Mountain remains intact

লক্ষ্মীপুজোর বিকেলে কলকাতা থেকে শিলং পাহাড়ের পথে রওনা দিলেন। সঙ্গে অনেকে। কবি লিখছেন,

"সান্তাহার স্টেশনে আসাম মেলে চড়লুম, এমনি কষে ঝাঁকানি দিতে লাগল যে, দেহের রস–রক্ত যদি হত দই, তাহলে ঘণ্টাখানেকের মধ্যেই প্রাণটা তার থেকে মাখন হয়ে ছেড়ে বেরিয়ে আসত।"

Translation: "I boarded the Assam Mail at Santahar station, and it shook so violently that if my body's fluids and blood were yogurt, within an hour my life-force would have churned out of it like butter."

(From : Rabindranath Tagore's epistolary collection Bhanusingher Patrabali (ভানুসিংহের পত্রাবলী)_

Travelling by air conditioned fast Metro a different feeling. I my childhood days no metro was there it built in front of us, as well there was no toto service. After getting down from metro comes to road and travelling by toto immediately I remember Rabindranath Thakur also after reaching destination place I found mosquito, again remember

“রাতে মশা দিনে মাছি, এই নিয়ে কলকাতায় আছি” (Mosquitoes at night, flies by day—this is how I live in Kolkata) written by the renowned Bengali poet and journalist Ishwar Chandra Gupta.

While searching deep I found parody link in between this two famous quotes

“Deher rokto jodi hoto doi....mosha eshe bolto 'bhai, ekta chamoch koi?'" (If the blood in the body were yogurt mosquitoes would come and ask, "Brother, where is a spoon?")

But whatever we do all is in our mind—if we think and compare both journeys we have to use our mind, and of course mind is controlled by our physical body which feel and search comfort. But the iternal soul remain untouched. We need to dive deep in the ocean to remove the surface turbulence and find the eternal calmness. Again we can quote

যা হোক, শিলঙ পাহাড়ে এসে দেখি, পাহাড়টা ঠিক আছে, আমাদের গ্রহ বৈগুণ্যে বাঁকেনি চোরেনি, নড়ে যায়নি, দেখে আশ্চর্য বোধ হল, এখনও পাহাড়টা ঠিক আছে।’’ "Anyway, having arrived at the Shillong hills, I see that the mountain is still intact—it hasn't bent, twisted, or shifted due to our planetary misfortunes; I was surprised to see that the mountain is still just fine."-- Rabindranath Tagore

Same way our internal mind should be strong and should not be fragile with the ups and downs of our daily life travels-- and move forward breaking this nonsence turbulence.

Cheers!!

Sandeep

14th November 2026