“The Susunia Inscription as an Origin of the Chakraswamin Sect”, The Dharma Dispatch, February 26, 2026
“THE SAGA OF Bengal’s prolonged, glittering and ongoing misfortune has been written in four proud, ruinous initials—B, B, B, B: Bhaktiyar, the British, Basu, Banerjee—each a bright, heartless stroke across a vandalised canvas.
What was once Classical Bengal, that dream-like province of rivers and rice and Sanskrit and devotion and culture and poetry disappeared eons ago. This misfortune excludes a big chunk of what used to be Bengal just 80 years ago — Bangladesh. This eastern half continues to drift away towards extinction, like Sandhyavandanam dissolving into the darkness that follows Sandhya.
Yet even in its diminished state, the sacred Vanga Desha has given the world something rare, iridescent and irreplaceable: the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition, one of the oldest and most exquisite expressions of devotion, a cool flame that has burned quietly, incessantly, radiating spiritual knowledge and rapturous devotion……”
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