যাঁরা সত্যের সেবক, তাঁরাও শিবজ্ঞানে শিবসেবা করছেন | শিবজ্ঞান যদি হলই, তো জীব আর রইল কই ?

যাঁরা সত্যের সেবক, তাঁরাও শিবজ্ঞানে শিবসেবা করছেন | শিবজ্ঞান যদি হলই, তো জীব আর রইল কই ?

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তুলসী মহারাজ যে ঠাকুরের সাক্ষাৎ মন্ত্রশিষ্য, এই সত্য প্রতিষ্ঠার নিরন্তর প্রয়াস যা ব্রহ্মগোপাল দত্ত, অজয় কুমার বসু, অমল নারায়ণ দত্ত, ডঃ পি. অচ্যূতন, মনোজ সিওয়ান (Manoj Sivan) প্রমুখ করে গেলেন, তা কি ঠাকুরের, মানুষের ও সত্যের সেবা নয় ? জনহিতকর কল্যাণকর্ম নয় ? অসত্যপ্রচারের বিরুদ্ধে সত্যস্থাপনের জন্য পূর্ণ মর্যাদা রক্ষা করে রুখে দাঁড়ানো, দিনরাত এক করে অমানুষিক পরিশ্রম করা, সকল বাধা উপেক্ষা করে, নিদারুণ মানসিক কষ্ট সহ্য করে সত্যস্থাপনের একনিষ্ঠ সাধক হওয়া কি সেবা নয় ? শুধু কি অন্নদান, বিদ্যাদান, ধর্মদান ও জ্ঞানদানই সেবা ? সত্যদান সেবা নয় ? এই সত্যদান কি বিদ্যাদান, ধর্মদান ও জ্ঞানদানের অন্তর্গত নয় ? 

সঙ্ঘ ভুল করলে তা সংশোধনের নিবেদন-আবেদন করা নৈতিক কর্ম না অনৈতিক কর্ম ? আর যদি এই ভুল নিছক ভুল না হয়ে সঙ্ঘগত সিদ্ধান্ত হয়, তার বিরুদ্ধে সত্যস্থাপনের প্রচেষ্টা করা, সংগ্রাম করা কি অন্যায় ? অন্যায়ের বিরুদ্ধে লড়া কি অন্যায় না ন্যায় ? তুলসী মহারাজের সঠিক পরিচয় ও অবিস্মরণীয় কীর্তিকে সুচিন্তিতভাবে সঙ্ঘের ইতিহাস হতে মুছে ফেলার অপপ্রয়াসের দ্বারা কার সবচেয়ে বেশী ক্ষতি হল এ কথা ভেবে দেখেছেন ? সত্যভ্রষ্ট হল সঙ্ঘ, যে সত্য সঙ্ঘের মূল সৌধ ছিল একদিন | আদর্শচ্যূত হল সেই সাথে সাথে সঙ্ঘ কারণ এই সঙ্ঘের প্রাণপুরুষ হলেন নরশরীরে সত্যের প্রতিভূ, রামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দরূপ অখণ্ড এক দিব্য ব্যক্তিত্ব | 

সত্য গেল তো সব গেল | ঠাকুর বলেছেন, "একের পিঠে যত শূণ্য বসাও, সংখ্যা বাড়বে | কিন্তু এক কে যদি মুছে ফেল তো যতই শূণ্য বসাও, সংখ্যার মান শূণ্যই থাকবে |" ওই এক হল সত্য | যতক্ষণ সত্য আছে, ততক্ষণ সব ঠিকঠাক | সত্যকে যেই অপসারিত করা হল, সব গোলমাল হতে শুরু করল যার পর্যায়ক্রম মূল্যবোধের অবক্ষয়, অর্থের সাথে অনর্থক আপস, সঙ্ঘমধ্যে গণতান্ত্রিক সহমর্মীতার অভাব ও কতিপয় কর্তৃপক্ষীয় ব্যক্তিত্বের অতিশয় দাপট যা আদিপর্বের পরস্পর পরস্পরের প্রতি ভালবাসার মূলমন্ত্র হতে বহুবিচ্যূত | 

ঋষিপ্রদর্শিত পথ থেকে নড়লেই মায়ার গহ্বরে পড়তে হবে, এ এক অবিসংবাদিত সত্য | তাই ঋষির ঋষি স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ ও তাঁর প্রভু সাক্ষাৎ পরমেশ্বর পরমহংস রামকৃষ্ণের সাবধানবাণীর যথাযথ পালন না হলেই পতনের সম্ভাবনা | এ বিষয়ে যাঁরা সচেতন ও কার্যত অগ্রণী, তাঁরাই প্রকৃত ভক্ত | তাঁদের কথা শোনা শুভানুষ্ঠান, তাঁদের কর্মে সহায়তা করায় কল্যাণ নিহিত, তাঁদের পাশে দাঁড়িয়ে সমস্বরে সত্যপ্রতিষ্ঠার তরে দাবি জানানো ধর্মপালন | কার্যত কিন্তু দেখা যায় বলশালী সঙ্ঘেরই বিজয় জড়শক্তিসহায়ে | পরিণামে পতন, ইতিহাস যার সাক্ষ্য বহন করছে সারা বিশ্বে | ঠাকুরের সন্তানদের গোড়ার ইতিহাসই যদি বিকৃত হল, তো রইল কি ?

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS

A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS 

The neglected Swami of the Order. Swami Nirmalananda (Tulsi Maharaj) whose name, form, work, message and life have been erased by the Order in a systematic manner from the literature published by them, the photographs printed by them and from any mention in the lectures delivered by them so that the seminal Swami's memory today lingers on only in the minds of a handful of devotees who by familial connection or by association otherwise have been brought into the orbit of this direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. And even they are generally unconcerned about propagating Tulsi Maharaj's life and message in a sustained, vigorous manner barring that lone living exception, Manoj Sivan, who has dedicated himself utterly to the cause. We have lessons to learn from this intrepid, uncompromising soldier of the Soul. My salutations to both Tulsi Maharaj and the fruit of his making, Manoj Sivan. Would it were that more such took up the cause more actively for the propagation of the life and message of Swami Nirmalananda and fought for the resurrection of his true status as the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, the Avatar nonpareil of the Age and, perhaps, of ages yet to come.

In resisting untruth dharma is maintained. In silent acquiescence to injustice and the propagation of falsehood we play the Devil's part of subverting the divine cause of truth, justice and fairplay. Our conscience activated, we can never side with organisational propaganda that conceals truth and projects a fictitious state of things in the name of the very embodiment of Truth, Sri Ramakrishna. It clearly is a case of individual and collective convenience to thus remain apathetic to this injustice that has been historically meted out to Tulsi Maharaj, an organisational aberration that needs to be rectified forthwith to prevent further weakening of its initial impulse, a trend that unfortunately is on the rise in every sphere of its proliferating material expansion. Alas, Tulsi Maharaj has been erased by the concerned ones and spirituality lost in the process by them with corresponding consequences on the Order! 

If anyone professes to be a devotee of the Order, it is the bounden duty of such a one to resist this decline (a) by exemplary living to the best of one's ability, (b) by protesting against progressive commercialisation of the Order's service activities and (c) by dissociating oneself from all such individuals and their enterprises that go to downgrade the organisation's one-cherished lofty ideals of spitituality.

May Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Brahmananda bless all those who have strayed from original course, and shower sanity on them, not of common currency  though, in material seeking but of spiritual right thinking that amends aberration and corrects course unto rectitude! 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose 

WHAT LIES AHEAD

WHAT LIES AHEAD

We are fast developing into the most populous country in the world even as a truncated nation post-Partition. The future looks ominous and needs redress. Demographic imbalance of religious groups is another associated problem that runs contrary to the nation's interests. With global warming baking man by the day and progressive urbanisation leading to ever-diminishing cover of trees, unless enlightened policy is adopted and its strict enforcement brought about, we are in for a national collapse in the near future. Unemployment and inadequate health facilities will plague the common man leading to social unrest and political turmoil. Fissiparous tendencies will proliferate with internal and external enemies gaining ground that will amidst a collapsing economy threaten the nation's integration. It is high time for national leaders and leaders of thought to take cognisance of this impending reality and adopt measures to combat such an eventuality. No amount of economic growth can be of much use to a fast multiplying polity. 

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo: The youth with the large heart who expanded in love for the nation till he had himself become its condensed version, embodying in his being the national aspirations of the past and the present and of the unborn future which his impregnated soul would give birth to. Vivekananda was aptly given the epithet 'Condensed India', a feature that needs much meditation to comprehend the depth and width of its meaning and significance. His Master, Ramakrishna, was the peerless Paramahamsa who again held in his heart and mind the whole history of India spanning the period gone by and as yet in the making in the golden womb of time. Ramakrishna and Vivekananda remain our only hope in a desperately developing national situation amidst the general decay of the world. One fervently hopes for the descent of the Divine once more to allow idealism to flourish, combat commercial corrosion of every endeavour, even spiritual, and to invigorate those who shall yet bleed to transfuse lifeblood into the national bloodstream. 🕉

WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS

WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS 

Swamiji was self-initiated into sannyas (monasticism). Does that disqualify him from being the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna? Swamiji had as well initiated all his other brother disciples into sannyas. Did that disqualify them from being Thakur's direct disciples? Then why this lone exception has been made over the last many decades regarding Tulsi Maharaj's direct discipleship of Thakur simply because Swamiji had initiated him into sannyas like he had done to all else? Strange exclusion!

Thakur had himself graced Tulsi Charan Dutta (Tulsi Maharaj) with mantradeeksha (initiation into spiritual life by the imparting of a sacred mantra) at Dakshineshwar. How then can Tulsi Maharaj be relegated to the periphery of the Mission's affection to the point of being denied his true status as Thakur's direct disciple? This is a travesty of truth and cannot be condoned. 

And yet we see hardly any resistance to it by a huge mass of the Mission's devotees who simply comply with whatever is dished out to them by organisation irrespective of their factual accuracy. Must you not raise your voice of protest against this historical injustice meted out to a direct disciple of Thakur and demand his restoration to his rightful status?

There is not a single biography or photograph of Swami Nirmalananda on sale at the Math and Mission's booksale counters which has effectively erased his being from public memory. A handful are yet left who carry on this crusade for Tulsi Maharaj's rightful restoration but the vast majority are cruelly mute. They simply do not care. 

For years Tulsi Maharaj, like his other brother disciples, had wandered in the Himalayas to practise the spiritual austerity that marks a mendicant monk. Alas, he wanders even now, not in the abode of snow anymore but in the wilderness of organisational neglect and apathy!

Written by Sugata Bose

Given below are the pdf links to two pertinent books for your perusal and, perchance, detailed reading: 

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লিখে জানান তুলসী মহারাজ (স্বামী নির্মলানন্দ) শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের মন্ত্রশিষ্য ও তাঁর সাক্ষাৎ সন্ন্যাসী পার্ষদ

লিখে জানান তুলসী মহারাজ (স্বামী নির্মলানন্দ) শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের মন্ত্রশিষ্য ও তাঁর সাক্ষাৎ সন্ন্যাসী পার্ষদ

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যাঁরা আমার লেখা পড়েন এবং তুলসী মহারাজ (স্বামী নির্মলানন্দ) যে শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের মন্ত্রশিষ্য এবং সাক্ষাৎ সন্ন্যাসী পার্ষদ, এই কথাটি প্রকাশ্যে ফেসবুকে লেখার সৎসাহস রাখেন, তাঁদের আমার অন্তরের শ্রদ্ধা জানাই | যাঁরা সত্যাশ্রয়ী, নির্ভীক এবং অন্যায় ও অসত্যের সাথে আপস করেন না, তাঁরা মন্তব্যের জন্য রক্ষিত স্থানে (comment sectionএ) লিখে জানান আপনাদের সমর্থন এই ব্যাপারে একেবারে পরিষ্কারভাবে যাতে আপনাদের প্রদত্ত মতামত সম্বন্ধে কোন ধাঁধা না থেকে যায় |

সত্য জানানোর সকল প্রচেষ্টা করছি আমরা | তৎসত্ত্বেও যাঁরা অসত্যের সমর্থনে নিশ্চুপ, নির্বাক থাকবেন অথবা অযৌক্তিক বাদানুবাদ করে মিথ্যা রটনাকে স্থায়ীত্ব দেওয়ার প্রচেষ্টা করবেন, তাঁরা অবিদ্যাশক্তির হয়ে লড়ছেন, একথা মনে রাখবেন | তাঁরা সত্যস্বরূপ শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণের প্রতি যথাযথ মর্যাদা দিলেন না বলে জানবেন |

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

COMMENTS GALORE ... 23

COMMENTS GALORE ... 23

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Swami Suhitananda] : Shankaracharya and Ramanucharya have been left out as Avatars here, possibly because they have been deemed Acharyas who are a lot distinct from Avatars. But these two seminal sages have been assigned the status of Avatars elsewhere and, even so, by none other than Swami Vivekananda who was himself an Acharya and dare anyone deny him (Swamiji) his status as Avatar?

Sugata Bose @Satyendra Singh : From the perspective of the body, yes, but Swamiji called the Atman the Real Man which in other terms would mean the Absolute Man in the Brahmic Being. Same with Absolute Woman, for in the Atman there is no differentiation of gender. All things that are relative are subject to change, mutation, transformation and repositioning structurally and by location in the trinity of space-time-causality. Hence, the Chief Justice has a valid point philosophically speaking, so to say, although I am unaware of the context of his aforementioned words. The Absolute never changes for it is the Whole and has no internal interaction of composite fractions which it is devoid of. Man, woman and everything else being held in the realm of relativity are subject to constant change which goes in the name of organic and cosmic evolution and in the reverse phase as involution. This happens because of the interaction of parts, the universe being the conglomerate of all such distinctive parts which have come into being from its primal mass-energy potential and ever since have been holding interactive status. Deep down, though, the basis of all this phenomenal play is the unchanging basis of the Brahman which is the Absolute Being dubbed by Swamiji as the Real Man and extended by me in nomenclature to include woman as well as the Absolute Woman. I wonder if the Chief Justice was influenced by the Vedanta in articulating his words or if it was just an utterance by the pragmatic necessity of the times to which I have unduly attached too much of philosophical significance. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debashis Chakraborty : Yes, Tulsi Maharaj was a mantra-initiated direct monastic disciple of Thakur who following the rift over the Bangalore Case has by organisational decision been unduly removed from the pantheon of Thakur's direct disciples. We are fighting for his reinstatement as direct disciple of Thakur which he truly is. I shall for your perusal provide you with the pdf link to Brahma Gopal Dutta's book where all such documentary evidence are provided that go to prove Tulsi Maharaj's status as Thakur's disciple and not Swamiji's as Belur Math claims on the basis of which the concerned authorities have removed Tulsi Maharaj from the list of Thakur's monastic disciples.

Sugata Bose @Goutam Bose : For instance, the way devotional music is presented that betrays a lack of sublimity, the way spiritual lectures compromising with commercialism are delivered, the way spiritual organisations unashamedly and using ill-conceived means scout for money in the name of conducting welfare work, the way they propagate their mission by speaking half-truths and highlighting certain specific prophecies only to the exclusion of others that warn of their fall should they violate certain original principles and mandates. These and the manner of their activation, execution, design and delivery reduce Vidyamaya to Avidyamaya with respect to such work.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Atheism is the precursor to real spirituality based on superconscious experience and not enforced adherence to irrational beliefs. The Vedanta is the future philosophy for true rationalists. Hence, be not diffident about your rational convictions which have pushed you into atheism but be confident that you are on the right track that will take you progressively unto genuine experience of your own godhead which is the summum bonum of the Vedanta. Thou art That!

Sugata Bose @Satchit Roy : Congratulations! A jubilee with a silver lining with many more to come. May Thakur-Ma preserve your love that may spread unto your environs, enriching both others and you, the recipient and giver of such whose source the Lord ever is, seated as He is in the cavity of the heart! Unto golden days ahead then with a diamond sparkle beckoning you on unto a perennial union with your Essence within.

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : The picture seems distorted. Needs to be changed or set right unless deliberately done to put the post into perspective and drive home its import. It hurts the eyes, though, as bad as governmental policy aberrations. Hope someone lends a ear to this observation and does the needful unlike an apathetic government that unconcerned allows the country to drift into chaos. For there are challenges galore, no less the environmental one that is going to be our nemesis in the years ahead with a proliferating people precipitously falling into perdition.

Sugata Bose @Mahua Ganguly : না, খালি হাতে নয় | কর্মফলটি হাতে নিয়ে | তারপর সূক্ষ্ম শরীরে তা সংস্স্কারের পুৃঁটলিস্বরূপ বহন করে জন্ম হতে জন্মান্তরে | এই সংস্কারই সম্পদ প্রাকমুক্তিকালীন বন্ধনে | কৈবল্যে সংস্কার শেষ তো অসীম, অনন্ত চিরমুক্তি |

Sugata Bose @Naveena CK : Thank you, Naveena CK, for this literal revelation unto us, that of a poor Muslim by the name Zulfiqar Ali whose grandson you interviewed at Almora, having thirteen decades ago saved a sinking Swamiji by offering him water and kankri (cucumber). Swamiji was a juvenile diabetic and it is quite possible that his starving body had fallen into hypoglycemia whence there would have been no return had it not been for this gracious act of this simple soul who proved the good Samaritan at the critical moment. Alas, all epochal events are composed of such apparently insignificant contributions from the ordinary and the rustic, all masterpieces developed out of simple strokes of the brush of the divine painter, the whole forever being the integration of its infinitesimally differentiated parts! Thus is the small raised unto heights of sublimity, the tiny transformed into the titan and the grand evolved out of its molecular invisible unit which in self-replicating product manifests life on earth. Zulfiqar Ali shines in lustrous memory as the giver of life to the great life-giver, the seminal sage of the Age and of ages to come, Swami Vivekananda of hallowed memory. One hopes this video receives due circulation to highlight this crucial episode in Swamiji's life in wanderjahre. Thanks again for the gleaning of this momentous episode from literally the mouth of its keeper through successive generations of ardent adherence in bond of love to an ancestor and a precipitated pilgrim at his doorstep.

Yours ever in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda,

Sugata Bose 

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Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : ভগবানকে শ্রদ্ধা করতে হয় | তবে নিজের ভগবানত্ব জাগে | বুঝেছ ? নিরভিমান, নিঃশঙ্ক, নিঃশেষিত প্রেম, নির্দ্বন্দ্বচিত্ত, নির্ভেজাল, নিরলস, নিশ্চিন্ত সমর্পণ, বিষয়বিমুক্ত হেতুহীন অনুক্ষণ স্বতঃস্মরণ---এই হল ঈশ্বরলাভের প্রকৃষ্ট উপায়, বহুঋষিলব্ধজ্ঞানের শাস্ত্রবর্ণিত নির্যাস | অবলম্বন করো, তুমিও পাবে | তাঁর কৃপা সর্বভূতে স্বতঃপ্রণোদিত বহমান | কে চায় তাঁকে ? যে চায়, সে অবশ্য পায় |

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Swami Trailokyananda] : Fake person. Pretender to spirituality. Sham of a sadhu! Shame! What you have eaten, you are burping thereof. Rectify yourself. Go back to the brahmacharya which you have forsaken. Such disgusting discourse wearing the ochre robe is an insult unto your monastic vows. Reform yourself forthwith before you fall from grace.

Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : No. Read the relevant books. Ring up Ramakrishna Math, Udbodhan Karyalaya at Baghbazar to enquire which books to read. Best will be to begin with 'Sri Sri Ramakrishna Leelaprasanga' by Swami Saradananda which is the authentic, original, comprehensive biography of Sri Sri Thakur by his own disciple, a veritable magnum opus in literary terms.

Sugata Bose @Suvadeep Sen : Deleted those photos of the pages from Tagore cited by you here for I thought it improper to use the fruit of your labour by easy absorption of the same for my work at a distant date when I assuredly will forget to attribute it to you owing to the lapse of time and consequent lapse of memory. But thanks, nonetheless, for your magnanimous gesture. I remain an avid reader of your posts which are invariably replete with citations from authoritative sources unlike mine which are quoted from memory that may at times necessarily be at a slight variance with the exact words quoted, though not in meaning, inport or intent for sure. But my writings are not premeditated and flow spontaneously which brooks no opposition in terms of a delay in expression. Hence, the unavoidable predicament of relying on none too soft a memory.

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : To make your posts more appealing, keep this photograph permanently appending them. This one was clicked when you were at the height of your inspired activism, hope and health. Do not change it. The nation needs visual hope, too, as this photograph inspires with Swamiji and Netaji backing it up.

Sugata Bose @Soham Pain : Let me edit it. Thanks, Professor, yet again. You are a gem of an intellectual, the pride of your generation. 

Sugata Bose @Biswaroop Mukherjee : The names have been provided so that identification should no more be a problem. Data-filling will take its due time though as a fair bit of research needs to be done. Keep following my posts. Surely, the opportune hour will find me fulfilling my promise, though the quantum of time required being as yet unknown, patience must be the requisite virtue on the part of both writer and reader.

Sugata Bose @Khalid Umar : Superb succinct summary!

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : রসবোধে ভট্টর ভাঁটা পড়েছে | যা তা খেয়ে ব্রাহ্মণত্ব খুইয়েছে | ফলে বুদ্ধি গেছে রসাতলে | সাথে রসবোধরূপ বন্ধুটিকে বন্ধুর পথে হারিয়েছে |

Sugata Bose @Pandurang Kulkarni : Don't change my gender. That could spell danger for me.

Sugata Bose @Kumar Utsav : Are you stupid? Don't you know that in the list of direct disciples Belur Math has excluded Tulsi Maharaj? They are doing doublespeak for your kind information. This was for your own satisfaction, not that it really matters as to what you think about the truth which, being adamantly unresponsive to reasonableness, you at any rate don't care for, it seems.

Sugata Bose @Sutanu Chatterjee : Not in that sense have I used but in the sense of narrow tribalism. I understand your concern, though. However, lest it cause offence to any, the post is being duly edited. Thank you, Sutanu, for acting as a true friend in bringing to my notice this unwitting potential offence to our ancestors and to our brethren. A stich in time should save nine. Hence, the editing.

Sugata Bose @Sutanu Chatterjee : Tribals are not brutes but brutes with medieval tribal characteristics have been thus described. However, language being not mathematically precise and subject to multiple interpretation, especially in such a short post where explanations are not possible to provide, it is best to withdraw such words in the light of common misunderstanding that is gaining increasing currency these days of transitional change amidst declining appreciation of the nuances of language.

Sugata Bose @Kumar Utsav : Fools must be addressed this way. Rectify stance and talk sensibly. Else, maintain a studied silence if, of course, you understand what I mean. You have earlier engaged all with your frivolous talk for far too long to deserve any more audience. Now get going.

P.S. And don't forget, there is a usage in English which goes this way, 'incorrigible fool'. Hence  you see, after so much of reasoning when irrationality so persists to the point of exciting exasperation in others, the epithet applied is richly deserved. Reflect on your inconsiderate stance and, sure enough, you will see reason. Swamiji had threatened to throw overboard two such dogmatic persons into the sea. You have been dealt with with much more leniency for all your attempted mischief here on posts related to Tulsi Maharaj's direct discipleship. A gentleman would have accepted gracefully the proofs given and altered belief in the light of furnished truth. Not in your case, though.

Sugata Bose @Sandhya Bhadury : Truth may lose its way for millenia, don't forget. The gory history of the world testifies to that. Civilisation and truth establish themselves in phases alternating with barbarism and untruth in the undulating spiral flow of evolution. And to rescue truth from its nemesis falsehood, a bitter struggle has to be waged each time. Nothing happens on its own. Great struggle, sacrifice and pain are the price truth extracts for its reestablishment each time.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : You did not quite catch the spirit of the post. It means precedence must be given to principle and not to personality. This was the view of none other than Swamiji.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : Ah! You miss the idea and catch the idol there which is exactly what the post purportedly cautions one against.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan It seems you would worship the book rather than read its content. And do not be presumptuous about my knowledge of Swamiji and interpretation of his message thereof. I have spent a lifelong of ascetic study of Swamiji to not deserve supercilious comments from you thus. Intellectual paucity makes today a mockery of what Swamiji stood for. Enough unto the day is the evil thereof. No wonder Swamiji had said that the country had veritably rotted and it seems the rot is still on.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : Enlightening! Never since Swamiji have I come across such a sage as you are. What seminal thoughts! What incisive assessment of others! What elevating analysis, allusions and atomic interpretation, right to the nuclear self! Indeed, the Satya Yuga has dawned.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : You have not understood the underlying meaning of the post. Hence, your observation the way it is. You are completely off-mark with regard to the post. However, that is the sad predicament of the times, an age of declining intellectual culture where pedestrian interpretation, rather misinterpretation, is in common currency.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : This post has nothing to do with the worship of God with form (Saguna Sakara Brahman) or the formless God (Saguna Nirakar Brahman). It has a completely different intellectual setting which you fail to appreciate on account of your misreading of the meaning of the post. Hence, deliberation becomes skewed with no hope of intersection of minds as thus far the dialogue has shown. Meditate on the meaning of the words in an altered light with lateral perspective and you will come to reason. Till then chew on this.

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : Read Swamiji through and through. Dedicate your life to the study of his works. I am happy to see you making at least a cursory reading of his message and works. But deepen your study further and be at peace. May Swamiji bless you!

Sugata Bose @Ramakrishnan Mahadevan : You have needlessly drawn Swamiji into the picture when the post does not have anything to do with him. Anyhow, that is the way the brain operates, I guess, within its own ambit of encircled experience and thinking. Read literature more to be able to appreciate the nuances of language and their corresponding import.

Sugata Bose @Amlan Kusum Ghosh : Everything is good except for the cost of conveyance from India to Canada and back home will have to be borne by you. These westerners are clever consumers, preferring to earn but not to burn resources as it were. But that is the way of the world, each person attempting to make the most of this mango called the world in his own meanest way, missing thereby the marvel that lies locked within the hard uncraked seed, the seat of all fruition.

বাক ও ভাব

বাক ও ভাব

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বক্তৃতায় শব্দারম্বর যদি ভাবের আন্তরিকতা ও গভীরতাকে অতিক্রম করে, শব্দ যদি মর্মকে ছাপিয়ে ভাবগাম্ভীর্যকে খর্ব করে, তো শ্রোতৃবর্গের অধ্যাত্মসত্তা বিশেষ অনুরণিত হয় না | এই বোধটি স্মরণে রেখে শব্দ ও ভাবের সামঞ্জস্য রক্ষা করা চাই | তাতেই বক্তৃতার সাফল্য শ্রোতার অন্তরকে স্পর্শ করার মধ্যে |

বক্তার চরিত্র, জীবনযাত্রা, বৌদ্ধিক স্তর, হৃদয়ের ব্যাপ্তি, বিষয়াসক্তি ও অধ্যাত্মচেতনার স্তর, সবই তাঁর বক্তৃতাকে প্রভাবিত করে ও শ্রোতার চিত্তে তার প্রভাব কি রকম হবে তা নির্ধারন করে | বক্তৃতায় ভাবপ্রকাশে শব্দ অপরিহার্য বটে কিন্তু শব্দই সেই ভাবকে সর্বাধিক খর্ব করে স্বীয় অগ্রাধিকার ঘোষণা করে | এইখানের বক্তৃতার বিফলতা | স্মরণে থাক এই সকল কথা |

বাগ্ দেবী ভাবেরও অধিশ্বরী | তাঁর কাছে প্রার্থনা, যেন শব্দ ও ভাবের পূর্ণ সামঞ্জস্য থাকে বক্তব্যপ্রকাশে, যেন ভাবের গাম্ভীর্য সৌন্দর্যমণ্ডিত হয়, যেন সুন্দর ভাবময় হয় | 🕉 

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)