HIS HOLY WORDS - SWARUPANANDA PARAMHANSHA

HIS HOLY WORDS

            (1)

Whoever sheds his tears for

            helpless ones,

Whoever feels for those that

            Stray by chance,

Those that by their action

     Downward fall, Those that through some mistake

   Do install

Mischief on life's heavenly

            Blissful throne

And thus self-made faults and

            Sins atone,

His Holy Words

   Who that loves them with the

            Mother’s heart,

     Loves Me,-though the Scriptures

         Might advert.

    ( Poems)

 (2)

Embrace everybody in your loving bosom, make tb,e whole world your home. See that not an atom any­where feels that it is not an object of your tenderest affections. (Letters)

(3)

Go forth to the whole world and tell everyone that none is far from Me. All are Mine and I am everybody's.       ( Letters)

(4)

I belong to all and all sects are Mine.  (Letters)

(5)

You are sublime by your love for God, for humanity and for country. Love is your life, love is your career, love is the sum total of your life-long achievements. The beginning of love is but the beginning of life. Immortal love is but immortal life. Stand steady on this heavenly bliss and live for love and die for love. The holy name of God is the key to the trea­sury of love and the gate to the kingdom of purity and perfection.

                                                                                                               Akhanda Samhita 2nd part ( Bengali Edn. )

(6)

Not ephemeral enjoyments with concomitant reactions and remorse but eternal bliss with eternal happi­ness is your birth-right, my dear ~children-.        (Letters)

(7)

I mean to insist on you that no true growth of life is possible without perfect cleanliness. Cleanliness and clear conscience are the two most valuable prizes that you may pride in. You cannot build yourself up. without a thorough and careful cultivation of those goods habits that invigorate the moral consciousness and strengthen the moral back-bone. Have high aspirations and mate­rialise them through tenacity and perseverance. Life is a serious business, fraught with the deepest meanings, transcen­ding the highest speculations of the biggest philosopher. Life is God's design on earth. Believe that you are the gradual unfolding of the Divine.  Desire through all eternity and you must not lose an inch of ground in fully utilising yourself in His wonder­ful scheme. Rise equal to the occasion and prepare yourself for everything seemingly favourable or untoward.

                                                                                                                       Akhanda Samhita 8th part( Bengali Ed. )

(8)

The luckiest man in my opinion is he, who can keep a conscience untroubled by any evil deed or thought. What a grand thing it is to remain pure and to help others in their glorious attempts at attaining perfect purity. Cleanliness is really next to godliness if it means the sanctity both of body and mind. A pure mind in a chaste body is the noblest acquisition on earth.

                                                                                                                        Akhanda Samhita 8th part ( Bengali Ed)

(9)

 The ideas I implant in you are to be radiated throughout the eternal future and to be infused in the ever­-coming younger generations.

                                                                                                                       Akhanda Samhita 8th part (Bengali Ed)

(10)

Live a God-life. Know yourself -, always in Him and Himself always in I you. Let not a single breath pass unheeded. Har dam laga' raho re bhai.

                                                                                                                        Akhanda Samhita 9th part( Bengali Ed. )

 ( 11 )

I am neither an advocate of Celi­bacy nor a preacher of Matrimony. I am but a worshipper of true Man­hood. I am satisfied if you are a Man,-married or unmarried I care little to know. Many great men have lived the life of married men while many have not. Only marrying or not-marrying can seldom be regarded as any sign of greatness. Many bachelors have spoiled their lives by not-marrying while truly great men have ship-wrecked their I would-be wonderful careers by accepting a share-holder of life's joys and miseries. Look upon Manhood as  your God and not upon any mania or fancy.

                                                                                                                          Akhanda Samhita 2nd part( Bengali Ed. )

(12)

I want work, massive work, but not impure work. I want service, whole-time service, but not impure service. Purity of purpose and sanc­tity of means are the first conditions of my demands.

                                                                                                                        Akhanda Samhita 7th part( Bengali Ed. )

 (13)

Live a life worth living. Live for God and live for the world. Remain not simply a human being but make the best of your life and its oppor­tunities to transform yourself into a highly spiritual and supremely potent force. Be strong in will and stout in heart. Be brave in hopes and steady in action.

                                                                                                                         Akhanda Samhita 9th part( Bengali Ed.)

(14)

Are you my children? If so, be like me. I don't talk while I work or if I talk it is always on a sublime thing.

                                                                                                                         Akhanda Samhita 6th part( Bengali Ed. )

(15)

Every movement of your mind and body must remember the desired object. Every breathing of yours must utter the inspiring word "UPLIFT". If your aim be spiritual, every breath­ing of yours must utter the holy word "OM". If your aim be patriotic, every breathing of yours must utter the thundering ward "FREE­DOM". If your aim be humani­tarian, every breathing of yours must utter the sublime word "SERVICE".                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                    Akhanda Samhita 2nd part( Bengali Ed. )

 (16)

The Holy Name will inspire you with a firm belief in Him; No surrender is possible in the absence of a true belief in Him. First acquire faith and surrender will follow faith of its own accord.                                                                   

                                                                                                                       Akhanda Samhita 5th part( Bengali Ed. )

 (17)

Each inspiration is a motion of God into you just as the sea enters a river in flood. Each expiration is a motion of yourself into God just as a mighty river enters the sea.                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                         Akhanda Samhita 8th part( Bengali Ed.)

(18)

The ideal of life of a true child of mine is self-sacrifice, --sacrifice for what I do not know and care little to dictate. Each will himself find out his aim of life. I am not to give him any programme of work but only the strength to fight for any noble cause. I am the giver of strength and not of plan. This is my relationship with a child of mine. In m¥ eye of affection sometimes he is a son, sometimes a friend, sometimes a brother, but never is he a slave unto me, never is he a servant of mine. What I respect most in him is his independence.

What I regard most in him is his freedom. In my work of preaching Brahmacharya, I require some assistants of course, but that is no reason why everybody should be a preacher. All children of mine are not the same level of thought and education. There are divisions in opinions, diversities in tendencies and differences in abilities. Let everybody find out his own way by his own investigations. I am not much anxious about, if any child of mine takes up the path which I, as a worker and servant of society, have scrupulously forsaken. I have been used in the hands of God as an ins­trument to kindle the light of spiri­tual life in him and this can never be any reason towards his taking up the same course of work as that of mine. Let him thrive in his own way, let him evolve his manhood on the lines of his own bent of mind. Let him work out any programme whatever,-no objection. Spiritua­lity will always purify his intentions and enable him for any noble deed. He may not find it convenient to be with me. He may not be able to march along with me. Tastes may differ. Do you think that this should ever be the reason of my wrath or vexation? No, never! Freedom is my first God, Brahmacharya the second.

(19)

Life is not an empty dream,-so says the poet. I would like to suggest to you that life was full of dreams each of which required to be fulfilled in reality. Be a dreamer whole day and night and hand over your nerves and sinews to the hands of dreams completely. Forget your separate existence altogether. This is the way towards fulfillment. No halfway measures, no compromises with weaknesses, no bargaining with difficulties-, but a straightforward and daring surrender wholehear­tedly, so that no temptations may venture to creep in to make you for­get the poetic dream that aims at the complete liquidation of all ills from all souls.                                                                      ( Letters)

(20)

Indeed I would like you to have developed a personality of your own but that only for being able to feel yourself completely in unison with the diverse pictures in different stations of life. You are a Saviour, a Saviour to yourself as well as to the whole world. Who is there that is not the object of love for you? Who is there that is not the partner of your divine existence? Who is there that can be sold away to slavery to the allurement of the senses while you are standing on the solid rock of Love to save all and to fail to rescue none? This is how I explain the word Personality. Not a domineer­ing capacity,-be it mental, intellec­tual or spiritual, but an all-embrac­ing bosom that hates none, shuns none, cuts away relationship with none. I and you are one and you and the whole universe are one. Duality is nothing but a myth.             ( Letters)

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