The importance of building public water works & utilities from a dhArmika perspective. Let us start with a passage from the garuDamahApurANa: pic.twitter.com/pwTkxcdT6p
1. The importance of building public water works & utilities from a dhArmika perspective
Let us start with a passage from the garuDamahApurANa
This wonderful passage is from a saMvAda (dialogue) between shrI kRSNa & garuDadeva. Please note the last shloka quoted (2.38.40), where the merit of arranging for the funeral rites of an orphaned corpse is stated. The mahAsvAmi of kA~nci maTha (the 68th shaMkarAcArya svAmi) made it a point to emphasize the importance of giving orphaned Hindus their due respects at least after their deaths. Those who can read tamizh may read here: http://kamakoti.org/tamil/3dKK64.htmโฆ and http://kamakoti.org/tamil/3dKK65.htm
A brief summary of a paragraph from shrI kA~nci mahAsvAmi’s discourses:
I wanted to do a thread strictly on water works in the Hindu tradition but felt it wrong to not bring this to attention. In line with mahAsvAmi’s vision, there is an organization solely dedicated to rites for orphaned Hindus. Please have a look: http://dharmaa.org
The sponsoring of public water resources was especially adored in Hindu dharma; with teachers stating that its merit goes all the way back to the veda. Here is an excerpt from an article on various dAnas by shrI @/blog_supplement. The importance of kUpAdi (wells, etc) dAnas:
These water works & other public welfare activities were very important in preventing the onslaught of drought and famine in various parts of bhArata. A major reason for the proliferation of public water works & others is the growth of the shaiva & vaiSNava religions.
Again and again, one reads the great works of saiddhAntika shaiva gurus sponsoring water works for the public:
Nevertheless, this great culture was not to die from bhArata. Great AcAryas always endeavored to make water facilities available for the people. (this tweet inspired me to record, very briefly, the role of public water works in our dharma)
Social service rendered by Sri Vyasaraya Tirtha in Andhra dEsha. A snippet on Kandukuru water tank, fully functional to this date, exemplifying his long term vision. https://t.co/nFfXKLoqpV
2. annadAna & the care for orphans & other vulnerable groups in the Hindu tradition.
A beautiful quote from the shivamahApurANa, umAsaMhitA, adhyAya 11, shloka 38:
Part of the instructions given by a shivAcArya to newly initiated disciples on conduct befitting a shaiva. This gem is from the kiraNAgama.
In the 266th เค เคงเฅเคฏเคพเคฏ of the เคฎเคคเฅเคธเฅเคฏเคฎเคนเคพเคชเฅเคฐเคพเคฃ named เคชเฅเคฐเคคเคฟเคทเฅเค เคพเคจเฅเคเฅเคฐเฅเคคเคจเคฎเฅ, it is said that after the เคธเฅเคฅเคพเคชเคจ ritual of a deity is completed, apart from the priests, 3 categories of people must be given ornaments & clothes: เคฆเฅเคจ:-abandoned/helpless, เค เคจเฅเคง:-blind, เคเฅเคชเคฃ:-indigent/poor man.
If one wrongly thought this was referring to only the helpless, orphans & distinguished among เคฌเฅเคฐเคพเคนเฅเคฎเคฃเคพเค, note that after stating เคฆเฅเคจ, เค เคจเคพเคฅ, เคตเคฟเคถเคฟเคทเฅเค, etc, the เคถเฅเคฒเฅเค ends with เคฌเฅเคฐเคพเคนเฅเคฎเคฃเฅเค เคธเคน-“together with the brAhmaNas”, indicating that the helpless, etc are a separate group.
Also, note the term, “เคชเฅเคเคฏเฅเคคเฅ”. The เคฆเฅเคจ (destitute) & เค เคจเคพเคฅ (orphan) must be as honored (given เคชเฅเคเคจ) as the เคตเคฟเคถเคฟเคทเฅเค (distinguished: Eg: scholars, otherwise famed/worthy etc] or the เคฌเฅเคฐเคพเคนเฅเคฎเคฃเคพเค (brAhmaNas who lead the prescribed life).
The orphans & helpless are given the same เคชเฅเคเคจ as the distinguished recipients & didn’t have the gold just thrown at them. But this is unsurprising because the donor, right before alighting from the scales, is asked to remember เคฆเฅเคตเฅ as เคธเคฐเฅเคตเคญเฅเคคเคพเคคเฅเคฎเคญเฅเคคเคธเฅเคฅ & that’s the spirit here.
The เคชเฅเคฐเคพเคฃ explicitly has the donor contemplate เคฆเฅเคตเฅ as abiding in the souls of all creatures (เคธเคฐเฅเคตเคญเฅเคคเคพเคคเฅเคฎเคญเฅเคคเคธเฅเคฅ) before he proceeds to donate to various individuals including orphans. But for a famed dharma-hater, our philosophy of เคฌเฅเคฐเคนเฅเคฎเคจเฅ in everyone was utterly useless.
3. Some real-life examples of the Hindu legacy
3a. dharmapurI AdhInam: Providing food & oil to the poor:
dharmapuri AdhInam, a renowned shaiva maTha, is one of those few institutions which not only sustained shAstriya scholarship but also provided succour to the poor & hungry.
Indeed, this great maTha of siddhAnta shaivam is in line with the definition of a maTha in terms of its two-fold function as given by the divine kAmikAgama. Many Hindus often take a word like maTha for granted given its relative simplicity. But what is a maTha, really? A definition follows:
A maTha was essentially where both the diamond sword of scholarship & penetrating insights as well as compassion for strangers can be found.
The above definition speaks volumes for the noble-mindedness of the text, the tradition the text comes from & followers of that tradition. The above verses are from the kAmikAgama, the text which governs a large number of shivAlayas in Tamil Nadu even today. The attached pictures are of dharmapuri AdhInamโs great legacy of feeding the poor & giving them sacred vibhUti to smear on their bodies. Never say that Hindu maThas did not do anything for the poor or that only others do it.
3b. The temple of ErnakuLam mahAdeva providing food for flood victims:
The servants of เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต/เดฎเดนเดพเดฆเตเดต are true to his word given in the เคเคฟเคฐเคฃเคพเคเคฎ/เดเดฟเดฐเดฃเดพเดเดฎ: เค เคจเคพเคฅเค เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคฌเคฒเค เคญเฅเคคเค เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคเคธเฅเคฅเค เคจ เคชเคฐเคฟเคคเฅเคฏเคเฅเคคเฅเฅค / เด เดจเดพเดฅเด เดฆเตเตผเดฌเดฒเด เดญเตเดคเด เดฆเตเตผเดเดธเตเดฅเด เดจ เดชเดฐเดฟเดคเตเดฏเดเตเดคเต| “One should not forsake/abandon an orphan, a weak person, a timid one and one standing in distress/difficulty”. Never say that Hinduism is a religion that does nothing for people in distress.
Prasadams for #KeralaFloods Food prepared in Ernakulam Siva Temple for relief camps @HKupdateKollur Shri Mookambika Temple to donate 1 crore Rs for #KeralaFloods via Kerala CM’s relief fund & 25 lakhs for flood relief in Kodagu, SouthWest Karnataka @HKupdate@SriSri@HKupdate
3c. shrI kumArasvAmi maTha :
Founded by that great devotee of skanda & famed tamizh shaiva siddhAntin, shrI kumaraguruparar (เคเฅเคฎเคฐเคเฅเคฐเฅเคชเคฐเคฐเฅ); feeding pilgrims in kAshi for more than 300 years. The kumArasvAmi maTha’s parent org is tirupannantAL maTha in TN.
3d. เคเฅเคฆเคพเคฐเฅเคถเฅเคตเคฐ (kedAreshvara) temple in Karnataka
This is a record from the เคเฅเคฆเคพเคฐเฅเคถเฅเคตเคฐ (kedAreshvara) temple in Karnataka, from the year 1162. See how the temple not only functioned as a site of vedic studies for เคเคพเคฒเคพเคฎเฅเค-เคถเฅเคต ascetics but also how the vulnerable were all fed, given medical treatment & safety.
Let us see some of the categories given: เคฆเฅเคจ/dIna (poor), เค เคจเคพเคฅ/anAtha (orphans), เคชเคเฅเคเฅ/paGgu (crippled), เค เคจเฅเคง/andha (blind), เคฌเคงเคฟเคฐ/badhira (deaf), เคจเคเฅเคจ/nagna (naked/without clothes), เคญเคเฅเคจ/bhagna (one with broken limbs); this was a place where all these received food & treatment.
Note: เค เคจเฅเคจเคฆเคพเคจ-เคธเฅเคฅเคพเคจเคฎเฅ, เคจเคพเคจเคพเคจเคพเคฅ-เคฐเฅเคเคฟเคเคจ-เคฐเฅเคง-เคญเฅเคทเคพเคเฅเคฏ-เคธเฅเคฅเคพเคจเคฎเฅ, เคธเคเคฒ-เคญเฅเคค-เค เคญเคฏ-เคชเฅเคฐเคฆเคพเคจ-เคธเฅเคฅเคพเคจเคฎเฅ (annadAna-sthAnam, nAnAnAtha-rogijana-rodha-bhaiShAjya-sthAnam, sakala-bhUta-abhaya-pradAna-sthAnam). A place of medicines for many orphans & sick ones; a place granting safety to all creatures.
This is our dharma. These were not schemes of revolutionaries. The ones behind these welfare works were all traditional institutions, which believed in scriptural study & orthodoxy. Helping one suffering is a deeply entrenched part of our dharma; not something revolutionary.
The 19th เคชเคเคฒ of เคเคพเคฎเคฟเคเคพเคเคฎ-เคเคคเฅเคคเคฐเคญเคพเค instructs the เคเคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏ of a เคถเคฟเคตเคพเคฒเคฏ (head-priest) about the เคจเคตเคจเฅเคตเฅเคฆเฅเคฏ: Offering (เคจเฅเคตเฅเคฆเฅเคฏ) of fresh/new grains, the 1st fruits (เคจเคต). After specifying how the fresh crop-yield should be cut & brought back to the temple, the เคเคเคฎ says:
The offering of the fresh crop-yield is a ritual as well as temple-festival. However, the divine เคเคเคฎ always adds an element of kindness. Having presented the 1st fruits of the harvest to the deity, the เคเคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏ leading the temple distributes them to temple visitors. Do keep in mind that for this wonderful institution to actually work today, temples need to have something called, “lands” & more importantly, in the control of devout Hindus. The undermining of temple ownership of land will affect such charitable works adversely.
The single most important ceremony/festival at the very heart of a เคถเคฟเคตเคพเคฒเคฏ is the annual เคฎเคนเฅเคคเฅเคธเคต. This is a complex & lengthy ceremony with numerous rites. Here too, following the procession of the deity, there is a distribution of food to all, including strangers & others.
On the เคตเคฟเคถเคพเค-เคจเคเฅเคทเคคเฅเคฐ of เคตเฅเคถเคพเค เคฎเคพเคธโโ, เคถเฅเคคเคเฅเคฎเฅเคญโ-เคเคคเฅเคธเคตโ is commenced, to pray for rain, food & health during the brutally hot season that brings drought & drought-related diseases. The king himself sponsors the festival & at the end the helpless (เคฆเฅเคจโ) & orphans (เค เคจเคพเคฅโ) are fed.
The เคงเคฐเฅเคฎ places a lot of emphasis on the well-being of servants & others who do various works for us:
โIf he (a householder) so desires, he may interrupt [the apportioned food] for himself, his wife or children but never indeed [he must deprive] a servant who does works for one.โ
The verse may look like an exaggeration but it reflects the importance attached to the proper care & well-being of oneโs domestic helpers or other workmen under oneโs care.
Cheap-ass director of cheap-ass movies, Pa Ranjith, insults our great king rAjarAja chOzha as a robber of dalit lands. There is zero evidence for this assertion. On the contrary…(read on)++ https://t.co/yQYqwv1jkB
— ฤแน gฤซrasaลreแนฃแนญha (@GhorAngirasa) June 9, 2019
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A director in Tamil film industry, insults our great king rAjarAja chOzha as a robber of dalit lands. There is zero evidence for this assertion. On the contrary, although land was (and still is) recognized as belonging to the state, rAjarAja recognized the separate lands owned by paRaiyars (เคชเคฑเฅเคฏเคฐเฅ-s), a caste well-recognized as dalit today and gave them tax-exemptions, along with Hindu temples & Jain monasteries.
Here are two inscriptions from the great shiva temple of tanjAvUr (เคคเคเฅเคเคพเคตเฅเคฐเฅ), the เคฌเฅเคนเคฆเฅเคถเฅเคตเคฐ. The first one is from the second tier of the south wall. Will post original and translation; have even highlighted relevant portions. This is but a sample.
You can also read the english here if the print is difficult: https://www.whatisindia.com/inscriptions/south_indian_inscriptions/volume_2/no_4_south_wall_second_tier.html#_ftnref21
paRayas, apart from kammanas (artisans), Agamika temples (referred to as shrI-koyil) but also village temples (of ayyan & piDAri); these & many more were deducted from the chOzha tax “grid”. What you see here is just a small sample. It shows the tax scheme for tanjAvur (the capital, เคคเคเฅเคเคพเคตเฅเคฐเฅ) & 2 villages: palaiyUr (เคชเคฒเฅเคฏเฅเคฐเฅ) & ArappAr (เคเคฐเคชเฅเคชเคพเคฐเฅ) in the chOzha empire. In each of these 3 units, paRayas were given tax exemption for their lands along with temples.
A vicious conspiracy is taking place—to portray one of bhArata’s most revered and loved kings as a “dalit oppressor”; the noble king who engraved the name of every person of every community who contributed to the building of one of the greatest temples ever. Those who call themselves Hindus must show that this endless playing of the victimhood card by some anti-hindu, filthy ideologues cannot & will not be allowed to tar the image of our religion & great forebears whose memories we cherish. Long live rAjarAja & his blessed name!
There is now a toxic thinking that if some people invoke certain cards or activate certain triggers, the Hindus will cowardly allow them to get away with anything they do or say. Any tamizh who insults great forebears like rAjarAja should not dwell peacefully on tamizh soil.
The second inscription is from the upper tier of the north wall of the same temple (เคฌเฅเคนเคฆเฅเคถเฅเคตเคฐ). Again, I will post original as well as translation, along with highlights of relevant parts. Those knowing tamizh can confirm the translation with little difficulty:
Translation of relevant parts, with highlights corresponding to exact portions highlighted in original:
Certain lands, we see, are exempted from tax in every village. Again, this is just a sample. Posting the entire original of the inscription here with highlights will be a long and tiring exercise. We see that the lands of paRayar cultivators were clearly exempt from tax.
We also note that rAjarAja did not differentiate between Agamika temples (Which his inscriptions refer to as “shrI-koyil”) and the local village temples for deities such as ayyanAr or piDAri. He exempted the lands of both types of temples from taxes.
Kuแธalasaแน gama-Kแนฃetra & the Liแน ga represents the Great Vyomavyฤpฤซ mantra of the Siddhฤnta tradition. Something many may not know is the fact that KN was once a great hub of Saiddhฤntika ลaivam.
This a mantra of 368 syllables. But more importantly, it is a mantra of 81 words. In ลaiva metaphysics, the entirety of material existence (the โpureโ, โpure-impureโ & โimpureโ realms) can be mapped out in 6 various ways. 1 of those ways is the เคชเคฆเคพเคงเฅเคต-
The Vyomavyฤpฤซ is considered supremely great because it encompasses ALL of โinsentient matterโ which is the raw material cause for the worlds, instruments, bodies & objects in the pure & impure dimensions.
How the 81 words map out to the 36 Tattvas & other such dimensions is something that I canโt elaborate here itself. I may do an article on it sometime though it is best grasped through a Guru steeped in the Siddhฤnta.
The mantra also has secret meanings, which have been expounded in Siddhฤnta scripture as well as by the ฤcฤryas. I had briefly touched upon this here, upon request:
Another way one can interpret the 2 เคตเฅเคฏเฅเคฎโ-s is simply that they refer to the two spaces within which เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคฎเคพเคฏเคพ & เค เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคฎเคพเคฏเคพ exist.
To give a little more idea of its importance, it has to be grasped in the context of ritual. Here, that would be Dฤซkแนฃฤ (initiation).
In Siddhฤnta initiation, the soul, though all-pervasive, has to โclimbโ through the ontological ladder to reach the state beyond all insentient matter & bondages. Initiation allows this extremely complex act to happen with our own very imperfect bodies & limbs as tools.
What can possibly link acts happening at an infinitesimal, micro-level (our body, etc) & the realities of a grand ontological framework (all pervasive soul realizing its innate divinity by coursing through levels)?? The link is through the form of mantras.
We โcallโ those levels by employing the mantras meant for that level. We get an initiateโs soul to that level & make the soul enjoy the offerings of that level & then sever its association with that level โall by means of mantras.
These mantras accomplish the grand acts. But it is the all-pervasive ลiva who has to command these mantras. Who else has authority to command the mantras who lord over even the lords of the lords of gods?
The ฤcฤrya, who has received the ฤcฤryฤbhiแนฃeka โ when he calls upon these mantras in his capacity as ลiva himself, they carry out their functions & help the soul realize its innate ลivatva.
So, you just have to โcallโ those ontological levels & โspeak into beingโ the changes you want at those levels. There are different ways of โmaking the ontological shake-upsโ happen. 6 as the Siddhฤnta puts it. And 1 of those ways of calling is the way of words – the Padฤdhva.
In เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคจเฅเคคโ-เคถเฅเคต metaphysics, the entirety of existence has เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ as its material cause. Here, เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ is NOT an illusion, mere appearance or “neither existent nor non-existent”.
เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ is a positive reality, the basic raw material which evolves into our bodies, cognitive instruments, worlds & objects (เคคเคจเฅ-เคเคฐเคฃโ-เคญเฅเคตเคจโ-เคญเฅเคโ).
Now, this existence made of เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ has two paths:
The ‘pure’ path, เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคงเฅเคตเคพ, made up of เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคฎเคพเคฏเคพ or ‘เคฌเคฟเคจเฅเคฆเฅ’ and
The ‘impure’ path, เค เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคงเฅเคตเคพ, made up of เค เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคฎเคพเคฏเคพโ. In the เค เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคงเฅเคตเคพ, the เคฌเฅเคฐเคนเฅเคฎเคพเคฃเฅเคก occupies the lowest part. Within this เคฌเฅเคฐเคนเฅเคฎเคพเคฃเฅเคก, our earth occupies an infinitesimally tiny portion.
Our sentient souls, which are of the nature of pure consciousness (เคเคฟเคคเฅ / เคเคฟเคเฅเคเคเฅเคคเคฟ), have been obscured since eternity by a primordial, insentient substance called เคฎเคฒ (mala). This เคฎเคฒ has infinite powers attaching itself to infinite souls.
In the case of ordinary humans like ourselves, the power of this เคฎเคฒ is very unripened/immature (เค เคชเคเฅเคต) & has been so since eternity. This เคฎเคฒ enables us souls to be bound to เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ (เค เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคฎเคพเคฏเคพ)โ through เคเคฐเฅเคฎเคจเฅ since eternity.
The เคเคฐเฅเคฎ we have saved up so far; we experience its fruits through our bodies, instruments, worlds & objects in these worlds, which are made up of เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ. This เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ we possess (bodies, instruments & objects) & live in (worlds) becomes a fertile ground for performing more เคเคฐเฅเคฎเคจเฅ.
But เคถเคฟเคต’s grace is such that he enables the products of เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ (เคคเคจเฅ-เคเคฐเคฃโ-เคญเฅเคตเคจโ-เคญเฅเคโ) to serve as conduits for the ripening of our เคเคฐเฅเคฎ – rituals enjoined for the bodies, sacred acts to engage the senses/instruments, temples & เคฏเคเฅเคเคถเคพเคฒโ-s for the worlds & sacred objects to see, etc.
In the เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคงเฅเคตเคพ, เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคฎเคพเคฏเคพ does not bind the souls residing there. Instead, it is the raw material for the various transcendental enjoyments (เคญเฅเค) & powers (เค เคงเคฟเคเคพเคฐ) enjoyed by the residents of the เคถเฅเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคงเฅเคต, who approximate เคถเคฟเคต in terms of their เคถเคฟเคตเคคเฅเคตเคฎเฅ (“เคถเคฟเคต”-ness).
Approximating เคถเคฟเคต means that they are very close to recovering their identity as the unsullied consciousness that has always been innate to them. Their เคฎเคฒ is extremely เคชเคเฅเคตโโ. Their powers of knowledge & action are extremely high in magnitude, though not infinite like เคถเคฟเคต yet.
Now, this entirety of เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ, all of existence, can be mapped onto six parallel paths (เคทเคกเคงเฅเคตเคพ). Three of these paths are เคตเคพเคเค (the word, that which conveys) while the other three are เคตเคพเคเฅเคฏโโ (the object/predicate, that which is being conveyed).
The six are:
เคเคฒเคพ (5 powers of เคถเคฟเคต)
เคคเคคเฅเคคเฅเคต (36 fundamental constituents of existence)
เคญเฅเคตเคจโ (224 overarching worlds within which transcendental & mundane enjoyments take place)
เคตเคฐเฅเคฃ (51 phonemes)
เคชเคฆ (81 words of the เคตเฅเคฏเฅเคฎเคตเฅเคฏเคพเคชเฅ เคฎเคจเฅเคคเฅเคฐ)
เคฎเคจเฅเคคเฅเคฐ (11 เคฎเคจเฅเคคเฅเคฐ-s)
Since เคถเคฟเคต is all-pervasive, he eternally encompasses all of เคฎเคพเคฏเคพ. So, though เคถเคฟเคต is pure consciousness & has no connection with matter, he is visualized as having a body containing the 6 เค เคงเฅเคตเคพ-โโโs.
There is an old, anonymous verse in tamizh which gives a meditation of เคถเคฟเคต as เค เคงเฅเคตเคฎเฅเคฐเฅเคคเคฟ, containing the 6 parallel paths in himself as his various body parts & layers, which I came across about 2-3 months ago.
At that time, I had asked เคถเคฟเคต to point to a proper scriptural source & forgot about it. And yesterday, one thing led to another & he led me to the following beautiful เคงเฅเคฏเคพเคจ in the เคถเฅเคฐเฅเคฎเคฆเคเฅเคฐเคถเคฟเคตเคพเคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏโ-เคชเคฆเฅเคงเคคเคฟ (เคเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏเคพเคเฅเคฐเคฎเคฆเฅเคฏเฅเคคเคฟเคเคพ of เคถเฅเคฐเฅเคฎเคฆเฅ-เค เคเฅเคฐเคถเคฟเคตเคพเคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏ).
On a separate note, itโs a joy to be able to read granthalipi with only a little difficulty. I will transliterate & translate the above verse later if possible. Also, there is a small spelling slip in the first line. Should be mลซrdha not mลซrแธa.
He with the เคจเคฟเคตเฅเคคเฅเคคเคฟเคเคฒเคพ as his knees, thighs & foot (basically, the whole leg); He with the [224] เคญเฅเคตเคจ-s (worlds) as his bodily hair.
He with the [51] Phonemes as skin (เคคเฅเคตเคเฅ) & the [11] mantras as his blood; He with the [81] words [of the เคตเฅเคฏเฅเคฎเคตเฅเคฏเคพเคชเฅ-เคฎเคจเฅเคคเฅเคฐ] as his muscles & the veins.
He with the [36] fundamental essences (เคคเคคเฅเคคเฅเคต-s) as the เคงเคพเคคเฅ-s such as the bones (เค เคธเฅเคฅเคฟ), nerves (เคฎเคเฅเคเคพ) & semen (เคถเฅเคเฅเคฒ); He the bestower of good enjoyment & liberation.
Great traditional ฤcฤryas of old engaged in fierce debate.
At times, they wrote treatises even against highly venerated elders of their own Sampradฤya, because of their zeal for what they saw as the correct Siddhฤnta & the intellectual honesty in being vocal about it.
Meanwhile, you have here a group of people who are convinced about the omniscience of their teacher & have zero tolerance for the slightest criticism. In fact, they are offended that people are even shocked by what they heard.
And they accuse Satsampradฤyikas of being rigid & blind.
See, this is where Hindus need to appreciate the value of their ลฤstras. They provide a safeguard against personality cults because even the highest ฤcฤrya of a ลฤstriya Satsampradฤya MUST be accountable to the Mลซlaลฤstras & Pลซrvฤcฤrya-granthas.
Jokers are those who accuse unenforceable ลฤstras (which they can violate with impunity anyday, anytime) of robbing them of their freedom & individuality but canโt see how they are magically unable to critically engage a single manโs comment, whatever it is.
They are robbed of the freedom & individuality they celebrate so much but canโt see the robbery. This is not Gurubhakti. Donโt use that label. Gurubhakti is not the suspension of thinking, standards or thresholds.
Sลซreลvarฤcฤrya could depart from his Guru, ลaแน kara on some views. Madhusลซdana Sarasvatฤซ could depart from ลaแน kara as well. A ลrฤซbhฤแนฃya was born because a Kลซreลa could raise questions about his Guru, Rฤmฤnujaโs definition of a Jฤซva.
Kฤลmฤซra ลaivฤcฤrya Rฤmakaแนแนญha could pay his deep respects to Saiddhฤntika ฤcฤrya Bแนhaspati while disagreeing with him on the correct view regarding a tricky issue in SiddhฤntaโThe liberation of the highest of all beings endowed with divine authority, Ananta the Vidyeลvara.
Kumฤrila writes his Tantravฤrttika on ลabarasvฤmฤซโs Mฤซmฤmฬsasลซtrabhฤแนฃya but does not hesitate to depart from his predecessorโs commentary on the Mฤซmฤmฬsasลซtra in several places.
There was an ancient practice where some studied all the Vedas for a grand total of 48 years (from the day of their Upanayana). This is a practice that is cited with respect by even Baudhฤyana though he too notes the inherent problem.
ลabarasvฤmฤซ deconstructs this provision brutally, stating that it contradicts the Vedaโs command to set up ลrautฤgni while the hair is still black & must have a hetu (reason โulterior motiveโ) where men hide their lack of manhood & use the 48 years as an excuse to avoid marriage.
Medhฤtithi has no hesitation rejecting the opinions of sages that approve of voluntary sahagamana, saying that they fall foul of the Vedaโs command to not end oneโs life before the natural expiry.
5. เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ was ambitious & eager to do the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ but without the requisite wealth, resources & military might, it would be a futile endeavour. เคถเคฟเคต had blessed & allowed เคเคฐเคธเคเคง to conquer without failure & thus capture 86 เคเฅเคทเคคเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏ-s & their troops.++ #shivabhAratam#เคถเคฟเคตเคญเคพเคฐเคคเคฎเฅ
In this sacred time of the year, we dedicate to เคถเคฟเคต this thread about the role in the เคฎเคนเคพเคญเคพเคฐเคค of his particular form as เคถเฅเคฐเฅเคเคฃเฅเค -เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ.
1. The great เคเคทเคฟ & ritualist, เคฌเค-เคฆเคพเคฒเฅเคญเฅเคฏ asks เคงเฅเคคเคฐเคพเคทเฅเคเฅเคฐ for cattle, who arrogantly calls him a เคฌเฅเคฐเคนเฅเคฎเคฌเคจเฅเคงเฅ (lit. a เคฌเฅเคฐเคพเคนเฅเคฎเคฃโs kinsman, effectively means a โnamesake เคฌเฅเคฐเคพเคนเฅเคฎเคฃโ) & offers cattle already dead due to sickness caused by เคญเคเคตเคพเคจเฅ-เคชเคถเฅเคชเคคเคฟ. เคฌเค-เคฆเคพเคฒเฅเคญเฅเคฏ then offers the whole เคเฅเคฐเฅ kingdom with the meats of the sick cattle & black rice grains to เค เคเฅเคจเคฟ-เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐเคตเคคเฅ, with the เคเฅเคฐเฅ country wasting away, till เคงเฅเคคเคฐเคพเคทเฅเคเฅเคฐ realizes his error and begs the เคเคทเคฟ to release his kingdom. But the sacrifice of เคเฅเคฐเฅ-s to เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ had begun & this only prefigures the even bloodier sacrifice to take place. The account given with เคฌเคฒเคฐเคพเคฎโs เคฏเคพเคคเฅเคฐ in เคถเคพเคฒเฅเคฏเคชเคฐเฅเคต must be read together with account given in เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃเคฏเคเฅเคฐเฅเคตเฅเคฆโs เคเคพเค เค-เคธเคเคนเคฟเคคเคพ for fuller details.
2. เคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธ explains to เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคชเคฆ that it is เคถเคเคเคฐ who imprisoned 5 old เคเคจเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ-s & sends them down as the 5 เคชเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต-s.
3. เคถเคฟเคต enables king เคถเฅเคตเฅเคคเคเคฟ to fulfill his dream of performing sacrifices incessantly (เคถเคฟเคต sends เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคตเคพเคธ to accomplish that as normal human priests are too weak) provided the king can pour ghee into เค เคเฅเคจเคฟ for 12 years uninterruptedly as เคคเคชเคธเฅ. The king fulfils this condition, causing เค เคเฅเคจเคฟโs indigestion, which in turn necessitates the summoning of เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ & เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ to help with เคเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต-เคฆเคนเคจ, which will cause เคชเคฐเฅเคเฅเคทเคฟเคคโs death & eventually the เคธเคฐเฅเคชเคธเคคเฅเคคเฅเคฐ.
4. เคถเคเคเคฐ appoints เคถเฅเคฐเฅ as the common partner of the 5 เคเคจเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ-s & เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคชเคฆเฅ in her previous life performs เคคเคชเคธเฅ to เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต to attain a good husband & when the great god appears, she asks the boon 5 times, not understanding the godโs smile as โyesโ. He assures her that this will take place in her next life. Hearing this story, เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคชเคฆ says that the sin of holding a polyandrous marriage will not touch him as it was sanctioned by เคถเคเคเคฐ.
5. เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ was ambitious & eager to do the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ but without the requisite wealth, resources & military might, it would be a futile endeavour. เคถเคฟเคต had blessed & allowed เคเคฐเคธเคเคง to conquer without failure & thus capture 86 เคเฅเคทเคคเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏ-s & their troops. เคเคฐเคธเคเคง had vowed to sacrifice all his victims to เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต when his captured kings reaches a total of 100. เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ says that even he had to flee Mathura due to เคเคฐเคธเคเคง. Eventually, a coalition of เคญเฅเคฎ, เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ & เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ kills hum & those 86 kings are freed, who help เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ with the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ. Why is this important? Itโs เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐโs & by extension, the เคชเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต-sโ affluence which makes เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคฏเฅเคงเคจ jealous & start conspiring about the dice game. The level of success of the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ depended on the เคชเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต-เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ being the ones to defeat เคเคฐเคธเคเคง. If เคถเคฟเคต withdrew his grace & allowed him to be defeated earlier by someone else, then the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ might not have been as successful.
6. เคถเคฟเคต grants the เคฌเฅเคฐเคนเฅเคฎเคถเคฟเคฐเคธเฅ weapon to เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ after a fight, where he leaves the latter bloodied. This fight is a great turning point. The intimate contact with เคญเคเคตเคพเคจเฅ turns out to be a huge blessing for him.
7. When เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคฏเฅเคงเคจ once had to be rescued by เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ from the เคเคพเคจเฅเคงเคฐเฅเคต-s, he is depressed & wishes to die & reach heaven. The เคฆเคพเคจเคต-s & เคฆเฅเคคเฅเคฏ-s know that he was born to strengthen their cause, which will be frustrated if he attempts to fast to death. They bring him to their world with the help of a เคเฅเคคเฅเคฏเคพ (a goddess generated here by an เค เคฅเคฐเฅเคตเคตเฅเคฆ-rite) & tell him that his upper 1/2 was created by เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต with เคตเคเฅเคฐ-s, making it extremely strong & his lower 1/2 by เคเคฎเคพ, thereby making it soft. This strength in the upper body and weakness in the lower portion will be crucial in the final battle between เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคฏเฅเคงเคจ & เคญเฅเคฎ.
8. เคเคฏเคฆเฅเคฐเคฅโs boon from เคถเคฟเคต meant that all the เคชเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต-s & their whole army, with the exception of เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ who was fighting at the other end anyway, were able to be contained by him, allowing him to have เค เคญเคฟเคฎเคจเฅเคฏเฅ killed without resistance.
9. เคถเคฟเคต grants เคชเคพเคถเฅเคชเคคเคพเคธเฅเคคเฅเคฐ to เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ
10. After เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคฃโs death, เค เคถเฅเคตเคคเฅเคฅเคพเคฎเคพ is enraged & slays 3 key เคชเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต warriors & also has เคธเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ, เคงเฅเคทเฅเคเคฆเฅเคฏเฅเคฎเฅเคจ & เคญเฅเคฎเคธเฅเคจ driven away from the battlefield. เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ, upset, challenges him to a fight. เค เคถเฅเคตเคคเฅเคฅเคพเคฎเคพ fires the เค เคเฅเคจเฅเคฏเคพเคธเฅเคคเฅเคช at เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ & เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ but while it burns up a large number of the army, it does not harm those 2 at all. Dejected & saying, โเคงเคฟเคเฅเคงเคฟเคเฅเคธเคฐเฅเคตเคฎเคฟเคฆเค เคฎเคฟเคฅเฅเคฏเคพโ (โFie, fie; all this is falseโ), he leaves the battlefield to get clarity from เคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธ. เคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธ explains to him that เคถเคเคเคฐ, pleased with the เคคเคชเคธเฅ, had formerly given a boon to เคจเคพเคฐเคพเคฏเคฃ that he will ever remain invincible & should เคถเคเคเคฐ himself confront him in battle, he will cause the latter to be victorious.
11. เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ sees an effulgent being killing all the soldiers of him, despite him not using his weapon at all. เคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธ explains that the one doing all actions on the battlefield is เคถเคเคเคฐ.
12. The night-raid, where เค เคถเฅเคตเคคเฅเคฅเคพเคฎเคพ, with เคเคตเฅเคถ of เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต, kills เคงเฅเคทเฅเคเคฆเฅเคฏเฅเคฎเฅเคจ & the เคเคชเคชเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต-s, marking the end to the war-sacrifice, where เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ takes the remnants left behind at the site of sacrifice (those left behind at the camp after 18th evening).
13. Forgot to include 3 more points. เคเฅเคจเฅเคคเฅ received a boon to summon any chosen เคฆเฅเคต to obtain a child. Who granted this boon? เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคตเคพเคธ, who is described by เคถเคฟเคต himself at another place in the เคฎเคนเคพเคญเคพเคฐเคค as his own เค เคเคถ (portion).
14. Who granted เคเคพเคจเฅเคงเคพเคฐเฅ the boon of having a hundred sons? Again, it was เคถเคฟเคต only. For the destined war between เคฆเฅเคต-s & เค เคธเฅเคฐ-s, the great god supplied a 100 for the เค เคธเฅเคฐ side.
15. เค เคเคฌเคพโs reincarnation as เคถเคฟเคเคฃเฅเคกเฅ & เคญเฅเคทเฅเคฎโs fall due to เคถเคฟเคเคฃเฅเคกเฅ (เค เคเคฌเคพโs revenge) are all facilitated by the blessings of เคถเคฟเคต.
Thereโs 1 more example in which we see a seemingly small thing facilitated by เคถเคฟเคต eventually leading to a huge conclusion (just like the condition he laid for เคถเฅเคตเฅเคคเคเคฟ, the 12-year continuous offering of ghee, led to drastic consequences for เคชเคฐเคฟเคเฅเคทเคฟเคค & the เคจเคพเค-s).
16. Now, in the lineage of เคฏเคพเคฆเฅ, there was เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃโs father เคตเคธเฅเคฆเฅเคต & one เคถเคฟเคจเคฟ. Now, เคถเคฟเคจเคฟ attends the เคธเฅเคตเคฏเคฎเฅเคตเคฐ of เคฆเฅเคตเคเฅ &, defeating the kings there, stationed เคฆเฅเคตเคเฅ in his chariot, to take her as bride for his clansman, เคตเคธเฅเคฆเฅเคต. Now, the son of เคฌเคพเคนเฅเคฒเคฟเค, who is the brother of เคถเคพเคเคคเคจเฅ & grandson of เคชเฅเคฐเคคเฅเคช, เคธเฅเคฎเคฆเคคเฅเคค, could not bear to see this display of might by that เคฏเคพเคฆเคต & this challenged เคถเคฟเคจเคฟ to a fight. In that fight, เคถเคฟเคจเคฟ humiliates เคธเฅเคฎเคฆเคคเฅเคค by pinning him down to the ground & while holding his hair in front of 1000s of เคเคคเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏ-s, lets him go โmercyโ. เคธเฅเคฎเคฆเคคเฅเคค then prays to เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต for a son who will return that humiliation to เคถเคฟเคจเคฟโs son. That son of เคธเฅเคฎเคฆเคคเฅเคค was เคญเฅเคฐเคฟเคถเฅเคฐเคตเคธเฅ & เคถเคฟเคจเคฟโs was เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ. During the war, despite the invincibility of the เคตเคพเคฐเฅเคทเฅเคฃเฅเคฏ (เคฏเคพเคฆเคต) warriors, เคญเฅเคฐเคฟเคถเฅเคฐเคตเคธเฅ was able to completely subjugate เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ, by the grace of เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต. He humiliatingly drags him on the ground with everyone watching, just like it happened to his father decades ago. At the end, เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ saves เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ by firing an arrow, cutting off the arm of เคญเฅเคฐเคฟเคถเฅเคฐเคตเคธเฅ, who could not even see เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ. When เคญเฅเคฐเคฟเคถเฅเคฐเคตเคธเฅ questions the injustice of attacking one engaged in combat with another, เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ reminds him of his own role in เค เคญเคฟเคฎเคจเฅเคฏเฅโs death. Feeling dejected, he sits down to meditate & เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ, smarting from the humiliation, shamelessly kills him.
Wait, what is so important about this? Some lesser-known character died. So? Now, only 3 warriors from เคเฅเคฐเคต side survivedโเค เคถเฅเคตเคคเฅเคฅเคพเคฎเคพ, เคเฅเคชเคพเคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏ & เคเฅเคคเคตเคฐเฅเคฎเคพ. Now, เคเฅเคคเคตเคฐเฅเคฎเคพ was also a เคฏเคพเคฆเคต like เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ, albeit fighting on the opposite side.
See, เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ was condemned by both sides for his disgraceful act & although time can temporarily make people forget, one never shakes of such an evil reputation. 36 years after the war, on one fine day when the เคฏเคพเคฆเคต-s were intoxicated, เคเฅเคคเคตเคฐเฅเคฎเคพ disparages เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ for his deed & taunts him about it. This is the starting point of the เคฏเคพเคฆเคต intar-clan massacre, where เคฏเคพเคฆเคต-s started slaughtering each other. Had เคธเฅเคฎเคฆเคคเฅเคค not asked เคถเคฟเคต for that boon for a son to return his humiliation against his enemyโs son, the dishonorable killing in response to that revenge by เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ would have not occurred & it wouldnโt have become a trigger for the เคฏเคพเคฆเคต-sโ final conflict!
โEveryone thinks that they are the gamblers, the players of dangerous games & then comes a god who plays games with these very gamblers as the dice & stakes.โ
เคถเฅเคฐเฅเคเคฃเฅเค -เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ is very compassionate towards the simple เคฌเฅเคฐเคพเคนเฅเคฎเคฃ reciting the เคตเฅเคฆ in devotion or the เคเฅเคช (cowherd) or the women carrying water as the morning sun rises. It is those in power he tosses & throws about like dice. To that great god, a 1000 prostrations!
Postscript: Only 3 warriors from the เคเฅเคฐเคต side who survived are all associated with เคถเคฟเคต in some way. เค เคถเฅเคตเคคเฅเคฅเคพเคฎเคพ is born of a portion of เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ himself. เคเฅเคชเคพเคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏ is the contribution of the เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ-s & เคเฅเคคเคตเคฐเฅเคฎเคพ that of the เคฎเคฐเฅเคคเฅ-s; both classes of gods being like เคนเคฐโs children.
The reason they survive is because neither เคถเคฟเคต nor those acting as his empowered agents are bound by the ordinary rules of morality or โperceivedโ justice that binds others. They have a divine purpose whose morality transcends the immediately perceptible situations & characters.
To an ordinary person, the night-raid conducted by the above three is nothing short of brutal & cruel. However, as the เคฌเฅเคฐเคนเฅเคฎเคพเคฃเฅเคก-เคชเฅเคฐเคพเคฃ tells us, the เคเคชเคชเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต-s had secured a boon that they will not suffer residence on earth for long. เคถเคฟเคต only gives what they want.
The same goes for เค เคญเคฟเคฎเคจเฅเคฏเฅ, incarnation of เคฌเฅเคง. His father, เคเคจเฅเคฆเฅเคฐเคฆเฅเคต, had secured a promise that he will part with his son as a contribution to the destined war between the human incarnations of devas & those of their enemies, on the condition that his son leaves earth by 16.
What about เคงเฅเคทเฅเคเคฆเฅเคฏเฅเคฎเฅเคจ? See, the war is described as a grand vedic sacrifice (เคถเฅเคฐเฅเคคเคฏเคพเค) & เคงเฅเคทเฅเคเคฆเฅเคฏเฅเคฎเฅเคจ is described as the เคฆเคเฅเคทเคฟเคฃเคพ (the fee given to the เคเคคเฅเคตเคฟเค-s for helping conduct the sacrifice)! Who are the 4 main priests? เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ & the 3 sons of เคเฅเคจเฅเคคเฅ!
The เคฆเคเฅเคทเคฟเคฃเคพ shoukd have been given to the 4 priests (should have gone with the เคชเคพเคฃเฅเคกเคต-s) after the completion of sacrifice (I.e. after the war) but it is instead left behind at the site of sacrifice (I.e. at the camp). Now, the เคถเฅเคฐเฅเคคเคฟ tells us what?
It warns us that even an agreed เคฆเคเฅเคทเคฟเคฃเคพ can become the portion of เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ if it is left behind at the site of sacrifice. And เคฐเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ indeed claims his remnants.
The beauty of เคถเคฟเคต is that he is not on any groupโs side. The เคถเฅเคฐเฅเคคเคฟ tells us that เค เคธเฅเคฐ-s suffer from lack of เคฆเคฏเคพ, we humans from lack of เคฆเคพเคจ & เคฆเฅเคต-s from lack of เคฆเคฎ (self-restraint). As such, how can it do them good to keep aiding them without correction?
Therefore, เคถเคฟเคต puts in place anyone who displays ignorance, เคฆเฅเคต, เค เคธเฅเคฐ or otherwise. This is why, an เค เคธเฅเคฐ like เค เคจเฅเคงเค could be redeemed & made a เคเคฃเคจเคพเคฅ of เคถเคฟเคต.
17. To add another point, after เคถเคฟเคตเคธเคนเคธเฅเคฐเคจเคพเคฎ was revealed by เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ to เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ, different sages come to speak of the glory of worshipping เคถเคฟเคต & among them, เคชเคฐเคพเคถเคฐ-เคเคทเคฟ stated that he worshipped เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต for a son who will be a เคตเฅเคฆเคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธ & เคถเคฟเคต blesses him with more than what he asked. Not only will he become a เคตเฅเคฆเคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธ (เคตเฅเคฆเคพเคจเคพเค เค เคธ เคตเฅ เคตเคเฅเคคเคพ) but will also be 1 of the เคธเคชเฅเคค-เคเคทเคฟ in the era of เคธเคพเคตเคฐเฅเคฃ-เคฎเคจเฅ (เคธเคพเคตเคฐเฅเคฃเคธเฅเคฏ เคฎเคจเฅเค เคธเคฐเฅเคเฅ เคธเคชเฅเคคเคฐเฅเคทเคฟเคถเฅเค เคญเคตเคฟเคทเฅเคฏเคคเคฟ), the author of an เคเคคเคฟเคนเคพเคธ & เคชเฅเคฐเคพเคฃ-s (เคเคคเคฟเคนเคพเคธเคธเฅเคฏ เคเคฐเฅเคคเคพ เค เคชเฅเคคเฅเคฐเคธเฅเคคเฅ เคเคเคคเฅ เคนเคฟเคคเค) & wait, relevances to เคฎเคนเคพเคญเคพเคฐเคค?
เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต also gives a specific blessing that this son of เคชเคฐเคพเคถเคฐ-เคเคทเคฟ will be a generator of the lineage of เคเฅเคฐเฅ (เคเฅเคฐเฅเคตเคเคถเคเคฐ), although this was not specifically sought by the เคเคทเคฟ. And indeed, เคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธ revived the line of เคเฅเคฐเฅ at a most critical time! In เคธเคญเคพเคชเคฐเฅเคต, after the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏโs completion (a เคฏเคเฅเค reputed in scriptures to be risky in terms of bringing calamities afterwards), เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ naively asks เคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธ if the killing of เคถเคฟเคถเฅเคชเคพเคฒ by เคตเคพเคธเฅเคฆเฅเคต has warded off those ill effects of the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ as predicted by เคจเคพเคฐเคฆ.
See เคญเคเคตเคพเคจเฅ เคตเฅเคฏเคพเคธโs answer from เคคเฅเคฐเคฏเฅเคฆเคถ เคธเคฎเคพ onwards. He says that these ill-effects will last for 13 years (which เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ doesnโt get yet), culminating in a destruction of เคเฅเคทเคคเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏ-s, & that เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ will dream of, that very night, เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต facing the south.
The dream indicates the destruction that will result from the war & can be traced to the jealousy experienced by เคฆเฅเคฐเฅเคฏเฅเคงเคจ as a result of the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ & how countless illustrious kings & warriors will head towards the southern quarter of the ancestors (i.e. death).
18. For how the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏโs performance was itself linked to เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคตโs intervention, scroll up this thread & read point No. 5.
5. เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ was ambitious & eager to do the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ but without the requisite wealth, resources & military might, it would be a futile endeavour. เคถเคฟเคต had blessed & allowed เคเคฐเคธเคเคง to conquer without failure & thus capture 86 เคเฅเคทเคคเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏ-s & their troops.++ #shivabhAratam#เคถเคฟเคตเคญเคพเคฐเคคเคฎเฅ
En cette pรฉriode sacrรฉe de l’annรฉe, nous dรฉdions ร Shiva ce fil sur le rรดle dans le Mahabharata de sa forme particuliรจre en tant que Srikantha-Rudra.
Le grand sage et ritualiste, Bak-dalbhya demande du bรฉtail ร Dhritarashtra, qui l’appelle avec arrogance un Brahmabandhu (littรฉralement un parent d’un brahmane, ce qui signifie en fait un ยซ brahmane homonyme ยป) et offre du bรฉtail dรฉjร mort ร cause d’une maladie causรฉe par le Seigneur Pashupati. Bak-Dalbhya offre alors tout le royaume de Kuru avec la viande du bรฉtail malade et les grains de riz noir ร Agni-Rudravat, tandis que le pays de Kuru dรฉpรฉrit, jusqu’ร ce que Dhritarashtra rรฉalise son erreur et supplie le sage de libรฉrer son royaume. Mais le sacrifice de Kuru-s ร Rudra avait commencรฉ et cela ne prรฉfigure que le sacrifice encore plus sanglant qui allait avoir lieu. Le rรฉcit du voyage de Balarama ร Shalyaparva doit รชtre lu conjointement avec le rรฉcit donnรฉ dans le Kathaka-samhita de Krishna Yajurveda pour plus de dรฉtails.
Vyasa explique ร Drupada que c’est Shankara qui a emprisonnรฉ 5 vieux Indra et les a envoyรฉs sous le nom de 5 Pandava.
Shiva permet au roi Svetaki de rรฉaliser son rรชve d’accomplir des sacrifices sans cesse (Shiva envoie Durvasa pour accomplir cela car les prรชtres humains normaux sont trop faibles) ร condition que le roi puisse verser du ghee dans le feu pendant 12 ans sans interruption sous forme de Tapas. Le roi remplit cette condition, provoquant l’indigestion d’Agni, ce qui nรฉcessite ร son tour l’invocation de Krishna et d’Arjuna pour aider ร Khandava-dahana, ce qui entraรฎnera la mort de Parikshit et finalement le Sarpasattra.
Shankara nomme Sri comme partenaire commun des 5 Indra-s et Draupadi dans sa vie antรฉrieure fait des Tapas ร Mahadeva pour obtenir un bon mari et lorsque le grand dieu apparaรฎt, elle demande la faveur 5 fois, ne comprenant pas le sourire du dieu comme un ยซ oui ยป. Il lui assure que cela se produira dans sa prochaine vie. En entendant cette histoire, Drupada dit que le pรฉchรฉ d’avoir un mariage polyandre ne le touchera pas car il a รฉtรฉ sanctionnรฉ par Shankara.
Yudhisthira รฉtait ambitieux et dรฉsireux de rรฉaliser le Rajasuya, mais sans la richesse, les ressources et la puissance militaire requises, ce serait une entreprise vaine. Shiva avait bรฉni et permis ร Jarasandh de conquรฉrir sans faute et ainsi de capturer 86 Kshatriya et leurs troupes. Jarasandha avait jurรฉ de sacrifier toutes ses victimes ร Mahadeva lorsque ses rois capturรฉs atteindraient un total de 100. Krishna dit que mรชme lui a dรป fuir Mathura ร cause de Jarasandha. Finalement, une coalition de Bhima, Arjuna et Krishna le tue et ces 86 rois sont libรฉrรฉs, qui aident Yudhisthira avec le Rajasuya. Pourquoi est-ce important ? C’est l’abondance de Yudhisthira et par extension celle des Pandava qui rend Duryodhana jaloux et commence ร conspirer ร propos du jeu de dรฉs. Le niveau de succรจs du Rajasuya dรฉpendait de la capacitรฉ des Pandavas-Krishna ร vaincre Jarasandh. Si Shiva avait retirรฉ sa grรขce et lui avait permis d’รชtre vaincu plus tรดt par quelqu’un d’autre, alors le Rajasuya n’aurait peut-รชtre pas eu autant de succรจs.
Shiva accorde l’arme de Brahmashira ร Arjuna aprรจs un combat, oรน il laisse ce dernier ensanglantรฉ. Ce combat est un grand tournant. Le contact intime avec Dieu sโavรจre รชtre une immense bรฉnรฉdiction pour lui.
Lorsque Duryodhana a dรป รชtre sauvรฉ par Arjuna des Gandharvas, il est dรฉprimรฉ et souhaite mourir et atteindre le paradis. Les Dรฉmons savent qu’il est nรฉ pour renforcer leur cause, qui sera frustrรฉe s’il tente de jeรปner jusqu’ร la mort. Ils l’amรจnent dans leur monde avec l’aide d’une Kritya (une dรฉesse gรฉnรฉrรฉe ici par un rite Atharva Veda) et lui disent que sa moitiรฉ supรฉrieure a รฉtรฉ crรฉรฉe par Mahadeva avec des Vajra-s, la rendant extrรชmement forte et sa moitiรฉ infรฉrieure par Uma, la rendant ainsi douce. Cette force dans la partie supรฉrieure du corps et cette faiblesse dans la partie infรฉrieure seront cruciales dans la bataille finale entre Duryodhana et Bhima.
La bรฉnรฉdiction de Shiva sur Jayadratha signifiait que tous les Pandava et toute leur armรฉe, ร l’exception d’Arjuna qui combattait de toute faรงon ร l’autre bout, pouvaient รชtre contenus par lui, lui permettant de faire tuer Abhimanyu sans rรฉsistance.
Shiva accorde Pashupatastra ร Arjuna
Aprรจs la mort de Drona, Ashvatthama est enragรฉ et tue 3 guerriers Pandava clรฉs et fait รฉgalement chasser Satyaki, Dhrishtadyumna et Bhimasena du champ de bataille. Arjun, contrariรฉ, le dรฉfie en combat. Ashvatthama tire l’Agneyastpa sur Krishna et Arjuna mais alors qu’il brรปle une grande partie de l’armรฉe, il ne fait aucun mal ร ces deux-lร . Dรฉcouragรฉ et disant : ยซ Dhigdhiksarvamidam mithya ยป (ยซ Fi, fi, tout cela est faux ยป), il quitte le champ de bataille pour obtenir des รฉclaircissements de Vyasa. Vyasa lui explique que Shankara, satisfait des austรฉritรฉs, avait autrefois donnรฉ une faveur ร Narayana selon laquelle il resterait toujours invincible et que si Shankara lui-mรชme l’affrontait au combat, il ferait en sorte que ce dernier soit victorieux.
Arjun voit un รชtre resplendissant tuer tous ses soldats, bien qu’il n’utilise pas du tout son arme. Vyas explique que celui qui effectue toutes les actions sur le champ de bataille est Shankara.
Le raid nocturne, oรน Ashvatthama, avec la passion de Mahadeva, tue Dhrishtadyumna et les Uppandava, marquant la fin du sacrifice de guerre, oรน Rudra prend les restes laissรฉs sur le site du sacrifice (ceux laissรฉs au camp aprรจs le 18 au soir).
J’ai oubliรฉ d’inclure 3 points supplรฉmentaires. Kunti a reรงu le don d’invoquer n’importe quel dieu choisi pour obtenir un enfant. Qui a accordรฉ cette faveur ? Durvasa, qui est dรฉcrit par Shiva lui-mรชme ร un autre endroit du Mahabharata comme sa propre portion.
Qui a accordรฉ ร Gandhari la bรฉnรฉdiction dโavoir cent fils ? Encore une fois, il nโy avait que Shiva. Pour la guerre destinรฉe entre les Deva et les Asura, le grand dieu a fourni 100 pour le cรดtรฉ Asura.
La rรฉincarnation dโAmba en Shikhandi et la chute de Bhishma due ร Shikhandi (la vengeance dโAmba) sont toutes facilitรฉes par les bรฉnรฉdictions de Shiva.
Il y a un autre exemple dans lequel nous voyons une chose apparemment petite facilitรฉe par Shiva menant finalement ร une conclusion รฉnorme (tout comme la condition qu’il a posรฉe pour Svetki, l’offrande continue de ghee pendant 12 ans, a conduit ร des consรฉquences drastiques pour Parikshit et les Nag-s).
Or, dans la lignรฉe de Yadu, il y avait le pรจre de Krishna, Vasudeva, et un certain Shini. Maintenant, Shini assiste au Svayamvara de Devaki et, aprรจs avoir vaincu les rois lร -bas, il a postรฉ Devaki dans son char, pour la prendre comme รฉpouse pour son membre du clan, Vasudeva. Maintenant, le fils de Bahlik, qui est le frรจre de Shantanu et le petit-fils de Prateep, Somadatta, ne pouvait pas supporter de voir cette dรฉmonstration de puissance de ce Yadava et cela a dรฉfiรฉ Shini dans un combat. Dans ce combat, Shini humilie Somadatta en le plaquant au sol et tout en tenant ses cheveux devant des milliers de Khatriya-s, le laisse partir ยซ par pitiรฉ ยป. Somadatta prie alors Mahadeva pour un fils qui rendra cette humiliation au fils de Shini. Ce fils de Somadatta รฉtait Bhurisravas et celui de Shini รฉtait Satyaki. Pendant la guerre, malgrรฉ l’invincibilitรฉ des guerriers Varshney (Yadava), Bhurisravas a pu subjuguer complรจtement Satyaki, par la grรขce de Mahadeva. Il le traรฎne au sol de maniรจre humiliante sous les yeux de tous, comme cela est arrivรฉ ร son pรจre il y a des dรฉcennies. ร la fin, Arjuna sauve Satyaki en tirant une flรจche, coupant le bras de Bhurisravas, qui ne pouvait mรชme pas voir Arjuna. Lorsque Bhurisravas questionne lโinjustice dโattaquer quelquโun engagรฉ dans un combat avec un autre, Krishna lui rappelle son propre rรดle dans la mort dโAbhimanyu. Se sentant abattu, il s’assoit pour mรฉditer et Satyaki, piquรฉ par l’humiliation, le tue sans vergogne.
Attends, qu’est-ce qu’il y a de si important lร -dedans ? Un personnage moins connu est mort. Donc? Dรฉsormais, seuls 3 guerriers du cรดtรฉ des Kauravas ont survรฉcu : Ashwathama, Kripacharya et Kritavarma. Maintenant, Kritavarma รฉtait aussi un Yadava comme Satyaki, bien qu’il combatte du cรดtรฉ opposรฉ.
Voyez, Satyaki a รฉtรฉ condamnรฉ par les deux camps pour son acte honteux et mรชme si le temps peut temporairement faire oublier aux gens, on ne se dรฉbarrasse jamais d’une telle mauvaise rรฉputation. 36 ans aprรจs la guerre, un beau jour oรน les Yadava รฉtaient ivres, Kritavarma dรฉnigre Satyaki pour son acte et le raille ร ce sujet. C’est le point de dรฉpart du massacre intra-clan Yadav, oรน les Yadav ont commencรฉ ร s’entretuer. Si Somadatta nโavait pas demandรฉ ร Shiva cette faveur dโavoir un fils pour lui rendre son humiliation contre le fils de son ennemi, le meurtre dรฉshonorant en rรฉponse ร cette vengeance de Satyaki nโaurait pas eu lieu et ne serait pas devenu un dรฉclencheur du conflit final des Yadava !
ยซ Tout le monde pense quโils sont des joueurs, des acteurs de jeux dangereux, et puis vient un dieu qui joue avec ces mรชmes joueurs ร des jeux comme les dรฉs et les enjeux. ยป
Srikantha-Rudra est trรจs compatissant envers le simple brahmane rรฉcitant les Vรฉdas avec dรฉvotion ou le Gopa (berger) ou les femmes portant de l’eau alors que le soleil du matin se lรจve. Ce sont ceux qui sont au pouvoir quโil jette comme des dรฉs. ร ce grand dieu, 1000 prosternations !
Post-scriptum : Seuls 3 guerriers du cรดtรฉ Kaurava qui ont survรฉcu sont tous associรฉs ร Shiva d’une maniรจre ou d’une autre. Ashvatthama est nรฉ d’une partie de Rudra lui-mรชme. Kripacharya est la contribution des Rudra-s et Kritavarma celle des Marut-s ; les deux classes de dieux รฉtant comme les enfants de chacun.
La raison pour laquelle ils survivent est que ni Shiva ni ceux qui agissent en tant quโagents habilitรฉs ne sont liรฉs par les rรจgles ordinaires de la moralitรฉ ou de la justice ยซ perรงue ยป qui lie les autres. Ils ont un but divin dont la moralitรฉ transcende les situations et les personnages immรฉdiatement perceptibles.
Pour une personne ordinaire, le raid nocturne menรฉ par les trois ci-dessus nโest rien de moins que brutal et cruel. Cependant, comme le Brahmanda-purana nous le dit, les Uppandava avaient obtenu un avantage : ils ne souffriraient pas de rรฉsider sur terre pendant longtemps. Shiva donne seulement ce qu’ils veulent.
Il en va de mรชme pour Abhimanyu, incarnation de Mercure. Son pรจre, Chandradeva, avait obtenu la promesse qu’il se sรฉparerait de son fils en guise de contribution ร la guerre destinรฉe entre les incarnations humaines des devas et celles de leurs ennemis, ร condition que son fils quitte la terre avant l’รขge de 16 ans.
Qu’en est-il de Dhrishtadyumna ? Voyez, la guerre est dรฉcrite comme un grand sacrifice vรฉdique (Shrautayaga) et Dhrishtadyumna est dรฉcrit comme le Dakshina (les honoraires donnรฉs aux Ritvija-s pour avoir aidรฉ ร mener le sacrifice) ! Qui sont les 4 principaux prรชtres ? Krishna et les 3 fils de Kunti !
L’aumรดne aurait dรป รชtre donnรฉe aux 4 prรชtres (aurait dรป partir avec les Pandava) aprรจs l’achรจvement du sacrifice (c’est-ร -dire aprรจs la guerre), mais elle est plutรดt laissรฉe sur le lieu du sacrifice (c’est-ร -dire au camp). Maintenant, que nous dit le Sruti ?
Il nous avertit que mรชme une aumรดne convenue peut devenir la part de Rudra si elle est laissรฉe sur le lieu du sacrifice. Et Rudra revendique en effet ses restes.
La beautรฉ de Shiva est quโil nโest du cรดtรฉ dโaucun groupe. Le Sruti nous dit que les asuras souffrent du manque de misรฉricorde, nous les humains du manque de charitรฉ et les devas du manque de dam (maรฎtrise de soi). Dans ce cas, comment peut-il leur รชtre bรฉnรฉfique de continuer ร les aider sans les corriger ?
Par consรฉquent, Shiva met ร sa place quiconque fait preuve d’ignorance, dieu, dรฉmon ou autre. C’est pourquoi un Asura comme Andhaka pourrait รชtre rachetรฉ et devenir un Ganesha de Shiva.
Pour ajouter un autre point, aprรจs que Shiva Sahasranama ait รฉtรฉ rรฉvรฉlรฉ par Krishna ร Yudhisthira, diffรฉrents sages sont venus parler de la gloire d’adorer Shiva et parmi eux, Parasara-Rishi a dรฉclarรฉ qu’il adorait Mahadeva pour un fils qui serait un Vedavyasa et Shiva le bรฉnit avec plus que ce qu’il avait demandรฉ. Non seulement il deviendra un Vedavyasa (et il est l’orateur des Vedas) mais il sera รฉgalement l’un des sept sages de l’รจre de Savarna-Manu (Savarna sera les sept sages de la crรฉation de Manu), l’auteur d’un Itihas et de Puranas
Mahadeva donne รฉgalement une bรฉnรฉdiction spรฉcifique selon laquelle ce fils de Parasara-Rishi sera un gรฉnรฉrateur de la lignรฉe de Kuru (Kuruvansakara), bien que cela n’ait pas รฉtรฉ spรฉcifiquement recherchรฉ par le Rishi. Et en effet, Vyasa a ressuscitรฉ la lignรฉe de Kuru ร un moment des plus critiques ! ร Sabhaparva, aprรจs l’accomplissement du Rajasuya (un sacrifice rรฉputรฉ dans les รฉcritures comme รฉtant risquรฉ en termes de calamitรฉs ultรฉrieures), Yudhisthira demande naรฏvement ร Vyasa si le meurtre de Shishupala par Vasudeva a รฉcartรฉ les effets nรฉfastes du Rajasuya comme prรฉdit par Narada.
Voir la rรฉponse de Bhagavan Vyasa ร partir de Triyodasha Sama. Il dit que ces effets nรฉfastes dureront 13 ans (ce que Yudhisthira ne comprend pas encore), culminant dans une destruction des Kshatriyas, et que Yudhisthira rรชvera, cette nuit-lร mรชme, de Mahadeva faisant face au sud.
Le rรชve indique la destruction qui rรฉsultera de la guerre et peut รชtre attribuรฉe ร la jalousie ressentie par Duryodhana ร la suite du Rajasuya et ร la faรงon dont d’innombrables rois et guerriers illustres se dirigeront vers le quartier sud des ancรชtres (c’est-ร -dire la mort).
Pour savoir comment la performance du Rajasuya รฉtait elle-mรชme liรฉe ร lโintervention de Mahadev, faites dรฉfiler ce fil et lisez le point nยฐ 5.
5. เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ was ambitious & eager to do the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ but without the requisite wealth, resources & military might, it would be a futile endeavour. เคถเคฟเคต had blessed & allowed เคเคฐเคธเคเคง to conquer without failure & thus capture 86 เคเฅเคทเคคเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏ-s & their troops.++ #shivabhAratam#เคถเคฟเคตเคญเคพเคฐเคคเคฎเฅ
En esta รฉpoca sagrada del aรฑo, dedicamos a Shiva este hilo sobre el papel en el Mahabharata de su forma particular como Srikantha-Rudra.
El gran sabio y ritualista Bak-dalbhya le pide ganado a Dhritarashtra, quien, con arrogancia, lo llama Brahmabandhu (literalmente, pariente de un brahmรกn, que en realidad significa “brahmรกn homรณnimo”) y le ofrece ganado que ya ha muerto debido a una enfermedad causada por el Seรฑor Pashupati. Bak-Dalbhya entonces ofrece todo el reino de Kuru junto con la carne del ganado enfermo y los granos de arroz negro a Agni-Rudravat, mientras el paรญs de Kuru se consume, hasta que Dhritarashtra se da cuenta de su error y le ruega al sabio que libere su reino. Pero el sacrificio de Kuru-s a Rudra habรญa comenzado y esto sรณlo presagiaba el sacrificio aรบn mรกs sangriento que estaba por tener lugar. El relato del viaje de Balarama a Shalyaparva debe leerse junto con el relato dado en el Kathaka-samhita de Krishna Yajurveda para obtener mรกs detalles.
Vyasa le explica a Drupada que fue Shankara quien encarcelรณ a cinco viejos Indras y los enviรณ como cinco Pandavas.
Shiva permite al Rey Svetaki cumplir su sueรฑo de realizar sacrificios continuamente (Shiva envรญa a Durvasa para lograr esto ya que los sacerdotes humanos normales son demasiado dรฉbiles) con la condiciรณn de que el rey pueda verter ghee en el fuego durante 12 aรฑos continuos como Tapas. El rey cumple esta condiciรณn, provocando la indigestiรณn de Agni, lo que a su vez requiere la invocaciรณn de Krishna y Arjuna para ayudar en Khandava-dahana, lo que resultarรก en la muerte de Parikshit y, en รบltima instancia, en Sarpasattra.
Shankara designa a Sri como el socio comรบn de los 5 Indras y Draupadi en su vida anterior hace Tapas a Mahadeva para conseguir un buen marido y cuando el gran dios aparece, ella pide la bendiciรณn 5 veces, sin entender la sonrisa del dios como un ‘sรญ’. รl le asegura que esto sucederรก en su prรณxima vida. Al escuchar esta historia, Drupada dice que el pecado de tener un matrimonio poliรกndrico no lo afectarรก ya que ha sido sancionado por Shankara.
Yudhisthira era ambicioso y estaba ansioso por alcanzar Rajasuya, pero sin la riqueza, los recursos y el poder militar necesarios, serรญa un esfuerzo inรบtil. Shiva habรญa bendecido y le habรญa permitido a Jarasandh conquistar sin fallas y asรญ capturar a 86 Kshatriyas y sus tropas. Jarasandha habรญa prometido sacrificar a todas sus vรญctimas a Mahadeva cuando sus reyes capturados alcanzaran un total de 100. Krishna dice que incluso รฉl tuvo que huir de Mathura por culpa de Jarasandha. Finalmente, una coaliciรณn de Bhima, Arjuna y Krishna lo mata y estos 86 reyes son liberados, quienes ayudan a Yudhisthira con el Rajasuya. ยฟPor quรฉ es esto importante? Es la abundancia de Yudhisthira y por extensiรณn la de los Pandavas lo que hace que Duryodhana se sienta celoso y comience a conspirar sobre el juego de dados. El nivel de รฉxito de Rajasuya dependรญa de la capacidad de los Pandavas-Krishna para derrotar a Jarasandh. Si Shiva le hubiera retirado su gracia y le hubiera permitido ser derrotado antes por otra persona, entonces Rajasuya podrรญa no haber tenido tanto รฉxito.
Shiva concede el arma de Brahmashira a Arjuna despuรฉs de una pelea, en la que deja a este รบltimo cubierto de sangre. Esta lucha es un punto de inflexiรณn importante. El contacto รญntimo con Dios resulta para รฉl una inmensa bendiciรณn.
Cuando Arjuna tuvo que salvar a Duryodhana de los Gandharvas, se deprimiรณ y deseรณ morir y alcanzar el cielo. Los demonios saben que naciรณ para fortalecer su causa, que se verรก frustrada si intenta ayunar hasta la muerte. La traen a su mundo con la ayuda de una Kritya (una diosa generada aquรญ por un rito Atharva Veda) y le dicen que su mitad superior fue creada por Mahadeva con Vajra-s, haciรฉndola extremadamente fuerte, y su mitad inferior por Uma, haciรฉndola asรญ gentil. Esta fuerza en la parte superior del cuerpo y debilidad en la parte inferior del cuerpo serรกn cruciales en la batalla final entre Duryodhana y Bhima.
La bendiciรณn de Shiva sobre Jayadratha significรณ que todos los Pandavas y todo su ejรฉrcito, excepto Arjuna que de todos modos estaba luchando en el otro extremo, podรญan ser contenidos por รฉl, lo que le permitiรณ matar a Abhimanyu sin resistencia.
Shiva concede Pashupatastra a Arjuna
Despuรฉs de la muerte de Drona, Ashvatthama se enfurece y mata a tres guerreros Pandava clave y tambiรฉn expulsa a Satyaki, Dhrishtadyumna y Bhimasena del campo de batalla. Arjun, molesto, lo reta a una pelea. Ashvatthama dispara el Agneyastpa contra Krishna y Arjuna, pero aunque quema a gran parte del ejรฉrcito, no les hace daรฑo a estos dos. Descorazonado y diciendo: โDhigdhiksarvamidam mithyaโ (โFie, fi, todo esto es falsoโ), abandona el campo de batalla para buscar una aclaraciรณn de Vyasa. Vyasa le explica que Shankara, complacido con las austeridades, una vez le habรญa dado a Narayana la bendiciรณn de que siempre permanecerรญa invencible y que si Shankara mismo se enfrentaba a รฉl en batalla, se asegurarรญa de que este รบltimo saliera victorioso.
Arjuna ve un ser resplandeciente matando a todos sus soldados, aunque no usa su arma en absoluto. Vyas explica que quien realiza todas las acciones en el campo de batalla es Shankara.
La Incursiรณn Nocturna, donde Ashvatthama, con la pasiรณn de Mahadeva, mata a Dhrishtadyumna y al Uppandava, marcando el final del sacrificio de guerra, donde Rudra toma los restos que quedaron en el lugar del sacrificio (los que quedaron en el campamento despuรฉs de la tarde del 18).
Olvidรฉ incluir 3 puntos mรกs. El rey recibiรณ una bendiciรณn para convocar a cualquier rey elegido para obtener un hijo. ยฟQuiรฉn concediรณ este beneficio? Sahib, a quien el mismo Sahib describe en otro lugar del Sahib como su propio baha (porciรณn).
ยฟQuiรฉn le concediรณ a Alรก el don de tener cien hijos? Nuevamente, eran solo 100. Para la guerra destinada entre los เคฆเฅเคต-s y los เค เคธเฅเคฐ-s, el gran dios proporcionรณ 100 para el lado de los เค เคธเฅเคฐ.
La reencarnaciรณn de เค เคเคฌเคพ como เคถเคฟเคเคฃเฅเคกเฅ y la caรญda de เคญเฅเคทเฅเคฎ debido a เคถเคฟเคเคฃเฅเคกเฅ (la venganza de เค เคเคฌเคพ) se ven facilitadas por las bendiciones de เคถเคฟเคต.
Hay un ejemplo mรกs en el que vemos cรณmo una cosa aparentemente pequeรฑa fue facilitada por Alรก y finalmente condujo a una gran conclusiรณn (asรญ como la condiciรณn que รฉl impuso para Allah, el ofrecimiento continuo de ghee durante 12 aรฑos, tuvo consecuencias drรกsticas para Allah y los musulmanes).
Ahora, en el linaje de เคฏเคพเคฆเฅ, estaba el padre de เคเฅเคทเฅเคฃ, เคตเคธเฅเคฆเฅเคต y un เคถเคฟเคจเคฟ. Ahora, เคถเคฟเคจเคฟ espera al เคธเฅเคตเคฏเคฎเฅเคตเคฐ de เคฆเฅเคตเคเฅ y, derrotando a los reyes allรญ, estacionรณ a เคฆเฅเคตเคเฅ en su carro, para tomarla como esposa para su miembro del clan, เคตเคธเฅเคฆเฅเคต. Ahora, el hijo de Saรบl, que es hermano de Abi y nieto de Ibrahim, Saรบl, no pudo soportar ver esta demostraciรณn de poder por parte de aquel rey y esto lo desafiรณ a una pelea. En esa pelea, Jajaja humilla a Jajaja sujetรกndolo al suelo y mientras sostiene su cabello frente a miles de hombres, lo deja ir “por piedad”. เคธเฅเคฎเคฆเคคเฅเคค luego reza a เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต por un hijo que le devuelva esa humillaciรณn al hijo de เคถเคฟเคจเคฟ. Ese hijo de เคธเฅเคฎเคฆเคคเฅเคค era เคญเฅเคฐเคฟเคถเฅเคฐเคตเคธเฅ y el de เคถเคฟเคจเคฟ era เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ. Durante la guerra, a pesar de la invencibilidad de los guerreros เคตเคพเคฐเฅเคทเฅเคฃเฅเคฏ (เคฏเคพเคฆเคต), เคญเฅเคฐเคฟเคถเฅเคฐเคตเคธเฅ pudo subyugar por completo. เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ, por la gracia de เคฎเคนเคพเคฆเฅเคต. Lo arrastra humillantemente por el suelo ante la mirada de todos, tal y como le ocurriรณ a su padre dรฉcadas atrรกs. Al final, เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ salva a เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ disparando una flecha, cortรกndole el brazo a เคญเฅเคฐเคฟเคถเฅเคฐเคตเคธเฅ, que ni siquiera podรญa ver a เค เคฐเฅเคเฅเคจ. Cuando el rey cuestiona la injusticia de atacar a alguien que estรก en combate con otro, el rey le recuerda su propio papel en la muerte del rey. Sintiรฉndose abatido, se sienta a meditar y Maharaj, dolido por la humillaciรณn, lo mata sin vergรผenza.
Espera, ยฟquรฉ es tan importante en esto? Muriรณ un personaje menos conocido. ยฟEntonces? Ahora, solo sobrevivieron 3 guerreros del lado de เคเฅเคฐเคต: เค เคถเฅเคตเคคเฅเคฅเคพเคฎเคพ, เคเฅเคชเคพเคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏ y เคเฅเคคเคตเคฐเฅเคฎเคพ. Ahora, เคเฅเคคเคตเคฐเฅเคฎเคพ tambiรฉn era un เคฏเคพเคฆเคต como เคธเคพเคคเฅเคฏเคเคฟ, aunque peleaba en el lado opuesto.
Mira, Bharat fue condenado por ambos lados por su acto vergonzoso y, aunque el tiempo puede hacer que la gente lo olvide temporalmente, uno nunca se libra de una reputaciรณn tan mala. 36 aรฑos despuรฉs de la guerra, un buen dรญa en que los hermanos estaban ebrios, el sargento de policรญa lo acusa de desapariciรณn y se burla de รฉl por ello. Este es el punto de partida de la masacre del clan Intar, donde los bharat comenzaron a matarse entre sรญ. Si el rey no le hubiera pedido a Baba esa bendiciรณn para un hijo para devolverle la humillaciรณn sufrida contra el hijo de su enemigo, el asesinato deshonroso en respuesta a esa venganza por parte del rey no habrรญa ocurrido y no se habrรญa convertido en un detonante del conflicto final de los reyes.
โTodos piensan que son jugadores, que participan en juegos peligrosos, y luego llega un dios que juega con estos mismos jugadores, como si fueran dados y apuestasโ.
El Maharajรก es muy compasivo con el simple bhagavad gita que recita el bhagavad con devociรณn, o con el pastor de vacas, o con las mujeres que transportan agua cuando sale el sol de la maรฑana. Son aquellos que ostentan el poder a quienes รฉl lanza y arroja como si fueran dados. ยกA ese gran dios, mil postraciones!
Post-scriptum : Seuls 3 guerriers du cรดtรฉ Kaurava qui ont survรฉcu sont tous associรฉs ร Shiva d’une maniรจre ou d’une autre. Ashvatthama est nรฉ d’une partie de Rudra lui-mรชme. Kripacharya est la contribution des Rudra-s et Kritavarma celle des Marut-s ; les deux classes de dieux รฉtant comme les enfants de chacun.
La raison pour laquelle ils survivent est que ni Shiva ni ceux qui agissent en tant quโagents habilitรฉs ne sont liรฉs par les rรจgles ordinaires de la moralitรฉ ou de la justice ยซ perรงue ยป qui lie les autres. Ils ont un but divin dont la moralitรฉ transcende les situations et les personnages immรฉdiatement perceptibles.
Pour une personne ordinaire, le raid nocturne menรฉ par les trois ci-dessus nโest rien de moins que brutal et cruel. Cependant, comme le Brahmanda-purana nous le dit, les Uppandava avaient obtenu un avantage : ils ne souffriraient pas de rรฉsider sur terre pendant longtemps. Shiva donne seulement ce qu’ils veulent.
Il en va de mรชme pour Abhimanyu, incarnation de Mercure. Son pรจre, Chandradeva, avait obtenu la promesse qu’il se sรฉparerait de son fils en guise de contribution ร la guerre destinรฉe entre les incarnations humaines des devas et celles de leurs ennemis, ร condition que son fils quitte la terre avant l’รขge de 16 ans.
Qu’en est-il de Dhrishtadyumna ? Voyez, la guerre est dรฉcrite comme un grand sacrifice vรฉdique (Shrautayaga) et Dhrishtadyumna est dรฉcrit comme le Dakshina (les honoraires donnรฉs aux Ritvija-s pour avoir aidรฉ ร mener le sacrifice) ! Qui sont les 4 principaux prรชtres ? Krishna et les 3 fils de Kunti !
L’aumรดne aurait dรป รชtre donnรฉe aux 4 prรชtres (aurait dรป partir avec les Pandava) aprรจs l’achรจvement du sacrifice (c’est-ร -dire aprรจs la guerre), mais elle est plutรดt laissรฉe sur le lieu du sacrifice (c’est-ร -dire au camp). Maintenant, que nous dit le Sruti ?
Il nous avertit que mรชme une aumรดne convenue peut devenir la part de Rudra si elle est laissรฉe sur le lieu du sacrifice. Et Rudra revendique en effet ses restes.
La beautรฉ de Shiva est quโil nโest du cรดtรฉ dโaucun groupe. Le Sruti nous dit que les asuras souffrent du manque de misรฉricorde, nous les humains du manque de charitรฉ et les devas du manque de dam (maรฎtrise de soi). Dans ce cas, comment peut-il leur รชtre bรฉnรฉfique de continuer ร les aider sans les corriger ?
Par consรฉquent, Shiva met ร sa place quiconque fait preuve d’ignorance, dieu, dรฉmon ou autre. C’est pourquoi un Asura comme Andhaka pourrait รชtre rachetรฉ et devenir un Ganesha de Shiva.
Posdata: Sรณlo tres guerreros del lado Kaurava que sobrevivieron estรกn asociados con Shiva de una forma u otra. Ashvatthama naciรณ de una parte del propio Rudra. Kripacharya es la contribuciรณn de los Rudra-s y Kritavarma la de los Marut-s; Las dos clases de dioses son como hijos el uno del otro.
La razรณn por la que sobreviven es que ni Shiva ni aquellos que actรบan como agentes empoderados estรกn sujetos a las reglas ordinarias de moralidad o justicia โpercibidaโ que vinculan a otros. Tienen un propรณsito divino cuya moralidad trasciende situaciones y personajes inmediatamente perceptibles.
Para una persona comรบn y corriente, la incursiรณn nocturna llevada a cabo por los tres mencionados anteriormente no es menos que brutal y cruel. Sin embargo, como nos dice el Brahmanda-purana, los Uppandavas habรญan obtenido una bendiciรณn: no sufrirรญan por residir en la Tierra por mucho tiempo. Shiva sรณlo da lo que quieren.
Lo mismo ocurre con Abhimanyu, la encarnaciรณn de Mercurio. Su padre, Chandradeva, habรญa obtenido la promesa de que se separarรญa de su hijo como contribuciรณn a la guerra destinada entre las encarnaciones humanas de los devas y las de sus enemigos, siempre que su hijo abandonara la Tierra antes de los 16 aรฑos.
ยฟQuรฉ pasa con Dhrishtadyumna? ยกMira, la guerra se describe como un gran sacrificio vรฉdico (Shrautayaga) y Dhrishtadyumna se describe como el Dakshina (el honorario dado a los Ritvija-s por ayudar a conducir el sacrificio)! ยฟQuienes son los 4 sacerdotes principales? ยกKrishna y los tres hijos de Kunti!
La limosna deberรญa haber sido entregada a los cuatro sacerdotes (deberรญa haber sido dejada con los Pandavas) despuรฉs de completarse el sacrificio (es decir, despuรฉs de la guerra), pero en lugar de eso se deja en el lugar del sacrificio (es decir, en el campamento). Ahora bien, ยฟquรฉ nos dice la Sruti?
Nos advierte que incluso una limosna acordada puede convertirse en la parte de Rudra si se deja en el lugar del sacrificio. Y Rudra efectivamente reclama sus restos.
La belleza de Shiva es que no se pone del lado de ningรบn grupo. La Sruti nos dice que los asuras sufren por falta de misericordia, nosotros los humanos por falta de caridad y los devas por falta de dam (autocontrol). En este caso, ยฟcรณmo les puede beneficiar seguir ayudรกndolos sin corregirlos?
Por lo tanto, Shiva pone en su lugar a quien muestra ignorancia, dios, demonio o cualquier otra cosa. Es por esto que un Asura como Andhaka podrรญa ser redimido y convertirse en un Ganesha de Shiva.
Para agregar otro punto, despuรฉs de que Krishna le revelรณ a Yudhisthira el Shiva Sahasranama, diferentes sabios vinieron a hablar sobre la gloria de adorar a Shiva y entre ellos, Parasara-Rishi declarรณ que adoraba a Mahadeva por un hijo que serรญa un Vedavyasa y Shiva lo bendijo con mรกs de lo que habรญa pedido. No sรณlo se convertirรก en un Vedavyasa (y es el orador de los Vedas) sino que tambiรฉn serรก uno de los siete sabios de la era de Savarna-Manu (Savarna serรก los siete sabios de la creaciรณn de Manu), el autor de Itihas y Puranas.
Mahadeva tambiรฉn otorga una bendiciรณn especรญfica: que este hijo de Parasara-Rishi serรก un generador del linaje Kuru (Kuruvansakara), aunque esto no fue buscado especรญficamente por el Rishi. ยกY de hecho, Vyasa resucitรณ el linaje Kuru en el momento mรกs crรญtico! En Sabhaparva, despuรฉs de la realizaciรณn del Rajasuya (un sacrificio considerado en las escrituras como riesgoso en tรฉrminos de calamidades posteriores), Yudhisthira ingenuamente le pregunta a Vyasa si el asesinato de Shishupala por parte de Vasudeva ha evitado los efectos nocivos del Rajasuya como predijo Narada.
Vea la respuesta de Bhagavan Vyasa de Triyodasha Sama. Dice que estos efectos nocivos durarรกn 13 aรฑos (cosa que Yudhisthira aรบn no comprende), culminando en la destrucciรณn de los Kshatriyas, y que Yudhisthira soรฑarรก, esa misma noche, con Mahadeva mirando hacia el sur.
El sueรฑo indica la destrucciรณn que resultarรก de la guerra y puede atribuirse a los celos que siente Duryodhana despuรฉs del Rajasuya y a cรณmo innumerables reyes y guerreros ilustres se dirigirรกn hacia el barrio ancestral del sur (es decir, la muerte).
Para saber cรณmo la actuaciรณn del Rajasuya se relacionรณ con la intervenciรณn de Mahadev, desplรกcese por este hilo y lea el punto n.ยบ. 5.
5. เคฏเฅเคงเคฟเคทเฅเค เคฟเคฐ was ambitious & eager to do the เคฐเคพเคเคธเฅเคฏ but without the requisite wealth, resources & military might, it would be a futile endeavour. เคถเคฟเคต had blessed & allowed เคเคฐเคธเคเคง to conquer without failure & thus capture 86 เคเฅเคทเคคเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏ-s & their troops.++ #shivabhAratam#เคถเคฟเคตเคญเคพเคฐเคคเคฎเฅ
Let us be clear here. I hate discussing this subject (since it tends to attract gutter scums) but the abuse isnโt pointing out phallic symbolism of ลivaliแน ga. Not at all. The abuse is to demean liแน ga due to said phallic significance. And how we respond is absolutely important.
Hindus should recall how when Xtians & others used to taunt us about our divine multiplicity, we were embarrassed & defensive & wanted to be known as monotheists. Today, the situation has improved with more Hindus being more confident of the word, โpolytheismโ. Likewise here.
What is embarrassing about the phallic significance of the ลivaliแน ga? People keep repeating verses praising the head & feet of the deva but get disgusted at a symbol that connotes what? The eternal fatherhood & motherhood of ลiva & his inseparable ลakti.
I donโt care if getting defensive about the phallic significance is the politically โrightโ stance to take as per the prude-tva consensus. I am & will be a ลaiva till my last breath & will never be apologetic for the phallic significance of the ลivaliแน ga.
Those who dislike me for this can go ahead & unfollow. I donโt care for such immature folks. I care for the opinion of ลrฤซ-Upamanyu-แนแนฃi who states in Mahฤbhฤrata that ลiva-Devฤซ are the only deities whose signs/insignia are found on the very persons of all humans & even beasts.
Those who are squeamish about ลivaliแน ga & Yoni; take a hike & donโt ever pollute my TL with anti-ลaiva filth disguised as โdefenceโ of Hindudharma.
If you are ashamed of the obvious significance of the Liแน ga stated in so many ลฤstra-s & keep privileging your own biases even after being educated wth better-informed opinions, you are a ลivadveแนฃฤซ.
The eternal unity of ลiva & ลakti symbolized through Sadฤลivaโs form as liแน ga & yoni in our Temples is not a joke or an object of ridicule to be ashamed of.
Those in the know will appreciate that the imagery of a man & woman in intimate embrace is used for ParaBrahma even in the Upaniแนฃad. The ลaiva ลฤstras have encapsulated the most profound meanings in the image of liแน ga & yoni.
The ลivaliแน ga has been an object of hate for some โHindusโ. For a Long time, some โHinduโ individuals have shown that they can treat Christians with far more respect than fellow ฤstikas.An example: See the lovely garland of adjectives (Low, unworthy, debased) for Phallic liแน ga & the relatively far far more respectful comparison (โEven more immaculateโ, meaning this Hindu author still accepts Jeebus as immaculate) with Shittianity.
The dasyusamฤj condescension for the Liแน ga is pretty much along similar lines. There is no doubt we will continue to have imbeciles like this in our ranks for the years to come. I only hope better Hindus donโt get ashamed or defensive about the ลivaliแน ga & Yonฤซ.
The relevant เคถเฅเคฒเฅเค-s from เคฎเคนเคพเคญเคพเคฐเคค; uttered by เคญเคเคตเคพเคจเฅ-เคเคชเคฎเคจเฅเคฏเฅ to เคถเคฟเคต in te guise of เคฆเฅเคตเฅเคจเฅเคฆเฅเคฐ. It is a very very straightforward passage.
Soyons clairs ici. Je dรฉteste discuter de ce sujet (car il a tendance ร attirer les racailles des rues), mais l’abus ne vise pas ร souligner le symbolisme phallique de ลivaliแน ga. Pas du tout. Lโabus vise ร dรฉnigrer le liแน ga en raison de sa signification phallique. Et la maniรจre dont nous rรฉagissons est absolument importante.
Les hindous devraient se rappeler que lorsque les chrรฉtiens et dโautres se moquaient de nous ร propos de notre multiplicitรฉ divine, nous รฉtions gรชnรฉs et sur la dรฉfensive et voulions รชtre connus comme monothรฉistes. Aujourdโhui, la situation sโest amรฉliorรฉe, de plus en plus dโhindous รฉtant plus confiants dans le mot ยซ polythรฉisme ยป. De mรชme ici.
Quโy a-t-il dโembarrassant dans la signification phallique du ลivaliแน ga ? Les gens continuent de rรฉpรฉter des versets louant la tรชte et les pieds du deva, mais sont dรฉgoรปtรฉs par un symbole qui connote quoi ? La paternitรฉ et la maternitรฉ รฉternelles de ลiva et de son insรฉparable ลakti.
Je me fiche de savoir si se mettre sur la dรฉfensive ร propos de la signification phallique est la position politiquement ยซ correcte ยป ร adopter selon le consensus prude-tva. Je suis et serai un ลaiva jusquโร mon dernier souffle et je ne mโexcuserai jamais de la signification phallique du ลivaliแน ga.
Ceux qui ne m’aiment pas pour รงa peuvent continuer et se dรฉsabonner. Je ne me soucie pas de ces gens immatures. Je me soucie de l’opinion de ลrฤซ-Upamanyu-แนแนฃi qui dรฉclare dans le Mahฤbhฤrata que les ลiva-Devฤซ sont les seules divinitรฉs dont les signes/insignes se trouvent sur la personne mรชme de tous les humains et mรชme des bรชtes.
Ceux qui sont rรฉticents ร l’idรฉe de ลivaliแน ga et de Yoni ; Allez faire un tour et ne polluez jamais ma TL avec des saletรฉs anti-Shiva dรฉguisรฉes en ยซ dรฉfense ยป de lโHindoudharma.
Si vous avez honte de lโimportance รฉvidente du Liแน ga รฉnoncรฉ dans tant de ลฤstra-s et que vous continuez ร privilรฉgier vos propres prรฉjugรฉs mรชme aprรจs avoir รฉtรฉ รฉduquรฉ avec des opinions mieux informรฉes, vous รชtes un ลivadveแนฃฤซ.
L’unitรฉ รฉternelle de ลiva et ลakti symbolisรฉe par la forme de Sadฤลiva en tant que liแน ga et yoni dans nos temples n’est pas une blague ou un objet de ridicule dont il faut avoir honte.
Ceux qui sont au courant apprรฉcieront que lโimagerie dโun homme et dโune femme dans une รฉtreinte intime est utilisรฉe pour ParaBrahma mรชme dans lโUpaniแนฃad. Les ลaiva ลฤstras ont encapsulรฉ les significations les plus profondes dans lโimage du liแน ga et du yoni.
Le ลivaliแน ga a รฉtรฉ un objet de haine pour certains ยซ hindous ยป. Depuis longtemps, certains individus ยซ hindous ยป ont montrรฉ quโils pouvaient traiter les chrรฉtiens avec beaucoup plus de respect que leurs camarades ฤstikas. Un exemple : voyez la jolie guirlande dโadjectifs (bas, indigne, avili) pour Phallic liแน ga et la comparaison relativement beaucoup plus respectueuse (ยซ encore plus immaculรฉ ยป, ce qui signifie que cet auteur hindou accepte toujours Jรฉsus comme immaculรฉ) avec Shittianity.
La condescendance du dasyusamฤj envers le Liแน ga est assez similaire. Il ne fait aucun doute que nous continuerons ร avoir des imbรฉciles comme celui-ci dans nos rangs dans les annรฉes ร venir. J’espรจre seulement que les meilleurs hindous n’auront pas honte ou ne seront pas sur la dรฉfensive ร propos du ลivaliแน ga et du Yonฤซ.
Les เคถเฅเคฒเฅเค-s pertinents de เคฎเคนเคพเคญเคพเคฐเคค ; prononcรฉ par Bhagwan-Upamanyu ร Shiva sous les traits de Devendra. C’est un passage trรจs simple.
Seamos claros aquรญ. Detesto discutir este tema (ya que tiende a atraer a la escoria callejera), pero el abuso no tiene la intenciรณn de enfatizar el simbolismo fรกlico de ลivaliแน ga. De ninguna manera. El abuso tiene como objetivo denigrar el liแน ga debido a su significado fรกlico. Y la forma en que respondemos es absolutamente importante.
Los hindรบes deberรญan recordar que cuando los cristianos y otros se burlaban de nosotros acerca de nuestra multiplicidad divina, nos sentรญamos avergonzados, nos ponรญamos a la defensiva y querรญamos ser conocidos como monoteรญstas. Hoy en dรญa, la situaciรณn ha mejorado y cada vez mรกs hindรบes confรญan mรกs en la palabra “politeรญsmo”. Aquรญ igual.
ยฟQuรฉ tiene de embarazoso el significado fรกlico del ลivaliแน ga? La gente continรบa repitiendo versos alabando la cabeza y los pies del deva, pero les disgusta un sรญmbolo que connota ยฟquรฉ? La paternidad y maternidad eternas de ลiva y su inseparable ลakti.
No me importa si ponerse a la defensiva acerca del significado fรกlico es la posiciรณn polรญticamente “correcta” a adoptar segรบn el consenso de la TVA mojigata. Soy y serรฉ un ลaiva hasta mi รบltimo aliento y nunca me disculparรฉ por el significado fรกlico del ลivaliแน ga.
A quienes no les gusto por esto, pueden seguir adelante y darse de baja. No me importa esa gente inmadura. Me preocupa la opiniรณn de ลrฤซ-Upamanyu-แนแนฃi que afirma en el Mahฤbhฤrata que las ลiva-Devฤซs son las รบnicas deidades cuyos signos/insignias se encuentran en la persona misma de todos los humanos e incluso de las bestias.
Aquellos que se muestran reacios a la idea de ลivaliแน ga y Yoni; Ve a echar un vistazo y nunca contamines mi TL con basura anti-Shiva disfrazada de “defensa” del Hindudharma.
Si te avergรผenzas de la importancia obvia del Liแน ga enunciado en tantos ลฤstra-s y continรบas favoreciendo tus propios prejuicios incluso despuรฉs de haber sido educado con puntos de vista mejor informados, eres un ลivadveแนฃฤซ.
La unidad eterna de ลiva y ลakti simbolizada por la forma de Sadฤลiva como liแน ga y yoni en nuestros templos no es una broma ni un objeto de burla del cual avergonzarse.
Los que saben apreciarรกn que la imagen de un hombre y una mujer en un abrazo รญntimo se utiliza para ParaBrahma incluso en el Upaniแนฃad. Los ลaiva ลฤstras han encapsulado los significados mรกs profundos en la imagen del liแน ga y el yoni.
El ลivaliแน ga ha sido objeto de odio para algunos โhindรบesโ. Durante mucho tiempo, algunos individuos “hindรบes” han demostrado que pueden tratar a los cristianos con mucho mรกs respeto que sus compaรฑeros ฤstikas. Un ejemplo: vรฉase la hermosa guirnalda de adjetivos (bajo, indigno, degradado) para el liแน ga fรกlico y la comparaciรณn relativamente mucho mรกs respetuosa (โaรบn mรกs inmaculadoโ, lo que significa que este autor hindรบ todavรญa acepta a Jesรบs como inmaculado) con el shittianismo.
La condescendencia del dasyusamฤj hacia el Liแน ga es bastante similar. No hay duda de que seguiremos teniendo idiotas como este en nuestras filas durante los prรณximos aรฑos. Sรณlo espero que los mejores hindรบes no se avergรผencen ni se pongan a la defensiva respecto al ลivaliแน ga y el Yonฤซ.
Los เคถเฅเคฒเฅเค-s relevantes de เคฎเคนเคพเคญเคพเคฐเคค; hablado por Bhagwan-Upamanyu a Shiva en la apariencia de Devendra. Es un pasaje muy simple.
If someone is suffering from lack of wealth, I can help him create wealth, but not aggressively appropriate wealth from others to redistribute or strive to eradicate wealth itself.Likewise, we can work on discrimination issues & help all Hindus achieve self-esteem, thereby creating new sources of pride. But making everyone Brahmin or something else will not solve that. It will only reinforce the false idea that other identities have no substance.
And that is a very regrettable idea if people actually hold it. I came to know of a nฤgasvara player at a temple in simฬhapurฤซ, who was very proud of his nฤgasvara family lineage going back to rฤjarฤja chลzha time. How many brahmins today can compete with such a memory?
There are fishermen even today who participate in festivals, which are several centuries old.
We should be helping people rediscover their ancestral heritage while that is still possible.
If everyone is made to become a Brahmin, what value will it have, really?
Si quelqu’un souffre du manque de richesse, je peux l’aider ร en crรฉer, mais sans m’approprier agressivement la richesse des autres pour la redistribuer ou chercher ร l’รฉradiquer. De mรชme, nous pouvons lutter contre la discrimination et aider tous les hindous ร retrouver l’estime de soi, crรฉant ainsi de nouvelles sources de fiertรฉ. Mais rendre tout le monde brahmane ou autre ne rรฉsoudra pas le problรจme. Cela ne fera que renforcer l’idรฉe fausse que les autres identitรฉs n’ont aucune valeur.
Et c’est une idรฉe trรจs regrettable si elle est rรฉellement partagรฉe. J’ai rencontrรฉ un joueur de nฤgasvara dans un temple de Simฬhapurฤซ, trรจs fier de sa lignรฉe familiale de nฤgasvara remontant ร l’รฉpoque rฤjarฤja chลzha. Combien de brahmanes aujourd’hui peuvent rivaliser avec un tel souvenir ?
De nos jours encore, des pรชcheurs participent ร des festivals vieux de plusieurs siรจcles.
Nous devrions aider les gens ร redรฉcouvrir leur hรฉritage ancestral tant que c’est encore possible.
Si tout le monde est obligรฉ de devenir brahmane, quelle valeur cela aura-t-il rรฉellement ?
Si alguien sufre de falta de riqueza, puedo ayudarle a crearla, pero sin apropiarse agresivamente de la riqueza de otras personas para redistribuirla o buscar erradicarla. De la misma manera, podemos luchar contra la discriminaciรณn y ayudar a todos los hindรบes a recuperar la autoestima, creando nuevas fuentes de orgullo. Pero convertir a todos en brahmanes o lo que sea no resolverรก el problema. Esto sรณlo reforzarรก la idea errรณnea de que otras identidades no tienen valor.
Y es una idea muy lamentable si finalmente se comparte. Conocรญ a un mรบsico de nฤgasvara en un templo de Simฬhapurฤซ, que estaba muy orgulloso de su linaje familiar de nฤgasvara que se remonta a la era rฤjarฤja chลzha. ยฟCuรกntos brahmanes hoy en dรญa pueden rivalizar con semejante recuerdo?
Incluso hoy en dรญa los pescadores participan en fiestas que tienen siglos de antigรผedad.
In the เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคจเฅเคคโ-เคถเฅเคตโ system, the various levels of impermanent and, therefore, lower เคฎเฅเคเฅเคคเคฟเคธเฅเคฅเคพเคจโ-s are mapped onto the 36 เคคเคคเฅเคคเฅเคตโ-s (see below). An exponent can only reach the highest เคคเคคเฅเคคเฅเคตโ-allowed by his เคเคชเคพเคธเคจโ.
Initially, I wondered if all some of these เคคเคคเฅเคคเฅเคตโ-s were legitimate soteriological goals. For example, who would think of sense-organs as the highest, which the เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคจเฅเคคเคพเคเคพเคฐเฅเคฏโ-s describe as the highest aspiration for some? Or so I thought.
But in fact there were such people, even if they don’t exist today. I had read these passages from the เคฌเฅเคนเคฆเคพเคฐเคฃเฅเคฏเคโ-เคเคชเคจเคฟเคทเคฆเฅ before but it did not click till just a few minutes ago, completely out of the blue.
A better resolution of the picture. Various such เคฎเฅเคเฅเคคเคฟเคธเฅเคฅเคพเคจ-s are scattered through the เคตเฅเคฆ texts. I have found them to be made part of the bigger picture only in the เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคจเฅเคค.
โเคตเฅเคฆโs essence is this เคคเคจเฅเคคเฅเคฐ (เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคจเฅเคคเคฎเฅ); therefore เคตเฅเคฆเคฟเค-s follow [this เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคจเฅเคค]; เคตเฅเคฆเคพเคจเฅเคคโs essence is this เคเฅเคเคพเคจ (เคถเคฟเคตเคเฅเคเคพเคจเคฎเฅ); the เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคจเฅเคค is supremely auspicious!โ
Contrary to what some modern scholars may think, the attribution of เคฎเฅเคเฅเคคเคฟเคธเฅเคฅเคพเคจโ-s by เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคจเฅเคคเฅ-s to different adherents is not at all superficial. In fact, as I suggested in the previous tweet, there are other เคฎเฅเคเฅเคคเคฟเคธเฅเคฅเคพเคจโ-s in the เคตเฅเคฆโ which are covered only in เคธเคฟเคฆเฅเคงเคพเคจเฅเคค.
The Siddhฤnta is still very much dominant in TN. But yes, it did not spread much outside TN. Even Umฤpati ลivฤcฤrya did not propagate it outside TN.
The decline of the Siddhฤnta has two historical phases: ++
1.It was once very dominant in Kฤลmฤซra, Madhyapradeลa, Gaudแบก & Utkaladeลa-s. By 1000s-1100s, it was rapidly shrinking to the area of the southern states.
2. Post 1200s: We have evidence suggesting that the Siddhฤntฤgamas & Asแนญแบก prakaranแบก s (Siddhฤnta proper) were well known even in Karnแบกฬ tแบก ka though it was getting immensely diluted in Kฤrala.
2a. But new iterations like Vฤซraลaivam (which itself would manifest in two phases) & Mฤdhvamata would be rather aggressive in taking over the religious landscape.
2b. In ฤndhra & TN, the Siddhฤnta was facing intense pressure to conform with Smฤrta/Vedฤntฤซ sensibilities & preferences.
2c. Thus , you see developments such as ลrฤซkantแธฅa bhฤsแปตa on Brahmasลซtra, Appayya, various kinds of efforts to synthesize Siddhฤnta & Vedฤnta such as the Vedฤnta-Siddhฤnta-Samarasam of Tฤyumฤnavar.
2d. Thus, the Vedฤnta was tightening its grip around the neck of the only non-Vedฤnta system that had substantially retained an independent value. For example, the Pฤรฑcarฤtrikas had their own unique metaphysics which just melted into various Vaisแน แบก va Vedฤnta streams.
2e. Now, it is difficult to get an exact picture of the growth or decline of the Siddhฤnta in late medieval TN without first identifying its distinct streams.
2f. The stream that dominated Kฤลmฤซra & Madhyapradeลa & had the great Gurus: Sadyojyoti, Bhatแนญแบก -Nฤrฤyanแบก kanแนญ แธฅ a, Bhatแนญแบก -Rฤmakanแนญ แธฅ a & Aghoraลiva. The last one became the head of a TN branch of Golagฤซ/ฤmardaka matแธฅ a at Cidambaram. Letโs call this the โAghoraลivaโ stream.
2g. The stream commencing in Meykanแธแบกฬr & culminating in Umฤpatiลivฤcฤrya via Arutแนandi ลivฤcฤrya & Maraijรฑฤna-sambandha. This is often seen as the second lease of life for the Siddhฤnta after the decline of the โAghoraลivaโ stream outside the south.
2h. We can call this second one the โMeykanแธแบกฬrโ stream. This stream would go onto become the dominant one in TN & there is also a caste dynamics at play here, into which I need not delve in for now, for want of time.
2i. The Meykanแธแบกฬr stream would continue to thrive till the 18th century, when ลivajรฑฤna Munivar will write the famous Drฤvidแบก -Mฤpฤdแป yam (Mahฤbhฤsแปตa), a massive commentary on the ลivajรฑฤnabodha of Meykanแธแบกฬr, a work of 12 Tamizh Sลซtras.
2j. There was yet another stream which we can call the ลivฤgrayogฤซ stream. ลivฤgrayogฤซ was a harsh critic of Aghoraลivaโs ลivasฤmyavฤda & expounded his own ลivaikyavฤda in the 16th century. He wrote a famous commentary on the Samskrแนญa ลivajรฑฤnabodha.
2k. The Aghoraลiva stream was also harshly attacked by ลivajรฑฤnamunivar of the Meykanแธแบกฬr stream. For me, the Aghoraลiva stream will always be the legitimate Siddhฤnta & its decline, most unfortunate.
2l. Nevertheless, it is not the case that this tradition didnโt survive post-Umฤpati. We had Nirmalamanแป ลivฤcฤrya, who commented on Aghoraลivaโs Kriyฤkramadyotika (KKD). While KKD was a ritual text, Nirmalamanแป โs explanations link the ritual deeply with Siddhฤnta metaphysics.
2m. There were also the Nigamajรฑฤna uncle-nephew duo about whom I had done a thread earlier:
We bow to เคญเคเคตเคพเคจเฅ-เคธเคฆเฅเคฏเฅเคเฅเคฏเฅเคคเคฟเค, เคญเคเฅเคโ-เคจเคพเคฐเคพเคฏเคฃเคเคฃเฅเค เค, เคญเคเฅเคโ-เคฐเคพเคฎเคเคฃเฅเค เค, เค เคเฅเคฐเคถเคฟเคตเค, เคจเคฟเคเคฎเคเฅเคเคพเคจเค เคธเคฎเฅเคฌเคจเฅเคงเค, เคจเคฟเคเคฎเคเฅเคเคพเคจเฅ เคฆเฅเคถเคฟเคเค & เคเฅเคเคพเคจเคชเฅเคฐเคเคพเคถเค (of Jaffna), who established เคถเคฟเคตเคธเคพเคฎเฅเคฏเคตเคพเคฆโ & that in the highest state, it is เคธเฅเคตเคถเคเฅเคคเคฟ, that is เคธเฅเคตเคพเคจเคจเฅเคฆโ, that blossoms in each soul. //End
2n. Their position, in my reading, can be seen as going back to Aghoraลiva tradition while they attempted to also draw upon ลivajรฑฤna-Siddhiyฤr of Arutแนandฤซ of the Meykanแธแบกฬr stream.
2o. Finally, we had ลrฤซ-Kฤรฑcipura-Paรฑcฤksแบก rayogฤซ of the 17th century who still revered Sadyojyoti & Aghoraลiva & held in his memory the monastic centres of Madhyapradeลa, which were no longer there.