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Articles By Shri D.N. Barola - श्री डी एन बड़ोला जी के लेख
D.N.Barola / डी एन बड़ोला:
Why we get irritated by similar actions of others?
Why should we throw the garbage of our house on the road towards the neighbour’s house? If neighbuor does the same we get irritated why? Why should we have an eye on the Property and Land of others? Why this zealously and greed? If the neighbour does the same, we get irritated. We sometimes beg for a car or a scooter for a little, while then why do we think it our right to finish off the petrol in his vehicle and in case vehicle requires any repairs because of our mishandling, why do we park the vehicle without his knowledge at the owner’s house secretly. If he complains why do we get irritated? Why we take loan from others and do not want to repay the money. If he wants his money back; why do we consider him as our enemy No.1? Why we continue occupying the house of others even after the construction of our own house. If he wants his house back, why do we demand Pagri (money) to vacate his house? If there is any misunderstanding or quarrel in the neighbour’s house, why do we relish it and pleasantly discuss within our family members. If the same happens in our own house why do we get irritated? Why do we pluck flowers from the neighbour’s kitchen garden, when there are flowers in our kitchen garden? Why do we peep into the neighbours newspaper and want to read it before he reads it and if he is not ready to oblige, why do we scold him? Why should we park our vehicle in the neighbours’ shop? If he does the same, why do we get irritated? Why do we think our own self as the most intelligent man of the world, which we know we are not? If somebody points out this fact to you why do we get irritated? Why do we relish wicked talks about others and feel satisfaction in opening our mouth against any or everybody whom we know. Why should we be jealous in others’ promotion and happy in their demotion? While riding a car why do we speak against pedestrians? While we walk on foot, why should be speak against the car owners. Why should we blame the Government for the acts of indiscipline by our own self? Why do we not behave like an ideal citizen and do our duty. If someone points why do we get irritated with him? This is one side of the story. But when in trouble people cooperate with each other and want to help one another in every way, here again it is another thing that we start the same after the trouble is over. (D.N.Barola)
D.N.Barola / डी एन बड़ोला:
Uttarakhand-Recharge your pocket by Water recharging.
Water Harvesting is the current topic with Uttarakhand Government. But the Water recharging programme is more important in view of the fact that water recharging may be able to enhance the underground water table. Hence both the programmes need to be interlinked. The technique to recharge water is as old as the Indian civilization. I remember that there used to be ponds on the village tops or in the plain land during my childhood. The ponds, known as Khal, Pokhar, and Chuptyaul used to be maintained by the villagers. These ponds used to be found on soft and slippery red soil terrain. Potters used to make resin pots and other utensils from this red soil. These ponds used to be the favourite dipping (plummeting plunging sinking) place for the buffaloes. In the meanwhile the Govt. under its Malaria Eradication Programme motivated the people to close down the ponds so that Malaria is eradicated completely. The reasoning was that Mosquitoes breed in still water. The Malaria Department publicized a Gandhian slogan – Machhar rehenga per Malaria nahin rahega. Mosquitoes will live, but malaria will not. Thus the ponds or pokhars were covered with soil thus became almost extinct.
To recharge water contour trenches on hillside slopes below 45 degree may be useful. Above 45 degree trenches might cause soil erosion. The length of the trenches may be 4-5 feet and 2,3 feet wide with a depth of 1-2 feet. The westerners have long back adopted ‘earning through water recharging’ concept. For the purpose Ponds or small lakes measuring 10 Meter or above with a width of 5 M and above and depth of l M to 1.5 M as per site conditions may be constructed. Fisheries production in these ponds may fetch at least 4 to 5,000 rupees per month. The Government may encourage the youth to cultivate fisheries by providing cheap loans or subsidy. Thus water conservation can recharge the purse or the pocket of the youth and side-by-side may provide sumptuous food to the family members.(D.N.Barola)
D.N.Barola / डी एन बड़ोला:
Leopard trapped in barbed wires at Majhjkhali.
A 9 year old male Leopard was trapped in barbed wires last Wednesday night at Village Riuni, Majhkhali 10 Kms. from Ranikhet. The Leopard was rescued, but succumbed to the injuries on way to Almora Zoo. (By D.N.Barola)
D.N.Barola / डी एन बड़ोला:
Environment-THOUGHTS ON ENVIRONMENT-154 YEARS AGO
This statement, made in 1854 by the Indian Chief of Seattle in reply to the offer made by the White Chief in Washington to buy their land, is the most beautiful and profound statement ever made on the environment and is more valid today than it was 154 years ago.
Some body passed a copy of this statement to me and I feel I should bring to the notice of everyone whosoever wants to read it.
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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us.
If we do not own the freshness of air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap, which courses through the trees, carries the memories of the red man.
The white man’s dead forget the country of their birth they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and man-all belong to the same family.
So when the Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land, he asks much of us. The Great Chief sends word he will reserve us a place so that we can live comfortably to ourselves. He will be our father and we will be his children. So we will consider your offer to buy our land. But it will not be easy. For this land is sacred to us.
The shining water moves in the streams and rivers are not just water but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you land, you must remember that it is sacred, and you must teach your children that it is sacred and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lake tell us of events and memories in life of my people. The water’s murmur is the voice of my father’s father.
The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. The rivers carry our canoes, and feed our children. If we sell you our land, you must remember, and teach your children, that the rivers are our brothers, and your, and you must henceforth give the kindness you would give any brother.
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father’s graves behind, and he does not care.
He kidnaps the earth from his children. His father’s grave and his children’s birthright are forgotten. He treats his mother, the earth and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads. His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert.
I do not know. Our ways are different from your ways. The sight of your cities pains the eyes of the red man. But perhaps it is because the red man is a savage and does not understand.
There is no quiet place in the white man’s cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect’s wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears. And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night? I am a red man and do not understand. The Indians prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of a pond, and the smell of the wind itself, cleansed by a mid-day rain, or scented with the pennon pine.
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the trees, the man; they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench. But if we sell you our land, you must remember that the air is precious to us that the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sign. And if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred as a place where even the white man can go to the taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow’s flowers.
So we will consider your offer to buy our land if we decide to accept, I will make one condition. The white man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.
I am a savage and I do not understand any other way. I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from passing train. I am a savage and I do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man should die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beast soon happens to man. All things are connected.
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ash of our grandfathers, so that they will respect the land. Tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood, which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life’ he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web he does to himself. Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We shall see. One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover-our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This is precious to Him. And to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. The white too shall pass, perhaps sooner than all other tribes. Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you dominion over this land and over the red man. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the wild buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills blotted by the talking wires. Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone.
Is it end of living or the beginning of survival?
D.N.Barola / डी एन बड़ोला:
Temples of Lord Shiv in UK
Kanra (Lamgara) - My ancestral Home is famous for Unteshwar Mahadev Temple. and Kalyanika Ashram where world's largest SRI YANTR has been established in the presence of Dr KK Paul, Governor, Uttarakhand who said that he will try to declare it a DHAM.
Unteshwar Mahadev Temple, Kanra
Whensoever extraction of natural resources of Mother Earth reaches its peak, the difficulties of the people living in the earth have increased. This is the cycle since times immemorial. Unteshwar Mahadev Shiv Temple came into being when the mother Earth was excessively exploited. As per the ancient stories, the Gods and the demons had been trying to extract maximum Riddhi (Prosperity) and Siddhi (Perfection) from the Earth and a time reached when they extracted the Riddhi and Siddhi to the unbearable extent.
The Earth was exploited to such an extent that Mother Earth went to Lord Brahma for help, who asked her to accompany him to Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. The Earth told them about her problems. The three Gods tried to look to the problems of mother Earth. At that place a voice from the sky (akashvani) said that when the head of Brahmdev would fall on the Brahma Kapali, exactly at that time, Lord Mahadv would give His Darshan. Simultaneously Shivlings would also appear at different places and then only there would be solace to the mother Earth. As per popular belief when Lord Shiv appeared in Jhankar Hill, many Shivlings appeared at different places on the Earth. Unteshwar Mahadev is one of those Shivlings. This Shivling has appeared as the Tongue of Lord Shiva or as Shiv Jiwha.
There is a story about Kanra’s Shivling. During the period of Chand Kings, there were Ringal bushes spread over the outskirts of the entire village. The villagers used to prepare things of daily use from the Ringal plant. Once a villagers tried to sharpen his sickle on a stone. Suddenly there was a spate of blood which came out from the Stone. The villager ran away crying from their, but on the way he was killed by a Lion. Latter on people decided to establish the Shivling ceremoniously and they started worshipping the Shivling shaped stone. The Ling is seven feet above the surface, and the rest of the length is inside the land. Once the villagers tried to dig the place by the side of the Ling to find out its length, but they could not succeed. Near the Shiv Temple the idol of Panch Muykhi (Five faced) Ganesh is also there. Snakes are normally visible in the vicinity of the temple. Chand Kings constructed the Shiv Mandir and some temples of Sun and Durga.Thus Unteshwar Mahadev Temple is the oldest Temple of the area.
As per villagers, in 1990, there was a great famine and there was no rain fall for a long time. The villagers offered hundreds of Pitcher (earthern pot) water on the Shivling, the water submerged inside the Shiv Jiwha. In fact when so ever the water is offered on the Shiv ling, the water sinks inside the Shiv Jiwha, as it goes inside the tongue of Shivling and from there where actually the water goes is a mystery as on date. Due to the offering of water on the Shiv Ling, the Gods were pleased and there were incessant rains which fulfilled the needs of the people.
A popular fare is held every year on the Shiv Ratri, which has large participation of the people form the adjoining villages and far off places. Special Roat is offered to Lord Shiv and is distributed as Prasad to the devotees.
Kanra is connected by road. It is 40 Km. from Almora. To reach Kanra, my ancestral Home from Almora one has to go to Lamgara then to Chaykhan, from where there is a pucca road, named Chaykhan –Thuwasimal road. From Chaykhan you can go by Car or Bus. The distance of Kanra is about 2 and a half Kms. from Chaykhan, after which one has to go half a Km. on foot(Now a road has been constructed upto the village). and you reach the Unteshwar Mahadev Temple. Kanra is famous for its Basmati Rice and Jhunghra. Please do not forget to bring some Basmati from there. (By:D.N.Barola) Now a road has been constructed up to the village. So one can reach village Kanra by Car. There is one more great religious development. In village Kanra, Dol Ashram, Kalayanika ASHRAM, Kanra Dol has the world's largest SRI YANTR. Sri Yantra was established in the presence of Uttarakhand Govt Dr. KK Paul, who declared that with the establishment of the world's largest Sri Yantra in Village Kanra, Dol, Kalyanika ashram will be declared as a DHAM, for which he will try his best.
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