1st Prime Minister of India
In office
15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964
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Letter to: Jawaharlal Nehru
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Bombay
4 August, 1958
58-08-04
Pandit Sri Jawaharlal Nehru,
Prime Minister of India,
New Delhi-2
My dear Pandit Ji,
Please accept my respectful Namaskar. I beg to inform you that your speech on 2/8/58 at the Gurukul University Haridwar, has given me some inspiration to inform you something about Indian culture. The basic principle of Indian culture is spiritualism which defies the external attraction of phenomenal materialism.
You are thinking of adjusting western ways of material adjustment with Indian culture of spiritualism and I beg to give you herewith the clue that materialism conducted with an aim of reaching spiritual perfection, is the right adjustment of human activity.
If the aim of spiritual realization is missed, the whole plan of materialism is sure to be frustrated and that is the law of Nature. The law of nature is so made by a superior authority and no body can surpass the intricacies of material nature simply by partial adjustment of material science. The history of the West beginning from the time of the Greeks and the Romans down to the modern age of atomic war—is a continuous chain of sense gratificatory materialism and the result is that the westerners were never in peace within the memory of 3000 years of historical records. Neither it will be possible for them at any time in future to live in peace till the message of spiritualism just suitable to the present age does not reach their heart.
Therefore India may not waste her time in imitating the western way of life. You have admitted it that the position of India’s culture is of very high order. But at the same time you want to bring in material prosperity of India by scientific advancement of knowledge. And what is that scientific Knowledge? Spiritualism is also advanced scientific knowledge. Material advancement of scientific knowledge cannot give even the desired material prosperity to the people in general without spiritual help. Swaraj of Mahatma Gandhi was adjusted in spiritualism more than materialism. Do you think that horseless carriage or telephonic or radio communication or any other such ephemeral facilities of life, can bring in material prosperity? No it cannot. Material prosperity means that the people must have sufficient to eat or to maintain the body and soul together in sound health for further development in spiritual consciousness which is conspicuous by its absence in the sense gratificatory life of the animal. Do you think that your different plans have brought in that standard of material prosperity or that modern western civilization can bring in that ideal prosperity? Even they are given all the facilities of material need yet the unrest will continue to go on till there is spiritual satisfaction of life. That is the secret of peace.
Both the Americans and the Russians are better materially advanced and although they have different political philosophy of life till they are not materially happy and peaceful because both of them are unconciously hankering after spiritual realization as the child cries for the mother without expression by language. You can help the people of the world for satisfying their spiritual hankering as the true Indian messenger of peace. The world has recognized your sincere effort for endeavouring peace in the world and this is the suitable time to help your friends and at the same time glorify the standard of Indian spiritual advancement of knowledge for world peace. Please take up the matter in cool brain.
Poverty means poverty of knowledge. Prime minister Canakya Pandit used to live in a thatched house or cottage but he was the dictator of India in the days of Emperor Candra Gupta. Mahatma Gandhi your political Guru voluntarily accepted the ways of the so called poor Indians and still he was the dictator of India’s destiny. But was he actually poverty sticken on account of his plain living with the primitive charkha? He was always proud of his spiritual knowledge. Therefore it is the spiritual knowledge which makes a man really rich and not the radio set or the motor car. Please therefore try to understand this position of Indian culture and try to give it to the western brothers in the prescribed standard method of the liberated persons and that will be an exchange of Indian culture with western material advancement and necessarily bring in a happy life in the peaceful world.
Here is a programme of spiritual movement (an appeal enclosed herewith). I am struggling alone very hard to give it an effective shape without any help from persons like you. You can help the movement a lot without the least difficulty or disturbances.
My humble advice to you, as I am your old friend from Allahabad, is that you should now take leave form you present responsibility of Prime ministership and as you are a popular gentleman of the world you can just engage the rest of your most valuable life in this organized spiritual movement to achieve the aim of your life which is yet to be known by the __ the world. By pushing on this authorized spiritual movement you can make a real adjustment of the western material science combined with Indian way of spiritual realization.
Please therefore think over this proposal very seriously and let me know your reaction upon it and oblige. If you can spare a little time, I am sure to convince you about its importance more quickly. Thanking you in anticipation and awaiting your early reply.
Yours sincerely,
A.C. B.
Private letter per registered post
Enclosure:-1.
Prabhupada And Nehru’s Incarnation
By:
The Truth Detector
The incident that we are going to recount took place in mid-sixties. The exact date is no longer remembered; but approximately, the incident took place soon after Nehru’s death (by syphilis, which most people did not know, but some did) and Prabhupada was still alive.
I then used to work in an office in downtown Broadway in New York City, not too far from Brooklyn. There at Brooklyn, in Henry Street, Prabhupada used to preach in a small house, which served, at the time, as some kind of a head-quarters of the Hare Krishna people. I used to go and attend their services, now and then, mostly after office and before returning to my apartment in Flushing, Queens.
Prabhupada, whenever he visited New York at the time, put up there and his sermons were attended in the evenings by a big crowd. Not only were there the usual chantings and eventual prasadam but there was a serious question and answer period. And the subjects varied from Varnashram Dharma to Reincarnation and many other similar topics. They were naturally of great interest to the local boys and girls, men and women of America but for us Hindus of India too, the question & answer period was of extreme interest and enlightenment. Those who have had the good fortune of hearing, first hand, Prabhupada’s sermons could easily imagine how charged the discussions were.
Nehru had died only a few weeks ago in India. Ashes from his funeral pyre had been strewn from airplanes, all over India. Every-where in India, the dead man’s eulogy was being sung and this was the man who was at the root of India’s unpreparedness when China attacked, the Kashmir imbroglio, the minority (or Mohammedan) problems in India and so on. It was amazing that many of the American disciples of Prabhupada were better informed of problems in India, generated by Nehru and his incompetence. However, the man had died only recently and out of a sense of propriety, no one spoke ill of Nehru in that congregation at the time.
Then a youngman asked Prabhupada a question on re-imcarnation. Was it true that most dead were reborn and passed through the cycle of life and death once again, except those few good men who attained nirvaana and were not born again but blended with Brahman or the Almighty? If so, could Prabhupada (who was considered to be a reincarnation of the sage Vyasa, the writer of the Mahabharatam) throw some light on the current status of Nehru. Did he obtain nirvaana or was he reborn; if so what kind of a body did he receive on his next birth?
The question was a loaded one, I thought. In fact, I had the misgiving that Prabhupada might refuse to answer. But then, I was wrong. I had not yet known Prabhupada so well. He was undaunted by any question and his reply came forth instantly. Quite clearly Prabhupada knew Nehru like the palm of his hand; it was us who knew so little of the man, thanks to all the well executed suppression of details of Nehru’s private and personal life by the GoI and the Indian media. For instance, even today, some half a century after Nehru and his family took over the reins of Indian government, we do not know who indeed was Indira’s father-in-law!
Prabhupada started his discourse. He said that Nehru was re-born almost immediately after his death, a thing that happens only to the most sinful people. He did not even have a short-lived taste of heaven before he was born again. What was worse, is that Nehru was born this time in the form of a dog. He was a dog in a small town of Sweden. His master had another dog before the dog-Nehru was acquired by him and so the dog-Nehru had to share the love of his master with another dog.
Prabhupada explained that to be born as a dog, after having been born as a Kashmiri Brahmin in India, is a big fall. It indicated that Nehru had led a vile life, a very vile life, during his existence as a man in India. Also, Nehru’s hatred for anything vaishnava did not make things any easier for him.
That Nehru was a meat-eater, specially beef-eater, a regular wine-drinker, made things even worse for him. On top of that, Nehru was (a fact which we did not know then and learnt later, much later, only after having read M.O. Mathai’s treatises on Nehru; Mathai should know for he was the Catholic private secretary for Nehru for a decade or so) a notorious womanizer. It was not only Mrs. Mountbatten that he slept with on a regular basis while our jawans were dying on battle fields in the north-east and in Kashmir; he used to sleep with each and every woman he could lay his hands on. Thus, he had left a chain of bastards one of whom had been delivered in a Catholic nunnery in Bangalore. In the mean time, his sidekick, one Krishna Menon, became the Minister of Defense. First thing he did was dismantle the Ichhapore Gun Factory and turned it into a coffee making machine factory. He was a communist and he loved the Chinese more than he loved Indians.
Prabhupada was quite discreet; we know now, for he did not divulge to us at the time that Nehru finally died of syphilis (exactly like the communist leader Lenin of Russia) and not a bullet wound on the battle front. Prabhupada, however, told us in detail all the harms Nehru did to the Hindus of India, all the insults that he had heaped on them during his reign.
Nehru used to brag of his non-Hindu upbringing. He used to say openly that he was brought up as a Mohammedan, educated as a westerner; it was only by accident that he was born a Hindu. It is now known that he was born in a house in the red-light district of Allahabad, where his father Motilal used to ply a brothel-keeper’s trade. No one wants to talk of this dark side of Nehru’s upbringing. On the other hand, it is said openly, wrongly of course, that he was born in the Anand Bhavan, which was not even owned by Moti Lal at the time Nehru was born.
However, the few little details that we learnt from Prabhupada opened our eyes and I returned home very depressed. I was even more depressed to think that our people in India were singing all kinds of fulsome obituaries for this man who was worse than a traitor to the Hindus, the overwhelming majority of India. What was wrong? The next few years showed us all that was wrong! His daughter, in order to create differences between the Hindus and the Sikhs, the fighting arm of the Hindus since generations, attacked the sacred temple at Hari-Mandir Sahib in Amritsar. She had to pay for the crime with her life and eventually, as we have all seen, our gods saw to it that the dynasty was totally destroyed for the sins of Nehru, now a dog in Sweden! –
https://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=20837#comment-2730
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Thank You July 9th for the comment on this letter, it would be good to know WHEN this conversation took place or under what rubric, Conversations/lectures/ etc.. this can be found in prabhupadabooks.com.
You said that this talk must have taken place shortly after Nehrus death which was 27. Mai 1964. Śrīla Prabhupāda arrived at Boston harbor on September 17, 1965. If this “Conversation” took place in the following year, it may be recorded somewhere, hopefully.
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A Thank You!!!.. once more to the Original webmaster/designer of this site for carrying together this archive of invaluable information together with the comment section over the many years. Just this one comment rounds it all up, puts it all into perspective: the letter, the protagonist, the timeline, the place, the audience and the accompanying circumstances surrounding this subject.
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YOGIC THERAPY or the Way To Cure Diseases
SYPHILIS
SYPHILIS (Upadangsha) Symptoms — This germ of Syphilis is ‘ either produced in a vicious and dirty system or is contracted from another affected person and it manifests in ulcers, better known Chancres. Usually this primary manifestation comes in the shape of a small ‘pustule’ and that on the genital organ, which has a hard base with elevated margins that grows and finally suppurates a watery liquid. This chancre has no pain, but some hard glandular nodules crop up in between the thighs known as buboes, which form no pus, and in about a month or so, the chancre subsides as also these buboes are untraceable.
Very few patients begin with chancres and buboes with pus. Of course, the former — the usual type, is much more harmful than this latter ; this is the ‘Primary Stage*. In the secondary stage, i. e. after six to eight weeks of the resorption of the chancre and buboes, small vesicle spread all over different parts of the body. These are blackish when the wind humour is much vitiated in a system and Ayurveda calls this type as Batikopadangsha. There is throbbing and pin-prick sensation in this crop. If these are yellowish and contain filth and burning sensation is felt, this type is known as Paittikopadangsha.
If the blood is already much vitiated* the appearance of the vesicles is reddish or copper coloured, which is styled as Rakta jopadangaha. The Kafaja type has thick pus and much itching,
While there is a type having the combined symptoms of all types — i.e. Tridoshajopadngasha.’ born of all the three defective humours — Vayu, Pittta & Kapha and this is the most difficult to cure.
Cause— i-e. Men and women who do not cleanse the organs regularly, or are excessively given to lust or who enjoy a diseased organ, are attacked with Syphilis. The germs of Syphilis may grow in the blood debilitated by too much of sexual enjoyment, or due to Tridosha grown in the body or due to the blood vitiated owing to some reason.
The incidence of Syphilis is the most common among the prostitutes due to union with many men every day. Sexual intercourse contaminates the healthy systems of opposite partners if either is syphilitic ; the main centres of such contamination are the brothels and as long as these scars on the civilised society remain. Syphilis cannot be checked. The contagion is possible — though rarely, by using the towels or clothes of the patient or from the excretion of the ulcers of a syphilitic.
Treatment — The same as in case of Gonorrhoea. Sunbath of the affected parts ; a new patient will arrange for sun-bathing of the genital organ daily. Adopt Progressive Method of Exercises, fasting methods* bathing and water drinking rules, Three baths daily are advised here.
Rules & Diet — The chancres or ulcer should always be washed clean with some antiseptic lotion or soap of modern days and on these an antiseptic lotion of the ashes of Trifala ( Haritaki, Amalaki Bahera ) may be a soothing aid though the secretion must not be stopped, All intoxicants • should be given up ; the patient must not take fish, meat, eggs, milk, curd, buttermilk or sweets made of|milk. The midday diet should be purely vegetarian and cooked in ghee, at night nothing else than some fruits or fruit juice — that is to say a very light diet is suggested, On the eleventh day of the moon ( Ekadashi ), fast on drinking profuse water with lemon-juice, and take nothing at all during the Full or New Moon nights, When the sores heal up, milk can be taken. Relapse is feared even after cure of this disease. Sexual intercourse or marriage must wait for at least two years after cure, During the time, observe all health principles and if possible adopt complete fasting for three days consecutively in every month which will kill all the germs of disease in the body and complete immunity shall be gained for the future.
One prominent Book-Stall of our India refused to take our book for sale because we have dealt with nasty diseases like Syphilis & Gonorhoea in it, A prominent book-seller and publisher of America kindly advised us not to include these nasty Diseases in future edition of the book. Advice of these gentlemen did not appeal to the author. Like the Holy Christ and other Saviours of the world the author thinks —‘Sinn must be hated, but not the sinner.* The unfortunate Syphilis & Gonorrhoea patients deserve our tears, all the more as they know their hated position in the family and society. Besides, the book is published for all suffering humanity.
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In the last paragraph we see Censorship from 40 years ago. We have the original Book bound from xerox copies if you buy this one in the antique book shops it will go 2nd hand for https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/yogic-therapy-or-yogic-way-to-cure-diseases/author/srimat-swami-shivananda-saraswati/
or here online free https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.462032/2015.462032.Yogic-Way_djvu.txt scroll down to page 310
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Prabhupāda: Yes, just see. (guest laughs) Just like Nehru bribed one Mukerjee, Rādhā-kuṇḍa Mukerjee, doctor, to write book where he has supported cow slaughter.
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Prabhupāda: Not a question of Buddhist. That is Christian, Hindus, everyone. Rascals. Lord Buddha, he was nonviolent, and this Jawaharlal Nehru was observing Buddha-jayantī and at the same time sanctioning cow-killing. What is that? Cow-killing. “What is wrong in eating meat?” He has said that.
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The government is enamored by the glittering civilization of the West, and it was a definite policy of our late prime minister, Mr. Nehru, who wanted to see India overnight as rich and materially advanced as America. It was, of course, Gandhi’s policy to concentrate his organization in village life, taking to simple life and cow protection. But just after Mahatma Gandhi’s disappearance, his chief disciple, Pandit Nehru, planned for up-to-date organized cow-slaughter house.
https://prabhupadabooks.com/letters/new_vrindaban/june/05/1969/gopala_krsna
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It’s called nepotism. So many big, big leaders. Our Jawaharhal Nehru, he was sending his own men as ambassador. Vijaya Lakshmi, a woman, she was being sent as ambassador. She was high commissioner here. So this “own men” question is very prominent everywhere.
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Prabhupāda: Yes, that is fourth class. This is the proof. Fourth-class men administering… Just like misadministration not immediately detected. After some time, when the case is unmanageable, it is detected. Therefore fourth-class men. Simply these Western people, they know how to earn money by hook and crook. So, so long the money is there it is covered, the fourth-class men. And when the money is finished, they are exposed, fourth-class men. They’re simply covered by money. No social structure, no spiritual understanding, no character, nothing of the sort. Still India, so fallen, you… 95% people, living, husband and wife, very peacefully. And in the Western countries after six months’ marriage, divorce. Are they not fourth class? Even the husband and wife cannot continue peaceful life, what to speak of others. Now this rascal Jawaharlal Nehru has introduced divorce in the Hindu society. Otherwise in the Hindu society separation between husband and wife is not even dreamt of. That, it cannot be. However there may be quarrelsome, but there is no question of separation. Husband and wife, they fight, everywhere. I have seen. My father and mother was fighting. I fought. (laughter) But there is no question of separation. Separation, they never think.
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Pamho agtacbsp, the material progress is always dangerous through the side effects of their ephemeral invention especially in this dark age almost everyone is addicted to maya sukaya through flickering pleasure until one become a miserable completely dependent of material facilities then is temporary and full of dangers and they still want to enjoy what got a begin and a end,they are very active with their dirty senses but their intelligence is sleeping deeply in susupti because everyone is passing through but they do not do nothing to stop this passing through therefore as soon as they leave their so called human body as soon as they get transfer to the animal kingdom and losing eternal life just for crap only .this is for the vikarmi the materialist worker but a devotee keep his senses and mind always engaged in krsna service through prayers mantra kavacham etc… because he think always at the time of death therefore is already ready to go back home through KRSNA SMARANA. Agtacbsp ys haribol
Pamho agtacbsp, all these rascals forgot that the material world is full of dangers through visible and invisible enemies because the mother cow only can give material and spiritual prosperity to this demoniac society but they forgot this truth,therefore we are waiting for a influent personality able to convince the leaders of the slaughter house of the importance of the cow protection which the service to the cow can award even liberation from misery and suffering ,this person will start a devotional society because as soon as they stop the killing of the cows as soon as all the mondial wars will end forever and everyone can be happy simply by serving and protect our divine mother go matha hai because the cow is considered one of the seven mothers.agtacbsp ys haribol
Nehru was gender-inverted Freemason as was “father’ Motilal Nehru! Indira Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi ALL GENDER INVERTED FREEMASONS! …….. THIS IS THE REAL POINT!
ALL OF THESE DESH-DROHIS HAVE DIFFERENT MINDSET! THEY ARE NOT HUMAN AS THEY REPRESENT ‘THE LIGHT BEARER’ AND ARE ALL DECEIVERS.
THE BRITISH ROYALS AND MOUNTBATTENS (FROM SAME GERMAN BATTENBERG BLOODLINE!) ARE ALL GENDER INVERTED! AS ‘KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER’ ARE ALL 33 DEGREE SCOTTISH RITE FREEMASONS!
BRITISH ROYALS (QUEEN AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH) OFTEN VISITED RAJASTHAN TO GO ON ‘HUNTS’ (TIGER, INDIAN RHINO ETC) WITH “KING AND QUEEN” OF JAIPUR. GAYATRI DEVI WAS QUEEN OF JAIPUR (AND ISKCON LIFE MEMBER) GAYATRI DEVI WAS NOTED FOR “HER BEAUTY” BUT THE FACT IS THAT GAYATRI DEVI WAS A MAN!
WHEN YOU SEE PAINTINGS OF GOPIS, THEY HAVE ‘WIDE EYES’ AND THIS IS ATTRACTIVE FEATURE!
THERE IS A FASHION MODEL CALLED GEMMA WARD, WHO HAS VERY WIDE APART EYES! BUT GEMMA WARD IS A GENDER-INVERTED MALE! AS WIDE EYES ARE A MALE TRAIT!
FOOTBALL PLAYERS HAVE LONG TORSOS AND SHORT LEGS! THIS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL GENDER-INVERTED FTMS ….. PELE, MESSI, RONALDO, KANE! ….. ALL OF THEM!
RUGBY PLAYERS HAVE SHORT ARMS, SLOPING SHOULDERS, NO NECKS, CURVED SPINES, FLAT FOREHEADS AND FEMALE DIGIT RATIOS (LIKE FOOTBALLERS) THIS IS BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL BIOLOGICAL FEMALES! (AS THESE ARE ALL FEMALE TRAITS!).
HUMANS ARE NOW BEING BRED LIKE RACEHORSES OR DOGS AND CATS, SOME SLENDER (LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS) SOME LARGE AND MUSCULAR (LIKE FTM WRESTLER HULK HOGAN) SOME FOR “ATTRACTIVENESS” (FASHION MODELS, AND MOVIE STARS ETC).
THE “HUMAN RACE” IS BEING STERILIZED, OUT OF EXISTENCE! BY VAX666INE “MARK OF THE BEAST” ….. THIS WAY DEMONS CONTROL THE WHOLE PROCESS ARTIFICIALLY, AND HAVE THE ACCESS TO EMBRYOS AND NEWBORNS THROUGH MIND CONTROL, CHEMICAL IMPLANTATION AND VAX666INATION PROTOCOLS!
THE KABBALIST GENDER-INVERTED DEMONS (LIKE SATANYAHU) WHO RUN USA NOW WANT TO TURN FLORIDA INTO GAZA! …… WITH THE USE OF GEO-ENGINEERED HURRICANE! THIS IS ANOTHER WEAPON IN THEIR TOOLBOX TO DESTROY THE HUMAN RACE!
INDIA IS THE BIGGEST CUSTOMER OF THE ‘ILLEGAL’ STATE OF ISRAEL, WHICH IS WHY THE USA IS FULL OF DESH-DROHI PASHANDI INDIANS! SRILA PRABHUPADA SAID IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME TO TRY AND ENGAGE THESE “PICKLE-JOHNS AND CHUTNEY MARYS!” AS THEY ARE CONTAMINATED, HODGE-PODGE MAYAVADIS, MEAT EATERS, AND SAHAJIYAS!
Dog, rat….
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https://prabhupadavani.org/transcriptions/śrīmad-bhāgavatam-6127/
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.27
Type: Srimad-Bhagavatam
Date: Dec. 15, 1970
Location: Indore
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Just like the flavor is carried by the air, similarly, my mentality will carry me to a different type of body. If I have created my mentality like Vaiṣṇava, pure devotee, then I shall immediately transfer to Vaikuṇṭha. If I created my mind as an ordinary karmī, then I will have to stay within this material world to enjoy the type of mentality which I have created.
If I keep myself as a businessman, doing business… Naturally it is done so. One gentleman in Calcutta, he was a very big businessman, and he was dealing in shares. So at the time of death he was crying, “Kamarhati, Kamarhati shares.” Kamarhati shares at that time was very popular to the people. So at the time of his death the result will be that he might have taken his birth as a rat in the Kamarhati [indistinct]. It is possible. At the time of death, whatever you think, that will carry you to a type of body.
Kṛṣṇa is very kind. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante [Bg. 4.11]. Anyone whoever begs from Kṛṣṇa any benefit, any type of things he requires from Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa gives him: “All right. You are thinking like rat, you become a rat. You are thinking like a tiger, you become a tiger. You are thinking like a devotee, you become a devotee. You are thinking of Me, please come to Me.” That’s all. Simple truth.
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Kamarhati
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamarhati
PANCHATANTRA
THE STORY OF THE FEMALE MOUSE
On the bank of the river Ganga, there was a beautiful ashrama. The water of the river gushed down on rocks, making a tremendous noise, which frightened the fishes. It whirled round and round, and the water was a mass of foam.
Now, in this ashrama lived Tapasvis, who were always absorbed in meditation. Their bodies had grown lean and thin from, penance and rigorous self-discipline. They ate roots and fruits and drank only holy water from the Ganga. They wore clothes made of bark.
The Kulapati of this ashrama was one Yadnyavalkya. One day, while he was bathing in the holy water of the Ganga and offering his prayers, a mouse, dropped by a hawk, fell into his hands. Yadnyavalkya plucked a leaf from a nearby banyan tree and put the mouse on it. Then he took a second bath, to purify himself, because he had been contaminated by touching the mouse.
By the power of meditation, he transformed the ‘female mouse into a little girl. Then he took her. home to the ashrama and said to his wife, ‘My dear wife, we have no child of our own, so please take this little girl and bring her up carefully as our own daughter.’
And so, the child was brought up with great care until she attained the age of twelve. When Yadnyavalkya’s wife noticed that the girl had reached the marriageable age, she said to her husband, ‘My dear husband, the time for our daughter’s marriage is slipping by. Please give it a serious thought.’
-‘You are right,’ he replied. ‘I shall give her to someone who really deserves her. They say:
“Enter into marriage ties and friendship only with those who are socially and financially Your equals.”
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“A wise man should give his daughter in marriage to someone who is fulfilling the following seven requirements: Good family, good character, the capabilities to look after a family, education, wealth, physical fitness and suitable age.” –
‘And so, if the girl agrees, I shall summon Ravi and give her to him.’ -‘Yes,’ replied his wife, ‘please do that.’
By the power of invocation, Yadnyavalkya summoned the Sun God to him. In a moment he appeared before him and said, ‘Maharishi, why have you called me?’ -‘Here is my daughter,’ replied Yadnyavalkya. ‘If she is willing to marry you, please accept her hand.’
Then he asked his daughter, ‘Do you accept the Sun God, who lights up the worlds?’
-‘Father,’ she replied, ‘he is ‘too fiery-tempered. I don’t want to marry him. Find me someone better!’
So the Rishi said to the Sun God, ‘My Lord, is there someone better than You?’
-‘Yes’, replied the Sun God,’ Megha is superior to me, for when he covers me I am no longer visible’.
and so the Rishi invited the Cloud and asked his daughter, ‘My child, may I offer your hand to the Cloud?’
-‘Father,’ she replied, ‘he is dark and too cold. I don’t want to.marry him. Find me someone better!’
So the Rishi said to Megha, ‘Oh Cloud, is there anyone better than·you?’
-‘Yes,’ replied the Cloud. ‘Vayu* is superior to me, for he makes me drift.’
And so, the Rishi invited the Lord of the Wind and said to his daughter,_’What do you say to him?’ -‘Father,’ she replied;. .’he is very, changeable. I don’t want to marry him. Find me someone better.’
So, the Rishi said to the Lord of the Wind, ‘My Lord, is there anyone better than you?’
-‘Yes,’ replied the Lord of the Wind. ‘The Mountain is superior to me, for although I am strong, he prevents me from blowing where I want to. is there anyone better than you?’
And so, the Rishi invited the Mountain and said to his daughter, ‘Now I am offering you to him’.’Father,’ she replied, ‘he is very hard. and immovable. I don’t want to marry him. Find me someone better.’
So the Rishi said to the Mountain, ‘Oh Mountain! Is there anyone better than you?’ -‘Yes,’ replied the Mountain. ‘The mice .are superior to me, for they bore holes in my body.’
And so, the Rishi invited the king of mice and said to his daughter, ‘Now, my little daughter, I’m going to offer you to this king of mice. Do you like him?’
When the girl looked at the king of mice, her whole body began to quiver with delight and she said to her father, ‘Oh Father, he is the best of all! Please transform me into a mouse, so that after my marriage to the king of mice, I shall be able to perform the household duties of my new clan.’
By the power of his meditation, the Rishi turned her back into a mouse and gave her in marriage to the king of mice.
-“And so,” continued Raktaksha, “that’s why I said, ‘Turning down the offers of marriage made by the Sun God, the Cloud, the Lord of the Wind and the Mountain, a female mouse chose a husband of her own kind.’ -“Therefore, even if this crow is reborn as an owl, he would still be a crow at heart. (next Chapter)