Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Born on December 7, 1826 in the village of Boral, in the South 24 Parganas district of Bengal, Rajnarayan Basu is being commemorated this year on the occasion of his bicentenary.... In 1873, he authored “The Superiority of Hinduism”, a work in which he articulated the philosophical strength and distinctive features of Hindu culture.
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The Art of Ulatbansi (Upside-Down Verses)
- "Barse kambal, bheeje paani" (It rains blankets, and the water gets wet).
- "An ant swallows an elephant" (A riddle about how the tiny human soul/ego can actually swallow the massive physical universe through divine realization).
- "A cow is milking a calf" or "A fish is flying in the sky while a bird swims in the sea." [2, 5, 6]
Why did he do it?
- To shock the listener: Kabir despised blind rituals and religious hypocrisy. By dropping a completely absurd sentence, he forced people out of their autopilot thinking. [1, 2, 4]
- Coding the mystical: Much like a spiritual cipher, his wordplay hid esoteric Hatha-yoga and Hatha-meditation secrets from the uninitiated. To an ordinary person, it sounded like nonsense; to a seeker, it mapped the movement of energy inside the body. [2, 3, 5]
- The "Twilight Language": He drew from a long tradition of sandhya-bhasha (twilight language) used by earlier Buddhist and Tantric saints, where words exist in a twilight zone between literal meaning and hidden cosmic truths. [2, 7]
The linear focus on time was intensified dramatically during the Industrial Revolution. As the cultural historian Lewis Mumford pointed out in 1934, the key machine of the modern industrial age was not the steam engine, but the mechanical clock...
While modern industrial life still treats time as a straight track to be managed and spent, comparative philosophy and linguistics show that time can be understood differently both co-existing in a continuous yet confusing cycle. They are the two wings of today, reminding us that while the calendar turns, our lives can only ever be lived in the present moment.
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यज्ञ भावना से मतलब यह नहीं कि कोई यज्ञकुंड हो, पुरोहित हो, अग्नि हो, द्रव्य हो या हवन सामग्री हो। यह उसका बाह्य रूप है उसका आंतरिक रूप जीवन के हर क्षण का उपयोग करना है। यह यज्ञ भावना क्या है? हमें तीन चीजों का ध्यान रखना चाहिए, जो भी कर्म करें वह निष्काम हो, कामना युक्त कर्म ना करें, दूसरा यह लोक संग्रह की भावना से होना चाहिए गर तीसरा, काम छोटा हो या बड़ा ईश्वर समर्पण की भावना से होना चाहिए। अगर हम तीनों का अभ्यास करते रहेंगे तो हम हमारी अज्ञान चेतना से ऊपर उठेंगे गर हमारी नियति अलग किस्म की हो जायेगी।
डॉ० जे० पी० सिंह
७.९.२०२६
श्रीअरविन्द आश्रम (दिल्ली शाखा) के तल्ला रामगढ़ (नैनीताल) स्थित हिमालयी केंद्र ‘मधुबन’ के मुख्य संरक्षक गर मार्गदर्शक डॉ. कुरबान हुसैन ने २९ अगस्त २०२६ को ९० वर्ष की आयु में शरीर छोड़ दिया।
डॉ. कुरबान हुसैन, जिन्हें लोग कुरबान भाई के नाम से जानते थे, श्रीअरविन्द आश्रम (दिल्ली शाखा) के तल्ला रामगढ़ (नैनीताल) स्थित हिमालयी केंद्र ‘मधुबन’ के मुख्य संरक्षक गर मार्गदर्शक थे।
कुरबान भाई का जीवन एक सच्ची खोज की यात्रा था। उनका जन्म महुआ, गुजरात के एक साधारण परिवार में हुआ था। पुणे में अपना कपड़ा व्यवसाय गर पारिवारिक जिम्मेदारियाँ पूरी करने के साथ ही उनके मन में हमेशा एक सवाल था — जीवन का सच्चा अर्थक्या है? इस सवाल का उत्तर खोजने के लिए उन्होंने बहुत कुछ पढ़ा, अलग-अलग जगहों की यात्रा की, योग गर साधना की गर कई संतों गर गुरुओं से मिले। उनकी यही आध्यात्मिक खोज उन्हें अंत में पॉण्डिचेरी ले गई, जहाँ उन्होंने श्रीअरविन्द और श्रीमाँँ को पाया।
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