Valmiki Jayanthi.How many Indians aware of it?

Before writing anything about valmiki,I asked some of my friends that who is valmiki?,i got very different answers from them and then i decided to write about him.Valmiki was the dacoit turned saint.He was called as ADI KAVI(first poet).He was born on ashwin month pournami.He had given the structure of Sanskrit poem.He wrote an Epic called RAMAYANA where a man can find numerous things to lead a ethical and spiritual life.He is the first author who wrote poems in the Sanskrit.He is the one of the celebrated saint in Indian Philosophy.

According to swami Vivekananda ,"Knowledge exists we have to discover it".In search of that knowledge my interest moves on the Indian philosophy and tradition.Today due to impact of the globalization and corporate culture among the majority of human beings,our traditional values were degraded especially Hindu traditional values were forgotten.What i found interesting is when the time Aryabhatta invented zero,Bhakara charya proposed eclipse formation theory,sage kanad atomic theory,there is no evidence of equal science in the western countries.But in the present , even though India have many scientists who are competing equally with the world but still majority of technology comes from western countries.While searching reasons for this lagging i got an answer at the point where the Muhammad bin Qasim entered into the sindh region by defeating the king raja dahir ,it is around 700 BCE from that time to 1947 India is partially and some parts fully under the foreign rulers.The time up to 15th century there was not much impact of other cultures in India.The time where other people started searching for light of science.India has its own calendar,festivals,leadership,technology which other western countries could not even dream of it.

Unfortunately after the independence,indian politics were vandered around vote bank,the whole ancient Indian civilization and science were dragged under the limits of the single religion.People are referring newton but not Bhaskara charya,considering einstien but not veda vyas.How many of Indian scientists were working on the principles stated by ancient Indian scientists.A part from this we lost all of their works,we couldnt at least safeguard  their works.German government allowing number of students to do research on ancient indian technology.Why our government not encouraging our ancient studies to the children.

The thing i observed in western civilization and culture is,they propagated their culture by the name of globalization.They cleared of the boundaries of their tradition and made them to follow by the majority of people in the world.Examples are valentines day,mothers day,fathers day,friendship day.VIJAYADASAMI is the one of the festival which is celebrated in remembrance of victory of truth over injustice.None of western men will celebrate this festival. Even though in India there is almost an huge business on the valentines day and all other imported festivals.There is nothing wrong in knowing about other traditions and cultures but here comes the problem where imported culture dominating the one of the worlds ancient culture.They made us to accept that "live rome like roman",but there is no need to live like an Indian in India."ATHIDI DEVO BHAVA"(guest is like god),made india not to act like that.

Valmiki Jayanthi,is the birth of the poetry.Where he was the man who discovered how to write poems in a language.Majority poets now accept Shakespeare as greatest poet but don't even know the name of valmiki.Indian media making programs for the whole day on the valentines day,fathers day etc etc.They didnt allot 2 minutes to valmiki,vaysa,aryabhatta,susrutha,bhagatsingh,subash chandra bose...so on.

It is our duty to find their greatness,because of this pseudo secular government in India we are loosing our traditional wealth.Youth should take initiative and educate others regarding our scientific and traditional wealth.If this worse situation continuous like this there is no doubt that one day will come in future generations where people don't even know spelling of ancient India and culture.

I just want to say to all the youth in India, safeguard our culture by respecting other cultures.This my just inner feeling regarding Indians,we are degrading ourselves,we are hesitating to accept the greatness for our ancient scientists,we are hesitating to tell veda vyas is earlier than einstein who talked earlier about annihilating  the difference between space and time.Come lets learn about our greatest achievements.

I am going to finish with this,New york Herald wrote regarding swami Vivekananda chicago speech "Vivekananda is undoubtedly the greatest figure in the parliament of world religions.After hearing him we feel how foolish it is to send missionaries to this learned nation."


Jai Hind.


Srivatsava Sesham

Beauty of Hinduism

All other religions of the world are based on a personality-Islam on mohammed , christianity on christ, buddhism on buddha, zoroastrianism zarushtra.Remove the personality, or have some doubts on It, and the faith is shaken.Hinduism is the only religion that is not based on a personality, but a principle. Doubts have been raised on Srirama and Srikrishna , but the strong edifice of Dharma has not been shaken;it remains crack-proof.
       No disbileiver in Islam or the prophet can be called a Muslim;he is a 'kaffir'.No ridicular of christianity or christ can be considered a christian;he is a heathen.
       Ashoka made buddhism the state Religion of his realm, but did not exterminate Hinduism ,Hindu women were not kidnapped and converted,Hindu men were not killed in any orgy of seneless and brutal conversion-spree.Ashoka,who was a Hindu-turned-Buddhist, was the child of hinduism.Hinduism,the mother Faith,was tolerant of Buddhism-the rebel  child of Hinduism-and the Mother refused to  abandon her son,and the son refused to indulge in matricide.

      Hinduism has never said,'Believe or Perish'.It always said,'Live and Let Live'.Hence votaries of Hinduism did not take the gita in one hand and the sword in the other hand,to enslave and capture the world,converting all the non-hindus to Hinduism.
      No catholic can critisize the pope,but a hindu can critisize a shankaracharya.No christian can disbelieve in the bible or christ, but a hindu can refuse to accept gita or Srirama and Srikrishna. Can a Muslim dare say that he doesnot believe in the koran or the  prophet?          
    When the jewish prophet Moses was giving the ten commandments in the name of the jehovah to the nomadic tribes of  Israel,our Rishis evolved a code  of  conduct, a sheild of dharma for the  right approach to life. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad(1:3:28) says,"Om asato maa sad gamaya-tamasa maaa jyotir gamaya-mrityor maa amritam gamaya(" O lord , from untruth lead me to truth;fromthe darkness of ignorance,lead me to the light or knowledge;from death,lead me to Immortality").
    Hinduism can be never crusified its prophets.If jesus christ had been born in India,he would not have been crusified.If socrates was born in this country ,we would not have given him the cup of Hemlock.Gautama Buddha died of ripe old age in this country among  the hindus,and he was not hunted down like a rabbit by the 'shikari kutas'(hunting dogs).
    S.Radhakrishnan,(The Hindu Wayof Life,p,28).And he elaborates on page 40:"Wars of religion,which are the outcome of fanaticism,that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different creeds, were practically unknown in Hindu India".
     Incessant wars between the catholics and the protestants had ravaged the map of Europe and Ireland since centuries.Extermination of the Ahmediyya Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan by Muslim fanatics and fundamentals is widely known.The chronic fights between sunni and shiasects in Islam are known to one and all.
      Do the arya  samajis and the sanatanis kill each other? Do the Buddhists and the Hindus ravage each other's homes? Do the kabir-panthis and Dadoo-panthis raze each  other's temples to the ground?
       Semitic religions do not allow this type of intelectual and spiritual freedom.They destroy the temples,they smash the idols,they kidnap the women,they convert the children,they kill the men,they drag unwilling women in their concubinage.We,on the other hand, have never pulled down the spires of their shrines in the name of our god or creed or religion.We never erected mounds of human skulls
after butchering them indiscriminately.We never converted them at the point of the sword.
         Our priests don't lay down norms for political pundits from pulpits in the shrines.Our priests do not issue 'hukumnamas' to the politicians to sign on the dotted line .Our prists do not issue murderous terrorists.Our priests mind their own businss in the temples,for in hinduism religion and politics are two seperate compartments.The stateshould not dicate terms to the rulers.
             Why did the Dalai lama come to India with thousands of his Buddhists fromTibet?Why did the chakma buddhists from Bangladesh come to India?Why did the zoroastrains come to India? If the zoroastrains from Iran had gone to any Muslim country , they would have been forcibly converted ,if not massacred outright .But we gave them shelter , succour and support ,and they continue to be zoroastrians in India,like salt in 'chapati'.