Just this last Friday, I was talking with one of my "American" friend on the topic of how Gandhi's are forcing a dynasty & dictator system on Bharat, oh I mean, India (for those who have forgotten its actual name is Aryavrat / Bharat / Hindustan). And I quoted to him a reference from Mahabharat, as to how Maharaj Bharat said that a person is chosen to lead the whole nation on the basis of his Karm and not his Janam i.e. not just because he is born in the Raja's family, and how Gandhi's are doing what Dhritrashtr did. So while the discussion moved on, I mentioned to him that Mahabharat is one of the most important
Hindu mythology and world's largest epic ever with over 10000 verses. And so we moved on with our work.
As I returned to my cube, something was really disturbing me inside. I just had a realization, that did I just call one of my most dear
scripture a
myth?!
How shameful and ignorant it is for us, Sanatan Dharm followers, to call our own important scriptures, "mythological" epics, whether intentionally or unintentionally! I researched online if someone else has realized it or not. I researched thinking maybe, someone from our "GenNext" blindly following Nehruvian doctored partial history of Hindustan, proud of west, ignorant, uneducated, and possibly some of them, ashamed of own history, would have realized what I just did, and may have disturbed them too.
I was happy, but both surprised and not so surprised (for the reason why I was being sarcastic above), to find one, Shriman Frank Morales, has written on the same topic at
http://www.dharmacentral.com/articles/myth.htm. This is wrong, we have to correct ourself first, our treasure, our Ved, Puran, Upnishad, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Geeta, etc. are
scriptures and not
mythological epics. They are as, if not more (for others) real than Quran, Bible, Noah's ark, etc. Just because our current & past governments, since start have been stupid & ignorant enough not to save our scriptures, and not to excavate at & near Indraprasth, Gomti nadi, Godavri nadi, Kurukshetr, Ayodhya, Kashi, Mathura, etc. to find and prove that our & world history timeline is not relative to and does not start where the European's recorded history starts. And to prove that not every civilization on earth was primitive and un-advanced just because West was in dark ages, just about hundred years ago. And hence, to prove and clear the air for all, that Hindu scriptures are not just
mere epics and
worst a
MYTH! ॐ नमः शिवाय!
P.S: Another thing I hate about our selective journalism, political agenda following press, is when they call anything related to Hindu religion a superstition. Next my views on that in next post.