WE ARE NOT A NATION OF DEFEAT, SUBJUGATION OR AT THE RECEIVING END OF
OUR INVADERS. GREAT NATIONS ALWAYS GO THROUGH THIS CYCLE OF INVASIONS, IT IS
NOT HOW MANY TIMES WE WERE INVADED BUT IT IS HOW WE CAME OUT OF IT. THERE ARE
MANY COUNTRIES WHICH WERE ERASED FROM THE MAP OF THE WORLD BY INVASIONS OR IF
THEY STILL EXISTS ON THE MAP, THEIR CULTURE, THEIR RELIGION WAS CHANGED
PERMANENTLY THAT MEANS THEIR IDENTITY WAS CHANGED…… NOT OURS, OUR IDENTITY
IS INTACT……. BUT, AS USUAL … CONDITIONS APPLY……………..
TODAY IS 26 JAN ... OUR REPUBLIC DAY. THAT IS WHY THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL
READ TO KNOW MORE..................
Thousands of visitors throng Qutubminar every day. Many of
them read the epitaph and come to know that it was built by Qutubshah and
admire the magnificence of it. Yes it was built by Qutubshah, but the story
doesn’t end there, in fact it starts from there. The downfall of Hindu Kingdom
started around this time.
A
thought came to my mind, that how many of us look back and read our real
history. We are always fed on the British written history, which very cunningly
gives all those periods which make us feel that we were always ruled. First by
Alexander, then by Muslims and then by Britishers. When we talk about our
history we are always apologetic about it. To start with, this history of subjugation was fed
to our four - five generations and its continuity was ensured from then on.
When such biased history was preached continuously to four - five generations, permanent damage was done. Now we know that we are
born to get ruled. Only subjugation. Ask
any one in the age group of 20 - 30 about what they know about Alexander the
'Great'(?) Why was he great or was he?, If we see from our perspective. Ask Gen
Next who was Chandragupta, Chanakya and Bindusar (probably they may have heard
the names of Chadragupta and Chanakya but not of Bindusar) and what was their most
important contribution. Why should we read History from ‘their’ perspective?
Here are some salient points in our History.
1. Alexander
may have been a great warrior but in Bharat he crossed Sindhu and could go till
Beas River, not ahead.
2. Upto
1400 AD South India was free.
3.
Till 1100 AD Mughals/ Turqs/ Muslims could not
conquer Bharat.
4. From
600 AD to 1000 AD Bharat was almost unified without any invasion.
5. During
Chandragupta Mourya and Vikramaditya around 150 to 200 yrs Bharat was free and
progressing. The most important contribution of Chandragupta and Chanakya duo
was to unite Bharat into one nation. Same goes to Vikramaditya and Maratha empire.
6. From 1650
to 1760 Most of Maharashtra and later upto Atak (Now in Pakistan) India became Hindu-PatPatshahi
under Maratha empire.
7. We have
finished only 60+ yrs after independence. Still a lot to go in a Nation's life!
Although we have lost some land, we have lost Hindu nation to secular one, but we
are still progressing.
8. With so
many invasions many important nations (Greece, Roman, Bactria and many others
lost their nationhood but India is still alive!).
9. Many
nations still exists without the original identity like many central Asian
nations and Egypt etc are there but now turned into Muslim countries.
10. We are still
alive and ticking, though in the long march towards existence we have lost
Hinduhood and became secular that is alright we are still progressing.
11. Whenever
nations allowed their religion to be changed, change of nationhood happened.
12. The terms
like ahimsa are good for personal spiritual enhancement, but not for a nations
upliftment! For a nation, PATRAPATRA VIVEK (पात्रापात्र विवेक), देशेकालेपात्रेच
has to be applied. Otherwise nation becomes weak.
13. We ourselves
made bounds for our religion, because of which our progress, openness, and our
religion suffered a lot. They are
(a) Caste system and
not to have relations with other castes.
(b) Not
to wed daughters outside the castes.
(c) Not
to cross Sindhu river, means we could not wage war going out of our land.
(d) No
reconversions were allowed so we lost our numbers!
(e) Not
to kill the enemy when he has surrendered - Ahimsa (A bane from Budhist
religion).
(f) In
war - fight with an equal.
(g) Crossing
of Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal was considered not an Hindu act!
14. The just mentioned bounds were self-imposed for overall
good at that time, our leaders (of that time) lost focus of GITA - The
preachings of GITA were applied OUT OF CONTEXT.
15. Gita while
speaking on Caste system says - it was created TO SUSTAIN THE SOCIETY ON THE
PRINCIPAL OF 'mental bend of mind' and 'skill set existing in a person' (चातुर्वर्ण्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागशः। अध्याय ४:१२)
- That means the castes are according to the गुण - Mental Bend of Mind (सात्विक,
राजस, तामस) and कर्म- The skill he has and the work he does. It never said
it should be hereditary! Applying this every society in the world is divided in
these four divisions!.
16. While speaking on treatment to others GITA says (including
enemy) it says देशे काले च पात्रे च तद्दानं सात्विकं स्मृतम्। अध्याय १७.२० Translated
it says, the treatment depends on the context of place, time and person. The treatment should be
different for different times, different places and for different persons i.e.
for different situations. Actually so much liberty this religion had given to
its people but we concurred a wrong meaning and instead of becoming more
liberal became rigid.
In the zest to follow GITA, these two (गुणकर्मविभागशः and पात्रापात्रविवेक) important
aspects were lost!
17. Alexander, Shak, Hun, Kushans invaded
us but never had any agenda to convert the religion. Muslims had a specific
agenda to Convert, to desecrate the symbols of our sentiments (मुर्तीभंजक, बुतशिखान). Again धर्मांतर याने राष्ट्रांतर.
18. Tamil is
the oldest Classical language in the world (proto Dravidian languages), and Sanskrit was the
oldest Language in Indo Europeon languages. Both have antiquity of 2 millenium
BC. Latin was the only language as old as Sanskrit and Tamil.
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I have made the Indian history ‘panoramic view’ for today’s computer
enabled generation in an abridged manner just to create interest in the
reader. More information and knowledge could be gathered from other
sources. I think Gen Next should go
through this small document in their spare time. At a glance it gives the
panoramic view about our history.
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