Ram Charit Manas a book which you can find in every hindu’s house (in north especially). And i am not the exception, we also have an edition of the same. I have been listening verses of this great book since childhood. I remember my grand grandfather use to read it every day and me along with other children of my village sit beside him to listen, not to get enlightened but to get Prasad after the sermon. I always heard this as a story blended with fantasy and fiction and excellent use of imagination. I never took any religious story seriously and my family had and has no problem with that. I accept here that i am not a theist or an atheist but yeah i consider myself as an Agnostic. I am not comfortable with dogmas, rather i use my curious mind to analyse it rationally and come to conclusion. I was never judgemental after the climax of the story. I tried asking people why Ravana abducted Sita. The answers which i got were funny and impractical. Every one said that Ravana was a demon and that was his job to do evil things. When i asked them about Surpanakha being assaulted by Laxman and Ram both, they preferred to remain silent.
It is said that person who wins the war writes the history. Don’t you think that Ram Story is also the example of the same. I have heard that Ravana was a great philosopher and highly learned person, so how a highly learned person can do a fool’s job??? May be we don’t or we are not allowed to think so deep because that can raise finger on the deity itself. I am not criticizing any group, simply i am presenting my doubts. One thing that i learned from this book is that “all that glitter is not gold”. I am thankful to my family that they encouraged me to think out of the box and always corrected me whenever i went too rational. I guess that this is my religion which permits me to think beyond dogmas and allows me to cross the regional boundaries.
I am a simple living boy and i get least fascinated by the mysteries of God. It is said that if you will criticize your religion you will land nowhere but in hell. But i believe in simple theory: whis is called Charvak Siddhanth
“Yavat jivet sukham jivet rinam kritwa ghritam pibet
Bhasmibhutasya deshaysa punarAgamanaH kutaH?”
Sounds great...as you are trying your hand on prose writing these days...
ReplyDeleteThe corrected Charvak's verse however is as follows:
यावत् जीवेत सुखं जीवेत ऋणं कृत्वा घृतं पीबेत
भस्माविभूतस्य शरीरस्य पुनरागमनं कुतः
जब तक जियें सुख से जीयें कर्ज लेकर देशी घी (तब देशी घी ही होता था :) } पियें ...
एक बार शरीर के भस्म होने पर फिर कौन लौटा है -अर्थात पुनर्जन्म नहीं होता ....
This should not be confused with hedonism of west which advocates philosophy of eat drink and be merry ....in Charvak's case the verse was to guide those poor people who were being exploited in the name of God and rebirth and were told to face miseries if they don't pay their debts....and if a loan remained unpaid it was to be paid after rebirth or was destined to face many tortured in Hell. Charvak awakened people against these superstitious popularized by vested interests . And the verse is just an example of campaign of that great thinker!
अंग्रेज भी हमारा इतिहास कबाड़ कर चले गये, पहले उसे ठीक करते हैं।
ReplyDeleteहमारे देश की यह अद्भुत विलक्षणता है कि यह आपको अपनी मान्यताओं के अन्धानुकरण को बाध्य नहीं करती. बस किसी चीज की सकारात्मक व्याख्या आवश्यक है. अरविन्द जी का मार्गदर्शन आपको मिल रहा है, यह काफी बड़ा सौभाग्य है आपका, जो उनकी ऊपर की टिप्पणी से भी स्पष्ट है. एक स्वतंत्र और परिशोधित विचार को आगे बढ़ाने की जिम्मेवारी आपके ऊपर भी है. शुभकामनाएं.
ReplyDeleteवैसे अपने ब्लौगर स्वरुप को हमसे अबतक छुपाये रखने में काफी सफल रहे थे आप ! :-)