাবনতচিত্তে পাঠ করুন, সংশয় দূর হবে, হৃদয়ের গ্রন্থীমোচন হয়ে আত্মালোকে চিত্ত উদ্ভাসিত হবে | তখন বুঝবেন স্বামীজী অভ্রান্ত তাঁর এই ব্রহ্মবাণী উচ্চারণে | বিষয় বিদূষকের নয়, বিষয় বিবেকানন্দ |

Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : মানুষের দেহ আছে, মন আছে কিন্তু মানুষ দেহও নয়, মনও নয় | মানুষ আত্মা | এই আত্মাই মানুষের স্বরূপ | এই আত্মাই সর্বশক্তির আধার | আত্মার ওপর নির্ভরতা তাই আত্মনির্ভরতা | আত্মজ্ঞানই আধ্যাত্মিকতার চূড়ান্ত লক্ষ্য | আত্মনির্ভরতা তাই আধ্যাত্মিকতার সাধন ও সিদ্ধির ফল | তাই এক অর্থে আত্মনির্ভরতা আধ্যাত্মিকতারই নামান্তর |

যিনি সর্বতোভাবে স্বনির্ভর, তিনি আধ্যাত্মিকতার পথে অনেকটা অগ্রসর হয়েছেন | নিজের ওপর বিশ্বাস, ভরসা, আস্থা যাঁর আছে, তিনি সবল, যে সবলতাকে বাহুবল, বুদ্ধিবল ও আত্মবল, এই ত্রিবিধ ভাগে বিভক্ত করা হয়েছে | 

'নায়মাত্মা বলহীনেন লভ্য'---এই বৈদিক মন্ত্র উচ্চারিত হয়েছে ঋষিকন্ঠে এটি বোঝাবার জন্য যে বল ভিন্ন আত্মজ্ঞানলাভের উপায় নেই | এই বল আসে স্বনির্ভরতা থেকে কারণ স্বনির্ভর যিনি, তিনি পরমুখাপেক্ষি নন | প্রকৃতি তাঁকে বাগে আনতে সহজে সমর্থ হন না | আর প্রকৃতির কবল থেকে মুক্তির নামই আত্মজ্ঞান ও আধ্যাত্মিকতা |

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Good morning goes out with good wishes. Whether wishes count or not depends on the individual of course. But a wave of goodwill, may it extend to all as life rolls on in its expansive phase. As Swamiji says, "Expansion is life, contraction death."

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Read, read, read. Fulfil your intellectual promise.

Sugata Bose @Sinchan Som : Reverence and love, that which is due to all mothers, exceeding which is due to the golden womb whence have sprung three golden sons, Narendranath Datta (Swami Vivekananda), Mahendranath Datta and Bhupendranath Datta.

Sugata Bose @Deep Mukherjee : Which is why Swamiji said, "Unselfishness is God." So, let us be unselfish.

Sugata Bose @Dalia Nandy : The nation needs to be raised. I am fine in so far as our motherland is fine. Hope you are doing alright. But I hope you are not mistaking me for the grandnephew of Netaji which I am not.

Sugata Bose @Dalia Nandy : That is good. I must say you are a highly sympathetic soul who has sought to know about my well-being which few bother to do, and I must offer my gratitude and good wishes unto you for that. May Thakur-Ma-Swamiji bless you!

Sugata Bose @Debashish Paul : To read Vivekananda is also to know the truth about all the major world religions and not to live in gullible ignorance about the intent of the proselytising Abrahamic cults.

Sugata Bose @Sita Babu : I agree. Also, these appeals lead to donations by devotees far less well-off than the organisations that claim to be deficient in funds. This is how over decades and centuries spiritual organisations accumulate wealth while the givers of such are gradually reduced to penury.

Sugata Bose @Jagat Prasad Dash : Mythology gives moral lessons and must be absorbed but mythological literalistic reading of history must be rejected. Understand the intent of the post well.

Sugata Bose @Jagat Prasad Dash : But people are literally made to believe that this is how the universe evolved, which is a patent falsity in so far as discovered scientific truths are concerned.

Sugata Bose @Samarbijoy Chakraborty : This is the inevitability of Islamic proliferation. History amply testifies to it. Bangladesh, originally East Pakistan, was carved out of undivided India on communal lines and now the movement has come full circle. Is this not what their historical destiny deserves to be en route to massive cultural disaster as is being evidenced increasingly?

Sugata Bose @Jagat Prasad Dash : He did spread the Sanatan Dharma for sure, the Vedanta in all its deepest implications and extensive operative potentialities. Where in the post has it been expressed that the religion spread by Swamiji was specifically 'his own', that is, founded by him, so to say? You misread the intent of the post as you have elsewhere done as well to which I have duly responded. Swamiji used to say, "In our country people tend to fight over the crust of things and care not to read deep into the core. In the West this would be highly offensive if people did so. They ignore the surface of things and take the inner intent of a statement."

Sugata Bose @Jayanta Bhattacharjee : So it does. Buy there are apologists galore for superstition as well which slows down the country's progress. However, conservatism also has its flip-side advantage in that it preserves heritage and prevents the undue overthrow of time-honoured traditions. Problem is where mythical misreading of history becomes the modern discourse that strays from the original scientific approach of the Vedic civilisation, garbing it in Puranic interpretation and attempting to pass it off as the truth even if it is in strong divergence from discovered scientific truth. This hinders national progress. The polity must be rationalised and trained to look upon the past with reverence but not blind acceptance of every statement that is recorded in scripture even when they radically differ from scientific truths duly discovered.

Sugata Bose @Biswadip Biswas : The idea is that spiritual organisations must not lose their primary focus on spirituality and must not degenerate to becoming commercial corporations.

Sugata Bose @Madhavendra Singh Tomar : In Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission they do not observe Punyatithi (Mahasamadhi Day), as far as I know.

Sugata Bose @Deep Mukherjee : Yes, indeed. The Upanishads are, though, the concluding and climactic part of the Vedas themselves.

Sugata Bose @Sreedharan Kallithodiyil : Capitalism, demography and their concomitant evils have a dominant say in today's world.

Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : Ever the tragic tale of life's fairest flowers. Nazia Hassan of Qurbani film fame lay in rest at only 35 years. (03. 04. 1965 -- 13. 08. 2000)

Sugata Bose @Student : Stick to the normal routine in future. That is the most convenient time for good teaching. Abrupt changes to suit convenience are of lesser avail if even agreed upon on request. The best tuition is possible only when the rhythm of normalcy is maintained.

Sugata Bose @Jayanta Bhattacharjee : Yes, indeed. Sometimes the mood catches on, circumstances triggering ideas, energy overflowing and metamorphosing into volcanic words, and love for motherland finding expression in uncompromising terms.

Sugata Bose @Deep Mukherjee: That's the point. What about him? (Gandhiji)

Now read more and realise the real text of it. There lies the test which you must with credit clear. (Reference is to reading more about Gandhiji.)

Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal :

তখন মহার্ঘ পেলমেটে শীততাপনিয়ন্ত্রণযন্ত্র পরিবৃত করা পুণ্যকর্ম | 🕉

Sugata Bose @Deep Mukherjee : And Vedanta preaches Me.

Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : Lovely! But Netaji had called Gandhiji so well before the birth of Pakistan.

Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : In regard to Islam Gandhiji's stance was clear. Any problems the Muslims had about their religious culture was their internal matter to be solved by them on their own.

Sugata Bose @Debashish Paul : 'Discolouration' would be, to my mind, the accurate single-word translation. Discolouration means disenchantment with the manifold sensory universe in all its spectral manifestation deluding the soul into identification with it, the universe of the senses including both the external physical one perceivable by the five senses and the internal subtler one perceivable by the mind. 'Raag' means 'colour' as well as 'love'. Hence, 'vairagya' means 'discolouration' as well as 'the conscious giving up of love', that is, 'detachment'.

Sugata Bose @A drooping soul : You are the numero uno in every sphere, in every skill, in every movement of life. Think of this always. Remember your inherent greatness. Let the call of the Atman awaken you from this dreadful earthly slumber. What is life? Infinite life awaits each one, ready for reception at one's doorstep, and yet man sleeps. Isn't it strange? And this is Maya. Reject it and arouse a mighty power within yourself. Remove the barriers and break free. Yours is this universe to inherit, yours all that you survey. Be not limited to this little frame, this frog-in-a-well consciousness. You are the ever-free, the never-bound source of everything and upon you has been gifted the boon to build yourself and build this motherland of ours. Make a grand success of it. You won't fail to deliver for it is your destiny to deliver thus. I see a grand future, a lustrous, luminous, brilliant one. My blessings ever attend on you and unconditionally forever!

Sugata Bose @Rinita Mazumdar : These rock carvings have been called degenerate by Swamiji and dubbed the legacy of declining Buddhism during its great fall following left-handed Tantric worship of the most abominable kind. Swamjji has strongly disagreed with these sexually explicit sculpture as being representative of our Sanatan culture where purity and sublimity have always been regarded the signature attributes of civilisation.

Sugata Bose @Rinita Mazumdar: Of course we have to accept Swamiji's words based upon historical study and the seer's realisation as truth. He is not anybody and everybody but the Yugacharya, the spiritual guide of all Sanatanis for the age and for ages to come. Tantra has three phases. They are the divine, the human and the animal. Degenerate Buddhism had filled Aryavarta with the lowest and most horrible carnality in the name of Buddhist Tantra. Which is why Adi Shankaracharya arose to cleanse Bharatvarsha of such degeneracy. But historical inertia and enveloping sensual Maya continued to have its sway. Hence, the degenerate representation of religious practice in rock after submerging the land in real in such fleshly practices. The legacy continues till date in terms of weakening impulses of the past paralysing the present-day polity. This is also why Swami Dayananda Saraswati gave his extreme clarion call of 'Back to the Vedas'. From Shankaracharya's times, Swamiji says, we have been recovering our lost heritage and the work is still going on. A thorough study of 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda', especially the 'Lectures from Colombo to Almora', is vital for the revitalisation of the Hindus snd the resuscitation of our culture and civilisation. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Dipak Dey : Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said it, likened establishment in fame as in pig excreta.

No, success in the sense of communication is definitely the objective of writing my messages, not any personal achievement in that as such. But reader response is poor and, hence, it seems an utter failure.

Sugata Bose @Rinita Mazumdar : Sign of cultural degeneracy, not art.

Sugata Bose @Pulak Routh : Your devotion for Swamiji is matchless---pure, simple, innocent, truly emanating from a loving heart. ❤️

Sugata Bose @Indibar Gurdas Mukherjee : Yes, multinationalism with American solo dominance destroying nation after nation.

Sugata Bose @Indibar Gurdas Mukherjee : Yes, Soviet Russia for sure. Not so much China as yet, in neo-imperial terms a far cry from both USA and Soviet Russia.

Sugata Bose @Saikat Goswami : Swamiji himself had wanted to set up a Ramakrishna ashram in the Kashmir Valley on s plot of land offered him by the Maharaja of Jammu-Kashmir but was prevented by thd British from doing so. The wily British were even then intent on sowing seeds of sectarian dissension among the people of India with a view to its future possible Balkanisation as and when historical circumstances would force the British to leave Indian shores.

Things changed after independence again. Nehruvian policy carried to perfection kept Kashmir backward through provision of Article 370 and Article 35A and the failure to with force subdue secessionist forces in the Valley. India's kid-glove treatment of Pakistan and electoral appeasement minority policies further complicated matters in the Valley which remained the hotbed of Islamic jihadi aggression threatening the break-up of the nation in its northern frontier. Ramakrishna Mission, ever an organisation that has played safe in its mission activities and stayed clear of all political trouble where it could, did not venture to open a second centre in the Valley. It must be granted that very often the situation as well was not conducive to doing so as well. I am not sure if the Government of India also would have allowed them to have done the same there. Anyhow, Articles 370 and 35A have now been abrogated and the Valley is set up for a new lease of life. It is moment opportune now to establish Swamiji's dream ashrama in this beautiful valley, the seat of Lord Shiva and veritably the abode of the gods, a sprawling second ashrama with its characteristic multifarious welfare activities. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyam Singham : Everything will happen in due course. The entire subcontinent will overflow with Thakur-Ma-Swamiji's loving grace. 🕉

THE ROAD TO RUIN OR REDEMPTION ... 1

THE ROAD TO RUIN OR REDEMPTION ... 1

Merely preaching liberalism will not save the world from toxic extremism. Daydreaming does not destroy dastardliness, effective action does. Purification of humanity is not the preacher's task. Giving birth to a holier humanity is the only way to ensuring a nobler order of social existence. This cannot be achieved by tall talk, by pandering to the vanities of the senses, by make-believe interfaith harmony that exists not, but it must be achieved by the sacrifice of thousands of souls at the altar of human evolution, souls that will dedicate their lives utterly to the cause of human regeneration in a fearless, uncompromising way, careless of return. This is what Swami Vivekananda had wanted and this is what we have failed to fulfil while all the while engaging in tall talk that is mere froth and no more.

The world has multiple challenges facing it, challenges that could extinguish human existence on earth or seriously impair human civilisation. The biggest threat is the environment, degrading fast unto human annihilation. Another is the nuclear threat, a stockpile of bombs sufficient to destroy the world fifty times over and send humankind careering backwards to the Stone Age within hours of a full-scale war. The third major threat is American domination of the world which catalyses the above effects. The fourth such is the rise of Political Islam with its demographic effects on Europe and India, the latter remaining as yet the last bastion of spirituality and civilisation that can as yet save the world. Where we are headed is by now clear but what measures must be adopted to avert catastrophe isn't. 

Written by Sugata Bose