The truth of a saying does not depend upon the multitude of prayers. – Rammohun Roy * * * * * It is not the function of our soul to gain God, to utilise him for any special material purpose. All that we can ever aspire to is to become more and more one with God. – Rabindranath Tagore * * * * * There is nothing so frightful as ignorance in action. – Goethe
A poet has said ‘Society, friendship and love are divinely bestowed upon a man. It touches the gentle chords of our heart. But it presupposes faith in divinity and God. Therein lies the first hurdle in our journey to spiritual realisation. Doubts have assailed throughout ages not only in the minds of ordinary men fractured by diverse earthly desires and pursuits. Not only that, the argumentative mind often disputes even the very existence of God and the concept of divinity. Read More …
By Ramananda Chatterjee Of the three maxims in politics, in ethics, and in religion, which Rammohun Roy often repeated, the one on religion was from the Persian Poet Saadi, and runs thus in English translation :— “The true way of serving God is to do good to man”. This puts us on the track of the mainspring of his multifarious activities for the welfare of his countrymen and of mankind in general. It was his religious faith. As I have Read More …
Continued from last issue… Rammohun was not a believer in mere Sastra unless that was verified by experience. When experience proves that truth of Sastra, it became acceptable. It was his firm faith that “By forsaking prejudices and reflecting on Sastra what is really conformable to its precepts, may be perceived and the evils and disgrace brought on this country by the crime of female murder will cease”. Rammohun carried on his propaganda against the sati in his second tract Read More …
Rabindra Janmotsab at Sadharan Brahmo Samaj On 11th May at 6.30 pm a musical programme was arranged in the Prayer hall of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj on the occasion of 158th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. Sri Agnivo Bandopadhyay and Smt. Aditi Gupta were the singers and sung solo Rabindrasangeets in the presence of a large no. of audience. Jaisthaotsab at Sadharan Brahmo Samaj On 17th May, 2019 (2nd Jaistha, 1426) on the occasion of 141st foundation day of the Sadharan Read More …