We never claim our absolute isolation from the immediate surrounding
because of the intimate relationship we regularly exercise on a daily basis for
claiming basic facilities needed for living.
Entire population of human beings living in cities and villages are
directly or indirectly rely upon the natural resources (Prakriti in terms of
The Gita).
Resources we obtain from nature are in plenty. All such resources reach
us through various mechanisms of processing. All such processing and
operational activities employed a group of people differently. If nature permits some activity in common for
all then we must rely upon such activities for maintaining balance in the
immediate surroundings. There exist many
examples to show the inter-relationship of human beings and nature. Human
beings depend upon plants and other animals for food, shelter, clothing and
medication. That is why our activities
against the basic rules of the nature will put us in trouble.
People from tribal villages worship the Nature God in different ways. They
express their happiness during their belongingness to the Nature. Different
tribal leaders from olden times agitated against the Forest Act due to the
intention of the law makers to break the intimate relationship of Tribal
communities and forests. During British rule people from the adjoining areas of
forest refused to accept the modernisation techniques duly introduced by the
government. They preferred to stay adjacent to the forest biota for ensuring
their sustained living.
Efforts were made to link them with the main stream of the human
society. All such efforts of linking tribal communities from the main stream of
society received a failure due to the gap of information, knowledge and culture
that remained prevalent within the communities and the government.
Nature is the place where both living and non-living things interact in
a balanced manner to make the place in this living planet a regularised one. It
is better to say that the Nature moves through a self-regulating mechanism of
development, creation and destruction. Several organisms developed in due
course of time and several others lost their identities too. Once Dinosaurs
were there in plenty and were freely roaming around in search of food. Now days
they are only legendary character having some place in films, fictions and
parables.
The scope of this article is to point out the propositions and concerns
regarding a specified animal, namely terrestrial tiger, for its inability of
coping up the changes in the habitat. Availability of the natural habitat for
that animal is shrinking day by day. Human intrusions in the areas protected by
law are another matter of concern. We
are losing a greater segment of the population of big cats because of our
inability of providing them a suitable nestling and breeding ground. They are
not so adjustable like other pets and farm animals and cannot accept supremacy
and command of human beings over them. This attitude made them considerably
unfit for the society, and even for the wild biota.
Their violent attitude exposed them badly to the anger, agitation and
violence of human beings. They even became victims of some wild games of
hunting, killing and poaching. A vanity associated with killing of wild beasts
made them more vulnerable. Acts and other protective measures designed by
different governments have different limitations. People also learned a lot to
bypass such laws and propostions for fulfilling their desires. At one place all
laws and propositions are a failure. It is the law of nature, natural balance
and factors of energy transfer at various trophic levels in the biosphere. The
science related to such diversified mechanism of energy transfer through
trophic levels made the animal absolutely linked differently to different types
of energy transfer chains.
If we understand these things in a better way then all our acts and
conducts should be designed in accord to the availability of resource pool
without disturbing their normal linkages. Here lies the actual need of
establishing perpetuated coordination between nature, economy and people. This
effort moves with an insight of exploring the possible ways and means of
establishing linkages in between people, ecology and economy.
What animals want and what are the things we are offering them is a
matter of comparison one can come across for examining the level of sensitivity
human beings have regarding the survival of our diversified biota along with
their allied differences.
Some of the species have lost their identity and became extinct. Tigers
are on their way towards extinction. It is not the case that we are having any
shortage of forest biota or any other suitable environment for accommodating
such a magnificent wild variety. It is the matter of our concern and wishes. We
want them to remain confined in small areas in and around some traditionally
developed forest resources. The animal concerned is not finding itself
absolutely adjusted with the surrounding of such reserves. Their wilderness put
them off the mainstreaming of our society and developed a band of threat for
them. Not only that, they have to face unwanted violence mounted upon them in
the name of amusements and superstitions.
There are several models of conservation mechanism available for us to
be practiced. Fitness of any conservation model depends entirely upon the area,
the people and the biota concerned. Tiger conservation strategy developed in
India was on the basis of a balanced participatory strategy having equally
relevant impetus upon the government and people.
Development, Conservation and Nurturing of the Ecology should go on in
a progressive way through adequate sectoral adjustment in between them. We
should focus adequately on the need of conserving the biodiversity of different
zones that we have in India. It is possible only through making people involved
in some sort of economic activities duly promoted by the authorities concerned.
We cannot force any traditional harvesters from entering the conservator or
protected place simply in the name of law enforcement. We even cannot make them
off the track of their traditions for keeping the biota vividly protected.
Threat to any diversified biota is not only because of the
interventions of any traditional harvesters. There exist some professionally
skilled groups who destabilises the situation by entering the forest biota
primarily for killing and poaching animals and for gaining wealth by exporting
different body parts of fellow animals to different agencies outside.
The habitat of continental tiger once extended from Siberia to the
farthest corner of South Asia. In due course of time their population declined
precisely as a result of habitat loss, hunting, poaching, pollution and some
other unauthorised human intrusion in the protected area. The conflict between
forest protector and oppressor is an issue of our concern. They even impart
themselves as a supreme commander in the territory of their nestling ground.
If we understand the process of energy transfer from one trophic level
to the other then the fact of conserving different trophic levels and
maintaining their desired level of representation in the nature will become a
must doing for us, not only for keeping our environment suitable for our living
but also for preventing any naturally occurring environmental hazards. We alone
cannot go on implementing our conservation strategies without imparting native
Indians in our planned effort of the mechanism of conservation. Progress of
social and economic importance is linked vividly with their allied importance.
We may go on practicing our efforts of balancing the ecosystem at the best
level of our own understanding.
Importance of nature in our daily life is a matter beyond the questions
and conflicts. For understanding such role, with a clear distinction between
acts, conducts and necessity, we may go through a popular story of a beggar and
King of all kings.
Once upon a time, a beggar was moving through the royal path with an
expectation of receiving something prosperous from the king of all kings. The poor beggar was standing by the side of a
royal path with an expectation of receiving some handful of wealth. The King of
all Kings often passes through that path and gives in plenty. For making the
anticipation of the poor beggar true, the band of dust with an admixture of
clouds appeared at the horizon. The King of all Kings was moving in through that
royal path. The very moment of prosperity and happiness would be there in the
life of the fellow beggar. It might bring an end to his wandering status; it
may also fulfill his desires. The dust and cloudy appearance moved more close
to the beggar and finally the moment came. A pair of empty palm was there in
front of the poor beggar. The King of all Kings was begging! It made him very
angry; also the act was absolutely unexpected one. With a mixture of anger and
agony he had decided to offer few grains of corns to the King of all Kings.
With happiness, King of all Kings received the gift and moved on
further. The day was not prosperous for the fellow beggar. His all faith and
contentment on the King of all Kings duly melted. He had nothing to say but to feel,
nothing to comply but to hide and nothing to offer but to gain.
Situation turned differently after returning back home. He was to sort
things as per its nature and utility. Some glittering corns were of special
type. His inmates identified that particular corn as costly gems. This incident
made him unhappy. He understood the magical power that implied upon him by the
King of all Kings. It was even more annoying to notice that the return was
equally countable in terms of identical quantity of the offering. The number
remained the same, but in terms of quality there was a tremendous boost. The
kind of equally powered boost that he wanted to receive in life made him fully
contented and compelled him to change his stand of not to offer things. Second
turn from the side of King of all Kings was about to come. This time he had
prepared himself to offer his kind self at the hands of the fellow master
having some sort of divine power. He was not in a position to give up. The kind
of incident made him absolutely confirmed about his stand of witnessing the
magical transformation which can make him feel the action of the divine power
on him. His contentment was also of absolute type because of his capabilities
of witnessing the impact of such divine power on grains of corns.
Beggar symbolises a common human being bearing aspirations of progress.
The King of all kings symbolises Nature. Nature is the only entity which
arranges a living for all its members. Proper,
timely and perfect culmination of the nature and the supernatural power
(divine) can make the creation possible.
Surrender without knowing the exact fate of such pursuit in our daily
life may not bring any fruitful result. What nature expects from us should be
made clear before moving for implementing any process of renunciation. Wisdom
and knowledge culminates in a definite fashion for ensuring the soft process of
renunciation. Theoretical model of wisdom should be tested empirically for
ensuring the existence of a broad link in between reasoning and well-being.
During the condition of ill-defined life situation wisdom intends to
move through unbiased judgement;
such as recognition of the limits of one’s knowledge, appreciation of
perspectives as broader than the prevalent issues, sensitivity to the probable
changes in social relations and integration of different perspectives in
particular. Contextual factors, such as training, educational practices and
repeated practice of the masterly instructions, collectively play a vital role
in the development of wisdom in an individual. Evidence
based methods are duly advanced for making the instructions more easy for the
fellow scholars. Because of that reason only saints started linking up masterly
instructions with stories and real life facts for making the fellow disciple
properly actualised and wiser. Such a kind of wisdom inflicted with true
knowledge is an expected outcome of the study of The Bhagavadgita. It is a
source of knowledge and wisdom, but not the ultimate one. It has its linkages
from wider streams of Vedic instructions, Yoga Philosophy and the philosophy of
Sankhya.
There is no any profound relationship between age and exhibits of
wisdom in any individual.
Knowledge enrichment aiming ultimately towards development of wisdom may be
initiated at any time and may even start reflecting at the tender age, as the
situation developed in the life of Shankaracharya. It may even bring
completeness to a holy life even at the tender age. In some other cases it may
not bring any chance of culmination of the soul and the divine. Attachment to
the worldly belongings is considered as a major obstacle in attaining the
awareness of the divine omnipresence.
We are discussing at present about saints like Veda Vyasa,
Maharshi Patanjali, Valmiki and many more. Their presence can be ascertained
even today through their creations, acts and conducts. They had created a best
possible thought process and expected people to imbibe the same for ensuring
aspirations of the advancement of the society through rectifications of the
individual conducts.
Rectification of such type is a continuous
process. We may not be able to claim about the absolute clarity on the process
of rectification as an error free system. Such kinds of thought process will
remain in the atmosphere even after thousands of years for making people
acquainted with such principles.
The kind of thought process will remain in the
context in the form of waves. Now a day’s wave theory of the propagation of energy
from its origin to the seat of action has become a common point of discussion.
Wave theory of the propagation of energy form place to place addresses the need
of people well in advance.
Thinking and attitude of people coming out
from more or less identical socio-cultural background often exhibit
similarities of many types. If countries
from different socio-cultural background share parts of their border then it
will be obvious that they often get indulge in some locally pitched conflicts.
We can take the examples of the conflict between Armenia and Azar Bizan. Some
other countries also put themselves in with certain vested interests.
Communities fighting with each other are not justifiable at any cost. There
exists other means of communication through which people move on to express
their anger and also they can imply a sanction through business confluences.
Here comes the question of work culture and
sectoral coordination. We have also witnessed the attitudinal difference
between Rama and Ravana, as vividly described at difference instances in the
famous epic the Ramayana. Rama wanted
Ravana to give Sita, his life partner, back. He had deputed his messenger twice
for making Ravana, the demon king from Sri Lanka; agree upon the proposal of
peace.
The proposal of peace was rejected in one hand
and the power, potential and courage of lord Rama was ignored on the other. The
result came in the form of a war. That war was also not meant for killing all
the people of that country. It was not even meant for smashing the kingdom for
grabbing resources, nor even meant for putting the name and reverence of lord
Rama in the fore front. It was meant for teaching a lesson to the demon king
and also for diffusing his state of ego, compulsion and desires.
The thought process that started moving along
with the advancement of lord Rama was perfectly captured and imbibed by the
brother of the demon king namely Bibhishan. He had managed himself to come out
of the darkness of ego, compulsion and desires by harnessing the philosophy of
peace, prosperity and collective progress. The result with him was also quite
fruitful. He was the victorious person of that battle and duly accepted the
place of his elder brother.
The Ramayana, The Mahabharata and other such
scriptures always display the victory of good forces over the evil ones through
inculcating waves of peace, prosperity, brotherhood, collective progress and
prosperity for all. These acts also intensified at some places by linking up
the bands of true and absolute knowledge with devotion to bring forth the
powers of right action.
Hanumana, the warrior of lord Rama as
described in the Ramayana, is the best example of such character having perfect
combination of Knowledge and devotion. Once a situation developed in the middle
of the journey of the envoy of Lord Rama during the moment when they had to
cross a long stretch of ocean to reach Sri Lanka for obtaining information
about Sita. All fellows present in the envoy started guessing about their own potential;
only the person silent was Hanumana. His seniors wanted to know the exact
reason of his silence. Hanumana said that the power possessed by him is
obviously enormous, but it is not in his hand. A divine force guides the
manifestation of that power. It will be implemented even at the service of the
divine. Such knowledge was the exhibit of the true knowledge. Based on that
knowledge one can surpass all possible obstacle whichever might come on the
way. Similar thing happened with Hanumana. By crossing all the obstacles he
reached the destiny and traced out Sita.
Sita noticed the presence of the messenger
deputed by lord Rama. Here came the situation where Hanumana exhibited his
devotion. For gaining the confidence of Sita on warriors and associates of Rama
he had exhibited his enormous power in that garden where Sita was kept under
observation. He even wanted to bring Sita back to Rama immediately. He was
stopped by Sita by instructing him not to violate the rule of the family and
tradition from which Ram is taking the lead. He was requested to follow the
assignment in particular for which Rama deputed him.
Here both Sita and Hanumana exhibited their
devotion to their immediate master. It was also an exhibit of their loyalty to
their master. Such loyalty often culminates to give birth to enormous power
with which lord Rama along with his entire envoy was advancing towards the
Demon King to teach him a lesson.
The fact was developing beyond the imagination
that is why it was not perceivable by persons having inflictions of ego, anger,
hatred, self centerlines and desires.
Ravana perceived the development in the envoy of Rama and his
advancement towards his kingdom as an impossible task. After noticing the
presence of Hanumana in front of him he was not convinced by the powers of
monkeys and other associates who were accompanying lord Rama. The waves of
devotion of the god, whom Ravana used to worshipping regularly, continued
radiating out through the acts, conducts and attitudes of Hanumana. Then also
Ravana was not in a position to accept any chance of the advancement of lord
Rama towards his territory. Such standpoint of a warrior develops from the over
confidence of the person about the system, implements and parts of such
implements.
That over-confidence removes all possible
chances of rectification of the system. Because of that reason also Ravana
failed to rectify his mistakes and placed himself in the turmoil of trouble.
Whatever lessons we learn from experiences and
interactions will sustain in our life for a longer time period. It can even
bring sustaining happiness and contentment within us. Here lies the way in
which any thought process perpetually moved from one individual to the other.
What we speak
should have adequate support of mind and what we do should have adequate
support of senses. We often do things without taking much concern of our
social, emotional and intellectual status. Here develops the conflict which, in
a long run of our socialisation process, often hampers out emotional as well as
intellectual set up. Balance of mind and intellect will be the basis of
individual apprehension upon which acts and conducts of an organism duly
ascertained.
People often
incorporate big ideas and ideals for ornamenting the value system for a vibrant
society, but in real life they rarely follow such things. Value proposition of
such types having no set up of observable things often put people in a state of
duality with which they develop a conflict within the self. They can even feel
what are the things better for them, but they rarely intend to blend their
senses and intellect in right direction simply because of the lack of adequate
self-confidence and support of mind.
Mind duly struck
at such a state of duality rarely make itself capable of developing some
intellectual blend and also rarely support their intellectual set up.
In modern time we all speak about
humanity at different platforms of national and international characters. Such
discussions often terminate with some positive resolutions of extending
adequate support to the mankind. None of the organisation, in actual sense and
in real life situation, can capable of implementing any initiatives for saying
no to any inhuman acts and conducts. There are examples in plenty to enrich the
depth and extent of the claim of such prevalence of inhuman acts and conducts
at different parts of the world. People involved in such kinds of inhuman acts
and conducts may give some different argument to admit their accuracy in some
other context. A more intensified torture to oppose any act of torture and
killing cannot solve the problem. It will bury the fire under debrides for
certain time. We can expect any intensified outbreak at any time.
Diffusion of Negative Forces
Situation that
hampers our individual ascent in the path of Yoga based life is the prevalence
of some negative forces within us. It has a deeper impact on senses. One can
surpass all such forces with a commitment of imbibing positivity in all
actions. By doing so, one can readjust all the senses for materialising the
manifestation of the spirit at all instances. With the easiness of mind this
process is too easy, and with the difficulties of the mental balance, one rarely
capable of feeling presence of such forces.
Self Esteem
If we start
talking to a person regarding any subject matter then there will be a state of
confusion in the mind of the person regarding the subject matter and related
contents of the theme duly assigned to the individual. The state of confusion
is only because of the prevalence of the lack of true knowledge regarding one’s
capabilities of doing any job with perfectness.
One can even hardly confess the difficulties that the person is facing
during the proposed interaction with selected groups on any selected theme.
Actualisation of any kind develops in the individual because of the presence of
the Self Esteem.
Self-esteem is
the quality depending upon which a person organizes skills and memory to
prepare oneself for a right action at right time. It has no correlation with
any change that intends to bring any change in the context. Self-esteem is
still equally relevant in the information age. Properly organised person can
materialise any action within limited resources. Even one can implement such
actions with best utilisation of resources. Such kind or organised action can
even bring result with an enhanced quality consideration. It can even link
people with better apprehensions of collective progress.
Will Power
“What I want that
I will and that I can”, this general tendency of an individual makes the action
a reality in actual sense. They even come forward with their willingness to
impart themselves in certain activities. This will power is the centrally
accommodated reason that confers the participation of people in certain
activities and nonparticipation in some other.
Grouping and
subgrouping of different people on the basis of caste, culture, colour and
economic status is also inflicted directly or indirectly with such will powers.
For making the discussion little bit clear we can consider some examples from
our real life situation. Such experiences are there in plenty.
Positive Attitude
What we think in
mind that we aspire to see and experience in reality. We even plan accordingly
to make things happen. If we aspire for attaining success in life and duly put
our plan and efforts accordingly then the desired success must come in reality.
Emperor Ashoka, one of the powerful
emperors from Maurya Dynasty during later Vedic Civilisation, invaded Kalinga
for punishing the culprit who was also the murderer of his mother. Kalinga was
maintaining a voluminous army; even they had a democratic status. With only
selected army Ashoka was more organised, confident and contented regarding
attainment of success. Success was supplemented with proper planning and
absolute positive attitude. That was the real mystery lying behind attainment
of success by emperor Ashoka.
Yoga speaks more about the strategy of actions that the actions or
perfections. How to do any work is more important than the work itself. One can
keep on drawing water from the well by using ropes and bucket, or it can be
obtained by fitting a water lifting pump at the base of a pipe.
What to do, how to do and when to do are some of the
pre-requisites of developing a strategy for designing a strategy. For throwing
out Nanda Dynasty
and for replacing the same by a wise king, Vishnu Gupta, popularly known as
Chanakya or
Koutilya in History, took the support of Greeks deputed there in Indian
continent by Alexander. It was the strategy of developing friendship with the
enemy’s enemy. Such mechanism worked perfectly and he attained success by
putting his efforts in bringing change in the Indian context. The result was a
long lasting success which came in the form of good government.
Although Chanakya was the most powerful person and most respected
master mind of his time, then also he preferred not to put himself on the
throne. He preferred maintaining his status of a king maker.
Strategy of action and its importance was also perfectly narrated
by Saint Valmiki in famous Epic the Ramayana. Once Sugreev, one of the warrior
from the envoy of lord Rama, as described in the Ramayana, chased Ravana just
after seeing him and recognising him through a window. It was absurdly planned
and prematurely implemented. The result came in the form of a failure. Ravana
managed to escape from the place by making the warrior entirely confused. He
was the master of magical powers. With the help of his magical power he had
handled the pre matured planning of Sugreev.
During another briefing on the need of planning for developing a
strategy lord Rama narrated the need of gathering such a big army and seeking
support of the brother of the Demon King for making things materialised
properly within least possible casualties. Every action requires a proper
planning. Winning the battle against Ravana was not so easy, also it was not
impossible. Proper considerations of all aspects of threat from the demon king
made Rama and his warriors more prepared, more responsive and more specific.
Even with more powerful army and different magical powers Ravana
became the loser because of his poor planning, arrogance and over confidence.
Adequate strategy was not worked out by him due to his act of the under
estimation of the powers of lord Rama and his envoy.
Victory may not wait for us in the battle field and success may
not come on the exam desk instantly without putting adequate efforts. We often
ignore the need of proper planning for developing a concrete strategy of
organising one for any forthcoming challenges. Because of this reason failures
of different degrees and different extent put us in trouble.
It would be better if we start learning form experiences and
arrange ourselves properly for any other forthcoming challenges. At this
critical point the teaching of the Gita will work properly. It says that one
should deserve a right to work, results will come automatically. It would be
better to prepare oneself for any other forthcoming challenges without
remaining fixed upon the results of any previous action. The instruction is
very simple and also easy to understand. One should not stick to the result.
The success might make a person full of joy and any failure may bring sorrow.
Both the joy and sorrow will create bands of obstacle on the path of ascent.
That obstacle supplemented with mental, physical and spiritual crippleness will
put a person in a halt. Such halt may become fatal for any vibrant life form.
Planned action can bring a successive scheduled actions followed
by one another in a cyclic way. Some of such planned actions often confer the
consideration of some of the laws of Nature. That is why it helps in
maintaining the coordination and balance of mind, intellect, skills and the
body parts. Each parts of an individual work perfectly amidst such a balanced
coordination of senses, mind, intellect and body.
Only a mind full of words, ideas and ideals cannot work properly,
only a body with a strong physique can also make any action a half dome, only
skill can wait for some fretful and coordinated instructions of the mind and
only intellect may indulge in some sort of arguments. That is why coordinated
actions of all the parts of the individual will be the only way out.
Coordinated actions will open up horizons of the possibilities of
culmination of perfectly planned actions with desired state of performance. It
may not wait for the results of the previous action to come. It will indulge
oneself in the vibrant process of organised actions with an aspiration of
feeling one’s ascent through the path of spirituality and will power.
Importance of nature in our daily life is
a matter beyond the questions and conflicts. For understanding such role, with
a clear distinction between acts, conducts and necessity, we may go through a
popular story of a beggar and King of all kings.
During one instance a beggar continued
moving through the royal path with an expectation of receiving something
prosperous from the king of all kings.
The poor beggar was standing by the side of a royal path with an
expectation of receiving some handful of wealth. The King of all Kings often
passes through that path and gives in plenty.
For making the anticipation of the poor
beggar true, the band of dust with an admixture of clouds appeared at the
horizon. The King of all Kings was moving in through that royal path. The very
moment of prosperity and happiness would be there in the life of the fellow
beggar. It might bring an end to his wandering status. It may also fulfill his
desires.
The dust and cloudy appearance moved more close to the
beggar and finally the moment came. A pair of empty palm was there in front of
the poor beggar. The King of all Kings was begging! It made him very angry;
also the act was absolutely unexpected one. With a mixture of anger and agony
he had decided to offer few grains of corns to the King of all Kings.
With happiness, King of all Kings received
the gift and moved on further. The day was not prosperous for the fellow
beggar. His all faith and contentment on the King of all Kings duly melted. He
had nothing to say but to feel, nothing to comply but to hide and nothing to
offer but to gain.
Situation turned differently after
returning back home. He was to sort things as per its nature and utility. Some
glittering corns were of special type. His inmates identified that particular
corn as costly gems. This incident made him unhappy. He understood the magical
power that implied upon him by the King of all Kings. It was even more annoying
to notice that the return was equally countable in terms of identical quantity
of the offering. The number remained the same, but in terms of quality there
was a tremendous boost. The kind of equally powered boost that he wanted to
receive in life made him fully contented and compelled him to change his stand
of not to offer things.
Second turn from the side of King of all
Kings was about to come. This time he had prepared himself to offer his kind
self at the hands of the fellow master having some sort of divine power.
He was not in a position to give up. The
kind of incident made him absolutely confirmed about his stand of witnessing
the magical transformation which can make him feel the action of the divine
power on him. His contentment was also of absolute type because of his
capabilities of witnessing the impact of such divine power on grains of corns.
Beggar symbolises a common human being
bearing aspirations of progress. The King of all kings symbolises Nature.
Nature is the only entity which arranges a living for all its members.
The conservation strategy is gaining a
momentum. It is also widening the information gap between people and
government. The schemes launched by government often remain off the record of
people simply because of their non-participation. Due to this reason
participation of people in making the schemes successful often remain off the
track. We cannot put a hold on the
intrusion of unauthorized hunters and poachers in the referred area of the wild
habitat. We, alone on the basis of some legal frameworks, cannot put a halt on
any unlawful acts and conducts of people leading to a loss of normalcy in
forest biota. We simply adopt a collaborative effort by establishing proper
coordination between people, government and environment through ensuring timely
participation of people in the planned efforts of the government and conservators.
From evidences available in nature, it has
become clear that native Indians are not a threat to the wild population. They
prefer living in a harmony as an ideal harvester of the forest resource. Their
intended effort is meant simply for harvesting a living without implying any
harm to the population residing there. Honey hunters of Sundarban and Kanha
reserve forest are of such type. They rarely put a halt in the normal wandering
attitude of wild animals. In Gir forest some native Indians even communicate
with big cats by producing special types of sound. The fellow lion understands
such dialogue and gives a way out. It is a best example of the coexistence of
people and animal with an aspiration of sharing the commonly available
resources.
Conflicting situation may develop any time
and at any place. If we consider the modern mechanized warfare then it is
becoming evident that modern wars may rarely last for a couple of days, or
hardly for a couple of weeks. On the other hand, it will be so devastating that
one can rarely traces out the group of warriors indulged differently in that
war. This may happen only because of the extreme mechanization of the warfare.
It
is also true that we cannot move on mechanizing any warfare anymore because of
the involvement of a huge sanction. People, in the modern society, rarely move
on for affording a war. They all imply adequate impetus on ensuring the
establishment of peace, prosperity and brotherhood in our society. This effort
cannot limit its expansion by any border; it can have a normal confluence
through countries and states; even it can have adequate hold on the community
living throughout the globe.
There are millions of books and narratives
with some noble initiative available for explaining and elaborating the
propositions of teachings of Gita. Gita is relevant for both learners and
teachers. It has something to say even to a layman having less knowledge about
the mysteries hidden amidst the conversations displayed in the holy book of
Gita.
The term Gita directly links our thinking with
the conversation that took place in between Arjun, a Warrior from the side of
Pandavas, and his friendly guide Krishna. It was going on amidst a critical
situation in which Arjun lost his power of finalising something justifiable to
have a sanction of war and killings. A series of killing of such type, in which
his beloved ones were at a threshold, made him discontented. Krishna took the
role of his charioteer to normalise the situation and to let Arjun understand
his own status in a better way. The agitation, as described in the holy book of
Mahabharata, was against the stand of his own family members having intention
of grabbing all the resources by taking advantage of some conspired game-fares.
The game-fare of such type with in infliction of opportunistic ideals was moved
on differently and both the segments of a single family took a stand against
each other.
Lord
Krishna defined his stand by putting himself in the side of Pandavas with a
sheer commitment of not to use his weapon at any instances. It was his stand
that made him free from direct indulgence of the warfare and made it possible
to guard Pandavas through delivering timely relevant instruction. In this way
he has secured his position similar to that of the brain in our body.
Conversation of Krishna and Arjun amidst the battle field was also an act of
holy instructions duly issued for Arjun to signify his timely need. It had
linked senses with duties, established correlation between rights and duties,
issued bands of things to be done and things not to be done, entangled a spirit
with its higher source, conferred the juxtaposition of creation and the creator
and finally re-established need of knowing the self.
It will be even more perfectly balanced to
contingent human efforts of ascent towards the state of the unification of
conscious mind with that of masterly guide. Effort is also made to encompass
the segregation of individual differences from the common philosophical
knowledge to make it more people friendly and more relevant, as well as time
tested one.
Gita, as a common and popularly contemplated
term, indicates towards a subject related to the holy book of Gita having bands
of knowledge in the form of a conversation in between Arjun and Krishna. This
reality made Gita confined to a limited quarter and placed other holy efforts
underneath a shadow of ignorance. We rarely talk about Ram Gita, Sanskaar Gita
and some other such efforts having a suffix Gita attached to it.
Gita,
in its actual sense, stands for some sort of compilation that people can sing.
It can be discussed with some beautiful rhythmic tunes. Collective recitation
of Gita brings out a collective wave in the form of auditory vibrations for the
purpose of cleansing the immediate surroundings. It also conferred essence of
collective and community level worship for making the entire effort possible
and for keeping the converged senses of cooperation and brotherhood alive.
To
a compilation of prayers and songs meant for the supreme lord the World Poet
coined a term “Gitanjali” for it. Linking to the practical aspects of life and
mission of an individual with the specified spiritual destiny, Saint Vinoba
coined the term “Katha
Gita (Gita through a series of stories)” and incorporated all the teachings and
narratives of Gita in absolutely friendly way. Examples are in plenty. It had
not diffused the glory of the original compilation of Gita, also had not
conferred replacing the original poetic compilation with millions of
narratives. Waves of vibrations that the chanting of Gita creates is based on
the assimilation of collective vibrations of saintly senses that makes a way
out through the surrounding of the place of worship and gives birth to an
essence of keeping the collective vibrations of cooperation, brotherhood,
divine omnipresence and inter-linkages of senses alive.
We,
in the same manner, can successfully create hundreds and thousands of such
narratives duly inflicted with fundamental human values to make the spark of
Gita a confluous one, a vibrant one and a strategic one. It has enormous power
of accommodations for incorporating all sorts of socially and culturally
relevant directives within the scope of its teaching related to individual
refinement impregnated with spiritual ascent. It also makes the relationship of
creator and the creation a vibrant one. We can specify any of the particular
effort as an initiative inflicted with divine power meant for accomplishing
certain works. All such Gita, duly compiled by saintly people, are not with us.
In due course of time we have lost many of such beautiful, relevant and time
tested compilations due to various reasons. Our mind kept on imbibing presence
of such powers tradition by tradition through many of our rituals. Those
graceful efforts played a significant role in keeping waves of community
worship alive.
Wider dimensions and expanded
coverage of the teachings of Gita often make people worried about what to
follow and what not to follow in real life. Also in some cases it becomes
difficult to think about propositions in the actual ground. Because of lack of
timely relevant practical knowledge of the situation, people even keep themselves
aside from following and internalising teachings of the holy book in the real
life situation. Approach of such religious and cultural teaching, therefore,
should have proper considerations of some practical aspects of rituals and
worships.
Some people maintain a view
regarding Gita is that the entire aspects depicted in this holy book are a
confusing one. Saints from olden times worked differently to show that Gita is
much relevant in terms of rituals and propositions presented in it. Here also
we are trying to trace out a link up in between rituals, traditions and
practices that we have in nature to re-establish the age old faiths of the
omnipresence of divine within us at its varying formats.
We can see things as they occupy a definite
shape. We cannot see energy and power due to their in capabilities of occupying
space. To feel the presence of such powers in our surrounding, we often take
the support of our senses and feelings. In some cases our observations are
evidence based, in some other cases it may have some imaginary propositions.
Here comes the act of limitations that restrict us to feel Ultraviolet and
Infrared radiations
which remained off the band of the visible spectrum and duly restricted our
sense of vision seven visible waves of light.
There arises another question related to
our effort of analyzing the relevance of the teachings of The Gita in present
day situation. It was the instructions delivered by Lord Krishna to Arjun
during the epic age of Vedic Civilisation. That time war had its presence in
the scope of royal management. That time conflicts had a final termination to
war for making efforts a result oriented. Sins and sinners had their presence
in olden times and are still there with us today; format and geo-locations
might vary; arms and ammunitions might differ. Even from the pages of history
we can see how Prince Ashoka smashed the Kingdom of Kalinga only because that
kingdom had refused to hand-over the murderer of his mother to him. Later on the war and the loss of lives of
many innocent people had implied a deep impression in his mind and he had
decided to refuse to take part in any other battle simply meant for territorial
expansion. Teachings of The Gita have worked differently during different
instances of the development of conflicts and agony.
Since conflicts and agony are beyond the
scope of any historic time line, we can correlate teachings of any instances to
prepare strategic actions of any other present day sectoral management plans.
It has the impetus of the absolute knowledge of human actions, wishes, wills
and conducts with absolute apprehension of delivering the needful.
The
reason of discontentment, sorrow and agony of Arjun after entering the battle
field was rejected instantly by Lord Krishna through implying a sanction of his
indulgence in the war. Killing any individual or creating another one is not
the role of any warrior. A warrior can deliver the duty in time with a clear
impetus of making the wiser side victorious. Sinners will lose their lives because
of their mis-conducts only.
It is the right place to mention about
Upanishads, often referred as Vedantas, as they exhibit doctrines, rituals and
worship patters prevalent in later Vedic Civilisation. Those rituals and doctrines were duly incorporated
in the great epics to make all sorts of teachings easy to understand. The
Bhagavadgita along with majority of Upanishads and Brahmasutra are known as
PRASTHANATRAYEE.
These three scriptures were studied extensively time to time to inculcate more
relevant knowledge related to Divinity and Spirituality. Out of 108 known texts
of Uapnishads only a dozen from the initial collection are considered as
Primary (MUKHYA).
Concluding parts of Brahmans and Aranyaks are also filled with Mukhya
Upanishads.
Authorship of all the anonymous tests duly collected from the garden of
Upanishads is unknown. Group of saints might have collected and represented
their lessons in the form of a collection.
Conversation between women like Maitreyi and Gargi are also inscribed in the
holy texts of Uanishads.
Root of all such creations is principally radiated out time to time in
different forms and also in different sectorian units from Vedas.
Pluralism of world view was characterised by the Upanishadic age;
gradually inclined more towards dualism by combining Sankhya and Yoga doctrines
efficiently.
The Bhagavadgita moved on a step forward by incorporating Vedanta along with
Upanishadic dcotrines with an aspirations of delivering a common pattern of
rituals, social formats and political will to the youths of the olden times.
Maitri Upanishad aspires for attainment of reverence and completeness by
human beings with the help of the knowledge of Brahmans and repeated practices
of meditation on such knowledge by the self.
Further study of the Bhagavadgita reveals
all such studies like the gradual unfoldment of petals of a lotus.
In the modern world we have various types of
cultural and religious thought process possessing rituals, customs and
traditions of different types, which are equally competent to enrich people in
terms of knowledge, devotion, courage, will power and dedication. The way we
receive each culture to enrich our multiplurality will specify our degrees and
ranges of success. Our motive force will guide accordingly to explore
possibilities of working out converged cultural segments from all the rituals
to move up towards vibrant waves of multi plurality.
India, at this juncture of the development of
multiplurality, will be a best example for all of us. Here people learned a lot
to live with each other tolerate each other and enrich each other differently.
We cannot see light. Even we cannot see the propagation of sound
through the material medium. Light strikes our eye, reaches our brain and
develops a sensation of vision through certain life process of vision. With
some sort of illusion, or lack of true knowledge only, we often claim that we
can see light. Even all the colours radiated out from the sun are not
recognisable by us. If God resides inside the individual, if all mysteries
related to the ascent of a person on the path of divinity, then why any devotee
search it out for gaining the blessings of any Divine power located outside the
physically existing body? Why such a dwindling situation any individual face
during the tenure of worship?
Lord Krishna narrated essence of feeling the Divine communion with
the physically existing life through witnessing cultivation of knowledge,
actualisation of the presence of any supreme power in sub conscious mind and
possible ways and means to follow that power.
It enables an individual to come across the feeling of the advent of
some completeness in the mind through knowledge transformation. Cultivation of
knowledge regarding the relationship of the divine and disciple is enrouted
from the age old traditions through the turmoil of the organic evolution. That
evolution brought some change in the process of exhibits, but the core remained
the same. It was even more perpetual and more profound regarding the ability of
harnessing the relationship of matter and energy. We cannot imagine the
existence of matter without the involvement of energy, and similarly energy
takes a definite visible form to occupy certain space in this universe.
How do people see things and how do they correlate such
unavoidable relationship of energy and matter is depend upon the level of
understanding that one adheres with. A master of Physics and a master of Philosophy
must have varying degree of explanations for putting forth the mystery behind
the mechanism involved during inter-conversion of matter and energy. All
organic combinations have certain physical and chemical sets of combinations in
such a definite ways that they inculcate the abilities of interactions and
abilities of giving birth to senses. Even evolution of sensory structures and
related orientations became much collaborative in case of human beings. Here
occurs a change which brought us near the state of explorations meant for
examining the hidden mysteries behind creation and orientation of life forms in
the living planet.
These days, things are known to us that earth like situation
exists in the universe. Only the matter of concern is that we may not be able
to reach the place even after attaining the speed as that of light in a year or
two. Only we can admire the presence and orientation of such creations within
our visibility. Only we can explore and examine such things with the help of
optical and electronic instruments. With an understanding of such limitations
human beings never arranged any voyage to explore the inner world of senses
that can allow us to explore the outer orientation of time and space. Such an
inner world exploration may require a little effort to culminate senses within
a confinement for feeling the presence. There also resides a tremendous flux of
energy accumulated within such a small space. Those mysterious combinations
taking the form of life were explored differently by saints during olden times.
There developed a science of explorations of the correlations of
the Creation and the Divine. Matter and energy indulged in a perfect
orientation for letting senses flow through them. Arrangement and orientation
of all our senses are directed outwardly. That is why we are bound to receive
waves and sparks from the outside world. Our inner world remains unexplored in
most of the cases. Only adherence of true knowledge and the journey of senses
through inner world during meditation can pave a way out for exploring our own
self. Meditation is the doorstep where orientation of senses get diverted
towards the inner world and bring out mysteries associated to the fact of
accommodation of the Divine power inside the living being.
Is that Divine power is restricted to the human beings only? The
answer is, obviously and surely without any doubt, No. human beings has gained
some sort of evolutionary supremacy in due course of time, but other beings are
also of same potential and courage with a domination of animism in them. Dogs
are loyal to their master, cats exhibit better vigilance power, elephants are
more socialised beings having better memory power and tigers are the masters of
their own territory. Taking hold upon the surrounding and defining the role
according to trophic
level, we can easily arrange these beings and others without any difficulty.
Philosophical and Spiritual supremacy is a
step forward that makes a distinction between other animals and human beings.
Then also we can witness inhuman acts from human beings and humanly acts from
some inhuman animals. The orientation of sense organ and correlation of senses
and sensory responses with memory and intellect is the only factor regulating
such varying degrees and conducts of animismic and hunmanismic behaviours.
Presence of such a Divine power within the creation is the reason
behind the maintenance of an idea of serving humanity with a correlated
apprehension of serving God. Only God
cannot put a direct access to the feelings of the presence of such immense
power within us. It is the approach with which we offer our services to living
beings can develop a way out for us to feel the difference.
Once during pre-independent period in Bombay (at present Mumbai) a
youth from some semi urban place approached a saint for offering himself at the
service to divine. It made the saint happy. He wanted to know the exact reason
behind his stand of doing so. Saint also enquired about his capabilities and
considered his offering a wise one. Actually the fellow was searching jobs in
the city. He was also a normal Graduate from any sub –urban area and his financial
situation was also not so good. Perhaps the sacrifice might make him
temporarily happy and contented, but will become a burden in due course of
time. With happiness saint suggested him for searching out a suitable job and
helping the parents and inmates of the family financially. Only After gaining
some wealth and knowledge the person can really enjoy the glory of sacrifice.
Right now the person has nothing special to sacrifice. Such sacrifice inflicted
with sorrow and agony may put both the master and the disciple in trouble.
Even divine cannot allow any individual to put oneself and
families in trouble and agony. It is the only state of contentment that helps a
person during movement from the physical world to the spiritual world.
Offerings of any kind and in any particular form will bring happiness.
Once upon a time, a shopkeeper had a beautiful dream. The dream
was so beautiful and so perfectly understandable that he feared of sharing it
with others. According to his dream the God himself wanted to visit his shop.
It was winter season and more special about the time that, it was raining
outside. Amidst such patchy rains he preferred opening the shop. Inmates knew
it better about his firmness upon any decision. He prepared some sweet dishes,
some snacks and few cakes for the strange visitor of the day. Face of God was
appeared in dream and was not recognisable with any clear identification marks.
“The Master must introduce himself, or may give some signal so that his poor
fellow can recognise”, his happiness went on increasing bit by bit.
“Can I have some snacks and a cake?” An old lady was approaching
the shop with a can on her hand.
“Today, actually I’ve not opened the shop! If you came then
please, have it.”
“Guest! Some special or any usual one!” Curiosity of the old lady
alarmed the shopkeeper for keeping the matter a secret one.
A cowboy was approaching holding a fruit in his right hand. “That
guard is chasing me. Let me come in, please.”
“But, you are already inside my shop! Anyway let me see the
fellow..”
Cowboy narrated the entire incident behind the reason of his
hunger. That fruit was kept aside and the shopkeeper offered him a dish full of
sweets, snacks and cakes.
“Don’t worry my child, I’m here with you.”
The matter settled in an hour. Striking of the noon time bell of
the cathedral instructed the shopkeeper to finish his meal. But, what about
that strange visitor! There were no traces of such visit amidst the sprinkling
of droplets in the courtyard and a shower on the roads.
Evening time visitors were a cobbler, a mason, a hawker and a
vagabond. Earning was not the matter of the day that is why he offered food to
all the visitors with respect. It became possible because of his happiness. At
last the mind refused to support him properly. Entire day and half of the night
went on waiting for the master. Ultimately the time came to stop waiting for
the strange visitor. His mind was still in a motive of receiving the visitor.
May be the master is trying to meet him when calmness mounts the surrounding.
With such anticipation he preferred keeping the door half open.
“So nice! So sweet! Really all items were tasty..” , the masterly
voice brought his happiness back in dream.
“I may visit you again and again.”
Morning time dream mixed up profusely with chirping of birds and
silver linings of the clouds.
“God came! Who was that? May be that boy! .. ” Series of
anticipations and guessing went on for few moments. The entire face of the shop
keeper was glistening with happiness. It was the time for feeling the presence
of the Master in any nearby position. It had developed a faith in his mind, “My
Master must come and visit me again.”
We cannot deny the role of a school in the life of any individual.
The person gains a lot during school days. S(he) can learn how to impart oneself in the society by
redefining ones role in society.
It is not the only aspect of life through which any individual
gets an opportunity to expose oneself to the fundamental value system prevalent
in society. One’s choice factor plays a definitive role in this regard.
Cultural background of an individual is greatly influenced by the
immediate surroundings. Human beings, for an example of an ordinary type, are
vegetarian by nature, but omnivorous by intended vigil of gaining some
essential proteins from the animal sources. Development of canine indicates the
biologically and naturally assigned habit to human beings. If we aspire for
remaining confined within the naturally sanctioned habits of our own then the
acts and conducts related to the killing of animals for the sake of gaining
essentials will definitely go at its minimum.
Killing of animals for obtaining food and medicine is perpetually
inflicted with acts of animism. It also signifies the place of human beings at
a definite trophic level. It has also exposed our relationship with other
organisms and our dependency upon the source. We rarely make ourselves capable
of trapping waves directly from the sun. It will always reach us through the
involvement of producers (such as green plants). Maintaining green plants in
nature and allowing them to prosper in our surrounding is, therefore, becoming
a non-avoidable activity of the system in which we are confirming our presence.
The referred system also limits our ascent and conducts. Within that limit of
acts and conducts any human being can explore possibilities of registering the
presence of oneself by performing the duties duly assigned to the individual
perfectly, perpetually and vividly.
One cannot escape from oneself without performing duties duly
assigned by the system designed for ensuring interactions of different trophic
levels. If we start claiming that tigers should not be allowed to kill deer,
cats should not chase rats, snakes should not feed on frogs and owls should not
puncture ripe fruits then our claims will violate the laws of nature. With
certain natural instincts, and for maintaining a proper balance in nature organisms
ensure their definite role as per the assignments. Human beings are playing a
role with some sort of exceptions. One can intend to kill deer for obtaining food;
one can trap fishes, kill birds, smash snakes and chase bulls for fulfilling
the need of grabbing food. With a modified vigil of registering one’s presence
in the cycle of energy transfer one can cultivate grains, harvest fruits and
maintain mulching animals for fulfilling the requirement of food. For rest of
the world the role of that human will be of a protector.
With such dual principles human beings can register the presence
of oneself in between the highest and middle order of the trophic level. In
another aspect we people maintain our difference from others due to our
ductility, capabilities to speak, performance of exhibiting our emotions and
affinity of remaining linked with others. Here comes the essence of
socialisation and acculturation for the same. On the basis of such involvement
in the society parents cannot escape from their duties of nourishing their
children, young ones cannot escape from their duties toward elders and seniors
cannot escape from their affinity of helping young ones.
Escapism of any type and any degree is the affinity of human
beings for which the entire community may face sufferings, loss of trust and
agony. Escapism of any type can also create individual differences, depending
upon which human beings often start ascertaining one’s role in society.
We cannot claim that all people make them capable enough to escape
from the acts of escapism and make themselves more active, more responsible,
perfectly awakened and properly adjusted.
Instance of gaining emotional and intellectual adjustment is the ever-growing
process of the attainment of perfectness. It is even confirmed by the process
of readjusting the intellect on the basis of the knowledge duly acquired by an
individual. It is even sharper with an instance of actualising the perfect role
of the fellow worshipper in the society. One can redefine one’s role in the
surrounding on the basis of the acquisition of knowledge. Knowledge alone
cannot confer the real nature of the individual; it is the admixture of three
different qualities, such as Satwa (saintly character), Rajas (royal character)
and Taamas (demonic character) that determines the nature of ego a person can
attain. Such a combination of ego, in turn with certain absoluteness, will
finalise the character of the sense organs, action organs and sensitivities.
.[ --- By Chandan Sukumar Sengupta ]
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