Man’s ideas, living style & standard, and tastes are changing with the change of decades and ages. It is now the age of mechanical civilization. In this rat-race of civilizations, though man has lost faith in the universal tradition and culture – this faithlessness has given none any success. Assurance is nowhere. Humanity torn with several frustration and pains, ultimately goes to the calm and quiet lap of nature or to the simple faith in God. Some are there who go to the astrologer.
Truth and beauty are imperishable. It is Man who has to represent it ever in newer shapes and forms.
Those are the unfortunate children of this world of today who cannot milk their mothers.
Fashion has brought the red sun-drop -- traditionally known as the ‘Sindoor’ (Vermilion) – on the forehead of many Bengali women to a steady setting. Could it disappear soon?
As the sky is ugly without the sun or moon, the forehead of a woman is not beautiful without that lovely drop. They say that leave alone the question of the vermilion on the forehead – or the sun or the moon – there are the stars.
“It is not of love, in the sky of the mind,
It is of a choice or a liking.”
The women may say that we are not bound in those conventions and customs. “Why don’t the men take a drop on the forehead if it enhances the beauty of the forehead?”
The men don’t need for beauty a drop on the forehead. The women are the beautiful stars with them. Some are The Dhanalaxmi (Goddess of wealth), some are The Kavyalakshmi (The Goddess of Poetry) and some are The Alakhshmi (The Goddess of Evil or misfortune).
But this is not a writing for jokes or criticism regarding the studded forehead of the women. It is rather an effort to represent something in ways of investigation. A ‘Baul Kavi’ (A Baul Poet) says –
‘This body holds whatever this universe holds.’
What is this universe actually? What makes this body? What the poet wants to say?
There are five elements that make this universe –
- Teja (Heat) – Atma
- Kshiti (Land or Soil) – Human Flesh
- Apa (Water) – The sea of human heart / fluid in the blood
- Myarut (Wind) – Words, melody, rhythm and energy. (Sound has no existence without wind/air)
- Byom (The Sky) – Imagination, Destiny, The Sky
As energy or heat goes away from this body – the Atma leaves for ever. The women are astonishingly similar to the universe – the universe resembles them. The play of this universe is among them and they can play in the way of the elements.
Some may say that in the context of the Panchabhoutik Janstram (the machine of five elements) the women have no relevance. But I think that the source of my thought is from the fate or forehead of the women. I think it is the ‘absolute nature’ – Draupadi. Man knows and creates a little in that.
The elements enjoy one another and keep the balance of creation and multiplications. Any imbalance into that becomes catastrophic and chaotic.
In its intercourse of fire with water, air is created. The sky has an intercourse with that air – water is created. By the ‘Kiss’ of the sun (fire) this earth becomes a storehouse of shapes and forms, full of the vital fluid of life – The Rasas.
In my opinion the five elements and their “Dashas’ (phases) influence the mental world of man – his fate and his works. Each man is controlled and dominated by one of these five elements. The five brothers of Mhabharata – Judhistira,Bhima,Arjuna,Nakula, and Sahadeva are actually human forms of these five elements.
If the light-year away celestial bodies are able to direct human fate and character – there should be no difficulty in thinking that the five elements and their phases can control man’s joys and woes, and fall and upliftment.
There is a similarity at the source between these two sets of controllers – the celestial bodies and the elementary Five. Jupiter resembles Earth; Mercury is akin to Air; Jupiter is thought to be the “Lakshmi Graha” (the auspicious planet). At the same time, producing all our resources, Earth may be taken as Laxmi. All these planets are born of the same father – the Sun, fire or energy.
Once the poet imagined the heavenly gods to come down on earth to control disorder in governance. Today, when we are in national and international crises, the celestial bodies and planets may always come down for the welfare of man through the astrologers. The stars may now be replaced by the five elements and the phases of human “star’ may leave place to the “Panchbhoutik Phases’. It’s all a question of work and meditation.
A long and arduous research confirms the base of this writing. It will determine the future and fate of a man flawlessly. This Jantram will lead man in the ways of truth, beauty nd equality – Satya, Sundar, and Samya.
With Regards
Rama
Date: 02.02.1991 Hatar Para, Krishnagar
Nadia, West Bengal, India.
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