Friends, slavery does not have an environment of love and cooperation, that is why slavery is looked down upon the most. Slavery with comforts seems like a golden cage to me. Perhaps that is why history is full of stories of struggle for freedom. I feel that real and sustainable development is that which is accompanied by mutual love, cooperation and freedom. In today’s era, I feel that human management efficiency lies in how to maintain a balance between human freedom and human development. I added the word human with freedom because freedom also cannot be unlimited. It will have to remain within the limits of humanity i.e. yoga. If freedom is sought for evil acts like hatred, looting, violence, rape, religious and caste discrimination, and jihad, then slavery in which humanity thrives and flourishes is better than that. Such freedom is imaginary or virtual, and in reality it is a bigger slavery than slavery, because such misdeeds lead a person towards the ultimate slavery of the bondage of birth and death. You must be aware of where such freedom is sought. We do not want to go into details and deviate from the main topic of the website, nor do we want to be falsely branded as biased. To put it in a nutshell, just look at Bangladesh. It is in front of everyone how the majority people there got independence from the Sheikh Hasina government only to oppress the minorities. Similarly, development should also remain within the limits of humanity. Problems like pollution, global warming are arising due to humanity being surpassed by development.
I feel that love is the complement of lack of freedom. An animal reaches its peg every day because it is tied with love. If it did not feel love in the master’s heart, it would oppose the peg every day and would always be looking for a way to escape into the forest after getting free. Animals understand the love hidden deep inside. Even if they are beaten, they still understand the love hidden at its base. This is the magic of love that it makes others to be its slaves without any force. Meera and the gopis were crazy or slave in love for Krishna, while Ratno Devi was a slave of maternal feelings for Baba Balak Nath. In the times of my elders, the so-called lower class labourers were seen doing so called slavery in my house. As soon as they reached near the door in the morning, they would greet the family members with a cheerful and loving attitude and my elders would also reply to them with love. They would use separate utensils, glasses etc. and wash them and keep them in their place. The clean and nutritious food and drink that the master used was made available to the servant considering him as their own form. They would do their work with full devotion, full honesty and promptness without any negligence. Whatever work they were ordered to do, they would accept it happily and decently and get busy in completing it. It was not that they were forced to do it. Rather, they would do it themselves with the power of love shown by the master. This is the magic of love. Actually, with love, the feeling of ego in a person gets destroyed, even the ego of being a master. This makes his subordinate feel that he is doing his work not for his master but for love. And love is a form of God. It means he is working for God. What can be a greater Karmayoga than this, that too spontaneously and happily. Such a loving culture existed everywhere. Later it was misunderstood. It was compared to slavery prevalent in the other cultures. An attempt was made to tarnish it with words like casteism, untouchability etc. and the evil notions associated with them. I feel that in most cases this happened due to ignorance or distorted understanding. There were only a handful of people who deliberately spread false propaganda whose own personal interests were linked to creating animosity between different classes. There is no similarity between caste discrimination and apartheid. In the caste system, many people of lower castes have also become great Yogis and saints by refining their souls, who have been respected more than the saints of higher castes, because they have achieved great achievements starting from a very low status. In this system, the colour of the soul is given importance, not the colour of the body. Well, just like there are exceptions and distorted concepts everywhere, there are exceptions in this as well. I am only talking about the basic concept and principle. No one is innocent in this world. Be it the common worldly type concept of slavery or the concept of some special religions, both were not filled with love, but with hatred, with atrocities. The extremistic religious type of slavery concept was even more dangerous because holiness of religion was also mixed with it. That is why history is filled with their hatred towards others, especially peace loving communities and religions. We are not saying that this must have happened always, but the seed of karma is in the concept itself. Meaning, if the concept is wrong, then it can lead to wrong deeds. It is not necessary that they will happen. Look, there are exceptions everywhere. In the Aryan culture too, slavery must have been of distorted concept in some cases, and in many places in the other cultures too, slavery must have been of human concept. Similarly, in some sporadic cases, certain religions too must have had a soft attitude towards infidels and other heretics. But if we look in a broader perspective, the basic concept of slavery in both types of cultures and religions is completely opposite to each other. Somewhere the distorted concept is recorded in the religion itself in written form, somewhere it is present in the common culture or in the blood without being written. However written concept also enters blood with time and practice. Many religions do not have a distorted concept at their core, but the concept of deceitful bargaining of the culture of the people who follow them has got mixed with them. It is not that the Aryan type culture is untouched by this. The distorted concept which is referred to in a couplet of Ramcharitmanas, a verse of ramayan and few verses of legal texts and dharamshastras like Manusmriti can be called an exception. It is a negligible part of the entire Sanskrit literature. It cannot be called the original concept of Sanskrit literature. It can also be called a slip of the tongue. It is not like those special religions where the distorted concept has been written repeatedly and deliberately and clearly, so that that distorted concept gets well settled in the mind. Definitely, all these should be eradicated in today’s civilized society because even though their original meaning may be something else, foolish people will consider them literally true. It’s also true that there’s no historical evidence that such theoretically distorted phrases as above were in practice as such in Hindu or Sanatan religion. Today majority of Hindus oppose these. Anyway, unlike other religions, Hinduism does not follow any one book. These so-called legal religious scriptures were never a part of its original textbooks. While in one concept there is slavery of love, in the other concept there is slavery of the stick. Both cannot be weighed on the same scale. There is a huge difference between the two. While the first type of slavery is towards awakening and liberation, the second type of slavery is towards ignorance and bondage. Yogis are also crazy about love, crazy about the love of God, crazy about the love of Kundalini. This slavery of love is even greater than freedom. Freedom without love has no meaning. The success of freedom lies in forming love. If love happens in slavery, then what is the need for freedom, because the goal of freedom has already been achieved. Actually, the masters themselves used to be crazy or slave in love for the deity or Kundalini, so how can the servants remain untouched by that love.
Friends, people of the Brahmin class were the Kundalini Yogis of the highest order. It means that they used to get great spiritual happiness from the subjugation of Kundalini. To get a share in that happiness, people of the lower class themselves used to live near the Brahmin class and start serving them. Happiness is that biological magnet which pulls all living beings towards it. This used to happen on its own. No one has created this system. That is why it is written in the Vedas that the Varna system is created by God. The surprising thing is that the Kundalini Yogi Brahmin did not get as much spiritual happiness provided by Kundalini as the one who serves him. The fragrance of perfume is felt from a distance, not from close. Perhaps this was because the other classes were worldly classes and even their slight spiritual happiness with their company used to become a great spiritual happiness when combined with the immense worldliness. This means that people of other castes used to become more knowledgeable than Brahmins over time. There are many such examples. I remember examples like Valmiki, Ravidas and Vishwamitra. Then they ask why this system was linked to birth. This too was not done by someone but it also happened on its own. The great democracy of India or Bharat varsha is not new. It is thousands of years old. Here the orders of any dictator type of person were not followed. Here everything used to happen according to the natural thinking and need of the common people. That is why many people of the world also express surprise that God is running such a big country because here there is the pinnacle of freedom and democracy. Something happens in the news but what is seen in front is something else. This is a land full of religion and most of the people, inspired by Yogadharma, make rules and laws themselves. However, as like other things, many exceptions are here also.
The son of a carpenter took care of his own carpentry work since his birth. The son of a Kshatriya achieved mastery in his work. The son of a Pandit refined the knowledge given by his ancestors and became a greater Pandit than them. In this way all the knowledge kept developing. No work is small or big. Smallness lies only and only in the lack of skill in work, and greatness lies in the increase in skill in work. Look at the wonders of the olden times. Temples like at Masroor made by cutting a single rock, such amazing temples of the South whose construction cannot be imagined even today despite so many machines. Look at the great temple of Omkarwat. There are many such examples. Today, even graduates and even post graduates have not acquired that practical and technical skill in their work which people with family experience acquire automatically without any formal education. What can be said even if they get formal education. The whole world is worried about this. That is why new changes are being made in the education system every day. After going around they will reach the same old Varnashram system. However, name and form can differ.
Friends, an article which is not written comprehensively and some side is left out is not writing but propaganda. The specialty of our website is that it presents all the sides without any discrimination, that is why it is so acceptable in the public mind. We neither support nor oppose anyone, we only present the reality and the deep principle hidden behind it. Every system has its own merits and demerits. No system is perfect. If it were perfect, then why would there be any change. But some mischievous elements take the change hostage for their selfishness and turn it in their favor. This does not lead to real change and the basic problem remains. If only the system created by God was perfect, then there would be no justification for man and his efforts. Therefore, the system should continue to develop, but impartially and keeping in mind the wider global public interest. Please read the previous post of this blog, “kundalini Yoga versus freedom” to grasp this post fully.
Demystifying Kundalini 