Journey to Mahakumbha 2013
Khajuraho - The scuptures of life and eternity
After
visiting Orchha, we set off for Khajuraho, which is approximately 180 kms
from Orchha. It was 5:30 in the evening and and it would certainly take
not less than 4 hours to get there. We started and to our good luck now I
could manage to use my SIM in other mobile and got the GPS navigation
working for us. We did not have food in the afternoon and after reaching
Chhatapur we got out of the car and rushed to have some snack. We have had
delicious snacks there, a stomachful of snack for just 38 Rs for noth of
us.
"Khajuraho"
A name we are acquainted in early years of our(my)teenage, very
well known brand of beer. Apart from this when I started reading some literature
on indian history, some time, some where I came across some mentions of
Khajuraho.
According
to my knowledge, After Buddism and Jainism florished in India and across
the world, The royal families of Central India felt that it is a great threat
to the "Kshatra dharma" the warrior-ism people started following the
practices preached in these literature, which also made people to believe that
physical relationship, having sexual intercourse is a greatest of greatest sins.
The royal families, to surpass this threat they started building temples where
along with all day to day life of a common man, physical relations, are also
taught that is also a thing to be achieved and enjoyed and practiced with intense
emotions, which will help people feel the oneness of two bodies, which then
further can be extended by spiritual ways to experience the oneness of the
entire world.
These
temples, the carvings and sculptures depicts the four pillars of Hindu life
style.. wiz Dharm, arth,kaam, moksh.
These
are the four "Purusharthas" that everybody should strive to achieve.
Our culture has never underestimated Kaam neither we have treated it as
something which is equal to sin.
A
person should live his/her life at four stages, rather these four stages are
four different identities of each person. And our culture originally promoted
everybody to live and experience life at all the four layers.. these layers are
1. Wyashti
2. Samashti
3. Srishti
4.
Parameshti
As
we go one step up we increase our boundaries seemlessly from an Individual(Wyashti)
to Society(Samashti), from Society,community,country,nation to the Universe,the
multiverse(Srishti) and finally from Srishti, the charachar, to the ultimate
oneness. The eternal life, the sakshatkar, the moksha, salvation, jannat pana
whatever we call it.
The same
thing is also depicted in four sentences of the most ancient four books ie
Vedas.
These four
sentences are called as Mahavakyas.. I have a storuy for this
1. A
disciple asks his master out of curiosity..Who am I?( Ko aham)
2.
Then the master answers "You are that" ( Tat tvam asi)
3.
The sadhak does lot of sadhana as per the instructions of the master and
realises the fact" "I am that "( Aham Bramhasmi)
4. Upon
further practice he attains the ultimate and realises "Everything in the
universe is nothing but the brahma" (Sarvam Khalu idm Brahma)
And after
viewing the great monuments and temples of Khajuraho I realised one thing for
sure that, these are not only carvings with passion for pornocarving but our
entire cuture, entire Hindu ideology, ways of life have been carved on
stones.
This is
just incredible.
Guys I
insist all of you, once in life time must visit Khajuraho.
After spending the
entire day @ khajuraho, we said bye bye to temples and our next destination was
Prayag ie Allahabad Allahabad
Lets see
how Kumbha Mela was, in the next post...
