Coup On Public Attitude – Its Influence On Society – 4[In those days]

From all sides, human life style in India was in such a way to practice truth, hard working, devotion, knowledge, detachment, sacrifice and adventurous nature. Our life style, traditions, culture, festival celebration methods etc. everything used to induce will power in people. In Indian culture, sleeping without disturbance, sound sleeping without dreams used to treat as luxury i.e. Happiness. In English culture, while sleeping, having sweet dreams used to treat as happiness. That’s why they used to say ‘Sweet dreams’ as a night wish. In Indian culture, we used to say from Childhood,”Imptho Haye Hayi ………Jo, Jo, Jo. Go sound sleep.” That means, “No joy in this world. Imptho Haye means No Joy.”

We won’t preach our children to run after luxuries. We teach our children to enjoy in working. That’s why only we wish our children at bed time to have sound sleep without dreams, to enable them to wake up in morning after complete relax and to enter into the work with increased energy. That’s why only we won’t wish them to gobble or to gulp luxury while sleeping i.e. in the form of sweet dreams in sleep.

That much difference is there in the attitude of Indians and others. But now, by losing that nativity, Indians are running after luxuries while in wake up and in sleeping.

Such that all the proverbs, idioms, stories, arts, epics try their level best to keep the human brain in faithful way and to prevent the human brain from evil thoughts. By inducing good thoughts in them by provoking good believes as love to faith and fear to sin, the Indian life style organized the human society in a peaceful way. It is a network. Unfortunately or strategically, it was broken down. At least now, itself, let us reconstruct it. Our life should not be with materialism. We need matter, we need money, and we need things to lead our life in comfortable way and in luxurious way. But it is not all the life. It is not the ambition of life. It is not goal of life.

Life should be with idealistic views. We must enjoy the feelings. We must enjoy the bondage. We must enjoy the belongingness. Both the materialism and idealism must be in limits in our life. Bhagavad Geetha says this limits only.

యుక్తాహార విహారస్య యుక్తచేష్టస్య కర్మసు
యుక్త స్వప్నావబోధస్య యోగో భవతి దుఃఖహా


We must practice limits in eating, sleeping, enjoying, and even in working.
Unfortunately or strategically, now people had forgotten to live with morals values. They are running after earning money.

But we have to remember. Sir Bhadra chala Ramadasa kruthi i.e. song.

“లక్షాధికారులైనా లవణా మన్నము గానీ
బంగారు కణికలు మ్రింగా లేరుగా మంచి
పలుకే బంగార మయేనా కోదండరామ”

That means,

Lakhiers, carodpathi, or milliners, can’t eat gold instead of rice and salt. This word is golden word.

Is it not golden word?

Whatever manner we live, how much we earn, we can’t take it with us. We can’t take our body even. We can’t live forever though we wish to live. In any sense, life on this earth is not permanent. How much wealth we create, whatever we give to our children, we will die one day. Though we earn wealth, who will give peace in life? Peace also we have to create like money. Earning money in materialist activity. Earning peace is idealistic activity. We need both money as well peace. Without peace we can’t enjoy money as well without money, we can’t get peace.

Money can be earned by physical and brain industry. Peace can be earned by morality: truth and faithful behavior. In single word, peace can be earned only with moral values.

’ Here I’ll narrate you an argument from Ramayana Visha Vruksham written by Ranga Nayakamma a Telugu Novelist. She narrated the story of Ramayanam with critical approach.

In the context of demanding two boons by Kaika Devi from Raja Dasaratha, she argued as “Raja Dasaratha was saying that he had so much love and affection on Rama. So, because of the departure of Rama from him, he precasted that he couldn’t live. That’s why he tried to please Kaika Devi and almost begged her to drop her boon as sending Rama to forest. But he didn’t ready to lose his heaven opportunity, by disobeying his own promise of booms to Kaika. If he had real love on Rama, he could drop back his word of boons to Kaika and install Rama on the crown, instead of sending him to forest. He felt fear to loss the opportunity to live in heaven after death, that’s why he stood on his word. Like that successfully the authoress Ranga Nayakamma picturised Raja Dasaratha as a man who had so much desire on luxuries, and happiness and he had lust to enjoy with beautiful divine women like Rambha, Urvashi etc. in the heaven.

Such that successfully or strategically, the authoress had forgotten, that Raja Dasaratha was ready to leave his life for the sake of word keeping. And it was easy for him to forget the promise, which he gave to Kaika, or disobey it bluntly instead of sending Rama to forest. But he felt fear towards sin of lie. That’s why he was ready to die and died. Otherwise, if he keeps out his own promise what will happen. If the king himself, if the leader of society himself, does such, keeping away their own words without implementing, what will happen? Everybody in the society will follow it. Whenever they feel difficulty to keep their promise into implementation, they will be ready to disobey them without the fear of losing heaven or without the fear of getting hell after death. Then where will be the peace in life?

On the other hand, these authoress and other such type authors, some other fame persons argued that there was no heaven or hell. To Control the common people, some perverted, some top casts like Brahmins had created and propagated these believes of heaven and hell. That’s all. There was no heaven or hell. In fact, caste-ism by birth is bad tradition. But Bhagavad Geetha and other Sanskrit literature do not support caste-ism by birth. This I’ll discuss in other part of these writing.

As per their argument also they won’t accept that Raja Dasaratha done correct. When the existence of heaven was uncertain, he could prefer to enjoy life on this earth so that he could disobey his promise to send Rama to forest. But he didn’t it. He had commitment regarding his promise, so he preferred death. So that he preferred idealistic values such as truth and commitment of talks.

Such epics of morals, idealistic values influenced the public to lead life with morality. People can lead peaceful life with morals. Some of the morals, ideals, aims and targets, in one word attitude of public i.e. most of the people was with self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-confidence, self-X and self-Y. That means people used to prefer self i.e. Atma or spirit to rupee.

In the villager’s opinion, Farmer had much importance. The king and his administration should remember that their lives depend on farmers. All the artists used to praise the farmers as ‘Maa raju’ [our king]. I myself had observed it in my childhood. Slowly after 30 years, the farmers himself is feeling now inferior.

In this juncture, can’t we say that the public attitude was tuned to change?

In those days who ever sacrificed self-luxuries, self-wealth was treated as great person.

In these days, whoever earns much wealth is considered as great persons.

In those days, when poor or traveler asks for water, the host used to give buttermilk.

In these days, people are trying to snatch the others food.

In those days, people used to think that our faithful activities would save our children in life as well our sins would destroy their lives.

In these days, people are running to give the bundles of currency to their children without the particularity of good and evil or morality and immorality.

In those days, people were with self-respect and self-confidence.

In these days, people are with self-pity and egoistic.

In those days, people were awaritive about human relations.

In these days, people are awaritive about economic relations.

In those days, people were co-operative among all groups such as Boss vs. Sub ordinate, wife vs. husband, parents vs. children, Teacher vs. Student, host vs. guests, among neighbors, ruler vs. people, scholars vs. innocence, and artists vs. art patronizers. People had maturity to grasp spirit of the arts, language, literature and everything. People had maturity to grasp truth and logic. Common person i.e. ordinary farmer had such a priority as receiving every service of washer men, barber, brazier, oil maker, weaver etc at his doorstep. The other professionals were treated well by farmers and farmers were served well by other professionals.

But now? How we are? If anybody argue with me that there were ‘no such those days’ about which I narrated in the above, I agree with them.

If anybody argue with me that there was no ’Krutha Yugam’ or Satyakalam at which time, people were faithful & truthful, I agree with them.

If such faithful time was not there in the past, why don’t we welcome it now? Why don’t we dream it to happen, and why don’t we effort it to happen?