How do you feel if you get pebbles at the last bite of a delicious meal? In twelfth century India, there was a great mathematician named Bhaskaracharya. His daughter Lilavati became a widow shortly after her marriage. To get the smart daughter out of sadness, the father made her interested in mathematics. Not only this, his most famous and important treatise on mathematics was also named after Lilavati. Gradually Lilavati also became proficient in mathematics. An interesting message came on WhatsApp about that father and daughter. If it was long, I read it with interest. The writer, however, may not have understood the difference between Shri Lilavati and Granth Lilavati. So he gave the honor to the book in the name of his daughter. Well, not to be trifled with. But the paragraph at the end felt like a pebble in the last straw. It was written – 'This is our precious history. Leaving that, we are copying foreign countries in the race of modernity.' Now where did the foreign copy come into the story of Bhaskaracharya and Lilavati? Ask the sender of this message if sixty-nine plus eighty-nine, how much is it, it will immediately use a calculator to calculate the debt of the West. The method written in Lilavati or another book of that time will not be supported. It is natural. Common sense says to choose what is easy, handy, useful. But no, if we want to prove the greatness of our culture, we have fallen into the habit of teasing the West. Veer K Veerangana also did this WhatsApp. Now it is clearly written in Rigveda that we should receive auspicious thoughts from all directions. Meaning, if you are getting good, don't fall into the clash of East and West. So to understand that Indians who make such discrimination do not respect the Vedas. Right? Talking about the message with Lilavati, after reading it, I was so sure that although the initial information was given by someone else, but the last paragraph in that text must be the product of some stupid brain. Unfortunately, the number of such atrocities and torture is increasing day by day. If you read about anything that seems great in ancient India, you can immediately copy and paste it and send it to WhatsApp without knowing the truth. And in that last hanging from itself there is an awkward whisper that we forget our great heritage and blindly imitate the West. This species believes that all the great inventions and works that have been, or are being done in every field in the modern world, have been done in India thousands of years ago. And now by giving its success to foreigners or by getting new knowledge from them, we are grossly insulting Indian culture and ancestors. Let us assume that ancient India must have been explored a lot. But instead of playing its dimdim to ask people or doba, then what did you do with that precious heritage? Apart from adding anything new to it, the existing one was also destroyed. Just eat chari in the name of ancestors? And what is the need to compare with the West to prove our greatness every time? He in his place, we in our place. If you have faith in Ayurveda and want to eat the bones of a physician in illness, you are welcome. But then the tendency to condemn allopathy is not understandable. Turmeric milk may work for normal cough, but no native bone will work when cancer, kidney or heart transplant is required. We are alone in beating childless men and women. But the IVF technique developed by Western scientists and doctors has come in handy to give such people the happiness of becoming parents. All this is not to say that everything that comes from the West is good. Ultimately everything is like a package deal. With the good comes the bad. It is up to us to decide what to adopt. And all was well in what we call the great Indian civilization? If we take pride in greatness, we have to accept its evils. If we talk about satyuga then there were sages who performed homhavan, then there were also demons who put bones in the havan or not? They were also a part of our culture. Caste and caste are inherited by us. Our forefathers spared nothing in the plight of women. This is the case in every culture of the world. But we have to play only by remembering our good. And much of it is simply misleading. Or it has not benefited the society. For example we take great pride in the achievements of our ancient sages. Many have heard about yogis who can fly. But what was the benefit to the common man? When we westerners made airplanes, we started flying. But we consider the so-called ambassadors of Indian culture to be the religious leaders, storytellers and low-level comedians who travel in the first or business class of that plane. And finally, ever heard a foreigner say that our children are being spoiled by blind imitation of Eastern culture? Those people do not imitate us, so it means that we see nothing in them to imitate.
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