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Bengali Association of Greater Chicago - Community Newsletter
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President’s Message
Dear BAGC Extended family,
Another Year, another Decade !!! Another Team, another turn to enrich, empower,
endear our community. Time for 2020 Executive Committee to get into action for
our own BAGC.
Congratulations and thanks to the 2019 President and Executive Committee for
giving us (BAGC) a fantastic and memorable 2019.
Nurturing, assimilating, rejuvenating is never an easy task, however meaningful.
But we stand strong in this pledge. As they say, the only way to do anything
meaningful, is to plan energetically, perform earnestly and dare to take a challenge
for betterment.
Together we will try to live up to your expectations and create new ones, take our
cherished BAGC further and stand by our extended family through thick and thin.
Let's make Banga Bhaban, our community home and hub, more vibrant by involving our own members of all ages. We
will try to improve and enhance through more technology, more communication, much passion and hearty good will.
And we will do all these together, as the One Big Family that we are.
Jayanta Mukherjee
President – BAGC 2020
On Behalf of Executive Committee, BAGC 2020
– Disclaimer –
Articles in Samaj Sambad are obtained from individual members. The editors are not responsible for the content of these articles.
Opinions expressed in these articles are solely those of the contributors and not necessarily representative of BAGC.
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Saraswati's Wrath
Souvik Dutta
sarasvati namasyāmi cētanāṃ hṛdi samṣthitām | granted him that along with a long life. Ravana asked for
the boon that no human could kill him, since he did not
kaṇṭhasthāṃ padmayōniṃ tvāṃ hrīnk̇ārāṃ
consider humans fit to kill a rakshasa like him. Brahma
supriyāṃ sadā ||
granted him the boon. Kumbhakarna wanted to ask for
~ Saraswati Stotra by Brihaspati, the indra-asana, but the gods requested Saraswati to
verse 1, Rudrayamala twist his words, adversely impacting his speech so that
he, instead, uttered “nidra-asana,” meaning "eternal
I bow in humility to Saraswati who resides as
consciousness in our heart lotus. May She
reside in our throat for eternity as the ever-pleasing
sleep." Thus, he was granted eternal sleep and only one
day in the year when he would wake up. In fact, if he was
ever woken untimely from his sleep that would be his
smiling goddess, born out of our pure heart.
last day on Earth. That is exactly what happened.
Saraswati is always imagined as the ever-smiling,
A single slip of the tongue can have huge
benevolent goddess, but She also has a darker side to
repercussions. Yudhishthira was the epitome of wisdom
Her. When Prakriti is unknown, wild, untamed, She is
imagined as Kali. When the same Prakriti evokes and knowledge as well as dharma. During the war of
instincts within life (jeeva) and tries to woo it, She Kurukshetra, he uttered one lie – “Ashwathama gata”
becomes Parvati. When the same Prakriti provides and silently uttered “iti gaja,” meaning Ashwathama is
bounty as minerals and food, She becomes Lakshmi. killed in the battle but that Ashwathama is an elephant.
When the same Prakriti is realized, understood and This one lie caused Yudhisthira to visit patala (hell)
comprehended, She becomes Saraswati. where he had to witness the suffering of his siblings and
spouse.
Saraswati is one of the Tridevi, She is one of the
Triveni, and She is also one of the Trinadi. As a Tridevi, Stuti is praise, ninda is criticism, and both are
She provides wisdom, learning and gives humanity stemming from Vak, the goddess of which is Saraswati.
speech and language. As Triveni, She cleanses the Both stuti and ninda affect the atma (soul) of an
impurity of the mind and fills it with thoughts that help individual, and while one uplifts it, the other belittles its
Her devotees overcome their animal nature. As Trinadi, potency.
She balances the human body between active (taking) In the cold and chilly morning, a warm shower is
and passive (giving) phases. very desirable and similarly, on a hot and humid
While the wrath of Shakti is evident in nature as afternoon, a cool breeze refreshes the mind and the
natural calamities, and while the wrath of Lakshmi is body. However, if the chilly breeze hits us on a freezing
evident as bad produce and diseased crops, the wrath of night and hot water is poured on us in a humid afternoon,
Saraswati can be very profound as well. Saraswati rarely the mind and body will not enjoy it. Saraswati, in Her
curses and Her punishments are very subtle. However, wrath, can place us in circumstances where the flow of
when Her devotees are insulted or treated unfairly, Her rhythm is out-of-phase with our mental state and
wrath can be very intense. existence, and such a punishment can indeed be severe
We have a story of Kumbhakarna from the to the mind.
Ramayana. Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Vivishana were An example from the Mahabharata perhaps can
performing their severe tapas to please Prajapati really do justice to the extent of Saraswati's wrath. The
Brahma. Brahma finally appeared and asked them what sarathi of Arjun was Krishna and on the 16th and 17th
they wanted. Vivishana asked for wisdom and Brahma day of the war, when Karna entered the battlefield, his
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sarathi was Shalya Raj. Whereas Krishna did someone's true to potential thrive or kill it. Speech has to
everything to boost the confidence of Arjuna with His be used wisely as it is a powerful tool given to us by
words, Shalya did everything in his capacity to break the Saraswati. Her blessing can make a petty thief like
confidence of Karna with his words. The lie that Karna Valmiki a wise composer of the Ramayana, and Her
lived to gain knowledge from his Guru, Parashurama, wrath can make Kumbhakarna sleep for life, or punish
returned back to him like the wrath of Saraswati through Karna for his actions.
the words of Shalya.
May we always continue to be blessed by Saraswati's
Words can make or break a person. They can make unending divine grace.
Acknowledgements
Front Cover : Ananya Bhattacharya
Front Inside Cover : Sharon Dhali
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Community News
Announcement
POUSH PARBON
Appreciation
On 18th of January, 2020 finally it was that time of the year to
enjoy “pithe”, “nolen gurer payesh”, “kachuri aloor dum” and Our very own Dipankar Mukhopadhyay
many more. BAGC invited all its members for the event spent ten weeks in Bhutan and Nepal as a
POUSH PARBON. We celebrated the day with plethora of medical volunteer. What a spirit! He will
Bengali delicacies followed by cultural program. Food was be back to Chicago on February 3 after
sold at nominal rate in the event. The money raised from the being away for 18 weeks.
event would be used for our operating cost of Banga Bhavan. Welcome back!
The event was a huge success.
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Few Art Pieces
Maya (Banerjee) Menezes, Age 6 yrs
She is proud to have “perfected” her coloring This piece is completely her creation of a chocolate
ability. This is her new hobby which she pursues cone with “kitty cat” made of strawberry ice cream
spontaneously whether we are at home or driving! wrapped in peach cream! This ice cream captures
some of her favorite things in life.
This piece is a craft work representing the “turkey man” when asked
what does Thanksgiving mean you her!
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funny. During health class, we talked about the three was percussion. I wanted to play percussion since I
most important parts of our health; social health, heard that you could choose an instrument in middle
physical health, and mental health. We were also talking school. Another thing is that the teachers in this school
about what we might do this quarter. are very funny.
My last class of the day was the band class. During Something that I didn't like is that we didn't have
band class, I saw many instruments around the room. much space to open and get things out of our locker.
We even got our locker in the band room. The Also, the hallways are very crowded which makes it
instrument I chose was percussion. We talked about very hard to get from class to class. Another big problem
what instruments and accessories we needed to buy. I is that there is gum almost everywhere like under
was very excited to start playing the snare drum but she lockers, under chairs, 5under desks, on window sills,
said we could only play it next week. etc. I even accidentally touched one!
Some good things about middle school are that we Overall, I thought that the first day of my middle
get our locker. This place is like our small closet. I also school was very fun. I'm looking forward to tomorrow
got to choose my instrument that I wanted to play which and get back to school again.
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