Hindu  History-START OF A NEW KALP

 

 

[However human
civilization has always been cruel on other beings. They started exploiting
these two legged animals as slaves, and as animals. They refused to recognize
them as human beings although they were now developing into same. The
exploitation was cruel and inhuman to say the least. Here was the first batch
of human beings of the new kalp-very pure and innocent (Aryans as one would like
to call them in Sanskrit), and the batch of survivors of the older kalp-whose antecedents
were not known, were torturing them instead of welcoming them].

 

 

 

The first avatar of Lord Vishnu is MATSYA
AVTAR. This takes place when at the end of Kalyug, the entire life, as
existed on this earth, was destroyed earlier by man-made calamities and
subsequently the survivors faced the wrath of natural calamities. The sea water
rose significantly covering almost the entire land mass. Manu, the last king on
the earth then starts his journey on ships along with survivors. Vishnu in the
form of fish escorts them. This journey continued for about 2.5 lac years.
Several generation of survivors, as such, spend the life over water, and with
the help of Matsya Avatar also survived the onslaught of extreme conditions.
Slowly with the phenomenal rise of water levels, the sea water also became
stationary .All the turbulence and so called churning of water was gone. The
water became still, very still. This was never witnessed by mankind before.
Even sea life startyed  slowly vanishing
.They were at the end of the kalp.

 

There in the extreme hostile conditions and
above water survival was difficult. Certain rules were made to make them
easier. It is only in this context Manu’s Smriti is to be looked at. One must
remember that, as per Hindu history, Manu was the last king at the end of the
kalp and carried the generation of people over sea to the next kalp. Whether
one calls him Manu, Manush, or Man is insignificant. The thing to remember is
Manu’s Smriti is meant for those DESPERATE people who were locked in extreme
condition, over sea, fighting for survival. It has no place in current
civilized life. To that extent it has been vastly misunderstood. Rules
regarding caste, behavior thereon, would start making sense in that context
only. It, however, is not relevant in today’s world. It is not meant to be. As of today, the Dharm laid down by Lord
Ram and Lord Krishna need to be followed. But, unfortunately, no one tells us
what the dharm is.

 

Subsequently, after about 2.5lac years of
miseries some hilltops are seen. Perhaps the water has receded, but only
slightly- but at least they could now end their journey over sea. Lord Vishnu
in the form of Matsya Avatar has left them. They are on there own. Slowly they
also started seeing some fishes and other sea life. But the water was not
receding. There was hardly any other land mass seen. The water was still very.
The survival was difficult but not as difficult as life over sea. After several
hundred years, they started witnessing some form of wave movement over sea.
They also witnessed occasionally one tortoise that would venture out of sea and
stay on ground for some time. They worshiped him as avatar of Lord Vishnu. After
all, this Avatar of Lord Vishnu has brought a change in the totally silent and
still water of sea—the water has started churning and they could see wave
movement over sea. They could now  also
see some increase in land mass. That could mean sea water was receding. KURMA AVTAR of Lord Vishnu, signifies the
start of wave movement over sea.

 

Every year earth was getting covered with
more trees. One morning they saw a boar, a four legged animal. Seeing them, he
ran back into forest. He did not go back into sea. This was the first time they
had company over land. They accepted him as Vishnu’s avatar-VARAHA AVTAR.
This avatar signifies significant release of land by receding sea water.

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Slowly they started developing settlements.
Life was still difficult. Food was hard to find. During the earlier times,
during there passage through sea, there were people who would commit all type
of heinous deeds including eating of human flesh. They were called Shudras
then.  Even now there were people or
rather settlements who ate human flesh and offered human sacrifices to there
deities. They were termed as Rakshas. They were very ferocious and would often
abduct people from other settlements for the above mentioned purpose. In the
mean time, apart from the areas in which settlements were developed, in other
places large forest cover started developing. They could now see birds and
other animals who ventured out of the forest. Living was getting easy after all
and the settlements started calling themselves as kingdoms. They were only
afraid of Rakshas. These Rakshas were living in at least one large settlement
and they were a constant threat. They were also indiscriminately killing
animals in the forests.

 

They have now lived for over 3lac years in
the new kalp. The threat of Rakshas was very serious. Every kingdom now had an
army of warriors who would ensure safety of its people. These warriors would also
ensure safety of their kingdom from fearsome animals.

 

These warriors also started reporting about
some large group of two-legged animals inside the forest, who, although, has
never threatened the warriors, looked very ferocious. Even Rakshas were more interested
in them as they liked their meat and the amount of meat was more in them then
in the abducted settlement people. The kingdoms were now interested in these
two legged animals. They thought they would be of some use to them too, apart
from fighting the Rakshas. On contacting them, they found them very simple.
They agreed to fight Rakshas. The king of Rakshas, Hirnakashyap was killed by
the two legged animal called Narsingh. They also destroyed there
kingdom/settlement. The human civilization was once again the dominant
civilization on the earth. NARSINGH is still remembered as the incarnation
of Lord Vishnu.

 

 

However human civilization has always been
cruel on other beings. They started exploiting these two legged animals as
slaves, and as animals. They refused to recognize them as human beings although
they were now developing into same. The exploitation was cruel and inhuman
to say the least. Here was the first batch of human beings of the new kalp-very
pure and innocent (Aryans as one would like to call them in Sanskrit), and the
batch of survivors of the older kalp-whose antecedents were not known, were
torturing them instead of welcoming them.

 

On the other front the Rakshas once again
reorganized themselves and started attacking human settlement as well as
Vanars(the new human race- two legged animals as called earlier).Only those who
accepted there supremacy were spared. They were very cruel and ruthless in
there approach. Their king Bali soon became the undisputed lord of the entire
earth. The entire human race unitidily prayed for help-and Lord Vishnu
obliged. This time as Vaaman-a small dwarfy Brahman he requested Bali for
only three footsteps of earth. It was known that King Bali would never go back
on his words, and so when Bali promised him the land, he measured the entire
earth in two steps and since there was no land left to fulfill the wow of Bali
to give three paces, he ordered Bali to go and live in Pataallok. The earth was
once again free for human habitation. Lord Vishnu is also remembered as
VAMAN AVTAR for this help to mankind.

 

But as soon as the threat of Rakshas
subsided, the civilized people started their unending exploitation of Vanars.
They conveniently forgot how twice they have helped them decisively against
Rakshas. They even refused to allow there settlement beyond forests. The
exploitation was unending-rather it was increasing. Lord Vishnu in the form
of PARASHURAM came on this earth and dealt with these warriors He destroyed
them several times, however there was no respite. It was then that he
threatened to destroy the civilized life in the kingdoms as well, that an
accord was reached through the intervention of King Janak, who had the
reputation of being peace loving man. On the intervention of King Janak it was
decided that the civilized kingdom will now have no relation –good or bad- with
the vanars and they be allowed to grow on there own. Once assured of there
behavior, Parashuram also handed King Janak the Shiv Dhanush, a weapon of mass
destruction, for safe keeping.

 

Once the peace was established between
kingdoms and vanars, kingdoms started flourishing. Also the vanars started
multiplying. They also started having their own settlements on the edge of the
forests after clearing part of the forest. But on the other hand in Patallok
after the demise of Bali, Rakshas were once again organizing themselves to take
revenge for the way Lord Vishnu ‘cheated’ them. This time their target was
vanars. But they had a problem. Shiv Dhanush, the ultimate weapon of mass
destruction was with King Janak and it could be used against them. They also
knew about the animosity between kingdoms and vanars. So they assured the
kingdoms that their fight is not against them, but against vanars who were
claiming that they were the purest form of human being, and that their fight is
also against King Kuber of Lanka, who was supporting the vanars.  Assured by the kingdoms that they will not
interfere, the king of Rakshas, Raavan, captured Lanka, and declared it his
kingdom and from there on waged assaults on vanars and all living being in
jungle. Even sages were not spared. It was then that Lord Vishnu came on this
earth as Lord Ram, son of Ayodhya King Dashrath.

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Rest is all known history—the battle between
Shri Ram and Raavan. While on the subject of religion, it is extremely
important to know what dharm was preached by Shri Ram, which resulted in
Ramrajya, and secondly what dharm was preached by Shri Krishna. Unfortunately
either no one knows, or, no one wants to tell us about it.

 

Even our religious preachers have not
understood GITA – the MOTIVATION
speech that Shri Krishna gave to Arjun on the battle field. Gita has added a new and additional dimension as to
how religion can ALSO be preached in kalyug.  One must know and understand that Arjun was
the toughest man ever to be born on earth. When at the start of Mahabharat,
Arjun decided that he will not fight Mahabharat war, it required the caliber of
Lord Krishna, and the motivation speech of Gita, to motivate him to fight the war.
No one delivers sermons or religious speeches on the battlefield. NO—you
motivate people on the battle ground. And this is what Lord Krishna has done.
The motivation speech along with explanations thereof ran into 18 chapters.
Relatively, person of today’s world could be motivated by listening to just one
line of that speech, if properly understood. And that perhaps is the only proof
that commentator has understood Gita.

 

We all know that religious books of all
religion have been designed to motivate people of that religion. Sometimes the
motivation works, rest of the time it does not. But Gita will motivate people. Its result has been guaranteed by Lord
Krishna himself. However, all commentators of Gita have simply tried to
translate the Sanskrit text and added comment there on, thinking that it is
another religious text. This will not work with Gita.  With
Gandhi’s ahimsa mantra and a real functioning democracy, plus the motivation
provided by GITA, wonders could have been achieved – yet we are struck with
poverty, hunger and suicides. Most of
our religious preachers are only making money and they know nothing about
GITA or DHARM propagated by Shri Ram or Shri Krishna.

 

 

     
PLEASE ALSO READ THE FOLLOWING:

• SWAMBER OF
  SITA
• HOROSCOPE
  OF SHRI RAM
• AGNI
  PARIKSHA OF SITA .. FACTS
• RAMAYAN
  AND HISTORY
• HINDU
  HISTORY...START OF A NEW KALP
• KAIKAI AND
  RAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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