'OH GOD'

'OH GOD'

Life is an ocean

I don't know navigation

Give me strength 'Oh God'

To withstand nature's provocation

Guide me to pass through

Winds and waves, heat and chill

Rocks and reefs, bends and bars

Pits and falls, boosts or hikes

For my journey you are the admin

For my fettle you are the vitamin

CHERUKU RAMA MOHAN RAO

ISLAM (A small prelude)

ISLAM (A small prelude)

Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.

This information has really nothing to do with what I tried briefly to say. But one thing this little passage reveals that the knowledge of real history is more important for a common man to know about his past, may be greatness may be weakness but a blunt reality. Concocted and fictitious or distorted versions of history makes the people meek, sheepish or subdued. Hence knowing history can never be a sin.

I would like to bring about a little information I read here and there, now and then.

It might come as a stunning revelation to many that the word ‘ALLAH’ itself is Sanskrit which I came across long ago from a book written by a foreign author. But to my surprise I read somewhere that In Sanskrit language Allah, Akka and Amba are synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. As such the term ‘ALLAH’ stands for goddess Durga, also known as Bhavani, Chandi or the likes. The Islamic word for God is., therefore, not an innovation but the ancient Sanskrit appellation retained and continued by Islam. Allah means by and large we can treat as mother goddess.

One Koranic verse is an exact translation of a stanza in the Yajurveda. This was pointed out by the great research scholar Pandit Satavlekar of Pardi in one of his articles.

[Note: Another scholar points out that the following teaching from the Koran is exactly similar to the teaching of the Kena Upanishad (1.7).

The Koran:

"Sight perceives Him not. But He perceives men's sights; for He is the knower of secrets, the Aware."

Kena Upanishad:

"That which cannot be seen by the eye but through which the eye itself sees, know that to be Brahman (God) and not what people worship here (in the manifested world)."

A simplified meaning of both the above verses reads:

God is one and that He is beyond man's sensory experience.

The identity of Unani and Ayurvedic systems shows that Unani is just the Arabic term for the Ayurvedic system of healing taught to them and administered in Arabia when Arabia formed part of the Indian empire.

It will now be easy to comprehend the various Hindu customs still prevailing in West Asian countries even after the existence of Islam during the last 1300 years. Let us review some Hindu traditions which exist as the core of Islamic practice.

A manuscript of the Koran found buried away in a Birmingham library is more likely than not the oldest known direct record of the Prophet Mohamed's teachings, according to an expert at the university where it was discovered.

Carbon dating revealed last month that the four delicate pages of script etched on animal skin were at least 1,370 years old, potentially making it the oldest partial copy of the Koran in the world.

Speaking to The Independent, Birmingham University’s Professor of Christianity and Islam, David Thomas, said the tests tell us the animal from which the parchment for the Koran was made was alive between 568 AD and 645 AD.

“It would mean that the Koran existed substantially as it has been passed down before Mohamed – before the traditional date of the beginnings of his revelations, or maybe even before he was born.”

This information allows us to think about existence of Islam even prior to Prophet Muhammad but albeit he was instrumental to preach and propagate and proliferate Islam.

RAVINDER KAUSHIK THE 'BLACK TIGER'

 Ravinder Kaushik, the hero of this factual story, was just 23 when he first went undercover for RAW. Follow his story.

Kaushik is regarded as India's best spy to ever penetrate the ranks of the Pakistan army. Kaushik loved theatre and performing characters as a teenager and that's how RAW spotted him. It is said that Kaushik had learned Urdu, acquainted himself with Muslim religious texts and the terrain of Pakistan during his training. He underwent circumcision also in the process.

He was sent to Pakistan with a new name- Nabi Ahmed Shakir, with all his records in India destroyed. He  completed his LLB from Karachi University after penetrating into  Pakistan and joined Pakistan Army and became a commissioned officer. Eventually, he was promoted to the rank of a Major. On the personal front, Shakir married a girl named Amanat, and became father of a girl.

From 1979 to 1983 he passed on critical information to the Indian defense forces which were of great help. Because of the valuable information being sent by Nabi Ahmed he became famous as 'The Black Tiger' in Indian defense circles, a name conferred by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi herself.

As per a report in The Telegraph, when another officer from RAW was sent in the name of  Inyat Masiha, to get in touch with him, inadvertently blew his cover to the Pakistani forces upon interrogation in September 1983. He was sentenced to death in 1985 for spying but the punishment was later reduced to life imprisonment.

Kaushik was tortured for two years at an interrogation centre in Sialkot, jailed in Mianwali for another 16 years and was left to die. In November 2001, Kaushik succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease and died in the New Central Multan Jail. He was buried behind that jail.
Jai Hind

KARMA - ACTION

KARMA - ACTION

Spare a little time and think for a while about action(Karma). Don't you feel that 'Action' is the insignia of life. Can you think of a fraction of a second yourself abstaining from any sort of action? Impossible. For that matter even remaining static is also an 'action'.

We can compare action with water of a perennial 'Ganga' river which will not laze till culminates into the sea. No impediments,no hindrances, no hurdles can stop its flow till it reaches its destination viz. the sea. So many impurities join with it. Still it remains pure. It has a purpose and it will not rest till it attains its resolution or commitment. That should be the attitude. The more the brisk your commitment the more perfection you get in your action.

Having come into the world with so many 'Vasanas'(Desires) and various permutations and combinations of 'Trigunas(Satwa,Rajas,Tamas)'

we are destined to do our KARMAS (Deeds) good or bad. The control and concentration of our MANAS (No equivalent in English) can help us move in the right direction. This can be attained by YOGA(Not the one on which we spend thousands or lakhs of rupees for want of health,beauty or tranquility.) It is a sincere effort to connect 'Self' to God.

Instead if you want remain as water in a pond with less action or no action, sooner or later you will become filthy,dirty coupled with foul smell. A stagnant water personifies inert, static or actionless person who is useful neither to himself nor to the society.

Bhagwan in Gita says:

na hi kascit ksanam api

jatu tisthaty akarma-krt

karyate hy avasah karma

sarvah prakrti-jair gunaih (Chapter3- Shloka5)

All men are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses born of the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment.

Hence let us dedicate to do good.

Swasti.

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.