In Indian Civilization The word "self" has a deep meaning hidden in the struggle for Indian independence and freedom . It is not limited to freedom or liberation but is also linked to self-reliance, self-respect and cultural identity. When India revolted against foreign rule, it was not just freedom from external control but a journey to re-establish the identity of its "self" . This article will try to understand the role of "self" in the Indian freedom struggle and its wider implications.
The first book written in Hindi was written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. It is considered Satyarth Prakash. He was from Gujarat. Hindi should be the language of India. Mahatma Gandhi, who propounded this idea, was from Gujarat. Lokmanya Tilak was from Maharashtra. Kanhaiyalal Manik Lal Munshi was also from Gujarat.
Kshama Prasad Mukherjee was from Bengal. Gopalas Swami Hangarjeet was from Tamil Nadu. And the Pandit ji who opposed was from Uttar Pradesh. Otherwise that problem would have been solved in a better way long ago. And it is not just a matter of Hindi. All Indian languages have the element of self in them. We also have the form of war. Which our sages and saints have mentioned in the Mahabharata. So I try to establish a connection of this with the subject of language.
What thoughts does language bring to our mind and how does it take us away from our self? And how does that self get established through languages? Like we just described war, you all must have heard the saying. Everything is fair in love and war. And if it is translated in Hindi or in an Indian language, then it is said that everything is fair in love and war.
But I want to say that neither war is a Hindi or Indian word, nor love is an Indian word, nor is it a legitimate Indian word. In any Indian language, be it Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi or Bengali, you would never have heard such a saying that everything inappropriate is appropriate in love and war. Because this is not the element of our language. For us, love is a symbol of sacrifice and war was a religion. People either attain something in love. So, the one line which someone had written in the next seems very apt to me.
Love in Indian civilization, love when it succeeds and fails.
Nowadays, a great love is arising in young boys and girls. Now it has two results. If it is achieved, then it becomes like a state, i.e. like the intoxication of alcohol. And if it is unsuccessful, then it becomes a cup of bitter juice of experiences. But he wrote that what was love in our Indian tradition?
Those for whom love is a bitter cup of experience will
Those who are patients of love are hypnotic intoxication.
I was astounded and discovered the final secret,
I became an offering and saw that this is the flame of the sacrifice of love.
So this was the case with us, even today many people are seen burning in flames. They are seen burning in their posters. But I would like to tell them that we burn but with what force we burn is beyond your understanding. Because we heard that song in the branches in our childhood. And further there is a mention of Burning.
We are followers of Keshav, we have learnt to expand.
Brothers wander in the darkness, restlessly suffering without a Path
Becoming a lamp to show the path, we have learnt to burn bit by bit.
When the war between Karna and Arjun is taking place.
Now the war which he propounded, what was the religion of war? How is the importance of Indian civilization Independence established through war? I want to give an example. He mentioned the war of Mahabharata. There is an incident in Mahabharata when the war between Karna and Arjuna is taking place, then the king of snakes Vishva Sen reaches Karna's chariot and goes into his quiver and says that Arjun is as big an enemy to me as yours. Just let me ride on your arrow and reach Arjun's chariot and I will bite him and finish him off. My revenge will also be complete and your enemy will die.
But everything is fair in love and war. Those who believe in the saying that everything is fair in war should understand what Karna replies. There is a lot of truth in what Karna says. He says that with your help I will easily win. But how will I face the coming humanity?
The next line is more important. Which says the essence of Indian tradition. It has all the truth. He says Arjun is my enemy but he is not a snake but a man. The struggle is not eternal, the enmity is for this life only. When we believe in rebirth then the religion becomes different. So he says what will be the meaning of the next life, if I spoil the country. Going to the shelter of snakes and becoming a snake why should I mar the man. Go and run, Manoj's natural enemy cannot make friendship with me. I cannot put this stigma on my head for anyone. And this is not just in our words but in real history.
War was not a matter of survival or killing, it was his independent dharma.
When the Portuguese came to Kerala, Padmanabh Menon has written in his book History of Kerala that when the kings of that place talked to the Portuguese about war, they were saying exactly the same thing. They said, brother, the war will take place in a separate field and we will play drums during the war. Then after that, the war will begin with you. No common man will be killed. And when he explained the whole topic in this manner, the Portuguese thought that he was talking about war or some game.
And it is not just this, there was Colonel James Stud in Rajasthan in North India. We do not agree with everything that he said in Analysis and Activities of Rajasthan. But he wrote one thing that for the Hindu kings of India, it seems that war was not a question of life or killing. They used to take it as a tournament of display of power. And they did not kill anyone.
And in the end, after getting victory, they used to leave. This was the religion of war in our country, it was Bharatiya Swatantrata. That is why you will say that this was reasonable history. Come to modern history, today the Indian army is one of the most active armies of the UN Peace Keeping Force. This is not that important. The important thing is that the Indian army which goes to the UN Peace Keeping Force, no human rights cases come against it. More cases come against other armies. Because they are based on the decorum of war.
How much is the sense of self in our independence in Indian civilization.
When we try to understand the self, then first of all, as mentioned in Bharatiya Swatantrata. We got independence but how much sense of self is there in our Bharatiya Swatantrata. And in the system, first of all all the three senses or the lack of sense of self started from there. We were told that we were never a country. At one time other people came and settled here and this nation of ours kept on forming. I remember in my childhood when Rajiv Gandhi ji was the Prime Minister. People might remember that there used to be a show on Doordarshan.
Again and again, after every programme, a couplet was recited. Sir, on the land of Hindustan, the wandering caravans of the world kept settling in the aqua and Hindustan kept getting formed. As if we were strangers, we had met someone, we were afraid and people started coming and settling there. And Hindustan kept getting formed.
It is not the feeling of this moment, what is the feeling of our self. Like in a line of famous Hindi poet Jaishankar Prasad, I say that this is the nature of our nation. First in the courtyard of the Himalayas, giving it the gift of rays, Usha welcomed us with a smile. And adorned it with a diamond necklace. We woke up and started awakening the world, then light spread in the world. When the great mass of the sky was destroyed, the entire culture became Ashoka. So we gave knowledge to the entire world from here. That was our nationalism, that was our self element. So first was the self element of the state, second were we, this country?
Indian civilization, Indians should know what India actually is.
Many people say, brother, what is India? I read a book, it says that Indian Civilization is not a geographical entity, you will say, it is much finer and softer than that, so what is finer and softer than that, a historical entity, they say, no it is finer and softer than that, it is much finer than cultural, no it is much finer than that, then it is religious, no it is much finer than that, then it is spiritual, no it is more finer than that, so people ask what is more final than this spiritual. So it is said that this spirituality is more final because like when two nuclei meet each other. In the formula of nuclear bomb, two nuclei combine and form helium from two hydrogen atoms.
When the Sun is formed from that, a massive explosion takes place and because of this, those radioactive waves become present in that area. Similarly, he said that in this country, over thousands of years, thousands of people have succeeded in fusing their soul with the God. And the waves of that massive explosion are present on this earth. If you go and understand this, then only you will be able to know what this nation is. And you will be able to feel its self, otherwise you will just see the building and go away. So, when we talk about the self essence of that Bharatiya Swatantrata and how it gets established in the entire world. When India got independence, when the construction of Somnath Temple was discussed and what Sardar Patel said.
In Indian civilization, there should be completeness in one's thoughts and nature.
That whenever Indian civilization has become independent, the towers of Somnath have touched the sky. India became independent of both the countries on 15th August 1947 but I am saying one thing, this is not what I am saying, it is someone else's saying so no one should take it otherwise. He wrote in an article published in Sunday Tribune, England on 18th May 2014 that 16th May 2014 should be considered as the day in which the British finally left India.
Because he said that for a very long time after that, such ideologies and systems ruled which represented the British colonial legacy. For the first time, power has come in the hands of such an ideology, which is not influenced by any British colonial legacy and which is completely Indian in its thinking and nature.
When we bow our heads with reverence.
So they agreed and see what happened when the British finally left, Somnath was built near 1948. And then the corridor of Kashi Vishwanath was built. Then the flag of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi was hoisted. When the corridor of Kashi Vishwanath was built. Which was inaugurated by the Prime Minister.
What many people said. What was the need to build it. What is the benefit to the country from this thing. See, when you bow your head with reverence at Somnath, then that feeling of reverence automatically gets connected to Kashi Vishwanath. So when Somnath was built, then Kashi Vishwanath had to be built. And not only this, when you bow your head with reverence at Kashi Vishwanath, then the feeling gets connected with Amarnath in the north as well. It gets connected with Rameswaram in the south as well. It gets connected with Somnath in the west. It also connects with Mallikarjuna in the east. And not only this, it gets connected with Pashupatinath in Kathmandu as well.
The continuous creation and destruction of the universe is like the cosmic dance of Shiva.
It connects with Katsarai in Pakistan. It also connects with Kailash Mansarovar. That part of ours, wherever the political scene may have gone, the consciousness of this nation remains unbroken. And if you people want to check it then you can do it even now. There are tombs of Genghis Khan and all those of Mongolia. If you go and see the photos of them, there is a trident placed outside them. And there is also a horn outside the tomb. Why, if you ask anybody about history what was the religion of Mongolia, they will say Tedrin. Tedrin was nothing but Tedrin, the corrupt form of the word Tantra. And the deity of Tantra is Lord Shankar. That is why we have placed a trident outside the tomb, our Indian civilization feelings connect till there. The self of Bharatiya Swantantra is there too.
And that's not all, just now the world has reached the HIT Boson; the laboratory in which the HIT Boson was discovered was the San Laboratory of Europe. And if you go to the lobby of the San Laboratory, there is a statue of Nataraja, the dancing Lord Shankar, placed there. And below which the Austrian scientist has again written the code of the camera. (Now the Science has concluded that the constituent perpetual creation and destruction of the Universe is like the Cosmic dance of Shiva.) Now the Science has concluded that the continuous creation and destruction of the Universe is like the cosmic dance of Shiva.
So this is how we go and connect with the world. And all our gods and symbols, as the honorable said, we go towards the inner journey. Why do we go towards the inner journey? And what difference does it make if we go?
Indian civilization: There is no revolution in this country, there is Sankranti in this country.
Because of that, what difference does it make in our administration, society and diplomacy. Here, when the sun moves from Dakshinayan to Uttarayan, what is that called? It is called Sankranti. But if we look at politics, then all the big countries of the world, we must have read in history that in every country there has been a revolution definitely once or the other. We read about the Chinese revolution. The Russian revolution, the French revolution. The British revolution, the American revolution. But among the big countries, India is the only country where there has never been a revolution. Why, because revolution happens where everything has to be obtained from the outside. Everything has to be searched in the material.
But when we travel within, when the flow of our mind is downward, whenever you meditate, you will see that your attention does not go towards positive things. It goes towards negative things. If there is no pressure of dignity and rules on a human being, then he runs like the fifth tendency. That is, he collects whatever he wants for happiness by force. When our downward flow becomes upward, then what happens inside us is Sankranti. Therefore, there is no revolution in this country, there is Sankranti in this country. Continued...
Part 1:- Indian civilization's independence and self-reliance?
Part 2:- Indian spirituality will return when you will recognise it.
Part 3 :- Indian science, spiritual and foreign mentality.
Part 4:- Indian culture is the source of scientific thoughts, for the whole nature.
Part1:- Bharat ka swatantrata aur swadhinata ka swo kya hai ?
Part2:-Bharatiya Adhyatmikta Bapsi hoga Jab swo ku Pehechanenge.
Part3:-Bharatiya Baigyanikata, Adhyatma aurVideshi Manasikata.
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