AnandMath

by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight, Dark fields waving Mother of might,”

“Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease Laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow.”

Rich with thy hurrying streams, bright with orchard gleams, Cool with thy winds of delight, Dark fields waving Mother of might, Glory of moonlight dreams, Over thy branches and lordly streams, Clad in thy blossoming trees, Mother, giver of ease Laughing low and sweet! Mother I kiss thy feet, Speaker sweet and low! Mother, to thee I bow Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands, When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands And seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Though who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her foeman drove Back from plain and Sea And shook herself free. Thou art wisdom, thou art law, Thou art heart, our soul, our breath Though art love divine, the awe In our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nervs the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm. Every image made divine In our temples is but thine. Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen, With her hands that strike and her

Translation of Vande Matram

Muse

“Agreed, a Britisher will not runaway, even if he is dying, but a Muslim would, even if he just starts sweating. He keeps looking

Unlike British who on a full moon night also keep lighting the lams of gas or electricity on their royal roads, unlike Bengalis who waste the oil used for massaging the body, cupid would not like to use his arrows of desire which he carefully prepares from the glances of damsels of heaven on the married couple. Leave alone human beings sometimes gods also do unwise things like moon is still seen on the sky even after sun rise, Indra, the god of rains, showers on the oceans also, Kuber – the god wealth keeps filling the chests of the wealthy people, Yamaraj – the god of death snatches the life from that house only in which all the other members have died already. But cupid will never do such useless things. Once a man and woman get married, he leaves them to Prajapati – the god of creation and goes after couples in whom

Clatter! Clatter! Where ridest thou With flying feet? To the wars I go, hinder not Oh my sweet! Hari! Hari! Hari! Hari! ’Tis my battle cry, In the waves of War shall I plunge Death defy, Whose art thou? None be thine? Why follow me? So away to the wars, no woman can Enchantment be. Lord of heart! Leave me not, I entreat; War music sounds; hark my dear! War drums do beat! My impatient horse desireth war, Hear him neigh; Swift flies my heart, no more at home Can I stay. So away to the wars! No woman can Enchantment be! (Translation taken from Sri Aurobindo Ghosh’s Translation of the Novel in English)

“Yes, Satvik, rajasik and tamasik – these are the three qualities.” Satyanand, “Right, the way one worships God in these three qualities will be different from each other. Satv ic quality gives rise to kindness, such people worship through devotion. The order of Chatanaya is of this type. Rajasik quality gives rise to power. Fighting battles and destroying the people who hate gods is the way of worship for these people. That is what we do. God acquires forms such as four armed and many other different forms and comes on to this earth because of the tamasik quality. Usually we worship that quality by offering saffron and sandal paste etc. Have you understood now?” Mahendra, “Understood, the community of children are worshippers only.” Satyanand, “Right, we don’t want to acquire kingdoms. We want to annihilate Muslims who oppose our God.”

Worshipping one crore deities is not called eternal religion. It is one of the inferior and worldly forms of religion. The one which is known as Hindu religion has been lost. Materialistic Hindu religion is neither of knowledge nor it is duty bound.