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By Keshab Chand Challa Prayer is the soul of every religion. It makes a direct attempt and awakens the human soul and forms a direct link with the Divine. So prayer is a necessity and the only important ritual in every Brahmos’ life. Every Brahmo should pray to the Almighty at least 3 times daily. We can offer short prayers in the morning, before taking food, before taking bath, before starting any work or in the office and before going Read More …

By Prof. Santanu Sen The first ‘Satyagraha’ campaign (1919 AD – 1922AD) was probably the most powerful and promising one. Later on the revolutionary potential of the masses was intentionally checked. Since the 1930’s and the end of his life Gandhi never announced a single large scale ‘Satyagraha campaign’. The 1942 A.D. resistance activity was limited in scope. M.K. Gandhi feared that control of the masses might be lost. This was one of the distinctive features of Gandhi’s Satyagraha. While Read More …

by Ranjan Banerjee The present Brahmo mandir at Baripada Odisha was inaugurated on 26th July 1925. However the Brahmo movement started and took its momemntum in early 1900 when Bhai Nandalal Bandopadhyaya a Brahmo Pracharak started coming to Baripada  to spread the message of Raja Rammohan Roy and Brahmananda Keshab Chandra Sen. Sriramchandra Bhanjdeo, the Maharaja of Mayurbhanj State, lost his father Maharaja Krushna Chandra at a very early age of 12. Since Sriramchandra was not an adult, he was Read More …

By Keshab Chand Challa Every Brahmo should first study, understand, practice and live according to the core principles of Brahmo Samaj without any deviation.   1.  Brahmos should have strong belief in the existence of an all- perfect God, who is the ONE and ONLY  ONE and the Origin, Preserver  and the ultimate of the Universe, and has no shape or body. Brahmos should treat all humankind as equal, as Brahmo Samaj is a religious Brotherhood, a fellowship of faiths and Read More …

By Prof. Santanu Sen More than seventy years have elapsed since the assassination of the leader of the Indian anti-imperialist movement, Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi. The years of dramatic struggle to liberate the great nation from the colonial yoke are becoming part of an increasingly remote history. Passions about appraising the extraordinary and particularly in the European eye, the controversial figure of the ”Rebellious Fakir”, as Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister and a vehement opponent of decolonisation, described Read More …

By Keshab Chand Challa A way of life is the behaviour and habits that are typical of a particular person or group, or that are chosen by them. “Life imposes things on us that we can’t control, but we still have the choice of how we’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion Life is gift of God. Life is a journey, not the destination. It is an occasion and an opportunity to realise the truth about one self and the truth of the Read More …

By Madhu Bindu D Sri Jagadish Chandra Bose is well known to all of us as a renowned scientist. But unfortunately, very few people know that Sri Bose was a Brahmo.  It is a fact that is not mentioned anywhere in the school syllabus or reference texts that talk about him. My article will present Bose as the Brahmo rather than the scientist. We will discover the man who grew up in a Brahmo Samaj family, with Brahmo values. In Read More …

By Indrani Roy Jnan Sevak Chatterjee or Bipinda, as he was fondly called by all at Sadharan Brahmo Samaj and its neighbourhood (Samaj Para), was a social worker in the truest sense of the term. As I remember, Bipinda was a well-built person with long unkempt hair, attired in a crumpled dhoti and equally crumpled Punjabi. He roamed about barefooted. He lived in the Sadhan Ashram building with his wife Smt. Swantana Chatterjee and was ever available when anyone in Read More …

By Sanjoy Chanda The Brahmo Samaj was established on the foundation of universalism. There is a Vedic sloka which says: “ekam sat, biprabahudhavadanti” – truth is one, the sages call it by different names.  Raja Rammohun Roy was a man of religion. We know him as a reformer and an activist. But the motivating factor behind all his actions was his great religiosity. Throughout his life he had been a seeker of truth, a seeker of the true religion. That Read More …

The Parliament of Religions, Town Hall, Calcutta (Concluding the year-long celebrations of the birth centenary of Pramahansa Ramkrishna) 1st March, 1937 Dear friends,           The Parliament of Religions that is commencing to-day is one of the items, perhaps the last item in the programme of year-long celebrations in connection with the Centenary of the birth, or as others would have it, the advent into this world of Pramahansa Ramkrishna. This Parliament of Religions has evoked cordial responses from far and Read More …