Nipabithi Toa

“But there is yet time to change our ways. Give up all those old discussions, old fights about things which are meaningless, which are nonsensical in their very nature. Think of the last six hundred or seven hundred years of degradation when grown-up men by hundreds have been discussing for years whether we should drink a glass of water with the right hand or the left, whether the hand should be washed three times or four times, whether we should gargle five or six times. What can you expect from men who pass their lives in discussing such momentous questions as these and writing most learned philosophies on them! There is a danger of our religion getting into the kitchen. We are neither Vedantists, most of us now, nor Pauranics, nor Tantrics. We are just "Don't-touchists". Our religion is in the kitchen. Our God is the cooking-pot, and our religion is, "Don't touch me, I am holy". If this goes on for another century, every one of us will be in a lunatic asylum. It is a sure sign of softening of the brain when the mind cannot grasp the higher problems of life; all originality is lost, the mind has lost all its strength, its activity, and its power of thought, and just tries to go round and round the smallest curve it can find.”
― Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3

“কে বল সহজ, ফাঁকা যাহা তারে, কাঁধেতে বহিতে যাওয়া।
জীবন যতই ফাঁকা হয়ে যায়, ততই কঠিন বওয়া।”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali, শবনম

“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“প্রেম গোপন রাখাতে যে গভীর আনন্দ আছে তার থেকে আমি তাকে বঞ্চিত করতে যাব কেন? শুনেছি প্রথম গর্ভধারণ করে বহু মাতা সেটা যত দিন পারে গোপন রাখে। নিভৃতে আপন মনে সেই ক্ষুদ্র শিশুটির কথা ধ্যান করতে করতে সে চলে যায় স্বর্গলোকপানে, যেখান থেকে মুখে হাসি নিয়ে নেমে আসবে এই শিশুটি। ”
― Syed Mujtaba Ali, শবনম