The last part of the journey has to be done alone with God as the only companion. – Pratap Chandra Majumdar * * * * * It is not the length of life, but the depth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson * * * * * Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest Read More …
It is very gratifying to note that Raja Rammohun Roy, the father of modern India, has at last received some attention which has been long overdue. There have been yearlong celebrations, although on a modest scale, to pay tribute to the multifaceted contributions of this great man organized by many of his admirers. On his sestercentennial birth anniversary, i.e., 22 May 2022, there have also been celebrations across the country, to mark the occasion. The government of West Bengal has Read More …
By Jawhar Sircar Campaign for Modern Education What marks out Rammohun Roy as the pioneering leader of modern India is his historic success in getting the inhuman practice of sati or burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands banned, and that too, quite effectively. But equally important were his other missions on which we will focus in this article—which strives to highlight the very impressive range of socially relevant subjects that he campaigned for. To begin with, he Read More …
Malavika Nagarkar (Talk given at Brahmopasana meeting on Sunday, 8 May 2022) In those days there were scholarships offered by the British Unitarian Association for Brahmo missionaries. D.G Vaidya and some others asked Chitnis to apply for this. His immediate reply was that he had no money for it but Vaidya told him not to worry about that. Vaidya took an application from him, gave his own recommendation, and sent it to Dr. Herambachandra Moitra in Kolkata. Dr Moitra asked Read More …
(on his 117th Death Anniversary, 27th May) Pratap Chunder Mozoomdar was born in the year 1840 and breathed his last on May 27, 1905. He was involved with the Brahmo Samaj movement and was one of the leaders who became a very ardent follower of Keshub Chandra Sen, especially in the event of his propagating the New Dispensation. He tried to bring about a synthesis between the philosophies and ethics of Hinduism and Christianity. He wrote about this idea in his Read More …
(Sermons and Writings) Evolution The mind imposes its unity on the ‘many’. The ‘many’ over whelms the mind and the mind is lost in the ‘many’. The unity is evolved and the ‘many’ is organized. Evolution is only a process of the unity finding itself out, becoming self-conscious and imposing itself upon the ‘many’ by bringing in an order, a unity, a simplicity. Evolution is not through absorption alone; it also implies rejection. The spirit rejects as it absorbs, realizes Read More …
Celebration of 250th Birth Anniversary of Raja Rammohun Roy Organised by Sadharan Brahmo Samaj The 250th Birth Anniversary of Raja Rammohun Roy, the Founder of the Brahmo Samaj and the Father of the Indian Renaissance, was celebrated and commemorated by Sadharan Brahmo Samaj for 3 consecutive days, beginning from 22nd May 2022, his Birthday, followed by the next two days, 23rd and 24th May, 2022. In keeping with the legacy left behind by such a personality, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj observed Read More …
The true way of serving God is to do good to man. – Rammohun Roy * * * * * The truth of a saying does not depend upon the multitude of prayers. – Rammohun Roy * * * * * He who knows that the knowledge of the finite and the infinite is combined in one, crosses death by the help of the knowledge of the finite and achieve immortality by Read More …
This year in the Month of May, we are celebrating the sester-centennial Birth Anniversary of Raja Rammohun Roy across the country as well as the world. Although there is an element of uncertainty over the exact year of his birth, 1772 or 1774 CE. However, the first of the two has been widely accepted and therefore the year 2022 marks the completion of 250 years since his birth. The two aspects of his life’s work have come into greater focus; Read More …
By Jawhar Sircar The First Modern Indian Rammohun Roy was the first Indian to make the best use of whatever Western education, philosophy and scholasticism was available to Indians in the opening decades of the nineteenth century with the purpose of applying these imbibed skills and knowledge to articulate the concerns of Indians before the dominant colonial power. A handful of enterprising Indians had, indeed, learnt to gain from European knowledge systems that were made available by missionaries and educators, Read More …