Do you love your ‘self’?

Do you love your ‘self’?

What a silly question. If I do not love myself do you think I love you? First of all I love my self then my wife my children my parents my friends and relatives and so on the chain continues. Then what is the care that you take for it? I use branded attire for its elegance, costly scent for fragrance, rich food for its health enjoyment and entertainment for its mirth and so on. Suppose on a rainy day you took out your bike for a warranted ride. While you were going a lorry crossed you and spewed the muddy water on the road by its tiers. Your bike and you were dunked in that. What is your reaction? You will chase the lorry to catch hold of that fellow by accelerating the speed of my bike. I will catch hold and thrash that fellow.

Of course here are two possibilities. Suppose you have to go straight for your task and he turned left at the cross roads. You are already worried and now you are coupled with a dilemma. The other is, as you said you will thrash that fellow. In either case your mind is filled with anger, emotion and worry. But your thought process is more inclined on the external damage. Internally the incident is reacting on your brain, heart, nervous system, on kidneys lever etc. Your anger .with your children, a scuffle with your wife, a disgusting incident, hurting your ego, in the office. All these events make you much much worried. The chemicals used in your body spray may spoil your lungs in the long run.

With all these conditions making revolutions round your head do you think you are taking care of yourself and you love yourself. All these thing ultimately lead you to cancer, diabetes, blood pressure, margin and so on. How much vulnerable you are to your retrogress on the earth you determine.

So loving yourself means taking care of your emotion, your passion for unwanted things and your anger. This will enable you to keep yourself fit on an ongoing basis. There is a small poem in Sumathi Shataka Telugu advising you as to how you should spend your life.

తన కోపమె తన శత్రవు

తన శాంతమె తనకు రక్ష దయ చుట్టంబౌ

తన సంతోషమె స్వర్గము

తన దుఃఖమె నరకమండ్రు తథ్యము సుమతీ!

Your anger is your foe, your tranquility is your guard, your solicitude is your relative, your happiness is your heaven and your melancholy is your sin (Naraka).

Ego is the rout cause of all the evils that affects both the body and mind. You have to shun your EGO of all kinds.

This solely depends on eschewing: 1.your food habits like taking food outside, craziness for junk food, consumption, at home, of over-refined oils and irregular eating habits without proper exercise. This is only possible by self-control. That depends on your meditation and that is more dependent on your Satva guna. That is directly proportional to your day-today and dietary habits. Lessening your rajasic and tamasic qualities make you to think before you resort to do.

Hence when you love yourself you can keep fit to serve your house your society and your country.

Swasti

A MULE (A small story by Cheruku Rama Mohan Rao)

A  MULE (A small story)

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                          I saw a mule in the forest. He was standing alone recognised by no one. I got attracted and took him home and started rearing. As he grew up my 'I' started persuading to make use of him. Over a period of time I too succumbed to a feeling to make use than to keep him idle and feed. Now I inured him to bear me and my belongings and take to my destination. Days past and I started treating him only as a domestic animal with no special care. Now he too became totally dependent on me for his food and shelter. He lost all his freedom. I started seeing a slave in him and inclined to treat accordingly with all the apathy of showing any love.   Now, it is here you have to notice me carefully. For anything and everything where I can use him I didn’t spare. If you observe me carefully am I not dependent on him. Am I not a slave of him? I reached a point where I cannot imagine my travel without him. The only difference is I can think and express to my fellow beings but animals cannot think much and can't share their feelings as there breed will be scanty compared to us. With that I established an edge over him. When can I overcome my slavery? Only when I make him independent. That is when I start obliterating my 'Self' or 'Ego'. The more I spread my thinking on this 'Ego' the more I can become friendly with nature that contains you, me, the mule and all the like. The more I develop it the more I am mustering love. Hence love is inversely proportional to Ego. Now you decide whether you want 'Ego' or 'Love'.

He who loveth best can prayeth best

He who prayeth best can liveth best

Swasti.

Cheruku Rama Mohan Rao            

Bengal Tiger Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Bengal Tiger Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee

 

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Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee a Brahmin, a barrister, a scholar Kolkata University Vice chancellor, freedom fighter, A principled person who gave up his portfolio due to differences with the then prime minister Nehru.

There are so many facts related to our country during the struggle for independence. Unfortunately so many facts and exemplary leaders were over shadowed and sent to oblivion under the mammoth image of Gandhiji and some such leaders who were given at most prominence and almost godhood. A great educationalist, a Barrister and founder of Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJP Later on) One such great person who was sent beyond memory is Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Precisely I shall tell how?

3rd June 1947 is birthday of West Bengal!

Abnormal it may sound, but the fact remains that on this day of 1947, after much hardship Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was able to influence the Bengal Legislature to include the Hindu part of Bengal within India!*Bengal provincial Muslim League leader Hossain Sahid Suhrawardy came up with a radical plan to create an independent Bengal state that won’t join either Pakistan or India and remain un-partitioned. Suhrawardy realised that if Bengal is partitioned then it will be economically disastrous for east Bengal as all coal mines, all jute mills but two and other industrial plants will certainly go to the western part since these were in an overwhelmingly Hindu majority area. Most important of all, Kolkata, then the largest city in India, an industrial and commercial hub and the largest port will also go to the western part. Suhrawardy floated his idea on 24 April 1947 at a press conference in Delhi. Md Ali Jinnah very clearly said he will not settle for Bengal, if Calcutta is not given to Pakistan!

The entire Bengal & Assam were in the initial plan of demand for Pakistan! While our Communists found the demand for Pakistan very much justified, the Congress too was almost ready to gift entire Bengal to Pakistan, ignoring the interests of its huge Hindu population.

Calcutta, then the biggest & richest city of India was Jinnah's dream & all Muslims of Bengal were almost sure that it will be given to majority community, as it is their normal right!

The Lion of India (Bharat Keshri), Dr. Mukherjee with a seer propagation of safety and security of Bengali Hindus established the legitimate claim of a separate land of Bengali Hindus within the territory of India, completely excluded from the clutch of communal Pakistan or any blatant conspiracy to suppress Bengali Hindus in the name of a united sovereign Bengal.

Thanks to Dr. SP Mukherjee, for the first time in history, a capital city of a divided state was not given away to the majority. It went to the minority, I.e. to the Bengali Hindus who were a little more than 32% of the total population of undivided Bengal!

Dr. SP Mukherjee saved the lives & dignity of 5 crore Hindus by keeping the western part of Bengal with India! Today, he is almost forgotten in Bengal. He is counted a communalist because he saved Hindus from the hands of death awaiting in Pakistan. What would have been done to Bengali Hindus if entire Bengal would have gone to Pakistan in 1947. It is simple. The same what Hindus faced in Lahore, Karachi and Dhaka in last 70 years. A gradual death and fast vanishing of existence. Never forget this date of history. On this day our future entity was born as a result of hard work of a towering leader - Dr. Shyam Prasad Mukherjee!

Let us at least spread these facts to the posterity. Let the youth know what had happened in the past and how the real heroes are faded out.

Swasti. 

numerals of Sanskrit transformed into various ancient languages

See how the numerals of Sanskrit were transformed into various languages considered to be ancient during a course of time :

 Sanskrit        Zend              Greek         Latin       Gothic

Prat'hama    Frat'hema     prota            Prima           Fruma
Dwitiya         Bitya            Deutera     Altera           Ant'hara
Tritiya          Thritya         Trita           Tertia           Thridyo
Chaturtha     Tuirya          Tetarta        Quarta         Fidvordo
Panchama    Pugdha         Pempta       Quinta         Fimfto
Shasta          Cstva            Hekta         Sexta           Saishto
Saptama      Hapht'ha      Hebdoma    Septima       Sibundo
Ashtama      Astema         Ogdoa       Octava         Ahtudo
Navama       Nauma         Ennota      Nova             Niundo
Dasama       Dasema        Dekata      Decimate      Taihundo

The Tyrant Diaries

From the memoirs of a French adventurer who served at Tipu’s court

FRANCOIS GAUTIER

In December 8, 1988, an old trunk was discovered in the attic of the house of Elaine de la Taille Tretinville, who died at 91 in her 14th arrondissement flat in Paris.  She was a descendant of the family of Les Ripaud Montaudeverts. Among the contents was a manuscript in the hand of the most famous of the Montaudeverts—Francois Fidele Ripaud de Montaudevert. It starts with these words (in old French): “I, Francois Ripaud, am old today, but I want to tell you the true story of Tipu Sultan.”

Born in Saffre, northwestern France, in a middle-class family, Ripaud enrolled as a sailor, aged 11, on the Le Palmier. After many adventures, he settled in Mauritius, where he married and had two children. In 1797, hearing of Le Grand Tipu Sultan, he sailed from Mauritius (then called Ile de France) to Mangalore and sought a meeting with the sultan, promising “to raise a large force in Mau­ritius and put it at Tipu’s disposal”. Tipu, who had an early connection with the French, having been instructed in warfare by French officers in the employ of his father, jumped at the idea and gave Ripaud letters of credential. On August 19, 1798, Ripaud came back to Mauritius and made a proclamation seeking volunteers for an “expedition to travel to Mysore to assist Tipu in his resistance to British encroachment in south India”. It must be noted that, two months earlier, Napoleon had invaded Egypt and dreamt of establishing a junction with India against the British, so the governor of Mauritius received instructions to collaborate and Ripaud was able to sail to Mangalore with a shipload of French soldiers who were welcomed there like heroes.

Life at Tipu’s court was a dream for our hardy adventurer, but he began to have some misgivings. In his diary entry of January 14, 1799, he writes: “I’m disturbed by Tipu Sultan’s treatment of these most gentle souls, the Hindus. During the siege of Mangalore, Tipu’s soldiers daily exposed the heads of many innocent Brahmins within sight from the fort for the Zamorin and his Hindu followers to see.” Even so, he cast his doubts aside and put up for Tipu’s benefit a dem­onstration of the egalitarian political ideas of France: in 1799, a French paper entitled ‘Proceedings of a Jacobin Club formed at Seringapatnam by the French Soldiers in the Corps Commanded by Francois Ripaud’ was found in Tipu’s palace. It listed 59 Frenchmen in the pay of “citizen Tipu” and described a “primary assembly” of May 5, 1797, to elect a president (Ripaud) and other office-bearers. The ‘Rights of Man’ were proclaimed and the sultan formally received a small delegation from the club.

After this interval, we find another diary entry in which Ripaud is appalled at what he witnessed in Calicut (Kozhikode): “Most of the Hindu men and women were hanged...first mothers were hanged with their children tied to their necks. That barbarian Tipu Sultan tied the naked Christians and Hindus to the legs of elephants and made the elephants move around till the bodies of the helpless victims were torn to pieces.  Temples and churches were ordered to be burned down, desecrated and des­troyed. Christian and Hindu women were forced to marry Mohammedans, and similarly, their men (after conversion to Islam) were forced to marry Moha­mm­edan women. Christians who refused to be honoured with Islam were ordered to be killed by hanging immediately.” These events were corroborated by Father Bartholomew, a famous Portu­guese traveller, in his memoir, Voyage to East Indies.

Another diary entry of Ripaud says: “To show his ardent devotion and steadfast faith in the Mohammedan religion, Tipu Sultan found Kozhikode to be the most suitable place. Kozhikode was then a centre of Brahmins and had over 7,000 Brahmin families living there. Over 2,000 Brahmin families perished as a result of Tipu Sultan’s Islamic cruelties. He did not spare even women and children.”

A disgusted Ripaud left Seringapatnam and went back to France, where he obtained captainship of a fine fighting ship, the Shapho.On February 23, 1814, fighting an English frigate, Ripaud had his arm ripped off by a cannon ball. He died the same evening. Even the British, his arch enemies, gave a 21-cannon salute to this brave adventurer, once Tipu Sultan’s ‘Great White Hope’.

EGO

EGO

There was a pot maker in a small village.

Once, during Durga Pooja, he made plenty of idols,

loaded them onto the back of his donkey, and

walked to the town to sell them. On the way, people

would see the idols and fold their hands. The

donkey was nonplussed, but after a while, began

standing still, proudly, whenever people would fold

their hands. This went on till the pot maker reached

the town. By the evening, the pot maker had sold

all his idols and began his trip back to the village.

Whenever someone would pass them, the donkey

would stand still proudly, expecting people to wish

him, but this did not happen. The donkey kept

stopping and wouldn't understand why no one was

paying obeisance to him. The pot maker was

irritated for he couldn't understand the strange

behavior of his donkey. After trying to cajole and

force him to move, the man began beating up the

donkey.

This story applies to all those who carry

bloated egos. We are only carriers, not the object

that we are carrying. Responsibilities are gifted

to all of us by God, but we can only carry those for

some time. Why then, have ego for luggage?

- Anonymous

May be, if I were to lose my ego and let go

my luggage I would be so much happier ! A little

bit of humility and a dose of self realization that

we are all the same, each one has a different ability

and each one has a different responsibility could

make our lives so much more fulfilling.

The name given to you by your parents accompanies you till you depart.The adamantine wall that shuts us in is egoism; we refer every thing to ourselves, thinking I do this,that and the other.If we get rid of this puny I and stick to not I but YOU feel it and live it the entire ego will get dismantled and your movement will be advanced towards HIM.
Age,Ability and Abdication of EGO brings you respect.That accompanies you till the end because you din't aspire for it but you deserved it. That is the tradition and custom of this Dharma.
To be on carpet or to be on velvet or to be under a cloud or to be ill at ease you are not the reason, HE is accomplishing you or testing you and nothing in your hands. The only thing you have is to shun
your EGO and surrender to HIM. He is the right person to give Right Things ar Right Time. To give up the world is to forget the EGO and that will enable you to live in the body and not of it.

So I have decided that I would rather be a human being

than the donkey in the story above.

Better late than never! What about you?

PLEASE HINDUS, DON’T SAY: “ALL RELIGIONS ARE THE SAME”

May 7, 2013 · by MW · in Uncategorized · 140 Comments 

Observations by someone who grew up in the stifling atmosphere of dogmatic Christianity and appreciates the freshness and freedom of undogmatic Hinduism– and wonders why a section of Hindus are so apologetic about their religion when it actually is the best bet for a fulfilling life.

Hindus used to say, “All religions are equal”. They did not want to see that the two biggies, Christianity and Islam, did not agree. Each of those religions claimed for itself, “We alone are the only true religion. Our God is the only true God.” They pitied Hindus that they might actually believe that by stating that all religions are equal, Hinduism would be elevated to their level. Of course, the ‘true religions’ will never allow this.

Now Hindus say, “We respect all religions. We teach it to our children. Our children hear a lot about Christianity and Islam and how good these religions are. We don’t want to offend anyone, so we teach very little about Hinduism and what we teach is only about superficial things, like festivals and customs and not about the deep philosophy and scientific insights which would portray Hinduism in a good light and might irritate other religions.”

Again, Hindus don’t want to see that Christianity and Islam do not respect Hinduism. The clergy of those religions don’t say it into their face, but to their own flock: “Hindus go to hell, if they don’t convert to the true religion. It is their own fault. We have told them about Jesus and his Father or the Prophet and Allah respectively. Still, they are so arrogant and foolish and hold on to their false gods. But God/Allah is great. He will punish them with eternal hellfire.”

 In a variation of “We respect all religions” Hindus also say, “All religions teach the human being to be virtuous and good and lead him to God, the creator. Hindus attend Inter Faith Dialogues and try to find the commonalities. Of course these are there. Hindus try to build on them. “Yes, all religions have good points. Yes, all religions have good people.” They keep repeating that all religions teach goodness, as if to convince themselves. However, deep down, Hindus know that this is not honest and lacks intellectual integrity. They know that Christianity and Islam have gone off track by preaching exclusiveness and hate to their flock. Those religions have encouraged persecution of others and brainwashed otherwise kind human beings into fighting for an imaginary god who supposedly hates all those ‘others’ who don’t believe, what they are told to believe. They have left a trail of bloodshed in history. But Hindus choose to ignore it. ‘Why provoke unnecessarily?’ they might feel, still betraying a psyche wounded by thousand years of oppression.

Is it not time that Hindus call a spade a spade? Swami Vivekananda has said that every Hindu who leaves his faith is not one Hindu less but one enemy more. He said this while India was ruled by the British, and Christians and Muslims were encouraged to feel superior to the “idol worshipping Hindu”. Hindus were not in a position to put the record straight, as their own elite put Hinduism down due to a malicious British education policy. Yet today, 66 years after independence, it is about time to tell the world loudly and boldly what Hinduism is about.

 It is not about ruling the world. It is not about believing in unverifiable dogmas. It is not about being nice to those of one’s own faith and not nice to those of other faiths. But it is about discovering what we really are, apart from the ever-changing body and mind. The ancient rishis have discovered the oneness underlying the apparent multiplicity, long before western scientists did. This conscious, blissful oneness is not somewhere out there. It is permeating everyone (and everything) and can be felt as one’s own essence. This essence can be called by different names, but the main thing is, that it is within everyone and within everyone’s reach. So, we truly are all children of the same infinite divine Presence. We all belong to one big family. Vasudhaiva Kutumbhakam. This truth provides the basis for a harmonious world and it makes sense, or does it not?

by Maria Wirth