Paatal Lok

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Pataal Lok -

After reading,writing and researching mythology over many years , 

I have a very strong feeling that mythology did happen in Real .

•            I might be wrong and not interested into arguements but a deep feeling has grown inside that what we have read in Mahabharata or Ramayana , everything did existed in real.   

                Mythical epics like Ramayana & Mahabharata did happen for real , that's the strong feeling I have developed inside.

                And the reason being , the entire community structure , rules , laws, social discrimination etc which I see day in and day out prevailed that time also.

     The only difference is that in our vedic text and epics , the situations are not very straight forward , its in the disguise of some heavenly incident.

           Let me tell you a story and this one is from Mahabharata . And for the moment think that Mahabharata happened for real.

           Think as we have the caste system now lower caste upper caste the Thakurs the Dalits etc etc , it prevailed in those time also.

     

         3500 B.C.

  khandava Forest  or Khandavprastha ( as mentioned in Mahabharat the Epic )  .

     Now it lies west of Yamuna River , modern day Delhi.

    It was the place where Nagas lived .

       Paatal Lok , think the kind of place where poor lower caste people generally lives.

 Nagas were not snakes but a clan of people who had the emblem of a serpent probably in their flags and other seals.

         In stone ages or iron age , when Man first started worshipping it was the visible nature and natural forces.

            Wind , fire , water , rain .

               Then came dangerous animals like snakes .

     As mostly man started living in forests and started clearing forests to make a place for their living.

       Then slowly man evolved and got detached from nature and natural forces , it might be that man became less afraid or less conscious and started worshipping the invisible God. 

       It might have started with a forest God , like Bon Bibi which is widely worshipped in  Sunderbans to protect all from wrath of the most dangerous animal , the Royal Bengal Tiger.

     And then slowly other Gods came.

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    Think of lower caste people like Dalits or Gujjars to bring in the simile who worships snakes as they live in areas like forest full of such poisonous animals .

    Vasuki was their king or leader . He was succeded by Takshak .Vasuki was the benevolent servent of Lord Shiva , let's think of a powerful man , very powerful in modern India. like a powerful Tribal Leader , full of magical mysterious aura .

                Shiva is called a god who lives with dogs in crematoriums, who is feared and shunned by "brahmin" leaders like Daksha. Daksha is obsessed with purity and Shiva mocks ideas of purity. 

Somehow it feels that the very genes of casteism is embedded in our fabric from the time of Gods.

over the years , I had received numerous mails/messages asking about the hard copy...
seems the long wait has ended !
The book is now available in hard copy.

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     Now , one night suddenly a chariot appears on the edge of the Khandava forest.

   Inside the chariot are 2 persons , one is Lord Vishnu or Sri Krishna , let's think of another very powerful man in modern India.

The other person is Arjun , a young , motivated follower of Sri Krishna , you can draw his simile to any follower but very motivated , enigmatic , highly skilled , and going up the ladders very fast , and all eyes are on him.

    On the instruction of Sri Krishna , Arjun burns down the whole forest , the whole Khandava forest.

Why ?

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      If you read Mahabharata , its written that God Agni , the god of fire is very very hungry and he comes to Sri Krishna to allow him to devour the forest.

       The factual meaning or representation - 

  Because the Pandavas needed a new place during exile to build their palace .

    Thousands of Nagas and other clans dies.

       Who is saved ? Demon Maya and why - he builds the celestial palace Indraprastha there.

    I am sure such incidents are not very difficult to imagine in modern India , isn't it ?

     Then what happens ? Thats the question...so at some generations  the Nagas has to take revenge , isn't it natural ?

    Like uprising full of blood by lower caste against upper caste .

   Aswasena , Takshak's son will draw blood on Arjun.