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Truth, the Divine Wonder July - 2013 Odisha Review Truth, the Divine Wonder Sudarshan Sahoo ‘Satyat nasti paro Dharmah’ (There is no religion benefactor of the metagalaxy, the performer of higher than Truth). A religion is proclaimed by a the twinkling jewels of infinity.) The mystery of bunch of doctrines suitable for the sustenance of creation is divulged with magnificence beyond humanity, revealed by a superb brain. Nature’s comparision in the Rig Veda, said to be codified climax dictator is the focus of thousands of sources five thousand years ago and regarded as the oldest of religions around the globe since millennia volume on the earth. The TRUTH is revealed for together. Paths are ever that no time- incalculable to wave can wash it into reach the the abyss of paramount peak. It impugnment. Prof. is only the Sanatan Max Muller, the Dharma on the prudent Orientalist, Earth, the epitome has written, of essential gists “ Yabat sthasyanti ever the mankind girayah saritascha could conceive, mahi tale, inhibiting the Tabat Rig Veda Cosmic Evolution, mahima lokeshu codified in the pracharishyati.” Vedas, the (So long the compilations of mountains have revealations of erected their crests burning Truths by a and the rivers are flowing on the surface of the glorious number of sages and perseverants in a earth, the magnificence of Rig Veda would be range of millennia together, unlike any other source promulgating in the Lokas, i.e. Bhuh, Bhubah, of religion. The first mantra of Rig Veda is Swah, Mahah, Janah, Tapah and Satyah - the dedicated to the Creator of infinite Cosmos, seven abodes.) The Eternal Law of creation, “Aum ! Agnimile Purohitam, Yajnasya Deva observation and dissolution so perfectly depicted Ritvijam, Hotaram Ratna Dhatamam.”(Aum in the Rig Veda that no volume on the earth has a ! I pray the Supreme in the Initiation, the simile to it. 21 Odisha Review July - 2013 Creation and dissolution is a continuous ground as results of cataclysms. Lemuria was a process, versed in the 8th Chapter of Gita. part of Gondawana Land from which the main Whence initiation culminated, no hint can be land of Bharat Varsha detached and moved ascertained. It is a great circle of Time as termed north-eastwards @ one cm annually and still in Swetaswatara Upanishad (1:4). Sri Vishnu moving.The great Himalayas has been erected as Purana ( Vol. II, P.6, Ch.3) narrates the Pralaya a result of crustal thrust. Marine objects have been (Dissolution) of three modes : Naimittika, found from Himalayas alike the Sahara Desert in Prakrutika and Atyantika. North Africa which was also under the sea some Naimittika Pralaya : Poet Jayadev has sung day. in ‘Gita Govinda’- “ Pralaya Payodhi Jale The southern part of present India, Dhruta Banasi Vedam……….” It is a great approximately the district of Tirunelveli of deluge some day in the remote past, narrated in Tamilnadu and part of Kerala, extended to a land the Matsya Purana that Lord Vishnu took the southwards, known as Kumari Kandam; so today form of a Fish and instructed King Priyabrata for the small survived piece, attached to main land is a renovation of the living creatures after the end known as Kumarika. High convulsive frequencies of the deluge and that was carried out too with near Kumarika zone strangely caused formation the help of a boat, sailing in the waves. It was the of various colored sands in the coasts of this area, Matsya Avatar of Lord Vishnu. The academic which are described in Puranic verses as uneaten history volumes are extraordinarily poor to feast items prepared for the marriage ceremony account for these to record the vicissitudes and of Deity Kanya Kumari with Lord Shiva that cataclysms of the earth’s convulsions since its couldn’t be solemnised. Hence, the Deity formation 13.7 billion years ago. We say, the Rig promised to remain a Virgin for ever and cursed Veda is of five thousand years’recorded tradition. the items to turn into sands. Apart from, this area But the Cosmic Evolution depicted is a rotation has been favoured to be the world’s most suitable of two Parardhas- the Term of one Brahma.One place for varieties of snail-conches, sanctifying the Parardha (1,00,000,000,000,000,000 years) is Aryan heritage.The Atlantis-Lemuria (Gondawana Brahma’s day time and another is the night time. Land) continent is submerged under the oceanic Gita (8:17) hymns this as two thousand depths from where the main stream of esotericism Mahayugas (Kalpas). This happens on this very of Aryans flourished and furthered in the land of earth of ours that violent cataclysms take place at BharatVarsha, primarily on the fertile lands of certain intervals relating to the globe’s axial Indus-Saraswati-Ganges basin. The Rig Veda position at the end of each Kalpa, divided by profusely and extensively sings the glory of the fourteen Manvantaras.The globe we live today River Saraswati, linked with the most ancient was not so lakhs of years before. There were Indian royal chronicle narrated in Sri Vishnu two large continents, Lemuria and Atlantis, Purana. continuing from South Africa through Indian Ocean, Australia extending upto the southern end The survived scattered islands in the of South America where now the great waves of Pacific Ocean belong to very common ancient Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean culture prior to submersion and the different tune to their fathomless abyss. The other parts of islanders lost to know each other during lapse of the earth have heaved up later from the ocean lakhs of years, till the arrival of Europeans in the 22 July - 2013 Odisha Review 16th -17th centuries. When asked about their faces cultural transformation forced by Nature, centre of worship, all scattered islanders point as the Puranic History reveals. That’s why The towards the west (BharatVarsha). They are Gita (4:7,8) hymns, primarily all Aryans. Today the gigantic mysterious “ Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya Glanirbhabati Bharata, stone-statues of the lonely Easter Island reflect Abhyutthanamadharmasya Tadatmanam exclamation. But truly, this existing land was the Srujamyaham………” part of a high prosperous zone of esotericism that Such was the time when the divinity and submerged. One could walk by foot from physiology were much greater. The inhabitants had BharatVarsha straight to reach America. Even giant physical structures and great divine energy upto recent times, one could walk by foot from with purity of thought in mind.Truth was simply Rameswaram to Lanka on the Rama Setu till the the common code of behaviour. So, it was Satya 13th Century. Yuga. There were Asuras too. But they had giant This present globe has been convulged physiques and gained no less occult power. When violently for four times changing human races on the day of Pralaya first approached, land it by submersion of land and displacement of continued to drown due to cataclysm. Lord inhabitation, apart from six times mid-convulsion Vishnu saved the pious creatures and shifted to a and a number of catastrophes vividly at different new land in Matsya Avatar, and today, we sing times. Some times the terrestrial magnetism affects to the melody of the great poet Jayadev, “ the earth like arrival of a planetary system or Pralaya Payodhi Jale………” departure from. Some times two or three planets disappear at a time exerting tremendous influence The Aryan Culture is as old the as the on the earth, causing violent geological crust- human race and the very base of human divine shiftings and geographical reorganisations. The knowledge. No source of religion evolved other Atlantis and Lemuria went under the ocean waters than Lemuria-Atlantis. All other landed portions 8,50,000 years ago. They bore peak altitudinal on the globe came next step by step as upheaval races instructed by divine masters and got from the ocean beds and even gone below in some transferred to the bottom of the sea, where they occasions. The north pole, Sumeru, was rightly now slumber until their next appearance above judged by seers as the way to heaven. Srimad the waters. The divine culture touched the climax Bhagavatam says, it was the centre of the Ilavruta when human beings were in contact of Lords of Varsha. All its portions were golden and the peak heaven, their body color was like moon. Each was 84,000 yojans above the ground. It was like root-race of humanity has begun with a Manu; the Lotus centre of the Earth (Canto.5, Ch.16, the period being known as Manvantara. The first Sl.7). The Pole Star and the constellation of Manu was Swayambhuba Manu. Now we are Saptarshi (Great Bear) had their occult- continuing under the seventh Manu known as connections with the inhabitants of the earth. The Sraddhadeva.The Manus are appointed by the golden summit of snowy Sumeru Parvat touched God to govern the universes. The next Manu will the heavens so that the Devas used it as their be Sabarni in the eighth Manvantara, expected path to the earth and vice-versa for divine men. to come after 4,00,000 years, when a cataclysm In Baraha Avatar, the biggest piece of land will take place to set a major geographical change. heaved up from the ocean bed that got inhabited After a great cataclysm, the human civilisation to be a prosperous Aryan settlement. 23 Odisha Review July - 2013 The Nature’s playful pastimes have been Sl.6,7 & 8) are construed to be a pure historical sung in the name of the Creator in different truth. Avataras. These geological vicissitudes have been Prakrutika Pralaya : When Brahma completes depicted in Brahma Vaibarta Purana in a divine his term of two Parardhas, the Supreme Being manner.
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