yajvan
27 September 2010, 07:38 PM
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Many here on HDF are not from India... it is my POV one is therefore not from Hindustān. This Hindustān = hindu + sthāna. Sthāna means abiding in, staying in + Hindu or the Indian continent.
Originally this word Hindu was secular in nature, describing the peoples of India, without consideration for ones religious choice.
But if one is not from Hindustān could you possibly have the affinity and alignment with Bharata? This too is another name for India , but more insightful IMHO.
This bharata , also spelled bhārata has a grand lineage we find in the mahābhārata and also the rāmāyaṇa but I needn't go to these books for this post.
I ask the good reader to consider this POV:
bhārata can be viewed as bhā + rata
bhā = light or a beam of light , lustre , splendour
rata = delighting in , intent upon , fond or enamoured of , devoted or attached Hence bhārata is he or she that delights in and is devoted to bhā, to light, to splendor. And what is this light? The Supreme.
This bhārata is also associated with agni. What is agni? Splendor of flame, of purity, of the Supreme.
Now it is our good fortune that Hindustān = bhārata and can be the leader of the world, to bring us back to delighting in the lustre of the Light, that of the Supreme.
For all of us that are not natives of Hindustān, it seems we can be natives to bhārata , for those that delight in the Supreme on this good earth.
praṇām
~~~~~~
namasté
Many here on HDF are not from India... it is my POV one is therefore not from Hindustān. This Hindustān = hindu + sthāna. Sthāna means abiding in, staying in + Hindu or the Indian continent.
Originally this word Hindu was secular in nature, describing the peoples of India, without consideration for ones religious choice.
But if one is not from Hindustān could you possibly have the affinity and alignment with Bharata? This too is another name for India , but more insightful IMHO.
This bharata , also spelled bhārata has a grand lineage we find in the mahābhārata and also the rāmāyaṇa but I needn't go to these books for this post.
I ask the good reader to consider this POV:
bhārata can be viewed as bhā + rata
bhā = light or a beam of light , lustre , splendour
rata = delighting in , intent upon , fond or enamoured of , devoted or attached Hence bhārata is he or she that delights in and is devoted to bhā, to light, to splendor. And what is this light? The Supreme.
This bhārata is also associated with agni. What is agni? Splendor of flame, of purity, of the Supreme.
Now it is our good fortune that Hindustān = bhārata and can be the leader of the world, to bring us back to delighting in the lustre of the Light, that of the Supreme.
For all of us that are not natives of Hindustān, it seems we can be natives to bhārata , for those that delight in the Supreme on this good earth.
praṇām