Bhabanagara Sadhusongo
Every week on Wednesday the young group of Bhabanagara Foundtion, called Bhabanagara Sadhusongo organize a public gathering for safeguarding the cultural heritage. The young group of the Bhabanagara Sadhusongo every month travel rural level and arranged workshop for revival ancient Bengali Buddhist mystic songs called Charyapada/Charyageeti and safeguarding the culture, sometime young team of Bhabanagara Sadhusongo try to psychologically motivation for safeguarding the culture.
What is Bhabanagara Sadhusongo
Bhabanagara defines that the people who are creative thinkers and usher peaceful way of being successful human being by force of knowledge and contribute to positive evolution of civilization, enrich diversified explanation of life and nature, philosophy, political ideology, anthropology, history, science, architecture, ascetic austere practices etc. In this respect, we consider all of the universal wises like Aristotle, Plato, Fakir Lalon Sain, Iswar Chandra Bidyasagar, Hroproshad Shastri, Rabindranath Tagore, Abdul Karim Sahitybisarad, Ahmed Sharif, Ahmed Safa, Debesh Roy, Gautam Bhadra etc as well as all of the the indigenous spiritual practitioners are the Sadhu. Sadhusongo is a process of studying their thinking and enriching ours. We read out excellent writings, sing and listen to each other. Our 5 stages of the process are : 1. Reading out from scholars pieces, 2. Performance of spiritual songs, 3. Open discussion, 4. Question-Answers and 5. Motivate people to practice Values.
Why Sadhusongo
Due to tremendous development of virtual communication over phone, internet, TV, Skype, whats app etc we are lacking physical contact with one another which affects our interpersonal relationship and fellow felling. Modern science of language reveals that 70% of human language is based on gesture-posture and only the 30% are expressed in words. When do not meet face to face, we lose the warmth of touch and eye-contact to deepen relationship to exchange knowledge. We want people meet face-to-face and this is why Sadhusongo. We want to share not only knowledge and interpretation but also our well and woes.
Dos and Don’ts of Sadhusongo
Nobody is specially invited to Sadhusongo, willing participation is inspired. Taking food, smoking etc during Sadhusongo is prohibited for the sake of participants’ full attention. Any relevant question at any moment is welcomed. Individual Sadhu or the forum jointly may response to raised question. Irrespective of religion, class, cast, profession, education, nationality, sex, economic status etc, equal opportunity of participation is maintained. Sadhusongo is session of practicing tolerance of different opinions.
History of Bhābanagara Sadhusongo
In 12th May 2014, the Organization started Bhābanagara Sadhusongo on every Wednesday of the week with the motto of face-to-face interaction through sadhan samgeet, philosophic, literary and folk culture discussion in the context of ever-changing socio-economic-cultural-scientific and technological trend. Youth group of Bhābanagara along with scholars, academicians and practitioners get together at Sadhusongo that meaningfully contribute to safeguarding of cultural heritage and national and global development perspectives.