Today I had a good terrace night walk with my daughter Bhavya. She is now into10th year but she has matured of her age. We enjoyed the day by playing, a bit of gardening, studying, and watching comedy series 'Sarabhai vs Sarabhai'. At night we went to the terrace for some walk-talk.
We started with normal chats and soon discussing good/evil, why people get angry etc. If God is there then why he allows bad things on earth? I explained to her about 'Karma' and how a thing comes back due to one's Karma. For this, I took the example of Krishna and the war of Mahabharat. Krishna knew everything, he could have used his power and could have stopped the war. But his role was to explain the truth, rest it was the individual's choice of accepting and overruling the same.
Her next question was whether our faith is not responsible for our future. Here I had to take some detailed explanation on that what we term faith is basically the accumulation of our past Karma. As our all Karma is not rewarded/penalize instantly, God provides us the opportunity to rectify our ill/bad Karma so that we get less penalty, but if it's accumulated for a long, we fall in a bad phase. Also, instead of taking responsibility for our bad Karma in the past, we blame it on Faith, so that we can earn sympathy.
Then we had a discussion on Jainism. Why and how it is important to follow the writings of Jainism. How a small positive and constructive change can change an entire life. We discussed our various family members how they follow religion and what can be the future.......
Then she said, if our (Jain/Hindu) culture was so rich, then why it is not followed........Now, this was a big answer, I may not be elaborate on this, but it flows like......
Earlier, the religious preaching was not written but, remembered and preached by followers, so there has been some dilution/change in original preachings...... Also, with the invasion of Islamic culture, right from Ghori to Akbar all looted and destroyed Hindu culture. Then she abruptly asked me then why her History book says good about Mughal Empire? (Now this was getting much detailed and tough). So I explained, Historians write books, and Historians were selected by ruling leaders and they would appoint only those who write well. So the world knows that Akbar had 'Navratna' and appointed Hindu in courtier. However, several Hindu and Jain temples were looted and destroyed during his reign. Several Hindu scholars and innocents were killed/converted to the Islamic religion. This has not been mentioned. Then it was British rules, they also did the same thing. They destroyed our culture so that we lose our unity and intelligence.
Then why not after independence things were rectified? It was her instant question. So then I had to step into the Nehru Gandhi dynasty. How Sardar Patel could unite hundreds of small provinces to make a strong Hindustan. But one Jammu was not dealt with properly by Nehru. How in spite of all votes in favor of Sardar Patel, Nehru was asked to become PM by Gandhi. So I summarise that Gandhi wanted to be popular and Nehru wanted to be powerful, and this resulted in division and start of Nehru/Gandhi congress dynasty in India.
She was having so connected questions as if she was understanding all chronologically...... Bhavya then asked, Why Modiji is not doing anything to change this. Then I again had to say that our Nation was looted continuously till his ruling, that his focus is on uplifting poors and progress of Nation. It was getting too minute and I still manage to explain till we had time.....
Ultimately it was almost quarter past 11 and she was also feeling sleepy, so I decided to go back and call it a day.
What I realised that she as grown beyond her age in understanding Macro things at micro-levels. She is very sensitive but has strong understandings. I really wish her good luck for the future and stay blessed. Love you a lot Bhavya beta.
Now, with this, I sign-off for the day.
