MISCELLANY   [1]   If to give up a small pleasure is to find a vast pleasure, then it is wiser to give up the small in view of the vast.   [2]   If one seeks one's pleasure by inflicting pain upon others, then one is entangled in the meshes of enmity and is not freed from it.   [3]   To reject what should be done, to do what should not be done is just how the depraved and the deluded increase their sins.   [4]   They who keep a perfect vigilance over their body, who do not indulge a thing that should not be done, ever doing faithfully what should be done, they are the good souls who have knowledge; sins disappear from them.  

Mater Gloriosa   I   J'adore la femme. . . . C'était ma faiblesse, c'est mon salut. Dans mon ignorance, lorsque je n'étais qu'un adolescent – en  âme et en esprit – je suivais la forme humaine du féminin et je désirais les délices terrestres qu'elle verse. C'est l'Eternel Féminin qui m'avait tenté, qui m'avait capturé. L'Eternel Féminin, c'est la Nescience, Ie bras sinistre du Divin. Maintenant que je suis devenu homme, et que mon âme et mon espirit ont atteint l'âge mur, c'est encore la femme qui me tente irrésistiblement,­– mais c'est la femme dans sa vérité plenière, dans sa réalité souveraine, et je la poursuis d'une ardeur plus vive encore qu'

FRENCH    AVE MATER   Amor  mi mosse che mi fa parlare . . .                                      -Dante   Et je devins poète en étant amoureux . . .                                                -Corneille   Page – 114 Mater Dolorosa   I Je songe aux belles nuits, aux rêves diaphanes Où j'ai vécu jadis; je vois encore leg traits Fugitifs d'un pays aux horizon discrets, Les regrets d'une gloire ultime qui se fane!   Loin des noirs tourbillons de ce monde profane, Mon âme reposait aux calmes diaprés Des azurs infinis, et tranquille, s'ouvrait Aux baisers innocents qu'en d'autres cieu

OF THE JUST   [1]   One who comes hastily to a judgement, cannot be just. He indeed is wise who can distinguish between the just and the unjust.   [2]   Who judges others in full knowledge, according to law and equity; the wise one who guards the Law is indeed called "the just".   [3]   One does not become wise by talking much; one is called wise if one is forbearing, without fear or foe.   [4]   It is not that the more you talk the more you become the upholder of the Law. Even if you hear a little of the Law, but observe it by your body, if you do not deviate from the Law, then you become the upholder of the Law.   [5]

THE CANTO OF DESIRE   [1]   The desire of the man of deluded movements grows like the golden creeper. And as the monkey in pursuit of fruits in the forest leaps from tree to tree even so the man wanders from birth to birth ceaselessly.  [2]   For one who is overpowered by this poisonous growing desire, the miseries increase overwhelmingly like wild weeds.   [3]   For one who overpowers this growing desire, so hard to tame, the miseries slip off like water-drops from the lotus-leaf.   [4]   To all who are gathered here, I say, for your welfare: Dig out the roots of desire even as you dig out the roots of wild weeds     [

VIGILANCE    [1]   Vigilance is the way to immortality. Negligence the way to Death. The vigilant never dies; the negligent is already dead.   [2]   They know this thoroughly well, the wise in vigilance and they rejoice in their vigilance, ever in the presence of the Great Ones.   [3]   They who are intelligent, meditative, persevering, combat ceaselessly against themselves, reach the Nirvana that is supreme felicity.     [4]   He who is full of zeal, he who is mindful, he who is pure in deed, and acts thoughtfully, who is self-controlled and lives in accordance with the Law sees his fame ever growing.   [5]  

TRANSLATIONS   From Sanskrit Bengali French  Sanskrit   HYMN TO DAWN   Rishi Kutsa   (Rig-Veda – Mandala 1, Sukta 113)   Lo, the supreme Light of lights is come:             a varied knowledge is born in front spreading far and wide. She is born to give birth to the Sun,             even so Night opens her womb for the Dawn. [1]   With her reddening child, the white Mother comes blushing             red: the dark Mother flings open her dark chambers.             Both have the same Comrade, both are immortals, they             follow each other, as they move measuring out earth             and h

Liberty, Self-Control and Friendship   WE are a larger assembly here today – we have increased in number.... Now, we all want to be good boys and good girls, is it not? Nobody wants to be a bad boy or a bad girl; but the problem is how to be a good boyar girl and how not to be a bad boy or girl. In what does goodness consist? You all know the fine gesture that Mother taught us once. Gesture means a physical movement – here a physical movement to control yourself; control, self-control is a very important, a very necessary item of our life. So the Mother once said; supposing you are very angry and you are inclined to give a blow to your comrade, then, the Mothe

Muraripukur - II Now. I come to the last phase of our life at Manicktolla Gardens, that is when we turned towards terroristic activities like the manufacture of bombs, collecting pistols and rifles and making good use of them. The first chapter had already begun with the Yugantar newspaper. As we took up these revolutionary activities, we discovered that it was not easy to carryon this kind of secret work unless there was common in the country as a whole a keen desire I and hope for freedom. What was needed was a favourable atmosphere from which the revolutionaries could get the desired sympathy and support. One could not expect anything but opposition from a people cowed

The Evolutionary Imperative MAN will grow into superman – in spite of himself, if necessary. Has not the animal grown into man? And did the animal try for it or even wish for it? Just so, the plant grew into the animal, willy-nilly, having had no inkling of its destiny. Out of the plant the animal came: a sensory system, a nervous organisation tore, as it were, into the pulp of the vegetable substance and established itself there. And subsequently, ages after, the animal himself underwent a similar transmutation: a larger amount of brain substance and a more complicated configuration in it was implanted in the brain cavity of the animal. Whence and wherefore ca