Milapani Mata ko Samarpit : A write up from my FF chapter Njoy👍🏼
"Scientology is becoming a religion today. More and more of the younger generation, as well as scientific-minded crowd, are proclaiming themselves as atheists. Today, our children do not completely believe in our religious practices. It's essential that they are reverted back from becoming non-believers to the other side as remaining believers. Why? ...
Because Faith is important in life. When nothing is going for you, faith sustains you. If you don't believe this, go and ask the soldiers in the Himalayan borders. When everything else including nature is against them, they hold onto faith. Our next generations will need this faith factor all the more; because the earth's resources are depleting and life sustenance is going to be more and more difficult.
If we want young children to become believers; then we have to first kill the blind faith philosophy' fed by priests across the world. Our religion was nothing else but Science!...... presented in simple, easy-to-understand symbols to the general masses.
Fantasy is nobody's truth; while fact is everybody's truth; but these two extremes are perhaps unattainable; so all that lies interim is Myth, Somebody's truth. Our entire Mythology comes from the Myth portion; Some leaning towards fact end, while some towards the fantasy end.
Rigveda deals with a lot of scientific research during that time hence forces behind natural phenomena were worshipped as Gods. Mythology explained in Rigveda tends towards facts...
Examples being Hymns and prayers dedicated to Nidra Devi, our sleep process; which is absolutely necessary for all living world. Rigvedas call Nidra Devi the most beautiful woman; because no human or animal can resist her or live without her." Chandni smiled and others laughed.
"Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh were the three principles of birth, life and death. This is a common cycle for all, animate or inanimate things. Even for stars and galaxies!
Vishnu is always under Yognidra; which is again symbolic to our not being fully conscious of our ultimate soul during our life. Hence the question,
"Koham (Ko Aham)? "Who am I.
The ultimate answer, the truth, is "Soham (SahaAham) "I am HE.
This truth, the ultimate knowledge will come to us at the final stage just at death. The symbolism of this complete knowledge' is Shiva having three eyes.'
Each of this process requires energy', and that's why Shaktipooja is elaborated in Rigveda. Shakti manifests herself as consort of each of the three principles. Life cannot exist without energy and there will not be energy existing there, if no life. So both the principle and the energy are complementary to each other, nobody being superior than the other. Energy transforms itself from one form to another; the symbolism of this are there births of shakti mata in different Navdurgas, Ashtlaxmis, Sati, Parvati,Gouri, kali... innumerable forms.
Atharvasheersha claims Ganesha to be born before Prakriti (parvati) and Purush(Shiva). This knowledge about universal phenomena came much later during Atharvaveda period.
Nadbrahm is the sound of the universe; symbolized as Omkar. And Omkar is the roop of Ganesha! Omkar holds Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, all three and their origin is Ganesha as said in Vyas Puran. Ganesha is nothing else but the "big bang which created the universe". His praise mantra saying "Suryakoti Samprabha" symbolises that he is equal to all stars. Prakriti is the mother nature which came into existence after the big bang.
The first line of Atharvasheersha says, "you are the principle! And goes to elaborate it's different forms, then gives the descriptions from which the idol is made. Yet keeps you warned that you must remember, "Bhaktanukampinam devam jagat kaaranam Achyutam, Aavirbhootam cha Srushtyadou prakrute purushaat param. This deity blessing all human beings is the reason why the world exists and this is undeniable. Hence we must worship Ganesha as having come before Prakriti and Purusha.
It's said that Mata Parvati in her shaktiroop insisted that Ganesha becomes Adya devata. There's a well known story around that. In actual, what it means is that the "event of Big bang has to be taken as the origin, "The Beginning".
For the time being, we apply Big bang principle to solar system; but even when you think about the universe beyond solar system, "the event has to be taken as the beginning. The question arises whether an event can occur without any energy. Perhaps not, that's the reason why Shakti maa Parvati is Ganesha's mother. But this energy is non traceable in origin. So we are supposed to assume that Ganesha event is the start of the universe.
Parvati from her body takes out dust to shape into Ganpati. In other words, from energy, matter was formed which in turn led to the big bang event. That is the reason why Ganesha idols for worship are to be made from soil which symbolizes matter in any planet crust. Also the big rounded stomach of Ganpati is symbolic of the planet's rounded shape. This is the symbolism of the entire Ganesha birth story.
The ardhanareshwar is nothing else but the way life started as asexual reproduction...Both male and female done by the same individual...The splitting of Ardhanareshwar as Shiva and Parvati separate is the evolutionary part; which took living world to sexual reproduction, meaning male and female gametes separate. The union of these gametes can happen in the world in different manners; hence the marriage and remarriage of Shiva and Parvati.
Today, our serials have fed us the myth that Parvati was human and did penance to get married to Shiva. It's their truth and we respect them for entitlement to their views. At this juncture, I ask every science-believing mind, can a human be scientifically born from a mountain? If Parvati is Himalaya's daughter, how can she be human? Do humans show parthenogenesis or facultative parthenogenesis wherein a female gamete develops into a complete individual ...Exactly, the birth of Ganesha from Parvati alone.
When we leave Parvati as human concept for serial writers to make their money; we can start understanding what does Parvati's penance symbolize. This penance is the process and time involved in every sexual reproduction cycle. The time required after pollen falls on stigma till the gametes are released in the ovary. Even in us, as human beings, the time from the sperm entering a female body till the actual conceiving is the penance. This process is not as easy as it looks; it's a divine heavenly phenomenon. That is symbolized in Parvati's penance being difficult to succeed. From the time of conceiving to actual birth, the gestation period is another penance. After you are born as "Jeev a live being, there's penance involved called life before you meet your "Shiva the ultimate truth after complete maturing of soul. That's another penance of Parvati."
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