Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Satish Chandra and Santiniketan (contd-27)

On 17th May, 2003, Rabindranath wrote to Satish Chandra from Almorah,
"Now, I'm reading a book titled Human Personality and its survival after death written by Myers. I became deeply absorbed in the pshychological analysis of the book. The peculiarity is this that I,too, expressed such ideas in my poetry in different lines. I have touched in different ways the unreachable souls and  untouchable senses. In most of the cases I didnot consciencely wrote such words, It was my innerself that did it through my hands.He didn't make me aware."
This effort of innerself is visible even today.
Rathindranath and Santosh Chandra remained in Santiniketan during Summer vacation. This time they became very close to Satish Chandra. By this time Rathindranath acquired some brilliancy in  Bengali, English and Sanskrit. He wrote,
" During day time Satish Chandra taught us Kalidas and Shakespeare keeping all doors and windows closed. The method of his teaching was such that hardly we feel, we are studying a difficult lesson. In the summer vacation they used to lie down in the open sky in the night and many nights were passed to hear different Kabya from Satish Babu. He was reciting poetries so passionately and undauntedly that the inner neaning of the poetry became open before us, even if the poetry was a very difficult one.The literary senses Satish  Roy gave us  was unlimited. We became astonished to think how much our mind were overwhelmed with the feeeling he poured into our mend were very difficult to express. We remained indebted to him for our life long.      
Rabindranath's mind was full of managing the school perfectly well. He wrote to Satish Chandra on 7 June, 2003,
' the routine you have sent to me seems to be burden on your shoulder. In such a case you will not be able to manage. You need at least one teacher. No problem, if you don't get a engineering student at present. you try to find a suitable teacher. Otherwise you will be in difficulty.If you don't get Nagendra Babu, try to to find Narendra Babu'.
Rabindranath's respect on Satish Chandra was the reason of his thought. Rabindranath was moved by reading "Duyo Rani" written by Satish Chandra and published in Bangadarshan in Jaishtha, 68-72 issue. At the request of Rajendra lal Mitra Satish Chandra wrote this. Rabindranath in later days wrote a drama, Chandalika and a dance drama of the same title baased on this plot, The Sanskrit Budhist Literature of Nepal. He wrote Satish Chandra,
"You are not meant for teaching only. You are to read, write and think. You should not spoil your ownself". In this way Rabindranath encouraged him for his improvement.
Ajit Kumar Chakraborty passed a few days in Santiniketan with his friend Satish Chandra.