Meditate on Lakshmi ( தாயார் ) - says Valmiki Siddhar in his 'Valmiki -16' –

 

This is in continuation of the 2 posts on Valmiki's connection to Tamil. The earlier posts can be read in the following links.

Purananuru contains Vaalmiki's Tamil poem

Valmiki of Ramayana and Valmiki of Purananuru are the same.

In this post we will be seeing the interesting portions from the composition by Valmiki, identified as one of the 18 siddhars.
Like the Purananuru verse, this composition also places importance on Lakshmi and Vishnu.
This is unique because the siddha tradition always hails Shiva as the Supreme being.

Valmiki has been identified as one among the 18 siddhas. He is also mentioned as a hunter - reiterating that this Valmiki was the same Valmiki who wrote the immortal Ramayana.

All the siddars have composed thought provoking verses on Siddhi and Shivam.
Valmiki's composition is just 16 verses which he himself calls as 'vaalmeekan pathinaaru' (வால்மீகன்  பதினாறு) in the 11th verse of this composition.
Though he begins with a salutation to Shiva, he continues to tell in the first verse itself that 'shiva sakthi' is the form of Vishnu!
'சிவசக்தி திருமாலின் ரூபமாகும்.'

Like other siddha- compositions, he continues to tell about the kind of mind control, yogic breathing etc for realizing siddhi.
But in the 11th verse he makes some strong statements.
He says that this comsposiiton of 'vaalmeekan pathinaaru' (வால்மீகன்  பதினாறு) unlocks the compositions of all the 18  siddhars. Those siddhars  were displeased with his composition and complained to Shiva. But Shiva was angry with them and approved his (Valmiki's) work. As a result, Valmiki exposed his composition for the sake of the world.
His message starts with t the 9 grahas. Here the 9 grahas mean the 9 exits in the body which are controlled for the sake of Contemplation and Yogic meditation.

சிவசிவா பதினெண்பேர் பாடற் கெல்லாம்
    திறவுகோல் வால்மீகன் பதினாறாகும்:
சிவம்பெத்த சித்தரேல்லா மென்னூல் பார்த்துச்
    சிவனோடே கோள் சொன்னார் சினந்தான் நாதன்:
அவமாகிப் போகாமல் சிவனுத் தார
    அருளினால் திறந்து சொன்னேன் உலகுக்காக:
நவமான நவக்கிரகம் தன்னுளேயே
    நாக்கு வாய் செவி மூக்கு மத்திக்கப்பால்.

He continues to say that one must concentrate on Thaayaar (Maha Lakshmi of Sree, the Consort of Narayana is known as தாயார்  or Mother)  at the Top of the head.

நாக்கு வாய் செவி மூக்கு மத்திக் கப்பால்
    நடுவீதி குய்ய முதல் உச்சி தொட்டுத்
தாக்குவாய் அங்கென்ற அதிலே முட்டுத்
   தாயாரைப் பூசித்து வேதம் ஓது:

This is a departure from the instructions given by other siddhars.
But this has been approved by Shiva who is extolled as the authority for granting siddhi!
Moreover Valmiki calims  that his view is superior to those of others.
His methodology involves meditation on Sri or Lakshmi for Realising the Him, the Supreme Brahman.
His concluding words are
கோனவனாய் இருக்கவென்று  குறியைச் சொன்னேன்.
குவலயத்தில் பதினாறும் குறுகத் தானே.

He does not mention the name of the supreme being to be realised.
This is also a departure from other siddhars.
Other siddhars identify that Being as Shiva.
But Valmiki does not do so.
In the beginning he mentions the Siva sakthi roopam but further goes on to say that it is Vishnu roopam.

This view is the Ultimate  vedanthic view.
The Created worlds exist infinitely in the womb of the Supreme Brahman.
One fourth of it is manifest while three- fourths of it is unmanifest.
The Trinities (Four faced Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) are the keepers of the manifest worlds and they are the authority (Adhikaari) for granting Moksha.

(These details can be read in my previous articles in www.tamilhindu.com

 
http://www.tamilhindu.com/2010/01/adimudi-kaanaa-athisayam-a-dimension-of-the-universe/

http://www.tamilhindu.com/2010/02/creation-theory-2/ )

 

 

 
But the end does not come with Moksha at this level.
The Released souls remain in the manifest worlds until Brahma completes the age of 100 years of Paramaayul. After that they all exit and get fixed in the Supreme Brahman in whose womb these universes are revolve.
This means there is yet another realm to be reached by the Released Souls.
That Level is the One without a Second.
According to Sruti texts that Level is Nara-Ayana - where everything dwells and which dwells in everything.
That is the Parama padam.
It is in this Realm all those who reached Narayana and all those who reached the Formless Supreme Being are fixed (12th chapter in Gita)

All the Released Souls -  attain this realm as the Final abode.
The Supreme Being of this Realm has only one other component - that is His Will.
Initially He / It existed.
Then It willed - may I become many - and became many.
The Will and It were inseparable.
That Will is personified as Lakshmi - down the process of Creation.
(I have written long ago in some Yahoo gropus on how this is justified. I will post them soon in this blog)

Valmiki recommends to meditate on this Will as Thaayaar or Lakshmi, so that the Communion with It will become easy and direct.

Narayana as the Supreme Being is the Final word of Vedantha.
The route to Him lies beyond the Created worlds and Mukthi in Created worlds.
This is indicated by Valmiki but it  was not acceptable to other Siddhars who concentrated on the 5 -fold Rudra swaroopam of the Chakra of the Created Universe.
But approved by Shiva Himself.

Since this Ultimate concept has been voiced only by Valmiki and not by other siddhars, Valmiki chose to call his way as the Key - திறவு கோல்.

Concept of Release in the Vedic model of Universe.

The 2nd part in continuation of the earlier post on the Vedic concept of Universe can be read in the following link. This post explains the concept of Release or Mukthi form the Karmic wheel of the manifest Universe. In the process of understanding this, we come to know how the so called myths around personalities such as Agasthya appearing at different Times in the past can be real.

This post also makes it clear that the Hindu Thought is a Complete Thought paving scope for permanent release from the Karmic bond. It also explains how the Abrahamic religions are lagging behind in such perfection.

http://www.tamilhindu.com/2010/02/creation-theory-2/

வேதம் கூறும் பிரபஞ்சவியலில் சிவனும் விஷ்ணுவும் முக்தியும்


The previous post:-

Vedic theory of Creation

Valmiki of Ramayana and Valmiki of Purananuru are the same.

In an earlier post Purananuru contains Vaalmiki's Tamil poem we saw a poem from Purananuru written by Vaanmeekiyaar.


This Vaanmeekiyaar of the Siddha tradition is none other than Valmiki who wrote the Adhi grantha, Ramayana. This is told by another Siddha in his book.

Siddhar Bogar has said in his work "Bogar 7000" that this Vaanmeekiyaar was the same Valmiki who wrote Ramayana. This is recorded in the verse 5834 of this book by Bogar. This information can be read in http://siddhars.com/valmiki.htm

In the next verse (5835) Bogar has mentioned that Valmiki's age was 700 years + some days. He has also stated that Valmiki was a learned scholar in Tamil. From this work by Bogar we know that Valmiki lived in Tamilnadu and attained Siddhi at a place called Ettikkudi (It is now known as Ettuk kudi which is located in Nagappattinam)

I am on the look out of this book as it seems to contain many 'secrets' of the olden times. For instance, the verses by Bogar on how Sage Agasthya cured the headache of Thrunathumagni is further proof of absence of North- South division. This incident happened in Kapatapuram – which is now submerged under the Indian ocean off Kanyakumari. These verses can be read in Mr Jayabharathi's website http://www.visvacomplex.com/Siddhar_ThEraiyar.html


Thrunathumagni is none other than Tholkaapiyar, the disciple of Agasthya who wrote Tholkaapiyam. In his commentary on Tholkaapiyam, Nacchinaarkkiniyar gives this real name (Sanskrit name) of Tholkaapiyar while explaining why Tholkaapiyar did not mention Agasthya anywhere in his work in spite of being groomed by Agasthya and inspired by his early Tamil work of Grammar, Agastheeyam.


Tholkaapiyar had a grooming in Sanskrit and belonged to North India but came to Tamilnadu along with his teacher, Agsthya and composed the grammar book, Tholkaapiyam. This also shows the co-existence of the two languages Tamil and Sanskrit for long. While Sanskrit owes it existence to the Gods themselves, the spoken tongue of Tamil was codified and developed by sages well versed in Sanskrit.

Valmiki's early history


Now coming to think of Valmiki, Valmiki's early history shows that he grew up as an ordinary person. Though he was born to a sage by name Prachetas, he was lost in the forests at a young age and was subsequently picked up by a hunter who grew him up as his foster son. Ratnakara was the name given by the hunter to this boy who was originally known as Praachetas (Praachetas is the son of Prachetas).



The rest of his story as a robber is well known to many. When he encountered Narada in a bid to rob him, Ratnakara was still an unlettered man, who must have spoken the manushya bhasha. Narada also must have interacted with him in that manushya bhasha only. After his realization upon the goading by Narada, that one's sins will have to be borne by oneself, he sought Narada's guidance and started meditating on Rama naama. His mediation was deep and continuous in such a way that an ant-hill was formed around him in due course.



Later Narada came back, ended his meditation and hailed him as Brahma rishi. It was a rebirth for Ratnakara, a former robber from valmika, which means ant-hill in Sanskrit. From then onwards he came to be called as Valmiki.

This name Valmiki is thus a derived name, which is not a common name.

If someone by name Valmiki had penned a poem in Tamil which is complied in Purananuru, the probabilities are that the person himself was Valmiki or a descendant of Valmiki. From the accounts we have from Ramayana, we know that Valmiki led an ascetic life and was not married. So a lineage by name Valmiki is not possible.

Looking at another episode from Valmiki's life, we can say that Sanskrit was alien to him as he was only conversant in the 'manushya bhasha' spoken at his times.

He was an unlettered robber until he became Valmiki. Language is not a requisite factor for meditation. He did the simplest japa of repeating the name "Rama' and attained eminence. When he set up his ashram near the Ganges surrounded by disciples such as Bharadwaja, there is no way to assume that he learnt Sanskrit. He must have conversed in the manushya bhasha only.


This is known form the shock and startle he expressed upon uttering the 'maa nishada' sloka in Sanskrit on seeing the fall of the Krouncha bird.


From the verse 1-2-16 in Valmiki Ramayana, we learn that he was surprised at his own words – that such beautifully constructed words in Sanskrit had been uttered by him.


He 'discovered' it as a sloka only after uttering it that sprang from his inner mind.

"This utterance of mine has emerged out of anguished annoyance, and it is well- arranged with letters metrically posited, tuneful and rhythmical to be sung with string instrument, and hence, this shall be a verse, not otherwise..." [1-2-18]

Valmiki was quite overwhelmed that he kept on pondering on the sloka, its meaning and the way it has been well constructed in Sanskrit. Later Brahma deva appears in front of him and tells him that it sprang from His Will only. With Brahma's blessings, Valmiki started composing Ramayana with this sloka as the opening one. How he grabbed the rest of the epic is explained in this chapter of Valmiki Ramayana. He kept on saying again and again the first sloka and the other slokas started flowing out of his mouth.


This episode explains that Valmiki did not write Ramayana with a previous expertise in Sanskrit language and its grammar. The language and poetic nuances of Sanskrit were all new to him. He was able to compose the Epic only with the blessings of Brahma.


It must be noted that his native tongue was the one that was spoken by ordinary folks throughout the region. He had been well versed only in that Manushya bhasha. That he had contributed to Tamil Sangam and had lived in regions which are now known as Tamilnadu makes us deduce that Tamil must have been the manuhya bhasha even as early as Ramayana times.




It is also worthy to note that Thiruvanmiyur in Chennai got its name after Valmiki or Vaanmeeki who worshiped Lord Maruntheewarar in that place.

PS:-

The striking similarity of the two works is that Ramayana starts with ‘Maa’ – Goddess Lakshmi (Sita) and Puranauru verse ends with Laskhmi (Thiru).

விட்டோரை விடாள் திருவே
விடாதோர் இவள் விடப்பட்டோரே "

The central theme in both is Sita.

Will discovery of ET shake our faith in religion?

The following article published in Newscienist.com wonders if the discovery of Extra terrestrial life would shake the faith in religion.

This is not a problem for Hindus as we believe that many worlds and realms do exist. By this we mean that life exists elsewhere. If such an existence is found out by science, it only strengthens that faith.

But in reality, such an existence can not be found out by man. Any such physical existence will be accompanied with a 'security system' as we have the planetary systems playing a role in the existence of our earth. Our concept also is that numerous levels of 'beings' of different levels of consciousness do live with us or visit us - which can not be detected by physical senses and the apparatuses we have. We – as physical beings – are definitely special and our earth is a 'chosen' place for our existence.

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From

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18437-religion-could-survive-discovery-of-et-survey-suggests.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn18437

Religion could survive discovery of ET, survey suggests

Could the world's religions survive the discovery of extraterrestrial life? Or would their beliefs be so shaken that they would eventually collapse?

A survey (pdf) discussed on Tuesday at a meeting on the search for alien life at the Royal Society in London suggests religion would survive.

The survey, designed by Ted Peters, a professor of Systematic Theology at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, asked 1300 people whether they thought the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence would shake their individual belief, the strength of their religion as a whole or would adversely affect the beliefs of other religions. The survey included both religious and non-religious people, and most respondents were based in the US.

None of the 70 Buddhists questioned thought that the discovery of ET would undercut their belief systems, although 40 per cent thought it could pose problems for other religions.

More Roman Catholics believed ET could pose a problem for their faith. Only 8 per cent of the 120 surveyed thought that their individual beliefs would be shaken, but nearly a quarter – 22 per cent – said it could adversely affect their religion. Even more – 30 per cent – thought it could threaten the beliefs of other religious people.

Singled out

The patterns were similar for the other Christian sects surveyed, including evangelical and mainline Protestants, but there was not enough data to draw firm conclusions about people of other religions, such as Hindus and Muslims.

Of the 205 people who identified themselves as non-religious (either atheists or those who describe themselves as spiritual but not religious), only 1 per cent thought it would affect their atheist or spiritual outlooks. But 69 per cent thought the discovery of ET could cause a crisis for other world religions. An average of only 34 per cent of religious people shared that belief.

Paul Davies, an astrobiologist at Arizona State University in Tempe was one of the first to suggest that the world's religions would not cope with the discovery of ET. And he still believes such a find would pose theological problems for Christians.

"They believe that Jesus came down to earth to save humankind – not dolphins, Neanderthals or extraterrestrials," he said in response to the survey results. "To make sense of this, either you need multiple incarnations [of Jesus on other planets] or a reason why this planet and this species was singled out for special attention."

'Extraterrestrial brothers'

Many survey respondents expressed no such qualms. A Roman Catholic said: "I believe that Christ became incarnate (human) in order to redeem humanity and atone for the original sin of Adam and Eve. Could there be a world of extraterrestrials? Maybe. It doesn't change what Christ did."

Another wrote: "From an evangelical Christian perspective, the Word of God was written for us on Earth to reveal the creator... Why should we repudiate the idea that God may have created other civilisations to bring him glory in the same way?"

"There is nothing in Christianity that excludes other intelligent life," asserted an evangelical respondent.

Indeed, Vatican astronomers have said in recent years that there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of "extraterrestrial brothers".

Vedic theory of Creation

The Vedic theory of creation can be depicted in the image of Nataraja and Chakkratthazhwar.

The doubts and questions on the many Gods of Hinduism can be easily explained in this model. This model also exhibits how infinite number of parallel universes can co-exist and the way our own universe is progressing. This model explained in the context of why it is said that the Four faced Brahma and Vishnu failed to see the crown and the feet of Shiva on the day of Deluge, that coincides with Maha Shivarathri is written by me and posted at

http://www.tamilhindu.com/2010/01/adimudi-kaanaa-athisayam-a-dimension-of-the-universe/

“நாராயணன் என்றாலே, ‘அவன் எல்லாவற்றிலும் இருக்கிறான், அவனில் எல்லாம் இருக்கின்றன’ என்பது பொருள். அவனைப் பிரம்மம் என்பர். .. நமக்குள் யோகேஸ்வரனாக இருப்பதையும், சக்கரத்தாழ்வானாகக் காப்பதையும், பிரபஞ்சச் சுழற்சியைக் காட்டி நடராஜராக தாண்டவம் ஆடுவதையும் ஒரே உருவில் காட்டப்படும் அந்தச் சக்கரம் சு-தர்சனச் சக்கரம். சுதர்சனம் என்றால் சிறந்த தரிசனம் என்று பொருள்.”

This article is in Tamil. Related articles on this topic can be read in English in this blog :-

Cosmic egg- Nataraja and Chakratthazhwar in unison!

Shiva - Vishnu at Chidambaram – a cosmic scene unveiled.

Where is Bhagawan in this cosmic chakra?

Purananuru contains Vaalmiki's Tamil poem

This is a break-through finding !
That Valmeeki contributed to the Purananuru - that he has delivered his poem in Tamil in the Sangam Assemblage.
Dr. U. Ve .Sa does concede that one 'Vaanmeekiyaar' did adore the First Sangam. But he was not sure if that was the same Vaanmeekiyaar who penned the poem that is compiled as the 358th poem in Pura nanuru.

The poem is as follows.
The most exciting information is the mention of Lakshmi in the last two lines.

"பரிதி சூழ்ந்த விப்பயன்கேழு மாநிலம்
ஒரு பகல் எழுவர் எய்தியற்றே
வையமும் தவமும் தூக்கிற்றவக்துக்
கையவி யனைத்து மாற்றா தாகலிர்
கைவிட்டனரே காதலர் அதனால்
விட்டோரை விடாள் திருவே
விடாதோர் இவள் விடப்பட்டோரே "


In the beginning the practice of offering pithru tarpan is made out in the first line.
பரிதி சூழ், அவிப்பயன் = movement of sun (during the day) connected to Avippayan = denoted pithru tarpan.
Everyday, someone will be engaged in doing pithru tarpan which will be received by the Sun.
Note that the time of offering in pithru tarpan is when the sun is overhead.

In verse 43 of Purananuru comes a reference to Sun traveling with sages - and taking the Havis - an obvious reference to pithru tarpan being done.

In the 2nd line ஒரு பகல் எழுவர் means the 7 horas in the name of 7 planets (days of the week) that follow continuously and endlessly. Infact according to astrology, the naming of days as Sunday, Monday etc are based on the hora at the time of sun rise.
The horas of 7 planets are continuously governing the time (1 hora = 1 hour = 2-1/2 naazhigai) .
The day that breaks with sun-hora in progress is called Sun day.
The day that breaks with moon- hora is monday and so on.
This is how the days got their name according Hindu astrology.
This poem reiterates that such a practice was there in the times of Valmiki. This is a major information that denounces claims that naming of days was borrowed from the Greeks.

The word காதலர் in the 5th line is noted by Dr U.Ve.Sa as ' வீட்டில் விருப்பமுள்ளோர்' -those in the pursuit of Moksha.
(It is unfortunate that we do not have the commentary for this poem. That is why this poem was not noted by people, I think.)

The last 2 lines present an amazing inference to Sita (Laskhmi).
விட்டோரை விடாள் திருவே.
Lakshmi does not leave the people in the lurch - who have renounced worldly pleasures.
விடாதோர் இவள் விடப்பட்டோரே
Those who are stuck in the Karmic cycle are those who have been left out by her - meaning they have not sought her blessings.

Valmiki's adoration for Sita is well known - he has called Ramayanam as the great story of Sita - "Sittayaas charitham mahat"
The Great soul, the mahaan by name Sri Narayana Iyengar brought out this and other path breaking info in the year 1938 in his book "Vanmeegarum Thamizhum" (வான்மீகரும் தமிழும்).

This book supports my obsession that Tamil had been the Spoken language since the beginning of this manvanthra - since the times the Tamil lands were spread beyond the Equator - close to Africa and Australia.

This book can be read at

http://tashindu.blogspot.com/2006/12/valmiki-and-tamil.html

The author's painstakingly- given quotes from other Tamil texts on the Ikshvaku lineage of Cholan kings have been vindicated by the inscriptions of Thiruvalankaadu Copper plates.

Cholas and Rama shared the same ancestors until Mandhatha. After him the lineage bifurcated. Rama came in the lineage of the eldest son while Sibi came in the lineage of the other sibling. Chola Varman was the founder of Cholan dynasty. He was the descendant of Sibi and from him earned the name Sembian. Many Verses are there in Purananuru to substantiate this. One of the following posts form my blog contains the link to the ASI page on the inscriptions of the copper plates.

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Some related posts from my blog, there are others too...

Valmiki of Ramayana and Valmiki of Purananuru are the same.

Who were the Dravidans?

Who is Dravida? - Shun the Dravidan identity.

No Aryan and no Dravidian either!

Migration from Dwaraka to Tamilnadu.

Discovery of Atlantis – Maya's Romaka connection?

Don’t try patience of Hindus - Article by Dr Pravin Togadia

From

http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=329&page=14

Enough is enough! Stop looting!
Don't try patience of Hindus

By Dr Pravin Togadia

Muslims ruled this nation for over 400 years and Christians ruled this nation for 250 years. Apart from breaking and looting various rich temples all over Bharat, Muslim rulers slapped jazia on Bharat and fleeced Hindus dry. Although their administrative rule withered away from Bharat, Islam did not go away; instead it crept into various aspects and systems in Bharat in such a way that today Islam is taking and further demanding a huge slice of the Indian pie, which has been created by Hindus through their conscientious hard work and hard-earned money. 

Who really are the Muslims in Bharat? There are three categories of them. One group of Muslims is the direct descendent of the erstwhile invading foreign rulers. The second group is the hybrid of invading foreign rulers and the local Hindus who were forced to create various relations with the rulers. Their progeny is also a large group in Bharat who keeps on claiming of 'royal' blood and lands 'given' to them by Humayun, Adilshah, etc (lands that belonged to Hindus anyways)! The third group is the one who, for the benefits of socio-political favours, converted to Islam during Islamic rule and therefore enjoyed great favours from the rulers. Even if some of them were forced to convert to Islam, ultimately as a part of Islam, the rulers gave them all benefits from jobs in military to lands to status. So, Muslims in Bharat are the beneficiaries of the ruler privileges and yet are now claiming to be underprivileged! This must be the first case in the history of the world that those who ruled the nation are pretending to be underprivileged and poor after looting the original people of that nation!

Similar is the case with Christians. Through East India Company they entered Bharat. They too militarily ruled Bharat, slapped various taxes, looted the then kings and again fleeced Bharat dry. East India Company had directly been giving money officially since 1811 for conversion of Hindus to Christianity. British, Portuguese, Dutch and French left Bharat but after completely looting Bharat and leaving behind large missionary groups, which have huge funds available to run their big number of hospitals and schools that have been directly and indirectly used to lure and convert Hindus to create a brigade to again snatch a large chunk of the remaining Indian pie. Again, those who benefitted due to being of the same religion of the rulers are claiming to be underprivileged making a shield of some tribal groups who, as converts get benefits of huge Christian facilities like hospitals, schools, colleges, etc. In fact, of the quota meant for all STs, 80 per cent is gobbled up by these 19 per cent converts among tribals leaving the real needy tribals further poor.

It is easy to sit in AC cabins, make politically motivated reports and offer large chunks of the great Indian development pie to Muslims and Christians. But the fact of the matter is that Muslims as invaders and one way or the other a part of ruler's beneficiary always have such grand designs on Bharat. In olden days, it was through invasions, then staying back to rule, then leaving progenies back and now misusing the greatest and largest democracy of Bharat to again loot Bharat through reservations. 

Islam and Christianity both brag all over the world that they do not have caste system the way Hindus have. They even steep so low to criticise Hindus and Bharat for the caste system and then lure the people from SCs, OBCs and STs to Islam and Christianity assuring that once converted they will be treated equally and there will be no discrimination based on their Hindu caste. Now suddenly, Islam and Christian looters have got this brilliant insight of their own majhabs that even they too have castes! Has the Quran been newly written or has the Bible been newly told to pronounce and start caste systems? It is just yet another ploy to re-loot Bharat and fleece Hindus dry again. 

And why Muslims and Christians dare to behave in such a way today? In any democracy, irrespective of caste, creed, colour, gender and religion people should be treated equally. But there is an anti-Hindu contradiction in Bharat's Constitution itself. Instead of the true form of equality, Articles 25 to 30 give more privileges to minorities than that to the majority treating Bharat as an animal farm where some are more equal than others! Why does the Constitution do so? Because it believes that these are the injusticed classes. This is the real logical and historical fallacy. Historically though, in Bharat, Hindus were the most injusticed lot being looted and subjugated by first Muslim and then by Christian invader rulers. So even if one agrees that the traditionally injusticed ones should get reservations, then it should be Hindus in Bharat who were poor pay to invasions after invasions and also of the cruelest ever rulers like Khilji, Aurangzeb, Lord Curzon and so on. Under Islamic and Christian rules Hindu was the most politically, economically and socially oppressed, obstructed, deprived and harassed class.

In any democratic nation, any reservation based on religion has been outright denied. Even in Bharat, Aligarh Muslim University's special status and Andhra Pradesh government's plan to give four per cent reservations to Muslims were rejected by the honourable High Courts. 

So, to look 'democratic' and manipulate the democratic principle of uplifting the underprivileged, now Muslims conspire to get further reservations claiming that Muslims are poor and illiterate in Bharat so they should get quotas in education, employment and economy. Muslims chose their Islamic way of life and after enjoying ruler's privileges now if their Islamic ways make them send their children only to madrasas and reject modern education, it is by their own choice. If they reject democratic principle of family planning and in the process lose own health and can't support unlimited children, then it is their choice. In Kerala literacy of Muslims is higher than that of Hindus but the rate of vasectomy and tubectomy is lower than that of Hindus. So, if Muslims claim that they are poor and illiterate therefore their women produce more children, then it is humbug. They do it in the name of religion to systematically increase Muslim population in Bharat so that they get more strength socially as they did in Indonesia, Malaysia and in many other countries. 

Recently Jamait-e-Ulema-e-Hind's Moulana Madni bragged on a TV channel, "Don't call us minority; we are the second largest majority in India." Here is the catch. All they are aiming at is increasing their population so much that Hindus finally become a minority and Muslims once again start ruling Bharat through majority power.

Why should Hindu tax-payers pay for such vicious design by Islamic fanatics? Why should Hindu SCs, OBCs and STs and other meritorious Hindus allow Muslims and Christians to snatch their school/college seats, jobs, loans, lands and political rights? The socio-economic point on which Muslims want to snatch these basic things from Hindus is itself an Islamic mindset. Not to contribute to the nation's development but to want a huge chunk in it. Supporting a religious group, which is not contributing to the nation's development and that too again in the name of religion and yet to give them a big part of development is going to kill the nation and this is exactly the plan of Islamic fanatics. Those who do not follow the common civil code, those who do not even salute the national anthem, want the nation to feed their growing population. Why should Bharat let them be beneficiaries of the national resources when they do not contribute to the nation's development? They follow Sharia law in their personal and social lives but they want Indian Constitution and government to subsidise their children, they follow ummah and do not believe in Bharat as a nation (and therefore don't respect Vande Mataram) and yet Bharat's majority should allow them to enjoy from the tax money paid by the hard-working Hindus!

No more. Enough is enough! Here is an action plan to stop any further looting of Bharat.

1. STs converted to Christianity should not be allowed to retain and enjoy their ST reservations.

2. Islam claims that they do not have caste system. Around four to five per cent Muslims claim that they are OBCs and are currently enjoying all the privileges of OBCs. Their OBC status should be cancelled.

3. From SC reservation, no quota should be given to the converted Muslims/Christians.

4. From 50 per cent merit quota, no reservation should be given to the Muslims/Christians.

5. Special status to AMU should be withdrawn at once.

6. Amending Articles 25 to 30, minority privileges should be cancelled.

It is as clear as that. When STs convert and join the Christian community, they start enjoying privileges like biggest hospitals, convent schools and special colleges. They are even sent abroad for education! How can such a privileged lot be called underprivileged, and be given double benefits? When it comes to looting Hindus and snatching Hindu SCs', OBCs' and STs' benefits, suddenly Muslims and Christians say, "Caste is a social reality and by changing religion it does not go away." Then internationally they should be forced to declare that even they have caste systems and for falsely claiming that they did not have castes they should be criminally sued for cheating and misleading the world. 

Their great realisation of 'social reality' strangely vanishes when it comes to seeing the stark socio-economic reality that because of their unlimited production of children, Bharat's economy is going for a toss and if they do not stop using their religion for not complying with the family planning norms, which are strictly applied to Hindus, then they have no right on the resources of Bharat. 

Why Muslims and Christians dare to behave undemocratically in Bharat and yet get away with it? It is because of the vote-bank politics. Hindus who were hoarded out of PoK at the time of Partition, have yet not been given Indian citizenship by the 'great' Indian government. It is more than 62 years now! But those Muslims who 'invaded' Assam and Bengal as refugees from Bangladesh are now occupying huge lands snatched from local Hindu tribes and have their voter IDs! All this is a political drama and Hindus are made out to be puppets in the Indian political opera. Sachar Committee or Ranganath Commission is not the beginning or the end! There are many examples and incidents that prove how governments have bent backwards for votes, putting Bharat at risk of being again ruled by Muslims and Christians. And if so-called 'secular' groups think that they will be spared by the upcoming socio-political and socio-economic Islamic and Christian invasions manipulating Bharat's democracy, then these seculars are in for a big rude shock. Such invaders do not spare anyone other than themselves and it has been proven again and again in many countries.

Hindus are not idiots. Hindus give a long rope to all as Hindus are intrinsically kind-hearted. But Hindus also learn from the history. The mistakes in the history which got long Islamic and then Christian rules over Bharat, will not be repeated now. If vote-greedy governments think they can divide and rule, then they are living in a fool's paradise. Hindus have bent to accommodate many things, even many socio-political and socio-economic mischiefs by the governments. But no more. It is a serious matter of the very existence of Bharat. If Islam and Christianity are allowed to get special privileges and enjoy double benefits-as once being ruling communities and now being what they are by their religious choices-then Hindus will be an extinct species and Hindus are not idiots. Any effort to appease Muslims and Christians or any efforts to even amend Bharat's Constitution and any efforts to snatch rights from Hindu SCs/OBCs/STs and meritorious Hindus in the fields of education, jobs, loan, land, etc, will be met with the severe national democratic agitation. Bharat is not a rehabilitation hub for religious groups who once ruled Bharat and now like bad losers again plan dirty designs on Bharat. Enough is Enough! Government must not try patience of Hindus.

(The writer is a renowned cancer surgeon and secretary general of VHP. He can be contacted at drtogadia@gmail.com)

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The following link traces the antiquity of Tamils to thousands of years ago.

Land_of_tamils.pdf

As far as Tamil's past is concerned, I dont agree with 3 issues found in this link

1) The map of the sunken land of Kumari could not be as it is shown in the link. The Bay of Bengal was not in existence until the river Ganges flowed down the Himalayas.The Arabian sea was land locked like Caspian sea or a small sea trapped mostly by lands.

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India as the base of Asian populations (genetic study)

2)The article also says that Srilanka must have separated form Indian mass about 7000 years ago.
That must be 10,000 years ago - separated deliberately by digging out the land between India and Srilanka - this is my contention.

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SETHU – Digging of the Bay of Bengal ended here!

3) The long mountain chain of Kumari must be an extension of eastern ghats and not as shown in the map. We can see submerged mountain range in the NASA pics.

The pic can be seen at the end of  this post :-

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My interview in Hindu-blog

Interview with Jayasree Saranathan – a Sanatana Dharma Blogger

I'm pleased to post the following interview with one of the Hindu bloggers that I've admired for some time – Jayasree Saranathan writes the blog Non-random thoughts. She introduces herself as Sanathanist.

This is a new section that we are starting in Hindu Blog. We plant to interview our readers, people who comment regularly, writers and editors associated with Hinduism, Hindu bloggers and editors, Saints, skeptics and other religious people.

There is a particular reason for starting the interview with Jayasree Saranathan – it is women who have always kept the flame of Santana Dharma steady. It is they how have always protected the flame of core teachings and tradition from numerous attacks from within and outside. And it is they who always passed the flame from one generation to another. It is through our mothers that we come into contact with this great tradition.

Hindu Blog – When you say I am a Hindu, what does it mean to you?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - When I say that I am a Hindu, it means to abide by the wisdom of Vedantha. The Vedanthic wisdom is encapsulated in 3 sources, namely, Upanishads, Brahma Sutras and Bhagawad Gita. The idea of the self, the Supreme, the Karma theory and the Realization of self as the Supreme Self are the essentials taught by this wisdom. Any effort that takes one to these thoughts will make one a Hindu, according to me.

Hindu Blog – What do you think is the greatest strength of Hinduism?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - Its eternity. Hinduism is not an 'ism'. It is the basic science of the Universe of the living and the non living – in manifest and unmanifest forms. So no one can destroy it. It always EXITS. At times it may be forgotten. Even then, someone will come up with the acumen to explore Nature and will eventually find out the Vedanthic wisdom. That is how even after a worst Kaliyuga where Hinduism seems to suffer a low, there will come up Krutha yuga or Golden Age when sages will restore this wisdom. No one can destroy Hinduism.

Hindu Blog – Do you think many scholars and politicians have purposefully misinterpreted the teachings of Hinduism? If yes, how do you think the Hindu society should be correcting the damages?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - My answer is yes and no. Many politicians and vested interests have misinterpreted it but not all Hindu scholars have purposefully misinterpreted. But the cause of the decline is due to the incorrect understanding of Hinduism. For example, worship and prayers are viewed as quick –fix solutions to one’s problems. That makes worship a kind of bargain with god. This is incorrect. Every birth comes with a balance sheet of positive and negative karmas and what you do in a birth brings out continuous corrections to it. Throughout the innings, God stands inside you, outside you and also as the Base where you work - giving you a lot of scope for bettering the balance sheet. What finally comes out depends on the status of your balance sheet that you brought with you at the time of birth. There is no instant waiver of your bad times. But God realization makes you overcome the pains and sufferings of the bad times and help you move beyond mundane sufferings.

Popularizing this Vedanthic wisdom and bringing out its subtleties in day to day issues, in relation to changing times and to newer life struggles, are needed to be done.

When misinterpretations are done by vested interests with malicious intent, we have to strongly thwart them.

Hindu Blog – Do you think Hindus are not active enough in the sphere of religious activities, especially defending it against misinformation and mudslinging?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - Yes. Awareness is less.

Hindu Blog – How would you explain Sanatana Dharma to a child who is constantly guided by monolithic institutions?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - I will explain it 3-fold – as why there are many gods, how a single God exists and what we must do.

I take our Body for comparison.

We have many organs and limbs to do specific jobs – such as hands to work, feet to walk and internal organ systems such as respiratory, digestive systems etc that work as independent systems with a specific purpose. Likewise many gods are assigned specific portfolios to oversee their respective jobs in the vast scheme of the Universe and Life. But all the organs owe their functioning to the Master computer called the Brain. They discharge their work only at the instance of the Brain whose control over them is not realized by us.

Similarly the Supreme Brahman is in control of the entire universe though His presence is not felt by us openly. Just as we think of only those visible organs which do work for us, we think of some Gods but such thought must make us realize the presence of the Super Brain like Supreme God.

Now think of life. When I say that I live, where is that life force or soul located? Is it in the skull, or in the heart or in the hand or in the leg? Everywhere in my body or in every part of my body, Life force has permeated. It is as though Life Force is everywhere in my body or my body is fixed in Life Force. Similarly, God permeates every part of Creation and every part of Creation is fixed in Him. This is the import of Narayana tattwa – He resides in everything and everything resides in Him.

Now what we must do with this realization of the Body and Life Force? Do we ever harm our body, our body parts or life? Never. We always take good care of every part of our body. We take utmost care to keep them in fantastic working condition. Likewise do the same to the many Gods, to the Single Supreme God and do whatever you must to make their name and fame shine at all times. That is the duty of every Hindu towards this Dharma.

Hindu Blog – As a mother what would be the first lesson that you will be teaching about Hinduism to your child?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - Faith, blind Faith that god is always with them, watching them. Wherever they go, whatever they do, God is coming along with them and silently watching them. If they do some mischief, God knows. If they tell some lies, God knows. Whenever they think that they have done something wrong or something that must not be done, tell them to tell God sincerely why they did that and pray that He forgives them and make them not repeat it.

Two things are achieved by this.

A sense of what is right and what is wrong is inculcated at the very young age and that they are answerable to god.

Modern age psychiatrists will say that we must allow the child to experiment and know. That works well with things but not with attitudes and behavior. If one keeps experimenting with life, entire life will pass on with experimentations. In Hinduism we have numerous stories of Rama, Krishna, puranas and Neeti tales to know what is to be done and what is not to be done. These stories must be told right from the young days and a Faith in God must be taught.

After that, once they grow up to think on their own, let them explore what they learnt as Faith. Let them search, seek, question and argue – but with a strong foundation seeded in their young mind about this Dharma. Only then they will come up with better understanding of this Dharma and not lose it due to ignorance.

In my life, I grew up like that and believed that I am always surrounded by Rama and Lakshmana on my right and left sides with Sita leading me in the front and Hanuman guarding me from behind. When all the four directions are secure with their presence, there is no need to worry, or fear – this was my childhood imagination. It continues even today.

I used to ask lot of questions – more like an atheist, but the deep faith within me always makes me search for that answer that conforms to that Faith and not that which shakes that Faith. Even if there is something that is not convincing, I used to tell myself that Hinduism or Vedic Wisdom can not be wrong.

May be I have to grow up better to understand the correct import.

Hindu Blog – Which book (s) would you be suggesting to a teenager who wants to learn about Sanatana Dharma?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - Presently David Frawley’s and Stephan Knapp’s books are there. In Tamil I suggest to start with Kannadasan’s ‘Arthamulla Indu matham’ series and ‘Deivatthin Kural’ by Kanchi Paramacharyar

In my case, I have always depended on original texts. Vedartha Sangraha by Ramanujacharya is a small book that contains the essence of Vedic wisdom.

Hindu Blog – How have you fared as a blogger writing about Sanatana Dharma?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - I don’t know.

As for me, whatever knowledge we have, must be imparted to others without any kind of expectation. It is a duty that I write. Whoever is there in the similar frame of thought, or whoever is searching for these information, will come to my blog. That’s all.

Hindu Blog – Do you think Hindus are not active enough on the internet?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - I don’t think so. Internet has opened up a better scope for more people to access the info on Hinduism. In those days, we have to search for books in old and new book shops. Today, net has made it easy to the reach of people. Sharing and forwarding has also made the spread of information faster and effective. Many Hindus who are non serious in religious activity, do stumble upon the views on Hinduism and pick up inertest as a result.

Hindu Blog – What would you like to say to Hindus who are the readers of Hindu Blog?

Srimati Jayasree Saranathan - Life will teach them appropriate lessons at appropriate times.

If they have the awareness of Vedic wisdom on karma and dharma, those lessons can be well received by them and can help them grow in Self realization.

The Ultimate Vedanthic wisdom is that our Consciousness must grow to become one with the Supreme Consciousness. How that happens are all schools of thought – like whether they become one with That or become identical to That.

But what is to be understood is that we are in the continuous process of evolution of the consciousness. Dharma, Artha and Kaama exercised in the right spirit and within norms help us to achieve this evolution. For this, we need to know what Dharma sastras say. Simple way is to study the Bhagawad Gita – particularly the 2nd chapter and absorb what is told in it and live by it.

Let everyone develop the habit of reading this chapter atleast and keep thinking on the meaning. That is sure way for evolution of the Consciousness.

My thanks to you for giving this opportunity to express my views.

Let there be Peace at three levels of existence.

Sarve janah sukhino bhavanthu!

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