दुःखत्रयाभिघाताज्जिज्ञासा तदभिघातके हेतौ ।
दृष्टे सापार्था चेन्नैकान्तात्यन्ततोऽभावात् ॥ १ ॥
- सांख्यकारिका १
ख Kha means space in Samskritam.
This leads to words:
सखा Sakha(same space-male friend)
सखि Sakhi (same space-female friend)
सुख Sukha (good space-comfort)
दुःख Dukha (bad space-worry)
खग Khaga (that which travels across space meaning a bird or the sun)
Which stage are we in?
1. Epics with linguistic wizardry produced. Language spoken at work & all environments. Festivals with regular congregations celebrated in public and integrated with work. Festivals patronized by rulers. All research, science & math done in the language. Libraries hold books in the native language.
2. Language no longer spoken at work, only spoken at home. Festivals no longer patronized at work & by rulers. Public display of festivities reduce. Less literature generated. Less people can read & write the language. Research, science & math no longer done in the language. An inimical strong power may burn libraries, attack or ban public festivities & enforce its own language & culture.
3. Language spoken by kids only with grandparents. Schools no longer predominantly teach the native language. Businesses no longer use the language in naming the stores or when marketing. Libraries no longer carry books in the language. Festivals & rituals performed privately at home. Most public festivities cease.
4. Language only used for rituals at home. Most rituals cease at home.
5. Language dead, taking with it the culture associated with the language. In museums. Only linguists learn the language.
How to preserve?
Speak the language as much as possible. Read literature in the language. Write in your language, initially in the script that you know & later in the native script.
Idea credit: Kiran Varanasi
If unchecked by laws & law enforcement in society, crime pays. Imagine looting what someone has worked for the entire life in a jiffy but there's no punishment but promises of rewards. If crime is given legal & religious sanction, one can even feel good committing crimes.
Criminal societies were the norm in history in most monocultures until the multicultural undesirables were wiped out. History is simply repeating itself today on those who don't learn from it.
Though the original colonizers are gone, the converts to the colonizer's faith are excessively brutal towards fellow natives who still follow the native culture, while feeling superior to the natives.
What are the options for the surviving natives?
Conversion: Conversion temporarily secures life & the criminals will celebrate your homecoming. You keep your property. However, this will result in a poor quality society over time, rife with strife & violence, bereft of critical thinking & all that is good. Some of your brainwashed descendants will persecute the non-converted natives. Once the natives are wiped out, in the absence of someone to persecute, the criminals will turn on each other. Ultimately, you have chosen to side with the criminal mafia & your descendants will be trained servitors of the mafia. This is a poor outcome for the individual & society.
Fleeing can postpone the problem but there will come a time when there is no place to go & a time to take a stand. The criminals gain your land, wealth & property. Crime pays. They will also take those womenfolk who were unable to flee.
Dying without resistance will help the criminals gain land, wealth, property & the undefended womenfolk.
Defend until death requires courage & the real possibility of being tortured to death by the criminals or rotting away in a prison for one's entire life. The human cost & suffering is enormous. But this will at least impose costs on the criminals. History shows that people who choose to defend against all odds take heavy difficult losses but the civilization has at least a chance of survival. One at least dies with self-respect. To be able to defend, the weakest must arm themselves. Since the criminals will have arms anyway & if the weak don't, they will simply be one of the "Dying without resistance".
If it is possible to overthrow the criminal rulers, your descendants have a shot at building a better society without criminal rule. Unless the history & cultural knowledge is passed down though, the descendants may inadvertently end up enabling the criminals again.
Every great thing perishes if its heirs are petty.- Oswald Spengler
Civilization is a precious thing; there are always Barbarians at the Gates. - Will Durant
Devi Bhagavatham.
5.9.41-48: Mahisha's messengers saw Devi in her sublime beauty holding divine weapons, calmly drinking wine. Terrified, they fled & reported back to Mahisha.
5.18.26-70: Mahisha assumes several terrible forms & fiercely attacks Devi who repels the attacks. Then, mocks the Devas for sending a woman to face him. Devi retorts: "Your end is near. I'll have a drink & destroy you". Drinks the Madya & destroys him.
Durga Saptasati of the Markandeya Purana (shortest MahaPurana).
ततः क्रुद्धा जगन्माता चण्डिका पानमुत्तमम् ।
पापौ पुनः पुनश्चैव जहासारुणलोचना ॥३.३४॥
ननर्द चासुरः सोऽपि बलवीर्यमदोद्धतः ।
विषाणाभ्यां च चिक्षेप चण्डिकां प्रति भूधरान् ॥३.३५॥
सा च तान् प्रहितांस्तेन चूर्णयन्ती शरोत्करैः ।
उवाच तं मदोद्धूतमुखरागाकुलाक्षरम् ॥३.३६॥
देव्युवाच ॥३७॥
गर्ज गर्ज क्षणं मूढ मधु यावत्पिबाम्यहम् ।
मया त्वयि हतेऽत्रैव गर्जिष्यन्त्याशु देवताः ॥३.३८॥
"Exult a few more moments, you fool. Your end is here." Consuming Madya & with terrifying laughter, she slew the one who was intoxicated with his own power & glory.
Time is Kala, another name for Yama (death). MahaKala (Shiva as Bhairava) is great time. Normally in temples, Tulsi water, Karupura (camphor) water, milk, fruits or flowers are served as Prasadam. In Bhairava temples, a little bit of wine is served as a Prasadam. My family had this experience in a Ujjaini Shiva temple two decades back.
Time is also Kali in its feminine form, also called MahaKali. Kali is also referred to as being fond of wine.
The divine mother of all had to consume Madya to gain some Tamasa to destroy one of her own. Mahisha as the water buffalo represents Tamas, languid & lazy. The buffalo is also the Vahana of Yama, meaning slowly & surely, the end comes for everyone & everything. The symbol of intoxication of power, wealth & fame is given a literal intoxicant as the opposite.
In history, the most powerful dynasties & empires, systems which ruled with iron fists intoxicated with its own power & glory, that appeared too powerful to fail, all met their end. The most powerful systems that are ruling earth today with similar characteristics will meet their end as well. They only have power as long as she wills it. It is only a matter of time. And time is patient & eternal, coming slowly. Like the buffalo.
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How to identify mental colonization? Typically, the colonized won't be self-aware of one's own colonization & there are multiple levels.
Loves the colonizer's land & dislikes one's native place.
Loves the colonizer's language & cannot read/speak/understand one's own language. Even if one can read, will prefer literature & writings of the colonizer's language & will have difficulty reading the native literature. Wishes passionately for all natives to switch to the colonizer's language for 'progress'. Angered if someone opposes & deflects all data driven arguments to the contrary. Tries to adopt the colonizer's accent when speaking & is ashamed of the native accent. Looks down upon native accents.
Respects the colonizer's religion & has a poor opinion of one's own native religion. Views the native religion through the colonizer's lens & will resist reversing the gaze. Celebrates colonizer's religious festivals with gusto. Wishes others with enthusiasm on colonizer religious festivals. Avoids celebrating native festivals. Avoids wishing or reciprocating wishes on native festivals. Possibly has adopted the colonizer's religion partially or has fully converted. Evangelizes the colonizer's religion more passionately than the original practitioners.
Adopts the colonizer's dress, mannerisms & habits. Higher the imitation, feels more superior to the native.
Supports the historic colonization of one's country. Feels that the colonizers civilized the barbaric natives & helped the country 'progress'.
Excessively fawns over any attention given by a colonizer's descendant or system (awards, education system etc). Has contempt for any native who is rooted in the native culture & traditions.
Most colonized people will exhibit at least some of these symptoms. More symptoms mean higher mental colonization.
Sarvatobhadra Sloka in 6th century Samskritam epic Kirātārjunīya composed by Bhāravi "good from every direction". The phrase remains the same when you read the verse in all directions. German translation here.
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The Shishupala Vadha is also one of the most metrically complex poems ever constructed. Take this verse, for example.
This is a palindrome that can be read back-to-front, both horizontally and vertically.
“[That army], which relished battle contained allies who brought low the bodes and gaits of their various striving enemies, and in it the cries of the best of mounts contended with musical instruments.”
Other verses can be rearranged to contain hidden messages when read in the form of a lightning bolt, or a drum, for instance.
This is called the most complex and exquisite type of palindrome ever invented called sarvatobhadra, perfect in every direction.
सकारनानारकास-
sakāranānārakāsa- |
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This famous verse, when arranged like a wheel, has the message "This is the Shishupala Vadha, a poem by Magha" hidden in its spokes.
सत्वं मानविशिष्टमाजिरभसादालम्ब्य भव्यः पुरो
लब्धाघक्षयशुद्धिरुद्धरतरश्रीवत्सभूमिर्मुदा ।
मुक्त्वा काममपास्तभीः परमृगव्याधः स नादं हरे-
रेकौघैः समकालमभ्रमुदयी रोपैस्तदा तस्तरे ॥
