A smile of culture,Haryana Rural Antique Museum, Hansi- Haryana

“An episode from the Shishupalavadh epic of D. Shri Krishna has set out on a journey with his army to attend Yudhishthira’s Rajasuya Yajna. On the way, he is happy seeing the scenes of villages and fields. In this context  The gopis guarding the field have pulled it.

Sahasamalokayati Sm Gopika: ॥

Gopikas guarding the paddy field, when a flock of parrots attacked the field from one side, they used to run to one side to drive away the parrots, till then the youth of antelopes from the other side broke the field to graze, then they used to run there.  To save the field, Shri Krishna would have laughed at the Gopikas’s rush and trouble.

The paddy fields are swaying with the ripe crop.  Shri Krishna has faith that even if some part of the crop is eaten by parrots and some deer graze on it, the farmers will get enough grains.  That’s why the Gopikas burst into laughter when they run to save the crop.  Actually it is a smile of happiness, agriculture is flourishing in the state, farmers are working hard to save their crops.  The satisfaction that stems from this and Happiness only creates the laughter of Shri Krishna here.  The word for culture in English is culture.  This word is derived from the verb kalt (to plow the field).  The word culture in Sanskrit language signifies the process of refinement or culture, in fact there is a word for culture in the Vedic literature – krishti.  The meaning of agriculture is also to plow the field.  The root or verb from which this word is derived (Krish or Karshan) was called ‘cult’ in Greek, Latin, German and English languages.  India’s journey to the ancient civilization countries of Europe in the form of cult and culture of agriculture and traction clearly shows that the cultures of these countries have been agricultural.  When the crops flourish in the fields, then the cultures of these countries have also been smiling.

Indian culture doesn’t seem to be laughing and smiling today.  How can it be?  There are no parrots that used to fall on the swaying crops in the fields, nor are there herds of deer.  Where are the gopis who were continuously running from one corner of the field to the other to save the crop?  farming of poor farmers It is not a means of earning livelihood, it is the business of the rich, the poor farmer who spends 1 on seeds and fertilizers by taking a loan, does not get his 1 cost after harvesting the crop, he is not able to repay the loan.  The farmers are committing suicide.

When we believe that the culture of this country is agricultural and has been developing in the villages, then how can we tell the poor farmers that our culture is flourishing in this terrible period of suicides and continuous destruction of villages?  Cultivable land is continuously shrinking in the expansion of urbanization and concrete jungles.  arable land the decline of crop yields is the depression and gloom of an entire culture, even though the indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers is increasing the yield immediately.  Instead of enacting a law to acquire agricultural land for polluting enterprises, a law should be made to acquire the land of these enterprises for agriculture.

Our culture was linked to the farms and the rivers were the life givers to these fields.  Rivers do not have an unbreakable relationship with culture, just as agriculture or farming is synonymous with culture in our village language, in the same way riverine terminology has also been used as synonyms of culture.  Culture is a meeting of countless streams of knowledge.  Knowledge has also been called Brahma in our place.  Speech or Saraswati is a form of this Brahman.  Saraswati is also a river, it is also a confluence of the continuous flowing streams of knowledge.  If Brahma is Nirguna, then Saraswati is Saguna.  There is no difference between nirgun or formless and sagun and corporeal.  Nirgun keeps on making himself sagun continuously.  This is to be Saraswati of Brahma.  Brahman is stable in one form and dynamic in another form.  There is speech in Brahman, there is Brahman in speech, both are interdependent and inseparable.  Seven synonyms of Saraswati have been enumerated in Amarkosh – Brahmi, Bharati, Bhasha, Gee, Vak, Vani and Saraswati.  Being Brahmamayi or being born from Brahma, she has been called Brahmi.

Saraswati is not a static entity, it is a process of decreasing and becoming.  that conversion and possibility is.  Saraswati is described in the Rigveda as a Brahmaputra-like • Mahanad, in addition to its main stream, six different streams flowed in different regions.  Along with this, Saraswati is also described as the presiding deity of knowledge and the conductor of culture and contemplation traditions.  The Vedic sages do not see Saraswati river and Saraswati Devi separately, because the culture created on the banks of Saraswati river, by purifying their body and mind with its water and Saraswat worship cannot be separated from Saraswati river.  Therefore, Saraswati is also a great river that promotes food and agriculture and is also the presiding deity of knowledge that sheds the currents of culture.  As long as the river Saraswati flows, as long as its deep water is crystal clear, pure and pure, till then only the practice of culture will flourish in the districts along its banks.  The sages of Rigveda have described the smiling and gleeful laughter of Saraswati and other rivers in many mantras.  The laughter and smile of the rivers is due to the water flowing continuously in them.  As long as the rivers laugh and smile, the culture also smiles and develops.  The joy of the people’s mind makes fun of the trivial things of religion-philosophy. 1 In ‘Gangaalhari’, Panditraj Jagannath says – Api Prajya Rajya Trinmiv Parityajya Sahasa Viloldwaniram Tava Janani Teeram Shritvatam.  Sudhat: Tasty: Salilmidamatrupti Pivatan Jananamanand: Parihsati Nirvanapadvim ॥  ie-

They suddenly leave a straw thinking it to be their vast kingdom and come back mother on your banks where the cane trees keep swaying and drink more delicious than Sudha your water that joy of Nirvanapadvi makes fun of those people.  In the Atharvaveda, the sage Atharvangiras says that this Dyava and the earth (or the whole world) is pervaded in me, Saraswati is pervaded in me.

Ote me dyavaprithivi ote Devisaraswati.  Otau m Indrashchagnischarthyasmedam Saraswati ॥

– Atharvveda 6.94.1-3 Krishi Dirghtamas Jnana Sukta explains those four stages of speech.  On the other hand, they she is also known as the one who makes water flow and creates ocean and clouds.  This speech is Saraswati.  This sentence Vaag Vai Saraswati is repeated time and again in Shatpath Brahmin, Aitareya and Kaushitaki Brahmins.

Saraswati has long since disappeared.  Don’t know how many of the remaining rivers are on the verge of extinction today.  Whether the memory of some rivers will remain or not, it cannot be said.  In the context of this situation, a Varanya scholar once said that – “Vanished. In order to preserve the memory of the rivers, a board should be placed where they used to flow, ‘A certain river used to flow here’.”  The flow of rivers is the smile of culture, so their extinction and pollution is also the disappearance of culture and cultural pollution. When will we be able to say in the voice of poets who have seen the decline and development of Saraswati and culture in the crystal clear streams of the Ganga, that Panditraj Jagannath  Said in ‘Gangalhari’-

Prosperous Saubhagyam Sakalvasudhaya: Kimpi San Mahaishwarya Leelajanitajagat: Khandaparsho:.  Shrutina Sarvasvam Sukritmath Murta Sumansa Sudhasaundaryam te Salimshivan Nah Shamayatu ॥  ie-

something weird –

Full of good fortune of the whole earth, which is the great opulence of Lord Shiva, the creator of the world in play, which is everything and the idol of the Shrutis, this nectar-like beauty of the pure-hearted;

(The author is a well-known litterateur)

Kaadambinee Jul 2015