Sri Bharatamata

Ashtottaram 80

 

80) OṀ SAHAJA SIDDHA BHŨMYAINAMAH:

           OṀ (AUM) -SA-HA-JA- SID-DHA- BHOO- MYAI- NA-- MA- HA

 

     (Sahaja: means-Natural, innate, inborn; Siddha: gained, established, proved, and

accomplished)

 

 

 

 

Once upon a time, Bharata Varsha and Bharata Khandam was vastly spread in the world more than what it is now today. During the great war of Mahābhārata in 3139 B.C.E, countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh; and before our Independence in 1947 Pakistan and many more other countries were part of India. After the great war many countries have separated from Bharata Varsha and Bharata Khandam, and declared their independence. After our independence from British in 1947, Pakistan also has separated from India. Looking at today's conditions and terrorism across the globe, we should feel happy that it happened only for our good, and otherwise we would be the one in the news all the time as a terrorist country.

 

If we look at our boundaries now, we have Himalayan Mountains on the north, Indian Ocean on the south, Bay of Bengal on the east, and Arabian Sea on the west and they are all our natural boundaries. We cannot help thinking that Lord Parameśwara Himself is sitting on the Kailaasa Mountains and protecting us from the invaders who are waiting like vultures to occupy our land. In our national anthem 'Janagaṇamana....' the author of that song, Nobel laureate Ravindranath Tagore has included the natural boundaries also. Like our Vedas promulgate that 'dharmo rakshati rakshitah,' meaning 'if we protect dharma, in turn, dharma will protect us' and our sanātana dharma will always protect us from the enemies and the bordering countries like China and Pakistan which are always looking for an opportunity to occupy our land with crooked ways. Unfortunately, even though we are protected by our natural boundaries, we were invaded by Muslims and we were ruled by them for centuries and had forceful conversions into their Muslim religion, and treated by them as secondhand citizens in our own country, it did not happen because of our borders failed us, but because of our own Indians helped the Muslims to concur us. Those Indians did not follow our dharma-śastrās, and their own selfishness, jealous and greed made them to scoop to that low. The slavery we went through did not teach those Indians a lesson and again, we were succumbed to the British cunningness and their 'divide and rule' tactics, once again, we had lost our land to them for two centuries. Because of the Muslims and the British, we have Islam and Christianity religions in a Hindu nation. Looking at our past history and current status of our country and my anguish have inspired me to write the ashtottaram, ekavimśati song and Gāyatri mantras on our Bhāratmāta! As long as we have our dharma śastrās which proclaim 'dharmameva jayate' ('dharma is always victorious') as our 'pramāṇās' (means of knowledge) and, as long as we have the sun and the moon in the sky, our natural boundaries will always protect us from the enemies and we are thankful to Lord 'Ȋśwara', who has blessed us with those boundaries.

 

Our land is 'Sahaja Siddha Bhūmi'.