I have named the blog as weird thought but i am not sure whether the thought is weird or not. I have been very much attracted to the epic Mahabharata recently and ever since i started reading the epic Mahabharata I was very much eager to know what my karma was. As always its not an easy task to know your karma and fulfilling it. I kept on waiting and eagerly read all the historic incident or novels which could give me some reference of hint towards my karma.
I am not sure why i am writing about this blog but i felt it is my duty to express this thought of mine. when i was seriously exploring my karma, I came across a Tamil movie named "7am Arivu" meaning 7th sense. The movie was about bringing back the talent that existed among our ancient people. This movie not only talks about the science that our fore fathers followed and also shows us how advanced it is and how powerful it is.
I would like to quote to reference about the main theme of the movie that the research carried out by "Subha" (Sruthi Hasan) was not just invoking the ancient talents in the young DNA but also the method she used was based on the book that was written in olden days. It is not hard to believe that our fore fathers were powerful but yet it was difficult for me to believe that how exactly it could be achieved through our modern science and how still people are researching at the beginning stage of those technologies.
The part which i liked the most about the movie is that it also showed how our own thought and idea were ignored among the people who call themselves as the godfather of science ( I need to rephrase this as Indian god father of science ). Even though it hurts to witness that Indian scientists are not supporting the ancient Indian science, we kind of need to accept that we as Indians are quite attracted towards the foreign nations.
The benefits and the joy that the culture of foreign nation provide may attract us temporarily but when one realizes what our culture preaches and the goal it lead us is quite amazing to believe. At first i was one of the guy who used to mock people boasting on Indian culture and Ancient Indian practices till i experienced one for myself. I used to lie for my own benefits and i was habituated to fake promises for my own benefits.
Ever since I started reading Mahabharata, I was quite attracted towards what it preaches, I started analyzing the benefits that people enjoyed by following those practices, I promised myself that i would try to achieve at least one that was preached in Mahabharata. I was so touched with Yudisthira and Arjuna's character and wanted to try out what their character suggests. One among it was keeping the promises and being best at what they were doing. I kind of tried the first thing.
Not to say that it was really a difficult task to keep up with my own word but i kind of experienced some unknown happiness when i achieved it in any one of my task. I was really enjoying it and was feeling very much satisfied and complete when i was able to do it. That is when i realized the things that was preached in our ancient history was not just what they fooled us to blindly follow but they wanted us to understand the meaning of it and enjoy the complete benefit of it. I would like to quote one of the incident which my friend, philosopher or i can even call him as my preceptor quoted about Mahabharata.
He once mentioned that in Mahabharata, "Drona used to give a task of fetching a pot full of water to his disciples before starting his classes and used to start his lecturer once his first student arrives. He also wanted to make sure that his son Aswatama gets his full lessons by giving him a smaller pot". My friend also used to state that "Arjuna never missed the lessons even though he was handed a big pot". The secret behind it was he started using his lessons on pancha boothas to achieve his target. we had a discussion about it and kind of agreed that Drona actually meant his pupils to learn that the pancha boothas can be used as per their needs.
So the point i wanted to make out of this is, that i am not sure what exactly was Drona'a intention but if he actually wanted his pupil to learn that lesson, then he was the best teacher i would say on the other hand, if we consider that he was partial to his son even then Arjuna gained the lesson of using the pancha boothas to his convenience even though his preceptor didn't intend him to teach it. The moral in anyways Arjuna was benefited.
This movie "7am Arivu" not only preached about bringing back our culture, but also kind of inplanted the seed that how powerful our forefathers were. I was just wondering if what they showed in the movie viz., bringing back the talents through some gene hierarchy methodology or something ( I was not quite sure about the terminology gene hierarchy methodology ) but if that is true and we were to bring back the past talents, think about how powerful we will be.
Confused!!!. I too was at first when i had this thought but then something told me that when the talent of the people whom we barely remember were so powerful, think about how we would be if we bring back the talents of the people whom we consider as hero's in ancient period viz, Arjuna, Karna and so on. I kind of still believe that we have those talents of our ancient people still hidden within some people who were their inherited heir's. I was really happy for such a thought occurred to an Indian and really hope to see it being achieved in real. Its always good to see a like minded people who actually achieves what they intended.
Hope for the great adventure and turn of events in the future
