India is great Mera Bharat Mahan.!

India is great

Mera Bharat Mahan.!

1) According to The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) the number of undernourished people is the

highest in India heading over 212 million people.

2) According to the Planning Commission of India 27.5% of Indian population is living below poverty line in 2004-2005

3) Half the world's reported cases of polio, a crippling disease virtually wiped out in Western countries, occur in India

4) Diarrhea kills 500,000 Indian children every year.

5) India has a serious water, air & sound pollution rise.

Looking at the surveys, statistics & research on problems in India one thinks India has great problems.

A famous Vastu Shastra expert said that as India is surrounded by 3 sides from water that is why there are many

problems in INDIA! Then what is so great about India? Why great saints in the past have glorified, birth in India?

It is the culture, found in India that makes it great. Culture is defined as a favorable environment for a process to achieve certain goal.

Culture has 3 things 1) goal 2) process 3) favorable environment.

The vedic culture which prevails in India for thousands of years provide the favorable environment & explains the process to achieve the goal.

In India we find so many temples where gods are worshipped eg: Jaganath Puri temple in Puri, Lord Venkatesh temple in Tirupati.

Every Indian village has a temple.

There are holy place where the pastimes of Lord took placed like Vrindavan, Ayodha, Mayapur, Kurukshetra.

There are the inexhaustible literature describing moral ethics, philosophy & pastimes of lord like Srimad Bhagavatam, Srimad Bhagavad Gita,

Ramayan, Mahabharat.

India is land where many saints have lived like Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Vallabhacarya, Tukaram maharaj, Ramanujacarya, Madhavacarya, Sant Kabir, Sant Gurunanak.

In every home of India the families do prayer, diety worship, chanting lords holy name, reading Holy Scriptures, rituals described in the Vedas.Traditions & teachings are been carried by father to son & grandson.

Indian cultures constitute the above all things .The temples, holy places, scriptures, saints’ act as favorable environment. While the traditions coming

In families like diety worship, rituals, chanting holy names, reading scriptures are an inherent process that all Indians are following.

But what is the goal of such a nice culture?? The Indians youth ask why to follow the old traditions & the ancient scriptures. ?

That seems to be unknown to a lot of Indians & has caused Indians neglecting & giving up this rich culture.

The goal of such a culture is explained in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita (15.15)

Chapter 15

text 15

sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto

mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca

vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo

vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham

Translation

I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance,

knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas I am to be known; indeed

I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.

Here Lord Krishna is saying that the whole vedic culture & knowledge has a goal that is to know him.

Who is Krishna? .Krishna is the Supreme personality of Godhead isvarah paramah krsnah Bramha samhita 5.1.

The living entity keeps changing body & gets new set of senses for fulfilling his desires for enjoyment in the material world.

But the nature of this material world & material senses is limited so he gets frustrated in his attempts. In the human form of life he gets an opportunity

To know about Krishna through the vedic culture. In all Vedic literature, beginning from the four Vedas, Vedanta-sutra

and the Upanisads and Puranas, the glories of the Supreme Lord are celebrated. By performing Vedic rituals, discussing the Vedic

philosophy and worshiping the Lord in devotional service, Supreme Lord Krishna is attained. Therefore the purpose of the Vedas is to understand Krishna.

The Vedas give the right direction to the people so that they can properly mold their lives and come back to Godhead, back to home.

By worshiping Krishna one gets out of the cycle of birth & death as confirmed in Gita (4.9)

Chapter 4

TEXT 9

janma karma ca me divyam

evam yo vetti tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma

naiti mam eti so 'rjuna

TRANSLATION

One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities

does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material

world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.

Such is the aim of vedic culture to achieve the highest goal in life ie the Spiritual World.

The vedic culture not only provides spiritual goal but also teaches to live in harmony with material nature & humanity.

After knowing that this whole world belongs to Krishna (god) one doesnot enjoy greedily the material nature but only consumes

The quota he requires. It brings about divine qualities in man & he then loves each & every living entity in this world seeing them as his brother ie son of the same god.

Thus the vedic culture give a wholly solution. Proper understanding & preservation of this culture is needed to save this world from great danger like global warming, exploitation of resources.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupad the founder acarya of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) brought this vedic culture to the west

He presented this culture in a non-sectarian way & now millions of western people are benefited by the vedic knowledge & culture.

It is this Vedic culture which makes India Great & it is the duty of every Indian to preserve & spread this culture for the benefit of the whole humanity.