CATCH HIM ON THE HIP

CATCH HIM ON THE HIP

In the comment stream some people come along just to 'catch you on the hip'. These hip-hunters are so much in contrast to the erstwhile hippies who, wild as they were in some ways, were so liberal and loving. These 'commentators' only point out the side-faults in a post, have no sympathy for the general intent of it, are narrow-hearted, slight-souled and caustic in comment, and some are even sarcastic and outrageously mocking. Worst of all, there are foolish respondents who, instead of giving them a due rebuttal, encourage them further by providing a 'like' sign to their comments. One more thing. In a land of expanding opportunities and rising fortunes these commentators will never 'like' the post if they comment, their energy getting expended in the posting of contrary observations alone. Picking faults with others, cherry-picking passages and 'rubbing it in' with superficial reading into a post has become the 'intelligent' man's malady. Would it were otherwise with more positive observations dominating social discourse, we, especially our provincial people, would be better off today. As Swamiji said, "In the West they follow the inner intent of an observation and deem it discourteous to comment on its surface linguistic trappings. But here you are busy fighting over the chaff, forgetting the grain within. This would be deemed highly offensive in the West." I rest my case here.

Written by Sugata Bose

WHITHER SINCERITY TO SOURCE?

WHITHER SINCERITY TO SOURCE?

Where is the Vivekananda preacher of power who can speak with a virile voice and not squeak apologetic words on behalf of the Dharma? Followers of Vivekananda, introspect. Greater manliness is expected of you, greater dynamism, and unashamed, unapologetic, forthright spelling out of truth. Swamiji must be ashamed of those of his followers who have turned into cowards, indifferent witnesses of atrocity on Hindus and pretentious harmonisers of a fractured humanity without bothering to address the key issues that cause such fracture. Being apolitical does not mean pandering to the corridors of power and appeasing elements that threaten the Hindu polity. Being apolitical means standing up for truth on behalf of dharma and against adharma with a bold and fearless stance, and without any intent of seeking or securing governmental patronage for welfare activity that compromises one's essential principles. If the people support you, you need not bother about governmental help that needs must cause such compromise. Else, it were better to shut shop and meditate to get divine power to deliver such welfare work. If the people leave you, where will you get help or strength to carry on with your work? So, it is time that Hindu interests are also catered to and not forsaken to pursue the wild geese of universal harmony with elements essentially antithetical to such peace and harmony. Pretentious piety we have had enough. Now let us see some sincere manliness in you.

Written by Sugata Bose

HEED NOT THE HEARTLESS

HEED NOT THE HEARTLESS

Do not bother about what ill-disposed western media speak about the Hindus and their supposed intolerance. Disregard them and feel your inherent glory. Study Swami Vivekananda, Guru Arjan Devji, Guru Tegh Bahadurji, Guru Gobind Singhji, Samarth Ramdas, Chhatrapati Shivaji, Maharana Pratap Singh, Swami Dayananda Saraswati and countless other patriots and sages, and revere them for the sacrifices they have made to keep the flickering flame of our Sanatan civilisation alive through centuries of horrendous Arab-Islamic persecution and Euro-Christian colonisation.

Let the West say what it will. Let its stooges here in India sing in unison with them. Why bother? Go about glorifying the motherland, her Sanatan Dharma and culture, and help build a future for her more glorious than ever before.

'When the elephant enters the market, curs bark by the thousands, but the giant one heeds them not. So also do petty men revile the sage in the thoroughfare of life but the holy one is unaffected by such criticism.' (Kabirdas)

Bharatvarsha is the chosen land of God, the Punyabhumi (Holy Land). It has been the habitat of towering spiritual giants down the ages. Rejoice that you are all their descendants, the inheritors of their divine legacy, the sharers in their showered bliss. Reject western or indigenous media criticism. They have their political axes to grind. Cast off such deliberate denunciation and focus on building a strong Sanatan Bharatvarsha. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

COMMENTS GALORE ... 34

COMMENTS GALORE ... 34

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : It will when the world will be a thinking one. In much the same way humanity had to wade through irrationality and superstition to universally accept science in its lowest technological denomination at least. It is strange to see that you are against the rise of the spiritual consciousness of the world which is what Hinduism is all about and so often quote Vidyasagar to denounce the Vedanta. One recalls Sri Ramakrishna that Vidysagar was unaware of his inner self where gold was hidden and was, thus, busy working so much in the outer world. Had he been aware of this inner treasure, his outer welfare work, noble though it was, would have reduced. Vidyasagar was a Sanskrit scholar no doubt but, being a spiritually unrealised soul, was in no position to deliver judgement on the veracity of the Vedanta. Sages like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Ramakrishna and Shankaracharya are authorities in this field and not the Pundit. There is a gulf of difference between the understanding of a realised soul and a mere scholar in so far as spiritual truths are concerned. Hence. Moreover, it is curious to find Hindus, especially braahmans, batting against Hinduism quite so often. Such self-betrayal obviously harms the Hindu cause and the sooner we secure solidarity within our ranks, the more secure will be our future. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Vidya K : Swamiji meant the same. In his judgement Vedanta or the Vedic Dharma was the more appropriate name for Hinduism, but elsewhere he has copiously referred to our Dharma as Hinduism and rarely as the Sanatan Dharma as is the wont these days, and rightly so. Swamiji disliked the Hindu propensity of securing petty 'word victory' and stressed on realising the essence of a statement made. His famous paper read out on 19 September, 1893 at the Chicago Parliament of Religions was titled 'Paper on Hinduism'. He had elsewhere said, "I am proud to be a Hindu." Swamiji most often used the terms 'Hindu' and 'Hinduism' and never called himself a 'Sanatani' as is the wont these days. So, these differences of terminology are of not much consequence so long as the meaning is clear. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Zsuzsi Puruczki : You are more of a Hindu than most Hindus are, especially those who are intent on harming the Hindu cause as it rises worldwide in a renascent mode. Your conviction has brought you across cultural and religious barriers to the Sanatan fold and your belonging there is thus built on the secure foundation of experience and understanding which none can take away. Those who are born within the braahman fold and choose to betray the Hindu cause, as is so often unfailingly evident, have scant understanding of spirituality, materially and sensually inclined as they are. You see, rationality has its intermediate pitfalls and they fall into these, the vanity of little learning predisposing them towards such a precipitation. 'Shraddhaa', an untranslatable Sanskrit word, roughly translatable as deepest reverence born out of deep yearning and aspiration for realisation of the highest spiritual truth, has gripped some of those who cross cultures to embrace Hinduism, whereas this very shradhaa has departed from the souls of those Hindus who in their delusion of secularism and humanism et al denounce Hinduism as so much regressive religious stuff. I welcome you wholeheartedly to the Hindu 🕉 fold and offer you my brotherly love and warmest greetings. Jai Ramakrishna!

Sugata Bose @Shyamacharan Pandey : True, deprivation from the side of the converted but corruption from the side of the proselytiser.

Sugata Bose @News Nation (YouTube) : Adam Seeker is brilliant, focussed and irrepressible.

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Vidyasagar, noble and scholarly as he was, was not a Brahmajnani qualified to vouch the veracity of the Vedanta or otherwise. Simple as that. Read Ramakrishna-Vivekananda thoroughly to arrive at a better understanding. Without transcendental realisation no scholar can comprehend the profundity of the Vedanta. Simply impossible. Hence, it is puerile to posit such a proposition or to deem such a scholar as having had the capacity to understand the truth of the Atman which is beyond the domain of intellectual cogitation. Vidyasagar is venerable but not invulnerable in his supposedly puerile pronouncement to the effect to which you so eloquently testify.

Sugata Bose @John Embrey : Hindus must be aggressive in self-defence. Else, they will wiped out of existence in the future as they have been for the last 1300 years.

Sugata Bose @Suvasish Ganguly : That was an expected reply from you considering your past pronouncements in the comment section of my earlier posts, although, what the exact connotation of such a usage would be remains to be revealed.

Sugata Bose @Sumit Baran Basu : Thanks for your sincere appreciation, solidarity in stance and encouragement provided me to carry on with the task of raising our Hindu consciousness. My gratitude in especial to you for recognising the neutrality of my position which none else thus far has had the civility to do. I am rather forthright in my assertions and often impatient in my criticisms but am never partisan or politically motivated in my activism. My only goal is to raise human consciousness through my felicity with the keypad, feeble though it may be in terms of quickening the fire of a slumbering mass of people who would prefer to dive deeper into the icy chill of death in an avalanche rather than seek deliverance while hour there is yet at hand. Thank you once again. May Thakur-Ma-Swamiji preserve you and yours! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Suvasish Ganguly : Speaking sincerely is one and making quick money is another. Haven't you read, 'Note the Devil doth cite the scripture for his purpose?' Does it falsify scripture? It merely exposes intent perceivable by the discerning eye. Work for Bharatvarsha. Contribute your ploughshare of work to make her great. Mere sarcasm is sterile. What we need is fertile ideas, effective execution, sincerity of feeling for the motherland and her hoary heritage, and aspiration for her future glory. 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed is an enlightened individual who speaks the straight truth in a civilised way.

Sugata Bose @Arghyaprana Mataji : And the seed of downfall for a civilisation on the verge of being wiped out in the immediate or the not so far off future. Herein lies perspective, context and the relativity of values applicable to microcosmic and macrocosmic situations. What is food for one is so often poison for another. Thus, democracy in deliberation, dialogue and discourse directs the national ship towards the desired destiny. The problem has ever been this tangling relation of the individual and the collective. The ideal in sublime spiritual terms is one and the practical in terms of mundane reality another, the duo much at mutual variance. The ascetic in his reclusive hermitage broods on transcendental reality in one way while the current of common life flows in grosser brutal terms in quite another manner. The balance between the ideal and the practical is ever to be sought and realised for maximum benefit to all and sundry, divorced from which fate deals a race or a nation the hard blow from which it scarce recovers and perishes more often than not, leaving not a trace behind but hieroglyphics that are difficult to decipher. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debesh Choudhury : 'DAHEJ' and 'JEHAD' are laterally inverted words seen in a plane mirror.

Yes. Except for the letter J which is slightly asymmetrical. But you are innocent of the significance, the inner meaning of the post. Go and reset your inner mirror of reflection before posting such anomalous reaction to a writing.

Sugata Bose @Deep Mukherjee : I have not found anybody till date quite fathoming the import of what I write. And this is my submission in all humility and truthfulness. Hope none finds this offensive.

There are layers of meaning and significance in my words, nuances which pass common, even uncommon, comprehension, for reading these days has been reduced to cursory glancing, surface focussing of attention that can scarce read into the import of a post unless the post be a puerile one for everybody's easy understanding which in essence is such a pity.

These are days of demographic transition with its consequential decadence of culture in every aspect of civic life. We are a vanishing breed of writers in the public domain, an endangered species who are now marooned on an isolated island that is soon to be swallowed up by the tsunami of pervasive common culture without depth or breadth of vision. These are the dying embers of a rich aristocratic literary tradition in flames now from the ignition of coarser mental stuff. I speak not for myself as such but on behalf of all those seminal giants who have given us the best of thought in bygone millenia but whose fruits we failed to absorb and assimilate adequately so as to equip ourselves to avert the fate that now awaits us. But such are the cultural consequences of demographic transition for the worse which needs must be the case in this day and age of mass literacy and the proliferation of 'little learning'. Pardon me if I sound self-aggrandising, but if I do, then I will have proved my own poverty of culture which would be self-defeating and defeating of the cause I here represent. These are not individual matters but mass changes that are eroding erstwhile refinement of thinking and expression, understanding and appreciation.

May Mother bless all with wisdom, grace and the capacity for patient study of serious literature and reflection thereof! Then alone will culture take off on its upward swing. Right now, though, it is a precipitous course gravitating downwards till the asymptote sends culture coursing upwards. Population worldwide must diminish for it to eventually take place. Till then, till kingdom come!

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : I personally am not much of a believer in rituals. I have no idea whether these rituals have any spiritual value beyond binding society through certain norms and practices. Someone better equipped with scriptural knowledge may answer your question to your satisfaction perhaps.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : No. Religions are diverse paths through greater or lesser error that ultimately lead to the Transcendental Truth which is the Absolute Reality.

Sugata Bose @Amara Iftikhar : Brave girl. Honest person, sincere to a fault in a country gone wrong since inception and going down each day along the rigidities of theological absurdity in a modern world that has embraced multiculturalism as its credo. Pakistan ought to review its theological stance, withdraw power from the clerics, democratise the political system, free the three organs of government from army control, educate the masses, free women from masculine stranglehold and improve relations with India. Overall, a modern approach must be adopted in order to save it from imminent disintegration. Corruption is eating into the vitals of this nation which needs immediate sanitisation. Islamic indoctrination to such an excessive degree even in the academic course is proving toxic for the nation. Separate the state from religion which seems impossible unless an overhauling of some basic features of the Constitution is done. But only such a radical change can firmly establish democracy and help empower the people for the future progress of Pakistan.

Sugata Bose @YouTube (Arvind Saharan) : Amara Iftikhar is a highly sensitive and compassionate soul living in a country totally antithetical to such values. Brave girl battling against seemingly insurmountable odds. My best wishes and moral support for her humanistic crusade against religious regression degenerated to the near-destruction of a nation.

Sugata Bose @Khalid Umar : Thought ghosts were spirits gone wrong but spirits nonetheless. Spirit has no mass and hence no weight. Hence, the weight gain cannot be attributed to direct addition from the ghost. The ghost then must be inducing a secondary effect on the body by increasing appetite which causes the weight gain in which case injection of ghost should be healthy prescription from the doctor (Zakir Naik) for anorexic patients tending to die and becoming ghosts owing to lack of nourishment. This medical man is a marvel of sorts, a mischievous missionary with malefic intent, eminently loved by the lunatics of the world and laughed at by the lords of ghosts. Sufficient unto the night is the ghost thereof!

Sugata Bose @Khalid Umar : Rishi Sunak is such a good person. His very face is expressive of his sincerity, of his simplicity, his humility and his flexible strength. He is a wonderful blend of modernity and tradition, of rootedness and progressive instincts, overall a fine spimen of our age-old Sanatan culture despite his birth and habitat in a country far removed from his ancestral one. Sunak's open averment of pride in his being a Hindu warms our hearts and is a great step ahead in the forging of harmonious relations between Britain and India as also furthering the cause of the spread of Sanatan culture across the world, for Britain is not an inconsiderable power even today and her Prime Minister no mean representative of the dominant western culture where Hinduism now is making its marked headway.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Poor Maulana! Hopping and dancing and beating about the bush to defend the indefensible. A thinking brain engaged in the futile exercise of propping up a collapsing sandcastle.

Sugata Bose @Goutam Ghosh : Dwivedi, that's why. Once she is Chaturvedi, she'll trace her roots alright.

Sugata Bose @Shyamacharan Pandey : Not possible as it is a printed version. Moreover, Swamiji did move from Calcutta to Chicago as he had set out on his wanderjahre from his hometown. So, the post is alright after all. In many a writing we may come across such technical flaws, so to say, which we must overlook and take to the thematic intent. The spherical core matter more than the undulating crust.

Sugata Bose @Amarnath Ghosh : A moment of momentous significance for the modern world, a point of convergence of cultures, a historic meeting point of civilisations across clime and time, overall a point of fulfilment of the best elements of the past in the just-born present en route to the glorious future of humanity lying dormant in the pregnant womb of time.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Amara Iftikhar] : You have a wonderful humanistic balance. Quite extraordinary in the circumstances that you are.

Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : You mean this time I.N.D.I.A. will be split into 13 parts?

Aha! That's what I meant with full stops intervening between the elemental letters of the word I.N.D.I.A. signifying the prospective segmentation of it in its original connotation which unhappily is the country. 

Sugata Bose @Ramen Chatterjee : ধর্মের অপমান সহ্য করে, শুধু তাই নয়, হিন্দু পারলেই নিজের জাত ও ধর্মকে অপমান করে | আর এই প্রবণতাটা উচ্চবর্ণ উচ্চশিক্ষিত বাঙালী হিন্দুর মধ্যেই সবচেয়ে বেশী পরিলক্ষিত | বামপন্থা ও বামাচারের বিকৃতি !

Sugata Bose @Shusobhan Charit : Pertinent question. I am ignorant about the genesis of this dietary divergence between the Bengalis and a large section of the Noth Indian Hindus. It is indeed baffling how co-religionists have widely differing diet with contrary claims of the same religion attempting to justify their respective dietary positions. Geography, history and local demographic composition have, I guess, to play a pivotal role in defining diet. But this is my uneducated surmise, not data-based investigative inference.

Sugata Bose @Geeta Sridhar : I am talking about the tears of Swami Abhedananda for Thakur's grace on him, that is, for his unbounded love for his disciple. But no tears were shed apparently, at least from the quotation, for the hundreds drowned. I am shedding tears for those other ones as well who being myself in other forms having drowned, I myself drowned in agony with them. 🕉

HINDU RENAISSANCE ... 2 [POST OF 2015 EDITED]

HINDU RENAISSANCE ... 2 [POST OF 2015 EDITED]

Hindus must cast aside the preeminence of caste identity and stand together as a cohesive unit if they are to survive as a race. These caste divisions have served their purpose, and often gloriously so, but have now outlived their utility. They are weakening the fabric of Hindu society and stand as a great bar to the attainment of social cohesion within the Hindu fold.

The lower castes have suffered great tyranny at the hands of upper caste Hindus and have often been so marginalised down the ages that they have fallen easy victim to Muslim and Christian proselytisation. These proselytising Semitic religions thrive on inducing members of other religions to join their ranks to advance their cause of world domination. Economic inducement, malicious propaganda and political enforcement by conquering races have all played their due role in wooing lower caste Hindus away from their fold into the rank and file of these Semitic religions. But the worst offenders have been the Hindus themselves. Instead of sympathising with the lower classes and lending them a helping hand to climb up the social ladder, the upper caste Hindus have historically only rained scorn, atrocity and alienation on them, even denying them basic living conditions to survive with any semblance of human dignity. Like animals these children of God have been treated down the ages and made to labour for their upper caste social masters till they have lost their very individuality. The consequence of this terrible neglect of the masses has been the weakening of the nation and it falling a victim eventually to the Mohammedan invasion in 712 CE and to European colonisation subsequently, a period of alien tyranny ending with that most vicious rule of the British lasting for the last 190 years of this dark phase of Hindu history.

But the Lord has been kind and once more we are free as a race and a nation, although we have received a truncated India by way of independence. Nonetheless, we now have the chance to rectify our past mistakes and start afresh to rebuild our Hindu civilisation.

The civilisation that began on the banks of the Sindhu, the Saraswati and the Ganga, had flourished for over four thousand years before its pulse weakened and it went into its shell to preserve its sanctity and character. The hindrances that came in the way of its free expression during the Muslim and the Euro-Christian periods are now no more and we stand as a sovereign nation with the opportunity and power at our disposal to shape our own destiny, that of fulfilling the evolution of our race in line with the master plan of our Vedic sages and seers. It is thus meet that we Hindus realise the significance of the moment and start the process of rebuilding our ancient civilisation which through foreign invasive thrusts has been much wounded and which may be restored to its pristine state only by the healing touch of mutual love and respect, service and care, renunciation and realisation. Following in the foot-steps of our Rishis and Avatars down the ages, we must again come up as the premier spiritual people of the world and shine on world civilisation as a beacon of light. To the ushering of such a day let us pledge ourselves and let us in accordance start pouring in our labour of love for our beloved motherland that she may occupy her due premier place in the comity of nations. Vande Mataram! 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

MESSAGES GALORE ... 50

MESSAGES GALORE ... 50

1. Hindu organisations are obligated to save Hindus from conversion. But a few prefer to remain indifferent to such a call of duty.

2. Dewy dawn welcomes you. Awake! Awake! The first beams are yet away. They are missing us as of now as we rotate to come across their streaming path. Then all will be light and all will be life as the early birds awake from their slumber.

3. Strengthen India by developing yourself and laying your talents at the service of the nation. 🕉

4. Here I raise a wave. There you feel the ripple. We are connected by a common consciousness. Let us unitedly work out our destiny.

5. ধর্মপ্রতিষ্ঠাতা যদি ব্রহ্মচারী না হয়ে ব্যভিচারী হয়, তার ধর্মও হবে তথৈবচ |

6. Celebrate Chandrayan 3's lunar landing like a true patriot. Do not pinch while praising under the pretence of being one.

7. If this body goes, it will be grand. I will come back with a fresh one, ready to sacrifice myself yet again for resurrecting the glory of my motherland and serving her to surpass it by miles. Who cares if this body remains or goes? The work will go on of the rediscovery of our past glory, of preserving all that is good and great in our much-wounded civilisation and of building on such secure pristine foundations the future grand edifice of Bharatvarsha that is light and love and work in union in the mission of integrating all in the Divine within. 

8. Do not be afraid of Hell. These are all clever ploys devised by religious leaders and clerics to keep community under control. Hell derives its existence from you. You create Hell in your superstitious fear of the unknown and you can destroy it as well through knowledge. Shed superstition. Shed fear. Be free.

9. Pilfer from the past and pass it off as original. With the advent of dawn, the game will be out.

10. Love your motherland. Do not find fault with every good thing happening in India in the name of being a progressive citizen. Ask yourself, "Am I? Or, am I merely putting up a pretence of it which everyone can see through and find me exposed?" Wholeheartedly support every achieving Indian, every achieving institution, every achieving endeavour that is helping build India's glorious present, her even more glorious future in the making. Vande Mataram! 🕉

11. Let us struggle hard to become the third largest economy in the world. Population control is necessary, though, to improve per capita GDP.

12. Be precise, concise, straight to the point. People lack patience. Say what you have to head on without beating about the bush.

13. Conciseness of expression comes from concentration of mind and organisation of thinking. Brevity is beautiful.

14. Hindu girls are targeted for marital conversion. Beware sisters! Marry within the Hindu fold. Do not let your dharma be ruined.

15. 'Hindu' mother, Muslim father--children Muslim;

'Hindu' father, Muslim mother--children Muslim;

Hindu mother, Christian father--children Christian;

Hindu father, Christian mother--children Christian.

This is the state. I speak from what I have witnessed personally in repeated instances without fail. After all all religions lead to God! What if Hindus diminish in numbers in their 'own' land? All religions lead to the same goal, don't they?

P.S. 'Hindu' means Hindu converted at the time of marriage. Hence, double loss to Hindu numbers. 

16. ঘরে ঘরে 'স্বামী বিবেকানন্দের বাণী ও রচনা' এবং 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' থাকা উচিত |

17. আমাদের আজ এমন একটি আধ্যাত্মিক প্রতিষ্ঠান প্রয়োজন যা কিনা কোনো অজুহাতেই অর্থের পেছনে ছুটবে না | আপাততঃ এমন কোন প্রতিষ্ঠান তো দেখছি না | আশা করি ঠাকুর-স্বামীজীর পুনরাবির্ভাবের সাথে সাথে কিছুকালের জন্য তা আমরা নতুনভাবে আবার পাবো | এখন কি তবে শুধুই প্রতিক্ষা ? তা কেন ? আমরা নিজেরাই অগ্রণী হয়ে ছোট ছোট অর্থে অনাসক্ত প্রতিষ্ঠান গড়ে তুলতে পারি | ভুললে চলবে না, 'লোভে পাপ, পাপে মৃত্য |'

18. Religions that have conversion as core concept are a menace to modern society.

19. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has by his prajnaa (wisdom) in chess given us great joy (ananda). He is the world champion in waiting.

20. What about setting up another Ramakrishna Mission centre in the Kashmir valley itself and spreading more the message of peace and harmony there where it is needed most?

21. Conquer by love but exhibit power in self-defence. Patronising wickedness is sin.

22. ছবির প্রতি অতিশয় মূঢ় আকর্ষণ ও আনুগত্য অধার্মিক প্রবণতা যা হিন্দুর সর্বনাশ সাধন করছে |🕉

23. The multifaceted genius, Vikram Sarabhai, guides us in our scientific, artistic and economic endeavours even today. Truly a nation-builder.

24. There is a large ignorance about Swamiji among the vast populace of Hindus. They only know his name and not his message.

25. It will be grand if the Ramakrishna Mission monks of erudition and oratory keep spreading the words of Swamiji everyday on YouTube. But they must have erudition, oratorical power and spirituality to impress upon the minds of the audience the volcanic words of the Swami that had once ignited India to freedom and set her on the royal road to recovery.

26. Be not self-betrayers, cowards who cower before the enemy's might and talk tall to hide cowardice. Be brave.

27. Can you defeat a toxic ideology that is eating into the vitals of our nation by playing the safe game of compromise and cowardice?

28. Conversion is spiritual corruption.

29. When death is certain, why not live for a grand ideal? And what better ideal can there be than living and dying for preservation of the Dharma? We shall with our labour of love, free of fear, build the edifice of a grand Hindu civilisation that is as yet in the womb of futurity. But it is approaching. Hearken to the call of the future. Those foot-falls can be heard indistinct but growing louder by the day as the future comes upon us unfailingly to fulfil the destiny of the Hindu race for which our Rishis have waited aeons. Behold the light! The Naad sounds deep and resonant, awakening the kundalini of this benighted but blessed race, for God in His infinite mercy has chosen this, the Hindus of Aryavarta, for the resurrection of the Dharma and the regeneration of sunken humanity. 🕉

30. Hinduism is the future religion of the thinking world. The subcontinent will be Hinduised in due course. Intellectual Europe and America will embrace Hinduism.

31. To me a devotee is one who is fearless in the defence of the Dharma. If not, I do not regard him as one.

32. I am proud to be a Hindu. 🕉 is the integrating symbol of godhead for all Hindus. We must unite under its banner.

33. Frightening people into submission? That is not quite the divine way.

34. I am ashamed of those Hindus who, donning the hat of secularism, humanism et al, bat against Hinduism. Hindus, unite!

35. India is predominantly populated by Hindus and it must remain so. Which is why it is so important to maintain our numbers.

36. Do we need irrational faith-based religions for vast masses of people who would rather submit to blind belief than think?

37. Hindus must study the works of Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel ('Voice of India' Publication) to understand the adversarial intent.

38. Cowardice is killing us. Swamiji hated cowardice. How can anybody professing to be a follower of the Swami be so cowardly?

39. Fear is the cause of evil. Fear not and fight evil wherever you meet it. Samesightedness is as yet far off. So, pretend not. 🕉

40. Kashmir's integration with the rest of India post abrogation of Art. 370 and 35A is of monumental significance. 🕉

41.We need Vedic schools and colleges everywhere for the propagation of Sanskrit study and the study of our scriptures. 🕉

42. We must love all Indians as our own so long as they do not engage in antinational activities. If they do so, we must resist them.

43. Let love be the watchword of all our vocabulary. May peace and wellbeing reign! End all war, and wickedness, its progenitor.

44. Religion when pursued individually is a force for good. The moment it becomes organised, it becomes a force for good and evil.

45. Let no inhibiting intermediary be between you and God. God is your very Self, the Atman.

46. India has a vast complexity of causes and consequences which must be taken care of as she progresses as a nation. No mean task.

47. Fooling the multitude through clever talk and amassing riches. If this is not fraudulence in spirituality, what is?

48. No scripture is holier than human being. If scripture is the word of God, human being is God Himself.

49. God is not a superstition. God is the innermost reality. He is not He but You.

50. We objectify goodness. So, we live in the estimation of others. If we dive within and once touch the Self, we shall blissfully remain self-contained.

51. A strong nationalistic, humanistic, scientific education ought to be imparted to our children cutting scross communities. Improve the physical, mental, moral, intellectual and spiritual diet of the nation, and see what a wonderful changes comes. India will as yet scale heights unprecedented in her history. That should be our aim, not petty personal ambition that ends in itself, but national well-being of a deeper import, a vaster significance. Vande Mataram! 🕉 

52. Population policy is of prime importance now. Otherwise, all growth of GDP will be of no avail. Population will nullify progress.

53. Who is the future of India? You are the future of India. I am the future of India. We all are the future of India. Every moment every bit of effort to excel in any endeavour that we undertake creates the future of India. 

54. Build yourself. Build the future of India.

55. They don't care who don't share. Sharing happens only on account of a common consciousness. Communication likewise is.

56. We must clean up our own house before we welcome guests in. A sense of 'sundaram' would serve us best.

57. To combat anti-Hindu forces Hindus must aver their Hindu identity with far greater force. Hypocrisy scarce serves the purpose.

58. India not only needs increased GDP but increased culture. TV shows each night, especially on a leading channel, betrays the cause.

59. Just a 100 regular readers of Swami Vivekananda's Complete Works can revolutionise society to a degree. Who would come forward?

60. Symmetry is beauty.

61. If a 'religion' is so peaceful, why is its history so full of war? Why did it spread by force of arms? Why does it proselytise?

62. Apostasy is on the rise in Islam. Millions are leaving the Deen. The ex-Muslim movement is growing stronger by the day.

63. Hindus need to study the four yogas of Swami Vivekananda to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the Dharma.

64. Man submits to fear, not God. Truly, though, Man is the father of God.

65. No exclusive cult with intentions of political domination can be a force for good or peace.

66. Proselytise or progress?

67. 'DAHEJ' and 'JEHAD' are laterally inverted words seen in a plane mirror.

68. No God created Me. I create God and the universe each moment. And when I withdraw, God and the universe dissolve in Me.

69. O faithful followers, how long will you enslave your fellow beings to your faith by instilling fear in them? The nation needs scientific progress, not regressive fear-inducing faith. Educate yourselves, especially your women folk, and spare the children indoctrination from birth. Learn critical thinking. Challenge your texts on the basis of reason and accept only those doctrines, if any, which are rational and conducive to democracy, freedom and human welfare. Reject the rest which are regressive. This is the path to progress. This is the way to national reconstruction. Awake from your slumber and face fact straight in the face. Dawn it is now. May a new dawn in national consciousness animate all citizens! May light and love spread with the diffusion of daylight!

70. 400,000 declared apostates in Pakistan. How many times more undeclared ones! Blasphemy law can scarce hold the apostasy avalanche.

71. The sword of steel spread the faith. Now the rapier of reason is erasing it.

72. The wicked rule because the good are cowards and do not dare resist evil. Such cowardice is weakness and the handmaid of evil.

73. Apostasy avalanche in Pakistan. Internet exposing evil and saving humanity from religious regression.

74. Partition has destroyed Pakistan. Jinnah's dream has turned dreadful for the 'holy land' tottering as it is on the brink of ruin.

75. Come out of your microgroove and expand your horizons. Reality is vaster than your religious conception deems. 🕉

76. What is the future of India? Your honest opinion please.

77. Ought electoral politics in a secular democracy to be strictly divorced from religion and fought on secular issues only?

78. The world needs to listen to Sri Ramakrishna's harmonic message if peace and amity are to hold us all together.

79. Read Ramakrishna-Vivekananda if you wish to be the conduits of peace and harmony all around.

80. The way forward is scientific education. But the nation's spiritual traditions must be preserved as well. Swamiji's works must reach the masses.

81. If liberals were truly liberal and not covertly serving illiberal causes, there would be no reactionary response to them.

82. The VIVEKANANDA ACADEMY started by us some time back is beginning to thrive now as a handful of its members have begun serious study of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.

83. Spread love, not hate. Love integrates, hate divides. National integration may only be built on the basis of love.

84. Build the future of India by teaching children critical thinking and to accept truths only on the basis of evidence.

85. All intermediaries are bars and ways to the Divine, each link that holds, leading the way to the next till in light and love, truth and existence, in absolute abstraction of the essence all links dissolve, all fetters fall that have fooled thus far the finite man, now standing resplendent in the dignity of the Self. Things phenomenal are but playhouses where the infant soul sports and matures before wandering off into the vast terrain beyond. From the limited to the unlimited, from the finite to the free, from ignorance unto light is the progression of the soul.

86. Indoctrination from infancy can seriously impair the rational faculties and foster fanaticism. Parents, do not brainwash children.

87. স্বামীজীর বাণী ও রচনা পাঠ করলে তাঁর জয়ধ্বনি আরো ভালভাবে দেওয়া হবে | শুধু 'জয় স্বামীজী' বলে ক্ষান্ত হবেন না |

88. We live only when we love. When we do not, we are as well as dead.

89. Inter-faith meets are a mockery when they fail to discuss flat out core issues of conversion and doctrinaire intolerance.

90. Pakistanis under Blasphemy Law are in a state of fear. Any moment the guillotine can descend on any. How will Pakistan progress?

91. Secularism is the only way to secure national integration. Religion must be kept separate from state. And appeasement must stop.

92. What sort of a state do we deserve?'

'Where the mind is without fear

And the head is held high.' (Tagore)

93. There are some people you take for granted who you can insult with impunity. But, alas, ought you to?

94. সমাজজীবনে ঘৃণা ভালবাসার দ্বারা দূর করতে হবে | সম্প্রদায়ে সম্প্রদায়ে, ধর্মে ধর্মে এই বিরোধ মৈত্রীর দ্বারাই দূর করা সম্ভব | কিন্তু তা এক অখণ্ড সত্যবোধ থেকেই এক উদ্ভূত হতে পারে, নচেৎ নয় | ভারতের ঔপনিষদিক ঐতিহ্য মানুষকে এই ঐক্যের পথ দেখাতে পারে | কিন্তু উপনিষদকে শুষ্করূপে পরিবেশন করা হয় অধিকাংশ ক্ষেত্রে | তা হলে চলবে না | প্রেমের, সহানুভূতির, ঐকান্তিকতার রসে সিঞ্চিত করে বেদান্ততত্ত্ব উপস্থাপন করতে হবে তা জনমানসে রেখাপাত করতে পারে যাতে, যাতে তা উদার, উন্নত, প্রেমিক হতে মানুষকে প্রবুদ্ধ করে | সেই রকম প্রচার হোক বিশ্ব জুড়ে |

95. কত এলো, কত গেল, কত রঙ্গ দেখলাম | বাজিকর সত্য বটে, বাজির সত্যাসত্য আপেক্ষিক | যেমন দর্শন, তেমন লাভ---এ কথা ফেলার নয় |

96. Indoctrination duping gullible ones to martyrdom in the hope of heaven. Alas, what a senseless waste of human life!

97. ১) শ্রীশ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ কথামৃত (৫ খণ্ড)

২) শ্রীশ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ লীলাপ্রসঙ্গ (২ খণ্ড)

৩) শ্রীশ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ ভক্তমালিকা (২ খণ্ড)

৪) স্বামী বিবেকানন্দের বাণী ও রচনা (১০ খণ্ড)

এই কটি বই অবশ্য পঠনীয় প্রতিটি রামকৃষ্ণ ভক্তের |

98. If we wish to compete with U.S.A. and China, we must as a nation attain 100% literacy, that is, 99%, statistically speaking.

99. We are leading the world in population. What is needed, though, is not to lead so.

100. Hindus are rising and will continue to rise. Pokes and pinches cannot push the people back. 🕉

ভাববার বিষয় ... ১

ভাববার বিষয় ... ১

মানুষকে যোগ্য সম্মান দেওয়া যেমন চাই, মানুষকে ন্যূনতম সামর্থ দেওয়াও তেমনি চাই যার দ্বারা সে নিজের অন্তর্নিহিত শক্তির বিকাশ করার অবকাশটুকু অন্তত পায় | এইখানেই সমাজে উৎসাহবর্ধন ও পরিস্থিতি তৈরী | এছাড়া চাই উন্নত প্রজন্মের আবাহন জনকজননীর পবিত্রতারক্ষার দ্বারা | 

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