সিদ্ধান্ত সংশোধনের সময় সমাগত

সিদ্ধান্ত সংশোধনের সময় সমাগত 

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আধ্যাত্মিক পুরুষ অথচ কঠিন সত্য বলার সৎসাহস নেই ? দেশের শত্রুর বিরুদ্ধে রুখে দাঁড়ানো ত' দূরের কথা, উপরন্তু তার দুষ্ট ধর্মীয় তত্ত্বকে প্রশ্রয় দেওয়া পরোক্ষভাবে তাকে বারংবার সত্য বলে ঘোষণা করে ?  এ কেমন দেশপ্রেম ? এ কেমন ভগবদ্বুদ্ধি ? এ কেমন আধ্যাত্মিকতা ? এর ত' প্রতিকার প্রয়োজন | সংবিধানের সংশোধন হয় আর অবতারপুরুষের ঐতিহাসিক ভুলের সংশোধন হয় না ? তা হলে তা যথাযথভাবে ধর্ম আখ্যা পায় কি করে ? ধর্ম ত' শুধু অপরোক্ষ অনুভূত অতিন্দ্রিয় ব্রহ্মতত্ত্ব নয় যে তা ত্রিকাল অবাধিত অবিসংবাদিত সত্য বলে অচ্যূতরূপে অবস্থান করবে ? দ্বন্দ্বময় জগতের দ্বৈতধর্ম ত' স্মৃতিশাস্ত্রের ন্যায় সংশোধনসাপেক্ষ | এবার তাহলে তার সংশোধন হ'ক | আজকের অধ্যাত্মপুরুষরা কি নির্বোধ, নিঃশক্তি যে তাঁরা এই ভ্রান্ত সিদ্ধান্ত পরিবর্তনে অপারক, যে পরিবর্তন সনাতন সভ্যতা সংরক্ষণের সাপেক্ষে আজ অপরিহার্য ? এর জন্যও কি আবার আর এক যুগাবতার ও আর এক যুগাচার্যের আবির্ভাবের আবশ্যক ? তাহলে ক্লীবতার শেষ সীমায় সমাগত বর্তমানের বকধার্মিকের দল |  🕉 

রচনা : সুগত বোস (Sugata Bose)

NOTE TO A DISCIPLE

NOTE TO A DISCIPLE

You are a marvellous person. I marvel at your magnificent mind. Your munificence also is regal, absolutely selfless and full of divine grace. May power not corrupt your sublime virtues and keep you on the path of philanthropy in the right earnest spirit, to the right recipient at the right time for the right cause! May your bright brain guide your decisions and may the heart never get the better of the head in money matters! For life's general dealings may the heart rule the head but in matters of money never let emotions get the better of you and ruin fortune! Cultivate your self and rise to heights of achievement shorn of ambition that kills the joy of life and renders one into a sterile being devoid of humanity, for desire, drunk and delirious, destroys. All my blessings attend you ever and ever despite the seeming negligence that tends to sully the sublime with aught of earth. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose 

WHAT HAPPENED? HOW?

WHAT HAPPENED? HOW? 

What happened to the vast number of Bangladeshi Hindus? What happened to the vast number of Pakistani Hindus? What happened to the vast number of Afghan Hindus? What happened to the vast number of Kashmiri Hindus? Why have their numbers so drastically reduced? Who were responsible for this drastic dwindling? What was responsible for it? Which ideology? Which theology? Which faith? Was it all in love or was it vicious venom that did it, the toxicity of a totalitarian faith? Where is West Bengal headed? Whither Assam, Kerala and other provincial pockets where Hindus are being gradually replaced by one other denomination? And how has this all happened? How is it happening right now?

Written by Sugata Bose

SWĀMI SRIDHARĀNANDA IS NO MORE, NAY, IS EVERMORE WITH US

SWĀMI SRIDHARĀNANDA IS NO MORE, NAY, IS EVERMORE WITH US

Swāmi Sridharānanda, disciple and personal attendant of Swāmi Virajānanda, has passed away. So I hear and feel sad about. A luminous being. A monk of remarkable erudition, jovial, humorous, affectionate and of harmonic, musical disposition. His reminiscence of his Guru is one of the best reminiscences that I have ever heard, an experience that instantly endeared him to me. Such seminal souls are becoming scarcer by the day, the lights dimming one by one as we enter into the phase of puerile pastimes, theirs being the epoch of historic churning when 'a nation, long suppressed', was finding its footing with uncertain steps in the comity of nations. To that aspirational end Swāmi Sridharānanda had contributed his mite with his engaging ministration, his final one at Sydney. 

As the Swāmi departs for his heavenly abode, I pay my last respects to him by sending from afar my humble prostration at his earthly form, now lying in state and awaiting the final rites, I believe. 

Swāmi Sridharānanda was disciple dedicated, attendant alert to his spiritual preceptor, Swāmi Virajānanda, and to the great Swāmi Shāntānanda as well when the latter was suffering from tuberculosis, a dreadful, killing, infectious disease then in the 1950s. These great sages had showered their love and benediction on the young novice and later monk which later fructified in his long life of distinguished monastic ministration. 

Sridharānandaji was frank, articulate, possessed of great diction and a keen intellect, learned, rational and insightful. He had a massive frame, a sizeable head and great bearing. Overall, a formidable figure, a mighty man, but of gentle, genial disposition. I dare say, such a monk is rare indeed in our world of modest means and mediocre mettle and to have lost one such truly means a loss to all who knew him personally and to countless others who had been in communion with him through the viewing of his speeches and discourses delivered online. 

We will miss you, Maharaj. Never, perhaps, in our lives it will be that such a one as you shall grace our lives with that lovely smile of yours full of boyish mischief writ large on your face and in that characteristic glint in your eyes. Farewell and fare you well in your onward journey en route perhaps once more to us to bless us again. Else, linger in our fondest memory freshened each day by the fragrance of your spiritual self, so true, so rare, so emblematic of the Holy Trinity who had consumed your life even as they blessed you with eternal life in return. Hari 🕉 Tat Sat!

Written by Sugata Bose

The beauty of life is that it recurs in cyclical pattern till phenomenal life itself is transcended and the absolute existence reached in Self-revelation transcending time.

Photo: Swami Sridharananda who at 100 years laid his form to temporary rest before he returns to do the bidding of his Master Sri Ramakrishna in his newer incarnation that is soon to manifest before our material eyes.

PURSUE THE PRINCIPLE AND NOT PERSONALITY

PURSUE THE PRINCIPLE AND NOT PERSONALITY

It is the principle that counts, not the personality. The personality merely illustrates the principle in so far as is humanly possible. The ideal is ever approached and never reached in flesh and form. But deep within where the boundaries blur, where flesh leads to spirit, form to formlessness and scattered thoughts, now concentrated and brought to focus, integrate and coalesce unto superconsciousness, there the physical melts and transmutes into the supraphysical, and personality dissolves to become pure principle. The mundane material becomes the abstract immaterial, the Spirit which is existence-consciousness-bliss absolute. It is this abstract ideal that is the goal, not the intermediary stages of quasi-reality. This principle is to be sought in essence and not in compromised corruption that attempts to fit the infinite into the commonplace finite order of earthly living. Personalities are ever embodying the principle imperfectly and cannot satisfy the sincere seeking soul. The principle alone fulfils. Seek, therefore, the principle and run not after ruinous personalities or organisations that profit from spirituality. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

POESY: GIVE CHILDREN A CHANCE

GIVE CHILDREN A CHANCE

Give children a chance

To rule the world.

Then the flag of peace 

You'll see unfurled

And the world of war

Shall in joyous dance

And Mother Earth 

In blissful trance

Shall flower again,

With singing birds 

In dewy dawn's

Crimson robes,

Sovereign free,

In love romance.

Composed by Sugata Bose

HE WHOSE WORDS AND DEEDS WERE ONE

HE WHOSE WORDS AND DEEDS WERE ONE

Rise above circumstance and assert your independence. To affirm oneself as the Atman and then to avoid temporal trouble in the name of being apolitical is the height of hypocrisy. Dive deep into the feverish complexities of the world and help disentangle befuddled man caught in the snares of ignorance. Not by convenience or compromise can you achieve your end but by sincere effort in establishing dharma. Perfidious politicians cannot be pandered to but must be duly censured for disabling national and regional growth, much the way Swami Vivekananda did while remaining above politics, yet never failing to upbraid erring souls, organisations, institutions and systems for being antithetical to human progress. He never compromised with the wicked and has warned his followers to desist from such acts. Swamiji would have none of the comfortable compromise that makes life easy for an organisation but chose to traverse the thorny path of renunciation in every sense, never compromising with untruth or the wickedness of the deliberate wicked. Alas, we need a Swamiji today to uphold those pristine principles enshrined in valorous terms in our scriptures whose aberration alone we see in execution today! We await his arrival, nay his descent into mortal clay again. 

Written by Sugata Bose