Caste System Didn't exist during Veda period (Ancient time)

I received this as a comment on article http://janahitwadi.blogspot.in/2011/04/is-it-possible-to-do-away-with-caste.html I found the information useful so posted here as an article. Hope readers would like it. If any one wish to translate it in English the same may be posted here as comment on  this article. I will place that in the main body of the article. Thank you.
अनुवादक – सुश्री मृदुला

वेदीक काल में जाति व्यवस्था नही थी।  

   हम वेदों में श्रम का सर्वोच्च महत्त्व पाते हैं | हमने देखा कि आर्यों के चाकर या आदि निवासी समझे गए दास दस्यु या राक्षस वस्तुतः अपराधियों के लिए प्रयुक्त किये जाने वाले पर्यायवाची शब्द हैं | प्रत्येक सभ्य समाज ऐसे अपराधियों पर अंकुश लगाता है | हम यह भी देख चुके हैं कि वेदों में सभी चार वर्णों को जिनमें शूद्र भी शामिल हैं, आर्य माना गया है और अत्यंत सम्मान दिया गया है | यह हमारा दुर्भाग्य है कि वेदों की इन मौलिक शिक्षाओं को हमने विस्मृत कर दिया है, जो कि हमारी संस्कृति की आधारशिला हैं | और जन्म-आधारित जाति व्यवस्था को मानने तथा कतिपय शूद्र समझी जाने वाली जातियों में जन्में व्यक्तियों के साथ भेदभाव पूर्ण व्यवहार आदि करने की गलत अवधारणाओं में हम फँस गए हैं |

May I expect these in a Smart City?

मराठीत वाचण्याकरिता खाली स्क्रोल करा.

पुणे शहर बनणार स्मार्टसिटी!

का हो भाऊ, पुणे स्मार्टसिटी बनणार म्हणजे काय होणार? असे काही होणार काय?

May I expect these in a Smart City?

Government of India, in fact NaMoJi is very particular about smart cities. He has declared that 100 existing cities would be converted in to smart cities in India. For this purpose G of I and concerned state government shall provide Rs. 1000 crores (Probably this money may be per annum). Rest of the expenditure is from the resources of the city concerned. After spending huge money may I expect the smart city would be having following facilities?

1.      There is a problem of people coming to city to earn livelihood. These people initially stay on footpath and then find some vacant place and construct shacks as residential arrangement. Would this smart city have a solution for this? Would there be temporary sheds to accommodate job seekers and then find them permanent accommodation?

2.      Those who are staying in shacks (JJ colonies) need permanent houses. Would they get such houses at the rate construction cost at nearest location?

Building India

Building India

Survey shows that India needs approximately 100 million houses, mostly in urban area. Housing in rural area appears to be not considered in the survey. Demand for housing in rural area is for want of funds needed for housing. People do want better houses with sanitary facilities in rural area also. On account of poverty people in rural area don't think about a better housing and are forced to be satisfied with shacks they possess. The second difficulty is land for housing in urban area. Present practice is to add villages on periphery of a city or town to make available land for housing of urban needs. While doing these services are not considered. Once housing projects get completed people occupy those and then find many problems like water, transport, electricity, sewage disposal, marketing and so on. The present method is trying to place cart in front of a horse and expect the horse to pull the cart.

Religion as explained by Maharshi Vyasa

Religion as explained by Maharshi Vyasa

महर्षि व्यासजीने बताया हुआ धर्म। (हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिये नीचे स्क्रोल किजिये।)

महर्षि व्यासानी सांगितलेला धर्म. (मराठीत वाचण्याकरिता खाली स्क्रोल करा.)

 

Maharshi Vyasa had been highly intelligent, well versed, knowledgeable personality during the time period of Mahabharata in India. Maharshi was always in search of knowledge used to take great pleasure in learning even from illiterate persons. For this he used to travel all the time throughout India. Once he was resting near a village. Villagers wanted to know about religion. They found this as a great opportunity to learn from the greatest all time scholar. They requested him to explain religion in short and in simple words. Maharshi told them fundamental principle of religion in just two simple words. परोपकाराय पुण्याय। meaning Help Others.

Sanskar Mhanje kay? v adhik.

संस्कार

अमरावतीच्या एका माननियानी ब्राह्मण समाजाचे कोतुक केले आहे. कौतुक करणे तसे चांगले असते. परंतु, त्याचा अर्थ असाही होत नाही की, त्या समाजात फक्त सद्गुणच आहेत. चांगले ते घ्यावे या विचाराप्रमाणे चांगल्या गोष्टी दाखविणे कधीही चांगलेच. तसेच त्याबरोबर विश्लेषण केले तर दुधात साखर. समाजातील गुण-अवगुणांची जननी म्हणजे संस्कार. मुलाच्या (या मध्ये मुलगीही आली) जन्मापासून संस्कार घडविले जातात. त्या मध्ये कांही जाणीवपूर्वक घडवावे लागतात तर कित्येक निरीक्षणातून घडविले जातात. मूल नेहमी अवती भोवती पाहत असते, ऐकत असते व जे पाहिले ऐकले ते स्वतः करून पाहण्याचा प्रयत्न करते. त्यातूनच ते घडले जाते व आपले स्वतःचे व्यक्तिमत्व निर्माण करते. कोणत्याही समाजाचे गुण-अवगुण त्या समाजातील व्यक्तिवरुन ओळखता येतात. व्यक्ति संस्कारातून घडविली जाते. म्हणूनच संस्कार हे महत्वाचे आहेत.

Hindus and Muslims in India

मराठीत वाचण्याकरित खाली स्क्रोल करा.

Hindus and Muslims in India:-

I received an email from one of my friends. This gives quotes from renowned scholars and politicians about Islam and Muslims in India. I have no knowledge about authenticity about quotes. Little study of quotes show that whoever collected these must have audited and taken only a particular portion which supports individual’s views. Person whoever collected quotes and did proof reading has no clear concepts of religion and secularism. Ancient Indians considered religion in 2 parts first philosophy (termed as Vedanta)and second laws and rules (termed as Smriti). When people say that the religion is established by the god probably they mean that the philosophy of religion is formed by the god. This is the reason why every person in this world believes in certain principles like truth, life and alike. This does mean that in the entire universe there is a single religion established by an unknown energy (or power). We find hundreds of religion on earth itself. The reason as explained by Swami Vivekanandais Smriti. Laws and rules are framed for a certain society in certain place and at certain time. It is acceptable that these would vary. We are making mistake in considering these rules (Smriti) as religion and giving importance to such things which are neither universal nor eternal. The basic concept or philosophy of religion is explained by Maharshi Vyasa in just 2 lines. These are (1) Paropkaray Punyay (2) Papay parpeedanam. ‘Paropkar’ in Sanskrit means work done for others. Punya means religious (accepted by religion). Papa means against religion. Papeeda means trouble given to others. Thus whoever lives in a society can follow religion by “Helping others” So called religions known to any one follows this principle or philosophy. Thus there is no reason why we should consider Muslims are different than Indians based on ‘Religion criteria’. Other point of discussion may be the God. Muslims believe in the single god. On the other hand Hindus believe in 33 crore (330 million) gods and that to residing in stomach of a cow. There is explanation for this also inancient Indian literature. In ancient India it was believed that in a society there would be 4 types of human beings. They are categorised based on their contribution for others in the society. Those who do positive contribution even at his/her own cost is considered as the god. This means there is no limit for number of the gods. Secondly, cow in words of Swatantryaveer Savarkar is a useful animal irrespective of age of a cow. This belief in society that the gods reside in her stomach might be for ensuring safety of cow (None in the society would dare to kill cow).