Letter 001

6/2/85

Dear Father,

The more the days are passing the more my devotion, respect, love for you are increasing. As if the truth is gradually getting cleared. As if I am about to find out the source of bliss and as if it is getting cleared that how dagnerously beautiful the guru is. As if the knowledge is getting still and becoming unstill it is dancing. The meaning of "The snake is a snake when it is twitching and even when it is still" is getting cleared. 'The still knowledge is as if getting unstill.' 'As if the undivided is becoming evident in pieces. The undivided I is being shown as divided as if like 'mine' and then 'this'.'

The above pieces of writings are of yours and all of those includes 'as if'. The removal of this 'as if' is the removal of the middle and the end part of the drama.

Is this 'as if' is the doctrine of maya?

Centering your ideas and thoughts a discussion circle has been developed here. The practice of Advaita Vedanta is going on.

Remembrance and meditation upon you is going on every moment. Please bless us so that we can realize your supreme words - 'Undivided consciousness established everywhere and always'.

It is very pleasant to hear about all of you in the hermitage. I have sent some money. Please let me know about the date of your birth anniversary in the next month. I have not yet received the copy of Chareiveti from the Janai hermitage.

Thousand million regards to you.

Letter 002

27/2/85

Dear Father,

I have received your letter. Due to your sight of blessings I have clearly realized each and every words of your letter and with that all of my doubts have been torn away. From now onwards I am for yours only. You can do anything with me whatever you wish. Because of your blessings a thought is comming in my mind - Aha! Is it possible too? Is it possible too?

I have sent Rs. 40/- to you. Please send me an acknowledgement. There has been a wish to visit you at Purulia at the end of April or at the begning of May. The rest is on your hand. How is your health? The more I am thinking about you the more I am getting astonished.

Aha! This is called guru. This is called guru.

Thousand million regards to you.

Only yours,

Letter 003

Maligaon
19/07/1985

Dear Tapan,

I have received your letter. Is there any other news of yours? Jayanti and others are well. How is Bachchu? When will you go to Kolkata? It is very cold here. Inform me if you have received letter from home. Take care of your health. Doing thoughts of God do other works. Everything in this world is by His power. That power is within you indeed, He needs to be known. It needs to be tried to understand Him. You are not weak or ill-fated. You are also the child of God, the name of properly understanding this is Dharma(Religion). If you get leisure time after doing all of your works think in this line. Pray to God for Jñana(Knowledge). All of you take my love.

- Elder Brother

Letter 004

Aum
Dear Pradeep,

I have received your letter. It verily pleased me hearing that you are doing well. We always use ourselves – but we say while holding – we are using this or that.

The object Jñana indeed is being used, but meanwhile I ride over that. The motor cycle is moving by its own power but whenever I sit on ride over that, my tension starts.

Motor cycle has no tension at all.

To realize this truth we need Smarana - Manana - Dhyana (Remembering - Deep Thinking - Meditating). Continue with whatever you are doing. This indeed is an overtime, an extra gain.

We all are well. I have told everybody about your letter. I am also keeping contact with your house. They all are well.

Letter 006

Sri Ramakrishna Saranam

Dear Pradeep,

I have received your beautiful letter. I have told everybody about your letter. Thought of God is being continued. We discuss about you also. You will grow much bigger – I hope so.

As you are seeing the world, is that correct, or there is any truth behind this? So is this quest for truth. It requires courage, because it is a journey towards the opposite direction. You need to go to the source. All problems are solved when that is found. This is the ideology of God. Take my love. Everybody in your house is well. I am waiting for you to come.

Letter 013

Sri Ramakrishna Saranam

Beloved Pradeep,

Receiving your letter I am overwhelmed. It is being hard to comprehend the Master’s divine play. The play has been started which I have understood.

Letter 015

Aum

Dear Bumba,

Receiving your letter after a long time I felt good. There will always remain my anxiousness for you. Never quit Swamiji. Such a big man has never come to this world before. Works of Vedanta Society are going on. On the coming 12th January Swamiji’s birthday will be celebrated. You will spend 12th January with your friends. And let me know how did you spend. Never get scared of anybody. You are the only truth. Hence knowing thyself is indeed the ultimate knowledge. Give love to your friends.

Letter 018

Sri Ramakrishna Saranam

Dear Bumba,

Receiving your letter after a long time I felt good. There will always remain my anxiousness for you. Never quit Swamiji. Such a big man has never come to this world before. Works of Vedanta Society are going on. On the coming 12th January Swamiji’s birthday will be celebrated. You will spend 12th January with your friends. And let me know how did you spend. Never get scared of anybody. You are the only truth. Hence knowing thyself is indeed the ultimate knowledge. Give love to your friends.

Letter 030

Dear Bubai,

I have received your beautiful letter. In the mean time there was a beautiful sitting at Rajeev’s house. Everyone is moving forward fast.

You move forward.

Charaiveti. Move forward. A journey till death from the birth. But birth and death – both are ever unknown to me. I have heard from my mother that I was born. And seeing others death I think in my mind that I shall die.

So the beginning and the end – if both do not have proper truth – then the I in between has not even a single drop of truth value. Why does man do whatever he wishes? He does not know where the truth behind this life of his is.

When he will be able to know – birth and death, both are my imagination and when imaginations end he understands the truth of himself that is birthlessness and deathlessness – only then there cannot be any falsehood in his conduct. Hence everybody is verily searching the truth. He has to do. You and I are the pedestrians of that path. One has found the end of the path – and the other is following Him.

Any way – this immortality has to be found in this very mortal life. This is Pūrūshakār(Manhood). Who finds out this truth is the only Pūrūsha(Self). Else are surely effeminate. Every nitty-gritty of daily life, whatever comes to your hand, to be continued with sincerity. As soon as the conflict regarding the path and the destination ends, that much is the blessings. Fixing your sight on the source of thoughts you should carry on. Headship of the mind has much been tolerated. Not more. Now the mind has to be destroyed. Avih(Be brave). Honest thought is verily the savior always. No other help is required. Everybody is very well here. May this message of immortality be spread in all directions. With best wishes and love,

Letter 035

Sri Ramakrishna Saranam

Dear Sumana,

Though you have not realized the Self yet you have written a letter exactly like a Self-realized person. I am happy, very happy. Move forward thus. You will find truth. It is not too difficult. It is not going to the moon, neither crawling over the soils of Arab. Keep enquiring about your mind from yourself – thus you will find the formless among the forms. And that is you yourself. Be happy, you must be. Honest thought is indeed your savior. What else! Let us end here today. You are indeed in my thoughts.

Is there anything else other than God anywhere? You have realized God slightly, didn’t you?

Letter 068

Dear Mausumi,

Truth is verily the God or Ishvara. In which action or meditation or love God is realized, that is the path of truth. Sādhaka chooses the path according to his tendency. To whom God blesses, his body-mind is devoted to God. So your responsibility is also huge. You are of God in total. You have nothing. There will not also be in future.

Always remember – above the interest of the body, above the selfishness – God or Atman will become the object of my meditation. From sensation to great sensation, from samādhi to deeper samādhi, from jñana to vijñana will end our journey. Might the life itself become a great holy place.

By the touch of that life thousands of life will get life in future. To awake this country some of us have to devote our life like Dadhīchi. I know, you will be at the first in this history of sacrifice. I am always with you. Ever well-wisher,

Letter 071

Sri Ramakrishna Saranam

Dear Sameer,

I have received your letter. You are invited for the 19th November.

"God is full of emotions". By the emotions we need to understand beyond the emotions. Nothing could be rejected. Could not be discarded even. Whatever may happen, know that He is with it. By removing the events – He only remains. Whatever you have got is not less. Everything does not pass alike. You will get response again. Tune of the flute never ends. It is not heard because of noise. When noise will be stopped you will hear it again. I have anxiousness for you, this is my job. Taking leave from all other jobs I have taken this load on my head. So wishing for all is my job. Nothing to say more, stopping talk is the job. So shut up. Be quiet. Be silent. Try it. You will succeed. Convey me deepest love to all. This much has come out today.

Letter 114

Dear,

My heart has become very heavy and that is the reason why I’m writing this letter to you. It is very true that I love you all from the core of my heart. I have distributed you all the Truth which my Master taught me, with the blood of my heart. Those of you who love me truly, to all those I ask, don’t worship me, and don’t show any devotion towards me- do not manifest reverence towards me through something. Today, from you all, I need some work. Work for the mankind. I do not have any desire to know about your spiritual realizations. If you have known something then your heart will definitely cry for all, you will perform some selfless work for the mankind. If you can give me some news of this work, then only this heavy heart will find some solace.

Letter 154

Dear Jaydeep,

I have received your letter and money. It is becoming difficult to write letters. The relationship is not being connected with anything outer. The inner stream is indeed increasing. Do you realize? ‘We are ever undivided and one Self by nature’ – it is no more only a mere talk. Bricks-woods-irons – everything is full of consciousness. Say who can remain unconscious by getting the touch of consciousness? Everything is the play of verily one. Two is nowhere.

I am (presence).

Letter 187

Swapan,

There should not be anybody else other than God in our life. May we can always say in diseases, mourns, happiness and sadness – everything is you. Everything is you. Our birth is in God. Our growth is verily in God. Our end verily is in God.

Letter 238

Dear Bile,

Why so 'silient'?

Letter 394

Dear Pradeep,

I have received your beautiful letter. You have asked some commands for growing up of IVS. So I am sending –

1. Command – Gūrūbhakti
2. Command – Gūrūbhakti
3. Command – Gūrūbhakti
4. Command – Gūrūbhakti

Letter 500

Dear All,

I have received all of your letters. Each and every beautiful letter has made me satisfied. Whoever wrote whatever – you will provide the proof by your words and actions. Now I am not going to show, I am going to see each and everybody of you. Jealousy, envy, malice – we take birth with these natural tendencies. To fight against these I have come to Vedanta Society. We have got the touch of love here. Love is the foundation of Vedanta Society. Medium of preaching is also love. This love has to be conceived too. Love and attachment or desire are not the same thing. One arises in the unselfish state, and the other comes naturally – whose seed remains hidden in selfishness. We all are the flowers, but none of us is the garland. Who has wreathed the garland, he is God. The way He has wreathed, is only beautiful. And now the name of this garland is ‘IVS’. Who among us is in which place, that is surely his place. If we go for pulling places then the garland will be torn and the total destruction of the flower as well. We might not do this. Many big civilizations have come to an end because of jealousy, envy, malice. Many beautiful things have been ruined. Vedanta Society has also been damaged many times. We might not damage it. The meaning of loving God – loving Me(Bhagavan), loving the garland, loving the thread, loving every flower. IVS is made by taking everything, taking everybody. Come on, let us love each other more. Let the world look at us. Let a new civilization born. Holding the banner of love move in all directions.

You will surely be the winner. With inexhaustible love,

Letter 514

Dear Jaydeep,

Got the money. You are in high-tech city. News is available of more high-tech than this city – ‘Becoming wealthy by that wealth’. Bring the world down the feet. Adjust your clock with the sun. Work of Vedanta Society is being spread in all directions. Vedanta Society has given a stall in Calcutta book fair. Sanyasins are selling books of Vedanta at Maidan. Being in love with God be happy.

Letter 517

Dear Devotees,

(1) Don’t do anything so that Bhagavan gets pain.
(2) Don’t do anything so that IVS gets pain.
(3) Don’t do anything so that you get pain.

Letter 522

Dear Paula,

I have received your letter. Depth of love will increase day by day. Realize me in that very name. You are my pride. You are my vanity. I always speak about you to everybody.

Be happy my child. No darkness can do anything to you. God is with you.