Great Sons of Puranic India who obeyed their father?

Great Sons of Puranic India  who obeyed  their father?

 

Compiled  by

P.Ramachander

 

(Who is  the greatest  among them? Are there  any sons  obeying  mothers?)

 

Puru who gave  up his youth  to his  father

    King Yayathi  was  cursed  by Sukracharya to attain  old age  when  he was relatively young When the king saluted and begged,

he was  allowed  to trade  his old  age to any of his sons.Though he  had five sons , the  first  four sons  did not agree.The last  sone agreed and

Yayathi  made  the  young  boy Puru as old and enjoyed youth

After some more time  Yayathi   gave back his youth to his and made  him the next king

 

Parasurama who killed his mother obeying his father

  Jamadaghni  the father of Parasurama  suspected  his wife Renuka and ordered  his sons  to kill her .The  first  three  sons  refused but

the last  son  Killed  his mother  Renuka.

Later  he cried and Jamadaghni  restored the  life  of Renuka

 

Rama went  to forest  for fourteen  years to obey  his father

      Dasaratha’s queen Kaikeyi requested  two  boons(which he has promised  earlier) , one of them  was Rama should  go to forest and  live there  for fourteen years.Rama  obeyed his father and went  to forest.Soon  Dasaratha died .Though Bharatha offered the  king dom to Rama , he did not agree and fulfilled order given by his father

 

Bhishma gave up kingship and also did not marry because his father  wanted

    When Santhanu  father  of Bhishma  wanted  to marry sathyavathi, her father put a condition  that Bhishma should not become king and he should not marry  also Bhishma obeyed  his father

 

Shravan Kumar a who carried his parents  on Pilgrimage

    Shravana  Kumara  was a Vaisya  boy , whose  both parents became old and blind.They wanted to  go on Pilgrimage and he carried both parents to different places . Dasaratha by mistake killed him .Later his parents died after  cursing  Dasaratha

Conversion to Hinduism

 Conversion to Hinduism

 

By

P.R.Ramachander

(Given after  my note  I am giving  some comments I recived in face book THanks to each of them.THe value  of my note went up greatly by their notes)

 Hinduism is the one of the  world’s oldest religion and also way of life and is still surviving and thriving. Hindus do not have an agenda to convert other people to Hinduism

They never  tell , you  will go to hell if you don’t follow  our religion

 

In fact a famous  prayer  chanted  daily by  every Brahmin  is

आकाशात् पतितं तोयं यथा गच्छति सागरम् ।
सर्वदेव नमस्कारः केशवं प्रतिगच्छति ॥

“akasath, pathitham thoyam , Yadha  Gachathi  SAgaram

Sarva  deva Namaskara, Kesavam prathi gachathi”

 

Just  like  all  water  falling  from sky  reaches  the sea

SAlutions  to all  gods  , reaches  Kesava

 

When BUdhism  and  Jainism  started  converting  Hindus  to that religion, Many great  philosophers like Adhi Sankara and Ramanaja tried  their best  to stop it. Sikhism  arose  in India  and did convert people to their religion

Arya  samaj and Hindhu maha Sabha , Viswa Hindhu  Parishad  Brought  Their own way  to convert  people  to Hinduism

They could not do much when Islam  and Christianity converted them

 In spite  of all  this there are  1.2 billion  Hindus in the world 

 Comments by my friends

Renuka Karthik

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I feel Buddhism/Jainism/Sikhism didnt actively convert anyone.

The concept of religion was not there before in India.

It was the concept of matam मतम् ( school of thought) and it was very common for different schools of thoughts to co -exist and some would dominate for a particular time frame, then another school of thought would take over.

Usually after vadam- prativadam style debates the one who loses follows the school of thought of the winner.

Best eg is Mandana Mishra and Adi Shankaracharya where Mishra loses and follows Adi Shankaracharya's school of thought.

Ramanuja himself had disputes with his own Guru and broke away standing on top of a temple to broadcast the sacred mantra to everyone, defying his guru's instructions of strict secrecy and he also invited many Non Brahmins into the Vishisthadvaita fold.

In India the schools of thoughts seem to evolve with time.

When Sufism was growing and many converted then Sikhism came into being.

Where it actually had shades of Sufism and Hinduism.

The word Khalsa itself is from the Arabic word

k͟hālis which means pure.

Reason could be that having a school of thought that resembles Sufism would halt conversion to some extent as to preserve dharma and Sikhs have done well over all.

Buddhism came when there was excessive animal sacrifice..so a new school of thought had to come to halt sacrifices to reset the mind to looking within in a self realization mode.

Once all the excessive animal sacrifices were eradicated, then Adi Shankaracharya comes with Advaita philosophy and resurrected vedic practices with ahimsa as the operating system.

In India, each school of thought that came didnt come to out do the other..they emerged to work in succession, they adapated, modified, absorbed and keeps updating itself according to time, place and person.

A S Rao

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Renuka Karthik Good scholarly write up. Further, there were violent internal fights too in the history of sanatanam. Let me know, who coined, and how the word hinduism came in vogue, as this word nowhere appears in our scriptures. There are discriminations, biasedness, untouchability, poverty , separate living (caste wise residential colonies) in the varnas, leading to, attraction and conversions to other religions. Of course, there were forced conversions by invaders too. That Stockholm syndrome type mindset, made people further support conversions.

Renuka Karthik

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A S Rao The word Hind is used in Arabic for a noble, high-status, and unattainable beloved.

Origin :

Native Bedouin Arabic : Hind = a large herd of camels / a noble woman

Its used as a name for girls.

Poetically it is used to denote beauty, grace, and cultural refined status as one who is rich owns a lot of camels.

Hind bint Abi Umayya was one of the wives of the Prophet( pbuh)

I know Arabic hence aware of the word Hind in Arabic.

It also means India in Arabic.

For eg the word Tamarind is an Arabic word meaning

Tamr Hindi= date fruit of India

A S Narayan

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ISKCON is also converting the non Hindus in to Hinduism. Not only foreigners, many non Hindus in India also converting themselves to Vedic religion. Making them strictly Vegetarians.

Vani Narendra

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Hinduism is about an individual's the journey within, and not of his outward practise. All who deeply embrace Santana Dharma are souls that have consciously or unconsciously begun to evolve, or are higher evolved ones. May each soul's journey be blessed .

A S Rao

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