Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 3 (गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग ३)

Swami Vivekanand

Gaurakshakaur Gyani Part 1 (गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग १)
Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 2 (गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग २)

गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग ३ ज्ञानीः अगर ये तर्क तुम्हे नही मना पा रहा तो स्वामी विवेकानंदजी और स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकरजी की सीख जरूर मना लेगी। गोरकक्षकः विवेकानंद और वीर सावरकरजी! ज्ञानीः हॉं हॉं, सुने तो हैं ना ये दो नाम? गोरकक्षकः दुनीयांमे कोईभी इंसान जो अपने आपको एक सच्चा हिंदु समजतां हैं, वो ये दो नाम भगवान के बाद लेगा। ज्ञानीः खाली नाम लेकरही रूके हो की इन दो महान व्यक्तीयोंका कुछ साहीत्य, कमसे कम उनके बारे मैं कुछ पढाभी हैं? गोरकक्षकः जी हॉं, नेताजी केहेते हैं... ज्ञानीः यही परेशानी का जड हैं मेरे वत्स! दो-चार सनकी लोग तुम्हे कुछ बताते हैं और तूम ‘बाबा वाक्यम् प्रमाणम्’ बोलके मान लेते हो। कीसी भी चिज की तरफदारी या विरोध उस चिजके बारेमें पुरी जानकारी लिये बगैर कैसे करते हो? खैर, इन दोनोंने गोरकक्षाके बारेंमें बहोतही क्रांतीकारी विचार प्रदर्शित किये हैं। गोरकक्षकः और वो क्या पंडीतजी? ज्ञानीः उस वक्त बोहत बडा सूखा पडा था। विवेकानंदजीके पास एक आद्मी अकालसमे गोसंवर्धन हेतू चंदा मांगने आया। तब स्वामीजीने उसे कहा की “गाय का तो ठिक हैं लेकीन तूम सूखेसे पिडीत लोगोंके लिये क्या कर रहे हो?” सावरकरजीने तो हिंदु धर्मको उसका खोया हुआ वैज्ञानिक दृष्टीकोन यानेके scientific base वापसदेने हेतू काफी विस्त्रुत लेखन कीया हैं। उन्होने यहॉं तक कहॉं हैं की दुध ना देनेवाली बुढी / बीमार गायोंसे अगर कोई गरीब छुटकारा पाना चाहे तो उसे गुन्हा नहीं सिर्फ गलत माना जा सकता हैं। कुछ समजे नेताजीके अनुयायी? गोरकक्षकः हॉं लेकीन... ज्ञानीः और एक बात, कीसीभी धर्म की ताकत किसमें होती हैं? गोरकक्षकः वो धर्म मानने वाले लोगोंमें पंडीतजी। जितने जादा लोग, उतना बलशाली वो धर्म। ज्ञानीः सही कहॉं। और अगर किसीभी चिजको तूम डिव्हाईड करते हो या बाटते हो, तो वो चिज बढती हैं या घटती हैं? गोरकक्षकः आसान हैं घटती हैं। ज्ञानीः तो फीर यहीं आसान बात जब तूम गोहत्या के आशंकाके कारण किसी दलीतकी – जो इस हिंदु धर्म का अभिन्न अंग हैं – हत्या करते हो तब समझ नही आती? पेहेलेसेही सवर्ण लोगोंने धर्मके खिलाफ इतने सालोंसे जो उनपें अत्याचार किये हैं उससे वो हिंदू धर्मसे दूर जा रहे हैं और उसमें तूम जैसे लोगोंकी हरकतोंसे दूरीयॉं और बढ रही हैं। वक्त रेहेते तूम लोग अभी सुधर नही गये तो एक समय ऐसा आयेगा की हिंदू धर्म पर रोने के लीयेभी कोई हिंदू नही बचेगा! गोरकक्षकः हॉं सच कहॉं पंडीतजी! ज्ञानीः और दुसरी तरफ तूमलोग अपने मुस्लीमबंधूओंको तकलीफ देते हो। इससे बाकी कुछ नही पर तूम आयसीस जैसे आतंकी संघटनोंका काम आसान कर रहे हो। वो तो चाहते हैं की ज्यादासे ज्यादा मुस्लीम युवक उनके तरफ आकर्षित हो। गोरकक्षकः तो इसका मतलब हम कुछ ना करे? हॉंत पर हॉंत धरे बैठे रहे? ज्ञानीः तुम्हे अगर कुछ करनाही हैं तो हमारे आदरणीय पंतप्रधानजी का केहेना मानो. गायको प्लॅस्टीक बॅग्स् खानेसे रोको। ईश्वर तुम्हारा भला करे। शुभम भवतू। समाप्त

Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 3 Gyani: Wait my boy! If reasoning doesn’t convince you then teachings of Swami Vivekanand and Swatyantravir Savarkar definitely will. Gaurakshak: Vivekanand and Veer Sawarkar? Gyani: Yes! I hope you have heard these names! Gaurakshak: For any proud Hindu these two names are next to the God! Gyani: Great! So you must have read their books or at least have read about their teachings? Gaurakshak: Yes of course! Netaji says... Gyani: Here lies the root cause of the problem. Couple of mad leaders like him brain-wash you and then that becomes the universal truth for you! How can you support or oppose any thought, thing or person before being 100% sure about it/him? Anyways, Swamiji and Sawarkarji have expressed revolutionary thoughts in context of Cow protection. Gaurakshak: And what are those Punditji? Gyani: It was a time of great drought when one person came to Swamiji asking for the fund for the welfare of cows. Then Swamiji told him “That’s fine. But what about the welfare of drought affected humans?”                           Even Veer Sawarkarji has done extensive writing to give back the scientific base to the Hindu religion. He has said that, it cannot be considered a crime but just a mistake if a very poor owner of a cow thinks of getting rid of his old useless cow. So have you taken any lesson netaji’s follower? Gaurakshak: Yes but... Gyani: One more thing - tell me; what is the real strength of any religion? Gaurakshak: It is in number of its followers Punditji. Gyani: Absolutely correct! Now tell me if you divide anything then will it increase or decrease? Gaurakshak: Obviously it will decrease... Gyani: Then why don’t you apply the same logic when you think of harming any dalit just on the suspicion of killing a cow or eating beaf? Do you forget that this dalit too; like you and me is undisputedly a Hindu? Atrocities forced upon these downtrodden by the so called upper casts in the past have already made them wary of Hinduism and to top that people like you still deny them the respectable life they deserve. Allow me little exaggeration; if you continue this way, very soon Hinduism will be an extinct religion. Gaurakshak: Yes, true Punditji! Gyani: On the other hand you trouble Muslims too. Don’t you see by doing this you are making it easier for terrorist organizations like ISIS to recruit our Indian brothers? Gaurakshak: So in short you are suggesting us not to do anything for the well being of a cow? Gyani: No my boy; our honourable Prime Minster has recently made a profound statement on this. He said, if you want to protect a cow, protect it from eating plastic bags. What a realistic thought my boy! Do work on it! May god be with you! Shubham Bhavatu! The End

Swatyantraveer Sawarkar

Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 2 (गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग २)

Panchagavya

Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 1 गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग १

गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग २ गोरक्षकः तो फिर गाय को अपने पुराणोंमें जो पवित्रता बहाल की हैं वो झूठ हैं क्या? ज्ञानीः इस धरती के सबसे उपयुक्त प्राणीको – गायको उस समयके जादातर मांसभक्षक समाजसे संरक्षीत रखने हेतू हमारे महान ऋषीयोंने निकाला हुआ वो बेहेतरीन पैत्रा था वत्स. अगर मैं गाय की उपयुक्तता बयॉं करू तो तूम हक्के-बक्के रेह जाओगे। मॉंके दूध के बात अगर कोई सर्वोत्तम आहार हैं तो वो हैं गायका दूध. अपि तू दूधसे मिलनेवाली मलाई, दही, मख्खन, छाछ इ. सबमे काफी पोषणमूल्य होते हैं. वैसे देखा जाए तो भैसका दूधतो नइ खोज हैं इंसान के लिये। दूध का छोडो, गायकी विष्ठातक उपयूक्त हैं। आजभी कइ सारी आयुर्वेदीक दवाओंमे गोमुत्र इस्तेमालमे लाया जाता हैं। गीले गोबरसे टूटी हड्डीओंको प्लास्टर लगता था, भवन निर्माण हेतू उपयोगमे लाया जाता था और सूखे गोबरसे इंधन मिलता था। गायके नर बच्चेसे हल चलाया जाता था। अगर भावनिक तौरपे देखोगे तो गायके ऑंखों मैं जो अपार करूणा नजर आती हैं वो किसी और जीव मैं नही पाओगे। गोरक्षकः फिरसे हम मनुष्यकी सर्वश्रेष्ठतापे आके रूक गये। ज्ञानीः और यहीं सच हैं मेरे पुत्र। गाय धर्मका एक अंग जरूर हैं, पर धर्म का मुलभूत आधारही 'मानवकी' भलाई हैं। मानवही धर्मके केंद्रमें हैं। गोरक्षकः फिर इसका मतलब आप गोहत्याका या हत्यारोंका समर्थन करते हैं। ज्ञानीः नहीं वत्स; नहीं। मैंही नही, अपना धर्मतक किसीभी त-हाके हिंसाका खंडंन करते हैं। फिर वो गायकी हो या मुर्गेकी। बल्की यही वो कारण हैं जो भारतवर्षको दुनीयाका सबसे बडा शाकाहारी देश बनाता हैं। गोरक्षकः अब तो आप गायको और मुर्गेको एकही स्तरपर ला आए। ज्ञानीः बेशक! अभी कहे उपयोग छोड दो तो गाय उतनीही पवित्र या उतनीही निम्नस्तरकी हैं जीतनाकी एक मुर्गा। गोरक्षकः अगर ऐसा हैं तो मुझे ये बोलते हुए बिल्कुल खेद नहीं होता की आप एक सच्चे हिंदू नही हैं। ज्ञानीः अगर ये तर्क तुम्हे नही मना पा रहा तो स्वामी विवेकानंदजी और स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकरजी की सीख जरूर मना लेगी। ...क्रमशः गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग ३

Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 2 Gaurakshak: Then is the sacred state given to the cow in our scriptures wrong? Gyani: Assigning a sacred status to cow was the most efficient way our great Rishis devised to protect the most valuable animal on earth. Cow needed protection from dominantly carnivorous society existing then. You will be flabbergasted if I tell you how useful a cow is. Cow milk is said to be next best thing to mother’s milk. Then its cream, butter, curd, butter milk and clarified butter all have high nutrient contents. Buffalo milk is a comparatively recent discovery of a man kind. Forget milk, in fact cow’s excreta is also useful. Cow’s urine or gomutra has medicinal properties and is still used in number of ayurvedik medicines. Wet cow dung, being a good binding agent was used as a plaster for broken bones before plaster of paris was discovered. It was also used in building homes. Whereas dried dung was used as fuel. Plus, cow’s male calf could be put to use in farming. So basically there are innumerable uses of cow. On emotional level, you will be touched by the compassionate eyes of a cow. No other animal projects this emotion strongly associated with motherhood. Gaurakshak: Punditji, this again boils down to the supremacy of human beings. Gyani: This exactly is a case my boy. Cow is part of a religion. But the whole concept of religion is to better the human life. So the focal point is human. Gaurakshak: So you are justifying the killing of cows or at least supporting the culprits. Gyani: I am not son; I am not! Neither me nor our religion supports killing of any creature. Let it be a cow or a chicken. This exactly is a reason why vegetarianism is so popular in India. Gaurakshak: But you at least mean that a cow is as sacred or as sundry as a chicken. Gyani: Yes! Cow devoid of the above uses is as sundry as a chicken. Gaurakshak: Then I am sorry to say this Punditji but you are not a true Hindu! Gyani: Wait my boy! If reasoning doesn’t convince you then teachings of Swami Vivekanand and Swatyantravir Savarkar definitely will. ...To be continued Gaurakshak aur GyaniPart 3

Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 1 गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग १

गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग १ गोरक्षकः पंडीतजी, अपने पुरानोंके अनुसार, कीसी भी आत्मा का अंतीम उद्देश क्या होता हैं? ज्ञानीः मोक्ष. मतलब जन्म और मृत्यू के चक्र से हमेशा के लीये मुक्ती। गोरक्षकः तो फिर क्या कोई भी जीव मोक्ष प्राप्त कर सकता हं? ज्ञानीः नही! सिर्फ हम इंसान अपने गुरु के आशिर्वादसे मोक्ष प्राप्त कर सकते हैं। गोरक्षकः मतलब मनुष्य छोडकर अन्य प्राणीयोंको मनुष्य जन्म प्राप्त करने के बाद ही मोक्ष मिल सकता हैं। ज्ञानीः बिलकुल सही पेहेचान वत्स। गोरक्षकः गाय को भी नही पंडीतजी? ज्ञानीः ना! गोरक्षकः तो फिर इसका मतलब हुआ की सब प्राणीयोंमे यहॉ तक गौमातासेभी इन्सानही सर्व श्रेष्ठ हैं। ज्ञानीः इसमे अहंकार ना देखो तो यही सच हैं। गोरक्षकः क्या अपने पुराणोंमे सचमें यहीं लिखा हैं पंडितजी? ज्ञानीः हां वत्स! यहीं लिखा हैं! पर तूम इतने साशंक क्यूं हो पुत्र? गोरक्षकः क्यूं के नेताजी केहेते हैं की गोहत्या या गोमांससे जुडे किसीभी इन्सान को भयंकर दंड दो! वे केहेते हैं अपने देशका कानूनभी इसे अपराध मानता हैं। ज्ञानीः अब ऐसा देखो, पेहेले तो अगर ये कानूनी अपराध हैं तो अपराधी को सजा देने का हक्क सिर्फ और सिर्फ कानून का हैं। तूम्हारा या तुम्हारे नेताजी का नही। और दुसरी बात; नेताजी जैसे लोगोंसे भरे हुए देश मैं ये कानून मतलब अश्वत्थामाके हात मैं ब्रह्मास्त्र! बडे शत्र के साथ बडी जिम्मेवारीभी आती हैं। आपके नेताजी जैसे गैरजिम्मैदाराना पागलोंसे तो खाली विनाशही हो सकतां हैं। गोरक्षकः तो फिर गाय को अपने पुराणोंमें जो पवित्रता बहाल की हैं वो झूठ हैं क्या? ...क्रमशः गोरक्षक और ज्ञानी भाग २

Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 1 Gaurakhsak: Punditji, what is the ultimate aim of a soul as per the Hindu scriptures? Gyani: It is to attain the salvation or Moksha as it is called. It is freedom from the cycle of birth and death. Gauraskhak: Then can any living being attain this Moksha? Gyani: No! Only humans can – with help of his / her Guru. Gaurakshak: Are you sure Punditji? I mean are you sure no animal can attain moksha unless and until he is reborn as a human being? Gyani: Yes! You are right my son! Gaurakshak: Not even a cow Punditji? Gyani: No! Gaurakshak: But this then means Humans are superior to animals even though that animal is a cow! Gyani: Indeed! Gaurakshak: Punditji are you sure this has been said and written in our religious texts? Gyani: Yes by all means it is strictly as per our scriptures. But why are you asking this my son? Gaurakshak: Because our netaji says it is our duty to severely punish a person who is killing a cow or is in possession of beef. He says even Indian law states that. Gyani: There are two aspects to this. 1st of all, if it is forbidden by law, then let the legal system punish the offender. You or your netaji have no authority to do so. Secondly, this law when used by people like netaji is similar to Brahmastra in the hands of Ashvatthaman! Great weapon calls for great responsibility my boy! It is disastrous in the hands of irresponsible fanatics like your netaji. Gaurakshak: Then is the sacred state given to the cow in our scriptures wrong? ...To be continued Gaurakshak aur Gyani Part 2

Is Moksha the real end??!!

We Hindus believe in the philosophy of rebirth i.e. any living being after his death will be reborn depending upon his karmas (actions & deeds). We further believe that this life itself is the reason behind the agony of a living being and Moksha is the answer to get rid of this agony.

Moksha or Salvation is a state of eternal bliss where a living being (in the form of a soul) unites with ‘Brahman’ – a supreme being and frees itself from the vicious cycle of birth-life-death & rebirth. This is supposed to be the ultimate aim of a being and thus the end.

Now before we move on to my question, that is, ‘is Moksha the real end?’, I would like to tell you about two books* I was simultaneously reading a month back.

The 1^st one was ‘Bhavarth Dyaneshwari’ by Mr. Vijay Pandhare (it is a rendition of ‘Dyaneshwari’ in present day Marathi -‘Dyaneshwri’ being the in depth commentary on ‘Bhagvat Gita’ in 11^th century Marathi by the greatest Mrathi poet ‘Saint Dyaneshwar’. Whereas Bhagvat Gita is said to be the gist of Hindu philosophy as told by Lord Krishna to his worrier friend Arjuna in epic Mahabharata). The 2^nd book was ‘The Theory of everything’ by the greatest mind of our times – Mr. Stephen Hawking (it covers & explains the origin of universe right from historical beliefs up till present day ideas).

You will surely wonder of all the books in the universe, why these two?

I have always beleived that you can never separate Science (as we know it in present day) from Hindu spiritual knowledge and these two books will lead us to our answer.

Let’s start by understanding in short, how the universe is formed by parallely looking at what’s being told in above two books:

Sr. No.	As understood by modern day scientists from 17th to 20th century	As told in 11th century Dyaneshwari & age old Sanskrit Scriptures before that	Old Concepts & the respective scientific terms of present era
1.	Big Bang - It’s a stage of singularity where the universe had very high energy density and thus very high pressures & temperatures where all laws of physics (including general relativity) break down. Big Bang Expansion	God / Brahman / Parmatma is dormant or sleeping - a stage of nothingness	Brahman = total amount of energy in the universe (remember law of conservation of energy?) = amalgamation of positive & negative energy forces
2	Due to high pressure, world rapidly (exponentially to be more precise) starts expanding & cooling	** Prakruti (a phenomenon responsible for this illusion called world) comes in to play & by taking a disadvantage of dormant Brahman, catalyzes expansion of nothingness – state of illusion (Maya)	Prakruti = Negative energy force (Remember electric circuit diagrams we studied in schools? Though we traditionally show flow of electricity from +ve terminal of the battery to the –ve terminal, it’s actually a –ve terminal from where the electricity flows similarly the creation process starts from -ve Prakruti) or = antimatter (actually Prakruti creates humans, & traditionally we called ourselves - matter)
3	Because of gravitational force of subatomic particles & simple atoms released through exponential cooling & expansion, the pace of expansion is slowed down to give rise to galaxies & stars	Dormant Brahman awakens due to this expansion and is now called Lord Vishnu. Lord Brahma manifests from him & creates the world	Hindu trinity = positive energy force (electrical circuit is complete only if the current reaches the opposite terminal of the battery) or = matter (to balance the antimatter) Brahma Vishnu Mahesh (Shiva)
4	All laws of physics / chemistry / biology now hold their ground in this relatively cool universe Life becomes the reality with human beings being the last to be created by nature. Creature dies and scope of modern science ends here.	Lord Vishnu takes the responsibility of maintenance of the world Soul – a minuscule part of Brahman is born through 84 Lakh creatures (including human). Depending upon Karma’s of a creature, it may be reborn as a lower / higher level creature or a human with a bad / better life or finally might attain Moksha after death in human life.
5	Today modern scientists have started believing that this expansion would stop some time in future; the world would then start contracting & will ultimately collapse in to a new Big Bang. But still we have not found a way to prove this collapse.	Lord Shiva – the third god of Hindu trinity – a primordial yogi will take the responsibility to destroy this world by contraction. Brahman could now again go in to its dormant stage by collapsing in to nothingness
6	Fate of a new big bang is still to be discovered by our modern scientists. But in all these stages scientists still give a scope to the ‘Will of a God’ to create the universe as we see it today.	Prakruti will again take over & repeat this cycle umpteen no of times – as Hindus believe that there is no end or no beginning to the Brahman. Further reading: Ekeshwarwad-aani-law-of-conservation-of-energy	Prakruti taking over Brahman is nothing but the proof of a law of thermodynamics which states that – ‘nothing is perfect in this world’ (i.e. not even the all encompassing Brahman. Otherwise possibility of a disturbance in its sleep wouldn’t have arisen).

 

Now, 'the cycle of the universe continues from its birth to rebirth', means, even if a soul has attended a moksha in this cycle of the universe, it might fall in the trap of ‘Prakruti’ in the next cycle and might again be born as a living being & suffer till it again attains Moksha.

This implies, Moksha is surely not an end. This in turn means, all the efforts a particular human soul takes by walking on the strenuous path of salvation are futile.

But that's not the case. Following two principles (from old & modern world) will make you understand why all our scriptures still emphasize on Moksha:

Sr. No.	As told in age old Sanskrit Scriptures	As understood by modern day scientists
1.	ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते पूर्णश्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥ ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ... Above verse correctly describes the Brahman as below: It is complete. Only completeness can manifest from the complete. Even if a completeness is removed from the complete, a complete is what that will remain Ones a particular soul is united with the complete Brahman, its individual identity ceases to exist & it becomes the complete Brahman. Once this individual identity is lost, whatever happens to the Brahman in the next cycle of universe ceases to be that particular soul’s concern.	Present day ‘Black holes’ are the miniscule models of Big Bang Singularity. Black holes are the patches in the fabric of the universe with such a high density that even a light (fastest in the universe) can’t escape it – giving them a dark appearance and the name. It is mathematically proved that if some matter collapses in to this high gravity black hole, owing to ‘Law of conservation of Energy’, equal amount / quantity of energy / matter is freed from the black hole maintaining its equilibrium. Thus even with this logic, once soul units with Brahman, some other part of the Brahman will be born as a creature making this soul free from the cycle of birth & rebirth.

Thus in short: Moksha is definitely not an end but an individual soul need not bother about the real end as there isn't any!!!

PS: * I don’t claim to fully understand these two books completely. This blog is crux of whatever little I have understood from these two books.

 ** There is another less scientific story of the creation of the universe which says, ‘God was alone & he thought of becoming many’ & thus created the universe.