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দেবীপক্ষ শুরু হয়ে গেলI In 1931, a 26-year-old Calcutta radio man was told he could not recite the Chandi Path on air because he was not a priest. He recited it anyway, and 95 years later, Bengal still wakes at 4 a.m. on Mahalaya to hear Birendra Krishna Bhadra.
The programme was Mahishasuramardini, first broadcast live at dawn from Akashvani, Calcutta, in 1931. Script by Bani Kumar, music by Pankaj Kumar Mullick, and one voice that would come to define the start of Durga Puja.
When orthodox critics objected to a Kayastha chanting the Chandi, Bani Kumar refused to drop him. The orchestra itself included Muslim musicians. It was Bengal’s syncretic genius, broadcast before sunrise.
For 35 years it went out live. From 1966, Akashvani has played a recording, the same one millions still switch on today.
In 1976, AIR replaced it with “Durga Durgatiharini”, narrated by Uttam Kumar, the biggest star in Bengal. Listeners revolted. The next year, Bhadra was back. Nobody has tried since.
Bhadra died in 1991. The voice did not. A short animated film on the man and the broadcast that became a ritual 👇শুভ মহালয়াI
In 1.18 minutes.
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Devi begins her journey to her maternal home.
Durga stotra in Birendra Krishna Bhadra’s voice.
Shubho Mahalaya to you all.
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Shakuntala’s vidaayi - a bridal farewell.
The sage Kanva holds back tears:
(Kalidasa)
यास्यत्यद्य शकुन्तलेति हृदयं संस्पृष्टमुत्कण्ठया
कण्ठः स्तम्भितबाष्पवृत्तिकलुषश्चिन्ताजडं दर्शनम् ।
वैक्लव्यं मम तावदीदृशमहो स्नेहादरण्यौकसः
पीड्यन्ते गृहिणः कथं नु तनयाविश्लेषदुःखैर्नवैः ॥
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Oops, didn't know the concept of troll and engagement bait. My bad... Thanks folks for educating me. Bhartrihari says it too..
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This is an excellent qn. Vibhishan is NOT called ghar ka bhedi in Ramayan. The boon he asked from Brahma ji was 'In all situations, however bad, let my buddhi always be established in Dharma'. And he lives tht. That we have made Karna hero and Vibhishan villian is our failing.
एक बात पर आपने ध्यान दिया है क्या?
बहुत से लोग अपने बच्चों का नाम कर्ण रखते हैं जबकि कर्ण का जीवन कोई बहुत सुख शांति का नहीं था।
तिस पर उसने दुर्योधन का साथ दिया जो कहानी में विलन माना जाता है
विभीषण ने भगवान श्री राम का साथ दिया - अपने अत्याचारी, दुराचारी भाई को छोड़कर।
लेकिन कोई भी अपने बेटे का नाम विभीषण नहीं रखना चाहता 🤔
तो फिर हमारे हिसाब से कौन सा गुण अनुसरण के लायक है?
जो हम कहते हैं उसके अनुसार चल तो नहीं रहे हैं, ऐसा प्रतीत होता है।
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In the Yogavāsiṣṭha 2.7.29 is an evocative analogy of a lake and a lotus serving as a mutual basis for each other's beauty, for how the fulfilment of mati/understanding and śāstra is also reciprocal.🪷
wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/… (Eng. trans.)
archive.org/details/ag-1_202… (Hindi trans.)
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“आत्मानं नावमन्येत पूर्वाभिरसमृद्धिभिः ।
आमृत्योः श्रियमन्विच्छेन् नैनां मन्येत दुर्लभाम् ॥”
ātmānaṃ na+avamanyeta
pūrvābhir asamṛddhibhiḥ
āmṛtyoḥ śriyam anvicchet
na+enām manyeta durlabhām
Helpful to remember and stay optimistic. The 2nd half (esp last pāda) drives it in.
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This has to be one of the profoundest verses in world literature.
मान्धाता च महीपतिः कृतयुगालंकारभूतो गतः । सेतुर्येन महोदधौ विरचितः क्वासौ दशास्यांतकः ॥
अन्ये चापि युधिष्ठिरप्रभृतयो याता दिवं भूपते । नैकेनापि समं गता वसुमती नूनं त्वया यास्यति ॥
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One of the heart-wrenching devotional cry of Utapladeva, from Śivastotravalī:
"प्रसीद भगवन् येन त्वत्पदे पतितं सदा ।
मनो मे तत्तदास्वाद्य क्षीवेदिव गलेदिव ॥
प्रहर्षाद्वाथ शोकाद्वा यदि कुङ्याद्धटादपि ।
बाह्यादथान्तराद्भावात्प्रकटीभव मे प्रभो ॥"
"O Lord, be pleased! so that I always remain fallen at Your feet, and my mind melts away by the taste (of various mystical states).
Whether in great joy or sorrow, whether in a wall or in a pot, whether outside or inside, O Lord, reveal Yourself."
Notice what he does not ask for. He does not ask Śiva to remove his suffering. He does not ask for mystical powers. He does not even ask for liberation. He asks only one thing: "Reveal Yourself."
In joy—reveal Yourself.
In sorrow—reveal Yourself.
In the sacred—reveal Yourself.
In the ordinary wall and the ordinary pot—reveal Yourself. Within me—reveal Yourself.
Outside me—reveal Yourself.
This is the essence of Tantra, not escaping the world, but recognising Śiva in everything.
Utpaladeva, as a great philosopher, argues with extraordinary precision, but as a devotee, he weeps like us for the Lord Śiva:
प्रकटीभव मे प्रभो — "Manifest Yourself to me, O Lord."
Jai Ma Ram!
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In the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata, Bhishma explains the mechanics of governance to Yudhishthira:
कालो वा कारणं राजो राजा वा कालकारणम्।
इति ते संशयो मा भूद् राजा कालस्य कारणम्॥
"Is it the time that makes the king/the king that makes the time? Have no doubt: the king is the cause of the times."
The leader's choices shape the era, but the state of the society dictates the limits of execution. Ancient Indian wisdom dictates that governance is a symbiotic wheel. We cannot eliminate systemic social evils like food adulteration/exam cheating/cleanliness through top-down policing alone if parts of the civic fabric itself are willing to engage in them.
True development requires the simultaneous evolution of Dharma (civic duty) within the populace & Danda (state enforcement) from above.
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यतो भगीरथो राजा ततो गङ्गायशस्विनी ॥
जगाम सरितां श्रेष्ठा सर्वपापप्रणाशिनी ।
- वाल्मीकिरामायणम्, बालकाण्डम्, ४३.३३[२]-३४[१]
Wherever King Bhagiratha went, there the illustrious Ganga followed. She, the foremost among all rivers, purifies and destroys all sins.
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Today is Ganga Dashahara (गङ्गा दशहरा), the day of avatarana of Maa Ganga.
गगनाच्छङ्करशिरस्ततो धरणिमाश्रिता ॥
व्यसर्पत जलं तत्र तीव्रशब्दपुरस्कृतम् ।
- वाल्मीकिरामायणम्, बालकाण्डम्, ४३.१५[२]-१६[१]
From the sky to the head of Shankara (Shiva) and from there reaching down to Earth; the water (Ganga) flowed forward and spread out with a thunderous, roaring sound.
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उत्सवे व्यसने चैव दुर्भिक्षे राष्ट्रविप्लवे ।
राजद्वारे श्मशाने च यस्तिष्ठति स बान्धवः ॥
- हितोपदेशः, मित्रलाभः, ७३
One who stands by you during celebrations, in calamity, in famine, in political turmoil, at the royal court (legal matters), and at the cremation ground, that person alone is a true friend/relative.
