COMMENTS GALORE ... 48

COMMENTS GALORE ... 48

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : I have quoted Swami Vivekananda. It is you who by vilifying me unduly and by going against the pronouncements of one of the greatest sages of all time who are lowering your estimation in the public eye. Your offensive language bespeaks your attitude. What else may be inferred from it? Immersed in Maya as you are, you make unwholesome distinctions between man and man, divine though they are, and ascribe attributes on them wholly unbecoming and devoid of scriptural sanction unless of course you hold man to be a cage of flesh and bones with so much of mind to think with and no more. If you viewed man as embodiment of the Atman, you would have desisted from making caustic, carping comments about fellow correspondents and, so, would have raised yourself significantly in their eyes. Your warnings notwithstanding I shall continue to voice what I know to be true and what is validated by the words of the greatest Rishi of modern times, his pronouncement on the nature and essence of the Vedas. May Holy Mother grace you with better discretion and a nobler heart! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Ridicule or praise, truth must be stated, for in the words of Swami Vivekananda, 'Truth does not pay homage to society, ancient or modern. Society must pay homage to truth or die.'

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Now your puerile assertions are becoming rather boring. However, your statements thus far have helped me tremendously in understanding the hollowness of the so-called Hindutva movement which has of late consumed much of my attention. I now intend to gather better adherents of the Sanatan Dharma than its present protagonists who are incapable of even honouring our great sages such as Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna, in order to freshen the movement of resurrection of the Sanatan Dharma. Thank you for this invaluable help that has come through your puerile propositions and surface statements which have opened my eyes to the corrosive core of the Hindutva movement in its current commercial derivative. God bless you with understanding to comprehend what I have thus far said! 🕉 

P.S. Thank you for doing a fast Ramanujan in hyper-addition techniques.

Sugata Bose @Readers : The gentleman refusing to see reason had to be necessarily blocked, a rather unfortunate end to a request that ought to have been complied with but was evidently not. Plagiarism is an offence that cannot be condoned.

Sugata Bose @Aishitha Achyuth : তা কেন ? ভারত সেবাশ্রম সংঘ কি বিবেকানন্দবোধ ছাড়া ? আর রামকৃষ্ণ মিশন তো আধ্যাত্মিক প্রতিষ্ঠান | তাঁরা সেকিউলার হতে যাবেন কেন ?

Sugata Bose @Parag Kumar Mitra : Well, read then my big posts when I put them up. These short ones are teasers to eke out your responses.

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : To everything wholesome. Perhaps, you are making your own reading into the frontal fraction of the word 'modify' and responding in quizzical terms.

Sugata Bose @Atanu Bhattacharjee : Just the opposite. Hindus by reading the Kathamrita multiple times a day will become vigorous Hindus and Muslims by doing so will be encouraged to be less dogmatic and closer to eventually embracing the Sanatan Dharma. You have misread the import of the post and even the humour involved in its otherwise serious intent. 🕉 

Sugata Bose @अक्षय वर्तक : Swamiji says unity eventually will be. India will be a composite of 'Vedanta brain and Islam body'. Yes, unity is necessary for the nation's progress.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [The Indian Express] Location--Hotel Samrat 19.03.2024 Ramnath Goenka Award for Meghnad Bose : Awaiting the hour of meeting with journalistic excellence.

Sugata Bose @Paramhansa Shikshangan : The disinfatuated have their feet firmly fixed on the ground even when located in a world of fantasies and dreams as the pleasure gardens of life afford.

Sugata Bose @অরোত্তম কুণ্ডু : I am a literary entrepreneur, not literally so. Risks by way of writing are thus welcome. The greater the risk, the greater the profit in terms of literary communication with my readers.

Sugata Bose @অরোত্তম কুণ্ডু : But being Indian is a priceless possession, veritably in the last lap of the soul's transmigratory evolution unto godhead that is liberation from the fetters of Maya and timeless, spaceless absorption in the Absolute. What is a bit of earthly price paid compared to the lasting glory that a true son of the soil gets, both in real life and in the memory of posterity when the lights have dimmed in the eyes of the beholder and yet in stellar beams gleams the fading personality as it drifts into the cool glow of the radiant goddess which Bharatmata veritably is?

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Read 'Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita' daily. It is good for one's spiritual health. You will feel very happy and peaceful if you read it daily.

Sugata Bose @Prantik Banerjee : Good observation. Exposes the hypocrisy of these quacks, medical, spiritual et al. Even Ramdev Baba's assistant got treated in AIIMS  a few years back when he complained of chest-pain. That's the commercial corruption rife these days that fool the masses and interested parties.

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : Bengalis have voted now thrice a patently communal party to power, a party with a chief who periodically invokes Allah to appease her preferred electorate to stay in power. And Bengalis, for all their superior intelligence, bow down to her in slavish cringing, having given up all dignity and decency to flatter the one in power while all the time pretending superior culture by poetic quotations and other cultural consequences. We stay in Bengal and know the scene since Singur. Hence, the blind may be misled by the othersidedness of affirmation but not us who suffer the lack of industrial development in West Bengal owing to the unfriendly attitude to industry of the ruling dispensation ever since 2007 when as opposition party it had thwarted the Nano factory and with it stifled Bengal's hopes. Add to that the scams that surface every other day and you have your picture perfect of Bengal's perilous course towards self-destruction. And for all this consistent backing of a terribly communal party, Bengalis are non-communal indeed!

Sugata Bose @YouTube [ANI News -- Smita Prakash with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev] : Quack speaking gibberish in a pseudorational manner. Hardly an honest man. And not truthful either. Verbosity is not wisdom.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [ANI News -- Smita Prakash with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev] : Sense and nonsense beautifully blended so as to fool the gullible masses.

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : Past superficial inclusiveness has failed in fighting Islamic communalism that led to Partition. Will history be allowed to repeat? What is your deep solution to this protracted problem? Deep and not the surface slogan of 'unity in diversity' despite its noble intentions but utter hollowness in terms of practical applicability in the teeth of Islamic scriptural absolutist, exclusive mandates which deem India Dar-ul-Harb and a business unfinished in the prophetic programme of Ghazwa-e-Hind.

Sugata Bose @Aishitha Achyuth : Right you are and to the left we must not turn. Now to set things right, we must be righteous soldiers of the Soul and turn rightward for sure.

Sugata Bose @Swapan Kr Jana : Very crude. Humour, true, but the darker version.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Deepika Bhide] : Deepikaji, you need to work on maintenance of laya which goes frequently awry in your case. And I am not talking of layakari.

Sugata Bose @Anthony Dsouza : Not the RSS which is a nation-builder but other antinational organisations which are galore and working to bring down this civilisation.

Sugata Bose @Anthony Dsouza : No, I am neither joking nor misleading the public but this is where I stand taking everything into account. There are faultlines everywhere but the essentials must be seen. And the RSS is a nationalist organisation which has done and is doing yeoman service to the nation, although, it may not be to everyone's liking and it may not have delivered to expected levels of satisfaction.

Sugata Bose @অরোত্তম কুণ্ডু : First let us become 'heartwhole' men as Swamiji used to say. Then with spiritual realisation backing us we shall have ample scope to reform society. Till then with ignorance, arrogance and egoism impelling us towards fractured reform, we shall be making a disaster of things by way of attempting social improvement at its foundational structural level. I urge you to read Swami Vivekananda extensively and intensively at that to find for yourself what the great man had thought on these issues.

Sugata Bose @RN Singh : He (Narendra Modi) surely can. Even Hindi and Gujarati versions of Swamiji's Complete Works are there. Regarding assimilation it is a more contentious point the truth of which I am not privy to but can only hazard my guess.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Dil se with Kapil Sibal] : Mr. Sibal, the pronunciation of the word 'publicly' is pub-lick-ly and not pub-li-cally. Point to be noted. This word like the other one 'overeignty' is these days being much mispronounced in the broadcast media.

Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : আরে মশাই, দার্জীলিঙে প্রশ্বাস ফেলছে লোকে সন্তর্পণে পাছে প্রশ্বাসের ধোঁয়ায় শিল্পের অনুমান হয়ে যায় আর বেকার ভাতা বন্ধ হয়ে যায় |

বচনার বচনে শিল্পও হাসে |

Sugata Bose @Sugata Bose : Here is the genuine Sadguru as opposed to self-proclaimed titular ones. [Relative reference to Swami Smaranananda and Sadhuguru Jaggi Vasudev]

Sugata Bose @Habib Saleh : What were Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Kashmir? Hindu and Buddhist in character. And now? Was this Hinduisation or was it not Islamisation? Read Jadunath Sarkar, Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup to come to a semblance of historical sanity? And finally, why was undivided India partitioned? Because Hindus wanted not to live with Muslims or was it the other way? What is the struggle (jihad) that converts Dar-ul-Harb to Dar-ul-lslam? What is Ghazwa-e-Hind?

Sugata Bose @Anthony Dsouza :And for good measure what were the Portuguese Inquisitions doing in Goa and neighbouring regions? Preaching peace?

Sugata Bose @Tanmoy Lodh : No, no, the British looted more, 44 trillion dollars in today's valuation. The INA treasure was of 170 thousand crore INR in estimate made a decade back which was looted by unknown agents.

Sugata Bose @TouTube [Mallikarjun Kharge---YOYO Kannada News] : Why don't you rid your party of mother and son who are ruining your fortunes?

Sugata Bose @Anthony Dsouza : You are a humorous person. Much appreciated your rather slanted jibe.

Sugata Bose @Swati Bajpai : The quality of reporting has drastically diminished since the takeover of NDTV by the big tycoon and the consequent absence from the scene of its parents Radhika Roy and Prannoy Roy.

Sugata Bose @Swati Bajpai : Did they? At any rate independent journalism is becoming a rarity these days with channels competing with each other for commercial gain at any cost, even if it means exhibiting abysmal servility towards the ruling dispensation. Sad demise of a glorious tradition that was begun by the great champion of free press, Raja Rammohan Roy.

Sugata Bose @Syed Emad Uddin Shubha : The name 'Leningrad' has been buried in the post-communism movement and resurrected to its original incarnation 'St. Petersburg'. Hence, location in Leningrad would mean location in buried history, perhaps as a relic of the past.

Sugata Bose @Paribrajak Biswanath : Sorry, Swami Gautamananda has been nominated as the Acting President till the election of the 17th President in due course is done.

Sugata Bose @Tanmoy Lodh : But is communism in terms of foundational philosophy and principles consonant with liberalism? Is it not an exclusive socioeconomic materialistic philosophy with a particular interpretation of human evolution in terms of dialectical materialism and historical naterialism that is completely opposed to toleration, much less acceptance, of religion? Whither liberalism then in such an enforced exclusive societal context?

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Search Google. Moreover, you hardly ever acknowledge a reply given by me to your questions--- which are legion---despite my clarifications or detailed answers to general digressions raised by you. Such has been my prolonged experience with you sadly. Hence, it is seemingly an exercise in futility to address your questions because it costs me valuable time and energy but my endeavour to answer you sees no return.

Sugata Bose @Amitabha Dutta Majumdar : Sri Ramakrishna was Ram and Krishna incarnate. The worship of Hanumanji (Mahaveer) and Ma Kali was sought to be popularised by Swamiji which we get to know from his conversations with his householder disciple Sarat Chandra Chakrabarty. Ram and Seeta Mata have entered into the bloodstream of Hindus. In Belur Math every fortnight Ram naam sangkeertan is done as in all branch (Math) centres, I guess. Hanumanji epitomised brahmacharya, valour, obedience, loyalty, presence of mind, acute intelligence, in short all the attributes that make for a perfect devotee in the 'daasya' mood. These qualities Swamiji wanted his fallen countrymen to imbibe. Perhaps, a combination of all these factors, civilisational and the mighty will of a mahatma like Swamiji have contributed to Ramji and Hanumanji being so popular today among the Hindus who are rediscovering their civilisational roots as they undergo a renaissance of sorts which even Swamiji had predicted.

Sugata Bose @Prabir Banerjee : You mean 'Ramaa', 'Guptaa', 'Duttaa', 'Mitraa', 'Krishnaa', 'Dharmaa', 'Karmaa' etc.? Besides these nowadays we are being dished out by them 'sovereignIty', 'publicAlly', 'prAWtest' and the like. Alarming decline of culture in every sense.

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : মূর্খ হিন্দু ! আপনার অন্ত্যেষ্টিক্রিয়ার আয়োজনে অত্যাগ্রহী |

Sugata Bose @Kumar Swapan : Communal? Who? How long will you live in self-oblivion? Till Sanatan Bharat with its diminishing geographical zone of spiritual influence is no more? Is that the unstated agenda?

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Right. But we find professors taking pleasure in criticising Indian weaknesses over foreign public platforms. That is shameful for it betrays intent, that being seemingly to gain the patronising pat of the westerner to further one's career prospects or to end it in the evenshine of glory at the cost of one's mother, the motherland. And then to blazon one's 'achievement' thus over social media to gain the patronising pat of the Moguls of the day, the descendants of the greats who are not even a shadow of their esteemed ancestors, is abysmal indeed.

Sugata Bose @Kirti Phadtare Pandey: You have not the intelligence or catholicity to understand me. As per the aspersion you have cast on me, both Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore must have suffered from the bipolar disorder and odd day-even day syndrome you suggest. It takes greater depth and clarity to comprehend the fundamental principles that I abide by and that I write about. That in this age of online mass articulation the evidence of plummeting mass culture is out in the open is once more proven by your comment which is utterly off the mark. Wherever goodness will be, I shall continue to praise it and in equal measure denounce wherever I come across evil, overt or covert. And that notwithstanding any party's ideology, myself remaining as always the devoted servant of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. 🕉

P.S. ["A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Sugata Bose @AdvMotahar Hossain : But every census since Independence has shown a declining Hindu % population and an inversely inclining Muslim % population.

Sugata Bose @AdvMotahar Hossain : Quite the contrary. Demographic transition need not be considered only overall but must be seen in terms of provinces and districts where the demographic situation is quite different and the balance is radically shifting which is causing a lot of social tension. Your 'lakhs of years' phrase lacks credibility and bespeaks your intent to cover the ground reality, it seems. The Muslim population was at 14% in 2011 but has increased over the last 13 years even as the Hindu % population has in inverse mode decreased. Census will reveal it as and when it is done.  The country was partitioned at Muslim population being 24% and Hindu 76%. So, for fissiparous tendencies to mature it would not require an absolute Muslim majority of greater than 50% of the population. The history of the world testifies to how Muslim majority in any country has resulted in the imposition of the Sharia and the destruction of prospective democratic hopes in the real sense of the term. Hence my observation and warning to my civilisational kith and kin. Responsibility for the motherland I very much bear which is why my concern and pertinent observation with a lot of thought fed into it.

Sugata Bose @Swapan Pal : Seen it. Revealing as to the future fate of debilitated Hindu Bengalees, now given to Iftar parties and beef-eating. Alas! can a sensate population survive long? It must undergo that inevitable 'evolutionary' fate of conversion which historically has snatched Bangladesh from us. Bengalee Hindus are sleeping while death closes in like Michael Madhusudan Dutt poetically said it in 'King Porus---a Legend of Old', 

"Came as the tiger noiseless slow

Like fiery passion's headlong flow."

টিকিটের মূল্যবোধ

টিকিটের মূল্যবোধ

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কে বলে রাজনীতিতে মূল্যবোধ নেই ? প্রত্যেকটি প্রার্থী টিকিট কেটেই তো নির্বাচনযানে চাপছেন | একজনকেও দেখেছেন কি w/t (without ticket) যেতে? টিকিট কাটার জন্য রীতিমত কাড়াকাড়ি ! কেউ টিকিট কাটবেন না, এমন নয় | ও কথা তো তাঁরা ভাবতেই পারেন না, করা তো দূরের কথা | এক যানে টিকিট না পেলে নাহয় যান বদল করবেন | কিন্তু টিকিট ছাড়া যাত্রা ? অসম্ভব ! না, না, এত নীচে নামতেই পারেন না তাঁরা | যে করে হোক, টিকিট চাই | 

এত সব দেখেও বলছেন কিনা রাজনীতিতে মূল্যবোধের অভাব ? মশাই, ডাক্তার দেখান | মাথাটা গেছে | আর ভাবুন তো পাশাপাশি---বাসে, ট্রামে, ট্রেনে কতজন লোক প্রতিদিন টিকিট ছাড়াই যাতায়াত করে ? এই রাজনীতিবিদদের কাছ থেকে তাদের সকলের টিকিট কাটার মহান শিক্ষাটি নেওয়া চাই | কি বলেন ?

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

MESSAGES GALORE ... 63

MESSAGES GALORE ... 63

1. No amount of prayer is of any avail unless attended by absolute purity, abstinence from monetary contamination and perfect sincerity.

2. ধর্মপালনের দ্বারাই সর্বজাতি শিখরে ওঠে সর্বত্র | অধর্মের দ্বারা তা অসম্ভব |🕉

3. 'CAA'কে 'ক্যা' বলে ভেঙ্গিয়ে কি বাংলা তথা বাঙালীর সাংস্কৃতিক মানোন্নয়ন করা হচ্ছে ?

4. ঠাকুর বলেছিলেন মানুষের দুটি জিনিস থাকা উচিত, 'মান আর হুঁশ' | বর্তমান বাংলায় কজনের এই দুটি বস্তু বজায় আছে ?

5. Public morality going down day by day. Top institutions must have absolute autonomy. The courts alone can ensure this.

6. A civilisation is coming to terms with its 1000 year alien ordeal, never quite indigenised and ever threatening to rupture it.

7. Falling in love is depth-attachment to the beloved whereas loving generally is surface sympathy with all devoid of any concentrated content of emotion lasting long.

8. GDP বাড়ছে, ভাল কথা | জনসংখ্যাও বাড়ছে | মাথাপিছু GDPতে কত নম্বরে আমরা ? সে হিসেব তো সরকার দেন না ? বিকশিত হব কি করে তাহলে ?

9. 

'আপনারে বড় বলে, বড়ে সেই নয় |

লোকে যারে বড় বলে, বড় সেই হয় |' 

বাল্যকালের এই শিক্ষা কি তাহলে ভুল ?

~'Modi ki guarantee?'~

10. 

পুলুশবাবা কি সব মন্ত্রীর দাস ?

কথা না শুনলেই খাবে ঠাস, ঠাস, ঠাস ?

11. অনেক রথী মহারথীর পতন হবে এবার | হীরক হার্বারে কি হবে ?

12. 

কে রে তুই, বহিরাগত,

বাংলায় উঁকি মারিস ?

জানিস, আমরা 'জয় বাংলা' দেশ,

তুই বাংলা বলতে পারিস ?

13. "যত সব অর্ধশিক্ষিকের দল, quarter-শিক্ষিতের দল, one-eighth-শিক্ষিতের দল ! জানে না আমি নাটক করতাম !"

ইতি,

জুজু |

14. যাঁরা নিজের নাম করেন বক্তৃতায়, জাহির করান বিজ্ঞাপনে আর কথোপকথনের আগে পিছে মাঝে জপ করিয়ে নেন তোষামুদে দলদাসদের দিয়ে, যাঁরা অনিত্য সংসারসাগরে ভাসমান ক্ষণভঙ্গুর জীবনমাঝে মদমত্ত, মোহন্মত্ত হয়ে আপন মহিমা প্রচারে পঞ্চমুখ, এহেন দৃষ্টান্ত তো আজ দিবালোকের ন্যায় ভাস্বর অমানিশার পূর্বঘটিকায় |

15. Per capita income rising no doubt but this includes the inordinate wealth-accumulation by the super-rich which must be considered.

16. Rise in per capita income versus rise in the cost of living index will give a truer picture of the economic state of the polity.

17. 

বিজ্ঞাপনে এক নম্বর,

নিজ নামজপেতে তুঙ্গে,

প্রান্তবেলায় সূর্যসম,

শত্রুনাশে ভুজঙ্গে |

কত রঙ্গ দেখালি মা,

কত হাতে দিলি তালি ?

কত লোককে পটালি বাপ,

তুই কোথাকার বনমালী ?

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

18. If you are spiritual, nobody will get to know about it. If people get to know it, you aren't spiritual but are a publicity-master.

19. After all the brain drain India will have a massive residue of gadhas.

20.

Eat at night and sleep off the day.

This, I've heard, is the Ramzan way.

21. কাশ্মীরকে দেখে চিনে নাও বাংলার ভবিষ্যৎ !

22. 

আমার postএ লেখা নামকরণ নিয়ে

প্রশ্ন করেন ভদ্রে, 

" 'জয় বাংলা' দেশ কি জিনিস ?"

সপাট জবাব দিলাম,

"ওই যে বন্দোবস্ত করছেন

যাতে বাংলা হয় পুরো finish. 

শেষে লোকে জিজ্ঞাসা করবে, 

"তুই কোনো বাঙালী হিন্দু চিনিস ?"

23. পতনোন্মুখ বাংলা |

24. Despite the advent of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda large parts of undivided and now partitioned India have got Islamised. Alarming!

25. Hindu-Muslim unity formula: Read 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' ('Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita') five times a day.

26. সারা বাংলা জুড়ে কত রক্ত ঝরেছে, ঝরছে, তার কে খবর রাখে ? শুধু নীল রক্তেরই দাম, লালের নয় ?

27. যত অল্পে থাকা যায় সুন্দরভাবে, তত আধ্যাত্মিকভাবে সম্পন্ন |

28. শব্দই ব্রহ্ম, আবার শব্দই মায়া | 🕉

29. রামকৃষ্ণের কথা ভাবতে ভাবতে রামকৃষ্ণ হয়ে গেল |

30. সংসারদোষ কাটলে ঈশ্বরবোধ হয় |

31. যতক্ষণ অনাত্মপ্রেম, ততক্ষণ ঈশ্বরপ্রেম কোথায় ?

32. গালাগালি দিয়ে যা বোঝানো যায়, মিস্টি কথায়, শিষ্টাচারে তা বোঝানো যায় কি ? যদি যেত তাহলে গালাগালি আর থাকত কি ? সবেরই প্রয়োজন, ভায়া |

33. 

'মোদি' মন্ত্র জপ করো,

নইলে গতি নাই |

বাকিরা সব ভগ্নাবশেষ,

এখন মোদিবাবুই ঠাঁই |

34. কথামৃত পর্যন্ত যদি না পড়েন, তো হিন্দুত্বে প্রতিষ্ঠিত হবেন কেমন করে ? স্বামীজীর বাণীই তো যথার্থ হিন্দুত্বে ভিত্তিভূমি | তা না পড়লে হিন্দুত্ব দাঁড়ায় কোথা ?

35. হৃদয়ের সম্প্রসারণই ধর্ম |

36. হিন্দুত্বের প্রথম শর্ত রামকৃষ্ণ-বিবেকানন্দ বোধ |

37. হিন্দুত্বের দ্বিতীয় শর্ত ত্যাগ ও সেবা |

38. হিন্দুত্বের তৃতীয় শর্ত সত্যভাষণ ও সত্যরক্ষা | সত্যনিষ্ঠাই হিন্দুত্ব |

39. হিন্দুত্বের চতুর্থ শর্ত পরঘৃণাবোধ নয়, আত্মগৌরববোধ |

40. বুদ্ধদেব ভট্টাচার্য একজন ভদ্র মুখ্যমন্ত্রী ছিলেন |

41. হিন্দুত্বের পঞ্চম শর্ত চারিত্রিক সততা ও নীতিপরায়ণতা |

42. হিন্দুত্বের ষষ্ঠ শর্ত সাহসিকতা |

43. হিন্দুত্বের সপ্তম শর্ত ইতিহাস সচেতনতা |

44. হিন্দুত্বের অষ্টম শর্ত সনাতম ধর্মের প্রতি একনিষ্ঠ আনুগত্য |

45. হিন্দুত্বের নবম শর্ত স্বাদেশিকতা |

46. হিন্দুত্বের দশম শর্ত ঐক্যবদ্ধ হওয়া |

47. হিন্দুত্বের একাদশ শর্ত আত্মরক্ষায় সমর্থ হওয়া |

48. হিন্দুত্বের দ্বাদশ শর্ত বিশ্বজনীনতা ও সর্বপ্রকার সংকীর্ণতা পরিহার |

49. হিন্দুত্বের ত্রয়োদশ শর্ত ঈশ্বরপরায়ণতা ও শাস্ত্র ও মহাপুরুষে শ্রদ্ধা |

50. হিন্দুত্বের চতুর্দশ শর্ত শরীর, মন ও আত্মার সমভাবে চর্চা শক্তিলাভের উদ্দেশ্যে |

51. পুরুষের পৌরুষ ধর্ম, নারীর নারীত্ব---হিন্দুত্বের পঞ্চদশ শর্ত |

52. Truth triumphs but by individual effort while the collective watches the fun or passively stands apart in a debating duel between two.

53. Bother not if critics try to drag you down when you do good to the country. Work on.

54. Leaders must live simpler lives and dress like ordinary citizens and not like dandies.

55. India racing, Bengal limping.

56. Who is the greatest political leader in India now?

57. এখন ভারতবর্ষের সবচেয়ে বড় রাজনৈতিক নেতা বা নেত্রী কে ?

58. No answer. সব নির্বাক, নিশ্চুপ | কেউ উত্তর দেবে না | কেন দেব ভাই ? যদি ধরা পরে যাই ?

59. India has been Modified.

60. Break free of the fetters imposed by regionalism and affirm a firm nationalism. Vande Mataram!

61. Bengal needs to modify fast. What's your take on it?

62. Communal politics is played most by the most vociferous critics of communalism.

63. এত অসভ্য কিছু কিছু মানুষ ! এত বাজে ভাবে কথা বলেন যে ব্লক করা ছাড়া আর উপায় থাকে না | যেন একটা মাতব্বরি করে দিলেই হল |

64. Perfection is to be reached as the ultimate spiritual goal and perfection is to be attempted in every endeavour of life.

65. Shree Ramchandra used to speak the truth. So did Sri Ramakrishna. Let our leaders who take their names follow suit.

66. মন্দিরের উদ্বোধন ভাল | মানুষের চৈতন্যের উদ্বোধন আরও ভাল | কিন্তু করে কে ?

67. পুণ্যভূমি ধনতন্ত্রের প্রভাবে যেন পণ্যভূমিতে পরিণত না হয় | কিন্তু দুর্ভাগ্যবশতঃ ঠিক তাই হচ্ছে |

68. দেশে বিকাশ হচ্ছে কিন্তু কার? চরিত্রের, চৈতন্যের বিকাশও কি হচ্ছে বস্তুতান্ত্রিক আপাতবিকাশের সাথে সাথে? মানুষ কি ইঁট না কাঠ না পাথর?

69. সংস্কৃতিহীন হয়ে পড়ছি আমরা প্রতিদিন | শুধু আত্মম্ভরিতা, কপটতা, সুযোগসন্ধান, নিম্ন বৈশ্যবৃত্তি, ক্ষমতালীপ্সা, আত্মপ্রচার ও মুর্খতা দিন দিন বাড়ছে | মহাপুরুষের কথা, অবতারপুরুষের কথা, শাস্ত্রবাক্য---এর কোনোটাই আজ ক্ষমতাশীল ব্যক্তি, বিদ্যৎজ্জন মানছেন না | সাধারণের চিত্তে এর বিষময় প্রভাব পড়ছে | ফলে দেশ দ্রুত সাংস্কৃতিক অবনমনের পথে নিম্নমার্গে ধাবিত হচ্ছে | শিক্ষার মান নেমেই চলেছে যতই কেতাদুরস্ত পাঠ্যক্রম হোক না কেন | বর্তমান দুই প্রজন্ম অন্তত অন্তঃসারশূণ্য বুদ্বুদসম ফেনিল তরল পদার্থে পরিণত হয়েছে অথচ তাদের গলার জোর শুনলে মনে হবে এই বুঝি কি সত্যটাই না বলবে | আগামী প্রজন্ম কি শিখবে এদের কাছে ? বিকশিত ভারতই বটে আমরা হয়ে চলেছি, হতে চলেছি, কেবল উল্টো পথে |

70. মান পাওয়ার জন্য ভান ভাল নয় |

71. অপরের চোখে নিজেকে প্রতিষ্ঠা করে কি হবে ? মহাপ্রভু তো বলেছেন, "যশ প্রতিষ্ঠা শূকরী বিষ্ঠা |"

72. ঠাকুরকে পেলাম তো জীবন ধন্য হল, পেলাম না তো জীবন বৃথা গেল |

73. কথামৃতই সার, কথামৃতময় হলেই ভক্তি, মুক্তি সব |

74. নেতাজী নিঃস্বার্থ ছিলেন | তাঁর পদাঙ্ক অনুসরণ কি আজ দেশে একজন রাজনেতানেত্রীও করছেন ? কই, দেখছি না তো ?

75. তথাকথিত নামী লোকদের মাথায় তুলবেন না | এঁদের মত অহঙ্কারী দ্বিতীয় হয় না | নিজের সম্মান রক্ষা করুন | নামী লোকদের পায়ের তলায় লুটিয়ে পড়ে আত্মমর্যাদা খর্ব করবেন না | এঁদের বেশি আমল না দিলেই এঁরা সঠিক পরিমাপে বজায় থাকবেন | আপনাদের দাসসুলভ স্তাবকতায় এঁরা পরিপুষ্ট | স্তাবকতা ছাড়ুন | এঁদের পরিশ্রম করতে দিন নিজের প্রতিষ্ঠা যথাযথভাবে অর্জন করার জন্য ও ভদ্রভাবে সৌজন্যশীলতার দ্বারা বজায় রাখার জন্য | তখন বাবাজীবনরা সাধারণ মানুষকে পুনঃ সম্মান করতে শিখবেন | নিজেকে সগৌরবে মর্যাদাসম্পন্ন ভাবতে শিখুন | তখন দেখবেন এই সব আত্মশ্লাঘায় ভরপুর নামী লোকগুলো আপনারই পেছনে ছুটছেন | কিন্তু খবরদার ! নাম হলেই বদলে যাবেন না | মনুষ্যত্ব বজায় রাখবেন | ওঁদের সাধারণ সম্মানটুকু অবশ্যই দেবেন তখন, তার বেশী নয় | আর নিজেকে নতুন পরিচয়ে পেয়ে ওই নামী লোকদের বিশেষ অহঙ্কারে নিজেকে ভূষিত করবেন না | আত্মস্থ থাকুন, আত্মম্ভরী নয় | আদর্শ হল মানুষকে শ্রদ্ধা করা, ভালবাসা আত্মরূপজ্ঞানে | 🕉 

76. Is it the 'ticolour' or the 'tricolour' ? Then, is it 'tirangaa' (तिरंगा) or 'trirang' (त्रिरंग) ?

77. শিক্ষিত মানুষ যে কি করে রাজনেতার স্তাবকে পরিণত হন, তা দুর্বোদ্ধ ঠেকছে | বোধ হয় প্রচারের চাপে আর চরিত্রের অগভীরতাহেতু মনের সাংস্কৃতিক প্রতিরোধক্ষমতা এক সময়ে ভেঙে পড়ে আর জন্ম হয় সেখানে স্তাবকের | এই হল সাধারণের অবস্থা যাঁরা প্রচার মাধ্যমের শিকার | আর যাঁরা পদ পাওয়ার আশায়, সুবিধা পাওয়ার উদ্দেশ্যে কেবলই নেতার নাম জপ করেন, তাঁরা তো চরিত্রহীনতার এক ভিন্ন থাক ! আর নেতারও বলিহারি ! কি ভালই লাগে বাক্যের আগে পরে নিজের নাম শুনতে !

78. ঠাকুরের মহাবাক্য 'টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা' আজ কি জোর গলায় বারংবার ঘোষণা করতে পারেন ঠাকুরের অনুগামীরা এই দেশজোড়া ধনতন্ত্রের কুৎসিত প্রচারের মধ্যে দাঁড়িয়ে যেখানে কার কত টাকা আছে বা কে কত টাকা কি ভাবে উপার্জন করলেন এই প্রচার কদর্যতাপ্রাপ্ত হয়েছে একপ্রকার ?

79. বিজ্ঞাপনের মান এত নেমে গেছে যে তা বিরক্তির উদ্রেক করে বেশি, মনোরঞ্জন করে কম | ফলে তার উদ্দেশ্যগত সার্থকতাও থাকে না যা তার অভিপ্রেত | সংস্কৃতির সাধারণিকরণের ফলে সংস্কৃতির অবনমন অবধারিতভাবে ঘটেছে |

80. স্বপ্নপুরীতেও ভূপৃষ্ঠে পদযুগল | জয় জননী বসুন্ধরা ! প্রণাম মাতঃ |

81. I am in love with death, death being the grand exit from this terrestrial life, death symbolising the ephemeral nature of things.

82. যে বিদ্যায় ভগবানলাভ হয়, সে বিদ্যাই বিদ্যা |

83. যে দেশে গুণীর মর্যাদা নেই, সে দেশের বিকাশ হবে কি করে ? সে দেশের উন্নতি তো স্তব্ধ | যে দেশে ঘরে বাইরে অপমান, সে দেশের আশার আলোক এক ঈশ্বর | দয়াময় ঠাকুর একমাত্র অবলম্বন |

84. As women work, they become more self-confident. Liberation of women must have education followed by effective employment as its precondition. Suppression of the fairer sex by confining them at home is detrimental to national growth. Swamiji had said, "A one-winged bird cannot fly." Hence, liberation of women must be effected faster than is happening as of now. Let none dictate to them as to the manner of their carving out their destiny. They are free beings with the inherent capacity to determine their fate. After all they are the mothers of all of us, the Mother of Humanity. 

85. When awards are showered on people, know that the traps of fame are also being laid.

86. The PM has more capable men than him under him. If these get duly their chance in governance, India's future is bright.

87. I am my mother's son. Now who knows where that motherhood ends?

88. Each Indian is India provided he identifies with her and lives like a true son of the soil.

89. I see a great surge of woman-power surfacing in India. Here lies hope for our motherland when our daughters rise to their feet.

90. A statement of truth often comes across as arrogance. 'Speak the truth in a pleasant way. Make pleasant even unpleasant truths.'

91. The miserly mind does not allow us to get beyond its limiting thoughts. Consciousness undivided is a different realm altogether.

92. সভ্যতার প্রথম লক্ষণ সহযোগিতার দ্বারা সমাজবন্ধন | এর জন্য চাই সৌজন্যশীল সহিষ্ণু সংযোগ |

93. There is a life in death and a death in life. On which side of the fence we sit determines our fate.

94. If this moment be more wonderful than the previous one, know the next moment to be worse than this. Undulating moves on life.

95. আমি জীবনে অনেক কিছুই করেছি | নিন্দুকে ভাবে কিছুই করিনি বুঝি | যার যেমন ভাব, তাকে দাও ভাবতে সেইমত |

96. আমার লেখা আমার জন্য নয় | তা সাধারণের প্রতিধ্বনি |

97. 

যারে তুমি করো অপমান,

জানো না কি সেও তুমি স্বয়ং?

98. আজ যে তোমরা স্বাধীনতা ভোগ করছ, ভেবে দেখেছ একবারও কাদের ঝরা রক্তে এই মুক্তির আস্বাদন ?

99. A significant portion of the population of urban Northern India has been Modified. That leaves a vast number as yet unModified.

100. বিপর্যয়েও মানুষের চরিত্র পালটায় না | হালকা ভণ্ড হালকা ভণ্ডই থাকে | ভক্ত হওয়াই কত কঠিন, তা গুরু সেজে, যোগী সেজে বসে আছে |

MYSELF LAST, THE NATION FIRST---THIS MUST BE THE MOTTO

MYSELF LAST, THE NATION FIRST---THIS MUST BE THE MOTTO

In the murky, even perverted, political atmosphere obtaining in India one thing that is missing is a convincing voice, a man of character whose courage of conviction can inspire us unto believing in him and his delivered message. Such a person will not need to make a personality cult of himself to woo voters, need not blazon grand guarantees in his own name to seek electoral support or advertise his person in any manner that runs counter to the spiritual principle of self-effacement that he by political and philosophical affiliation supposedly stands for. Such a one need not resort to dais dramatics in delivery of address, need not dress like a dandy, changing costume every other hour to hopefully exhibit identification with the province he is visiting, need not play up to people's imagination by getting meditation in cave or seabed or a dip in the deep televised and certainly ought to refrain from hyper-affirmation of self above the collective that he represents, his party. And most importantly, he must be frugal in disposing off public funds and never wasteful in his sculptural and architectural occupations. 

People are not fools. They are discerning enough to pick the grain from the chaff even if for a while diverse ploys catch them unawares and delude them into devoted submission. But character alone stays the course. All else is cast aside in due course. Thus has it historically been, the rise and fall of emperors, empires, leaders and houses, character being their preeminent sustaining factor, its absence their sure cause of fall. And when with hyper-infiltration of material desire or power drunkenness or megalomania the original idealism has been lost and course shifted unto the terrain of arid ambition, the precipitous fall has been registered unfailingly by the law of karmic gravitation. Leaders must be aware of this and desist from delusive desire, deliberate drama and power drunkenness thus. Ultimately, whether a leader lasts or is lost to his people, it is the people's interest that matters, the people who are the source of the leader's power and status. Their welfare must be top priority and this sort of vainglorious exhibitionism must be eschewed from one's public presentation. Here if a leader miserably fails despite his other considerable achievements for the nation which are commendable, nay, in many cases crucial indeed, then there is cause for worry, both for the nation and for the leader in question. Our boundless gratitude for work well done must be attended by our constructive criticism of this build up of an unhealthy personality cult round the leader which never does augur well for a democracy. We may be lavish in our praise of achievements of a government but must reserve deserving criticism, even denunciation for its failings which with a little more heart and less self-obsession may be easily averted. One more thing. It is the Government of India and the Government of a state for that matter and not the Government of a particular person as it tends to become with leaders of dictatorial disposition. This must be remembered. Nation first, the leader last---this is ever the motto of a luminous leader and this must be our motto as a polity as well if we are to make our mark as a worthy member in the comity of nations. 

Vande Mataram! 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

মদমত্ত যিনি

মদমত্ত যিনি

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সঙএর মত সাজে,

বক্তৃতা দেয় বাজে,

নাটক করে খাসা,

মুর্খমনের আশা,

বুঝি করবে নদি পার,

দুর্দশা রবে না আর |

এই তো দেশের নেতা,

শুধু ভোটবাবাজী জেতা,

বিত্তবানের পতি,

উল্টোপথে গতি,

প্রতিশ্রুতি ঢের,

ভেড়ার পালে শের |

বানিজ্যে যার মতি,

টানে সংস্কৃতিতে যতি,

আরশিতে যার প্রাণ,

হাসতে যে যায় জান,

কপট ভাবের চাপে

আপন ছবি ছাপে |

হাম্বা হাম্বা রবে

মুখর করে সবে,

গণতন্ত্রের রাজা,

বাকবাহাদুর তাজা,

তাকে সবাই করে স্তুতি,

ও সে দেশের প্রতিশ্রুতি !

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

জাগো, হিন্দু, জাগো ! ... ১

জাগো, হিন্দু, জাগো ! ... ১

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যে সময় থাকতে নিজের আসন্ন নিধন সম্বন্ধে সচেতন হয়ে আত্মরক্ষাকল্পে উপযুক্ত ব্যবস্থা গ্রহণ করে না, তার নিধন সুনিশ্চিতভাবে কালে সম্পন্ন হয় | ইতিহাস পর্যালোচনা করলে দেখা যায় যে হিন্দুর ভৌগলিক অধিকার ও জনসংখ্যাগত প্রাচুর্য বিগত ১৩০০ বর্ষ ধরে ক্রমান্বয়ে হ্রাস পেয়েছে | সে ধারা আজও অব্যাহত | এর কারণ হিন্দুর অনৈক্য, বিশ্বজনীনতাহেতু শত্রুবোধের অভাব ও ধর্মসম্প্রসারণে নিশ্চেষ্টতা | সহস্রাধিক বর্ষের দুর্বৃত্ত কর্তৃক অত্যাচারে হিন্দু তার আত্মবোধ অনেকাংশেই খুইয়েছে ও মরুসংস্কৃতির দ্বারা বলপূর্বক আক্রান্ত হয়ে আজও নিজ মর্যাদায় প্রতিষ্ঠিত হতে পারে নি | হিন্দু নিজের ইতিহাস জানে না | কী ভয়ঙ্কর অত্যাতার তার পূর্বপুরুষদের সহ্য করতে হয়েছে, সে সংবাদ তার কানে আসেনি আর এলেও সে তাকে অপ্রয়োজনীয় তথ্যরূপে বর্জন করেছে | ইতিহাসবিস্মৃত জাতি তাই বারংবার বিধর্মী দুর্বৃত্তের তরাবারির ঘায়ে স্বীয় মস্তক দান করেছে, নিজ ভার্যা, কন্যা, ভগিনী ও জননীর শ্লীলতা রক্ষা করতে অসমর্থ হয়েছে ও পরিশেষে দেশবিভাগরূপ প্রলয়ঙ্কর অঘটনের শিকার হয়েছে | তাও হিন্দু জাগে না | অতএব উপায় ?

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

COMMENTS GALORE ... 47

COMMENTS GALORE ... 47

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : Sobering thought. But tigress and cubs rehearsing the roar for people's parade at brigadier's ground?

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Prachyam] : Vikram Sampathji, the great Rani was called Ahalyabai and not Ahilyabai. There is no word in Sanskrit as 'Ahilya' but 'Ahalya' does exist prominently in our Puranas.

Sugata Bose @Goutam Mukherjee : নাম চরিত্র | তার ওপরেও আছে যাকে বলে ওজঃ | এই শক্তি অখণ্ড ব্রহ্মচর্য পালন করলে শীঘ্রই জাগ্রত হয় | শুধু পার্থিব শিক্ষা বা সংস্কৃতির দ্বারা এই মহাশক্তির স্ফূরণ হয় না | শ্রদ্ধাপূর্বক বহির্বিশ্বকে সাময়িক বর্জন করে আত্মচিন্তা করলে ওজঃ উৎপন্ন হয় ও মস্তিষ্কের উৎকর্ষ এমন সামগ্রিকভাবে সাধন করে যে স্থিরচিত্তে ব্রহ্মাভাস প্রতিফলিত হয় ও পরে আত্মোপলব্ধি হয় | সমাধি হতে বুত্থানের পর ঋষিপ্রবর এই ওজঃপ্রভাবে সর্ব বিষয়ের বিদ্যা স্বল্পকালে অধিগত করতে সক্ষম হন ও বাকবিতণ্ডায় প্রতিপক্ষকে অনায়াসে পরাভূত করতে পারেন | আপনার বক্তব্যের সাথে আমি সহমত | শিক্ষা ও সংস্কৃতি অবশ্যই এই আধ্যাত্মিক উন্নয়নের পথে প্রথম পদক্ষেপ যার প্রতিফলন আমরা বিশিষ্ট ভদ্রজনের ব্যবহারে লক্ষ করে থাকি | 🕉

Sugata Bose @Prabir Datta : Apply intelligence. In implicitness is truth often more explicit than in its manifestly explicit form. Thus is poetry the conveyer of message significant better than its prosaic counterpart. Literary production demands of the reader greater attention to import than the indolent are ready to render. This trend as well must be arrested and culture, now at its nadir, restored to erstwhile heights where humour was not only enjoyed but in its due comprehension depth-appreciated as well.

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : ঠিক | সুন্দর স্বকীয় চিন্তা | নতুন ভাবে দেখলাম বিষয়টা |

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : Good one. You are a wizard with words.

Sugata Bose @Santosh Kumar Banerjee : From cut money to cut-tail.

Sugata Bose @Ranjan Mitra : Because I am another Sugata Bose, not the one you erroneously identify me with.

Sugata Bose @Maj Gen Gagandeep Bakshi : And the memorial to the 80 million Hindu deaths at the hands of Islamic invaders and rulers? Also the memorial to the 4.3 million killed by the British-made artificial famine of 1943 in Bengal, the memorial to the Hindus killed by the Great Calcutta Killing and the Noakhali Genocide which precipitated Partition, the memorial to the Hindus massacred by the Moplah Muslims and the memorial to the Indians killed by the Portuguese Inquisition? What about these?

Sugata Bose @Soham Pain : Draw your own conclusions as per your perception of events. Evidence is there glaring for all to see but men have different takes on issues and expressions as per their tastes and dispositions.

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : She never crosses limits. Isn't it so?

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Her limit tends to Delhi.

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Read Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and you will come to spiritual sanity. And of course spirituality needs renunciation for which, though, one needs simplicity, rectitude, dispassion and discrimination. Godspeed unto you!

P.S. A spiritual person will not make such undue distinction as 'you' and 'I'. This is to be noted. Such a one is devoid of a fractured conception of the world and sees integration everywhere, the solidarity of existence. You are devoted to the cause of serving the Sanatan civilisation and our gratitude unto you for such a commendable life's effort. Perhaps you have caught me wrong and keep corresponding in accordance. However, we are all indebted to you for your literary output in regard to the cause of the Hindus. To that end I urge you to study in-depth Ramakrishna and Vivekananda so that your dharmic conception is further clarified and you progress towards the ultimate end of Atmajnana or Self-realisation. 🕉

One more thing. Do not identify yourself or others with the non-self which you call the self but ever look upon all as reflections of the Self that alone exists in this seeming world of ephemeral phenomenal dreams. Wake up great soul unto your Divine Self, the resplendent Atman, and forsake all vanities of this vanishing world which has neither rhyme nor reason, substance or stuff save the Absolute in which it subsists and yet affirms its false existence. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Prabir Datta : Crime is also a part of human 'civilisation' but must it be condoned?

Sugata Bose @Manas Kumar Raychaudhury : And what about atheistic communist violence of the 20th century and the ideological toxin injected in the heart of humanity by those very ones who in devoted following to their ideological preceptor Marx, hold religion, as opposed to dharma, 'the sigh of the oppressed people, the heart of a heartless world, the opium of the people?

Sugata Bose @Chakraborty Anupam : Never has it happened in India, so far as the Sanatan Dharma is concerned. Yes, you are right in regard to Islam as the Partition of India has testified. I reiterate, historically this has never happened with respect to the Sanatan Dharma but the signs are ominous yet again in different provincial pockets of India with respect to rising Political Islam owing to demographic proliferation there and the collusion of perfidious politics with it, both from external source as well as from source within, as sanctioned and mandated by Islamic theology. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Yes, but based on the conception of the Vedanta that man is divine and not merely a mass of matter organised by evolution and disintegrated at death. Man is neither body nor mind but the Atman transcending both, and his seeming phenomenal individual entity is the product of the projected Primordial Power (Aadyaa Shakti) permeating and pervading both. In effect what you call matter is nothing but Spirit seen through ignorance (avidya). A culture that views man as matter degenerates into a sensate one with all its concomitant evils. Hence, the declaration of the divinity of man by the Upanishads is to be understood, absorbed, assimilated and realised so that human culture is raised, deified and divinised. Then alone civilisation will reach its mark and man, now a god, will 'bestride the world like a colossus' (Shakespeare). This is the ultimate end of evolution, individual and collective spiritual liberation, and this ought to be the guiding principle of life. And this is dharma. 🕉 

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : You are not a Brahmajnani but are dwelling in dualistic delusion. Hence your predicament. Perhaps you are reading the word 'revelation' in its Abrahamic connotation which is creating problems for you. No, Vedic revelation of mantra stands independent of any God or arbitrary 'divine' authority. It is the revelation of the Self or the Atman in its absolute existence-consciousness-bliss unitary transcendental state. 🕉

P.S. I exhort you to study 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' once again thoroughly, assuming you have read it in the past. Also study 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' thoroughly.

Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Then Modi is trapped in Maya and will be of far lesser use to the resurrection of the Sanatan civilisation than in self-effacement otherwise. Sad indeed but perhaps inevitably so as per predilection of personality.

Sugata Bose @Goutam Dasgupta : Look at the post. What is the post but the link in elaborate pictorial form? Eyes, my friend, eyes!

Sugata Bose @Swami Bhavatmananda : Maharaj, read the correspondence between Smita Mukerji and Swami Shantatmananda as unfolding in the passage provided by the pictorial link. There is not much ambiguity there as you will find when you read it. Pranam. 🕉 

Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : 10th to 5th position in terms of overall GDP notwithstanding, reality check of 143rd position in terms of GDP per capita is crucial for the future wellbeing of the nation. The welfare of the nation need not be compromised to eternal comparisons with past performance of parties in the bid to secure electoral advantages which at any rate will not be thus compromised. Hence, truth ought to be highlighted to ignite greater public awareness instead of its camouflaged version concealing core concerns. Such public disclosure would be in consonance with the much-touted slogan of 'Nation first'. 🕉 

Sugata Bose @Harshita Mishra : My posts fail to carry to readers their subtle import, their implicit significance falling flat, precipitated by general gravity. Incidentally, today is Einstein's birhday, the pi day, so to say, pi being in three figures 3.14 and the great Albert having been born this day, the 14th of the 3rd month of the year in 1879. Hence, Einstein could be ascribed a numeral code name thus: 3.141879. But that apart. The Kalka Mail had taken Netaji to Peshawar en route to Kabul, Samarkand, Moscow, Berlin, Singapore, Tokyo, Rangoon (Yangon), Singapore, Saigon, Taihoku, ?. But, coming back to square one, this is the mail train, it seems, in which the masses are being transported by self-volition and  eing carried by the forces of the cosmic mind, which is making clever communication in literary form increasingly difficult these days. Enough unto the day is the humour thereof. Hence the post. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Living in India we have to face the consequences of rising cost of living. Western appreciation notwithstanding we have to fend for ourselves in our motherland and must raise our voice about legitimate issues which if the westerners had faced would have induced a violent revolution in their countries, given the volatile nature of their individualistic selves. Our burgeoning population is putting paid to all our hopes as middle middle class people engage in a titanic struggle to live decently, a struggle which is increasingly seeming like climbing up a steep price precipice. The rich and the poor are becoming sharply divided along Marxian lines with economic disparity become uglier than ever before. We are suffering despite tall talks of rise in the global economic landscape and hence our concern.

Sugata Bose @Sudipta Maiti : 

ওই যে বন্দোবস্ত করছেন যাতে বাংলা হয় finish. 

শেষে লোকে জিজ্ঞাসা করবে, "তুই কোনো হিন্দু বাঙালীকে চিনিস ?"

Sugata Bose @DRx Pravind Yadav : At least acknowledge my authorship of the post by sharing it instead of copy-pasting it without my prior approval. This is minimum morality expected online in regard to intellectual property rights. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Now you are a mere 'pundit', so to say, in Sri Ramakrishna's words, that is, if I raise your intellectual status in regard to our scriptures exponentially. I cannot expect you to comprehend the spiritual import of Swami Vivekananda's words. He was a Brahmajnani, an Ishvarkoti, a Nityasiddha, an Aadhikaarik Purush, a Prakritileen Purush, the Avatar of Shiva and the Apostle of the Yugavatar Sri Ramakrishna, specially brought to earth from the highest spiritual plane by the Master to do his work. His words are law and his interpretation of the Vedas valid, not of ordinary folks whose reason is mere surface logic and penetration of truth at best epidermal. Depth-knowledge comes with realisation of Brahman in the absence of which surface reading and surface interpretation must necessarily be. I can understand your positional predicament but cannot subscribe to your stated stance, knowing that I do that Swamiji and a host of other illumined souls have held the view founded on their Self-realisation that the Vedas are not a book but the massive body of revelation of eternal spiritual principles governing phenomena and hinting at the transcendental Reality beyond. 🕉

P.S. Pardon my words if I sound supercilious or impolite. That is in the flow of statement, a linguistic predicament that has come by by way of maintenance of literary metre, and has never quite been my intent. Peel off the cover and look for the kernel within wherein lies the true import of my response. 

I urge you to cultivate 'shraddhaa' and study Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. Your whole life will change. Then will you comprehend the core content of the Sanatan Dharma, the meaning of the mantras of the Veda, not before. Mere intellect will take you nowhere, or, perhaps, it will deposit you somewhere in the outer chambers of the Dharma but will never facilitate your access within to the sanctum sanctorum of the Self. 

"Realisation is religion," said Swami Vivekananda. "Dive deep into the ocean of truth," sang Ramprasad who was so often quoted and oftener sung by Ramakrishna. Dive deep and you will discover the gems that lie embedded in the bed of the ocean, the ocean of Sachchidananda which is your inmost Self, the Atman. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Author Fatema Miah : And then both join Pakistan and then the trio join India, Islamised by then, again en route to joining the rest of Arabia on theological basis though distance apart? Is that the larger game plan, the deeper support-idea?

Sugata Bose @Narayanan P D Namboodiri : Shirka firqua. (An Islamic sect that will dare practise partnership with Allah by mandating on its adherents the reading of 'The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna' five times a day.)

Sugata Bose @Bani Sharma : Even reading the Kathamrita once a day is more than sufficient but please do it five times a day from today.

Sugata Bose @Shankar Kumar Chatterjee : Precipitation could be then in all directions before the punching (read: pushing) knockout.

Sugata Bose @Debasish Guha : Because the situation has vastly improved owing to good governance. They are no more late by days. [Reply to the post: Why do Indian railways trains are always late by hours!!!]

Sugata Bose @Anil Baran Ghosh : Right you are, very right from your perspective which I am fully in sympathy with. But there is a wider perspective as well which is why even Thakur used abusive language at times to better illustrate a point and Swamiji so often hammered home his point before dullards would understand what he meant. 'Galagali' is not merely limited to use of profane language but also means shouting at a person to drive home a point, verbal force doing the work where softer terms had failed. However, more often than not 'galagali' falls short of such exalted illustration and is to be avoided, being patently the lack of restraint in speech and of temper. As Swamiji famously said, "There can be nothing called righteous anger." 🕉 

Sugata Bose @Sabyasachi Gupta : You are copy-pasting my posts without my approval or acknowledgement of my authorship of the same. Unethical practice as it is infringement of intellectual property rights. Not expected of a devotee of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji. Please share the posts instead of copy-pasting. The 'share option' is very much there.

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : That you are reducing yourself to verbal vituperation of this lowly order where you are hurling soft abuses at me proves that you are spiritually unfit for realisation of the Self and incapable of understanding what Swami Vivekananda meant by the Vedas being the body of relevations as opposed to being authored books. The authorship is of the recorded text which is not the Veda just as the book 'Physics' or 'Mathematics' is not the subject physics or mathematics as such. The mantras were revealed to the Rishis in their transcendental state of consciousness which is why they (the Rishis) are honoured as 'mantra drashtaa'. However, your vile casting of aspersions on me has exposed you whole as it necessarily must be if it is the essential feature of one's character. I cannot, however, stoop to such a low as you can and can only pity your materialistic delusion in the guise of appreciation of an eminently spiritual concept. I reiterate, the Vedas are divine revelation and not authored books, as Vivekananda has so emphatically addressed the issue in his 'Paper on Hinduism' read out by him on 19 September, 1893 at the Chicago Parliament of Religions. Your self-exposure thus sadly exposes the shallowness of the present Hindu revival, rising as the movement is on the shoulders of shallow 'scholars' like you and the like who have but scratched the surface of the Sanatan Dharma but have been patently foiled by character attributes in plumbing the depths of the Dharma. No wonder Swamiji had warned us, "The day you all sit at the feet of these westerners to learn about your dharma, that day this fallen race will have its identity obliterated." How prophetic his words have proved to be in the light of the current correspondence of a Sanatani with one of the Occident who has hardly any clue to the deeper spiritual aspects of the Sanatan Dharma but professes to be some sort of a 'scholar' on it! Enough unto the day is the evil thereof. The Sanatan Dharma will be well kept care of by us who have been born into it and by those from anywhere in the globe who are not so bereft of shraddhaa as some materialistic westerners are. 🕉 Shanti! Shanti! Shanti! Hari 🕉 Tat Sat!