One of my sons aged about 9 years asked who is strongest among the
Thrimoorthis and who are their parents? I felt suddenly somebody knocked my
head with force.
Tell me what to say him, I thought I must say you go with your text books,
not indulge in such questions then I just stopped & thought when he himself
asking why to neglect.
We Indians always enjoyed fights in between Gods in our Puranas, maybe
that’s why westerns called our histories as Mythology. It’s so sad.
If we are Vaishnavs (cult of Vishnu) we say definitely Vishnu is Supreme
& strong, also we give all the example stories of Dashavathara and Sri
Krishna’s Virataroopa also we press all Mudras by locking the question
there itself.
In case if we are Shaivas (cult of Shiva) we show all the pages of many
Puranas which says greatness of Shiva. And tell Hari & Bramha both failed
in search of beginning & end of the Shivalinga & also add that Shiva
himself created Brahma & Vishnu theory. We also tell the story of Maharishi
Dadichi great devotee of Shiva, Maharishi Dadichi shows Vishwaroop to Maha
Vishnu himself. So with all these references, we announce with proud that
Mahadeva is supreme.
And if we are Shakthas (Devi’s cult), we say without scratching our head,
Oh dear son Adishakkthi is the Strongest. She is the one who created all Trinities
including the whole universe.
The child mind may be innocent but not a stupid brain without thoughts. If
we say any our beloved God’s names, but crystal minded innocence re-questions
us, who are their creator of him/her and how they evolved …
But I am not expert in mighty Vedas and Upanishads to tell him abstract
form of gods, if I go through Puranas theory; they are so complicated in their
own way explaining beloved supremacy God.
As I said before, In Vishnu Purana Vishnu is supreme and in Shiva Purana
Shiva is Lord of lords.
Same story continues in Devi Puranas too. According to this purana, She
is greatest among all the Gods. So Puranas are not entirely convincing. They
are confusing me and sometimes they become trap of words from religious
intellectuals so I don’t wanted to confuse my kids. they may lose interest on
these subjects. So I strived to answer his curiosity which arises in child instinct.
I said to my son, these are theological forms. Basically the principles
of Indian spirituality. Now if I answer your questions, you may not understand.
You will know as you grow up, by reading, discovering and experiencing yourself.
And also by the knowledge of elders, which will lead you towards the light. I
will tell you as you can understand at your age, give me some time. Now I have
some works, sure I get back to you. I was consoling like that. Now I silenced
myself and started thinking how can I answer my kid. Oh almighty who dwelled in
all the beings by visible & invisible forms pls help me to answer my sons
quest. All this kind of mess of questions often happens to me.
One fine morning I was in a morning walk and my son’s words are buzzing
in my ears. In a bitter cold weather a small crowd with folded hand is circumambulating
in clock wise to the huge tree by chanting
a mantra “Moolatho Brahma roopaya, Madhyatho Vishnu Roopine, Agratho
Shiva roopaya, Vruksh rajayathe
Namo Namah”
(Root as Generator =Brahma, middle as Operator= Vishnu, top as a Destroyer=Shiva, Oh king of trees,
salutation to thee).
Suddenly a light blazed bright in my head. I got almost answer for my
sons question and even for my thirst.
What is life? We take a birth to achieve something till the end of our physical
body. It is automated cycle of nature. Like a life of tree it has three major
qualities. The word Tree may be derived from three. That’s why westerns may
called it Tree, ok let it. Even almighty has three qualities and he/she is beyond
that. Also they called it God, which elaborates as a “Generator, Operator, and
Destroyer”.
We Indians call it OM, which has three
same words “A U M“. Here also there are three qualities. As said above “Arise… from the past, Utilize… it in present and Move….
towards the infinity of future“. We called them Brahma-Vishnu-Maheshwar, rajas(active)-sattwa(balance)-tamas(destructive).
Om also signifies state of three times “Past-Present-Future“. It is stable
confluence meet of three energies and it is beyond those qualities & times.
Like tree, life is symbolic evidence of nature’s eternal creativity.
Base Root of tree signifies Brahma = srushti tatwa( birth) or philosophy
of creative.
The tree itself is a form of persistent creativity that grows and
survives & dies in nature. The seed germinates beneath the soil. How the
baby grows by getting subtle form of food from mother womb, the tree's seed
also sprouted underground and absorbs all the extracts from the ground. It is
does not matter where the tree is born on the roadside or beside the lake or in
beautiful gardens. There is no Value for birth. May be for that reason there is
no worship of Brahma, except only a few temples in all around globe. Leave it
that matter here itself, we will catch the main point.
Somewhere pollination happens on flowers in the trees. Carrying of seeds
may also takes place from air or via droppings of the birds & animals which
they eaten fruits as food.
Same story in case of humans and other living beings also. If it is
human, he may take birth in rich or poor, birth may in lower caste or upper
caste, or in good cultured family or evil one.
Neither tree nor man, only birth is not enough. If it is seed it has to
come out via letting root deep underneath of the earth. For other creatures, it
must grow by crossing the many difficulties, making strong stamina to cope the diseases,
by adopting the wise manners and basic educations. Till this level, it is
called Brahma or Srushti thatwa .
After Srushti Tatwa we have to reach middle stage called”Sthithi thatwa /
Vishnu thatwa/operating state“.
However being mere born is not great, we have to grow as major tree trunk
in matured way.
We have to survive either as a thief or as honest earned man or as a
cunning or as a innocent or as a qualified wise man.
We can’t say if we lead evil life
we will get bad name and if we lead honest life we get good name. The wind of
time can give a bad name to a good person and good name to a bad person. Bad
person may get good name & fame for the time being on the basis of his
power or his intellectual talent or his strategy. Thus somehow we have to grow
facing all the humiliations and up and downs of sad and smiley days.
How tree bear & stand firmly in all the seasons (with great tolerance
in the peak of stormy days, as well as its endure scorching sunshine in summer,
in cruel cold of winter, enjoying sprinkling of monsoon), humans also has to
stand firmly. The tree reaches by spreading the branches up in sky while
beneath in the ground it extends its roots deep and wide and at the same time
it also holds soil tightly so it can carry weight of main trunk. Likewise
humans also have to take response of his/her house and settle in life by
helping each other. When you reach as above as below. It is called Sthithi
tatwa or Vishnu tatwa.
Ok introduction of Srushti and Sthithi tatwa completed. What is the role
of a bare trunk spreading dry branches? Leaves should be packed and have lush green
leaves and play smoothly in air. This process is active in some extent from the
time of sapling to till tree. But form of the leafless tree appears in the
autumn season. The bare trunk without leaves looks like a mesh of dry sticks.
But it is not right in aesthetic way. It also stops process of natural
reproduction. Without leaves, flower & fruits the life of the tree becomes
incomplete and meaningless.
Tree must be full of shoots, leaves, nuts, flowers, and fruits. Fruits
must be stuffed with seeds. In autumn, dried leaves must detach from the branches.
When leaves fall to mingle with soil, you can have realization of “Sathya… Shiva… Sundar…”
Yes we are on the way of Rhythm of life ”Laya tatwa/samahara tatwa”.
Here for some persons it is the puzzle. There are some creed mentality
scholars who may advise you to leave it as it is a Tamas/destructive principle.
But for me…… I don’t have vast knowledge as they have.
Yes sir, principle of Rhythm, it is tremendous and beautiful at same time
(we call it Rudra Ramaneeya).
Some so called scholars hate this principle like how jackal accuses grapes
when it cannot reach till it.” Shiva tatwa is difficult to understand.
Seeing such pandits, Sri Krishna said that in the Anushasan Parva of
Mahabharata "No one can fully describe Shiva tatwa in the cosmic, including
me” he adds. What about me, I am not even a tiny dot of atom, I am just artist
but however we must try as human being. It is our natural instinct.
As mentioned earlier, roots and trunk are not enough for a tree. Mixed
green with bit reddish leaf has to cover with tiny sprigs to till it become
lush green branches and it must spread glow with full of flowers and fruits all
over the tree. In summer it has to endure the sun, it should not drained away
or sink in stormy time. At the autumn season, dry leaves have to be tossed
towards soil to make every particles of soil rich in minerals. This is a tree’s
starting part of salvation. Now in this season, tree looks like a real
slenderer saint. Again in the spring the tree must cast its tiny greenly shoots
in all twigs.
There will be a lord for each season.
Lord of Spring (Vasanth) is ”Rudra“. For that reason there is also
destruction and creation both happens in this season. Yes you read it correct. Have
a doubt? How Leaves, flowers, fruits all are rhythmic part of tree While fruits
falling to earth, it holds the seed of creation.
Lord Rudra doesn’t do the Destruction from hate. The rhythmic Dance is
indispensable for the next creation. Imagine what would happen to the world, if
he hadn't destroyed all the beings. What if there were only Brahma and Vishnu
principles in the world? Imagine. What happens to the entire creatures if there
is no death? They leave the descendants; they need land to suit their needs.
Eventually animals, trees, creeps, accompanied by humans would have been
floating in a vacuum in disorder across the ground and sky, over the sun and moon all over the
stars, everywhere in the constellations, the celestial bodies. The universe
would have been turned a living trash.
By blunder of two principles
from epochs of the ages, all living creatures would have been littered as
debris, without the light, dusky shadows would have been covered the world till
the day. And there would have been no empty sky and ground for birds and
animals.
There would have been
no full moon and new moon days in the earth. And there is no Solar/moon
eclipses would have been in sky. The only eclipses of the creatures would have
been scattered all over sky. There would have not occurrence of color full sky
phenomena in the south & North Poles and there was no chance to see
beautiful rainbows and there would have been no cycles of different seasons. Chaos
could have been taken major role in the world without liveliness in the
universe.
Therefore invisible hand of almighty could have been played at that time?
Now whatever scientist calling today as “black hole” that would have been
appeared and might have been swallowed live debris of universe. Who knows?
And if there is just principle of destruction exists, there is no
existence of universe. So the existence of single principle could have caused
meaningless only.
If it is only" Brahma/ creative" tathwa there is no balance in the
universe as I said earlier only.
Without “Brahma/ srushti tatwa" there is no existence for Vishnu
/sthithi tatwa, it may seems silly but not so as we think.
What happens when ‘’Brahma/creative‘’ principle and ‘’Shiva/destructive”
principle would have been only exist? Again it has been kind of lifeless play
of universe. Immediately after the birth, any creatures would have died without
experience of sad, joy, pain, risk, failure, victory, humiliations, and felicitations.
It’s would be another meaningless phenomena of cosmic play. So these three principles
are inseparable. Sir we leave it here. This is crossing the limits of our main
subject. But this much was necessary.
Man after 50 years of age is like a tree with silver hair, blurry eyes,
wrinkles on face, up & downs of his life pages, sweet & bitter memories
of the life would have curved him a shape, according their experiences made him
think “life means this only”. If so friends tell me, is there any meaning for
life? Certainly not, right? Tree provides us through all the form of its organs-
medicines, foods, cool shadow, it also allows to build nests to birds in their
branches and absorbs toxic from air, gives pure & fresh oxygen. And mesh
kind of its roots holds the soil tightly so it could not drain away in rain and
it gives wood for furniture. Thus all the parts of tree are useful for all the
beings.
Thus none of trinity is greater than rest of two, all have specific
contributions in their role and all three are equal.
Whatever experiences he may got or earned money in his lifetime, when
money & knowledge is shared to the needy then could be meaning full. This
is what our ancestors did from the ages.
“Kalpa Vruksh “a tree in heaven which gives us whatever we asked
But in earth all the trees gives us everything without any of our demand
Ungrateful man being as a most intellectual animal on the globe is constantly
destroying the nature and innocent animals in many ways.
He is creating everything artificial as against the laws of nature.
Due to his cruel deeds many strange Diseases are spreading all over the
world in abnormal ways and though he suffering severely but not learning lesson.
You think I have given the examples of a bare tree only? But tree is growing in mother earth. Thus it
seems mother earth is greater than tree. But the Earth and other planets are floating
in space. Sun is the one who illuminates globe from the sky. Even in the chanting
our ancestors praised him like this:
“Nama Savithre jagadeka chakshuve Jagath Prasoothi Sthithi Nash Hetuve
Traya Mayay Trigunatma Darine Viranchi Narayana Shankarathmane“
(Salutation to lord Surya, oh eye of world, oh capable of creating,
operating, destroying the world and who beholds three qualities having energies
of trinity)
The sun too keeps on revolving around a higher power than him. Think of
that energy how it could be, we can't imagine.
We praise our deities as "Soma Surya Agni Lochanaya Namaha” meaning “oh
lord who having sun, moon and fire as your eyes ”
We cannot tolerate the heat of just one sun.
How almighty it that could be primal "spiritual sun” who is main source
power to the billions of suns and moons in the universe? Whether it is Allah or
Jesus or Brahma or Vishnu or Shiva or Adi Shakti, you can call that however.
Everything is the same. It is ubiquitous all over cosmic in subtle form or
bulky way and visible or invisible to our eyes.
While we maintain the greenness of globe and our life lead like a tree, birth
of man gets a greater meaning. In addition to my son's query. I have made three
types of experiment of article, painting and poetry.
Saying thanks to the principle of trinity this universe, with my own
questions of logic also got answered to some extant”.
In womb of time, seed of creativity sprouts
Principle of stability, emerged in hurry surge
Grows standing tall towards the sky as measure of present
With spreading its branches like lovely canvas of leaves & flowers
In the queue to ripe and rhythm of time tossed to rise
To somewhere reveal the seeds of hope
To sing the saga of spring
To see salvation in soil dying dry leaf dances to fall
To feel in warmth of the earth leaf swings on swan song
Nest of Festive for new shoots
Creation filled at womb of rhythm
Gage the Deep of seed
Present is studding the stable trunk
Heart of present be holds stage for Lord of dance
Once he was seed the next he himself as great tree
Now shining in lush green to reign infinity of sun & moon
We daily sink & float on thoughts of tension
Nature waits spring as sinking man finds ship in ocean
Saluting to & all my Gurus & all the poets, and hoping you liked
my Art, Article and poem - trio type of experiment.
Thanks & regards to all
MPM Natarajaiah.
