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Lalon Sai, Rising Beyond the Confines of All Religions, Has Always Called People to Walk the Path of Truth and the Humanist Way.
Khulna Divisional Commissioner Lokman Hossain Mia has said that the deep knowledge in the created songs of Baul Emperor Fakir Lalon Sai has truly enchanted him. In the view of some, though illiterate he is an undiscovered world of the treasury of knowledge. Many countries have presented him in many ways. As a spiritually accomplished man he appeared to build a society of truth without caste. Lalon Sai is a world human being. Lalon Sai was the proverb-father of the Bengali sense of nationhood.
Even in today's age he holds the middle of people's hearts. Research on him is going on in different countries in different languages. Translations of his songs are being made. Age after age, men of wisdom and pathfinders are born for the welfare of people. Likewise, on the sacred soil of Cheuria in Kushtia there has appeared a mahatma of great wisdom like Lalon Sai. In the rebirth of human birth, Lalon was attracted to no religion. Rising beyond the confines of all religions, Lalon Sai has always called people to walk the path of truth and the humanist way.
He said these things on Friday night at the Akhrabari at Cheuria, as chief guest on the concluding day of the three-day programme held on the occasion of the memorial festival of Baul Emperor Fakir Lalon Sai and the Dol Purnima mela, arranged by the Lalon Academy.
He said further that Lalon Sai wrote countless songs precisely to establish the ideology of humanity. Lalon taught that by serving people one can become a truly simple and pure human being. People cannot be held captive in the net of religion. Harmony cannot be maintained while bound within any religion. Above all religions is the religion of humanity. Though this mystic sage had no institutional education, he was self-taught in the order of modern society. Forgetting religion and caste-distinction, what limitless things he said for the welfare of people! The One who dwells between body and soul we may not recognize at once, but in his songs Lalon Sai has pointed out who that person is.
He said, over religion a foul game is being played in the world. That in New Zealand, because of the very mockery of religion, a barbaric attack was made on Muslims entering a mosque — that is its proof. In the name of civilization we have reached the extreme. This must stop.
Calling upon the youth who will lead the coming days, the chief guest said, to save your children from the frightfulness of narcotics, keep an eye on your children. The time has come, inspired by Lalon Sai's ideal, to guide our children to the good path. Thereafter he read out a leaflet. Engage them in constructive work for the good of the country and the nation.
Baul Emperor Fakir Lalon Sai was the maker of the Bengali's modern social order. On this holy land of Lalon he has left behind his worthy disciples. Age after age they will establish his ideology. They have made Kushtia the capital of idealism as the stream of humanity. In this age of civilization, forgetting violence and hatred between man and man, always walking civilized and on the right path in realizing the slogan of Baul Emperor Fakir Lalon Sai's songs and religious philosophy — "Speak the truth, walk the good path, O my mind" — he called for keeping oneself engaged in the development of the country and the nation.
Presided over by Kushtia District Administrator Md. Aslam Hossain, the special guests at the programme were Pabna District Administrator Jasim Uddin, Jhenaidah District Administrator Swaraj Kumar Nath, Mrinal Kanti De, deputy director of the Local Government Division of Kushtia, eminent writer and columnist Sheikh Gias Uddin Ahmed Mintu, and Golam Mohsin, president of the district Jasad, among others.
Presenting Fakir Lalon Sai's spirituality, Professor Dr. Selim Toha, treasurer of Islamic University, spoke as chief discussant. Greetings were given by Bir Muktijoddha Jahid Hossain, member-secretary of the ad hoc committee. The welcome address and thanks were given by Rajibul Islam Khan, member of the ad hoc committee and Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Kumarkhali.
In this year's memorial festival, the Cheuria Akhrabari of the Baul Emperor was drenched in the dust of the feet of the hundreds of thousands of devotees and sages-gurus who came from home and abroad. The devotees' vow: forgetting religion and caste-distinction, per Shahiji's ideology, to remain devoted always to man for man's welfare, and to establish in present society the ideology of unbounded love of humanity. In this age of civilization, forgetting violence and hatred between man and man, one must keep oneself engaged always on the true and right path in realizing the slogan of Shahiji's caste-less human philosophy — "When the poison of the mind goes, then you will see all as nectar" — for the development of the country and the nation. Though the non-violent humanity and Fakiri doctrine of the mystic sage Baul Emperor Fakir Lalon Sai — the caste-less human philosophy and music — has crossed the country's borders and taken its place in the world in its own glory, still it has hardly found expression, publicity and expansion in any language other than Bengali. In this matter more initiative must be taken. To establish the path of humanity's liberation and devotion he created thousands of ideological songs. But for want of proper academic publicity and publication they could not fully stir the people of the world. He said the very difficult things very simply in his songs. His immortal musical creations cannot be publicized and published in a stereotyped way. The eminent researchers of the world want to know new facts of Lalon's creations.
Lalon Academy president and Kushtia District Administrator Md. Aslam Hossain, since the three-day memorial festival concluded successfully, effectively and beautifully, expressed gratitude to the police and RAB engaged in law and order, the local volunteers, the countless devotees of Lalon Sai and the sages-gurus from home and abroad, the journalists and the eminent people of the area, and gave advance invitation and thanks for the coming Tirodhan Dibas.
After the discussions, in the second part, Lalon songs were performed on the Lalon stage by a combination of various artistes and cultural organizations. Among those performing were Samir Baul and Sufia Kangalini, famed Baul artistes of the subcontinent, along with the country's renowned artistes and the Lalon Academy's local artistes. Presenting the three-day memorial festival day's programme were Musabbirul Islam, AC (Land) and Executive Magistrate of Kushtia Sadar upazila, and Executive Magistrates Shahinur Akter, Farhana Yasmin and Kanak Chowdhury.
