সুপ্রভাত বন্ধু সবাই আজ সোমবার 12 ই জানুয়ারি স্বামী বিবেকানন্দের 153 তম জন্মজয়ন্তী Tahare Arati Kore (Swami Vivekanandas favourite …: youtu.be/kXJRACZvmKU তাঁহারে আরতি করে চন্দ্র তপন, দেব মানব বন্দে চরণ-- আসীন সেই বিশ্বশরণ তাঁর জগতমন্দিরে ॥ অনাদিকাল অনন্তগগন সেই অসীম-মহিমা-মগন-- তাহে তরঙ্গ উঠে সঘন আনন্দ-নন্দ-নন্দ রে ॥ হাতে লয়ে ছয় ঋতুর ডালিপায়ে দেয় ধরা কুসুম ঢালি-- কতই বরণ, কতই গন্ধ কত গীত কত ছন্দ রে ॥ বিহগগীত গগন ছায়-- জলদ গায়, জলধি গায়-- মহাপবন হরষে ধায়, গাহে গিরিকন্দরে। কত কত শত ভকত প্রাণ হেরিছে পুলকে, গাহিছে গান-- পুণ্য কিরণে ফুটিছে প্রেম, টুটিছে মোহবন্ধ রে ॥ .... If anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart. Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid. The seed is put in the ground, and earth and air and water are placed around it. Does the seed become the earth; or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a plant, it develops after the law of its own growth, assimilates the air, the earth, and the water, converts them into plant substance, and grows into a plant. Similar is the case with religion. The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth. If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character.” – Compiled from Swami Vivekananda’saddress at the final session of the Parliament of Religions. In America he had been present at a number of seances as a witness, and he regarded the great majority of the phenomena displayed as grossly fraudulent. “Always the greatest fraud by the simplest means,” he said, summing up his observations. Any dwelling upon the occult led inevitably, in the Swami’s opinion, to increase of desire, to increase of egotism, and to the fall into untruth.” Sister Nivedita in her book: The Master as I saw Him
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