श्रीगणेश के रूप की विशेषता

-चल्लपल्लि भास्कर रामकृष्णमाचार्युर्लु
ज्ञानानन्दमयं देवं निर्मलं स्फटिकाकृतिम्‌।
आधारं सर्वविद्यानां हयग्रीवमुपास्महे॥
ओंकारमाद्यं प्रवदन्ति संतो वाचः श्रुतीनामपि यं गृणन्ति।
गजाननं देवगणानतांघ्रिं भजेऽहमर्द्धेन्दुकृतावतंसम्‌॥

'जो ज्ञान तथा आनंद के स्वरूप हैं, विनिर्मल स्फटिक तुल्य जिनकी आकृति है, जो समस्त विद्याओं के परमाधार हैं, उन श्री गणेश जी की मैं उपासना करता हूं। जिनको संत लोग आद्य ओंकार कहते हैं, जिनके सिर पर अर्धचन्द्र शोभा पाता है तथा सभी देवतागण जिनके चरणों पर नतमस्तक होते हैं, उन गजमुख श्री गणेशजी की मैं वंदना करता हूं।'

श्री गणेशजी की आराधना अनादिकाल से भारत में प्रचलित है। कुछ आधुनिक लोग पाश्चात्य मतों से प्रभावित होकर इस भ्रान्ति में पड़ते हैं कि गणेशजी की उपासना वैदिक नहीं है, अपितु इसका स्वरूप अर्वाचीन काल में प्रचलित हुआ। लेकिन वेद तथा आरण्यकों में गणपति-मंत्र तथा गणपति-गायत्री की उपलब्धि होती है, जिनके अध्ययन से ज्ञात होता है कि गणपति उपासना वेदविहित है।

'गणेश' या 'गणपति' नाम की विवेचना

मनद्वारा ग्राह्य तथा वाक्‌द्वारा वर्णनीय सम्पूर्ण भौतिक जगत्‌ को तो 'ग' कार से उत्पन्न हुआ जानें तथा मन और वाक्‌ से अतीत ब्रह्मविद्यास्वरूप परमात्मा को 'ण' कार समझें। 'अध्यात्म विद्या परमात्मा का स्वरूप है- 'अध्यात्मविद्या विद्यानाम्‌' (गीता 10 । 32)। परमात्मा के चिंतन तथा वर्णन में मन तथा वाणी समर्थ नहीं है।

' यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते अप्राप्य मनसा सह।'
(तैत्तिरीय. 2 । 4)
'न चक्षुषा गृह्यते नापि वाचा॥' (मुण्डकोपनिषद् 3 । 8)

इस भौतिक जगत्‌ तथा अध्यात्म विद्या के स्वामी 'गणेश' कहलाते हैं-

मनोवाणीमयं सर्वं गकाराक्षरसम्भवम्‌।
मनोवाणीविहीनं च णकारं विद्धि मानद।
तयोः स्वामी गणेशोऽयं योगरूपः प्रकीर्तितः॥
सम्प्रज्ञातसमाधिस्थो गकारः कथ्यते बुधैः।
असम्प्रज्ञातरूपं वै णकारं विद्धि॥
तयोः स्वामी गणेशोऽयं शान्तियोगमयस्सदा॥

'ग' कार सम्प्रज्ञात-समाधि के तथा 'ण' कार असम्प्रज्ञात-समाधि के स्वरूप हैं। इन दोनों के स्वामी 'गणेश' कहलाते हैं।

गकारः कण्ठोर्ध्वं गजमुखसमो मर्त्यसदृशो
णकारः कण्ठाधो जठरसदृशाकार इति च॥
अधोभागः कट्यां चरण इति हीशोऽस्य च तनुः। (गणेशमहिम्नः स्तोत्र 9)

'ग' कार कण्ठ के ऊर्ध्व भाग गजमुख का तथा 'ण' कार कण्ठ से उदर तक के भाग तथा 'ईश' कटि तथा चरण का संकेत देते हैं।

गजानन होने का रहस्य

यस्माज्जातमिदं यत्र ह्यन्ते गच्छति महामते।
तद्वेदे गजशब्दाख्यं शिरस्तत्र गजाननः॥ (मुद्गलपुराण)

'गकार' से गमन (लय) और 'जकार' से जन्य (उत्पत्ति) की ओर संकेत किया गया है। ये ही दोनों अक्षर वेद में 'गज' नाम से प्रसिद्ध हैं। इसी के कारण गणेशजी 'गजानन' कहे गए हैं।' गणेशजी का गजवदन संपूर्ण जगत्‌ के सृजन, पालन तथा लय की सूचना देता है-

'सर्वं जगदिदं त्वत्तो जायते।
सर्वं जगदिदं त्वत्तस्तिष्ठति।
सर्वं जगदिदं त्वयि लयमेष्यति।' (गणपत्यथर्वशीष. 5)

एकदन्त का रहस्य

एकशब्दात्मिका माया देहरूपा विलासिनी।
दन्तस्सत्तात्मकः प्रोक्तः.....।
मायाया धारकोऽयं वै सत्तामात्रेण संस्थितः।

'एक' शब्द बाह्य शरीररूपी माया का तथा 'दन्त' शब्द सत्तारूप परमात्मा का संकेत है। 'एकदन्त' शब्द माया का आलम्बन किए हुए सगुणरूपी गणेश का बोधक होता है।

इस्लाम समिक्षा

महाभारतकाल ३६०० साल के ११०० साल बाद बौध्ध,महावीर,अशोक के काल बाद अती पिछडा,जन्गली,अग्यानि ऐसे अरब मे मुहम्मद साहब ने इस्लामकी नीव रखी। वे कुछ पढे-लिखे नही थे लेकीन उन्मे इश्वर-श्रध्धा और आस्तीकभाव ज्याद था।उन्के वचन कुरान मे है।उस समय स्त्री केवल वासना का साधन थी,अनेक पत्नीप्रथा और गुलामी के कुरिवाज़ थे।उन्होने एक इश्वर्वाद क प्रचार कीया लेकीन ये प्रचार सहिस्णुता,शान्ती,सेवा करनेसे बदले उन्के अनुयायीओने अपने अपने तरीके से तलवार से कीया। जिन्होने इस्लाम का अस्वीकार कीया उन्को मार दिया गया। इसी तरह सुरु से इस्लाम इस सन्सार मे भय,आतन्क,अत्याचार का प्रतिक बना। कुरान मे इस्लाम का दार्शनिक,आध्यात्मीक पहलु शुन्य रहा। जन्नत का सुख,हुरे,शराब का लालच,स्त्रीओ को खेती समझना(मन्झील-१,सिपारा-२),तौबा करने से क्षमा मिलना,आदी बाते गरीब और अशिक्षित लोगो को बेह्लाने वालि और हास्यप्रद है।आधे मुस्लिम रोजा,नमाज़,हज,दान को पुन्य कर्म मानते है। जबकी अहीन्सा,प्रेम,करुणा जैसी मानवीय भावनाओको इस्लाम्मे स्थान नही है। इन सब बातो से ऐसा लगता हैकी कुरान इश्वर का बनाया या किसी विद्वान से निर्मीत ग्रन्थ नही है।जो कुछ थोडा अच्छा है,ग्राह्य है।
-महर्षि दयानन्द सरस्वती(सत्यार्थ प्रकाश,१४ वा समुल्लास)

Pythagorean Theorem was first postulated by Indian mathematician - Baudhayana

Did You Know?

Pythagorean Theorem was first postulated by Indian mathematician - Baudhayana


The Formula known today as the Pythagorean Theorem was first postulated by Indian mathematician - Baudhayana in the 6th century C.E. long before Europe's math whizzies. In 497 C.E. Aryabhatta calculated the value of "pi" as 3.1416. Algebra, trigonometry and the concepts of algorithm, square root originated in India. Quadratic equations were propounded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
The largest number used by Greeks and Romans were 106, whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10 to the power of 53, as early as 5000 BCE. Even geometry called Rekha Ganita in ancient India, was applied to draft mandalas for architectural purposes and for creating temple motifs.

Caste

"There is no superior caste. The Universe is the work of the Immense Being. The beings created by him were only divided into castes according to their aptitude."
- Mahabharata, Shanti Parva, 188

Transportation

The Rig Veda, the oldest document of the human race includes references to the following modes of transportation:

Jalayan - a vehicle designed to operate in air and water. (Rig Veda 6.58.3)
Kaara- a vehicle that operates on ground and in water. (Rig Veda 9.14.1)
Tritala- a vehicle consisting of three stories.(Rig Veda 3.14.1)
Trichakra Ratha - a three-wheeled vehicle designed to operate in the air.(Rig Veda 4.36.1)
Vaayu Ratha- a gas or wind-powered chariot. (Rig Veda 5.41.6)
Vidyut Ratha- a vehicle that operates on power.(Rig Veda 3.14.1)

Tribute to Hinduism

In spite of the reverence, the intellectuals had for Hinduism, there seems a constant effort at defamation in the media. Hindu idols are routinely disparaged in all walks of life. At Disney World there is statue of Lord Ganesh in one of the jungle rides! There are no other religious icons of any faith in the park. Recently, News India-Times published a front page story on $10 Express, a Jackson Heights N.Y. shoe store that was selling $5 sandals with images of Shiva, Ganesh, and Gayatri. This week, Sittin' Pretty, a Seattle-based manufacturer of designer toilet seats, is marketing toilet seats decorated with images of Lord Ganesha and Goddess Kali.

Why such disrespectful treatment to such an ancient and noble religion?

Hindu scriptures such as Mahabharata, are often called myths. In reality, the great Hindu epics are formidable in their recording of events over a vast expanse of time. In the early eighties an important archaeological site was found in India, at Dwaraka, the site of the legendary city of Lord Krishna. Dwaraka was submerged by the sea right after the death of Lord Krishna. This was regarded as a grandiose metaphor, part of a story filled with great myths. Now, it is discovered that the whole coast of western India sank by nearly 40 feet around 1500 B .C. E. In contemporary world religions, the scriptural stories are not referred to as myths. For example, in Christianity the biblical story of the virgin birth of Jesus is considered true even today.

Stephen Cross, in his book on Hinduism, pg 1, says, "It is no secret that we in the West live in a time of spiritual crisis. Western civilization has been guided by Christianity. Now it appears that this period is drawing to a close. Both religious institutions and social structures are in disarray. A great many things that were considered basic assumptions of western thought are being challenged. The reality of the external world, the soul, the linear nature of time.

Swami B. V. Tripurari, in his book, "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Ignorance", points out that, "Those now disenchanted with industrialization and scientific materialism as well as pseudo-spirituality, India's ancient spiritual heritage provides a rich alternative. Eastern philosophy, and the devotional heart of India's Vedanta in particular, can fill the empty shopping bag of our Western accomplishments." Whoever reads the Bhagvad Gita for the first time will be struck by the beauty and depth of this work.

Author Beatrice Pitney Lamb has noted: "Recently, increasing numbers of Westerners in revolt against what they have found to be the shallow, gadget-dominated, spiritually empty civilization of the West have turned to "Hinduism" in search of greater meaning or purpose in life. There is no doubt that the great Hindu tradition offers profound spiritual insights, as well as techniques for attaining self-realization, detachment, and even ecstasy.
(source:
India: A World in Transition - By Beatrice Pitney Lamb p. 358).

W. J. Grant wrote: "India indeed has a preciousness which a materialistic age is in danger of missing. Some day the fragrance of her thought will win the hearts of men. This grim chase after our own tails which marks the present age cannot continue for ever. The future contains a new human urge towards the real beauty and holiness of life. When it comes India will be searched by loving eyes and defended by knightly hands."

'The religion of the Hindus is rich in legend and stupendous allegory. It is a religion of great dignity and beauty. Its wrestlings with reality are as courageous as any in the whole history of mankind..' Indian thought has generally been contemplative, it has seldom been enamored of the material side of life.'

(The Spirit of India - By W. J. Grant 1933 p. vi - 58).

According to
S. Radhakrishnan, "In the history of the world, Hinduism is the only religion, that exhibits a complete independence and freedom of the human mind, its full confidence in its own powers. Hinduism is freedom, especially the freedom in thinking about God. "In the search for the supernatural, it is like traveling in space without a boundary or barrier." (source: Bhagavad Gita - By S. Radhakrishnan pg - 55).

Hinduism may not be called a religion in the sense other religions are known. It is much more than a religion, it is a total way of life. Hinduism has no founder. Its authority is Eternal Truth. The cumulative record of metaphysical experimentation. Behind the lush tangle of religious imagery, is a clear structure of thought. Compared to the rugged originality of the Indian traditions, the language of today's philosophers concerned with being often sound a little contrived. Hindus have always been metaphysicians at heart. It is the underlying ideas, and not the images which count. The forms are many, the reality is one. As stated at the outset in the Rig Veda:

"Truth is one, the wise call it by various names."

Hinduism is a monotheistic religion that springs from the Trinity (Trimurti). Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. Three aspects of one God. Creation, preservation, destruction. Many in the west have tried to denounce it as the worship of idols. Swami Vivekananda, said: "If a person wants to drink milk, he uses a cup as he cannot drink it directly. Idols are nothing but symbols through which divinity can be comprehended. It helps undeveloped minds to grasp high spiritual truths.

Lord Krishna said:



"In whatever way men love Me, in the same way they find My love; various are the ways of men, but in the end they all come to Me."


The statue of Nataraja (dance pose of Lord Shiva) is a well known example for the artistic, scientific and philosophical significance of Hinduism. The dancing Shiva is the most sublime artistic attempt to capture the mystery of the universe in form. The late scientist,
Carl Sagan, in his book, "Cosmos" asserts that the Dance of Nataraja (Tandava) signifies the cycle of evolution and destruction of the cosmic universe (Big Bang Theory). "It is the clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of." Modern physics has shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of all living creatures, but also the very essence of inorganic matter.
For modern physicists, then, Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter. Hundreds of years ago, Indian artist created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. Today, physicist have used the most advanced technology to portray the pattern of the cosmic dance. Thus, the metaphor of the cosmic dance unifies, ancient religious art and modern physics. The Hindus, according to
Sir Monier-Williams, were Spinozists more than 2,000 years before the advent of Spinoza, and Darwinians many centuries before Darwin and Evolutionists many centuries before the doctrine of Evolution was accepted by scientists of the present age.

The French historian
Louis Jacolliot as quoted by Galav in the "Philosophy of Hinduism" page 17 says, "Here to mock are conceit, our apprehensions, and our despair, we may read what Manu said, perhaps 10,000 years before the birth of Christ about Evolution:

' The first germ of life was developed by water and heat.' (Book I, sloka 8,9 )
' Water ascends towards the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rains are born the plants, and from the plants, animals.' (Book III, sloka 76).


According to the Gita, Creation has been under way from all eternity as the spontaneous outpouring of the Lord's creative energy, as the workings of his prakriti ( primordial Nature). Yet all this spontaneity and freedom, so natural to God, has yet to be discovered and realized by the numberless creatures involved in this process. (It is as if Creation were playing hide-and -seek with itself).

Hinduism is a positive religion in which there are no infidels or heretics. It does not look with contempt even upon an atheist. It doesn't approve of proselytism as means of increasing the number of its adherents. It contains no childish dogma of sin, superstition, fear, false hope and damnation like other religions. The serpent which, in Christianity, brought about the Fall of Man and became his lasting enemy, is in Hinduism found entwined around the neck of Shiva, and as the couch upon which Vishnu reclines.

In India, science and religion are not opposed fundamentally, as they often seem to be in the West, but are seen as parts of the same great search for truth and enlightenment that inspired the sages of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Philosophy and science both disputed Descartes' notions, and even the Church viewed him as a threat to its authority. In fact, in 1663, the Church condemned his books, but by then it was too late. Descartes reasoning helped bring in the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe and North America.

Hinduism comes before us as an old and authentic path, tested by many centuries of human experience. With its respect for the earth and her bounty. It is truly a joyous religion as those who have witnessed it during its many festivals. It is based on personal discovery. "Know thy self and be free." In such an open laboratory, Hindu spirituality has grown over the millennia, so diverse and rich, that it defies definition. If the Indian mind went beyond form to the formless, it also reveled in a riotous feast of forms - in a world of imagination. It has flourished in exuberance...

Klaus L. Klostermaier professor of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada says in his book, "A Survey of Hinduism"

"Hinduism has proven much more open than any other religion to new ideas, scientific thought, and social experimentation. Many concepts like
reincarnation, meditation, yoga and others have found worldwide acceptance. It would not be surprising to find Hinduism the dominant religion of the twenty-first century. It would be a religion that doctrinally is less clear-cut than mainstream Christianity, politically less determined than Islam, ethically less heroic than Buddhism, but it would offer something to everybody. It will appear idealistic to those who look for idealism, pragmatic to the pragmatists, spiritual to the seekers, sensual to the here-and-now generation. Hinduism, by virtue of its lack of an ideology and its reliance on intuition, will appear to be more plausible than those religions whose doctrinal positions petrified a thousand years ago." But man must go beyond the gratification of the senses. He must progress in thought. This cannot come, says Sri Aurobindo, "if we chain the spirit to some fixed mental idea or system of religious cult, intellectual truth, aesthetic norm, ethical value, practical action... According to M. S. N. Menon, "For the Hindus, we are like pilgrims on a long march. Some are in the lead. They have lighted torches in their hands. They are nearer to Bliss. Some are in the rear. They are somewhat in the dark. They are still in the thrill of the senses. And this is how it is going to be for ages. Before us is a great goal - the progressive divination of men. Those who are at the rear will seek to gratify their senses and those who are in the lead will raise their consciousness.

According to Hans Torwesten, in his book "Vedanta - Heart of Hinduism":

" A fair number of leading physicists and biologists have found parallels between modern science and Hindu ideas. In America, many writers such as
J. D. Salinger (An Adventure in Vedanta: J.D. Salinger's the Glass Family), Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Christopher Isherwood, were in contact with the Vedanta. Most of them came from elevated intellectual circles which rejected the dogmatism of the Christian Churches yet longed for spirituality and satisfactory answers to the fundamental questions of existence. In Vedanta, they found a wide-open, universal, and philosophically oriented religion where even the penetrating scientific mind could find something to its taste".

European philosophers rhapsodized about the profundity and beauty of these writings. Here they encountered a fusion of philosophy and religion, a deep wisdom and a concern with the ultimate, that had no parallel in either contemporary Western philosophy or Western religion.
George Feuerstein, in his book ' Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita: Its Philosophy and Cultural Setting' says: " The ant-heap behavior of modern human society, with its soul-destroying mechanical routine and organized aggression and violence, is only one of the negative aspects of the present crisis. Thorough discontentment with the inherited Western - Christian - tradition, especially with the 'God out there' dogma, has kindled a large-scale authentic search for truth in the 'heathen world', above all the spiritual heritage of India. As was to be expected after the disappointment with Christian Theism, it is more the monistic school, like Advaita-Vedanta and Zen, which captivate the interest of the disillusioned Westerner."

God is not dead in India and not a mere memory of the past. Numerous "living gods" and "Incarnations" are everywhere in India today. It is not poverty that you find here - its the absolute core of a living faith so alien to Westernized minds that it can be seen terrifying. Many people in the West have come to realize more and more that organized and denominationalized Christianity (called
Churchanity by Hindus) does not even represent the essence of Christianity, let alone that of religion, a new broader, and looser understanding of religion is emerging that approaches the Hindu notion of dharma.

Joseph Campbell, was an avid scholar of spiritual development, in his book Myths to Live By states: " We in the West have named our God, or rather, we have had the Godhead named for us in a book from a time and place that are not our own. And we have been taught to have faith not only in the absolute existence of this metaphysical fiction, but also in its relevance to the shaping of our lives." In the Great East, on the other hand, the accent is on experience: on one's own experience, not a faith in someone else's." In the Christian West, there was that Fall, back there, in the Garden, and we have all been congenital sinners ever since." "Whereas in the East there is the idea of the inherent innocence of Nature, even in what appears to our human eyes and sentiments to be its cruelties, the World, as they say in India, is God's Play (Maya). It is a wondrous, thoughtless play: a rough play, the roughest, cruelest, most dangerous, most difficult with no holds barred." (source: Myths to Live By - Joseph Campbell p. 96).

According to
Sri Aurobindo, in his book, "India's Rebirth" (ISBN 2-902776-32-2) page 141, says:

"The mentality of the West has long cherished the aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one array of prohibitions and injunctions, one ecclesiastical ordinance. That narrow absurdity prances about as the one true religion which all must accept on peril of persecution by men here and spiritual rejection or fierce eternal punishment by God in other worlds. This grotesque creation of human unreason, the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty, obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, have never been able to take firm hold of the free and supple mind of India".

To quote Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, " The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien cults. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had molded it on this question rather than Palestine. Wars of religion which are the outcome of fanaticism that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different creeds were practically unknown in Hindu India."

The Vedas say that " the wise call the One by many names", and exhort us to "let good thoughts come to us from everywhere"; in the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna assures the adherents of all religions that "those who pray with devotion to another god, it is to Me that they pray."

Many foreign groups of people persecuted for their religion came to seek refuge in India. The Parsis have thrived. The heterodox Syrian Christians have lived in peace until the Portuguese came to enlist them in their effort to christianize India. The Jews have expressed their gratitude when they left for Israel because India was the only country where their memories were not of persecution but of friendly co-existence. All these groups were not merely tolerated, but received land and material support for building places of worship. Yuan Chwang, the Chinese traveler, reports that at the great festival of Prayaga, King Harsha dedicated on the first day a statue to the Buddha, another to the sun, the favorite deity of his father, on the second, and to Shiva on the third. The famous Kottayam plates of Sthanuravi (ninth century AD) and the Cochin plates of Vijayaragadeva bear eloquent testimony to the fact that the Hindu kings not only tolerated Christianity but granted special concessions to the professors of that faith. Today, The Tibetan Buddhist and their spiritual head, the Dalai Lama have taken refuge in India, from the persecution of Communist China.

Hinduism is not a religion for occasional airings on Sundays or to be pulled out to celebrate births, marriages and deaths. It is part of everyday activity. To survive and flourish over a long period (over more than five millennia) is a striking testimony to Hinduism's ability to adapt itself to changing circumstances, an ability often insufficiently appreciated because of the apparent dominance of traditional attitudes. Hinduism is by definition (actually it defies definition) formless and seamless; its beauty lies in its refusal to be contained, least of all by national boundaries. Hinduism continues to show amazing life and vigor. In all the historic encounters between Hinduism and other religions Hinduism has always emerged the stronger and richer and succeeded in absorbing the other elements. According to Nirad C. Chaudhuri: " The faith which the Hindus had in their religion never wavered even in its worst days. It has had waxings and wanings which has kept the balance even." " In judging the vitality of Hinduism the point should be emphasized that it has maintained itself through the ages and enforced obedience to itself without support from any kind of organization, secular or spiritual." (source: Hinduism: a religion to live by - Nirad C. Chaudhari p. 116-120)

Hinduism is an inclusive faith, with many branches and many spiritual leaders, its strength is the unity which underpins the diversity.

In conclusion, " Hinduism it is said, compares to the River Ganges, which arises from the mighty Himalayas. She descends to the world of man and of everyday life, bringing great floods of life-giving waters to the plains. As she progresses, small tributaries and great streams join her, swelling her volume and joining in her progress to her ultimate home, the infinitude of the ocean. So it is with Hinduism. It is the oldest of the great religions. Rather than a single doctrine or a single system of worship it is a broad confluence of ideas and attitudes."


" Into the bosom of the one great sea
Flow streams that come from hills on every side
Their names are various as their springs,
And thus in every land do men bow down
To one great God, though known by many names."



- (
The Folk Songs of Southern India By Gover 1871 p. 165)


US patent on yoga? Indian gurus fume

Be ready to pay each time you do your morning yoga!

Call it a deliberate attempt to make inroads by the West into the lucrative Indian market, or an enterprising NRI trying to grab an opportunity, Bikram Yoga founder and US-based Bikram Choudhary's move to get copyright for his method of teaching yoga has sent shockwaves among yoga enthusiasts and experts in India. They say the idea of patenting knowledge like yoga is patently absurd and violates the ancient Indian art.

Born in Kolkata in 1946, Bikram began yoga at the age of four with one of the famous gurus at that time, Bishnu Ghosh. Now, Bikram — who teaches in California — has applied for the patent of yoga, which is essentially yoga in a steam room. Bikram came to the US at the invitation of President Richard Nixon in 1973 and became one of the most sought-after yoga teachers in the West as celebrities, athletes, and others began to flock to him.

Popular yoga guru Swami Ramdev has sought intervention from the government and yoga organisations to prevent Choudhary's move. "Yoga can't be owned and run like a company. Since there are attempts to patent this tradition (of yoga) in America, the Centre and yoga organisations should take measures to prevent it,"

Ramdev said in Shimla recently. "How can yoga be taught at a controlled 45 degrees Celsius temperature when it is ideally taught in the cold Himalayas?" wondered Ramdev, adding that "how can any Tom, Dick and Harry, who has no knowledge of century-old Indian tradition, can get patent of yoga?" Yoga enthusiasts and gurus have said that the move is unjustified as yoga belongs to the entire human race. The US Patent and Trademark office has reportedly issued 150 yoga-related copyrights, 134 trademarks on yoga accessories and 2,315 yoga trademarks.

The Union government hasn't yet reacted to these patents but recently it set up a task force that is cataloguing traditional knowledge, including ayurvedic remedies and yoga postures to protect them from being pirated and copyrighted by foreigners.

हनुमान चालिसा .....

श्रीगुरु चरन सरोज रज निज मनु मुकुरु सुधारि ।
बरनऊँ रघुबर बिमल जसु जो दायकु फल चारि ॥

बुद्धिहीन तनु जानिके सुमिरौं पवनकुमार ।
बल बुद्धि बिद्या देहु मोहिं हरहु कलेस बिकार ॥


जय हनुमान ज्ञान गुन सागर ।
जय कपीस तिहुँ लोक उजागर ॥
राम दूत अतुलित बल धामा ।
अंजनिपुत्र पवनसुत नामा ॥
महाबीर बिक्रम बजरंगी ।
कुमति निवार सुमति के संगी ॥
कंचन बरन बिराज सुबेसा ।
कानन कुंडल कुंचित केसा ॥
हाथ बज्र औ ध्वजा बिराजै ।
काँधे मूँज जनेऊ साजै ॥
संकर सुवन केसरीनंदन ।
तेज प्रताप महा जग बंदन ॥
विद्यावान गुनी अति चातुर ।
राम काज करिबे को आतुर ॥
प्रभु चरित्र सुनिबे को रसिया ।
राम लखन सीता मन बसिया ॥

सूक्ष्म रूप धरि सियहिं दिखावा ।
बिकट रूप धरि लंक जरावा ॥
भीम रूप धरि असुर सँहारे ।
रामचंद्र के काज सँवारे ॥
लाय सजीवन लखन जियाये ।
श्रीरघुबीर हरषि उर लाये ॥
रघुपति कीन्ही बहुत बड़ाई ।
तुम मम प्रिय भरतहि सम भाई ॥
सहस बदन तुम्हरो जस गावैं ।
अस कहि श्रीपति कंठ लगावैं ॥
सनकादिक ब्रह्मादि मुनीसा ।
नारद सारद सहित अहीसा ॥
जम कुबेर दिगपाल जहाँ ते ।
कबि कोबिद कहि सके कहाँ ते ॥
तुम उपकार सुग्रीवहिं कीन्हा ।
राम मिलाय राज पद दीन्हा ॥

तुम्हरो मंत्र बिभीषन माना ।
लंकेस्वर भए सब जग जाना ॥
जुग सहस्त्र जोजन पर भानू ।
लील्यो ताहि मधुर फल जानू ॥
प्रभु मुद्रिका मेलि मुख माहीं ।
जलधि लाँघि गये अचरज नाहीं ॥
दुर्गम काज जगत के जेते ।
सुगम अनुग्रह तुम्हरे तेते ॥
राम दुआरे तुम रखवारे ।
होत न आज्ञा बिनु पैसारे ॥
सब सुख लहै तुम्हारी सरना ।
तुम रच्छक काहू को डर ना ॥
आपन तेज सम्हारो आपै ।
तीनों लोक हाँक तें काँपै ॥
भूत पिसाच निकट नहिं आवै ।
महाबीर जब नाम सुनावै ॥


नासै रोग हरै सब पीरा ।
जपत निरंतर हनुमत बीरा ॥
संकट तें हनुमान छुड़ावै ।
मन क्रम बचन ध्यान जो लावै ॥
सब पर राम तपस्वी राजा ।
तिन के काज सकल तुम साजा ॥
और मनोरथ जो कोई लावै ।
सोई अमित जीवन फल पावै ॥
चारों जुग परताप तुम्हारा ।
है परसिद्ध जगत उजियारा ॥
साधु संत के तुम रखवारे ।
असुर निकंदन राम दुलारे ॥
अष्ट सिद्धि नौ निधि के दाता ।
अस बर दीन जानकी माता ॥
राम रसायन तुम्हरे पासा ।
सदा रहो रघुपति के दासा ॥
केवल भूमि के किसी टुकदडे को तो राष्ट्र नहीं कहते। एक विचार, एक आचार, एक सभ्यता, एवम एक परम्परा से, जो लोग पुरातन काल से रहते चले आये हैं, उन्हीं लोगों से राष्ट्र बनता है। इस देश को हमारे ही कारण हिन्दुस्थान नाम दिया गया है।
हमलोगों में चाहे जितने ऊपरी मतभेद दिखाई दें परन्तु, हम सारे हिन्दू तत्वतः एक राष्ट्र हैं। हमारी धमनियों में एक - सा रक्त बह रहा है। हमारी पवित्र भाषा एक है। हमारे राजनीतिशास्त्र, समाजरचना और तत्वज्ञान एक है। इस प्रकार हमारे संगठन की नींव शास्त्रशुध्द है।
'समस्त हिन्दू-समाज को अविभाज्य एकात्मता के सूत्र में पिरोकर संगठित करने एवं स्पृश्य-अस्पृश्य की भावना व प्रवृत्ति से प्रेरित विघटन को रोकने के उद्देश्य की प्राप्ति हेतु विश्व भर के हिन्दुओं को अपने पारस्परिक व्यवहार में एकात्मता एवं समानता की भावना को बरकरार रखना चाहिए।''

सबल हन्दू राष्ट

एक समय था जब हमारा देश महान और अखंङ था़। अबभी यदि हम अपनी संयुक्त धरोहर-वेद,भगवदगीता और रामायण इत्यादि पर बल दें और अपने बीच विधमान मतमतान्तरों के मतभेदों से ऊपर उठने का प्रयत्न करें तो हम परमात्मा की दया से शीधृ ही सभी मतावलम्बियों को जोडकर एक सबल हन्दू राष्ट बन सकते है। सभी हिन्दूओं के सामने यह साझा लक्ष्य होना चाहिए।
-लोकमान्य तिलक

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आज कल आप देख रहे है कि सभी न्यूज़ चेनल हिंदु विरोधी बाते कर रहे है । सामाजिक मान्यताओ को ना मान कर कानून कि बात करते है। तो क्या कानून सिर्फ हिन्दुओ के लिए ही है? मुस्लिम के लिए नही? वो लोग कुछ भी कर सकते है? ५ शादी भी? 3 बार तलाक बोल कर तलाक दे सकते है ? मीडिया एस बारे मे एक शबद भी नही बोल सकता क्यो? क्योकि वो लोग चेनल के खिलाफ फतवा निकल देगे ? ओर हिंदु तो शुरू से ही डरपोक रहा है , हिंदु धर्मं मे तो एक चिटी को मारना पाप समझा जाता है तो आप हिन्दुओ के खिलाफ कुछ भी बोल सकते है। येसा लगता है कि खामिया सिर्फ हिंदु धर्म मे ही है?

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