Who is MAN? individual or Society?

Man is not individual nor independent, man alone can not win any race, though each and every activity of man is dependent, like Food is dependent on nature, life is dependent on oxygen. On serious note, man is bound by some rules, even each and every one is bound by rules.God is bound to do good things, only this is rule, if HE is not doing good, HE can't be god.
Whenever we read "survival the fittest" by Charles Darvin we found ultimate goal of individual is to survive and fulfill his need at any cost. Sometimes he may fulfill all need of his body (Sharir, शरीर) and Heart (manha, मन), but some thing missed out which is  intellectuality( Buddhi, बुद्धि ) and Sprit ( Atma, आत्मा). So is survival the fittest is right??
The ultimate happiness (sukh, सुख) is combination of all four sharir, manha, buddhi and atma. An individual can only get this sukh in this sense to be part of society. So along with solely importance of individual, Man is also part of society. Like individual, society is having all four components exists.
Like in car individual tyre, engine, seats, steering etc have importance individualy but jointly they become car and more value.

When individual collectively be a society with all four components. Then it is called HINDU jeevan darshan.
We are not able to see this, because we live this.

Rahul Rathore
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एकं सद्विप्रा बहुधा वदन्ति: We All Are Hindus Now

इन दिनों आतकंवाद चर्म पर है ये खबरे पुर अंतराष्ट्रीय मीडिया में बनी हुई है। आज आतंकवाद का दंश अन्य देशो को भी समज में आ रहा है। हाल ही की बांग्लादेश देश की घटना जिसने इस्लामिक देश को भी अनेक सन्दर्भ में विचार करने को विवश कर दिया है। उसी विवशता में से निकल के आया ज़ाकिर नाईक का नाम एवं उसके अनेक उपक्रमों पर प्रतिबन्ध लगाने का उपाय। तब भारतीय मीडिया ने ज़ाकिर नाईक के कई कार्यक्रमों के अंशो को प्रसारित किया, समज में ये आया की वह मूलतः हिन्दू धर्म का अनर्गल प्रचार करता एवं हिन्दू धर्म को नीचा दिखाना ही उसका एकमात्र ध्येय है। कई बार वह वेदों की गलत व्याख्या कर अपना हित शाधता है। एक कायर्क्रम में वह ऋगवेद के श्लोक "एकं सद्विप्रा बहुधा वदन्ति" की गलत व्याख्या करता दिखा। इसी गलत व्याख्या से लोगो को उकसाता एवं हिन्दू धर्म की बुराई करता दिखा।
ऐसे में मुझे प्रख्यात अमेरिकी लेखिका एवं पत्रकार का स्मरण हुआ,जिन्होंने इसी श्लोक को सही अर्थ में समजकर एक लेख लिखा जिसका शीर्षक था "अब हम सभी हिन्दू है" (We All Are Hindus Now). उनके लेख के कुछ अंश यह है-

"The Rig Veda, the most ancient Hindu scripture, says this: 'Truth is One, but the sages speak of it by many names.' A Hindu believes there are many paths to God. Jesus is one way, the Qur'n is another, yoga practice is a third. None is better than any other; all are equal. The most traditional, conservative Christians have not been taught to think like this. They learn in Sunday school that their religion is true, and others are false. Jesus said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.'"

यह लेख अमेरिकी पत्रिका न्यूज़वीक में 15 अगस्त 2009 को छपा था।

लेखिका ने बताया है की इसी श्लोक से उन्हें ये लेख लिखने की प्रेरणा मिली। इस श्लोक का अर्थ हे स्तय एक है, ईश्वर एक है और उसे प्राप्त करने के कई रास्ते है, कई पूजा पद्धति है। कोई की पद्धति किसी से कम या नीची नहीं हे, सभी रास्ते एक समान है। और यही सनातन धर्म का सार है। किन्तु अन्य धर्मो में सिखाया गया में ही श्रेष्ठ हु, मुझसे बड़ा कोई नहीं।

हैरिस पोल के 2008 के आकड़ो पर ध्यान दे तो 24 प्रतिशत अमेरिकी पुर्नजन्म में विशवास रखते है ये आकड़ा सन 1975 में मात्र 6 प्रतिशत था।

ऐसे में कोई ज़ाकिर नाईक को बतावे की जिन श्लोको व् ज्ञान को प्राप्त कर अमेरिका हिन्दू धर्म की और जा रहे है व अंतराष्ट्रीय मीडिया में खुलकर सनातन धर्म के पक्ष में लिख रहे है, ऐसे में वेदों की गलत व्यख्या करके कुछ प्राप्त नहीं होगा।

राहुल राठौड़
Rahulrajrathore@gmail.com.

Freedom of Speech and Censorship

Any Indian is free to express their views as per Article 19(A) of Constitution of India. Currently so many number of methods available to express ideas and views. Major methods are 1) Film 2) Advertisement 3) TV serials 4) Print Media 5) Electronic Media 6) Social Media 7) Blogs etc. Censorship exist in all of above medium, somewhere is its in mature stage and somewhere still we are struggling to censor contents due to lack of knowledge and focus. Definition of censorship cannot be same for two cultures. Censorship according to American may different from European and Indian. Definition of Censorship framed according to the cultural, values and sensitivity of country and future impact on society.

Our Censor board for films and telefilms recently banned some words which is not acceptable in Indian Culture. They did well but still there is lot of opportunities of improvement in film censorship. Some gestures/Expressions/Body movements should be banned in favor of society. Some of the characters like “Dawood“ etc, which misleading society should be banned. Overall these negative words and character should be used like this only, that negative characters should not convert in Hero among Indian society, and youth should not follow them.TV serials should be censored like this only that positive energy should float among people. For getting these entire things censorship department should have more practical approach.

Similarly advertisements also impact society very badly. For films, at least parents can protect their child,   but youth viewing all type of Ads without any restriction and unplanned. In sequence of presenting entire story in a minute Ad makers using women as sex object. Sometimes icons and celebrities involved in promoting brands or product which may not acceptable among society. One of the celebrity and youth icon feeling guilty on branding cigarette, which he did years back. Though ASCI and NAMS type of firms are there to monitor all type of Print and Electronic Ads.

Internet is easily available, approachable and gives freedom among common man to express their views beyond boundaries of country. Censorship in internet side is still not mature enough, All type of censored material is available over internet, if government blocked any of the web page, owner manage to create new portal for objectionable material. Though government discussed with 22 odd internet companies like Google, Facebook, twitter etc for monitoring of objectionable content posted over their site. According to freedom house report, Indian internet is still in free side, so many objectionable contents are available over internet. Like in J&k separatist and terrorist can easily upload material over internet which can misguide youth of valley. Information Technology Act of India need more improvement.

Programs like AIB roast and others are putting wrong impact over society. Some western culture favored class defending these programs by saying Indian as thin skinned and narrow minded people. But Khajuraho is the creativity of Indian mind only, Indian society is not narrow minded it cares for all.

Censorship in print media is also not new, before independence British government totally banned book written by Veer Savarkar. Same pattern followed in 1975 during emergency where approx 35 printing press seized and 5000 individuals arrested who are involved in publication work. But focus required on print content also.

Rahul Rathore

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