IN THE DARK HOUR OF THE NIGHT WHEN IT FLASHES LIGHT FOR A WHILE

IN THE DARK HOUR OF THE NIGHT WHEN IT FLASHES LIGHT FOR A WHILE

What does the man of the world know of love? He knows self-interest so well. Even spiritual orders spurn love for money, justifying collection to solidify welfare work. Thus is the Avatār's pronouncement for the Age spurned as society advances to its peril. 

In the darkened hours of the midnight sun, when the cloud cover of ignorance has shifted a little, comes the touch of the Divine, the spark of the Soul, and it is revealed unto one the vanity that is life with all its attachments and associations, all its vainglorious pursuits and prizes. Then in the ashes of the burning ghat one witnesses the futility of all that one has held dear, and one is released unto moments of freedom before the mosses cover the reflecting waters again and one is once more where one was, a creature trapped in space and time with all its binding conditions. But the memory lingers and beckons one on unto a fresher night of dark light. 

Written by Sugata Bose

কি বা জেনেছ নিজেরে ?

কি বা জেনেছ নিজেরে ?

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মানুষের এই প্রকাশিত সত্তায় সে ফুরিয়ে যায় না | তার একটি অপ্রকাশিত সত্তা আছে যেখানে সে স্বপ্রকাশ, অসীম | এই ব্রহ্মসত্তাই তার স্বরূপ যার ইয়ত্তা করা যায় না | নামহীন, বর্ণহীন, গোত্রহীন, গুণহীন এই বিশুদ্ধ চৈতন্যসত্তা  অবিভাজিত, অখণ্ড, অদ্বয়, অনাদি, অনন্ত, অসীম যার মায়িক প্রকাশ এই জগতপ্রপঞ্চ, পঞ্চভূতবিশিষ্ট মলুষ্যরূপ যার অন্তর্গত | বাইরের এই মানুষটি মুখোষমাত্র, আবরণের ফেনিল প্রকাশ, তাই চলমান, বর্ধমান, ক্ষয়িষ্ণু, মরণশীল, জন্মমৃত্যুর চক্রে নিরন্তর ঘূর্ণায়মান | মানুষের দেহমন আত্মারই বিকর্ষণক্ষেত্রের আপাতঃপ্রকাশ, বন্ধন হতে মুক্তির পথে পরিক্রমণের লীলাসংযোগে লীলাসংঘটন, সীমা হতে অসীমের পথে পারি দেওয়ার যোগযন্ত্র যা অভিজ্ঞতার আলোকে ক্রমবিবর্তনশীল, কর্মের প্রতিঘাতে ক্রমোর্দ্ধগামী যতদিন না বিদেহমুক্তি লাভ হয় | বাইরের এই সীমিত দেহমনটির অপূর্ণতা দেখে হতাশ হবেন না | এর পেছনে মহাশক্তিধর, মহাচৈতন্যসত্তা সগুণ ব্রহ্ম, তৎপশ্চাতে সর্বগুণবিযুক্ত নির্গুণ ব্রহ্মের নিত্য অবস্থান | মানুষের সম্ভাবনা তাই অনন্ত, অসীম যা জড়জীবনের উৎকর্ষের মাঝে মাত্র ক্ষীণ প্রকাশিত, বিফলতার মাঝে আপাতঃআবৃত | আশা যে ফুরোয় না মানুষের কিছুতেই শত বিফলতার মাঝেও, এই তার প্রমাণ |

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

MORNING MUSINGS

MORNING MUSINGS

Be brave. Face the brute. Do not water down truth. Truth is power. Know it, live it, wield it. It is the saviour. Do not let apologists rule. Root out evil. Our polity needs health. Be strong. Do not bow down to money. Rule it. Commerce is nothing, character everything. If character be there, all else will follow, will flow. Raise yourself. Raise the masses. Be ready. Ready others. All crises must be overcome through awareness, awakening, alertness, anticipation and right response. The devil must not be dealt with in a divine way. It must be brought to book. Power must not become playmate to profit. The monk must lead from his position of poverty, not from his palace of profit in the name of raised subscription, induced donation. Let him be a leading light guiding all by practised principles, experienced truth, not a public entertainer singing and dancing to further induce mass effeminacy. Let no hypocrisy masquerade as messianic wholesomeness, saintly sanity. Hands off! Either live the whole truth or sign off from assumed emblem of titular spirituality. Be clean. Do not misguide. Let people find out the truth and decide. Retribution is coming. History is on edge, at its turning point upswing. Human society must revolve from half-truths, untruths and outright lies to truth that never dies despite suppression of ages. Profit must give way to principle. Selflessness must supplant selfishness. Crafty cunning must yield its evil bastion to wisdom fair and fine. Humanity must triumph. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose

THE HOLD OF FAITH, OF BELIEF, SUPERSTITION ET AL

THE HOLD OF FAITH, OF BELIEF, SUPERSTITION ET AL

Spiritual superstition has imagination, hope, desire and an otherworldly feeling, almost an intuitive precognition of a sense of immortality, wedded to it which makes it so persistently present in human life, as an idea almost impossible to remove from the nervous system despite all attempts at mass rationalisation to the contrary. Man has seemingly been programmed through ages of experience where superstitious beliefs have become part and parcel of his being and refuses to budge even in the teeth of death-dealing rationalisation and clings on to the nervous system's conservative set-up to defy logic and reason and scientific light streaming in. No wonder Stalin, assuredly in the context of Abrahamic religions, had famously said, "Religion like conscience can neither be stifled nor stilled." The words 'like conscience' perhaps indicate that there is a subjective truth to religion which defies destruction even at the hands of dictators and persists despite all effort at elimination of its shadowy surface self. Swami Vivekananda had said as well that so long as there was a thing called death, God would be there as a sort of big brother, a sort of personified 'help'. And we see even in the blazing light of modern science the growing hold of religion---with all its art and music, literature and philosophy, and no less its superstitions galore---on the mind of man, shaping for good and for evil the destiny of nations, of peoples and of humanity en masse as it traverses through the twilit corridors of an uncharted future.

Written by Sugata Bose

COMMENTS GALORE ... 88

COMMENTS GALORE ... 88 

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : That's the hope, that's the inspiration to persist in this otherwise seemingly futile endeavour at awakening wakeful pretenders to sleep, sleeping masses awake to delusive dreams.

Sugata Bose @Jnanojjwal Saha : It does say so. The Qur'an explicitly expresses it.

Sugata Bose @Nabeel Warsame: Perfect. This constant profiling of people by religion in a secular state bespeaks of the utter absence of secularism in practice.

Sugata Bose @Rik Som : এটি বিকৃতবুদ্ধি বঙ্গসন্তানের বিষাক্ত বক্তব্য, তার উড়োচেতন উর্বর মস্তিষ্কের উদ্ভট উদ্ভাবন |

Sugata Bose @Antara Tampin Sadhu : বই পড়া অভ্যাস করা যাতে বুদ্ধির বিকাশ হয়, চিন্তাশক্তি বাড়ে, প্রকাশক্ষমতা বৃদ্ধি পায়, মনঃসংযম বাড়ে ও ভাবের সঞ্চালনে চিত্তচাঞ্চল্য কমে লঘুচিত্ততা দূর হয়, ব্যক্তিত্বের গভীরতা বাড়ে |

Sugata Bose @India Today : Yes, Mr. Shehbaz Sharif, talks must be with Pakistan over handing over POK to India which is its rightful owner and talks must be over terrorism used as state policy by Pakistan against India. Willing to hold such talks?

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : You are devastating in your dialogic delivery. Delightful dents you make with your canine cuts that leave your victims bleeding to their desperate end. Pray, have pity on your prey! They plead unto you to show them mercy. Alas, your wielded word-sword wreaks havoc on unsuspecting folks, so full of mirth that they can scarce detect the darts delivered at them that will deal them the deathblow! Rapier-sharp you are in your thrusts, perfect in offence and foil, deadly in drive, circumspect in defence, aggressive in advance and prudent in retreat like a wise soldier who has learnt his lessons of life in a school of harsh realities and high-risk living. What more can I say than that you are a soul steeled in adversity, one who has first-hand witnessed the horrors of life and cannot thus condone frothy foolishness exhibited as undue reverence paid to Shree Emo, as if he deserves the suffix 'ji' ascribed to our revered ones. But carry on, doctor, nonetheless, with your surgical thrusts on these delightful fools who rush in where angels fear to tread. And, by Jove, you they deadly dread! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : That is diplomatic linguistic armour as well, stating truths in velvety language that exposes the enemy without causing obvious hurt which would have a bitter effect on the audience. The idea is to send the hard message across in soft terms that wins over the audience to our side. It is 'Operation Velvety War' at which Tharoor is a master. His long experience at the United Nations has taught him the art of diplomatic mediation which with his fabulous vocabulary and not inconsiderable intellect has made him such an articulate adversary that pulverises opponents in a civilised way without humiliating them as to render relations sterile. His fluency, diction and overall civility of bearing are a treat, a rarity in today's world of rough rendering and rude retorts. However, I do agree with you that Tharoor's verbal sophistication often fails to make its mark on the mind of the commoner which is why he is not a mass leader but a diplomat as if by birth. His audience belongs to the highest echelons of the intellectual community where the seeds he sows bear fruition in their appointed hour. His talents have largely been wasted post his retirement from diplomatic life as he languishes in a party that has lost its moorings in the political life of the nation and persistently props up personalities of far lesser attributes as leaders than Shashi Tharoor eminently is. For once Tharoor has found his vocation since retirement from UN and is doing a commendable job. Hope he is utilised better by the nation in what he is best at by the ruling dispensations of the day.

Sugata Bose @Ramakant Tiwari : Clear the pollution as pledge before polls made and kept, and 'o' will be suffixed to perdition thus to make the greeting great as: 'Hello, thy name is Delhi!'

Sugata Bose @Ramakant Tiwari : And it is hell that is our motherland in places and we have to make a heaven out of these to render her pristine pure.

Sugata Bose @Sanjay Das : সহ্যশক্তি যত বাড়ে তত ভাল | কল্যাণ হোক !

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : উহ্য রচনা বুঝতে হবে গুহ্যরূপে | নইলে ভুল বুঝে হবে গোল | অবশ্য এ গোল সে গোল নয় | এ আর এক খেলা, মহামায়ার চতুরঙ্গ | কত রঙ্গ দেখালি মা, কত রঙ্গ দেখালি ! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : Who did I do so? Your utter misapprehension of the content of the post makes you observe thus. I admit, the post is a trifle too subtle for easy understanding, a bit baffling perhaps for quick comprehension but then everything is not for everybody. There are those who are deeper thinkers who can delve into the heart of things in context and in the generality of import. Unto them lies my offering as well.

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : The game goes on. So, the end punctuation is missing. Very apt!

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : Correct. Good to know that you belong to such an illustrious lineage. Swami Madhavānanda remains a singular star in the Ramakrishna firmament, a stellar personality of enviable attributes that had evoked the spontaneous utterance of the Divine Mother, "Good Lord, here I behold one who is akin to a tusker's tusk rimmed in gold." 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : What are you keeping on harping at? You have not understood anything of my post or comment and are bent upon writing gibberish about them. Who can question my loyalty to the nation?

Sugata Bose @Arshad Khan : 'Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan!' Why? What's the problem? Afraid of exposure?

Sugata Bose @Arshad Khan : 'Our'? Means 'India's' or 'Pakistan's '?

Sugata Bose @Arshad Khan : Do you have communication links left to report news? It is all a field of the 'Field Marshall' that is left after the razing of your installations? Now it is only field to graze on? But with water not flowing, green will turn grey and 'Field Marshall' will turn 'Desert Drone' loitering over home ground committing harakiri hither and thither. Pin not your faith in these military men of mercenary motives but build up your civil society in defence of democracy. That is the way to peace snd progress. See where Partition has led you to. Jinnah's massive move was a blunder at birth.

Sugata Bose @Iftekhar Khan : Misinformation and propaganda has consumed the population of Pakistan. Please add this last point to your thesis.

Sugata Bose @Ipsita Mukherjee : But the movement is gaining ground and let us cast despondency away. I am galvanising support for the Hindus and so are you. United we are quite a front. Come on, join hands and hold guard. We will triumph.

Sugata Bose @Subhas Banerjee : This is my post. You should have shared it and not copy-pasted it. 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15gbpzdZ8s/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Unless we exhibit fundamental civility and honesty in acknowledging others' intellectual rights, do we have the right to preach anything whatsoever in Swamiji's name?

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh You and I share a bond beyond borders. And the border ought never to have been in the first place were it not for our petty infighting which continues to this day. I think we should seriously consider reorientation of our racial thinking and put a premium on martial training. Manhood awakened we may as as yet combat savagery on earth, much like Guru Gobind Singhji's Khālsā to this day is doing. The great Guru after witnessing the suffering of the Hindus beyond bounds which included the deaths of the fifth and the ninth Sikh Gurus themselves, rallied round his forces along strict sacrificial martial lines which began the counter-offensive against the Mughals, then determined under Aurangzeb to obliterate Hindu civilisation as far as possible. Such a warrior culture we must cultivate nationwide, especially in debilitated Bengal, to resurrect our ancient spirit which till two millennia ago had never succumbed to foreign invasion. The wide divergence of the Sanātan practices and the absence of Sanskrit learning has disintegrated our Hindu polity. Here also Buddha in his bid to democratise his teachings played a pivotal part. His adopting Pali as communication vehicle and consequent neglect of the Devabhāshā undermined Sanātan culture, effectively eroding it over the centuries till the Hindus largely forgot their ancient glory of integrated living under yhe banner of the Vedas and became segmented into a multilayered, multifarious polity of artificial construct brought about by invading forces, most so by the most devious of them all, the British. The demilitarisation of India post the Revolt of 1857 completely weakened the polity in terms of raising resistance worth the salt against the colonisers. This naturally brought in non-violence as dominant mode of resistance in the Gandhian advent and obliterated the remaining vestiges of resistive manhood that was there in parts and pockets of pulverised India. Independence came with its partitioned price to pay as an unprepared Congress capitulated under the combined pressure of the League and the Crown. Thereafter, the Gandhian influence continues to this day as a seemingly genetically altered polity delights in delusive dreams about its past, a past that has experienced the worst genocide for 1300 years and more at the hands of invading hordes from across the deserts and the seas. And here we are this day reaping the harvest of our bloodied past and pretending that all is well when the truth is that history is being daily reenacted in all its horrific detail subject to altered circumstance and conditional contours. Our kinship across countries, once an integrated union, breaks through barriers of borders, for it is a blood-bond in genetic terms and a life-bond in terms civilisational. 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Play indeed. Scriptural citation. But a demonic display of dictatorial divine dispensation. Small solace are scriptural citations when sufferance suffocates the soul. Scriptures must be quoted not to puerile effect but in depth-realisation of the agony that life is, to alleviate, if possible, this misery. Intellect can scarce feel what is after all the vocation of the heart. The incinerated Jew in Nazi concentration camp would get small consolation that all his suffering was but the play (leela) of Pakriti. One needs to be deeper in feeling, more feeling in citation of scripture and, above all, one needs to empathise more, feel the pulse of suffering in one's very soul to restrain oneself from being casual in conference. To all of humanity that suffers this death-deal at the hands of a cruel fiat that has neither mind nor mercy to deserve my worship at least! I worship, thee, my dying human kith and kin. Thou, indeed, are my object of adoration. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Indeed so, for dry musical score is no music after all.

Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : There the Balochis will give the Pakis safe passage to Paradise.

Sugata Bose @Irfan Jan : Jan laradi bhai.

Sugata Bose @Irfan Jan : Apply for the Nobel Prize in fantasy literature. You will be the first one to win it.

Sugata Bose @Chintamani Rath : Balochistan has declared independence but is yet to receive diplomatic recognition from any state. By self-proclaimation they are free indeed as they rightfully deserve to be, having lived under Pak occupation since 1948, a yoke they have now thrown off by showing Pakistan the door.

Sugata Bose @Ashish Sengupta : The FIR against Sharmistha Panoli was registered at Garden Reach Police Station in Kolkata. That's why.

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : But in India the majority community is much persecuted on the contrary. Strange, isn't it?

Sugata Bose @Shatorupa Shatorupa : Bravo! As yet arise the children luminous of the Lord who has never forsaken Bhāratvarsha, fulfilling His pledge in every Age. It is precisely this resurrection of the dying spirit of nationalism, of civilisation, of spirituality that has kept up the flame of the Sanātan sanskriti in a radiant flow despite the shrinking space over which it shines. But it shines, nonetheless, lustrous bright and it shines in the hearts of the Mother's children like you, siblings sublime, who are serving Her cause with aspirational ardour. Glory unto you and glory unto the lineage that has sprung forth such luminous legatees. 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Rohini Jalan : I had thought that one day you would understand my philosophy, my teachings, my message unto mankind. But, alas, you like all others have failed me in this regard!

Sugata Bose @Kaushik Mohanta : That is dramatic representation, perfectly put in context. If poetry has to abide by scientific rigour, or literature or language, for that matter, have to abide by such stifling conditional terms without being allowed space for fluid interpretation, they will have committed harakiri to their concomitant cultural consequence. Herein comes aesthetics in appreciation of art that outlines but never defines in rigorous terms the content or the core, circumscribing instead nuanced ideas to evolve in the hearts and minds of the readers.

P.S. I must appreciate, though, your delectable diction and thank you heartily for it.

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : This is my dream, too, and it must come to pass if the world is to be saved from destruction. The moot question is: 'At what a price?' Because Swamiji himself has said, "The world will rise, but oh, at what a price! at what a price! at what a price!" 

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : About this moderation in work I was once challenged on Facebook by an elderly apparent erudite and asked to cite the relevant verse from the Geeta but to my shame could not rightaway. Today your post vindicates my point as I find the relevant mention in verse 17 of Chapter 6 of the Geeta. Thank you for this unintended but worthwhile service as it helps reaffirm my faith in my memory which seldom fails. When the aforesaid gentleman had challenged me, I was nonplussed and reflected thus that I might have creatively added an attribute to the yogi which to my mind was correct and duly applicable to the yogi but may have not found utterance in Krishna's divine voice on the warfield of Kurukshetra. 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : You are doing seminal service to the nation, esoecially the youth, in posting these passages from the 'Lectures from Colombo to Almora' delivered by Swamiji in 1897 when his whirlwind tour of the subcontinent set aflame the heartland of Bhāratvarsha not only with the ancient fire of the Rudrayajna but ignited with it such a fiery love for the motherland that moderation in the Congress politics of pleas, petitions and prayers was galvanised into the extreme passion of revolutionary struggle whose culmination saw it to India's freedom in 1947, just as Swamiji in this same year of 1897 had prophesied. These words, pregnant as they are with power and potency, will bore their way through welcoming hearts and minds, fashioning men out of matter and gods out of men who will as yet arise to carry to distant corners of the earth the message of peace and harmony, unselfishness and a fundamental attitudinal change in men from the currency of crass commercialism that has come to tear the world apart through its violent execution. 

Swamiji was brought in by Thakur from the highest realm of spiritual being to earthy earth to transform this animal consciousness abiding in the human body. He is no more in flesh and form with us now but his message has outlived his physical form and must be disseminated across the wide world. To that effect, to that end you have been doing seminal service unto us for several years now, daily, diligently and in a dispassionate detached spirit, and I thank you for it. That these lectures are of greater moment at this point in time has been brought to your attention by me time and again, as opposed to more abstract passages on Brahman, Atman et al to which I feel the commoner cannot so much connect, enmeshed as he is in his day-to-day life of mundane necessities and due and undue desires. I thank you again for at last bringing the lectures of Swamiji alive as they had enlivened the masses from Colombo to Almora in that momentous year of 1897, a point crystallised in history, veritably an inflexion point in the history of Bhāratvarsha. 🕉 Hindu!

AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET

AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET

The quality of readership is declining by the day. Anything subtle seems to elude common comprehension. Humour is no more dish digestible and sarcasm a sauce a bit too bitter. 

One cannot lower one's standard of self-expression to accommodate innocence of readers in the subtleties of language and must bide by time till generations evolve to more refined perception. If most cannot follow the drift of my posts, cannot fathom the depth but spray about the froth, then let language persist in its impersonal self without bothering to breathe the dusty air of roadside construction of blocks and squares without art or poetry. Culture must be preserved despite it all, despite its precipitous fall consequent on catering to communication with the commoner who is hardly kith and kin to deep thinking. 

The Buddha democratised communication by speaking in colloquial terms and forsook the classical language. The masses understood his message in their rustic way for a while before the neglect of Sanskrit took its cultural toll from which we are yet to recover. Thus, if most refuse to read in between lines the way the author intends his writings to be read, it is not for the author fearing readership loss to lower literary level but it is his call to his vocation to persist in the practice of his art irrespective of reader comprehension. 

Nature is an open book for the deepest thinkers to decipher its hieroglyphics and for the shallow to marvel at its surface beauty or not to bother at all, caring only to draw respiratory and digestive nourishment from it for survival at the organic animal level. But Nature does not budge or lower standards. Billions of years, millions pass before civilisation peeps in, peers into its secrets to set the ball rolling. But the fire thus ignited, the wheel thus set in motion can scarce move this mountainous mass called the masses who continue to roll in ignorance, spark off surface tensions and in general keep dancing to the ball of base desire and baser understanding. Does Nature accommodate? Must authors?

Written by Sugata Bose

MESSAGES GALORE ... 104

MESSAGES GALORE ... 104 

1. বৈশ্যবুদ্ধি যখন ক্ষাত্রবীর্যের বিরুদ্ধে যায়, তখন দেশের সুরক্ষা বিপন্ন হয় | পরমবীরচক্রপ্রাপ্ত অরুন ক্ষেত্রপালের শৌর্যগাথা শোনার সময় সঞ্চালিকার মুখমণ্ডল বাণিজ্যিক লাভপ্রার্থীর ক্যামেরাকে প্রসন্ন করা হাসিতে ভরা দেখলে, মৃত্যুঞ্জয়ী পরমবীরের প্রতি অনভিপ্রেত অশ্রদ্ধা প্রদর্শন করা হয় বলে মনে করি | ভাবগাম্ভীর্য রক্ষা করার সামান্যতম ক্ষমতা না থাকলে, ত্যাগের মহিমা বোঝার চারিত্রিক দৃঢ়তা না থাকলে এহেন অনুষ্ঠান সঞ্চালন করার দুঃসাহস না করাই শ্রেয়ঃ | বীরগতিপ্রাপ্তির কথা কেউ মুখে চাঁদপানা হাসি নিয়ে অসংবেদনশীলতার চূড়ান্ত প্রকাশপূর্বক শোনেন না | যিনি শোনেন তাঁর এহেন অনুষ্ঠান সঞ্চালনের অধিকার নেই |

https://youtu.be/PHJL96ZSSSc?si=yE2T-wt_mWSiEf_1 

Madam Moderator (Ruchi Singh),

Please bear some gravity while listening to the valorous tale of our martyrs for the motherland. This is not a Mumbai film shoot at a gala event where photo-smiles are in evidence galore.

Yours sincerely,

Sugata Bose (a sufferer of your unwelcome smiles in distasteful disharmony with the occasion)

2. ভেজাল হও, ভণ্ড হও, লোভী হও, কপট হও, অনুগামী অজস্র পাবে | সত্যপরায়ণ হও, স্পষ্টবক্তা হও, আপসহীন হও, নির্লোভ হও, কাউকে পাবে না সাথে | তাই, একলা চলো |

3. 

সাধু যখন লোভের বশে মুখে কপট হাসি ধরে,

ধর্ম তখন বিকৃত হয়ে বিক্রিত হয়ে মরে |

4. Stop this music and dance in the name of devotion and go to the battlefield to defend the country.

5. মহাপুরুষের নির্দেশ পালন করায় যে প্রণতি, বৃথাবাক্যে তার স্বল্পই প্রকাশ সম্ভব | তাই মহোৎসাহে আদর্শে অনুপ্রাণিত হয়ে তাই করব | কি হবে কপট প্রণামবাক্যে ? তাঁরা তো চলে গেছেন | যদি প্রণামই করতে হয়, তো করব জীবন্ত বিগ্রহ চলমান নরসমাজকে | 

6. Bengalis love Bapu so much that to practise non-violence they are averse to joining the armed forces. 

P.S. Sarcasm sadly missed by most.

7. আজ রাজা রামমোহন রায়ের ২৫৩ তম জন্মবার্ষিকী | আমার শ্রদ্ধাবনত প্রণাম তাঁর শ্রীচরণে | এমন বহুদর্শী মহাপুরুষ পৃথিবীর ইতিহাসে বিরল | ভারতপথিক এই মহামানব সনাতন ও আধুনিকের মিলনক্ষেত্র, প্রাচ্য ও পাশ্চাত্যের সঙ্গমস্থল, আজ মূঢ়ের অবহেলার নচেৎ নিন্দার পাত্র, প্রজ্ঞাবানের অনুপ্রেরণার আদর্শস্থল | ভারত যদি যথাযথভাবে জগতসভায় শ্রেষ্ঠ আসন লাভ করতে চায় তো তাকে যুগপুরুষ বিবেকানন্দের পূর্বসূরী রামমোহনকে হৃদয়ে ধারণ করতে হবে, কার্যে পরিণত করতে হবে তাঁর নির্দেশিত সূত্র, সম্পন্ন করতে হবে তাঁর অসমাপ্ত কাজ | 🕉 ব্রহ্ম!

8. এবার সময় হয়েছে বাঙালীদের দলে দলে সামরিক বাহিনীতে যোগ দেওয়ার | নইলে কবিতা লিখতে লিখতে আর নাচতে নাচতে এ জাতি নিশ্চিহ্ন হয়ে যাবে |

9. Both Christians and Muslims proselytise in India to the detriment of the Hindus. Christian evangelism in the Norh-east has deculturalised the tribals. Conversion to Abrahamic faiths must be stopped and mass reconversion programmes to the Sanatan Dharma initiated.

10. Ghar wapasi or return to the Mother Faith (Sanatan Dharma) is the way out to create cultural solidarity and national integration.

11. Much that the liberal of universal sympathies that he was, Swamiji nonetheless stressed that the orthodox man of yore had courage of conviction and character thereof whereas the modern man of heterodox beliefs, ever-shifting and unstable, a mass of ideas unassimilated and running riot in the brain, lacks substance to hold his own against the rushing tide of historical forces. As such he preferred the former of substance to the latter of patent hollowness, of vaunted principles and little practice.

12. Swami Vivekananda had advocated aggressive Hinduism, albeit only in the missionary sense. Even Sri Ramakrishna was opposed to Hindus converting to Christianity as was evident in his interview with Michael Madhusudan Dutt at Dakshineshwar, the latter having been culpable to that act of dhārmic desertion as he himself admitted.

13. Kashmir is India, not merely Kashmir. It has always been so and always shall be.

14. লেখাপড়া মানে চিন্তার চর্চা |

15. বেজায় গরম | আগামী দশকগুলোয় আরও বাড়বে | এস. ৪০০ বায়ু প্রতিরক্ষক ভাল | কিন্তু সাথে আরও ভাল চাই বৃক্ষ তাপ প্রতিশেধক |

16. 

সাধু সন্ন্যাসী, প্রবীণ অবধি, 

নেচে, গেয়ে, দুলে দুলে 

যবে ছবি তুলে মদমত্ত, 

তখন দেশ যে জাগছে

সঠিক দিশায়, 

এ কথা বলা তো শক্ত |

17. দেশগঠন করতে গেলে অর্থের প্রয়োজন তত নয় যত প্রয়োজন চরিত্রের | 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা |'

18. দেখি আদর্শ বেশির ভাগ মানুষই ভালবাসেন না | সবই আপস করতে চান জাগতিকতার সাথে আদর্শকে বাস্তবে রূপদান করার অভিপ্রায়ে |

19. ইদানিং স্বীয় স্বার্থসিদ্ধির প্রচ্ছন্ন অনুপ্রেরণায় বহু মানুষ নেমে পড়েছেন প্রগতির ময়দানে দেশগঠনকল্পে | এঁদের কিন্তু বিদ্যেবুদ্ধি বাড়ন্ত | দেশসেবার এমন প্রবল বেগ যে ধারণ করা যাচ্ছে না | তাই বেচারাদের বিদ্যাচর্চার কোনো অবকাশ নেই | মহাভাবে সমাধিস্থপ্রায় | কি করে নির্ভুল তথ্য সংগ্রহ করবেন এঁরা ? ওই কোনোক্রমে ভাব চেপেচুপে কুড়িয়ে বাড়িয়ে যা পাওয়া যায় আর কি | যা দেবে, পাবলিক তাই নেবে | কিন্তু নেবে কি ?

20. ঠাকুর বলতেন, " 'আমি' ও 'আমার', এটি অজ্ঞান |" এখন লোকে ওটিকেই বিজ্ঞান আখ্যা দিয়ে বসেছে | ফলে মধ্যমেধার জয় আর দেশের অবক্ষয় |

21. প্রযুক্তির উন্নতির সাথে সাথে মানুষের অবনতি ঘটছে | বহির্মুখীনতা বাড়ছে | লেখাপড়া কমছে | বই পড়া তো প্রায় বন্ধ | সবই সংক্ষিপ্ত সন্দেশসংগ্রহ অনলাইনযোগে | বাকি সবই বিয়োগ | এমন প্রযুক্তি কোন যুক্তিতে গ্রহণযোগ্য যার গ্রহণে জীবনে গ্রহণ মেমে আসে ?

22. ছেলেমেয়েরা, লেখাপড়া করো | নইলে দেশের ভবিষ্যৎ অন্ধকার |

23. বিদ্যার বিকাশ না হলে '৪৭এ 'বিকশিত ভারত' অলীক কল্পনামাত্র |

24. প্রধানমন্ত্রী বড় না ভারতবর্ষ বড় ? মুখ্যমন্ত্রী বড় না রাজ্য বড় ? ব্যক্তি বড় না সমষ্টি বড় ? তোষামোদ বড় না নিঃস্বার্থ দেশপ্রেম বড় ?

25. 

ওহে, 

দেশে মধ্যমেধার জয়, 

তাই দেশের অবক্ষয় | 

'৪৭এ ভারত দেখো 

কোন্ বিপাকে রয় | 

বিদ্যেবুদ্ধি ত্যাজিলে কি দেশ

বিকাশপ্রাপ্ত হয় ?

26. আজকাল চারিদিকে গজিয়ে ওঠা দেশপ্রেমিকদের ভাবটা কির'ম জানেন ? "এবার ভাবছি জগতটাকে উদ্ধার করে ফেলব |"

27. আজকাল দেখি কথায় কথায় সব খুব 'civilisation', 'civilisation' করে | এঁরা কিন্তু সভ্যতা, সংস্কৃতির 'স'ও স্পর্শ করে নি এ যাবৎ | হঠাৎ সমস্বরে চিৎকার করতে শুরু করেছে | বোধ হয় এ যুগে দেশের মূল সংস্কৃতিই হবে অহঙ্কার, অবিদ্যা, অজ্ঞানতা | তাই সভ্য হওয়ার এই শোরগোল |

28. Kashmir should be inundated with Hindu settlements. That will settle the demographic imbalance. Hindus, have more children!

29. Life is momentary holding. Everything slips away save life itself.

30. As you evolve, the world evolves.

31. 

The race must be purified, strengthened. 

Too much of abuse flying around. 

Fly freedom instead 

In the limpid spaces of the sky, 

In the far-off distant dreams,

In the in-hand proximity,

So close, so nigh.

32. Secularism in the Indian sense is a high ideal reachable only through the Vedanta.

33. We are caught in the snares of Maya and must get free. There are paths galore open to us but each one of us must traverse along our radial line of location en route to the central truth where existence abides in Self-glory. A shift here to some other's path is a regressive movement and must be rejected. Conversion, proselytism is thus counterproductive, a practice undivine.

34. Sleeps my reader in silent call.

35. Jingoism on television is not strength. It is a palpable exhibition of weakness, a ploy to corner attention, gather money. A quiet confidence is better, better preparedness, humility in achievement, resilience in adversity and restrained aggression in speech and action, not sloganeering and rabble-rousing of infertile end.

36. Less froth, more content---may this be the mindset of the media! May participants shout less on night-time television shows!

37. Cashing in on every occasion, seizing every opportunity for profit has become the bane of national life. Profit is not progress.

38. Life is the lane to Truth.

39. All things existent are mixtures of truth and untruth.

40. 

মঠে মন্দিরে, মাঠে ঘাটে, 

সর্বত্র দেবতা | 

পূজা কর | 

কি বানাও হে অট্টালিকা 

ঈশ্বরের নামে ? 

বিদ্যার গৃহ গড় |

41. Truth coming through the nervous system is reduced to its distorted derivative. Go beyond the body to apprehend Truth.

42. If Abrahamic faiths limit God to their finite folds, they must be reinstructed in Vedic wisdom, in the highest spirituality.

43. If Christianity says Christ alone is the Way, it must be told it is not so. Infinite are the radial lines to God.

44. If Islam says it contains the whole truth, it must be told it does not.

45. The vast diversity of races is held in common bond by the unifying link of the Sanatan Dharma. Were it not for it, Bharatvarsha could never have been a harmonious habitat for such a conglomeration of diverse races. 

46. Too much of commerce corrodes character.

47. Love is fullest offering. Then alone realisation dawns. Not a trace of ego nor a hair of holding back. Just diffusion of selves in a common personality 

48. The worst offenders are the businessmen who deliver products of poor quality for price well paid.

49. কী আশ্চর্য ! মানুষের কী অদ্ভুত চরিত্র ! সে নিজের সর্বনাশ নিজে করে |

50. Hypnotism holds the masses as the senses play havoc with the system. Mass ignorance is so hard to remove as Maya baffles man, his deluded mind devises a myriad means to hold him in captivity. Revolt against Nature. Break free of its fetters.

51. Civilisation is a nice thing to inherit, nicer to preserve and nicest to enhance. While chance bestows on us the first, our labour of love achieves the latter two.

52. 🕉, our national focal point, the alpha to omega of our civilisation, the life and thought-current of our people, our very existence.

53. The one of simple faith reaches fast the destination divine. 

54. Are we headed for a nuclear doom or an environmental doom or both? What's the way out?

55. 

আত্মনির্ভরতাই আধ্যাত্মিকতা |

Self-dependence is spirituality.

56. The mind must not be mortgaged to archaic assumptions, arbitrary imposition, if even in the name of God. Subject your beliefs to empirical and experiential validation instead of forming them on the basis of blind acceptance of authority, human and divine. This is the way to progress. This is the way to spirituality. This is the way to truth in its intermediate relative approximation and immediate absolute perception. 🕉

57. যারা এ জন্মে আমায় কষ্ট দিল, কষ্ট দিচ্ছে, তাদের সাথে আর কোনো জন্মে দেখা হবে না |

58. A sense of responsibility to the nation must mark patriotism. Else, it is merely frothy emotion of no consequence. 

59. কৃষ্ণের ডাক শুনি কোকিলের তানে |

60. সাধারণের শিক্ষা, চিন্তা, সংস্কৃতি ও চেতনার নিম্নমান লক্ষ্য করে দেশের ভবিষ্যতের জন্য দুশ্চিন্তা হয় | জগত জুড়ে এই সাংস্কৃতিক অবনমন, অনাধ্যাত্মিকতার প্রাদুর্ভাব | 

বড় হালকা মানুষ আজ, লঘুচিত্ততায় পরিপূর্ণ | এত লিখি কিন্তু কোনো গভীর প্রতিক্রিয়া পাই না | নিজের স্বীকৃতির ইচ্ছা পরিপূর্ণ হল না, এমন ভাব থেকে মোটেই এ কথা বলছি না | এই লঘু মানসিকতা দেশের ভবিষ্যতের প্রতি কতটা ক্ষতিকর, তা উপলব্ধি করি বলেই এ কথার উত্থাপন | সাধু সন্তরাও আজ কি পরিমাণ লঘুচিত্ত, তা দেখে আশ্চর্য হই | তাঁরাও যদি অবিদ্যা মায়ায় অল্প হলেও বদ্ধ হন এহেন, তো দুশ্চিন্তার কারণ ঘটে বইকি | হাজার বছরের দাসত্বেও যে জাতি জাগে না, তার গতি কি?

61. We are not only at war with terrorism of all kinds and from diverse sources but we are at war with global warming and the prospect of a nuclear holocaust. The demon lies within us and we must begin our combat there. It is urgent, now or never, for unless we can harness these forces of human annihilation, we may not have a morrow to brood on. I reiterate, it is now or never. Let fools stop holding centrestage and let wise men conduct human affairs. Else, it is Armageddon round the corner.

62. The West has lost character and is decaying. Its ill-begotten wealth, affluence through depredation of weaker nations, centuries of colonialism and now neocolonialism have reduced it to a pleasure-seeking, individualistic, selfish mass of people who have lost their spiritual moorings. The West is declining, will decline further even as lesser nations will come up to replace its dominance over world affairs. Whoever imitates the West will go down the same slope and it is best that nations remain true to their selves.

63. জীবনে ইমোজি দিইনি, দেব না | বুদ্ধি দিয়েছেন ভগবান, বাগদেবী প্রকাশশক্তি দিয়েছেন | তার ব্যবহার করেছি, করব | কারোর লেখায় মন্তব্য করব বইকি কিন্তু তার রচনার শ্রমকে অপমান করব না ইমোজি দিয়ে অথবা প্রতিবেদনে সন্নিবিষ্ট প্রতিকৃতির প্রতি প্রণামরূপী শ্রদ্ধার বাহ্য প্রদর্শনমাত্র করে | মানুষের প্রতিক্রিয়ায় তার প্রকৃতি প্রকাশ পায় |

64. ইউনূসের অবস্থা রবীন্দ্ররচিত 'রাজর্ষি'র নক্ষত্ররায়ের ন্যায় | নক্ষত্ররায় অবশ্য ইউনুসের চেয়ে অবনতি সত্ত্বেও উন্নত ছিলেন | ইউনূস ঘৃণিত |

65. 

National concentration has to be built up, intellectual focus, timely diplomatic responses to false narratives floated by the enemy in the international arena, less of bureaucratic hyper-guarded language that dares not speak the truth about the enemy's actions and perceived intent, less of media hype and jingoism as if television anchors are going to settle international scores on night-time shows, less of commerce made out of human catastrophe and wartime emergency, and, above all, less of political point-scoring over each other using exploits of the Indian Armed Forces. Most importantly, though, is national unity at a time when our soldiers are at 'war', solidarity of the nation through the thick and thin of operations so that the morale of the forces is held high with our unconditional civilian support. After all, they fight that we may flourish, they die that we may live. We must live, therefore, in a manner that they, too, may live out their soldiers' pledges to the letter and to the spirit. Jai Hind!

66. সমাজে মূর্খামি যত বাড়বে, দেশ কূটনৈতিক যুদ্ধে তত হারবে | এই সমাজ থেকেই নেতা তৈরি হয় | শিক্ষা যথাযথ ও সবল সংস্কৃতির আশু আবশ্যকতা |

67. With every passing decade we are going up the environmental escalation ladder. It is going to obliterate life on earth. What about it?

68. Such a valorous woman of such superlative qualities, Nivedita's untimely death weakened our national movement for freedom and our general progress as a nation as well along the lines laid down by Swamiji.

69. Please read that phase of Nivedita's life where she parted ways with the Ramakrishna Mission for her political activities while remaining connected spiritually to the Mission founded by her Master. 

Nivedita's is a complex life, difficult to decipher. Her life was comprehensive, too, perhaps too much for the palate of relatively more passive people around her. Her Irish revolutionary blood with freedom running in her veins like wild fire made her impatient with the moderate means of the early Congress and induced her to pitch in with the more extreme revolutionaries under Aurobindo Ghosh's care. But fate decreed otherwise as the rigours of living in the harsh environment of the then India wore her down in health and in 1911 at the young age of 44 Nivedita breathed her last, her message unto humanity delivered but the execution of her work left incomplete. 

70. Read Rash Behari Bose's life. Such a great patriot must not be left alone. He nust throb in our nation's lifeblood.

71. Meanwhile the globe warms up. What about this environmental escalation ladder that we are blissfully climbing? Are we are a suicidal species?

72. Vedanta has had a bad defeat in every age. And yet it is Vedanta that is at the root of everything that wins. Inscrutable are the ways of the Lord, obscure the ways of evolution as clarity proceeds slowly through the mist of the Many to the unified end that has transcended even the One.

73. God is not the end. He is the penultimate step to the Unified Being that has transcended all enumeration, all ends and means.

74. Even if the world fails him, Ramakrishna will win. The world will be welded in love into one unified being, wedded will be the contradisposed forces in a harmonised whole. It may take time, and sure it will, but the outcome is inevitable, for the will of the Lord is omnipotent.

75. She is the last resort of all, the good and the holy, the wicked and the depraved. She refuses none, embraces all Her children irrespective of attributes in Her loving arms. Mother, I bow down to Thee!

76. গুরুদেবের অনন্ত গুণের একটি বিশেষ গুণ তাঁর 'অক্রোধ পরমানন্দ' স্বভাব | এটি তাঁর শ্রীশ্রীঠাকুরের সাথে একাত্মতার পরিচয় |

77. The youth must be flooded with Vivekananda literature. That is the one way of building the character of the nation. And this programme must extended worldwide, for humanity today is facing the spectre of extinction. Nuclear holocaust and environmental eclipse are looming large. It is a change in attitude that can avert this human catastrophe. Here Vivekananda comes in as the prophet of the times, as the leading light that can guide humanity across the abyss of annihilation to security and safety.

78. The end of evolution is Ātmajnān (knowledge of the Self).

79. Plant trees. That is the only way to save the world.

80. Hindu renaissance is impossible if not preceded by the dissemination of Sanskrit study across the length and breadth of the land.

81. This geographical mass called India has a spiritual basis behind it. We have to seek this soul of India. And that is what we invoke as 'Vande Mataram'. Any opposition to it must be deemed anti-civilisation in so far as India is concerned and cannot be condoned. 

82. আমাদের দেশের মানসিকতা দিনে দিনে লঘুতার দিকে, চাপল্য, চিত্তচঞ্চলতার দিকে ধাবিত হচ্ছে | এটি সাংস্কৃতিক অবক্ষয় যার পরিণাম ভয়াবহ | সংস্কৃতিই একটি জাতিকে ধারণ করে রাখে | অতএব, সংস্কৃতির অধঃপতন জাতির পতনের পূর্বলক্ষণ | আমাদের সত্বর সংশোধন করতে হবে নিজেদের, রোধ করতে হবে এই নিম্নগামীতা, চিন্তাচেতনার এই অবনমন | তবেই জাতির উত্থান সম্ভব | নইলে সর্বনাশ সমুপস্থিত হতে অধিক বিলম্ব নেই |

83. া ি ্ ে ৈ ৌ --- কি বলতে চাই ?

84. New Delhi must be attended to. The pollution levels in winter post the stubble-burning in neighbouring states is alarming.

85. He is a Hindu who owes allegiance to the 10,000 year old civilisation of this blessed motherland of ours.

86. Shashi Tharoor is creating waves across the world with his post-Sindoor representative oratory as leading spokesperson for the Government of India, much to the dislike of his political party. His articulate defence of India's case before several of the northern nations of the world has brought him into direct conflict with the unduly critical line adopted hy his party. While Tharoor is duly discharging his duty to the nation rising above party line, and he is doing quite the right thing, for national interest must always be held above party interest, the Congress seems to be unable to digest his performance and prominence thus, especially as it had not enlisted Tharoor's name in its choice of representatives for the said diplomatic mission. What transpires hereafter remains to be seen as it will determine Tharoor's future as politician and the profile of the Congress which has already sunk a lot in the public eye post its insensitive remarks regarding Operation Sindoor. 

87. If Vivekananda literature is made available to the youth en masse, it is bound to make its mark on national character in the foreseeable future. This is the sine qua non of the day.

88. A massive university ought to be built by the Government of India for research on Netaji. It will change India's fortunes.

89. Netaji researchers ought to resolve their differences of opinions on his disappearance by thrashing them out in open conference.

90. Netaji needs to be made far more prominent in national life for the instilling of unselfish love for the nation in the hearts and minds of the citizens.

91. Hindus must deepen themselves. Too much of levity has come to characterise them. This sort of frothy living is most un-Sanātani.

92. Levity has its limits and it is time to take a downward dive unto gravity. This crass commercial culture is eating into our vitals. Not good at all. High time to rectify stance and modify national living along lines of heritage.

93. Military might must duly back up deft diplomacy in order to strengthen our international relations.

94. Instead of 'Good morning', Ramakrishna devotees, say, 'Jai Ramakrisha!' That will be an exercise in holiness for both addresser and addressee.

My reply to reader (Sarbari Sen) response : 

@Sarbari Sen : জয় রামকৃষ্ণ ! মহানন্দ হোক বারংবার এই মধুর নামোচ্চারণে ! অমৃতক্ষরণ হোক ! জয় রামকৃষ্ণ ! ভগবানের নাম বীজমন্ত্রসম, উচ্চারণে শুদ্ধিকরণ, তমোনাশ, মুক্তি | মায়া কাটে এই নামে, ভবব্যাধি দূর হয় | কি হবে ওই সব পাশ্চাত্যের কুশলসূচক সীমিত সম্ভাষণে ? তার চেয়ে ঢের ভাল আমাদের সনাতন সংস্কৃতি, ঈশ্বরের শুভনাম স্বতঃই স্মরণ, মনন, সম্বোধনের সূচনায়, পরিশেষে উচ্চারণ | হৃদয় পূর্ণ হবে, মন শান্তসমাহিত হবে, চিত্ত শুদ্ধ হবে, অহং বিলুপ্ত হবে, ইষ্টলাভের পথ প্রশস্ত হবে | ঠাকুরের করুণার ধারা স্বতঃপ্রবহমান, তাঁর কৃপাবাতাস বহমান নিত্য তাঁর নামে | সেই নামসিন্ধুতে, সেই ভাবগঙ্গায়, আসুন, অবগাহন করি | জয় রামকৃষ্ণ ! 🕉

95. If the capital city of a country ranks among the most polluted in the world, it does not but give a fair indication as to the general level of pollution across the land. Successive governments come and go but the capital suffers. Asthma is on the rise. Children's health being hazarded like hell and yet no sign of 'Project Afforestation'. To force Delhi to dive to its doom is dastardly enough, not to mention the mean machinations to politicise the disaster for electoral gains while doing nothing about resolving the crisis. Meanwhile, Delhi breathes but only in spasms!

96. সংবাদপত্র খুলেই শীর্ষক দেখে লিখতে বাধ্য হলাম : 'ভাগ্যিস্ দেশের প্রধানমন্ত্রী শ্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদী ! নইলে কি যে হত কে জানে ? ভারতমাতা আজও জাগ্রতা ! বাকিরা যা, বিশেষতঃ দেশবৈরী যারা, তারা হলে তো সর্বনাশ হত | ঠাকুর এদের কুচক্র হতে দেশকে রক্ষা কোরো |

সিঁদুরের সম্মান রক্ষা করেছেন মোদীজী, সিঁদুর বেচেন নি, বেচতে আসেনও নি | রাজনৈতিক জয়লাভের জন্য যারা দেশকে, জাতিকে, ধর্মকে, সভ্যতা ও সংস্কৃতিকে বেচে থাকে, তাদের মুখেই এ সব কথা শোভা পায় | ভাবতে কষ্ট হয় যে এদের হাতে জনগণের ভাগ্য নির্ধারিত হবে বলেই কি ক্ষুদিরাম, প্রফুল্ল চাকি, কানাইলাল, সত্যেন, বাঘা যতীন, গোপীনাথ, মাস্টারদা, বিনয়, বাদল, দীনেশ, আরও কত অজস্র বাংলার শ্রেষ্ঠ তনয় বীরগতি প্রাপ্ত হয়েছিল ?'

97. যে ভক্তিতে শৌর্যবীর্যের সম্যক প্রকাশ পায় না, তা ভক্তি নয়, ভান | ছোট ছোট শিখ শিশুদের কাছে ভক্তি শেখা শ্রেয় |

98. সবাই স্বামীজী পড়ছে ! সবাই যদি স্বামীজীই পড়ত জন্মকাল হতে, তো দেশের চিত্র পালটে যেত | কিন্তু তা হল কই, হচ্ছে কই ?

99. Continuous continence for 12 years in thought, word, speech and action opens up the Medhā nāri (the nerve of creative intelligence) that makes perception of the Absolute possible. Duality ceases and the Non-dual Being in its self-existence becomes apparent. Such a state is called Brahmajnān and the perceiver on return to relativity dubbed Brahmajnāni.

Written by Sugata Bose (thoughts borrowed from Swami Vivekananda)

100. বিরক্তির একশেষ হয় যখন স্বল্পবুদ্ধি মানুষ আমার রচনার অর্থ ও ইঙ্গিত বিন্দুমাত্র বুঝতে না পেরে আমায় দেশপ্রেমের উপদেশ দেন | এঁদের মস্তিষ্ক প্রক্ষালণ প্রয়োজন |