Jada Bharata was a ruler of the world millions of years back. He presided over the entire world. Everyone was happy and lived with complete contentment during his rule. India is known as Bharat because of him. He was incomparable and prosperity was unconditional in the world. Prosperity not just of people, but nature prospered too. Prosperity in nature is regular rains, free from droughts, and other calamities. Abundance in everyone’s homes. Elusive quality that we seek in life, today, was delivered with ease during Jada Bharata’s time. He was unmatched in valor and revered by everyone in the world. A ruler whose life has been immortalized in literature. He relinquished his duties to appropriate personnel upon old age and retired to lead monastic life in the forests till his death. A practice in times of yore of not only rulers, but every person. When the physical world is conquered, desire wanes, intellectual pursuit of the mind takes root. Sensing his end time is close, he chose to discover the eternal plateau of life.
He commenced a new life in the forest meditating upon the eternal quality of existential truths. His mind unraveled mysteries of our existence in meditation, years rolled by unencumbered with the banality of ordinary life. As he freed himself and cleansed his mind with the knowledge of the pure, he was nearing the attainment of eternal joy. His body neared the end of the journey when he witnessed a pregnant deer running in fright to plunge to death in water and delivered the fawn. Bharata witnessing the sad plight of the mother, and the fawn chose to adopt the fawn. He raised the fawn. His mind, over the course of weeks, abandoned eternal joy and only centered on the fawn. He was concerned about the fawn, and the threats it faced in the forest from predator animals. Strength of his mind, and the meditative quality were replaced by concern for the fawn. His life’s journey was near the end, and one day he departed the body thinking of the fawn.
Bharata had attained control of the mind that few of us can master today. Leaving the body behind thinking about the deer commenced a new journey, once more, for Bharata as a deer. His monastic endeavors in the forest were carried forward in the new life as a deer. Despite being born as an animal, his monastic journey continued in the body of the deer. He remained aloof and spent the most time near hermitages in the forest. He was drawn to the practices of hermits, and their life because the strength of his conquest in the previous body was intact in a deer’s body. His life as a deer continued till the end of the normal life of a deer.
Bharata returned as a human being to a brahmin’s family as the youngest son. Once again, his monastic conquests remained with him, and maintained a distance from the physical world. He grew up detached from the worldly pleasures, and he was harassed by his brothers, and their wives because he remained unperturbed, and chose to leave the family to settle under a tree. He remained there unbothered with the surroundings. His hair grew into thick locks and became known as Jada Bharata from that time. He lived the rest of his life and attained eternality.
Jada Bharata’s life is worth remembering in the world today. When he was the ruler his reverence toward nature spread to every citizen of the world. Everyone prospered. Nature prospered. Abundance was spread everywhere. Problems did not exist for people. People’s lives were elevated because humanity pursued supreme virtues. Supreme qualities in human life commences with reverence. Reverence to the origins of life. Reverence to our birth as a human being. Reverence to our rich history. Reverence to our ancestry for preserving and delivering untainted works of wisdom that resonates with accuracy even with changing conditions. Reverence to teachings. Reverence to the Sun. Reverence to the oceans. Reverence to the mountains. Reverence to the soil. Reverence to our ability to communicate. Reverence, a beautiful concept for humanity to adapt, and practice that modern science cannot even envision.
Humanity must objectively evaluate what modern science has unleashed upon us. For our actions will have consequences far beyond the immediate has to be understood. We welcomed plastics, today we are concerned about the presence of plastic nanoparticles in our body. We embraced chemicals, today forever chemicals frighten us. We mocked memorizing, Alzheimer disease haunts us. We promoted individualism, depression, and other psychological disorders are on the rise. Opinion is overvalued, and we have lost certainty in communication. Culture is mocked, yet cultureless activities are culturized. Religion is mocked as unscientific. Traditions are mocked as unproven. Life is mocked because adults and children have fun. TV programs promote endless debates, consensus is not reached. We visit doctors’ offices for health checkups. Era of science is strange indeed. Humanity has not evolved to the same stature as scientists have to a logical conclusion.
Science has yet to deliver a conclusive and irrefutable method of life for humanity. It is not sufficient to suggest that ancestral thoughts are unscientific and unproductive. For existential methods of life are far older than what the scientific community accepts. When life has ancestral roots, ignoring them makes us unscientific indeed. Culture, religion, and traditions exist because human existence is unimaginable without their riches. Irreverence to existential strength of life, nature, and various qualitative aspects of life are carried forward with us on our onward journey as demonstrated by Jada Bharata’s story of his mind getting diverted by a helpless fawn. Jada Bharata possessed complete control over his mind, and the onward journey despite diversion as a deer for a brief period. Can we claim that we have possession of our destiny beyond this life? We must have existed in some form during Jada Bharata’s time is indisputable because life is imperishable.
Our irreverence toward life is delivering us problems. Intractable problems. Life does not exist with problems. Life is free from problems as can be seen in the riches of a variety of forms existing without a concern. From an ant to a lion exist with confidence. Confidence that nature will deliver what they require because they are reverential unknowingly. However, we are human beings. We possess an ability to discover ourselves, our surroundings, and beyond. We do not need to be irreverential toward science. The field of study has a purpose and will exist for as long as value can be derived. We need not exhibit irreverence toward culture, religion, and traditions. They possess far higher value than the scientific community can offer. We should reevaluate our thoughts and mind to rediscover lost aspects of existence because systems masquerading as panacea for humanity are burdening us with problems. Post-modern existence is reverential existence, abundant and free of problems.
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