India is a beautiful country. It has been a beautiful country. It has a civilisation that has outlasted many others. It has the two greatest epics ever written. The beauty of these epics? Apart from being the source of unforgettable and unmatched stories, the stories are very different from regular religious texts. The stories of Mahabharata and Ramayan show a subtle human nature ranging from the annexation of power to the renunciation of it after achieving enlightenment.
Why is India a unique country?
Not the Europe doesn't have fabled histories. Not that Chinese and Middle East have any less inspiring stories. But where other cultures have showed annexations and propagation of culture, Indians have helped themselves to conserving their culture, by looking inwards. The culture of India is so unique and so broad that it gives enough space for anyone, from any religion, culture to pursue his life in peace.
How is it different?
The differences lies in the roots of our culture. We have been told of stories of great sacrifices, stories of renunciation of kinship, family legacies, kingdom and all material pleasures. Such stories go a long way in forming the character of an average Indian and thereby explains why India has never taken the role of an aggressor as a country. Yes, Unification of regions has been attempted, but of parts which are a part of the same culture but different fragments, viz. the Mauryas. We have always practised such stringent activities like charity, self penance, that search of glory doesn't always form a part of culture. But glory through virtuous actions have.
Why can Mahabharat and Ramayana be actually true?
The stories of Mahabharata and Ramayana are filled with magic, superhumans, and devils alike. While an arrow shot through the sky replicating into thousands, is believed to be physically impossible. So has been apparition or teleportation. But i would like to state an important point here. The stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata, have shown people with amazing capacities, where they have used their spiritual and mental strength capacities, to bend matters. But as the time progressed the knowledge of how to use higher dimensions might have been lost and histories, became legends and legends turned into myths. A simple analogy to explain this.
Considere an ancient world. The boundaries of a caln are very much the physical boundaries. The society is united because of interdependence, a farmer, a hunter, a hermit and a healing-wizard, all focused on their powers, honing their skills. There were no clans to fight, hence no army was ever needed to guard their natural boundaries. When there is no one to fight, no distant future to worry (insurance, tax, savings), basic necessities of food, clothing and housing available for nothing, a human mind has a lot of space to expand its boundaries, indulging in the forms that are paranormal.
Now the culture prospered, and the need for resources, and just endeavours, made the clan aware of the clan that were outside the natural boundaries. Interests clashed, giving rise to need of protection, fortification and thus armies. Now, various sections of society had to provide a son to help protect them. Raids, Seige etc followed, and the glories of the present were more appreciated and the past slowly considered less important. The humans were more organised and sure of their existence than the previous generations, hence the need arose to secure their future as life expectancy was increasing. The present became more important, more armies, more fortification, more battle glories, and thus furthering the deterioration of the pool of knowledge, and the boundaries of unusual mental capacity kept on shrinking. With these, we just remembered the facts and forgot the procedures. Hence, now we know that 'Naarad-muni' used to teleport, but not how. While scientifically saying, finding higher dimensions will only make it look like a cake walk.
But 10000 years on, and we have made our history based on physical sensations of touch, vision, noise that anything beyond these mere experiences seems outrageous. As 'Morpheus' said, what we see, hear, touch and smell, are nothing but synaptic electrical signals interpreted by our brain. Hence a right signal, right amplitude, frequency and modulation can be artificially used to mimic and fool our brain in distinguishing reality from wilderness.
The taste of chilly is taken differently by different individuals. There is no way you can feel how a chilly tastes to your best friend, but we all agree on a common concensus that a chilly is hot, with everyone having their perception of what hot might be like. There is actually no reference to anything ( except numbers, hence, Mathematics is called the exact science). I hope you get my point.
There are unexplained mysteries of science and science as it is isn't fully developed. The ability of the brain, the explanation of the paranormal, intuition, deja vu, memories of past life, sixth sense, dreams and nightmares, phobia, instincts, the subconscious and the unconscious etc., are not known, but doesn't mean they can't be known. Humans being in 3-Dimensional world can't imagine what higher dimensional forms can be, just like a dog who has never seen colour can ever imagine a rainbow. In the dog world, there is nothing called a rainbow, but it will be ridiculous if you tell a human that there is nothing called humans. Being in a 3-D world, is being in a boat. Your movement is restricted until you know how to swim. Deluded as this article may seem, think of opening up to unnatural abilities of our brain. Imagine.
Wandered-Lost-Crazy
Why is India a unique country?
Not the Europe doesn't have fabled histories. Not that Chinese and Middle East have any less inspiring stories. But where other cultures have showed annexations and propagation of culture, Indians have helped themselves to conserving their culture, by looking inwards. The culture of India is so unique and so broad that it gives enough space for anyone, from any religion, culture to pursue his life in peace.
How is it different?
The differences lies in the roots of our culture. We have been told of stories of great sacrifices, stories of renunciation of kinship, family legacies, kingdom and all material pleasures. Such stories go a long way in forming the character of an average Indian and thereby explains why India has never taken the role of an aggressor as a country. Yes, Unification of regions has been attempted, but of parts which are a part of the same culture but different fragments, viz. the Mauryas. We have always practised such stringent activities like charity, self penance, that search of glory doesn't always form a part of culture. But glory through virtuous actions have.
Why can Mahabharat and Ramayana be actually true?
The stories of Mahabharata and Ramayana are filled with magic, superhumans, and devils alike. While an arrow shot through the sky replicating into thousands, is believed to be physically impossible. So has been apparition or teleportation. But i would like to state an important point here. The stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata, have shown people with amazing capacities, where they have used their spiritual and mental strength capacities, to bend matters. But as the time progressed the knowledge of how to use higher dimensions might have been lost and histories, became legends and legends turned into myths. A simple analogy to explain this.
Considere an ancient world. The boundaries of a caln are very much the physical boundaries. The society is united because of interdependence, a farmer, a hunter, a hermit and a healing-wizard, all focused on their powers, honing their skills. There were no clans to fight, hence no army was ever needed to guard their natural boundaries. When there is no one to fight, no distant future to worry (insurance, tax, savings), basic necessities of food, clothing and housing available for nothing, a human mind has a lot of space to expand its boundaries, indulging in the forms that are paranormal.
Now the culture prospered, and the need for resources, and just endeavours, made the clan aware of the clan that were outside the natural boundaries. Interests clashed, giving rise to need of protection, fortification and thus armies. Now, various sections of society had to provide a son to help protect them. Raids, Seige etc followed, and the glories of the present were more appreciated and the past slowly considered less important. The humans were more organised and sure of their existence than the previous generations, hence the need arose to secure their future as life expectancy was increasing. The present became more important, more armies, more fortification, more battle glories, and thus furthering the deterioration of the pool of knowledge, and the boundaries of unusual mental capacity kept on shrinking. With these, we just remembered the facts and forgot the procedures. Hence, now we know that 'Naarad-muni' used to teleport, but not how. While scientifically saying, finding higher dimensions will only make it look like a cake walk.
But 10000 years on, and we have made our history based on physical sensations of touch, vision, noise that anything beyond these mere experiences seems outrageous. As 'Morpheus' said, what we see, hear, touch and smell, are nothing but synaptic electrical signals interpreted by our brain. Hence a right signal, right amplitude, frequency and modulation can be artificially used to mimic and fool our brain in distinguishing reality from wilderness.
The taste of chilly is taken differently by different individuals. There is no way you can feel how a chilly tastes to your best friend, but we all agree on a common concensus that a chilly is hot, with everyone having their perception of what hot might be like. There is actually no reference to anything ( except numbers, hence, Mathematics is called the exact science). I hope you get my point.
There are unexplained mysteries of science and science as it is isn't fully developed. The ability of the brain, the explanation of the paranormal, intuition, deja vu, memories of past life, sixth sense, dreams and nightmares, phobia, instincts, the subconscious and the unconscious etc., are not known, but doesn't mean they can't be known. Humans being in 3-Dimensional world can't imagine what higher dimensional forms can be, just like a dog who has never seen colour can ever imagine a rainbow. In the dog world, there is nothing called a rainbow, but it will be ridiculous if you tell a human that there is nothing called humans. Being in a 3-D world, is being in a boat. Your movement is restricted until you know how to swim. Deluded as this article may seem, think of opening up to unnatural abilities of our brain. Imagine.
Wandered-Lost-Crazy
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