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Vedic Society Part - 2 |
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on: June 22 2002
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Ram asked him why he hadn't recognised Sita's ear-rings ('kundal') and bracelet ('keyur'). In reply Lakshman answered, Nãham jãnãmi
keyuram, nãham jãnãmi kundalam, "I have never seen mother Sita's ear-rings and her bracelet but while touching the dust of her holy feet everyday I had noticed these anklets." For 14 long testing years when only three individuals lived and moved together in the forests, we find Lakshman serving both his brother and wife Sita with unswerving discipline. The epic Ramyan eloquently drives home a lesson of respect bordered with discipline. Lakshman attributes his nobility by saying, Pitã yasya shuchimurto
mãtã yasya pativratã, "One's mind is never soiled by evil thoughts when one is born of pure noble parents." Bharat bitterly refused the kingship acquired by his mother at the cost of Ram's exile. He lived a hermit's life during the entire 14 years. Sita went through the furnace of fiery trials – Ram having banished her – yet she entertained no ill feeling for Ram. On the contrary, like a flower that still offers fragrance when crushed, Sita said, Bhuyo yathã me janannãnterapi, "Oh Ram, may you be my husband
birth after birth." Shravan's loving service to his aged parents, King Harishchandra's unparalleled sacrifice for truth, King Rantidev's charity of food after a spartan 49 day fast, the humility of King Ambarish and the valorous Arjun who saved himself from the infatuation of Urvashi's charms by calling her 'mother' are just a few of many fragrant flowers that have bloomed on the turf of Indian Society. The distinguished economist Nani Palkhiwala, with respect to Vedic Society says, "Citizens were ranked in the society not by wealth or power but by the virtue and character they possessed." "Is
this Man?" Alvin Toffler, author of 'The Third Wave', points out that after the Agricultural Revolution, the 17th century saw the birth of a second wave beginning with the Industrial Revolution. The second wave has left our society in a medley of mounting problems. We now live in a diseased society suffering from the virus of hatred, social tensions, corruption, crippling strikes and union agitation, energy crises, pollution, unemployment, loneliness, frustration... The list is endless. On August 6th, 1945 man dropped the devastating atomic bomb on his own kind. It was the day when he relinquished his humanity and raised a cloud of doubt, "Is this man?"
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