Mothers day and A newborn's conversation with god.

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My Dear friends,

 

In this message, I am

referring to two subjects; one, postings on Mothers day and two, postings on “A

newborn's conversation with Godâ€. The posting of “A

newborn's conversation with God†was a great and very

timely homage to every Mother there is. Even when some mothers are a disgrace

for Motherhood like Dhithi who instigated her

children Hiranyakshan and Hiranyakashipu to do evil deeds; even they deserve to be remembered as that is a

lesson for others to learn from. If we go back in to our PurANam we can see a

kind of Mothers day celebrations there. Vishnu PurANam does discuss an

honoring of devamAtha Adhithi where MahA Vishnu was also present and on this

occasion bhagwAn promised to be born as her child. This is in fact is the fifth

of deshAvathAram, vAmanAvathAram.

 

 

Mothers are to be

remembered at every point of life. So remembering them any time is a very good

thing and they must be respected. But in the West mostly Mothers or Fathers are

not remembered at every day and time. The Father’s day and Mother’s day

celebrations came into effect as a kind of compensation for the neglect the

children did to the parents and this in fact added to the neglect of Fathers

and Mothers further. Thus a lot of people of Eastern countries, who know this,

don’t hold Mothers day in high esteem. In fact our culture says that Mother is

the embodiment of The Ultimate for us (മാതാ

പിതാ à´—àµà´°àµ ദൈവം). But the conditions in Keralam and bhAratham is

also changing in that direction and we can see parents being thrown into

elderly homes and/or being shunted between the homes of the children, often

Father and Mother separated from each other.

 

Mother is also the first

Guru (ആദി à´—àµà´°àµ)

for every child, all of us. So Mother has to be remembered every second of our

life and they should be the first on the list of our honorees. So at times lot

of our people may feel little odd in celebrating Mothers day. My case is a

perfect example as I don’t celibate any of these days.

 

Also, most of the celebrations

in the West are the product of businesses promotion and aimed at money making.

The capitalist society survives on materialism and money making is the main

motto. The business community always creates an opportunity to make money. In

the West all the festivals are celebrated as the business community dictates. At

this time of history, even in our own Keralam it is the case. Even though

communists, who claims to be the saviors of the workers and the poor are the

major ruling party in Keralam, they are the biggest capitalists in our good old

bhAratham now.

 

Now coming to the story

about “A newborn's conversation with Godâ€, I like to

point out few things. First, we don’t have any angels in our culture, religion

or spirituality. Second, Our Athma do not necessarily come from heaven or goes

to Heaven. Our Athma is part of the parabrahMam and when it is the time for it

to merge with the Ultimate it will go there. Athma goes from one life to the

other until that stage is reached. It may also go to heaven at some time.

According to our spirituality, Athma do not always travel between earth and

heaven. When we say God in our spirituality, it means parabrahMam, Which is

represented by Trimoorthikal and that parabrahMam or any of the Trimoorthikal

are not the residents of the heaven. In our Spirituality heaven is the place

where materialistic pleasure is in plentiful and those who are in heaven don’t

even have a passage to the parabrahMam from there. That is why the gods (ദേവനàµà´®à´¾àµ¼) cannot ever have that

merger with the Absolute. Those who go to heaven will have to come back into

this world and with and through the human life only the Ultimate merger with

the parabrahMam is possible.

 

The

Heaven is ruled by Indran and he is not even one of the trinity. So in our Spirituality

the baby does not come from heaven to be born always. It may happen, but not

always. What I am trying to say is that this story even though very good as

homage to Mothers, is a story influenced by Aramaic religious traditions and as

per Semmaji, she got the story from some of her friends and she forwarded it to

us as a homage to all the Mothers, which was a great thing to do and I greatly

appreciate her for that. Her idea was great, the story was excellent. I just

want to point out that it did not have much to do with our traditions, culture

and spirituality. I am in no way trying to discourage the postings of such

stories from our members. Keep posting such stories. But I think the stories based

on our traditions and culture may be better and I prefer to read them more and

more.

 

praNAmam,

 

With

Love, Regards and Thanks to all,

Sincerely,Udayabhanu Panickaraum namaH Shivaaya The vow not to kill is great indeed, and greater still is non-eating of the flesh; there would be no butcher, if there is non to eat; in eating thus abides the cruder ill, as she/he is the reason for the killing.