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NAAM-Newsletter Vol-3-Issue-2 Naamghar Association of America NEWSLETTER WWW.NAAMGHAR.ORG Volume 3/Issues 2/ Apr-Jun 2020 MESSAGE FROM THE BOR-MEDHI Dear community members and well-wishers of newsletter. We look forward to your NAAM, joining the planned video meeting. B) NAAM is also organizing Sankardeva’s We are faced with a global pandemic and the Janma Tithi celebration scheduled for last few months have been very unusual around November 2020 (in-person, if permitted; the world. On April 2, 2020, the coronavirus remotely, otherwise). A tentative pandemic reached a grim milestone in the U.S. schedule is shown at the ‘Recent and – more than 1 million people had been infected Upcoming Activities” section of this by SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the newsletter. Please feel free to provide respiratory disease COVID-19, and over 50,000 your input and contact me directly had died. There were over 5 million cases of ([email protected]) or write to COVID-19 around the world causing more than [email protected] to make it a 350,000 deaths within a two-month period grand success. ending May 27, 2020. We express our gratitude C) We request all our well-wishers and to all the people who are working in this community members to join us in this environment, putting their own well-being at journey of establishing a Naamghar with risk, to help others. Let us all follow the your contribution of ideas, a prescribed guidelines not only for our own commitment of time to join us at our safety but also for the safety of all others around monthly WG (working group) meetings, us. and monetary donations to NAAM. Now coming to this second quarter newsletter of 2020 from NAAM, it is my pleasure to highlight D) As I had mentioned on a previous a few key points: occasion, we may begin the process of A) We are very pleased to have Dr Sanjib having a Naamghar by renting Kumar Borkakoti, President, Society premises, say at the Ved Mandir for Srimanta Sankaradeva, Nagaon, (Milltown, NJ) campus, for our Assam share an abstract of his upcoming temporary Naamghar. Our focus, Spiritual Dialog with us in North thus, is not so much on “owning real America, to be delivered via Zoom on estate” at this time with our meagre July 19 at 10.30 am EST (8 pm IST same finances, but to start our journey with day); details are in the “Recent and vigor and energy towards our goal. It is Upcoming Activities” section of this needless to say that owning of the Page | 1 physical facility of a permanent require it for organizing a large Naamghar will evolve in due course of cultural event, say for 200 time with our perseverance to propagate Bhakats / Bhakatanis. This also the culture. implies that there should be E) Now, here are some criteria of available a kitchen with dining considering renting space to start our facilities at the premises, temporary Naamghar (your feedback is because a NAAM event may run welcome at either for 4 to 5 hours in a day. [email protected] or write to d) There should be adequate car [email protected]); parking provision a) The rental location needs to be e) That there is no immediate or quickly accessible by major next-door neighbors so that any highways, such as the NJ possible noise concerns from our Turnpike, Rt.130, Rt.118, and Rt.1 Khol-Taal performance is and close driving distance from limited. any locations in the tri-state area. f) Ideally the priests living at the b) The rental place should have a premises would offer us the similar spiritual philosophy as services of a Naamgharia for that of NAAM, i.e., very distinctly daily Banti Prajalan at the Krishna conscious and has a Guru Axon. Satra type of an atmosphere, which is a monastery. A If you have any facilities that meet the above monastery can have a temple, a minimum requirements, please contact me or Naamghar, a library, a museum, any of our Executive Committee members at and other facilities, including your earliest convenience. Thank you and dwelling for the Bhakats and wishing you all a very safe summer; may we all Naamgharia in the premises. The overcome this pandemic soon. rental unit must have adequate space to house our Guru Axon, We look forward to your regular feedback and where we will keep our Kirtan / continued cooperation to achieve NAAM’s Naamghosha / Gunamala. goals. This area effectively becomes the Naamghar Manikut, and it need Sincerely, not be large; 100 square feet may be adequate for us, so that the Dr. Binoy K. Bordoloi, Bor Medhi yearly rental expense becomes Email: [email protected] affordable for NAAM. Also this area must be physically separate from the temple hall, where deities may be kept. c) It is desirable that the rental Naamghar premises will have an auditorium with a performing stage for us to rent separately for the days when NAAM would Page | 2 ABSTRACT OF THE TALK, “SPIRITUAL HUMANIST SRIMANTA SANKARDEVA” BY DR. SANJIB KUMAR BORKAKOTI Srimanta Sankaradeva was a great Srimanta Sankaradeva was a pioneer in polymath, who contributed in numerous the entire world in using cultural tools like plays disciplines. He created a new religious order for proselytizing work. He was the first named Eka Sarana Nama Dharma, which had playwright in all modern Indian languages. He many distinctive features. It addressed socio- used the language of the common people to economic issues in addition to religious ones convey his message about Ishwara even though from the beginning of its emergence. There were he was a great Sanskrit scholar. Moreover, he many elements of reform in that order. used ethnic ingredients in costumes used by the Education for women and people in the lowest characters of his plays known as Ankiya plays. echelon of the society were some of the clarion All his works were targeted at bringing together calls by the Saint. Ethics and educational people of different caste and ethnicity. The contents constitute a large part of his writings. literary and cultural contributions by Srimanta Srimanta Sankaradeva had his own Sankardeva brought all ethnic groups together, religious philosophy. He equated Brahma and thus creating the modern Assamese society. So, Ishwara which was a revolutionary hypothesis. he is known as the father of Assamese society. He said that Ishwara exists in every being and Srimanta Sankaradeva created the hence one should see everyone as manifestation institution known as Than or Sattra, which is of God. Obvious corollary of it was to shun equivalent to a monastery, the Namghar being violence of all types, which he categorically its central component. More than religious stated. He forgave even his adversaries. He activities, this institution included activities like asked his followers not to hate the non- addressing socio-economic and even legal believers. His vision encompassed the entire issues faced by the society. He was a pioneer in humanity and was not restricted to people of local area administration too. Thus, the any geographical region. He was a global citizen institutional structure of his religious order, the in the true sense. Eka Sarana Nama Dharma, also highlighted Srimanta Sankaradeva was a great the emphasis on people rather than on theology humanist. Unlike other religious Guru, he did alone. This multi-faceted institution is the not denigrate human birth or human body. forerunner of community groups like Kibbutz, Rather he treated human body as a perfect tool Commune, etc. The institution of Than or for elevating oneself. He treated the ailing Sattra along with the Namghar are one of the people and was an expert in Ayurveda. He was greatest creations in recent centuries for a married man, and he advised his disciples not integrated development of any society. Only a to shun the world. He eked out his own living, spiritual humanist could successfully unlike other Gurus. This tradition is followed by promulgate and accomplish such a multifaceted the religious heads of his order even these days. religious order. Page | 3 FEATRUED ARTICLE Common socio-economic perspectives of Srimanta Sankaradeva and Guru Nanak By Dr. Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti The holy land of Bharatavarsha, a wider his thought process.2 It is pertinent to note here concept than the present-day India, has seen that whereas Guru Nanak was born in 1469, emergence of many saints and reformers over Srimanta Sankaradeva had been proselytising the milleniums. But there have been very few since 1468 itself, when he initiated eminent who have revolutionized the entire socio- scholar Mahendra Kandali and enacted the economic scenario of their respective regions religious play 'Chihna-Yatra'.3 together with religious movements, like The similarity between Eka Sarana Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva (1449- Nama Dharma and Sikh religion arose as Guru 1568) and Guru Nanak (1469-1539) did. The Nanak had his spiritual guidance from Srimanta social systems maintained by the subscribers of Sankaradeva. There were meetings between Srimanta Sankaradeva’s Eka Sarana Nama them several times, the first being during Dharma as well as Guru Nanak’s Sikh religion Srimanta Sankaradeva’s first pilgrimage in are quite distinct from the other socio-cultural 1481-1493, when Guru Nanak was in the age milieu prevalent in the sub-continent of period 12-24 years. Guru Nanak entered Bharatavarsha. Both the orders are seriously into the realm of spiritualism almost characterized by absence of the malaise faced by after this time, being influenced by Srimanta the other orders in this sub-continent. There is Sankaradeva. He again came to meet Srimanta no caste difference, no priest community, no Sankaradeva, this time in Assam in 1505.4 It was hierarchy among the devotees, no disparity therefore that Sikh religion is so similar to Eka among the devotees while distributing offerings Sarana Nama Dharma, because the latter and no parasitic dependence on the society at emanated from the former.
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