As I have mentioned in my first blog, our ancestors were very wise and they knew that over the years people’s dialect, culture, languages will change. Apart from writing things in scriptures, they presented most of things through pictures and symbols as well so that future generations will be able to understand through these. One such picture & story is of Goddess Kaali. Lets see how it is relevant in current times.
General story goes like this, once upon a time there was a demon called ‘Raktabeeja’ (Rakta means blood and Beeja means seed). He had done severe penance/austerities and out of that he got a boon from Lord Brahma (Called as Generator. He is responsible for generation of planet, universe. He resides in our body as well. He resides in stomach and everything in our body is generated there). Boon was- if his one drop of blood falls on earth then such 1000 soldiers like him will be born again. After receiving this boon he started misusing, intimidating, harassing to people, saints and GODs also got scared and could not control him. All gods ran towards mother goddess and requested for her help. She agreed to help them and she was fighting with Raktabeeja and wounded him at many places but due to his boon, thousands and thousands many more soldiers got created in battlefield and whole situation became more complicated. Mother Durga then meditated and transformed herself into goddess Kaali. Kaali is with blue body, large eyes filled with anger, her red tongue wide open and with ferocious speed advancing on opponents. Looking at this form all demons got frightened. Kaali took out her tongue and drank blood of all the soldiers of Raktabeeja and eventually all of them got killed. Raktabeeja was only one who was left on battlefield. Kaali advanced towards him, wounded him and immediately started drinking his blood and finally Raktabeeja got killed. In the whole process she drank so much blood of demon that it started affecting her and out of intensity and joy of her win she started dancing uncontrollably. Her dance was so intense that it started hurting all and earth started trembling. All people, gods ran towards lord Shiva (her companion) and requested him to calm down Kaali. Looking at destruction happening around, Lord Shiva tried to stop her but she was not listening anything. Looking at this finally lord Shiva laid his body on her path and she accidently stepped on him. Lord Shiva is nothing but infinite pure consciousness (resides in our head). As soon as her feet touched Shiva, she got her consciousness back and stopped her dance and all GODs & people got relief. As showed in above picture, you can see mother goddess is transforming herself into Kaali and Lord Shiva is below her feet.
Lets understand these symbols first. Most of the times we refer GOD as ‘he’ or ‘father’ etc. But what about mother? Is father alone or is he with companion? Answer is he is with companion and she is our mother. Here Lord Shiva symbolizes our infinite consciousness like infinite sky. Blue body presents color of sky which is transparent, hollow and empty and has no demands, wishes, regrets or guilt. Mother Goddess symbolizes pure energy with which this cosmos, this planet and our body is filled with. This consciousness & energy are both inside us. We have both father & mother inside us. If your body has consciousness and no energy then you will not be even able to do anything and even you will be unable to move. If you have only energy and no consciousness then things you will be doing will be senseless and you may end up harming yourself and others. In our body energy is created by whatever we eat, drink, physical activity, thoughts (yes thoughts affect your energy). This energy gets created in stomach, gets absorbed in blood and transferred to various body parts by heart and your head also gets this blood and then your consciousness behaves in proper way. If energy supplied to your head is good then it will destroy all the bad things arising in your head (all the bad thoughts) and you will have only good, pleasant thoughts and these thoughts again affect your energy. This is vicious cycle. Good will give birth to more good and bad will give birth to more bad. Simple example – take a look at the guy who is drunk. He loses his complete consciousness. Kind of thing he consumed created that kind of energy and affected his consciousness in that way. So we can say that energy is connector between yourself and pure consciousness. Now look at this cycle again – stomach works as Generator, Heart works as Operator and Head which is place of your consciousness works as Destructor (of bad things). Generator, Operator, Destructor, bring first 3 letters of these 3 words and you arrive at GOD and common thread between them is energy which is nothing but Mother Goddess. This way whole nature is filled with this energy. Plants, birds, animals, land everything you see has energy in it (only thing is form is different). We need to see which thing will generate pure energy inside us then consume only that, act only as per that!
Now coming back to demon Raktabeeja and let us see how it is relevant in current times. Rakta means Blood and Beeja means Seed. Is there such demon who is rising by thousands of multiplication. Answer is Yes and not one but many are there and we are responsible for it. This demon is getting bigger because of our impulsive reactions which are coming from us or going into deeper sense, from our blood (as blood has energy). Raktabeeja is game of action – reaction. One action leading to thousands of reaction. Somebody says something and receives thousands of reaction on it and that person again becomes bigger. On social media sites, news channels, print media, in group talks we start reacting to it and many times reactions are also put in bad words. Right now corrupt & bad politicians, actors, businessman and so called intellectuals are using this game of Action – Reaction and becoming bigger and bigger. See if below examples make this thing little clear and most importantly media is central among all
- Politicians deliberately plant their own people as opposition and these planted people abuse them deliberately in indecent or bad words. Ex- Somebody calls somebody as mental etc. We suddenly start giving our reactions on it. Start our fight against it saying how can you say this, bla bla bla and we end up supporting politician to whom he said bad words. In this process politician becomes bigger and person who used bad words also becomes bigger as you gave him so much attention and kept him in news and he kept on becoming bigger. These people stand in elections and due to our reactions even win it or they work as vote cutters of their community votes. This is the most dangerous trend going on and people are falling in trap of this.
- Politicians deliberately speak ghastly sentences, foul words for other communities as if they are messiah of their own community which is portrayed as under threat from rest of world. Ex- Somebody said in India that give me 1 hour and I will finish particular community etc. Suddenly all people started giving reactions. This guy is bad, mad bla bla and what not. Person who was unknown to millions of people suddenly came in focus and because of reaction of people he started growing bigger. Why to give importance to such people? Just ignore them and they automatically die. Recently few people from religious sphere deliberately started speaking foul words for other religion (like send them to Pakistan etc) and suddenly thousands and thousands of reaction came for it. People who were unknown to even their neighbors became bigger and bigger by using this bad way.
- See these movie actors, producers, how they use this trick and politicians also help them in this. These days you would see almost before every movie some controversy arises. Deliberately hurting religious sentiments, some fight with some group and media covers it and we give our reactions to it. How can he hurt our religion, show things like this in movie etc. Infact recently for one movie, few MPs started disturbing parliament because of one movie poster. Even before release of movie they were giving publicity to it. I will not be surprised if it comes out that they had handshake with movie producers & actors. Due to this controversy, reaction of people is they cannot control their curiosity and they watch these movies to find out what is there in it. In today’s world of multiplexes, expensive tickets & multiple shows they earn millions and millions of dollars which is not possible for even big corporate house to earn in such a short period of time. In one more such instance, one writer accused one film’s actors & producers that they have stolen his content & made their movie. Whole electronic & print media started showing this news in big way. Result of this was movie became more and more famous and writer’s book as well. Many copies of his book got sold. This is just beginning as they have tasted the blood and more such things will happen so just ignore..
- Now see how businessman use this. Before launching some product they create such anxiety & fanfare through promotion among people, by creating a scenario such that people react in such an impulsive way that they wait for whole nights to buy one tech gadget and ready to pay any price. People can’t hold of their impulsive reaction and just fall in the trap to buy things. Just check around how many times you have done this.
- Some newpaper or news channel deliberately shows some news like “Hindus killed Muslims” or “Muslims killed Hindus” Or “Christians got killed” Or they publish news by deliberately putting castes in the news like “people of so and so cast did this to people of so and caste”. Suddenly our impulsive reactions begin, people come on streets and riots begin or people even kill each other and problem becomes more and more bigger.
- Some news channels, papers start showing/printing that so and so saint is fraud. He has done so and so bad thing. Without checking the fact we start reacting. I have seen people cursing in most abusive way without even checking facts on their own. In India one Shankaracharya was arrested on day of Dipawali. Charge was put on him that he murdered one person. Media channels ran various shows covering this for almost more than 2000 hours. He was depicted as demon and suddenly people started reacting in very bad manner. Supreme court created special bench to hear this case and found out that he was not at all guilty. Total coverage given by media to his acquittal was hardly of 8 minutes.
- See how so called intellectuals & social workers are trying to use same method. They deliberately tweet some stupid thing or use foul language and media shows it. People immediately start giving reactions to all this and that person becomes bigger & bigger.
There could be many such examples. Think now, how many times where, when we acted like this. I have seen on social media, people react in very abusive way. What is that you cannot control your reaction? It is our impulsive behavior which is arising as we are unable to handle our own energy and ultimately we are not in our full consciousness. If our energy is pure, in correct amount & channeled in right direction then we will be in our full consciousness and we will first find out facts behind things, will react judicially and these demons will die automatically. First thing is become aware of these tricks and when we become aware then we are alert & behave with full consciousness. Question may arise how do I generate pure energy. Though I am not expert on that ,few things definitely we need to do. Eat good, Sattwik food (which increases sat gun in us), do daily exercise, yoga, pranayama, avoid non vegetarian (what we eat, we become like that), avoid drinking things like alcohol etc, keep your heart and mind pure. If we are unable to do it then lets pray together to Mother Goddess to help us in blossoming in our consciousness by guiding her energy in proper way and defeating these demons.
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