// For a non-believer... Salvation to Ekalayva or underworld to Mahabalai is also similar. It may mean totally opposite to the believer//
Not only to an Atheist. But also for others too who superficially GLANCE.. these Great-exemplary Episodes
... conveying Morals for HUMANITY IRRESPECTIVE OF RELIGION.
.. will appear as just a Senseless Farce... DUBIOUSLY... justifying the Partiality, Injustice and Superiority-complex of the so called God’s incarnations as Vamana, Rama, Krishna... and the like
.. Indeed Mahabhaaratha is an EPIC of Secular-India.. irrespective of Religious aspects.
Whether anybody considers Mahabharatha as the Fifth-Veda as per Vedic- believers..
.. or as the Common-Indian- Epic according to Secular India Govt
.. or as a part of Indian- History according to Historians
.. or as just an Interesting- Story for the Children ...
... Well.... but Nobody can deny ONE FACT... that it conveys to Humanity some immortal Lessons and Morals towards a HEALTHY SOCIAL-LIFE..
... true to the Spirit of Tamilian Gospel... “Yaadhum-Oorae Yaavarum Kaelhir”
... which indirectly means that the whole Global Humanity forms only ONE United Family of KINSMEN’
Rather all the Epics similar to Mahabharatha establishes three Great Lessons to the Mankind.
(1)The Interests and Welfare of the Society at large .. is Greater.. than the Birth-right of any Individual even be a King
(2)The Interests of Dharma (ARHAM) and Righteousness is the Greatest and the Top-most above all.
(3)Irrespective of its extent and magnitude of the adherers... be it Five or One Hundred or even it be the Supreme Monarch or his / her Subjects... it is IMMATERIAL and in such cases where and when the Righteousness or Moral- Justice is DYING ... is ONLY IMPORTANT
... then God UNDOUBTEDLY intervenes by ANY MEANS... Directly or Indirectly ... and Sets it Right for the World..
So God ANNOUNCES... "Oh! You the Man (Mankind) BEWARE.. Whether you are of the so-called high caste Brahmin-Guru, or the so-called low-caste Hunter and whether you are the King or his Servant. Don’t take it as granted to do anything as you will
... You have to adhere to the basic-Principle of Social-Justice and HUMAN-MORALITY...
To ensure compliance of such a Rudimentary Life-Code for any Creature on Earth... especially the
.. Supreme-Birth as Human has the Highest degree of bounden duty towards such a SUPREME-GOAL of Mundane Life
On which I am GOVERNING YOU. .. from behind Try to understand my Lessons by Words and Deeds.
//As on today religions are one of the major causes for many social problems.//
No. No. No.. Not at all. .. Ever and ever… as well as even Now… ALL RELIGIONS without Exception...
...EMANCIPATES the Mankind.. towards the higher Perspective of various Life-Principles and Code of Practice… for the purpose of Human- Birth… Existence of one Super-Human-Power so called God
And above all.. inculcates the Sense of Society not only towards Humanity .. but also on other God-creations as well… so to say the Hearty-sense of Universal-Love
Yes all Religions declare CLEARLY SO Mahabharath-Epic is No- Exception.
// If you want just to put blame on the greedy people or their wrong understanding of so-called holy scripts and considering the religion as holy, then we are intentionally and cleverly avoiding the effort to understand the root cause of problems.//
Yes… if we find fault with the Moon… stating that it does not exist on New-Moon-day.. the Darkest day ...then it will only mean... our lack of understanding or Knowledge. And Not in the Moon.
// If I quote from Bhavath Gita or other religious books to show how the religions divide the people and how ill treatment of the another human being was/is made easily digestible//
It is TOTALLY INCORRECT to say that either the Vedas or Mahabharatha or the Bhagawad- Geetha preaches Social- discrimination.
But no doubt they assert God’s creation of Humanity in SEGREGATED forms suited to varied sorts of Earthly DEMANDS OF ACTIVITIES, Principles, Tastes and Distastes by imparting various proportions of the Three basic Gunhas (Qualities) of Mankind
Such Segregations has nothing to do with the Caste- based HUMAN- DIVIDE.. nor Discriminations nor any Disparities on the basis of Birth alone.
But such Human-divides and Social- discriminations are all MAN- MADE… including Caste-formations ..
...as also varied Code of Justice named as Sasthras.. on the basis of Human- Birth..
on which PERVERSIONS too.. God in different Manifestations..has intervened and corrected the Humanity several times.
// (you please read the pro-slavery scripts of American civil war, racial discrimination Jews in Germany before Hitler era,//
That was an Eye-Opener towards an Enlightened Wisdom for the U.S. People to revise their outlook and encode suitably ensuring Social- Equanimity, Parity of Justice Equal- Freedom of Democracy for all.the citizens alike..
The Individual Man as well as the Mankind … retraces the Steps, Corrects, and improves through Positive Lessons by observing the Great Personages or after getting Punished or by some means of. BURNING FINGERS... if not earlier by the dint of Wisdom.
//If you think religious beliefs are intended to cure the illness of society and all the issues are mainly because of human’s greed, then we have strong difference of opinion in the basic itself.//
Yes… Please come out My Dear . r-kk I can convince you if you are open-minded.
// I still insist that is is Man's greed that led him to commit many errors. Seeing this greed, religion tried to set it right by making the oppressed Ekalavya as the real hero, without antagonizing the powerful men who were committing the errors.//
Greed is one of the SIX Bad Qualities hidden within Man… consistently trying to Dominate over His Conscience (which shows him the Righteous-path based on the degree of his Wisdom)
So behind this Episode “Greed” is one amongst them to cause a Grave-injustice to Righteous Man a pitiable Hunter a Model to Humanity... despite a minor character of this Epic.
//When Drona and others ill-treated Ekalavya, no one could point out the injustice. Why? Because they were powerful influential people. Yet the author Vyasa has so skillfully composed the epic and written it in such a way that everyone knows what low levels Drona had sunk to in doing injustice to Ekalavya. At the same time, Vyasa also made it seem that Ekalavya was actually honored and rewarded. Although from a societal stand point, he was ill-treated, he was given a place of honor//
Such Epics propagate GREAT MORALS through the Mouths and Events of several characters... Main or Minor.. we have to see only the moral-lessons behind
... without looking into... who is low or high by birth or status or any other means
... And finally what were the Codes of Righteousness on those days... as had been highlighted....
... As also on what the God-incarnation APPROVES or ASSERTS in conclusion... must only be... our Direction of interests
// Seen this way, doesnt it seem as though the religous text called Mahabharatha is actually giving a lesson to man in good social behaviour?//
Yes.. Drona was severely punished by Krishna . by his CRUEL- END despite his immortal-powers..
.. mainly because of Drona’s Grave-unfairness coupled with Moral- injustice to his Loyal- Disciple... YAEKALAIVA... the Typical Role-Model to Humanity in such a Sense..
