Voice Of Krishna

Main Story-Part One

noreply@blogger.com (Narrenaditya) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:59:00 +0000

Love your country.Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

Dr.Dwaraka Nath Chaturvedi is a renowned Professor,Department Of Vedic Studies And Indian Culture,Benares Hindu University,India.He belongs to the illustrious family of the Chaturvedis from the holy city of Mathura,Uttar Pradesh.Mathura lies on the banks of River Yamuna and is believed to be the birth place of Lord Krishna.Belonging to the gotra Vashishth, Bharadwaja and Shandilya, Chaturvedi Brahmins are the most respected of all the Brahmins even today and are mainly found in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Mumbai and other parts of India as well as many places abroad.

For many centuries the Chaturvedi families have been serving Lord Krishna,the principal deity of the famous and historical temple of Mathura.A Chaturvedi,by virtue of his knowledge of the four holy Vedas(Rig,Saama,Yajur and Atharvana Vedas) was considered to be the most learned of all Brahmins, and hence enjoyed a very high social status in ancient times.These high-priests were called for large to very large religious rituals apart from the daily rituals that take place in the Lord Krishna temple of Mathura.

In the seventeenth century when Aurangazeb attacked the city of Mathura and ransacked the Mathura Lord Krishna temple,most of the Chaturvedis fled the place and settled in places like Benares,Delhi,Rajasthan etc.

And during that painful process the fore fathers of Dr.Dwarakanath Chaturvedi migrated to the city of Benares,the oldest inhabited city of the world that lies on the banks of the holy River Ganges(Ganga-Sanskrit).

Ever since,the Chaturvedi family of Dwaraka Nath served in the court of Kashi Naresh(The King Of Benares)and have been his religious and spiritual advisers.They used to advice him on various aspects of the Vedas,Upanishads,Dhrma Sutras and on The Laws of Manu and Manu Smriti.They were highly regarded and respected by the Kashi Naresh and his Royal family.

The family of Dwarakanath Chaturvedi enjoys a royal status in the society today and is one of the richest and aristocratic families of contemporary India.His family has constructed a school of Vedic Learning on the outskirts of Benares and is doing their best to preserve the Vedic and Indian culture today.This place is a mini city by itself and lies on the banks of river Ganges and houses a huge Cattle Shed that has around three thousand holy Indian Cows.This mini city is called Dwaraka Pur and Dr.Dwaraka Nath stays in this city along with his family.

Gorakh Nath Chaturvedi,a man of eighty two years of age,is the father of Dwaraka Nath Chaturvedi and despite his old age enjoys a very prominent status in Dwaraka Pur.Though his movements are restricted he still takes a very active part in the over all affairs of the family and Dwaraka Pur.He is still the final decision maker in the family and is loved and respected by all.There is hardly anything that Dwaraka Nath does without consulting his beloved father.

Very fondly calling him "Babu ji",Dwaraka Nath makes it a point to spend at least one hour with his father every day.Dining together is a rule in the family.Mostly confined to his private room Gorakh Nath(babu ji)spends most of his time in reading and meditation and lends his advice whenever sought.He is a highly learned man of great principles and treats every one with honor and equal respect.

Devayani Chaturvedi, is the graceful looking wife of Dwaraka Nath and comes from a very highly respectable and noble family of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh.The gorgeous looking Deepika Chaturvedi is a rare beauty and is their beloved daughter.She is the pet of her grand father and is the light of Dwaraka Pur.

Debashish Chaturvedi is a handsome looking son of Dwarakanath and is doing his third year engineering in Delhi.Though Dwaraka Nath wanted his son to stay in Dwaraka Pur and take care of the School of Vedic Learning and other vedic activities,Debashish promised to his father and grandfather that he will take up the said responsibility once he finishes his engineering.

Spreading over four centuries, every generation of the illustrious Chaturvedi family has contributed something or other for the welfare of the people of Dwaraka Pur.As a rule,one male member from each generation of the Chaturvedi family unconditionally dedicated his life for upholding the values of Vedas and spreading the great Vedic culture across the nation.Whereas Dwarakanath is doing that in the current generation,Debashish has to take the responsibility from his father.

Spreading Vedic Culture and delivering lectures on its importance,Dwaraka Nath travelled all over the country and invited great Vedic scholars to teach the students of Vedic learning in Dwaraka Pur.In recognition of his services in preserving the Vedic culture and heritage, the Govt.of India honored him with the prestigious Padmasri Award.

Dwaraka Nath and his father are very keen and particular that the rich and invaluable Vedic Culture of India should be properly preserved and handed over to future generations and it should be someone from their own family who should shoulder this responsibility unconditionally. Both of them feel that although they have done their bit in this direction, that definitely is not substantial enough and there are still many areas that need to be explored.They feel that there is a lot that needs to be done and only the younger generation is capable of doing this. So they have all their hopes on Debashish and are eagerly awaiting the completion of his engineering course.

This briefly is the picture of the family that will form the nucleus of this subject………….

Voice Of Krishna-The Prologue-Final Part

noreply@blogger.com (Narrenaditya) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:43:00 +0000

"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India"
- Max Mueller

Every one of us frame an argument built in support of our deeds,our whims and fancies, our opinions, our views,our pitfalls,our claims,our idiosyncrasies and finally our hypocrisies.

We constantly sharpen this argument,modify it from time to time and very successfully use it to shield ourselves and our deeds from the wrath and criticism of the outside world of which we are also a significant part.

We always think that we can never be wrong and shall never go wrong.

But very few of us realize that there is also some end to all our arguments and at the end of such argument begins a new argument which propagates an all together new theory,new thought and a new argument.

This is a cycle that has many dimensions.

Indians living abroad cannot claim an exemption from this theory.

They talk about everything except coming back to India and keep offering lame excuses to their parents.

They sound so honest in their claims that their parents too are convinced and support whatever their son says.

This drama goes on endlessly.

But before they realize the reality...

The shadows are already creeping..
Slowly but steadily the age clock is ticking.
The biological clock too keeps ticking.
Seasons change.Times pass.Year after year passes.
The son grows.His family grows.His income grows.His wish list grows.
He appears so near yet so far to his parents.
His goals and targets keep fluctuating
And as a result..
The darkness in the house of his parents grows.
Age withers them.
Diseases conquer them.
Vision starts diminishing.
The bells of Heaven start ringing.
They become very desperate in their waiting for their beloved son as they now start seeing the rays from the Cosmos descending on them slowly..
They see the gates of the Heavens opening for them.....
They also see the signals of His Holy Light very clearly..

Finally the son comes...
Though he comes...
He arrives like the Head Of a State on a visit to a foreign nation and like a
visiting professor who comes to deliver a lecture.
And during that visit he has very little time for his parents because he comes
with a book full of appointments that he and his wife have been filling up right
from the day they have booked their tickets to India.
And during that brief stay..
He makes sure that he visits at least two pilgrim centers.Attends at least two
spiritual discourses.
He does everything with a meticulous planning that the insensitive American
society had taught him..
He executes that plan to perfection and makes sure that he takes his parents to
a few classy rich restaurants.Just to show them how aristocratic their son is.He also makes sure that he takes a few flashy snaps with them in that restaurant and by doing so draws everyone's attention there.
Both the son and his wife try to be as exhibitionistic as possible.
He only talks in American English with all the hotel staff there while his wife tries to be as loud as possible in conveying to the fellow customers in the restaurant that she is from Amreekaa.
She says "Du' instead of "Do" and uses "Oh Ohkay" and "Oh Yeah" as often aspossible.
Drinks only Diet Coke instead of normal Coke and if she sneezes,she definitely says"excuse me".
If she has to speak to someone in her native language she speaks in that language as if a native American is speaking in that language for the first time.
So on so forth this comedy show goes on for a fortnight or a month.
And
Before the parents could feel his presence the son leaves with his family with a very artificially orchestrated emotional drama in the airport leaving the parents
In a lonely twilight zone...

Once again the empty nest syndrome castes its sway on the parents and takes them into complete control.
Their house is taken into captivity by complete darkness and loneliness filled with a whole lot of emptiness all around.
This is a process passing through which both the parties have a very convincing argument to place before the world.
But whoever wins the arguments the parents end up as ultimate losers.
They slowly come to a conclusion that they are pushed to a point of no return by their beloved son.
This feeling is later replaced by a sort of disinterest in life and worldly activities which finally takes them into a pall of gloom and into a complete state of irreparable depression and trauma.
It is a state of the mind that prisoners of solitary confinement develop over a longer period of time spending in the dark and lonely cellular jails of a closed world.
A truly traumatic situation.
And as a result of this endless trauma the poor parents start going into a withdrawal mode..
And finally,
Finally..
You know what happens..
How painfully traumatic.
Do they really deserve this.??
What is their sin.???
Who gives the answer...???????
I don’t say that this is the general scenario that is happening in every Indian household today,but it is in general the scenario in many Indian households.Families with only one or two children are the worst effected whereas in bigger families the damage is less.
Amidst all this chaotic scenario there are a few exceptional cases too who have left everything in US and Canada just to stay with their parents in India.Many of them have realized the value of their parents and returned back to India for good.
But as I say it is an exception.
There are also many families who really want to come back to India for their parents and for the future of their children who though legally belong to America owing to their birth,but in practical terms are neither Indians nor Americans.
The reason being that they are simultaneously influenced by the highly spiritual Indian culture at home and the weird American culture in their outside world.
And naturally they are confused.
That is why they are very aptly given the title”ABCD”(American Born
Confused Desis)

Dear friends,Many of you may question my authority in expressing the above views on living in America.You may also argue that it is easy to sit in India without going to America and comment on Indians in America.
When so many Toms,Dicks and Harries could go there why can't I..???
Of course I had my opportunities to go there long ago and in fact with more lucrative offers than many of you have had.I would have been in the league of some extraordinary gentlemen.
But with immense faith in God I had the audacity to say no to them.Only my wife,one or two close personal friends and finally my beloved father who is my visible God know about my rejection.
All said and done My family comes first to me and I always believe in love,affection and family values.
Finally,My dear beloved American Indians,if you have million reasons in favor of not coming to India,I have billion reasons in favor of your coming back to India.I can put all that data here but the space on the web is too little,so I end my Prologue here with the following phrases that I have used in the main story..
I pray to Lord Krishna that a moment should never come in any person's life to use these heart breaking phrases..
If you have a weak heart please stop here and do not read further....

"Who will wait for me anxiously in my native place,

Who will display restlessness if my letter fails to arrive

I will visit your grave with this complaint

Who will now think of me in morning prayers

All your life you served me with devotion

And when I became fit to serve you,

My dear Mother,

You have departed..”

The main story begins

The Prologue

noreply@blogger.com (Narrenaditya) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:52:00 +0000

"Api Swarnamayi Lankaa na me Lakshmana rochate

Janani Janmabhumishcha Swargaadapi Gariyasi"

After the great battle of Ramayana,the Lankan King Vibheeshana invites Lord Rama and His brother Lakshmana to visit Lanka.
The brothers were spellbound by the beauty of Lanka.
The ponds were filled with crystal clear water and the pathways were studded with Diamonds.
Coated with Gold,the palaces and buildings were exemplary pieces of art par excellence.
The whole island was looking like a heaven on earth filled with Gold,beauty,prosperity and richness all around..
Lakshmana was so tempted by the heavenly look of Lanka,he tells his brother Ram
''Dear brother,this country looks like a heaven full of Gold and appears a better place to live”

It is then that Lord Rama says....

"Api Swarnamayi Lankaa na me Lakshmana rochate

Janani Janmabhumishcha Swargaadapi Gariyasi"

("Lakshmana,Lanka may be full of gold and may look like heaven,but Mother and Mother Nation are greater than the Heaven")

There was a time when the Indian families used to stay together and live together. Everything was family centric with love and affection being great assets of paramount importance to each and every member of the family.

There used to be big havelis(Large houses) with around fifty members of a large single family living there peacefully. Dining together was a big fun and family functions were gala times for them.

With the passing of time the needs began to grow and the necessity of earning more money too began growing. So these Indian families began to look around for opportunities but there were not many available for them in

India

at that time.
The eldest in the family used to take the decision of sending one person to countries like America, Canada and

Great Britain

Once abroad,it becomes the duty of that person to earn enough money in that country and send it back to

India

for the better needs of his family. It also becomes the responsibility of that person to take a few competent people from his family to that country and see that they too are comfortably settled there..

Since there were not many facilities and opportunities in India, one after the other,all the members of that family used to go to that country which in most cases happen to be America and settle there doing petty jobs and some odd businesses.
That way the strength of Indian families started growing in America.
All these families meet often in functions,festivals and marriages along with their American friends and in the process started consolidating the presence of Indian community in America.

Like the seasons in Nature change....
The scenario too started changing gradually in

India

.
The big families started becoming small and living together later became living only for themselves.
There was a progressive decline in the strength of the family with only a marginal growth in the overall income of these families.

But God was kind to people in His own country and after 1994,times have changed and changed drastically once the P V Narasinha Rao regime opened gates to global market.
And from there on India never looked back and moved from strength to strength financially and fiscally and now has grown to the state of dictating terms to the global market.
By the turn of the past century India became a world IT hub and a one stop solution to many global market leaders’ problems.
Standing tall in a way India is influencing the world economy today.

But pathetically that did not stop Indians from going to the United States of America,which still enjoys the status of being the only "Land Of Opportunities" for Indians even today.
It is a name that still spells magic for most of the families in

India

and has become a dream destination to many a Indian youth.

Every Indian family takes pride in telling the world that their off springs are in America.That way the parents started creating an absolutely unwanted brand image to their by products.

Sadly these poor Indian parents are either too innocent or too ignorant to foresee the consequences and repercussions that were to follow later as a result of their over ambitious decision of sending their children to those distant shores by giving them unnecessary freedom and exposing them to a totally different American culture.
The parents in a way have unknowingly lit a huge fire which they could not put off later.
And by the time they realize it and try to do some damage control..
Their lives are already burning...

It all begins like this....
First,with all the pomp and gaiety the son goes to U S.
Starts doing his M S or some other management courses there.
If he gets an university aid it is fine.
Even otherwise he starts doing some petty jobs like shop keeping,working in Mc Donalds and Gas stations or some other similar places.
Later,takes a few credit cards and starts dreaming big.
Everything is handy now and everything is available for him with just a quarter of an effort when compared to

India

Now he starts seeing some cool money to spend freely which he has so far not seen in India.
He is also enjoying his freedom.
No one to question his coming home in late hours and no moral policing to put restrictions on his movements.
He can be what he is and thinks he has the licence to do whatever he wants to do.
Literally whatever..
That whatttevverr which begins on a Friday night and goes on till the wee hours of Monday morning.
Like every Indian who goes to America feels enlightened,he too feels enlightened and starts thinking that the life he has led in India thus far is no life at all and as such India is not the country for an immaculate genius like him.
He thinks that people back in India are just living whereas in America people lead life in full throttle.

He realizes and starts thinking that...
“This is the life I wanted to live and

America

is the only country that offers it”
Gradually his mind becomes American and "I care a damn for you"American life style becomes an addiction to him.
It is just like the addiction that you get hooked to when you are offered the first cigarette or a first beer in your college.
And..........

It is exactly at this point of time that he starts avoiding everything about India and its Indianess.
Not that he has no love or respect for his parents in India but the new look American connection is predominant on his mind that has by then taken a complete control of his psyche and action.
Life is on a song for him.
He sends money,takes care of all the financial needs of his family and enhances their standard of living.
He constructs a big house in his home town in India for his family and also accumulates substantial wealth by Indian standards.
He does everything except coming back to India.
But after sometime all these riches become secondary to his parents who only want him to come back to India once for all .
Though he can he doesn't as he is deep rooted there in America and his whole mind,body and soul have become completely American by then.
He offers million excuses to support his claim which appear very genuine to his parents.
He still promises that he will come back but he won't as he can't.
Because the decision in favor of going back to India doesn't entirely lie in his hands.

Continued in Voice Of Krishna-The Prologue-Final part

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!"
-Albert Einstein

Voice Of Krishna-An Intoduction

noreply@blogger.com (Narrenaditya) — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:12:00 +0000

“Everything in this world
Is predetermined and well determined
Right from the movement of the blade of the
Grass to the movement of the monster”

Behind every living and nonliving thing that exists in this glorious world,planet,galaxy or for that matter in this whole universe...
Behind every word, deed and action occurring in any form, longitude,latitude and magnitude across this planet...

Behind every creation,glory, pain,gain and discovery that is taking place every moment in every inch and corner of this vast space...

Behind every destruction, calamity or catastrophe that is striking any part of this world at any given time or through any given or ungiven form,whether with a reason or with an inexplicable reason,whether understood, misunderstood or not properly understood by humanity..
There lies....
The all pervasive but ever protective invisible hand of that omnipotent and omnipresent force of Supreme Being called..
Lord Krishna and His creative genius..
Whether or not humanity accepts and assimilates this theory-it is as solid as a rock and as soft as our Mother's Love.

Whether or not we understand it,whether or not we relish or unrelish it,whether or not we appreciate or criticize it,behind every act of The Lord there is a definite purpose.

The gifted soul shall understand and accepts this theory and that not gifted shall go through the pain.
There are many references in many countries,religions and philosophies that endorse Lord Krishna as the Supreme God and the Creator of this Universe.
While everything that is visible to the naked eye in Nature is Krishna Tatvam(Krishna Consciousness), then everything that is audible is.........

KRISHNA SABDAM(VOICE OF KRISHNA)

After an enormous study of so many things and after many personal experiences I have formulated the above theory which I firmly believe,practice and follow.
Greatly Influenced by this theory I have written an important story for the global audiences in general and for Indian audiences living abroad in particular.
Friends,Please wait for this story..
This story is ready and I shall publish it in parts once in a week.
This story received an overwhelming response from many of my personal friends who read it and in fact most of them became very emotional after reading it and broke down into tears..
This is not a true story but is definitely inspired by many painful real life incidents.
This is a story that came straight out of my heart and is a complete deviation from my usual frivolous self.
This story is going to be made into an international film and this film is exclusively meant for the millions of Indians living abroad.
Though it is too early to say anything...
Please watch out for more details...

Yours Beloved
Narrenaditya