Sanatan relationships through Ages - Sat to Kali

"किं भ्राता सद्यद् अनाथं भवति? किमु स्वसा यत् निरऋतिः न गच्छात्" - यमी (ऋग्वेद)
For the benefit of my fellow Sanatanis , let me give a context to this sentence quoted. This is what Yami said to her brother Yam or Yamraj as we know him. They were siblings. For the uninitiated in Sanskrit, this when translated into english would mean..What is (the use of) brother, who keeps me "Anaath (Uncovered/Unprotected)?" What is (meaning of being) Svasaa who cannot even follow her drive?"


Now puzzled as everyone is, let me explain the context through the usage of word 'Svaasa' . Yami refers to herself as "Svasu". स्वान् सरति इति स्वसा. One who imitates (अपभ्रंष for Anusarana which means to behave in accordance to) her "own" (in hindi "Apne"). जो अपनों का अनुसरण करती हैं वह स्वसा. Here, it means one who cohabits with one's kin is svasaa.


It simply means, yami wanted to cohabit with Yamraj and he refused thus earning the sobriquet of 'Dharamraj' . What it also means that It was not uncommon for siblings to engage in fornication & thus the refusal of 'Yam' surprises & hurts 'Yami'. It is hereafter that a fertile sibling was referred to as "brother" or "sister" and was off limits for procreation. Relationship with a fertile sibling got a "name". 


This shows evolution of man.It also means that our sages were indeed truthful & brave to write, mention the trials and tribulation as a society that we went through. they have recorded the 'Yug Dharma' as it changed over the years.Greatest of the warriors & one of the most learned mind 'Pitamaha Bhishma' said the following in 'Shanti parva' .. dialogues between him and Dharmaraj Yudhsthir


न चैषां मैथुनो धर्मो बभूव भरतर्षभ
संकल्पादेवैतेषां अपत्यं उपपद्यते - 37


ततः त्रेतायुगेकाले संस्पर्शात् जायते प्रजान
ह्य भूः मैथुनो धर्मस्तेषां अपि जनाधिप - 38


द्वापरे मैथुनो धर्म प्रजानां भवन्नृपःतथा
कलियुगे राजन द्वन्द्व मापेदिरे जनाः - 39

"In satya yuga, intercourse happened as desire arose in minds of fertile men and women. There were no words for mother, father, sibling etc. In Treta Yuga, when men and women touched each other and welcomed the touch, dharma allowed them to copulate for time-being. (this is stage where concept of "favourite" mate started emerging). IN Dwapara Yuga, Men and women started cohabiting as couples but not as stable and committed pair-bonding couples. In Kali Yuga, the stable pair-bonding (what we refer to as institution of marriage) emerged."


Also remember what Sutaji said to Sage Saunak while he narrated 'Garud Puran' at naimisaaran teerth.
Lord Vishnu's eight incarnation was Rishab dev, the son of Naabhi & Meru devi. This incarnation he set the norms of 'Grihastha Ashram' which became the guidelines for Dharmis. It also essentially means that Sanatan Dharmis had moved beyond the male - female relationships & it became imperative to lay down some rules for their dealing with each other. 


This is the time when you see the use of the word, 'Sahodar' meaning lived in the same womb.In fact Garud purana is a treasure trove of our history along with other Purana. It also brings out the story of Brahama & his 10 'Manapsputra' .


The story of Daksha prajapati , After being reborn in the clan of 'Dhruv' the child worshiper of Lord Vishnu post the curse of Lord Shiva.Daksha was born to Prachetraas & Merisha. He married the beautiful Asikni, daughter of Viran and had 60 beautiful daughters & 1000 sons in the begining. Then a brahmachari Naarada appears and counsels them about economy. This discourse of Narada found in Harivamsha is first of its kind in human history which talks about economics and necessity to keep numbers less and spread across different regions for efficient utilization of resources without burdening the earth.


Those 1000 sons agreed with Narada and scattered in all directions looking for the circumference of the earth and settled in distant lands, never to return. Seeing that children are gone, Prajapati and Asikini gave birth to 1000 more kids who also spread in all directions like their predecessors. This not only shows expansion of aryans all over earth from here, but also shows how certain individuals by sacrificing their primal drives earned knowledge and respect from rest. So it also settles the nonsensical Aryan invasion theory.


"Thus this prajapati system resulted in 3 important changes in humans and dharmiks.
1. Emergence of Gotras
2. Tendency to spread out and colonize other lands
3. Tendency of few to indulge in Brahmacharya willingly.


Our memories have stories when there were no "names" for relations. Only relation was that between a fertile man and woman. In fact here have been references to The references of free cohabitation, sibling cohabitation, offering one's "stri (woman)" to friend OR guest" (Kindly note that the word "patni" had not evolved), references towards intercourse with alive and dead animals, intercourse with wife of one's guru, cohabitation with multiple males, temporary cohabitation, contract marriage all these are mentioned in Puranas & is the history of Indic people."You can also add Shiva's Aasakti on Mohini & the chase. Subsequently the birth of Harihara.


Here we have stories of Brahmadeva and his daughter Sandhya indulging in coitus in beginning of time. There are many stories as such. This may sound incestous to today's minds but the fact that we all originated from Brahma &  his 10 manasputras.


Later as man graduated to social hunter-gatherer, we slowly see emergence of matriarchal identities. There was yet no need for an offspring to be identified by its father as no one was sure who the father was. But one was sure about one's mother. Here we see the categories of people referring to themselves  as sons Daanav or Daitya as per their mother's name. Even during the younger days Arjun refers to himself as 'Kaunteya' (meaning Son of Kunti) & Karan refers to himself as 'Radheya'. These were the end days perhaps as Bhishma mentioned, quoted above.


All these are "स्त्री   of Prajapati" but none of the offsprings are identified by father's name & that is logical considering the Prajapati's responsibility was to populate the earth & thus cohabiting or having intercourse with many women. The fact that the necessity arose to have some "clan name" also shows evolution of man into higher level of social organization. The evolution seen from Indian scriptures from early human to modern human is somewhat as follows.

"Alpha male system (one dominant male owing all females in clan) >> many males many females cohabiting together without defined pair bonding >> many males and many females of same lineage cohabiting together without defined pair-bonding >> one male cohabiting with multiple females of same lineage AND one female cohabiting with multiple males of same lineage >> multiple females cohabiting with with one male of different lineage (emergence of Gotra system)."


Out of 60 daughters, Daksha prajapati gave 14 to Sage kashyap Aditi, Diti, Danu, Kala, Anayu, Sinhika, Muni, kadru, Saadhya, Ira, Vinta, Surabhi & Khaga. remember the Danavs or Rakshas are sons of Danu & Kashyap. They did not descend from anywhere, they were brahmins, may be following their own set of rituals which later on became unacceptable. It is interesting to note that Aditi's sons were called AAdityas, Diti gave birth to two 'Daityas', Hiranyakshyapu & Hiranyaksha. Prahalad was 3rd son of Hiranyashyapu. Similarly offsprings of Danu called themselves 'Daanav'. Note the lineage from Mother.

Considering our Puranas record the history till Maurya dynasty & Chandragupta being 126 generation from Mahabharat (Fought between grandsons of Ved Vyas - Kaurav/Pandav) , I being of Parashar gotra (meaning born of Sage parashar, father of Ved Vyas), will fall to 225th generation from Mahabharat (Every generation being 25 years average.


As mentioned by Kal Chiron in his blog too, Emperor Janamejaya was justly shaken and expressed horror and disgust at earlier stories of copulating siblings, parent-offspring duos, parent-siblings with offsprings along with others. Rishi Vaishampayana replied, "Oh king, in those ancient times, that was the yuga-dharma"


So let me ask you again what Yudhisthir asked Bhishma & later asked by Janamejaya (Son of Parikshit), What is Dharma?


Continuation of pursuit & acceptance of history , the way Ved Vyas did without shame & embarrassment even though co habitant had started in Dwapar & Gotra system was established with certain relationships with certain women off limits. Still what stands out is Draupdi marrying all the 5 brothers. The practice was not prevalent but was in the memory as stories from grand father's times.


Bhishma also said O, King, just as the foot of an elephant covers every other foot, so does Rajdharma cover every aspect of Dharma, in all conditions, (chap.63/25). Among all Dharmas, Rajdharma is supreme, as it provides nourishment to people of all Varnas (professions). Rajdharma encompasses all sacrifices. The sages, since ancient period, praise sacrifice as the best form of Dharma, (63/27). The Sanatan Dharma got destroyed hundreds of time, but (each time) it was redeemed and spread again by Kshatra-dharma. In every age, Kshatra-dharma has to be active. Therefore, Kshatra-dharma is the best in the world, (64/26). Sages praise sacrifice or renunciation, but the greatest sacrifice is that of the kings who lay down their body in fulfillment of their Raj-dharma, (65/3).


Bhishma also said that 'Kama' is the जननी (mother) of all 'purushaasrtha'. may be that is the reason that Abrahamic memes have woven around norms to control 'kama' through control of women. Since X'tianity reformed itself, it has moved beyond but Islam's power structure is such that change is difficult till such time women rise against it & free themselves.

Lessons for Indian politicians & hair brained anglophiles who read Tsu-tiyapanti books & hold on Machiavelli as some sort of christ of real politic. Yes Raj Dharma defines to "Yug Dharma" too. So if the kings desired to have population, they did that.

Let me go back to the root of it all. The root is 'Sanatan' . the word itself can be broken down to Sat -anant or as some bifurcate it as, Sat + Aa + Tan.The meaning is, 'Pursuit since Sat' . Wherin Sat can be construed as Satyug or Truth. So the continuity of civilization is the 'Dharma'


Quotes from Kaal Chiron's brilliant blog article on evolution of marriage.. Consider it an extension,addition of the thoughts he initiated..

State of Union goes FUBAR

There used to be a term, 'FUBAR' used by the yankees during the Vietnam war. What it basically meant was 'FU#@$d up beyond any repair'. This was essentially used for the fellow combatants if their revival was beyond reach. This shows the extent of dehumanisation & sense of hopelessness that seeped into American soldiers during that war. It sanitised the soldiers to the point where they devised their mechanisms to deal with everyday trauma.

Why do I think of this term today? well, I am at a point where i just cant decide the right term to describe the state of India. The problems are plenty and the solutions nowhere in sight. Indian Union is going through a similar state & our Vietcong is no one else but the grand old party of india, the CONgress. There are lot of erudite commentators making the case of sending current Manmohan led thug regime to ICU. I am not the one to disagree with them on the state of their health but on the prescription only.

This government/Cabinet is fit case to be sent to  a mental asylum. The amount of skullduggery they have involved in can put Goebbels along with his Nazi stormtroopers to shame. No wonder Hitler saw cultural similarities with India and Indians as his blood brothers. Like the Nazi Propaganda machine, CONgress party & its loyal foot soldiers  in the english media have started spinning a new story of conspiracy against the government. The ink on the last story (Greece is responsible for economic meltdown) has not even dried and they are back to old days in more than 1 ways...

1. They are back to their lying, bluffing & paranoid socialism days

2. They are back to Indira days of seeing a CIA conspiracy in everything that happened in the country.

3. The solutions that they propose or propound in through loyal foot soldiers in media, are only 2 kinds. Terrible and more terrible.

Let me talk about the economy first by looking at Q4 growth rate of 5.3% and thus the whole year of growth coming down to 6.5%. Let us jog our memories a bit back to the statements made by the 'dream team' of Manmohan singh & Pronob making tall statements during last budget speech of making a growth of 8.5%. Even this year, Pronob was making an estimate of 6.9% growth.

The most favored reason touted for this insipid performance is meltdown of greece. That is laughable to the best of my knowledge. The problem with Greece started in the month of April(mid) while we are talking about growth of Jan-March. Actually, we can thank greece for helping reduce the Import bill of Oil & electronics.

Look at the quarterly trends to see a better picture. Q1 2011-12 we grew at 8%, Q2 at 6.7%, Q3 at 6.1% and eventually landing at 5.3% for Q4. remind ourselves of the response of Govt post every qtr. "Q1 the response was, "This growth of 8% is an aberration. It's only matter of time before we hit back on 9% plus" to consolation of "We should not be skeptical to grow at 6.7% when the whole world is slowing" in Q2. We did a tad better in Q3 (in terms of statements), "We will see a pullback in the last quarter" and for the Q4 we have greece story.

Let us look at the issues plaguing the economy sector by sector. Considering the Government either cant understand why we are growing or degrowing in any case. Look at 2 sectors, agriculture &  manufacturing. the decline has been the steepest in both. Agriculture decline from 3.7% in Q1 to 1.7% in Q4 (contribution 18% approx to GDP) and manufacturing from 7.3% to -0.3% in same period. For a country growing consumption & churning out graduates like nobody's business, we need more products to consume thus increasing employment opportunities for young.

lets look at the holding sector, Services & more specifically financial services. In careful number gazing the biggest growth in this sector comes in Community, social & personal services. So what's the aphrodisiac for this sector? Well it's the Government silly as it includes the Government services. In simpler terms, government is bloating like never before thus squeezing the private sector to grow.
Private consupmtion expenditure contracted from 59.5% of GDP in Q1 to 52.2% in Q4 while the Government did one better as it bloated from 10.6% to 11.4%.

Let me tell you dear Indians, (Who say Govt ke pass bahut paise hain) when govt corners so much , it increases the borrowing costs for everyone and that includes private sector, which by stretch of every data has proved to have given better returns on investment than the public sector.

So the problems we face can be summarised as, Bloated government, falling growth, rising inflation & falling ruppee. so the picture that emerges out is that the pain has just begun. What is causing this bloated government us another area to look at..

1. Oil Subsidies : Diesel subsidy is around Rs13 per liter, Kerosene is insane at Rs30 odd & LPG at Rs390. SO more the clamour to balance the budget and you can expect

• increase in diesel prices - which should be done but a mechanism should be evolved where govt does not make a windfall (due to tax structure)  due to hike. Fid the taxes at absolute Rs rate rather than %
• Tax on Diesel vehicles - Pure insanity & kill the golden Goose. Already Auto industry is grappling with falling petrol vehicle sale. the consumption of Diesel by private vehicles is just 6-14%(various estimates) of total diesel consumption in India. hardly any impact on subsidies.
• LPG price rise - Till the time NDA govt came in 1999, India had only 310 Mln LPG connections and they gave out more than 320 mln in 6 yrs of their rule. with the current inflation ruining household budgets, more pain. 

2. Value of Rupee : Well at the current account deficit level & economic climate with a Communist government at helm, you can very well kiss the global investor confidence good bye so no $ in and Rs statys at 53-56 level thus higher import bill and god help.


3. Lunacy of subsidies by soup alphabets : NREGA , Food security bill , NRHM , Fertiliser subsidy Minority welfare and the total bill runs into

• NREGA - Rs 40000 Cr
• FSB - Rs 140000 Cr
• NRHM - Rs17000 Cr
• Fertiliser subsidy - Rs 70000 Cr

Add Oil subsidies of Rs140000 Cr , it comes to frightening Rs 420000 Cr . Add the loan write off havoc & Power subsidies, it will cross Rs 500000 Cr, almost 50% of our entire budget and where does this leave the interest rate for the private sector if the govt mops up all the funds and then dumps it in subsidy . The leakage of this around 55%.

The story of NREGA is legendary now. For the Rs40000 allocated to it every year, Only Rs1500 odd crores were distributed as wages for to the rural poor while rest of money has gone into a blackhole. the arguement for starting the scheme was

1.  To provide jobs for rural poor 100 days a year

2. Help create local assets - only assets created under this scheme are the SUV's of village pradhans (all CON men)
You can read rants of Jairam ramesh, rural development minister against the scheme.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nrega-unproductive-and-creates-no-assets-says-jairam/1/199002.html

Another nonsesne that needs to be kicked on the backside is the story floated of 'Policy paralysis'. The problem is not policy paralysis, Problem is wrong policies. There are policies being debated and implemented everyday i.e capital gains on old, RTE, FSB . However, the problem is they only give 2 choices..

1. Terrible

2. More terrible

So it again boils down to have consistency in economic policies, conceived & implemented with a long term vision. To begin with, We should refrain from putting any tax on diesel vehicles till the time we improve public transport.

I have given up even trying to slot the policies in 'Terrible' category. The whole government including the head of executive , Prime minister, inspires no confidence and talks about inane and archaic ideas of 1991. He forgets that we are in 2012 and lot of water has flown down the Thames or Rhine. That time, West was not going through such economic crisis and IMF & WB were willing & capable to lend money. FII/Corporations were waiting for India to open up. Today, they are bankrupt.

There only solution is to correct & erase profligacy & tighten our belt by cutting subsidies. Promote sensible policies, reduce budget, current account deficit. Most important have consistency & stop this vindictive attitude towards the industrialist and behaving like a Bulldog kicked in the balls (Vodafone tax case).
Stop this nonsense of NREGA, NHRM & bankrupting FSB. If you want to support poor anyhow then look at direct cash transfers.

Look at implementation of GST. Get the states to rally around by allowing them greater control on their finances. Out of 38 odd Cabinet ministers, CONgress has around 30.

These half brained NAC members along with former waitress as their boss will beggar this nation. More than anything, stop blaming Greece as everyone with an iota of brain knows that govt are lying and with the trajectory of growth, no need to wait for August. Answer is Q1 2012-13 numbers will only go downhill.


“It is not an exaggeration to state that the magnitude of the economic damage and mismanagement by the Congress party under Dr Singh’s watch will be embarrassing for even a student of introductory economics,” as Malik, Sr Columnist as Business standard wrote. 

Manmohan off course is no PV Narsimha rao, inarguably one of the 2 best prime minister this country had along with Atal behari and we have none to blame but this Thug , scam a day govt to blame for not being able to realise our dream of lifting more & more poor out of poverty this decade.

As a Business Standard editorial notes, “Indeed, UPA-II’s policy activity is, in some ways, more worrying for the economy than its paralysis —for it reveals that this government does not understand the scale of what is needed, nor does it possess the follow-through required for good policy-making.”


With Insipid Manmohan & mentally bankrupt but politically ambitious & influential Pronob (Only Vimal) the country is going FUBAR .

Law & order would require another full day to think & write.