Our country ‘Bharata’ and our ‘Sanatana Dharma’ are vast palettes of multitude of colors. There are dozens of languages, numerous traditions and yet there is always a thread of unity that passes through all these beads of diversity! And that is the beauty of our country and religion! Let’s discuss the origin of the various festivals and how they all are significant for our collective spirit.
The ‘daṇḍa (punishment)’ is a state’s concern rather than an individual’s responsibility. If every aggrieved person starts taking the law in their hands and goes punishing the offenders, that would lead to anarchy and chaos. When a King punishes a criminal, he doesn’t do that in personal interest; rather the punishment is accorded keeping community welfare in the mind. Also, the punishment is given just in the proportion of the offence committed. Decision is taken keeping the ‘daṇḍanīti (penal code)’ in reference instead of basing the decisions on emotions. No other person other than the offender is harmed in such a model.
On the other hand, when it comes to an individual’s personal vengeance, often humans cross the boundaries of objectivity and more often than not inflinch pain on the opponent in much larger proportions than the measure of the offence committed. The decisions are based on the intensity of the wrath and many a times the harm is extended to others like family members and friends of the offender as well even if they do not have any involvement in the offence. An individual’s vengeance arises from wrath and not out of judgement of the mind. Here we’ll learn about – THE GLORY OF KṢAMĀ (FORGIVENESS)
As they say, “If you are always a speaker of truth, you don’t need to remember anything anytime”. That’s a beautiful thought isn’t it? If we always speak truth, even after several years if we are asked about a past incident we would tell the same what we knew that time also. If we are habituated to speaking falsehood, we will always have to remember to which person what story we have told and even years later when that person asks about that again, we will have to exactly tell the same story otherwise we will be caught. So difficult isn’t it? That’s why speaking the truth always makes lives easier.
Bhagawan Vishnu had incarnated on earth in the form of a human prince as the son of King Dasharatha and Queen Kousalya. He walked as a human suppressing his divinity for the purpose of his mission. However, he was not any ordinary man, he enacted himself as a human.
Hindus worship lord Rama NOT because of showcasing of any miracles or display of superheroic deeds. Although he is Supreme Being, yet Rama attracts everyone not by blowing his supremacy trumpet, rather he absorbs the minds of even great sages by his – principles, words and deeds!
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