What makes us Aryans? Every act of misuse of treasure of
Mother Earth is an insult to Her .
Education must come
second to civic sense. Have sadly observed, Parents of children while dropping
their young wards to school, loosely throw wrappers(anything, which is of no
use to them). Multiply this activity, many times over, that's garbage. Have
heard arguments, like, "when they can do it, why not I?" Coming back
to such parents, what teaching do such children get? That, it's OK nay our
right to litter in public property. India is busy churning out literates with
civic sense-Nil.
Of late, much emphasis is laid on English schools. Do not
understand the
logic. Do the children in English schools have more civic sense?
Dont "educated" people have some civic obligation to
politely explain to those
uneducated not to litter around? If they turn their faces away
in disgust,
is the purpose of "their education" achieved?
In general, Indians did and still do worship the five elements
(earth,
water, fire, wind and space); cobras; various plants (tulasi,
neem, sacred
fig); natural rock formations; ancestors and local deities.
Worship can be
conducted in accordance with Vedas and other scriptures or
through
traditional methods passed down orally.
A good example of the result of traditional beliefs and the Vedas is the
Tamil goddessMaari Amman. Maari translates
to rain and Amman stands
for mother goddess, she was worshipped in
idol form with offering of oil lamps, flowers, devotional songs,
gruel,
turmeric, kumkumam and neem leaves after being bathed with
water,
milk and turmeric and adorned with a saree, mostly by
priestesses. Karagattam, a dance form in which
participants carry pots of
water on their heads was also developed to appease the
goddess. She was
the goddess of rain, as that was the most important thing for
early
agricultural Tamil societies. As the Vedas came about, the lone
goddess
Maari Amman became associated with Parvathi, the female consort
of
Sivan, and today in Maari Amman temples everywhere, she is now
seen as
the consort of Sivan and is even married off to him every year
around the
time of the Gowri Viratham. Her priestesses, kummi
paatu (upbeat
Tamil devotional songs), offerings of neem and gruel
Shantanoo Patel, History is nothing but connecting
little stories with logic & Re-thinking them
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They were used to worship very basic
things like the things which were
providing them life.
They were used to worship water, sun, fire, sea, wind,land(currently which
are sources of renewable energy)
and in humans they were worshiping
Parents, Grand parents and their teachers
(Gurus and Acharyas).
samudra
vasane devi sloka
sanskrit
slokas on environment
sanskrit
slokas on environment with meaning in hindi
sanskrit
slokas on nature with meaning
sanskrit
slokas on trees
sanskrit
slokas on nature with meaning in hindi
poem
in sanskrit on nature
Are there
any other religions which give due importance to nature?
Ancient Indians,
people who lived in Indian
peninsula lived
life based on Dharma
(righteousness). This
practice continues even till
today. The world
Hinduism was coined by
Greeks, Persians
who invaded India from West
after
crossing Sindhu (Indus River). India is
still governed by
Sanatana Dharma, a dharma
that exists from
times immemorial. The vast
paraphernalia of
various cultures, practices and
beliefs in the
Indian peninsula is now called
Hinduism religion
primarily a way of life.
In the erstwhile Bharatvarsha (now India)
people prayed,
worshipped as per means
available. Similar
is the predicament today. If we
go into
interiors of India where communities
cannot afford
building a temple, we would find
people worshipping
various rivers, mountains
or the sacred
banyan tree even now. The
practices remaining
the same only the name of
the conglomerate
changed. The amalgamation of
different cultures,
practices and beliefs is now
collectively
grouped under umbrella of
Hinduism.
The practices of Hinduism are the ancient in world. Nothing existed before
coming of Hinduism religion.
"Dharma"
... "Your right to do what is just and
right and not what
was destined" is that cosmic
power that
indirectly governs life of every single
human being on
mother earth. In absence of
dharma (righteousness)
nothing living in
cosmos
could survive. It
is dharma that prompted
human beings from
within to believe in powers
of nature. With
time people in India started
worshipping various
forms of gods and
goddesses including
air, water, sun, moon,
planets, most
rivers and mountains etc.
The power of air became Vayu Devta, that of
rains God Varuna.
Sun and moon were called
Sun God and Chandra
Devta. As the belief
accordingly the
manifestation! Nothing was
based on hearsay or
simple belief. Various sages
and saints of
yesteryears deeply contemplated
on these
cosmic precepts of life before offering
obeisance to all
these gods and goddesses. Every
precept of life is
explained in Hinduism. Rishis
of yester era
(highly evolved sages)
contemplated
and wrote many
treatises (termed Upanishads)
to explain various
fundamentals of Hinduism,
life.
Right from stage of big bang when God
Almighty
(Brahman in
Hinduism) exploded self to form
present cosmos to
stage of complete dissolution
of cosmos (Pralaya
in Hinduism) all is detailed in
scriptures of
Hinduism. All these scriptures of
Hinduism existed
before any religion came into
being. Primarily
worshipping, praying is only a
religious
phenomenon, essence of life always
laying elsewhere in
Hinduism. Hinduism
precepts say we
were primarily a spiritual
being... a soul
atman, the spirit within on its
cosmic life cycle
of 8.4 million manifestations.
By indulging in contemplation,
path of logical
reasoning we can
become a pure soul atman in
the cosmic journey
of life, reach stage of
enlightenment
(kaivalya jnana) forever. This
belief existed even
in times of Prince Rama
when enlightened
sages like Yajnavalkya existed.
The timeline
of Prince Rama is above 5000
years BC.
We blame the civic authorities. We allow the garbage to accumulate and then
complain that they dont clear it! The young India is not
"Useless" BUT "USED LESS
