Independence and The Patriot-Monk

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Benoy Kumar Sarkar, Bepin Chandra Pal, M. K. Gandhi, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, Aurobindo Ghosh, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ashfaqulla Khan, Bhagat Singh, Bagha Jatin Mukherjee, Chittranjan Das, Chakravarty Rajagopalachari, Chandra Sekhar Azad, Dinesh Gupta, Jay Prakash Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru, K. Kamaraj, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, Khudiram Bose, Rash Behari Bose, Sukhdev, Sarojini Naidu, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Vijayalaxmi Pandit … Do you know what is the common thing among them? YES… they are Indian… YES… they all are respected FREEDOM FIGHTERS also. BUT another thing is also common between them – that is ONE GREAT MAN – by whom the above mentioned patriots were deeply inspired – by whom India felt its root and gave birth such country-lovers. And the inspirer is none but VIVEKANANDA. Those great soldiers always were with 2 books while they were caught – one is Bhagabat Gita and the second one is Lectures and Writings of Vivekananda. They got enormous courage, energy and spirit from these 2 books. This blog basically takes us to that age 1900 – 1947 – the time which is the witness of the sacrifice of those martyrs to feel the love that they had with India and to feel the fire of their heart.


“India I loved before I came away, now the very dust of India has become holy to me, the very air is now holy to me. It is now the holy land, the place of pilgrimage, the Tirtha..” - Swami Vivekananda. Prophetically he saw the future and demanded his countrymen to come forward to work for the nation saying that: "For the next fifty years this alone should be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. ... This is the only God that is awake.....", The next decades were to follow with the birth of numbers of great freedom fighters. In exactly 50 years, India became free of British occupation. Netaji Subhas Bose said: "Swami Vivekananda may be regarded as the spiritual father of the modern nationalist movement." This discussion is basically in search of the root fire of Swamiji which had spread among the youth in that time. For the readers, who are a little bit familier with this PATRIOT MONK, Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), the disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, established the Ramkrishna Mission at Belur in 1897. He championed the supremacy of Vedantic philosophy. His talk at the Chicago (USA) Conference of World Parliament of Religions in 1893 made the westerners realize the greatness of Hinduism for the first time. Swami Vivekananda presented Hinduism with unification at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 made the whole world aware of the greatness of India, her religions and culture. After his return to India he electrified the whole nation with his clarion call: "Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached".


Now we will see how they are moved by Vivekananda’s golden sayings …. “Forget not - that the lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiterate, the cobbler, the sweeper, are thy flesh and blood, thy brothers. Thou brave one, be bold, take courage, be proud that thou art an Indian - and proudly proclaim. " I am an India, every Indian is my brother." Say: "The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother. The Indian is my brother, the Indian is my life, India's gods and goddesses are my God. India's society is the cradle of my infancy, the pleasure-garden of my youth, the sacred heaven, the Varanasi of my old age." Say brother: "The soil of India is my highest heaven, the good of India is my good." … He became “Condensed INDIA” after he tasted, felt and touched our Motherland. The reflection we saw in Sister Nivedita on whom patriot Bipin Chandra Pal once said, “Nivedita loved India more than an Indian loves India”.When an American friend asked how she could help him in his work, he told her: “Love India!”

Patriot Monk

Gandhiji said, " I have gone through Vivekananda’s works very thoroughly, and after having gone through them, the love that I had for my country became a thousand-fold". J.Neheru said, “Vivekananda... He was a fine figure of a man, imposing, full of poise and dignity, sure of himself and his mission, and at the same time full of a dynamic and fiery energy and a passion to push India forward”. Netaji Subhas C. Bose shared, “Swamiji was a full-blooded masculine personality —and a fighter to the core of his being. I can go on for hours and yet fail to do the slightest justice to that great man. He was so great, so profound, so complex. If he had been alive, I would have been at his feet”.
V. Bhave said, “Vivekananda not only made us conscious of our strength, he also pointed out our defects and drawbacks”. C. Rajagopalachari said, “Swami Vivekananda saved Hinduism and saved India. But for him we would not have lost our religion and would have gained our freedom. We therefore owe everything to Swami Vivekananda. May his faith, his courage and his wisdom ever inspire us so that we may keep safe the treasure we have received from him”. Historian R.C.Majumdar opined, “Though an ascetic, Vivekananda was a patriot of patriots. The thought of restoring the pristine glory of India by resuscitating among her people the spiritual vitality which was dormant, but not dead, was always the uppermost thought in his mind. . . ”. Final Complement which was made by Rabindranath Tagore to Roma Rolland, “If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.”


Today still Indians fight for their motherland at the border of Kargil like the real Heroes and I hope She still can give birth to the braves like Jhansi Rani, Netaji Subhas, Khudiram, Bhagat Singh when it requires. But in present time we really lack the fire which can help us to build the “New India” which was once dreamt by Swamiji, Netaji, Vidyasagar, Nazrul, Tagore etc…  "... Let New India arise  let her arise  out of the peasants' cottage, grasping the plough; out of the huts of the fisherman, the cobbler, and the sweeper. Let her spring from the grocer's shop, from the oven of the fritter-seller. Let her emanate from the factory, from marts and markets. Let her emerge from groves and forests, from hills and mountains.” ... Jai Hind!!! Vande Mataram!!!

Are you in Love or Someone is in love with You?

How to know that You are in love with someone and How to know also that Someone really loves you? Firstly, when we are in love some changes are reflected in our body and mind – our thoughts and activities are affected. To test it you can check that whether the followings are happening with you …. (The stage of likings … )

1. When you are with your love, you walk really slow.
2. When you are with your love or anyone talks about your affair , you feel shy.
3. When you think of your love, your heart beats faster.
4. You smile when you hear the voice, when you read the SMSs, IM texts repeatedly.
5. You realize you're always smiling when you're looking at.
6. You would do anything just to see your love.
7. When you are going to meet your love from a distant place, all the time till you reach, you think of your love.
8. You feel jealous when your time with him/her is getting shared with others.
9. Every day when you start your day and end it at night before sleeping, you must think of your love.
10. Ultimately you trust, love, care, respect him/her most and crazy to keep in touch with him/her.

Now time for share the signs when you want to know whether someone loves you or not –
1. Someone has a value for your little wishes. It is good to determine people by short works, not by big big jobs.
2. Someone is very caring to you.
3. Someone is always trying to make you happy, smiling – someone who can sacrifice a lot for you.
4. Someone who has respect for you and who respects the relation.
5. Someone who is there for you when you are bad.


Good Luck!!!

Where We Differ?

Last Friday when I was returning back to home from my office it was raining incessantly. I did not get any auto and at last I got a rickshaw. The driver was about 12 years old boy covering his head by a towel. I avoided him and started waiting for another one to come. Suddenly the boy asked, ”Sir, Will you go?”. I found no way and decided to go. The sour was bathing us in 45 degree angle and it was tough to drive the rickshaw. The boy said, “Sir, you have to give 5 rupees more than the normal rate”. I replied positively. Suddenly the power went and it became too much dark. By the sound of cats and dogs I started wondering in my memory lanes. It was when I was at 12. I used to travel with my parents in the rickshaw. I used to go to school for studying in 6th standard. I got toys, chocolates, sports-equipments and lots of object of enjoyment unasked. But never thought of drive a rickshaw at this age. I thought ‘where we differ?’ – ‘why there is a huge difference between our boyhood?’. Money makes the difference! But it is the time when it had been decided that who is going to drive and who is going to ride… and that time is birth time.



All on a sudden, the boy loudly said, ”it’s your destination Sir.” I got down from the rickshaw and gave him the fair. He went on. But left the question “Why we differ?”. On the way to my door I had to walk another 5 minutes as the road was blocked by water. It made me think again and again which thing forced him to take birth in a poor family where he did not get any opportunity to study, play and have a sweet childhood, what seized him from everything to only become a rickshaw-driver? Is it only birth which makes 2 child having 2 different fate? Or something else. I used to listen from many people about the fate. Few says, “Man creates his own luck”. Few says, ”it is destiny, we are the dolls of it.”. Few says, “We should wear 10 rings in our 10 fingers to be a millionaire from a thousandaire”. Our Hindu scriptures say that it is the work of our past lives(births) which is the deciding factor of our present birth. I was thinking all these and getting confused. What ever the factor is, it is the deciding factor why we all are different. The Gene can control our nature, brain, physique, mind etc but not our economy, fate, destiny and all those parameters which are not in our hand. And also Genetics do not answer all such questions. If so, then the under 5 generations and above 5 generations of Albert Einstein can rich to some extent of genius. Same is true for a Tendulkar, a Maradona, a Tagore, a Mozart, a Chaurasiya … So on and So forth. But we found little resemble with gene. Here comes talent. But do the talent and ecstasy only build their future? Or there is something related to their past-births, related to fate, destiny and luck!!! If only talent and perseverance can do this then Karna and Ekolovya could be an Arjuna. But they couldn’t. God knows. But after all such logics and anti-logics truth remains truth – I enjoyed my boyhood with something which that 12 year rickshaw driver could not be able to get in this life.