Rarh [West Bengal] The Cradle of Civilization on Superphysics

The Birth of Rarh

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300 million years ago there was a great ocean without a name because there were no humans yet.

After a long time this very terrain, this nameless mountainous terrain, was given the name Ráŕh.

The First Humans on Rarh

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Human beings originated at a few particular points on this planet.

When forests appeared on earth, dense forests spread over the hard [e.g., granitic] rock, the metamorphic rock, the igneous rock and the sedimentary rock of Ráŕh.

Outstanding Personalities of Ráŕh

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The greatest proof that someone is a developed person is that person’s refined taste and subtlety based on his or her intelligence and wisdom.

A person comes to be a philosopher when that person studies his or her environment and thereby learns to see his or her inner self.

Other Personalities of Ráŕh

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Mathematics received its inspiration from the celestial bodies.

The ancient calculations of the Suryasiddhánta(6) could not keep pace with the passage of time. Calculations were becoming prone to error.

Jayanta Panigrahi, an outstanding son of Ráŕh, introduced a new system of calculation.

The Varnashrama Caste System

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The varnashrama social system did not originate in India.

This weed crept into India from the north-west.

It:

sucked all the vital juice out of the people’s minds
threatened to annihilate their minds totally.

The effects linger on.

The Puranic Era of Rarh

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The influence of environment on the human mind is boundless.

The environment is not made up only of:

the 5 rudimental factors [ethereal, aerial, luminous, liquid and solid].
earth, water, air, rivers and vegetation.

The environment must include also citta [the objective mind], ahaḿtattva [the ego], mahattattva [the “I exist” feeling] and átmá [the soul].

The Bad Effects of the Puranic Era of Rarh

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Shashanka, a king of Ráŕh, was an orthodox Shaivite.

Everyone in Ráŕh were adherents of Shaivism at that time.

King Shashanka could not tolerate the Buddhists at all.

He obliterated a number of Buddha idols in Magadh [on the west of Ráŕh].

Jainism in Rarh

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Dharma is based on logic and the realizations of great sádhakas [spiritual aspirants].

Religion, or dharmamata, is based entirely on irrational blind faith.

So religions are always sheltered within dogma.

Worship in Rarh

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What is the underlying spirit or essence of dharma?

The essence of dharma is that it carries a person in the direction of greater and greater expansion.

It finally establishes that person in the supreme pervasiveness.

A mango has in it skin, pulp, fibres, seed and juice.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Vaesnava Dharma

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There are mainly 2 types of mentality at work behind an inclination towards spirituality:

The selfish mentality, or átmá-sukha tattva [theory of selfish pleasure]
Sama-samája tattva [the theory of social equality].

When utter self-centredness manifests in people they think: “I shall eat and dress well, ride luxury cars and fulfil all my desires.”

What is Jainism?

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“Jain” is derived from the word jin which means “to be victorious” – “to struggle and be victorious in all spheres”.

But how is it possible to be victorious living like a tortoise?

The Idols of Rarh

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The psychology of Ráŕh which was based on the original Shaeva Dharma and only superficially accepted Jainism.

Ráŕh rejected and did not internalize the aspects of Jainism which were not consistent with the fundamental rules of Shaeva Dharma.

Rarh Versus the Aryans

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Ancient Ráŕh, the mother of gems and jewels, was composed of mountain ranges surrounded by oceans.

Those ranges at one time resonated with storms and tempests, rain and thunderbolts. There were no human beings, nor were there any other living beings. Even shrubs and creepers were not to be seen. Except for Parama Puruśa [Supreme Consciousness], there was no one to witness the exquisite beauty of Ráŕh. The mountains having become pulverized under the process of constant erosion, in between those mountains plains, valleys and plateaus began to come up.

Phallus Worship

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Phallus worship was the first step to the oldest form of religious thinking.

The people of Ráŕh, who had heartily embraced Shaeva Dharma, started worshipping Shiva without crafting Shiva idols. They did, however, build Shiva temples.

The Culture of Rarh

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The culture of the human race is one. But there are variations in the cultural expressions according to changes of time, place and person.

These variations in expression are not cultural differences.

The Utkal Brahmans in Ráŕh

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What is the origin of the Utkal Brahmans in Ráŕh?

They live in large numbers in the south-west part of Ráŕh.

It is not possible for lakhs of people, batch after batch, to sail across the seven seas and 13 rivers and settle down in Ráŕh.

The Kayasthas of Rarh

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The Gaoŕádya Vedics are inhabitants of Ráŕh.

The following lived in the southern region of Ráŕh:

The middle-class Brahmans, composed of the Ráŕhiiya Brahmans and Ráŕhiiya Utkal Brahmans
The Maharashtrian Brahmans who had come from outside
- They call themselves Madhya Deshiiya Ráŕhii Brahmans.

There is nothing wrong with their calling themselves Ráŕhii.

The People of Rarh

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The people of Ráŕh are a mixture of Austric and Negroid.

In eastern Ráŕh there is also some Mongolian influence.

Pure Austric and pure Negroid are not to be found in Ráŕh.

Caste Discrimination in Rarh

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When the Puranic religion came to Ráŕh with incalculable social ills.

After the first Aryan migrations to India, caste divisions overtook Ráŕh just as they did other parts of India.

The Animals in Rarh

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The soil of Ráŕh is approximately 30 crore [300m] years old.

The first vibration of life in Ráŕh came at the same time as the first vibration of life on earth.

The Literature of Rarh

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Sáhitya means all those [literary] manifestations of the human minds that always move along the path of welfare [hita], that are associated with [with = sa] welfare.

Hitena saha ityarthe sáhitya

The Resources in Rarh

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The surface of Ráŕh slopes from the west and the northwest towards the east and the southeast. The courses of the rivers are the same.

All the rivers from the Bansh River in the north to the Suvarnarekha in the extreme south follow the same pattern.

Mauṋgalkávya and Vaeśńavkávya

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The golden age of the Mauṋgalkávya(1) came in Ráŕh.

Its main theme was to establish certain deities – non-scriptural deities, Buddhist deities, Jain deities and Paoráńika deities – in society, in doing so the poets have depicted the joys and sorrows of the common people.

Language and Culture of Ráŕh

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There is an abundance of Sanskrit words in the language of Ráŕh.

The language is replete with:

tatsama words [Sanskrit words used in unchanged form in the Bengali language]
bhagnatatsama words [Sanskrit words used in changed form in Bengali language]
tadbhava words [Bengali words derived from Sanskrit root but used in a corrupted form in the Bengali language]
semi-tadbhava words [Bengali words derived from Sanskrit root but corrupted to the point of their roots being unrecognizable]

About 92% of the words are directly or indirectly related to the Sanskrit language.

The Songs of Rarh

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The world is rhythmic. The subtler reverberations in human brains which manifest themselves in the realm of language are the first mundane expressions of the subtle world.

Hence the sound tanmátra(1) is the subtlest of tanmátras.

The Temples of Rarh

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When the people of Ráŕh first received from Lord Sadáshiva his teachings, they thought to congregate at a particular place to chalk out plans for their constructive religious activities. This led to the idea of building temples.

The Bengali Language

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Bengali came from Púrvii Ardha-Mágadhii. It is the language of Ráŕh.

It has 12 main dialects. Some of the dialects are so big that they include more than one sub-dialect within them.

The Rivers of Rarh

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Civilization and culture move ahead not across hills and through jungles, but along the basins of rivers.

Ráŕh abounds in rivers.

Rárh was rich in forest resources, and most of its rivers – big, medium-sized and small – in those days were full of water all throughout the year.

The Script of Ráŕh

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The metamorphosed form of the ancient Bráhmii script is the Shriiharśa script.

It was named Shriiharśa after King Harshavardhan, since a seal in his handwriting that was discovered, was written in this script.

The Simplicity of Rarh

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The people of Ráŕh are sociable and prefer to remain in company and in a pleasant mood. Though burdened with poverty, they invite people for meals.

History of the Regions of Ráŕh

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Very ancient are the land, people, civilization of Rarh.

There cannot be a very interesting history of the Shúdra Age.

Its history is the history of how humanity marches onward towards the Kśatriya Age.(1)

Socio-Economic Exploitation in Ráŕh

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This world of ours is made up of good and bad, which are done not so much by nature as by human beings.

The good things that humans have the capacity for are friendliness, intimacy, love, sweet amiability – both internal and external – sitting together to eat and to talk, trying to feel the joys and sorrows of others, and so on.

The Climate of Rarh

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Ráŕh is a land of rough and undulating red soil.

Even if this does not completely hold true for eastern Ráŕh, eastern Ráŕh is a rather high and arid land compared to Bagri.

Notes

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Aryans gave the caste system.

Buddha was warrior caste from Lumbini Nepal

Mahavira was trader caste from Kundalpur Bihar central India.

These opposed the Shaivite Tantric system.

Jain merged with Tantra, since Jainism was dead, to create Baul philosophy which influenced Rabindranath Tagore.