Friday, October 17, 2008

Jivan (Life) Express (avtars in life)forgotten for ‘Maithili Express’

Jivan (Life) Express (avtars in life)forgotten for ‘Maithili Express’

It is a wish which I do not know when would be fulfilled to connect Jharkhand with the interiors of Mithila.
I was busy in signature campaign for regularizing Jaynagar- Ranchi train till I reached Barauni on 12th – say for six hours to have some 400 signatures. Probably the mobile number will help me to talk the persons of various villages for any organizational/personal need.
We had to submit the signatures to the Railway Minister, GOI through the DRM, Hatia and by the time formalities were over I was again late for my health centre and had to skip lunch though I had taken two guavas and few biscuits at Maheshwar Shji’s house while our learned State president Dr. Guneshwar Jha was explaining the various avtars in one’s life time and also the significance of those and I was on net there. I had commented listening to him partly that sounded like Heckle’s famous saying, “ontogeny repeats phylogeny,”meaning a person repeats in his/her life the evolutionary cycle of man.

Since I could not pay attention to him I have just asked him on phone- his analogy sounds interesting:
Matsyavatar=While a foetus in the mother’s abdomen
Kacchapavatar= when a baby crawls with 4 limbs(2 hands and two legs)
Varahavatara= till baby has no sense of distinction between faeces or food
Narsinghavatara= when a bay is a bit grown and scrubs others or picks up glasses of elders if taken in arms
Vamanavatara= when baby starts asking for something
Parshuramavatara= when baby shows anger
These all stages till aged 5 after which comes

Ramavatara= needing two gurus one for Shaastra/Brahmjnan (like Vashishtha) and the other for Shastra(weapon) jnan(like Vishwamitra)
The whole teaching of Hindu philosophy is:
Matridevo Bhav
Pitridevo Bhav
Acharyadevo Bhav= Jnan
Atithidevo Bhav= Socialization
Ramavatara signifies tyag, achar, sadachar(sacrifice and good conduct) which had made Ram as Maryadapurushottam
While Krishnavatara signifies prem, karuna, daya( love, compassion and empathy) and hence, is called Krishnam Vande Jagadguru.

These both Avatars are till age 55 (or retirement from service) after which
Buddhavatara supervenes in life which is meant for introspection.

After age 75 is Kalki avatara in life when senses (indriyas) do not work and person has only sense of rights.

It seems while on computer I forgot that Dr. Jha was describing the Jivan (Life) Express and its various stations as avatars while I busy for the Maithili Express in my mind.

In fact in the afternoon, I had anger on non-availability of DRM, and I had anger on his PS Henry(who in fact did not inform us to wait to meet him and thougy we were till late there he did not give importance even seeing such a delegation of dignitaries of the town) for which I had lodged a complain too but when in the evening I had a telephonic talk with the DRM Sri A. K.Dutta(as had been suggested by Dr. Jha) I felt he was sympathetic to our petition to the Railway Minister and informed me that around 200 had congratulated him on phone for the train and he himself belonged to Samastipur and was also anxious for Jogbani. I told him that I belonged to Forbesganj and in fact after 11 years I could visit my ancestral village in Madhubani, due to Puja special for which we were thankful ti railways. Whenever I recall the sonorous Maithili in every compartment of that train on 12th October, I feel Maithili Express would be the fittest name for such a regular train though e have not mentioned that in our memorandum.

There are so many persons are anti-Maithli while Maithili is mother of all- jagajjanani, the Universal Mother!

In the evening I took my lunch and went out to meet Dr. Ashok Jha of Ghoghardiha. I saw news in the papers ours mixed with other Maihtil group which too had gone to the DRM the same day maybe in the afternoon. Wile there demand for Diwali and Chhath special we did not raise (as it was known to me from some sources that it was on the anvil seeing the success of Puja special), we had asked for regular train to Jaynagar may be half of that goes to Jogbani as well.

I think such a train if named MAITHILI Express and goes alternately to Jaynagar, Jogbani, Saharsa and Narkatiaganj in for 2, 2.1 days every day will bind Jharkhandi people with Maithils and what better can be the name of the train than MAITHILI by which Balmiki had addressed j Mother Janki in the Ramayana.
Jivan (Life) Express (avtars in life)forgotten for ‘Maithili Express’

It is a wish which I do not know when would be fulfilled to connect Jharkhand with the interiors of Mithila.
I was busy in signature campaign for regularizing Jaynagar- Ranchi train till I reached Barauni on 12th – say for six hours to have some 400 signatures. Probably the mobile number will help me to talk the persons of various villages for any organizational/personal need.
We had to submit the signatures to the Railway Minister, GOI through the DRM, Hatia and by the time formalities were over I was again late for my health centre and had to skip lunch though I had taken two guavas and few biscuits at Maheshwar Shji’s house while our learned State president Dr. Guneshwar Jha was explaining the various avtars in one’s life time and also the significance of those and I was on net there. I had commented listening to him partly that sounded like Heckle’s famous saying, “ontogeny repeats phylogeny,”meaning a person repeats in his/her life the evolutionary cycle of man.

Since I could not pay attention to him I have just asked him on phone- his analogy sounds interesting:
Matsyavatar=While a foetus in the mother’s abdomen
Kacchapavatar= when a baby crawls with 4 limbs(2 hands and two legs)
Varahavatara= till baby has no sense of distinction between faeces or food
Narsinghavatara= when a bay is a bit grown and scrubs others or picks up glasses of elders if taken in arms
Vamanavatara= when baby starts asking for something
Parshuramavatara= when baby shows anger
These all stages till aged 5 after which comes

Ramavatara= needing two gurus one for Shaastra/Brahmjnan (like Vashishtha) and the other for Shastra(weapon) jnan(like Vishwamitra)
The whole teaching of Hindu philosophy is:
Matridevo Bhav
Pitridevo Bhav
Acharyadevo Bhav= Jnan
Atithidevo Bhav= Socialization
Ramavatara signifies tyag, achar, sadachar(sacrifice and good conduct) which had made Ram as Maryadapurushottam
While Krishnavatara signifies prem, karuna, daya( love, compassion and empathy) and hence, is called Krishnam Vande Jagadguru.

These both Avatars are till age 55 (or retirement from service) after which
Buddhavatara supervenes in life which is meant for introspection.

After age 75 is Kalki avatara in life when senses (indriyas) do not work and person has only sense of rights.

It seems while on computer I forgot that Dr. Jha was describing the Jivan (Life) Express and its various stations as avatars while I busy for the Maithili Express in my mind.

In fact in the afternoon, I had anger on non-availability of DRM, and I had anger on his PS Henry(who in fact did not inform us to wait to meet him and thougy we were till late there he did not give importance even seeing such a delegation of dignitaries of the town) for which I had lodged a complain too but when in the evening I had a telephonic talk with the DRM Sri A. K.Dutta(as had been suggested by Dr. Jha) I felt he was sympathetic to our petition to the Railway Minister and informed me that around 200 had congratulated him on phone for the train and he himself belonged to Samastipur and was also anxious for Jogbani. I told him that I belonged to Forbesganj and in fact after 11 years I could visit my ancestral village in Madhubani, due to Puja special for which we were thankful ti railways. Whenever I recall the sonorous Maithili in every compartment of that train on 12th October, I feel Maithili Express would be the fittest name for such a regular train though e have not mentioned that in our memorandum.

There are so many persons are anti-Maithli while Maithili is mother of all- jagajjanani, the Universal Mother!

In the evening I took my lunch and went out to meet Dr. Ashok Jha of Ghoghardiha. I saw news in the papers ours mixed with other Maihtil group which too had gone to the DRM the same day maybe in the afternoon. Wile there demand for Diwali and Chhath special we did not raise (as it was known to me from some sources that it was on the anvil seeing the success of Puja special), we had asked for regular train to Jaynagar may be half of that goes to Jogbani as well.

I think such a train if named MAITHILI Express and goes alternately to Jaynagar, Jogbani, Saharsa and Narkatiaganj in for 2, 2.1 days every day will bind Jharkhandi people with Maithils and what better can be the name of the train than MAITHILI by which Balmiki had addressed j Mother Janki in the Ramayana.

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