NEP2020 is LIP service – Language Imposition Policy.

சொன்னால் விரோதம் ஆயினும் சொல்கிறேன்!

What is the aim of education?

The answer to this is same as “what is the aim of life?” says Peters, a professor of philosophy of education at the University of London. So what is the aim of life? The answer can be spiritual, philosophical or materialistic. In olden days, people were clear about what they wanted in life and based on that gone after the kind of education that was suitable for them. They learned the three Rs (reading, writing and arithmetic) and those after material pursuits learned the hereditary skill in addition.

Where are we today? Today also we need these, the three Rs and skill to support our material progress. So any educational policy of the government must be based on these. Does the newly rolled out National Educational Policy 2020 fulfill this?

The first shocker is the promotion of “Multi-lingualism” at formative years aimed at cutting off ‘Phoren” English but forcing down  “Phoren Hindi, phoren Marathi, phoren Bengali ……and so on” for the child of a different mother tongue.

So, the two of the three Rs are going to be drawn from three different languages, none of them going to be of help to material progress of the child later. Where just one language can do, the government is thrusting three languages for the fault of having born in multi-lingual India.  That one language happens to be English is what troubles the Government. But that language makes my ward expand his frontiers of knowledge is no concern to the Government. That one language enables my ward to present his findings in journals read by reputed scientists around the world is of no concern to the government. What the government wants is to make India “Ek Bharat Sreshtha Bharat” says this link https://taxguru.in/corporate-law/national-education-policy-2020-nep-2020.html

For a concept like this – of promoting Classical languages, regional languages, why sacrifice my ward’s time, youth, aspirations and capabilities? Regional language development is the responsibility of the State governments. Ek Bharat Sreshtha Bharat comes by cultural unity and not by forcing three languages through my ward’s tongue – none of which are going to fill his stomach. It is a lone battle for each child when it comes to choosing the subjects of choice and University of choice in the midst of oppressing  reservation policy which no government is going to do away with.

It is even funny reading the claims of NEP on multiple entry and exit  with certification. What is the cost of it in the job market? Will Tata or Infosys recruit my ward with such certificates? Such entry and exit may have limited use for very less number of people. For the majority, proper streams of subjects learned through the medium that is most valuable in today’s world is the need of the hour. Why many people with professional degree are not able to land up in good jobs but are turned away with the advice to undertake a course in English? This is common sight in Tamilnadu, mainly because it chose a bad education policy tinged with regional language chauvinism. The same is now being promoted by the BJP government at the national level through NEP2020.

The next deception is the claim that the present 10+2 stands scrapped. NEP 2020 proposes 5+3+3+4 curricular structure starting from the age of 3, with 3 years of pre-schooling (one additional year before LKG and UKG) and 12 years of schooling. In what way it is different from 10+2?  With the burden of exams at 3^rd, 5^th and 8^th Grade (Standard in the current system) and Board exams at 10^th and 12^th Grade, it is nothing but the old wine in a new cup. Nothing changes for the kids and their parents. Only additional burden in the form of ‘phoren’ languages of India and a bleak future once the student steps out of school.

The next issue that pops up is whether this policy is applicable to CBSE or all boards. Since education is in concurrent list, I wonder how this can be forced on all States. The claim of “universalization of education” gives a deja vu of ‘uniform syllabus’ introduced by Karunanidhi that killed education in State Board schools of Tamilnadu. It saw a migration to CBSE stream. Now with NEP2020, there is going to be a flight from CBSE to ICSE and international schools. We are going to see a vertical division of the society between haves and have-nots with haves (who can afford the hefty cost of those schools) rising up in the ladder with better access given by English knowledge. 

All those who are against English as medium of instruction are language chauvinists, Hindi belt BJP-ians who struggle to connect with non-Hindi speaking people, think-tanks of foreign origin or think-tanks who made English speaking countries their homes, and who are still awed at Japan, Germany, Russia, China etc for their strides with local languages without blinking an eye on the local conditions. China may curb English, but Chinese want to learn English. I hear from sources how they feel disadvantaged at not being able to promote their researches at the world level. India should not behave like China in language policy. I find either political motives or political leanings among the supporters of NEP2020, but can see none among them a struggling parent for whom education means an investment for future. Definitely the language policy at school and High school is going to stunt their growth and slash their dreams of making it big in life.

I am just fed up with their arguments which are same as the ones I have been hearing right from the 90s. At that time the issue was around English as ‘link language’. The present problem is also because of the same reason - the BJP government not willing to accept English as the link language.

In the place of learning just one link language which can be used within India and outside as well, this Government is forcing three languages from the pool of Indian languages for the tiny tots until 8^th standard. After the 8^th grade there is no way the student can learn the subjects through English. So successfully the BJP government is closing the opportunities for all the students to learn what is happening outside India. I can easily foresee how future-Indians are going to be like – having seen how the Tamil-only- learners have turned out to be now. And BJP wants only such people – the “Nationalists” whose identity lies only in their national tongue which is ultimately going to be Hindi!

Related post:  Leave the language to us, Amit Shah ji

My research paper on Siddhantic concept of the equinoxes offers newer insights to emerging trends in Science on Precession (Part 1)

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A work that I would prefer to call as the magnum opus of my life is now getting published as a series in the reputed astrological magazine founded by Dr. B.V. Raman. Dr. Raman’s contribution to arriving at the rate of Precession is well known to many. I feel honored to have my research paper on the Siddhantic version of precession verified with paleocliamtic data, offering newer insights to recent trends in science on precession, accepted for publication in this magazine after being reviewed by the editorial team.

The paper is published as a multi-part series starting from August 2020 issue of the magazine.

Click here to download the August 2020 issue https://astrologicalmagazine.com/

Recent trends in science:

Certain recent observations in planetary science have raised doubts on the reliability of the luni-solar model of the precession of the equinoxes. A brief account of them is given below:

1.      The earth’s spin axis is no longer precessing, i.e. not moving westward, but had started moving eastward. (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/grl.50552 )

“Around the year 2000, Earth's spin axis took an abrupt turn toward the east and is now drifting almost twice as fast as before, at a rate of almost 7 inches (17 centimeters) a year. "It's no longer moving toward Hudson Bay, but instead toward the British Isles," reports Adhikari who had presented quite a few research papers on this topic. (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6332 )

NASA scientists  have identified three factors influencing the axial drift, namely isostatic rebound of land forms formerly under ice sheets, melting of the ice sheets and mantle convection – each having equal weightage in influencing the axial drift. (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919195906.htm)

The axial drift is therefore guided by internal dynamics of the earth and not by external forces such as luni-solar pull which is the basis for the current theory of precession.

2.      This revelation brings us to the next issue on what happens with the moon in relation to the earth. The moon is receding from us thereby theoretically producing less torque, whereas the rate of precession is found to be increasing which can happen due to greater force on the earth as per luni-solar theory. This contradiction is now being noticed, but when read with the previous point, it is understood that the earth’s axial motion is not influenced by the moon or the sun. Added to this is the fact demonstrated in space station that a gyroscope in zero gravity does not change its orientation come whatever be the disturbance to it. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2016/03/Gyroscopes_in_space  This means earth does not behave like a rotating gyroscope in zero gravity, which is contrary to the current concept that is the basis for the 26000 year cycle of precession.

3.      That there is no precession of the earth is established by the data on lunar cycle equations and eclipse calculations. http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/bri/research/evidence/lunarcycle.shtml The earth completes a full revolution of 360 degrees from one like equinox to another like equinox and is not found short of the proverbial precession amount of 52 arc seconds. Examination of the past data also shows that the spring equinox had occurred on the same Gregorian date (after leap year adjustment) and not drifted. The spring equinox occurs on 21^st March (or 20^th) now and it was on the same Gregorian date in the year 499 CE, at the time of Aryabhata when the tropical equinox coincided with sidereal equinox. (check out Fig 5 in my blog: http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2020/07/mahabharata-date-is-intertwined-with.html )

This means that there is no variation in the dates with reference to the earth in relation to the sun as it circles around the sun. The points of equinoxes and solstices are fixed on the circle of orbit of the earth. What is perceived as precession is the shift noticed in the background frame of reference when the entire circle is moving ahead. This can be possible only if the sun along with the entire solar system is moving in a curved path. Only in that case, there can be absence of precession with reference to sun but presence of precession with reference to a distant star.

Since the rate is increasing now, the researchers hypothesize a binary companion for the sun, with the sun presently moving around the perigee. The implication of this which is not yet grasped by the scientists is that the sun is going to change the direction of its movement by which we will see the equinox moving forward. This forward movement of the equinox after a backward movement is exactly the version of Surya Siddhanta and revealed variously by different authors in the past and expressed by limited shift of the pole stars in the Puranas.

In this backdrop I worked on the Siddhantic concept of precession in comparison with the Milankovitch cycles and checked with paleoclimatic data since the beginning of Last Glacial Maximum. My findings reveal a wavy or a sinusoidal path for the sun with least scope for a binary companion.

This implies that in the next generation simulators based on Siddhantic precession, Arundhati will be seen ‘walking behind’ Vasishtha and Amavasya or Pournami not happening on the “13^th day”, forcing the researchers to learn the basics and start from the basics.

The abstract of my paper gives in a nutshell the contents and the focus of my paper. Request readers to share this paper, discuss and come up with constructive responses, if any.  

Abstract

The current theory of the axial precession of the earth relative to the distant stars resulting in the continuous precession of the equinoxes and the corresponding pole shift in a circle around the zodiac in a cycle of approximately 26000 years is not recognized by the Indic Thought that proposes a short cycle of 7200 years consisting of forward and backward motion of the equinoxes and a corresponding limited number of pole stars spread across the span of the constellation of Ursa Minor, known as Shishumara in Puranas and the Vedic texts. The decipherment of the ‘difficult passage’ of Siddhanta Shiromani reveals the cycle of eccentricity of the earth’s orbit that differs from that of Milankovitch which suffers from ‘100 000 year problem’. The precession cycle of Milankovitch stands disputed by the Surya Siddhantic cycle and the ‘Yuga of Ayana’ of Munjāla and Vishnuchandra that consists of three cycles of equinoxes. The concept of obliquity of Milankovitch absent in Indic Thought is also non- existent in the emerging scientific revelation from lunar data and solar path-based movement that is mistaken as precession of the axial tilt.  The three Indic cycles enumerated from the Siddhantas and checked against the Milankovitch cycles are verified with paleocliamtic data. It is found that the sequence of glacial events since the Last Glacial Maximum match with the mid-point of the Ayana cycle of the equinoxes. The incidence of Dansgaard –Oeschger events that remain unexplained by any current theory are found to match with the Ayana cycles, besides giving credence to the sinusoidal path of the sun that is observed as to and fro motion for an observer on the earth.

Indic Past Series 8: Understanding the application of the Yuga concept.

The series so far:

Part 1: Solving Yayati mystery and Rama’s connection to Chola.

Part 2: Decipherment of Skanda- legends (Vishakha, Deva Senapati and Shura Samhara)

Part 3: Time period of Skanda deduced from climatic descriptions.

Part 4: Zodiac re-designed by Skanda.

Part 5: Skanda, the progenitor of Vedic culture

Part 6: Skanda’s time before Holocene, established through Tamil sources.

Part 7: Mārtānda: The Sun of Younger Dryas and decipherment of the story of Saṃjñā and Chāyā

Part 8: Understanding the application of the Yuga concept.

Part 9: Ancient past until Skanda decoded from the Manvantaras

The 8th part of the Indic Series makes a slight departure from the narrative tracing the development of the Indic past until the time of mini Ice age called Younger Dryas (11,000 years ago) when the planet Saturn was discovered and Vivasvan (the sun) was perceived as Martanda. These two developments place un-challengeable upper limits to the formation of two types of Yuga concepts, namely, the Catur Maha Yuga concept measuring the age of Brahma and the 5-year Yuga concept having practical application in the Vedic society. Therefore these two are discussed along with the Manvantra concept in three episodes before coming back to catch up with where we left.

The current episode gives a brief account on the Catur Maha Yuga concept that it is based on the planetary revolutions expressed in terms of Time and not applicable to human life. As such the view that Ramayana occurred in Treta Yuga lakhs of years ago has no basis. This is supported by highlighting the fact that the Indian landmass was not where it is now when the current Manvantra of Vaivasvata started.

The purpose of the Catur Maha Yuga is further explored by deciphering the dancing posture of Nataraja. The primary utility of the Catur Maha Yuga concept running into lakhs of years is to measure the entire span of space that is one-fourth of the manifest form of Brahman, in terms of time for which the basic unit is taken as the solar year. This concept could have been conceived only after 11,000 years BP (before present), for the very fact that this computation demands knowledge of the five Tara grahas[i] that include Saturn.  

This Yuga concept is also matched with current science on Big Bang. It is found that we are in the 2^nd day of Brahma after the Big Bang event. This concept also reveals that the night kalpa of Brahma started 1.16 billion years before the Big Bang.

This is followed by a discussion on how the knowledge of the fundamentals of this concept is essential for solving some of the tricky issues found in Mahabharata. Four issues are solved using the fundamentals.

1.      The Amanta system has been in vogue ever since the Yuga concept was perceived. As such the origins of Purnimanta system antedates the discovery of Saturn and could be traced to the south of the equator which we will be discussing in a future episode.

2.      The verses of Mahabharata pertaining to sensing the arrival of Kali during the Mahabharata war are not about the computational Catur Yuga concept that is planet based, but about the nature of Time - as adharmic. In such scenario within a short period, any one of the four yugas can be sensed in any order and even found changing quickly from one to another. This will be elaborated in the 10^th episode.

3.      The Rahu- Ketu axis is an essential pre-condition for determining the evidence on an eclipse. This axis comes back to the same signs at the end of 18 years (since they complete one revolution around the zodiac in 18 years). This axis was in Pisces – Virgo at the time of the beginning of the Kali Maha Yuga when all the planets except Rahu congregated at the beginning of Aries. They must have been hovering around the same signs at the time of Mahabharata war that took place on the 36^th year before Kali Yuga began.

Unfortunately most research works on Mahabharata date show this axis in Taurus- Scorpio by wrongly interpreting the 13 day twin lunation as twin eclipses.

4.      How the lack of knowledge of the fundamentals leads to mis-interpretations is demonstrated pictorially the process of the tithi concept. Amavasya can happen starting from 14^th to 15^th tithi or from 15^th to 16^th (technically it is the 1^st tithi otherwise), but never from 13^th 14^th tithi. If that happens it means the moon’s path is shortened which is impossible to happen.

Vyasa (others too including Karna, Krishna, Balarama) was appalled on seeing Amavasya occurring on Trayodashi. He was anxiously watching the next phase which also ended on the 13^th tithi, on the same star as in the previous month. This reduction can be caused by a reduction in the circumference of the orbit of the moon, which has no explanation other than a comet smashing on the moon, almost shaking it temporarily. A similar event shook off the moon in Raivataka manvantra which I will explain in the next episode.

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[i] Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are known as Tara Grahas.

பெண்ணை வர்ணிக்கிறதா கந்தர் சஷ்டி கவசம்?

கந்தர் சஷ்டி கவசத்தைப் பற்றி,கறுப்பர் கூட்டம்  பேசின பேச்சு பலருக்கும் தெரிந்திருக்கும். பேசியவர் இந்து மத வெறுப்பாளர் என்பது மட்டுமல்ல, தமிழறிவு சற்றும் இல்லாதவர் என்பதையும் காட்ட இந்தப் பதிவு

கந்த சஷ்டி கவசம் ஆண், பெண் என இரு பாலாருக்கும் பொதுவானது. இந்தக் கவசத்தைத் துதிப்பவர் எவரோ அவரது தலை முதல் கால் வரை ஒவ்வொரு அங்கத்துக்கும் காப்பு வேண்டும் என்னும் வரிகளில், தன் கறுப்பு (கறை, குற்றம் என்று பொருள்) புத்தியை அந்தக் கறுப்பர் காட்டிவிட்டார்.

“உன் திருவடியை உறுதியென் றெண்ணும்

எந்தலை வைத்துன் இணையடி காக்க

என்னுயிர்க் குயிராம் இறைவன் காக்க

பன்னிரு விழியால் பாலனைக் காக்க”

என்று ஆரம்பிக்கும் வரிகளில், கவசத்தை எழுதிய புலவர் பால தேவராயன் அவர்கள்  தன் தலையில் ஆரம்பித்து, ‘அடியேன் வதனம்’ என்று தனக்காக மட்டுமல்லாமல்  சிந்தை கலங்காது இந்தக் கவசத்தைத் தியானிப்பவர் எவரோ  அவருக்கும் பொருந்துமாறு எழுதியுள்ளார். இந்தக் கவசத்தைத் தியானிப்பவர் பெண்ணாக இருந்தால், அவருக்கும் பொருத்தமாக இருக்க வேண்டும்.

பெண்ணுக்கும் ஆணுக்கும் மாறுபடும் இரண்டே இரண்டு உறுப்புகளைப் பற்றியும் குறிப்பிட வேண்டும். அதைத்தான் அவர் எழுதியுள்ளார்.

கன்னம், கழுத்து, அதற்கடுத்து மார்பு என்று சொல்லும் போது, அங்கு அந்த அங்கம் பெண்ணுக்கு மாறுபடுகிறது. அதை அவர் படர்க்கை பலர் பால் விகுதியுடன் சொல்வதைக் கவனிக்க வேண்டும். சேரிள முலைமார் என்பதில் 'மார்’ என்னும் விகுதி வருவதை பாருங்கள். இது நன்னூல் இலக்கண விதி 140 ஆகும். அண்ணன்மார், தம்பிமார் என்று சொல்வதை போல, முலைமார் என்கிறார்.

கவசத்தைப் பாடும் ஆணின் மார்பை 'ரத்ன வடிவேல்' காக்கட்டும் என்று சொன்னவுடன், இந்த கவசத்தைச் சொல்லும் பெண்ணுக்கும் கவசமாக 'சேரிள முலைமார் திரு வேல் காக்க' என்கிறார்.

சேர் + இளமுலை + மார் (விகுதி).

சேர் என்றால் திரட்சி. 

செந்தமிழ் அகராதி, ந. சி. கந்தையா பிள்ளை

திரட்சியான இளமுலை உடையோர் என்று 'மார்' விகுதியுடன் பெண்களுக்கும் பொருந்துமாறு எழுதியுள்ளார்.இளமுலை என்று மட்டும் எழுதினால் ஆண் , சிறுவர், சிறுமியர் என அனைவருக்குமே  இள முலைக்  காம்பு உள்ளதால், பொருந்தாது. சேர் என்பதன் மூலம், இந்தக் கவசத்தைத் தியானம் செய்யும் பெண்ணுக்கும் பொருந்தும். அதைக் காக்க, 'திரு வேலை' அழைக்கிறார். திரு என்னும் அடை மொழி லக்ஷ்மியைக் குறிப்பதால், பெண்ணுக்குச் சொல்வதில் பொருத்தமாகிறது.  

வயிறு, இடை ஆகியவற்றுக்குப் பிறகு 'ஆண் குறி இரண்டும் அயில் வேல் காக்க' என்கிறார். ஆணுக்கு ஒரு குறிதானே. இங்கு இரண்டும் என்று சொல்வதன் மூலம், ஆண் குறி, பெண் குறி என்று தனித் தனியே சொல்லாமல். இரண்டும் என்று சொல்லிவிட்டார். ஆண் - பெண் உடலமைப்பில் உள்ள வேறுபட்ட இரண்டு உறுப்புகளைச் சொல்லி அவற்றுக்கு கவசமாக அயில் (அழகு)  வேலை வைத்திருக்கிறார்.

இது புரியாமல் இந்தக் கவசத்தில் ஆபாசத்தைக் காண்பவன் கண்ணுக்கும், குறை கண்டு பிடித்த உறுப்புக்கும் குத்து குத்து கூர் வடிவேலால் என்று எதிர் வினையையும் எழுதி விட்டார் பாலன் தேவராயர்.

அப்படியே ஆகுக.

துதிப்போரைக் காக்கும் வேல் நிந்திப்போரைத் தாக்கும் வேலாகட்டும் 

Indic Past Series 7: Mārtānda: The Sun of Younger Dryas and decipherment of the story of Saṃjñā and Chāyā

The series so far:

Part 1: Solving Yayati mystery and Rama’s connection to Chola.

Part 2: Decipherment of Skanda- legends (Vishakha, Deva Senapati and Shura Samhara)

Part 3: Time period of Skanda deduced from climatic descriptions.

Part 4: Zodiac re-designed by Skanda.

Part 5: Skanda, the progenitor of Vedic culture

Part 6: Skanda’s time before Holocene, established through Tamil sources.

Part 7: Mārtānda: The Sun of Younger Dryas and decipherment of the story of Saṃjñā and Chāyā

Part 8: Understanding the application of the Yuga concept.

Part 9: Ancient past until Skanda decoded from the Manvantaras

The 7th part of the Indic Series aims at establishing Mārtānda, described in the Indic texts, as the Sun of Younger Dryas. In the process of doing this the story of the wives of the Sun, Saṃjñā who deserted her husband and deputed Chāyā in her place is also being deciphered. This story, treated with derision by many starting from Max Muller to Wendy Doniger needs to be revealed in the right purport meant by the rishis.

After revealing the climatic feasibility of sustaining human population during the Ice Age, only within a short band around the equator, in South East Asian region, the video goes on to decipher the story of the two wives. The deglaciation date by Clark et al gives the upper limit of the birth of Vivsavan, the sun growing in brightness around 13,400 BP. Since then the growing heat and brightness had continued only for 500 years by which time the Younger Dryas (Mini Ice Age) had set in.

Within this 500 year period Manu and the fraternal twins namely Yama and Yami were born to Saṃjñā  Birth of Manu signals the birth of a new haplogroup that however suffered reduction in numbers due to the natural calamities explained in the video. Death of many signaled the birth of Yama and Yami! Death was also due to the comet hit that heralded Younger Dryas. This is symbolized by the entry of Chāyā, who by her name indicates shadow and less light.

The birth of Saturn to Chāyā refers to the discovery of the planet Saturn for the first time in human history. Her second child was Manu, who represents a new haplogroup capable of surviving the Ice age. The import of future manvantras is discussed in this context.

Tapati, the third child of Chāyā could refer to the birth of the river Tapati. The root word being ‘tapa’ it is deduced that the Multapi region (source of Tapati) was snow covered during the Ice age and started melting at the beginning of Younger Dryas.

The decipherment of Yama and Yami is done by means of the Rig Vedic hymn and in the two, on the desire of Yami to marry her fraternal twin Yama. Interestingly Natural Selection favours twinning in times of reduction in human population. The marriage between fraternal twins being accepted practice in ancient Bali we get yet another concurrence to the location of Vishakha (Pura Besakih) in Bali.

The Sun of the Younger Dryas was a modified Vivasvan who was known for spreading light. The ancestral society of the Indic people has realized that the loss of the luster was only for a brief period. They named the sun of that period as Mārtānda, one that is not dead within the Anda.

By 11,500 BP, the sun started shining again. That was the birth (or rebirth) of Vivasvan and Vaivasvata Manvantra. So any date of the descendant of Vaivasvata Manu, say of Rama is possible only after this date.

Mārtānda coming to be hailed as the Sun of Adhika Maasa signals another revelation, that the 5 year Yuga concept based on Adhika Maasa could have been conceived only after Younger Dryas when Mārtānda was the sun, that is, after 11500 BP. This brings us to discuss the Yuga concepts in the next episode before we move back to Skanda episodes from Tamil sources.