A PALACE TALE

A PALACE TALE

A person built a palace at night with its hundreds of rooms filled with the choicest of edibles, entertainment and other objects of desire. He then quietly slipped away keeping the palace gates wide open. As daylight dawned, pedestrians started streaming in and became mad with delight at the delicacies on display and for free consumption as much as possible. As the crowd swelled, the available material of pleasure seemed inadequate for so many. Competition set in and fights started. This led to the formation of rival groups vying for supremacy and group-fights began. Meanwhile, some clever few began wondering as to who had built the palace and had kept all the tools of joy there open to all. They began searching for the palace-maker everywhere in the palace but could not find him. Then the most intelligent among them had an idea. He thought that may be the palace-maker had left the palace and had gone outside. So, he ventured forth from the palace leaving its pleasures and pains behind to seek the palace-maker out. There was a huge park just beyond the palace with lushgreen grass. There he saw an old, shrivelled man sitting on a bench smoking a bidi (cheap small version of a cigarette). He enquired of the stranger as to his query but met with an ambiguous answer. Upon further probing he became convinced that that man was the owner of the palace who had many more such palaces in many places for everyone. As his vision cleared, he was filled with a surpassing peace and bliss which he felt he had received owing to his association with that withered old man. He now felt the urge to communicate his knowledge and blissful experience with the inmates of the palace. So, the intelligent seeker left the park and went inside the palace to tell the inmates what he had learnt and how he now felt. But few listened to him. Most kept on at their greedy grabbing and intermittent fighting oblivious of the news that had freshly come from outside. 

Such is our world and such our predicament. We are caught within the palace of this world and will not budge from it. Who cares for what lies beyond the walls of the palace cast in concrete and to seek the lush greenery of eternal youth and freedom, to forsake the puerile pleasures of the mind and the body and seek the bliss beyond, that of the Reality behind the phenomenal drama that is fraught with the dual syndrome of pleasure and pain and perpetual conflict and chaos? Who cares after all? 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose

COMMENTS GALORE ... 94

COMMENTS GALORE ... 94 

Sugata Bose @Saswati Bhattacharya : We are also suffering because of own negligence in studying him (Netaji) and his spiritual preceptor at a distance, Swami Vivekananda. Were we sincere, we would have activated the Swami's principles with complete concentration in our lives to transform ourselves and in cumulative consequence our nation. Alas, we neglect them and carry on with our lamentations to little effect! We must overcome our inertia thus and forthwith set ourselves to altering the current status of our country in all its prevailing negative aspects. This has been enjoined upon us as our dharma and this we must execute rightfully. And, imperishable souls that we are, divine in essence and potent beyond measure, we can. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyaki Das : National holidays are inconsequential. What is needed is activation of the grand principles of Swamiji which had inspired Subhas Chandra Bose to metamorphose into Netaji. And this can and must be done by ardent admirers and devotees of the duo for self-transformation and national reconstruction. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Premānandji is not a realised soul. I have arrived at this definite conclusion after sufficient investigation of his videos. He has the grace of Mother but is in clear pretence, unclear to most but easily understood by the discriminate. Egotistical reaction in argument, overmuch of humility before some monks and priests, bad concentration when listening to Vedic shlokas (periodic opening of eyes), undue talk of own kidney problem, uproarious laughter that breaks the inner rhythm, disturbing walk through the city at night that creates problems for residents, unnecessary repeated talks on adolescent self-abuse etc. Mainly, over-awareness of the outside environment and the lack of indrawnness. Spiritual dramatis personae all. As you say in colloquial Hindi, 'drāmābāz'. Moreover, शरीरलक्षनम | From physical characteristics which are evident, the discriminate eye can make out. Besides, realised souls do not advertise themselves online all the time.

Sugata Bose @Sumit Mukerji : But Bradman averaged 89 against England overall and 56 in the Bodyline Series. Important to note in the context of the post.

Sugata Bose @Deepak Kandpal : I know. I did not mean here historical greats like Swami Vivekananda but have drawn attention to the plethora of fake Gurus making money by fooling the gullible masses, especially with their popularity being propped up by political parties to sway the electorate to their fold. Besides, there are crony capitalists who are in collusion with this racket that goes in the name of spirituality but which is essentially commerce of a corrupt kind.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [TV9 Bharatvarsh] : Chanakya through Chandragupta Maurya had got Dhanananda punished, not Mahāpadmananda as Rāmbhadrāchāryaji has averred.

Sugata Bose @Vikram Rana : No, not this sadhu. Sri Ramakrishna's Vedanta Guru was another Totapuri whose photograph has not been possible to trace as yet, if any existed or exists, that is. 

Sugata Bose @Stephen Murphy : Body-bound people measure men by the body. We Indians are spiritual and do not castigate people thus.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [ABP News @Swami Avimukteshwaranandaji] : The interviewer is deliberately trying to trap a Shankaracharya into making some inadvertent comment which will be useful for the channel's commercial purpose. This is Avidyā Māyā of the worst kind. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Nirmal Kumar Dey : ये बहुत दुखभरि परिस्थिति | संशोघन करना चाहिये | रोघ करने लिये कुछ तो किजिये |

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Ghosh : Let us join hands in defence of the Dharma. Our conjoined effort will inspire others to join in. In the Sangha is Shakti. 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Shivananda Aum : The fate of Hindus over 1300 years in India at the hands of Islam and their fate in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh even today as also in different provincial pockets of India will illumine you in this regard. Christianity has hit the Hindus hard as well in this regard during colonial occupation with its associated proselytism and the proselytism going on ever since Independence, courtesy the policy of  ultraliberalism in this regard of the Nehru government, a tradition which carries on. Vivekananda's works are pertinent in this regard. My struggle in my own small way is to save the Sanātanis and the Sanātan Dharm in India, to prevent its Islamisation and Christianisation. Bhāratvarsh must remain Hindu which progressive demographic change is threatening in parts and overtime over the whole of India. We have suffered enough for 1300+ years. Now no more. This is the motivation, the inspiration, the dharm which impels me on. As regards Satya Dharm that to be established in the wide world, it will take a very long time as yet as the races of the world, varied and variegated, and at different levels of spiritual evolution, need that time to experience the hollowness of the phenomenal world and gradually come to the Vedic understanding how to make it meaningful and spiritual in the truest sense of the term, overcoming the superstitions that creedal codes impose on the submitting fearful mind. 🕉 

THE VEDANTA

(Delivered by Swami Vivekananda at Lahore on 12th November, 1897)

... 'When the Mohammedans first came into India, what a great number of Hindus were here; but mark, how today they have dwindled down! Every day they will become less and less till they wholly disappear. Let them disappear, but with them will disappear the marvellous ideas, of which, with all their defects and all their misrepresentations, they still stand as representatives. And with them will disappear this marvellous Advaita, the crest-jewel of all spiritual thought. Therefore, arise, awake, with your hands stretched out to protect the spirituality of the world. And first of all, work it out for your own country.' ... 

https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_3/lectures_from_colombo_to_almora/the_vedanta.htm

Sugata Bose @Shivananda Aum : It is not so. I do have a universal perspective as well but that is another part of my programme, the missionary part. I thought you were asking me your question in the context of my Facebook posts in defence of Hinduism. So, I gave my answer relevant to that. As a devotee of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and an ardent Sanātani, what you have mentioned is certainly part of my greater objective but my outreach as of now in this regard is minimal. However, that does not make me indifferent to its importance whether I am able to pull it off now or not. Many of my posts, especially the earlier ones of earlier years when I was somewhat oblivious of the political consequences of Abrahamic proselytism in India in the light of Thakur having accepted both the faiths, Islam and Christianity, as true, were pronouncedly philosophical and addressed the whole of humanity as such, eventhough even then I was unintroduced to the wider world of humanity as such. But your mention of it has made me once more remember Swamiji's dictum unto us, that of carrying forth the message of the Vedanta to distant lands with verve and vigour, an aggressive missionary zeal, for it would conduce to the well-being of the world. Thank you, dear friend from Russia, for reminding me of my wider responsibility towards the world which in effect will, as Swamiji believed, also strengthen the position of the Hindus in the Indian subcontinent as well. 🕉 Hindu!

Sugata Bose @Jisnu Bhattacharya : But leftism that way is a more recent phenomenon. Abrahamic proselytism and cultural conquest have been going on for nearly two millennia.

Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : That is why the Sanātan conception of Mahāmāyā is that of the gender female, Māyā being tortuous and twisted, entwining by attraction and releasing temporarily by repulsion before repeating process ad infinitum. The Guru (the spiritual preceptor) has been conceived of as the Purush who in His saguna aspect (aspect with attributes) appears before the shishya/shishyā (the spiritual aspirant) to initiate him/her in the science of sublimation of the self unto merger in the Self (Ātmajnān). Shakti in the feminine form binds and Shiva in the masculine form frees. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Ādi Shankarāchārya resurrected the Sanātan Dharm to save Bhāratvarsha from the decadence of latter-day Buddhism, Buddhism in its third phase of left-handed worship (Vāmāchār), which was ruining the character of the nation.

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Buddhist tāntric Vāmāchār of a horrendous sensual kind incorporating every form of carnal practice that bound the monk more to flesh than the spirit and by mass influence was destroying the character of the nation.

Sugata Bose @Paramhansa Shikshangan English Classes : But RKM is too passive in their preaching work as opposed to what Swamiji had wanted. The self must be rooted out to serve people but operational scaling must also be done to arrive at a critical mass of influence that will alter the current declining societal status in this regard. 

P.S. The commercial instinct seems to be rampant in society today with altered circumstance and declining morality facilitating the dominance of the copper coin on the corroded mind that can stoop to any level to sell self-respect in exchange for a handful of silver bars as Judas had in Biblical narrative engaged in. Here, of course, the Christ betrayed is one's own conscience whose beats are taking a heavy beating these days to the individual's and the aggregate's perceived precipitous fall. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Terrible touch-up on the photograph. Has made a monkey out of Shiva, to quote Swamiji in the Ramakrishna context when the premier disciple was exhorted to write the biography of his peerless preceptor. In a like manner has been this brutal brushwork that has rendered a god into a demon, to put it in hopefully forgivable hyperbolic terms. Swamiji's message, though, is as usual matchless eventhough delivered extemporaneous.

Sugata Bose @Ujjal Kumar Ghosh : Irrespective of whether you touch a raw nerve or two of deliberate supporters of proselytising faiths antithetical to Sanātan sentiments, you must carry on unapologetically speaking the truth. Your apology will embolden apologists for Abrahamic worship by Hindu institutions like RKM to criticise you as intolerant Hindutva fanatic which they unapologetically will do without turning a hair. So, why bother about hoping not to displease such crypto-Abrahamists within the Hindu fold? Be bold and speak the truth and nothing but the truth, so grace you God (Sanātan Īshvar). 🕉

Sugata Bose @Choudhury Sujata : 'When ignorance is destroyed', this 'we' consciousness is also destroyed. 'We' are no more there, neither 'nature' but it is 'The One' and 'The Being' that in 'knowledge' abides. No more 'we', no more 'nature'. 'Infinite nature' is a contradiction in terms, what in common parlance today is dubbed an 'oxymoron'.

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MESSAGES GALORE ... 112

MESSAGES GALORE ... 112 

1. Truth must be spoken sweet but without diluting content to suit convenience. That would be tantamount to lying.

2. Weak minds go to astrologers. The strong exert themselves to carve out their destiny.

3. Endless are the mercies of God. O man, how can you forget the Lord, the giver of peace and bliss?

4. Total self-surrender to Gurudev alone is the way. These words must be understood deep and attitude set in accordance. A pliable nature is easy to transform, not a hard-set one. Therefore, asolute submission to Gurudev is the imperative for spiritual progress. 🕉

5. निरन्तर नामजप, निरन्तर गुरुस्मरण |

6. Shree Rāmachandra and Shree Krishna are our national ideals and they are beautifully blended in Sri Ramakrishna.

7. কূপমণ্ডুক না হলেই সাগরে সন্তরণ | মধ্যস্থ ভূমি মাত্র সূচাগ্র মেদিনীবৎ |

8. ভবঘুরে হয়ে কি হবে ? অন্তঃস্থিতিই ভাল |

9. Felicity of speech, the quoting of scriptures need not be construed as being indicative of spiritual illumination. Behind the curtains the newsreel more often than not runs different.

10. বায়ুচঞ্চল সাধু মুখে মধুযুক্ত হলেও, শাস্ত্রবচনে মুখর হলেও, প্রবচনে সিদ্ধ মনে হলেও প্রকৃতভাবে প্রবঞ্চক | ৯০%ই বিত্তবাসনা ও প্রতিষ্ঠাপ্রাপ্তির দাস | যা বলেন তা করেন না | মূর্খ মানব ওই রসচক্রে পড়ে পথভ্রষ্ট হয় | উপায় অবতার পুরুষদের সহজ পূজা, তাঁদের উপদেশ পালন | কোনো মাধ্যম লাগবে না | দীক্ষার প্রয়োজন নেই যতক্ষণ না অধ্যাত্ম পিপাসা চূড়ান্তে পৌঁছায় | তখন ভগবান স্বয়ং সদগুরুর ব্যবস্থা করে দেবেন | এ সদগুরু কোনো ভণ্ডের নামাশ্রয় নয়, এ হল ঈশ্বরদ্রষ্টার আচার্যপদে উপাধি |

11. গোবিন্দের শরণ নেওয়া কি এত সহজ ? ইন্দ্রিয়ের দাস কি গোবিন্দের শরণাগত হয় ?

12. প্রেমে আনন্দ এলে প্রেমানন্দ হয় | কিন্তু প্রেম কই ? আনন্দই বা কই ? নিছক উচ্ছলতা ত' আনন্দ নয় | শাস্ত্রবচন আওড়ানোও কিছু প্রজ্ঞা নয় | অন্তর্মুখীনতা কই ? শান্ত স্বভাব, নিরভিমান কই ? তর্কে পরাস্ত হওয়ার উপক্রম হলে উত্তেজিত হওয়া ও প্রতিপক্ষকে উচ্চরবে শব্দারম্বে বিধ্বস্ত করার প্রবল প্রয়াস স্থিতপ্রজ্ঞার কেমন লক্ষণ ?

13. Famous Gurus are generally fake. The reality is this. Drama is not spirituality.

14. 

Bradman's batting average would have been lower were he to play in the era of the great West Indian fast bowlers, Roberts, Holding, Garner, Croft, Marshall and the rest. [The rest: Wayne Daniel, Winston Davis, Winston Benjamin, Patrick Patterson, Ian Bishop, Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose. Want more?]

15. Truth forsaken, God is forsaken. The rest is material misery self-thrust upon oneself.

16. Let not the touch of earth sully the soul. Life is given to love the Lord and be free of the earthly fetters.

17. পশ্চিমবঙ্গের শোচনীয় অবস্থা | অবিলম্বে ঠাকুর-মা-স্বামীজীর যথাযথ অনুগামী না হলে আগামী দিনে ভয়ঙ্কর পরিণতি |

18. 

Nirantar Shreemantrajapam

Nirantar Shreegurusmaranam

19. 

Your heart has become like the ocean then, 

Gravitating up and gravitating down 

But undulating in bliss, nonetheless.

Pulled by Krishna and swinging in tune, 

You have become His handmaiden true 

By His grace.

20. Be calm to retain bliss. Else, happiness and sadness alternate fast. Tranquillity of the mind keeps it blissful.

21. 

কলস ভরে নাও অবিরাম |

শ্যামসুন্দর গোঠে চলে, গোপঘনশ্যাম |

22. চন্দ্রালোকে সূর্যকে অবলোকন কর' |

23. Immerse the material in the spiritual to possess that peace which persists, which does not pass away with the flight of spring but which endures even in the winter of life when the leaves have fallen but the tree stands tall yet, rocklike like the Atman. In this inner divinity is peace that passeth understanding. The light shines within, obscured by delusive desire and an extroverted mind which is buffeted by the winds of change and cannot come to rest ever. Reflect. Then seek counsel at the feet of the Guru and by his guiding light walk within to see your Self, the luminous Being who you have forever sought in vain in the world without. Your Self, the Guru and God are one.🕉

24. Our politicians decide upon the destiny of the nation. They should first learn to be decent in demeanour.

25. The life of one is the sustenance of many. 

26. 🕉 is the unifying symbol of all Hindus.

27. Bengal needs to be saved. Has the descent of the Divine taken place that will bring about this & reaffirm the Sanātan Dharma here?

28. There is a world of difference between mazhab and dharm. Ours is dharm, Sanātan Dharm. 🕉 is its unifying spiritual symbol.

29. Will it be possible to see 'The Bengal Files' in Bengal? Or must Bengalis travel outside Bengal for it like they do to find jobs?

30. Pakistan was carved out of India by 'The Great Calcutta Killing' of 1946 followed by the Noakhali genocide of Hindus.

31. If 'The Bengal Files' is blocked in Bengal, it will prove that it has told the truth about the genocide of Hindus depicted in it.

32. সেদিন গোপাল পাঁঠা রুখে না দাঁড়ালে হিন্দুদের কি হ'ত একবার ভাবুন | শ্যামাপ্রসাদ মুখোপাধ্যায় না থাকলে কি হ'ত তাও ভাবুন |

33. দেশভাগের সময় কি হিন্দু বাঙালীরা পূর্ববঙ্গ ছেড়ে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের প্রতি দুর্বার প্রেমের টানে রাতারাতি পালিয়ে এসেছিল? পলায়নের কারণ কি ছিল ভাবলেই ত' চিত্রটা পরিষ্কার হয়ে যাবে | যারা পালিয়ে এসেছিল, তারাই আবার ক্ষুদ্র রাজনৈতিক স্বার্থ চরিতার্থ করার জন্য হিন্দুবিরোধীতারূপ দেশদ্রোহীতা করছে ? হিন্দুর সহনশীলতা অসীম, তাই এযাবৎ এরা পার পেয়ে গেছে | কিন্তু হিন্দু জাগছে | ভগবান বিবেকানন্দের ডাকে হিন্দু জাগছে | হিন্দুর পুনরোত্থান অপ্রতিরোধ্য | সকল দানব সাজা পাবে, কেউ পার পাবে না | ভগবানের মার না মানলেও কর্মের মার থেকে দানবেরা বাঁচবে কি করে ? শ্রীভগবানের গীতোক্ত প্রতিশ্রুতি কি বিফলে যাবে ? তাও কি হয় ? ঘরে ঘরে সব্যসাচীর জন্ম হবে | 'দিন আগত ওই |'

34. হিন্দুদের সাহসী হতে হবে, পড়াশোনা করতে হবে ইতিহাস, জানতে হবে প্রায় ১৪০০ বছর কি সয়েছেন আমাদের পূর্বপুরুষরা বর্বর আরব আক্রমণকারীদের হাতে | শুধু চেঁচামেচি করা দুর্বল চরিত্রের কাজ, শক্তিমান জাতির নয় | ইহুদিরা যেমন রুখে দাঁড়িয়েছে, সেই রকম রুখে দাঁড়াতে হবে | ধর্মাচরণ চাই শক্তিমানের ন্যায়, দুর্বল কাপুরুষৃর ন্যায় নয় | শাস্ত্রপাঠ, ব্রহ্মচর্যপালন , সামরিক শিক্ষাগ্রহণ, সততা, সত্যপরায়ণতা, ত্যাগ, সেবা, স্বাবলম্বন---এই সব গুণাবলি চরিত্রের অঙ্গ করা, সাধু দেখলেই পায়ে লুটিয়ে পড়া নয়, রাজনৈতিক নেতানেত্রীর অথবা ধনবান, প্রতিপত্তিশালীর মোসাহেবী করা নয় | সনাতন ধর্মের প্রতি প্রগাঢ় শ্রদ্ধা, মহাপুরুষের প্রতি পূজার ভাব, প্রতিটি হিন্দুর প্রতি সনানুভূতি, সহায়তা ও সেবার ভাব রক্ষা---এই ভাবে নতুন হিন্দু সমাজ গড়ে তুলতে হবে | সর্বোপরি, ছোটদের সনাতন ঐতিহ্যের ধারকবাহক হওয়ার জন্য উপযুক্ত শিক্ষার দ্বারা গড়ে তুলতে হবে | আর হিন্দুর সংখ্যা যাতে না কমে, তা দেখতে হবে | এর জন্য কোটি কোটি ধর্মান্তরিত হিন্দুকে ইসলাম ও খ্রীষ্টপন্থা হতে সনাতন ধর্মে ফিরিয়ে আনতে হবে |

35. India's greatest strength is her Sanātan Dharm and Sanātan Sanskriti both of which are enshrined in the Devabhāshā Sanskrit. Absence of mass knowledge of this golden language of the gods has prostrated us at the feet of Asurs and Dānavs. The resurrection of Bhāratvarsh must be through the resurrection of the Devabhāshā. 

36. The deluded neglect the Guru. What is it to the Guru who is beyond loss or gain? It is the shishya/shishyā's terrible loss which they are unaware/aware of. 🕉 

37. ভ্রষ্টবুদ্ধি শিষ্যশিষ্যা গুরুকে অবহেলা করেন | তাতে গুরুর কি যিনি লাভক্ষতির ঊর্ধ্বে ? এতে শিষ্যশিষ্যারই ভয়ানক ক্ষতি যে বিষয়ে তাঁরা হয় জ্ঞাত নয় অজ্ঞাত | 

38. The limitlessness of perception is spirituality. 

39. The Sanātan Dharm must be preserved, propagated and proliferated. In it lies the well-being of the world which till now has been and is being torn apart by non-Vedic cults. It is important to study Sanskrit and the Shāstras. To begin with study 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda', all nine volumes thoroughly. I will be holding classes from now on regularly among my known ones. 

40. হতাশ হবেন না | মহা উৎসাহে সনাতন শাস্ত্র পাঠ করুন, জীবনে ধর্মসূত্রগুলি পালন করুন ও প্রচার করুন যাতে সকল সনাতনী সংঘবদ্ধ হন এবং বিধর্মী সনাতন ধর্ম গ্রহণ করে ধন্য হন | 🕉 হিন্দু!

41. Hindus, unite in defence of the Sanātan Dharm. This is your allotted karm, that is, your dharm. 🕉

42. 

Greed is destroying the land. Even spiritual people today are deadly greedy. This is evident from Swami Brahmananda's statement uttered well over a century ago. And the scene in the spiritual world is far worse now. Said the great Abbot of Belur Math, "The householders are turning into renunciates by giving away their hard-earned money. And the monks are becoming attached to enjoyment by taking their money!" Sri Ramakrishna's principle of 'Money is clay, clay money' is being flouted today like never before as if it is no more valid for a spiritual organisation and its functioning in the social sphere. This is loss of spiritual mooring. If this is the state of spiritual life, what of the material in the rest of society where greed is the fuelling force for work and money the presiding deity?

43. Return to the Sanātan Dharm, those of you who have been perverted from it by proselytising Abrahamic faiths for over two millennia.

44. Everything is spiritual in life and beyond. There is nothing secular in life. Secularism is gross materialism but it must evolve with enlightenment into spirituality.

45. Children should be brought up fearless in the light of the Advaita. The Atman is the support of all. Return to roots. 🕉 

46. Those who are living now and those who will be alive in the coming decades, some of them, many quite, may be fortunate to witness the divine sport of the Avatār who is due on earth as per the prophetic assurance of Sri Ramakrishna.

47. হালকামি বন্ধ করুন | গম্ভীর, গভীর হ'ন | কোন' বক্তৃতা চলাকালীন কথায় কথায় হাততালি দেবেন না | ওতে বক্তব্য অন্তরে প্রবেশ হয় না যা বক্তার মূল অভিপ্রায় | তাঁর ভাবসংবাহন ব্যর্থ হয় |

48. যাঁরা হিন্দু ও হিন্দুধর্ম রক্ষার কাজে ব্রতী, নিজের ছবির বিজ্ঞাপন দেন না শ্রীশ্রীমায়ের মেয়েরূপে ধর্মের আবরণে ঢেকে, যাঁরা অবিদ্যামায়ার অতিরিক্ত প্রয়োগ করেন না, তাঁদেরই ফেসবুকে বন্ধুরূপে গণ্য করি | বিস্তর হতাদর্শ মৌন দর্শক না রেখে স্বল্পসংখ্যক আদর্শবাদী সাহসী সহচর-সহচরী রাখাই কাম্য বলে বোধ করি |

49. স্বামীজীর স্বদেশমন্ত্রটি প্রত্যহ পাঠ করুন, কন্ঠস্থ করুন | তবে ত' স্বধর্মপ্রীতি, স্বদেশপ্রেম জাগবে, সনাতন সংস্কৃতি রক্ষা পাবে |

50. Gupta is to be pronounced Gupt, Mitra Mitr, Mishra Mishr, Dutta Dutt, Shukla Shukl, Krishna Krishn, Rama Ram, Sanātana Sanātan, Dharma Dharm, Karma Karm, Yoga Yog etc. and not in the reverse way that is rampant.

51. আজ পৌরুষের বড় অভাব বাঙালী হিন্দুর মধ্যে | স্বামীজীর অনুগামী প্রায় কেউ নেই |

52. Death is certain. Therefore, God must be seen before that. Urgency needed.

53. Learn to speak concisely. Do not unduly spray about your elaboration of a point, continually missing the mark.

54. Once Buddhists formed two-third of the population of the Indian subcontinent. Then the Sanātan civilisation in its full bloom was reestablished in the region by the pioneering movement initiated by Ādi Shankarāchārya. In a like manner today Islam claims the allegiance of one-third of the subcontinental population. The Sanātan Dharm faces a challenge yet again and it will have to rise to the occasion again to reclaim Punyabhumi Bhāratvarsh. Who will lead the movement this time? Swami Vivekananda? Incidentally both Ādi Shankarāchārya and Swami Vivekananda are incarnations of Bhagavān Shiv.

55. Hindus must en masse study Sanskrit. This is possible only if Sanskrit is made compulsory in the curricula at the school, college and university levels. The whole country must be Sanskritised. Then and then alone India will truly rise to claim her Vishvaguru status and duly become Bhāratvarsha in truth again.

56. When will Swami Rāmbhadrāchārya go to meet Swami Premānand Govind Sharan at his kunj in Vrindāvan? The meeting will be momentous.

57. संस्कृत पडिये | सनातन संस्कृति की रक्षा किजिये | 🕉

58. यथार्थ ब्राह्मणत्व की पुनःप्रतिष्ठा मे हि सनातन समाज रक्षा पायेगी | श्रद्धापूर्वक शास्त्रपाठ किजिये | 🕉

59. पुण्यभूमि भारतवर्ष मे गोहत्या सम्पूर्ण बन्ध होना अति आवश्यक | 🕉

60. यमुनाजी को प्रदूषणमुक्त करने कि शोधनकर्म अत्यन्त आवश्यक | केन्द्रीय सरकार कि इस विषय मे शीघ्र उपयुक्त व्यवस्था लेना चाहिये | 🕉

61. सकल वामपन्थि पुनः सनातनी बन जाये | ये उनसे आन्तरिक निवेदन | भारत कि कल्याण इसि मे निहित | 🕉

62. রাষ্ট্রভাষায় রচনা করতে গিয়ে ব্যাকরণবিপত্তিতে বিষম পতন | পুনঃ মাতৃভাষায় প্রত্যাবর্তন | 'রেখো মা দাসেরে কোলে ... |'

63. Resist the conversion of Hindus to Christians and Muslims. Hindus, be alert, be active. 🕉 Hindu!

64. Renunciation is the soul of the Vedanta. Service is its active associate. "Renunciation and service are the twin national ideals," said Swami Vivekananda. "Intensify her in those channels and the rest will take care of itself." Our duty is to do that. That is our dharm. Along with it we must send preachers to carry the grand message of the Sanātan Dharm to every corner of the world so that 'Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya.' (The world may move from dispelled darkness to dawning light, the light of the Ātman!) 🕉

65. A tremendous vigour is necessary, sterling character with words forged in love and fire that will stir the soul of the nation. Such a one is the leader, the liberator of the masses.

66. বক্রবুদ্ধি কি ভগবানকে পায় ? সরলতা চাই | অকপট, নিরভিমান, পূর্ণশরণাগত | গুরুকৃপায় সব সম্ভব | তবে গুরুকে শ্রদ্ধা করা চাই ভগবতবৎ | অবশ্য, জড়বাদী নাস্তিক কি বুঝবে ? সে ত' ভগবানকেই মানে না, গুরু ত' কা কথা !

67. The entire spectrum is Sanātani (Hindu) despite chromatic surface differences of frequency and wavelength. Hindus, in the 🕉 unite!

68. 

গুরুতত্ত্ব মহাতত্ত্ব

যদি না চলো বামে |

গুরুপ্রেমে মহামুক্তি,

গুরুস্মরণ নামে ||

69. Do not spread superstition in the name of religion. Misleading the public is the most grievous offence. It is adharm.

70. The study of Sanskrit and the cultivation of shraddhā is the dual mode for the rise of Bhāratvarsha and the world in consequence. 🕉

71. Bhārat's greatest treasure is locked in her Sanskrit scriptures. The devabhāshā must be studied and this treasure unlocked. 🕉 

72. Bhakti means pure love of Bhagavān unsullied by the least trace of desire but to behold Him and serve Him. 🕉

73. Work is preliminary, worship terminal. 🕉

74. Not all are appreciative of the arrival of a great soul and the value of his association

75. যতদিন না প্রতিটি বাঙালী যুবক-যুবতী স্বামীজীর বাণী ও রচনা নিত্য পাঠ ও তাঁর উপদেশাবলী সেইমত অনুশীলন করবে, ততদিন এ জাতি তার বর্তমান পতিত অবস্থা থেকে উদ্ধার পাবে না | দুর্ভাগ্যের বিষয় হল এই যে বামপন্থা শিক্ষা দেওয়ার অনেক শিক্ষক আছেন কিন্তু বিবেকানন্দবোধ জাগ্রত করার আজ প্রায় একটি আচার্যও নেই | স্বামীজী তাই প্রবাদবাক্য উলটো করে বলতেন, "চেলা মিলে লাখে লাখ, গুরু না মিলে এক |" আজ সত্য সত্যই সেই অবস্থা | স্বামীজীর আদর্শ কেউই প্রায় পালন করেন না | ফলে প্রচার ত' প্রায় হয়ই না তাঁর আর, যতটুকু হয়, তার দ্বারা কোন' কাজ হয় না | বৈরাগ্যবান, তপস্বী সাধু যেমন অল্পবয়সে দেখেছি, তার অভাবে আজ আর কারও কথা মনে ধরে না | শুধু সেবার্থে অর্থসংগ্রহই যেন এখন মূল সাধনা | ঠাকুর-স্বামীজী আজ ব্রাত্য | যুবক-যুবতীরা তাই স্বামীজীর পূত সঙ্গলাভে বঞ্চিত | সমাজের শোধন প্রয়োজন | তবেই কাজ হবে | হয়ত প্রতিশ্রুতিমত অবতারের পুনরাবির্ভাবের দ্বারাই তা সম্ভব হবে, সঙ্ঘটিত হবে | স্বামীজীর কাল হতে পঞ্চম ও ষষ্ঠ প্রজন্ম দেশের ভাগ্য পরিবর্তন করবে---এমনই ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী স্বামীজীর | তাই হ'ক তবে | তাই বলে হাত গুটিয়ে বসে থাকলে ত' হবে না | সমাজকে প্রস্তুত করতে হবে | সেই কাজেই ব্রতী | সেই কাজেই নিরত রব |

76. The greatest damage to Hindus has been the conversion of Hindus to Islam and Christianity. Reconversion must redress this problem.

77. Gurus should guide and not fleece the shishya-shishyās. Today commerce is corrupting the spiritual course.

78. From the poor response to my posts I can understand how callous and cowardly the bulk of Bengali Hindus have become to their fate which is in precipitous fall. Their indifference bespeaks their loss of dhārmic vitality. Alas, Bengal, 'thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!' (Shakespeare -- 'Julius Caesar')

79. A rare gem must be preserved. Else, it disappears of its own. 🕉

80. কাল এবং কর্ম | কালক্রমণে কর্ম---ঈশ্বরলাভের প্রস্তুতি | তাই 'কালেনাত্মনি বিন্দতি' | 🕉 

81. 

                        🕉 

শঙ্খচক্রগদাপদ্ম বিভূষিতং |

বিভূষিতং, বিভূষিতং, বিভূষিতং || 

                      🕉 

82. Life is so uncertain. Hurry on, my soul, and reveal thyself. Any moment the breath may fail. Lest it does, hurry on. Ramakrishna!

83. Be satisfied with what you have. There is no satiation in having more as there is no end to having nor can material possessions satisfy the spiritual self which you are. What you do now determines your future. Finite aspiration and labour in pursuit lead to finite result, never the Infinite to possess which is the secret desire. Labour but labour in love. Work but work as worship. Dream but dream the Divine. Renounce the little for the 'Bhūmā' (the Infinite). Give up little delight for limitless bliss. Serve to be happy. Be happy to serve. Everything is Spirit. Worship all all around. 🕉

84. With every breath chant, with every breath love. What else is there to achieve on earth, the pilgrimage of the soul, where karma resolves to nought even unto the divine end?

85. How many can say, ''Mere toh Giridhar Gopal, dusro na koyi''? Yet, all must say it one day. 

86. When through countless lives a million desires have in pleasure and pain been met, when the hollowness of this delusive dream of desire and delight and death in chase have been seen through once and for all, when the semi-satiation of earthly thirst has led the soul to quit the sands and seek the sea that hides the bed, then the soul's been readied for the dive within, for love to dawn upon the one. Such a one of harvest reaped and seeds unsown will the rest renounce to break the flow and seek within what lies in wait. Such a one of chastened soul and tranquil mind will brood on Me, the Lord of love, so sayeth the Lord. Whosoever shall love Me, shall liberated be, so sayeth the Lord, the Lord of love. ❤️

87. Our children must be taught the Ramāyan and the Mahābhārat and that too in both Sanskrit and the vernacular. Such sublimity of thought, such high idealism, such depth of philosophy, high morality, such flight of spirituality, such love, where else in the world will they get? 🕉 

88. A true Guru teaches religion free. Those that commercialise religious teaching flout foundational principles of the Sanātan Dharm.

89. Fraudulent gurus galore are operating freely, minting millions while fooling people in the name of high-sounding spiritual principles which they themselves do not practise but use to good personal profit-making effect. It is, thus, imperative that the Ramakrishna Mission goes on a war-footing in their propagation programme, much like Swamiji wanted, that aggressive missionary zeal which the founding Āchārya of the Ramakrishna Mission had aspired for, hopefully not in vain.

90. Organised conversion is spiritual seduction.

91. As I get to know more and more of the common people of Bhāratvarsh, I am filled with joy to behold the simplicity of their spiritual nature and with sadness at their plight thereof on so many counts. Wish to see them safe and sound, happy in their lives as they give so much and seek so little, yet face such misery heaped on them by an unjust society that needs redress. May Bhāratabhāgyavidhātā bless these beautiful folks, my sisters and brothers, my daughters and sons, my mothers and fathers who fill up our beautiful motherland, Punyabhumi Bhāratvarsh!

92. We have to spread the broad universal principles of the Upanishads to all and sundry to arrive at an exploitation-free divine society.

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LIVE AND DIE FOR THE DHARMA

LIVE AND DIE FOR THE DHARMA 

We must live and die for the Sanātan Dharma but never forsake it for alien ideology or faith. Kshātravirya must unite with Brahmatej to preserve the Dharma. This is the national imperative today. This is the need of the world now. Abrahamic faiths have reached their dead end of conflict and chaos and must now pave way for a higher order of things. The sledgehammer blows of science have shaken the foundations of these faiths that are based on personal pronouncements deemed perforce prophetic, averments that cannot be verified by all and sundry, being essentially exclusive in nature, and must be accepted blindly as divine. In this age of scientific scepticism such faith-thrusts are experiencing tremendous reactionary pushbacks which are rendering them fragile and facing extinction. The Sanātan Dharma is the way out for the world now. Its experience-based, rationally expounded universal philosophy is acceptable as much to the commoner as to the highest intelligentsia of the world. As such it is binding on us Sanātanis to study our shāstras in the Sanskrit language, practise the prescribed spiritual disciplines enshrined therein, realise their inner import and propagate the truths worldwide. To do so we must cleanse our own body politic and rejuvenate it with the ambrosia of the shāstras. Thereafter we must spread out across the world carrying the message of the Vedas and the Purānas to thirsting humanity everywhere. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose

EARLY IMPRESSIONS

EARLY IMPRESSIONS

From early childhood Bhagavān Rām's truthfulness so appealed to me that he captured my young heart's ardent devotion instantly and for good. Later my love of Mā Seetā purified my soul. It seemed strange how Nārad Muni, Devarāj Indra, the apsarās, the devas eased between heaven and earth as if some sort of a divine ladder allowed them such passage. The impression made was deep. My child-mind took it in that the gods and men were somehow closely related, that ascent and descent from god-body to human-body and vice versa was owing to bad or good deeds. Rāmāyan and Mahābhārat made men and the gods kith and kin, especially since the Pāndavas were the sons of gods as was Bhishma that of Mā Gangā. The epics made such a deep impression on my child-mind that I forever befriended the gods, a psychological fact that helped me in my spiritual quest later on in early youth when Ramakrishna-Vivekananda impregnated my soul. Realisations deepened and have ever since been widening as well as the gamut of Sanātan spirituality slowly percolates through my being each day colouring up my soul with every shade of its celestial hues. But it all began with those early childhood, almost babyhood, tales of the Ramāyan and Mahābhārat which gripped my imagination then and have held me in their celestial embrace ever since. I adore Shree Rām and Mā Seetā. 

Written by Sugata Bose

POESY: ছড়ার ছড়াছড়ি

ছড়ার ছড়াছড়ি

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সব মেনে চলি

কিন্তু কিছু নাহি বলি |

এরকম হলে যে

আমি হব পাঁঠা,

আর যূপকাষ্ঠে হব তবে

মঙ্গলবার বলি ||

তুমি হলে ভিন্ন ধাতের, 

রাধাকৃষ্ণকলি,

কিন্তু এদিকে যে প্রাণ যায়,

কেষ্ট মারে গোলি ||

বন্যা হলেও পাড়ে পড়ে 

ঊর্বরা মাটি পলি,

কিন্তু খরা হলে জ্যান্ত মরে

উদর অগ্নিসম জ্বলি ||

ছড়াকার ছড়িয়ে ছিটিয়ে,

সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

FLEETING FANTASY, FLEETING FORM, DUST-BOUND DEEDS AS PER NATURE'S NORM--- WHY PROP UP THE PERISHING?

FLEETING FANTASY, FLEETING FORM,  

DUST-BOUND DEEDS AS PER NATURE'S NORM---

WHY PROP UP THE PERISHING?

Infatuation with the body makes one pose for and post self-photographs online. Infatuation with perishable earthly achievements makes one post such online by way of intimation to others and self-advertisement. Glorification of self and the desire for public recognition make one blazon lineage online. It is self everywhere. Where is the consciousness that earthly life and its vanities are ephemeral, that God alone is true, that the icy chill of death will take it away all and reduce everything to dust? The next time you suffer these indiscretions, discriminate, then decide on your course. Lose not invaluable time that was given you to take the holy name and realise your divine nature. Life is fleeting. Nothing will remain. Death will dispossess you of all. Youth and beauty will vanish. This very body you identify yourself as will be burnt to ashes. Whose body, whose glory, whose achievement do you advertise then? Reflect. Realise. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose