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 Today is the birth anniversary of this great Bengal renaissance poet Modhusudhan Dutta and the father of Bengali modern poetry. Michel Modhusudan Dutta(1824-1873) and his immortal  book of poetry  'Meghnadbadh'  (1861) are always breathed  together .Retelling the epic through a modern ballad and is one of the renaissance tradition challenging the myth and  a section of the poem we are reading in school text book for generations. Meghnad was a tragic hero in Ramayana. He was slayed by Lakshmana brutally, while he was worshiping Goddess Nikumvilā, in the royal temple of Lanka, because of betrayal by Vibhishana, who was an uncle of Meghnad. Meghnad asked Lakshmana not to fight with an unarmed person, rebuking him as a coward; but Lakshmana did not hear him. This unfortunate hero twice endangered Rama as well as Lakshmana but could not survive himself in this unfair battle. This is the central theme of this epic. Meghnad was a patriot, a loving husband, a caring son and a friend t

 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Dual and NonDual existence of beings ....Vivekananda progressed through his life as a proponent of duality of existence - self and the God ...Then through  the rigorous introspection and scriptural search , took the Adi-Shankaracharya's path of Adaiyabad ( non-dualism) where every search ends at self - me as the manifestation of super consciousness , the  Brahman. Ramakrishna's Kali  idol worship was a medium to reach the inner state of consciousness - samadhi -  the state of bliss.  Vivekananda began his life as an atheist and when came in contact with Ramakrishna , he attained a sudden state of bliss, when one day Thakur touched his chest  with his foot. And he cried , ' aa tumi ki korle,Thakur !'  That day Vivek attained a near  bliss state -  only the rarest of beings are tuned to attain such state even without going through the painstaking  method of Progress ( - a process of disciplined living and following meditational routines ). We learnt from his chi