{"id":2009,"date":"2022-02-21T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2022-02-21T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:27:20","slug":"sabarimalai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2022\/02\/21\/sabarimalai\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat that is India- Sabarimalai Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">T<\/span>he first lesson we learnt in Physics was about measuring instruments ; Vernier Calipers , Screw gauge and spherometer ; Why ? Physics deals with matter and we need a system to measure objects of various shapes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Western Civilization , if you don&#8217;t consider it an oxymoron, has laid a lot of importance to quantifiable factors. Those that were\u00a0 not measurable were bypassed as though they never existed. That&#8217;s why Psychology as a subject was discovered so late.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s all this to do with Sabarimalai Temple issue ? For understanding the issue we need the right instruments . Do we have that ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have a Constitution drawn up in the mould of Western Democracies. We have the lawyers , judges and sociologists and social activists schooled in the Western System of education in a foreign language.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And what are we studying ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the Indic thought process on worship of Swami Iyyappa as a deity by one section of Hindus. Our instruments are simply too inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>Can a colonized mind understand the subtle difference between Devata and Paramatma\u00a0 and the concept of idol worship ?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An idol is just a stone while it&#8217;s being sculpted. Once it is complete, the eyes are opened. After the consecration takes place, He or She is considered a living being . We start the day with Venkatesa Suprabatham to wake up lord Venkateswara. Then He is bathed, dressed up , fed and at night he has to be put to sleep. When you hear Annamacharya&#8217;s\u00a0 \u00a0Jo Achudananda , even someone without an iota of knowledge of the language can make out it&#8217;s a lullaby. For hundreds of years Tiruppathi Balaji has been going to sleep listening to\u00a0 this lullaby.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHHRAWU_bsM\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A westerner or western trained mind tries to find parallels. Dharma is translated to religion . Then he looks for <em>denominations<\/em> and he labels Iyappa worship as a denomination.\u00a0 When no parallels exist, forced parallels are made.\u00a0 How do you translate <em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Kumbhabhishekham?\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then the standardization starts .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>In Indic scheme of things, temple is not just a place of worship for followers of a particular religion and particular denomination. A temple is the house of god, a place where He lives; wakes up, bathes, eats, sleeps and meets his Bhakts. When Krishna is worshiped as a child, he is offered butter and may be Kheer or complete bhog as practiced in a particular temple on a particular occasion.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Sabarimala Iyyappa is consecrated as <em>naishtika<\/em> Brahmachari . There are two kinds of Brahmacharya ; <em>upakurvana and naishtika. The former remains celibate\u00a0till he completes his studies while the latter remains a life-long celibate. A naistika brahmachari avoids even visual contact with women between age of 10 to 50.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is it possible or even necessary for\u00a0 judiciary\u00a0 to appreciate these sentiments. If the judiciary rules that the deity will not mind , are they deciding that based on some evidence?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Sai Deepak says<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no Country\u00a0 in\u00a0 the world including US that that allows Judiciary to sits in judgement over a religious practice using the lens of constitutional morality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coming to Ram janma Bhumi case, when 92 year old Sr Advocate Shri K Parasaran was asked by CJI to present his arguments while sitting on a chair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shri Parasaran replied that I have always presented my arguments while representing my clients , how can I do it sitting for Lord Ram. Does it make any sense to a colonized mind that the Advocate was speaking to defend the rights of Lord Ram?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2010\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2010\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/K-Parasaran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/K-Parasaran.jpg 653w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/K-Parasaran-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sr Advocate K Parasaran watching Bhoomi Pujan of Ramjanma Bhumi on TV , with his family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have had enough of the Western ideas of secularism, religion, denomination and so on.<\/p>\n<p>We need to have a totally new look from Indic point of view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A colonized mind struggles to differentiate between diversity and discrimination ; between equality and uniformity; between pluralism and standardization.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t need Barkhas and Rihanas interpreting the practice of Sabarimalai as regressive and prejudice against menstruation to declare it as gender inequality. Absurd.<\/p>\n<p>As Sai Deepak says in the language of Game of Thrones , Jon Snow knows nothing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2011\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/04f.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first lesson we learnt in Physics was about measuring instruments ; Vernier Calipers , Screw gauge and spherometer ; Why ? Physics deals with matter and we need a system to measure objects of various shapes. The Western Civilization , if you don&#8217;t consider it an oxymoron, has laid a lot of importance to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2022\/02\/21\/sabarimalai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bharat that is India- Sabarimalai Issue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}