'evearO vastaarani edO cEstaarani
edurucoosi mOsapOkumaa, nijam maraci nidura pOkumaa!'
As I said I know well what he wrote for, I always equate this with one
'bhagavadgeeta' (the only one I studied well) SlOka'
'uddharEt aatmavaatmaanam naatmaanam avasaadayet
aatmaivahyaatmanO bandhu, aatmaiva ripuraatmanaha'
One has to uplift oneself, thereby one is the well-wisher of oneself.
Otherwise, one may be the enemy of oneself.'
The whole and sole essence of 'bhagavadgeeta' is preaching to fight for
one's own 'genuine' rights. Didn't Sree Sree do the same to the
down-trodden in a 'contemporary fashion', exactly, what 'kRshNa' taught
'arjuna', when he felt dejected to do that?
In the concluding chapter of 'bhagavadgeeta', it is said
yatra yOgeesvara kRshNO, yatra paardhO dhanurdharaha
tatra sree rvijayOrbhooti, dhRvaaneetirmatirmama
Literally means, whre kRshNa and 'bow-bearing' arjuna are there, for sure
there is success.
My contemporary interpretation for this is, 'kRshNa' epitomizes 'the wisdom
without unwanted emotion' and 'bow-bearing' arjuna the ready to perform or
fight for his 'genuine' rights. And then only one may get success. Indeed,
it is not just my interpretation and it got to be the message of
'bhagavadgeeta'. People, who really know when, where and for what purpose
'geeta' was described in 'mahaabhaarata' got to agree with this.
'Should we have to stick on to this old classics, can't we get a head
start afresh?' (Could be a burning question for a few.)
I feel, the wisdom says that it is always easy to reinforce an old building
rather than constructing a new one. My addition is, as long as its
foundation is strong, it may be really wise to take advantage of it. It is
neither wise nor easy to bury someone/something, when it is still 'alive'.
That is why I feel foe the 'contemporary' interpretation for the 'great
epics'.
(Nicolus Copernicus first proposed that the 'earth' moves round the 'Sun',
quite contrary to its belief that the 'Sun' moves round the 'earth' and
came close to be hanged for that. It took a long time before people
'accepted' that scientific fact, unfortunately, Copernicus was no more by
that time I guess.)
So, can't there be revolutions at this rate?
Who said there are not? (But believe 'Rome' is not built in a day or should
I be scientific? 'A baby is not born in a day.)
Many of those, who are biased both to modern time writings as well as
'vEdas' can find that in the traditional ancient literature itself the
revolution could be found. 'caarvaakaas', who antagonized 'vEdaas' date
back to B.C. More prominantly, in the ancient 'bhaagavatam', KRshNa
prevents his fellow villagers from performing 'indra yaaga'. Instead he
asks them to pay respects to the natural beings such as trees, rocks and
cattle and make them do so. The idea behind was that these were more
directly involved in their daily life compared to god 'indra'. Isn't this a
revolution especially, for the time it was written? The writer was none
other than 'vyaasa', himself.
With regards,
Prabhakar