Bunch Of Thoughts: The Nation and its Problem - IX -1

                                                            Our Motherland

Theme: It's Bristishers propaganda that Bharat never existed. From thousands of years it has been mentioned in various Ved, Puranas about this motherland.


Detailed Explanation:

   In our cultural tradition, the respectful way of calling a woman is by her child’s name. Bharata was well known and this land was called as his mother, Bharat, the mother of all Hindus.Some persons says that Bharat was never there. This land was divided, sub-divided. It was Britisher, who to achieve his ulterior imperialistic motives, set afloat all such false notions so that our people loose the sense of patriotism and duty towards our motherland. Long ago our forefathers sang:

(The land to the north of the oceans and south of the Himalayas is called Bharatavarsha, and Bharatis are her children.)

Kalidasa, our great national poet, has described the Himalayas as:

(At the North is the divine Himalayas, the King of mountains, stretching its arms to the ocean on the east and west and standing as the measuring rod of the earth.)

Chanakya, who has been held an authority on our political science, has stated:

(To the north of the oceans up to the Himalayas, the country is 1000 yojanas in length.)

That only means, the poet Kalidasa’s description tallies with the statesman Chanakya’s statement in giving us a fairly correct picture of the vastness of our motherland.It is mentioned in our Puranas:

Afghanistan was our ancient Upaganasthan. Shalya of the Mahabharata came from there. The modern Kabul and Kandahar were Gandhar from where Kaurava’s mother Gandhari came. Even Iran was originally Aryan. Its previous king Reza Shah Pehlavi was guided more by Aryan values than by Islam. Zend Avesta, the holy scripture of Parsis, is mostly Atharva Veda. Coming to the east, Burma is our ancient Brahmadesha. The Mahabharata refers to Iraavat, the modern Irrawady valley, as being involved in that great war. It also refers to Assam as Pragjyotisha since the sun first rises there. In the South, Lanka has had the closest links and was never considered as anything different from the mainland.

It was this picture of our motherland with the Himalayas dipping its arms in the two seas, at Aryan (Iran) in the West and at Sringapur (Singapore) in the East, with Sri Lanka (Ceylon) as a lotus petal offered at her sacred feet by the Southern Ocean, that was constantly kept radiant in people’s mind for so many thousands of years.

All our important religious ceremonies start with bhoomi-poojan-worship of earth. There is a custom that as soon as a Hindu wakes up in the morning, he begs forgiveness of the Mother Earth because he cannot help touching Her with his feet throughout the day.

(O Mother, the Divine Consort of Almighty, with ocean as Thy embroidery and mountains as Thy breasts, forgive me for touching Thee with my feet.)