Editorial section
We have entered the month of March though usually this month is associated with spring of season but we usually get the taste of real summer heat which is not far away. But this year we are having a really mild weather with touches of clouds and soft’s rains. Let us be thankful to the nature even for such small mercies. 2. Now we would like to go into a glimpse of ‘Kenopanishad’ where if says, among other profound ideas. Read More …
A new month. Months roll into years, years into decades and decades into centuries. The process is endless. Likewise, space is always undergoing changes within; matters are being destroyed and re-built in an unending process of spatial alteration. However for us, believers in One Supreme Authority, who is the driving force behind the changes in the universe reigns in His all-pervading glory holds the reigns of this timeless phenomenon. The more we try to unravel the mystery behind these changing Read More …
First month of New Year is here. We welcome the New Year with new hopes, with great joy and unfinished tasks from of the previous year. Hopes lie there where we pool our visions collectively. True, the word ‘vision’ appears to be a bit pompous. But without a vision we soon lose our vigour and begin to trudge along the old beaten track. We all must pray to our Father to bestow new hopes in our hearts and greater strength Read More …
The month of December is a month of nostalgia – the passing away of a year with its baggage of good and bad events, a month of joy and merriments for celebrating the ‘Baradin’ or Christmas for people of all over the world, transcending the Christian community and expectations for the new year. We also offer our deep reverence to the memory of the great religious leader and martyr Jesus christ. The expectations are for the coming New Year and Read More …
Rama’ or ‘Ram’ or ‘Ramchandra’ is considered both as a human mortal who was born in Ayodhya and eventually sat on the throne of Ayodhya, and also as an Avatar of Vishnu in the ‘Treta yugo’. Be that as it may this central character in the epic Ramayana write by Rishi Valmiki is revered honoured and worshiped by millions of devoted Hindus all over India and even outside, as a living god and his seat at Ayodhy a supremely holy Read More …
It is the month of October we may wonder what is in a month. It is nothing. It is nothing but a convenient division of the flow of time Again, what is time? It has no physical existence like matter which we can perceive, analyse and use. Time is fundamentally a concept to set in order of events that happened to man in the past is happening in this instant and will happen in future. However whatever may be philosophy Read More …
Last month the Indian state of Kerala experienced one of the worst flood disaster in the century. After 1924 a natural calamity of this magnitude never visited the coastal states. However, the state machinery with the assistance of the union Govt. brought relief and rehabilitation for the suffering millions on a mammoth scale promptly. Relief in cash and kind also reached the victims promptly from within our country and from out side. Sadharan Brahmo Samaj also sent financial help within Read More …
The month of August is an eventful month for India both retrospectively and prospectively. Let us go back to 6th and 9th August of 1945. The most tragic events in recorded history in the world took place on 6th August and 9th August in 1945. Two large cities of Japan were totally devastated on these two days, — Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan by dropping Atom bombs, possibly, to hasten the end of the second world war with the surrender Read More …
It is the month of July. The monsoon has arrived in its full glory and fury. On one hand it has given a new life to the withered trees and plants, filled up the dried tanks, pools and water areas and recharged the underground waters. The newly sown paddy seedlings will be taken out by the farmers, men and women alike, and transplanted in acres and acres of paddy lands to be harvested after the golden autumn. This cycle in Read More …
Waiting is a vital part of our mortal existence and spiritual journey. Manusanhita says “নাভিনন্দেত মরণং, নাভিনন্দেত জীবিতং। কালমেব প্রতীক্ষেত নির্দেশং ভৃতকো যথা“ – Covet neither death nor life; wait for whatever time brings, just as a servant waits for the wage of his labour. We are forbidden to crave for earthly gains or to be too eager for enjoyments in the world beyond. We are to wait patiently and with detachment for whatever has our Universal father offers us Read More …