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Koumudi: January 2009

New Year's Greetings

నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు
2009

Wish you all Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year

Christmas Greetings

2008

క్రిస్ మస్ శుభా కాం క్షలు
Wish you all a Merry Christmas

KOUMUDI: December 2008

Mumbai under attack

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Koumudi: November 2008

Jealousy is the bane of our race

Hold on with faith and strength. Be true, be honest, be pure, and don't quarrel among yourselves. Jealousy is the bane of our race.

Letter to Alasinga Perumal. From New York: December 20, 1895. Complete Works, 5.99.

Lesser to a higher truth

In all religions we travel from a lesser to a higher truth, never from error to truth. There is Oneness behind all creation, but minds are various. "That which exists is one, sages call it variously." What I mean is that one progresses from a smaller to a greater truth. The worst religions are only bad readings of the truth. One gets to understand bit by bit. Even devil-worship is but a perverted reading of the ever-true and immutable Brahman. Other phases have more or less truth in them. No form of religion possesses it entirely.

Interview. London, 1896. Complete Works, 5: 202.

Koumudi: October 2008

Fencing The State Borders ...

Maharashtra For Maharashtrians

.... at the risk of sounding sentimental, I would go with the repeatedly mouthed but rarely acted on statements of two of the otherwise vastly different leaders of modern India, Gandhi and Tagore.

Gandhi:
"I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible."

Tagore:
"…Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
…Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake".

Alaka M. Basu

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Sects must gradually disappear

Sects must gradually disappear as liberty and knowledge increase. Sects are founded on the nonessential, which by the nature of things cannot survive. The sects have served their purpose, which was that of an exclusive brotherhood on lines comprehended by those within it. Gradually we reach the idea of universal brotherhood by flinging down the walls of partition which separate such aggregation of individuals.

Interview. London, 1896. Complete Works, 5:197-98.

Is it comparative religion you want to preach?

It is really the philosophy of religion, the kernel of all its outward forms. All forms of religion have an essential and a nonessential part. If we strip from them the latter, there remains the real basis of all religion, which all forms of religion possess in common. Unity is behind them all. We may call it God, Allah, Jehovah, the Spirit, Love; it is the same unity that animates all life, from its lowest form to its noblest manifestation in human beings. It is on this unity that we need to lay stress, whereas in the West, and indeed everywhere, it is the nonessential that people are apt to lay stress. They will fight and kill each other for these forms, to make their fellows conform. Seeing that the essential is love of God and love of human beings, this is curious, to say the least.

Interview. London, 1896. Complete Works, 5: 197.