Mainey AAs Mayya ko Matha Navaya Second Part (Metaphysical) (The story so far is here: Part one at https://facebook/MahabharatKiGalatiyan/posts/661724730607079 Part two at https://facebook/MahabharatKiGalatiyan/posts/662044120575140) Hunger is just not food, it is hunger for acknowledgement, for ambition, for position, for status and thus is also Ego. Thirst is not just drink, but thirst for love, for affection, for fulfillment, for success and thus is also Obsession. Sleep is just not a nod to the land of nods but it represents untapped potential, hatotsaha, repressed ambition, avoiding tasks, broken enthusiasm and more importantly lethargy, lassitude, fear, anger, procrastination, laziness and worst of all Ignorance. Hope is just not hope but Dhairya, control, control of one’s senses, it is also Action, and proactive Labor Shrama and also Knowledge. And what drives the body to fulfill the hunger for acknowledgement, to strive for success in face of failure, to preform to potential and share the enthusiasm with the world is HOPE. That’s why the Prince saluted the Lady Hope, who slakes the thirst, calms the hunger and enthuses sleep. I lied. The story has a lot to do with Puranas and Vedas. It probably arose from a commentary or an allegory. It probably originated in a commentary on Santiparva or Anushasana Parva or on Yudhishthara’s lecture to Ajagara Nahusha. There are elements of this story which are couched in Viduraniti as well. In Mahabharata, Bheeshma describes this as perfect mean of Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. The four women. In Anushasanaparva, in Danadharma section, this story is explained in terms of Dana. Or How Yudhishthara describes to Ajagara the Nahusha. आहारनिद्राभयमैथुनं च सामान्यमेतत् पशुभिर्नराणाम् | धर्मो हि तेषाम् अधिकोविशेषो धर्मेण हीना: पशुभि: समाना: || Eating, drinking, sleep, fear from somebody, these habits are common between human beings and animals. It is dharma which is additional important quality of man, without which he is same as an animal. क्वचित् कन्थाधारी , क्वचिदपि च दिव्याम्बरधर:| मनस्वी कार्यार्थी न गणयति दु:खं न च सुखम् || Sometimes sleeps on floor and sleeps on fine bed at other times. Sometimes manages only with vegetables and eats delicious rice at other times. Sometimes wears torn clothes and wears elegant clothes at other times. The person devoted to work does not care about sorrows and joys. Mother Hunger तावज्जितेन्द्रियो न स्याद् विजितान्येन्द्रिय: पुमान् | न जयेद् रसनं यावद् जितं सर्वं जिते रसे || A man conquering all the other senses, as long as, he does not control the organ of taste (tongue), so long he cannot be called self-controlled. The Hunger is what drives one away from Parmatama. Controlling Hunger is the first thing that matters. Mother Thirst एक एव खगो मानी चिरंजीवतु चातकम् | म्रियते वा पिपासार्तो याचते वा पुरंदरम् || There is only one bird Chataka who has very high self esteem and self respect. Chattaka would prefer to die because of thirst but will ask for water only from God Indra, he drinks only rain water. He will never drink water from the pond or stored water. Such high self respect and self esteem he has. And he lives a long life. Thirst will be slaked. Mother Sleep सुखं शेते सत्यवक्ता सुखं शेते मितव्ययी | हितभुक् मितभुक् चैव तथैव विजितेन्द्रिय: || The one who speaks truth, one who spends less, One who eats nutritional food in limited quantity and the one who has conquered the senses, gets peaceful sleep Mother Hope उत्साहो बलवानार्य नास्त्युत्साहात्परं बलम् | सोत्साहस्य च लोकेषु न किंचिदपि दुर्लभम् || A person with enthusiasm is a powerful person. There is nothing as powerful as enthusiasm. Nothing is impossible to an enthusiastic person. Where there is a will, there is a way. That will is through hope. क्षुत्तृडाशा: कुटुम्बिन्यो मयि जीवति नान्यगा: | तासामाशा महासाध्वी कदाचिन्मां न मुञ्चति || Hunger, thirst and desire (Aasha) are like mans three wives. Until he is alive these three will never leave him or go elsewhere. In comparison of the three, desire is a महासाध्वी because it never ever leaves the man. Unlike hunger and thirst which disappear for some time after eating /drinking, desire is the thing which never disappears from mans mind! अतितॄष्णा न कर्तव्या तॄष्णां नैव परित्यजेत | शनै: शनैश्च भोक्तव्यं स्वयं वित्तमुपार्जितम || Extreme desire should be avoided. but dont throw away desires. We should enjoy self earned wealth with control. Hope is the control, the balance. In Mahabharata, Bheeshma describes this same story in terms of Artha, Kama, Moksha and Dharma. In Anushasanaparva, in Danadharma section, this story is explained in terms of Dana or Danadharma. You gift food, you satisfy hunger for few days. You gift drink and satisfy thirst for few days. You gift relief and let a person enjoy sleep for few days. Your best gift can only be Hope. Hope through knowledge, hope through law and order, hope through guidance. Hope that there is no badha or interference in that person from achieving his or her potential. The birth or dharma even does not determine the destiny of the person, only karma, his own karma. Karma hi Brahamana banata hai. Karma or action is what makes us achieve our potential. That is the Hope of the Deity and of the Devotee. The Girl Child Before we leave the metaphysical part and continue the story: Hope is the first emotion shared by parent to child and back. God is the Parent to Human. Child is the Father (Parent) to Man (Human). Ergo, Child is Parent to Human. That simply means God is Parent. God is Child. QED. I used the terms Human instead of Man, I used the term Child instead of son or daughter. I used the term parent instead of Mother or Father. It is because it does not matter whether it is your son or daughter. The God is in both. Why then, we imprison the daughters, curtail their movements and make life unsafe for them. We are restricting God when we restrict the daughter, we are destroying the social contract of God to Human when we destroy the Hope, the ambition, the dreams of the daughter. These stories have been around for the long time. We don’t see the Wood for the trees in the forest of our anecdotal wisdom. These stories are all around us. When Krishna was misbehaving with the Gopis, Mother Yashoda caught hold of him and tied him to the Mortar. “Oh how cute?!” I am sure a percentage of readership is thinking looking at the story. Little Krishna tied to the mortar with cute expression on his face. Bhaaar mein gya Cute o Dhoorta, My left Foot, I don’t give a hoot it is Krishna. That point is Moot. On noting the misbehavior of his son, a Mother tied the SON up. The Mother did not ask other mothers to keep their daughters in the house. She did not ask the other mothers to restrict their daughters. She punished the SON. Why does the Yadavas du jour do not follow what Mother Yashoda did so many years ago? Why do we restrict the daughter and not the Son, when even mother Yashoda punished the Son and not the daughter? RamNarayan wrote an interesting piece on the four curses Sita gave to Ketaki, Falgu, Cow and Fire. This story is in Siva Purana which started getting assembled around 800 AD and lasted till 1350 AD and maybe even the great Dikshitar edited it a bit. And the stories inside it are even older. The link to Rama’s story is here (https://facebook/705802556181373/photos/a.708307805930848.1073741828.705802556181373/739473692814259/?type=1) The story is not about the four curses. It is not about Agni, Ketaki, Cow or Falgu. Their curses are available in other legends also. The crux of the story is that Sita could and gave pinda to her father in law, Dasaratha. The HOME truth of the story is that women can give Pinda. The focus of the story is that daughter and daughter-in-law can give Pind. The moral of the story is that Daughter in law is same as daughter in that respect. So, why are daughters-in-law in India treated differently than sons or even daughters? Vichar kijiye.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 07:52:11 +0000
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