Sri Bharatamata

Ashtottaram 102

 

 

 

102) OṀ RAṪNA BHŪMYAINAMAH:

               OṀ (AUM) -RA-TH-NA- BHOO- MYAI- NA-- MA- HA

 

              (Raṫna: means- Precious stones)

 

 

 Not only during the periods  of Bharata Varsha and Bharata Khanḍa; during the Vedic, Upanishadic, Purāṇic times, and as recent as few centuries ago, our land was famous for diamonds, Gems, and many precious stones throughout the world. Even today, our nation is one of the top most countries in exporting the diamonds. British came for trade business with us and established their centers in Kolkata and eventually took over our country with 'divide and rule' tactics, and they are the culprits for the putrefaction of Hindu society by 'caste system'. They claim that the most precious and invaluable 'Kohinoor Diamond' was a gift from us to the queen of England and God only knows the truth behind that? Nobody could put a value on that big diamond and it still sits in her crown. That diamond stone indeed is the 'crown jewel' of India.

 

All the foreigners, especially Moghuls, Pharisees, Turkish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British, everybody came to India for trade business because India was the richest country on the planet and they all wanted a piece of it. Their greed was so bad, they have settled in India, and started robbing our wealth and made us beggars. They took all our precious stones and jewelry to their countries and built monuments with them. Prior to them looting our culture and wealth, merchants used to sell diamonds on the streets. Even though the foreign nations justify themselves that they came for our spices, which may be true to some extent, their intentions were to rob our country and to establish their own religions i.e., Islam and Christianity. Otherwise, we would not have Christians and Muslims in a Hindu nation.

They did not satisfy with their greed, and they changed the names of our cities from Chennai to Madras, Kolkata to Calcutta, Mumbai to Bombay, and Vishakhapatnam to Vizāg; to give a few examples. As part of his victory battle leaders like Alexander have attacked our country but was astonished with our culture, spiritual wisdom and wealth. As Gāndhari said in Mahābhāraṫa that 'yatodharmasya tatojayah' (where there is dharma-there is victory), ultimately victory was ours, because dharma was on our side and eventually we got our independence back in 1947. Since then on, having infatuation with the western culture and materialism, especially the younger generations, being not aware of the past glory of our nation; slowly, we are showing decline in our social values and culture including the women.

For what they did to our nation, religion and culture, we see every day on the television what's happening to those countries and religions with terrorism and extremism. As the old saying goes 'parula sommu-pāpapu koodu' meaning- 'others wealth is always a dirty meal' and everyone is responsible for their own karma (actions).

 

Our land is and will always be 'Raṫna Bhūmi'.