Thursday, 10 December 2015

भोग से पाप वाया वासना : बौध एक्सप्रेस

भोग से पाप वाया वासना : बौध एक्सप्रेस


बुद्ध घर बार छोड़ ध्यान में थे, (या सो रहे थे किसे पता?) मर आया। वह अपने साथ काम लाया था। पर वह बुद्ध का ध्यान भंग न कर सका, बुद्ध सोते रहे और काम हार गया। वह मर गया।
समाज को दो प्रकार में विभाजित कर सकते है। काम सकारात्मक और काम नकारात्मक। एक ऐसे समाज की कल्पना करीए जहा नर का नर से सम्बन्ध को हेय दृष्टि से न देखा जाता हो। कुछ कुछ प्राचीन यूनान की तरह। एसा समाज केवल काम संतुलित ही हो सकता है। जहा काम को सिर्फ एक भोग समझा जाता हो। कुछ कुछ पूर्व बौद्धिक भारत की तरह। आज का भारत काम नकारात्मक समाज है जैसा की पश्चिम भी था और ज्यादा हद तक अभी भी है। लेकिन कामसूत्रआदि ग्रन्थ किसी काम नकारात्मक समाज के नहीं लगते। महाभारत आदि भी काम संतुलित समाज को ही दर्शाते है। वेद को काम सकारात्मक कह सकते है और कुछ आगम शास्त्रों को तो काम उल्लासक। सर्वलान्करण में भारतीय समाज काम संतुलित ही था और कहीं – कहीं काम सकारत्मक भी। पहले काम को भोग समझा जाता था। यह एक संतुलित सोंच थी। आज के समाज में जहा काम को इतना हीन समझा जाता है, ऐसा विचार काम सकरात्मक ही लगेगा। भोग से नुक्सान भी हो सकता है। भोग वासना को जन्म देती है। चिक्तसिय तौर पे वासना पे काबू पाना होगा। वह एक चिकत्सिय विकास था। फिर एक ऐसे धार्मिक और सामाजिक आन्दोलन की कल्पना करिए जो काम को केवल वासना समझे, जैसा श्रमण आन्दोलन। कुछ कुछ बौध धर्म जैसा जो काम को निर्वाण में बाधा समझता है।
इंडियन फिलोसफी ब्लॉग के एक आर्टिकल में पढ़ा की बौध धर्म में समलैंगिकता का विरोध भारत में पहले से मौजूद व्यापक हेय दृष्टि ही थी। मेरा ऐसा मानना नहीं है। जब काम को भोग माना तो काम के विषय पे चिकत्सिय पाबंधियो के अलावा और कुछ विरोध समझ नही आता। भोग में कुछ भी अच्छा लग सकता है। एसा संतुलित समाज समलैंगिकता के खिलाफ नहीं जा सकता।  भारत का स्वरूप वैसा ही होगा जैसा काम उन्मुक्त जन जातियों का या प्राचीन यूनान का। प्राचीन यूनान की ही तरह यहाँ भी नर से नर का सम्बन्ध बुरा नहीं माना जाता होगा जबतक वह अन्य सामाजिक बन्धनों के अनुरूप हो।
संघो की स्थापना के बाद, मठवासियो को किसी प्रकार की भी काम रूचि पे प्रतिबन्ध था। काम निर्वाण में बाधा है अतः पाप था। इंडियन फिलोसफी ब्लॉग में कहा गया है की इस प्रकार तो विषमलैंगिक सम्भोग ज्यादा पापी होना चाहिये क्योंकि उससे परिवार शुरू हो सकता है जो निर्वाण में ज्यादा अवरोधक है। लेकिन ऐसा हुआ नही। इसका जवाब उसी आर्टिकल में है। बौध मठों में किसी भी प्रकार की काम जिज्ञासा एक पाप था। मठ तक में तो सही पर जब ये मठ के नियम (जैसा की इंडियन फिलोसफी ब्लॉग में भी कहा गया है) साधरण जनता के नेतिक व्यव्हार में लाये जाने लगे तब मुसीबत शुरू हुई। सभी

प्रकार के सम्भोग पाप तो थे पर साधारण जनता के लिए एक ‘योनी सम्भोग’ को पाप श्रेणी से हटाना ही पड़ा। बाकियों के पापी रहने से कोई वांशिक अथवा व्यावहारिक विप्पति नहीं थी।
बौध ग्रंथो में मिलता है की कैसे संघो में पन्दको को आना मना था और जो आ चुके थे उन्हें चुन के बाहर निकाला गया था।
फिर यही संघई नेतिकता भारत के आने वाले विचारों में घुल गयी और धीरे धीरे विक्टोरियाई नेतिकता का सहारा पा कर एक काम सकारात्मक समाज को अति नकारात्मक बना दिया। आज भारत का जो काम नकारात्मक स्वरुप है वो भगवान् बुद्ध, महावीर और आगे आने वाले ब्रह्मचारी सन्यासियों के कारण ही है।


Wednesday, 9 December 2015

It Gets Thicker

"Do you have a razor?" No one ever asked me this question. Being folliclly challenged had its own benefits. It did gives me some extra time to waste. Especially the night before a presentation (or an interview or any other occasion where you have to make a good impression) almost all the hostel boys will be scaling there skin off, we few beardless one felt privileged
But its not always sunny in chiknaland (or is it?) We did have some disadvantages. The eternal adolescence is not something one sought. How much it annoys us when people ask, "in which class are you?" Then again, if you are embarrassed with your differently-beard-(less)ness, people as a whole are not comfortable with there beard. Society puts a lot of pressure on them to shave. The nature's gift is disobedience to others. As mentioned, you have to sacrifice your weeks of development for some interview.
Then again if you don't shave, you are not satisfied with your current style. I had met many guys who lived a closet shaven life when there true follicle orientation was a gote.
And when was the last time you saw a traditional moustaches? When are they coming out.
Men's beard is grabbed by society and trimmed the way it is 'appropriate'. Is it not high time when men start taking ownership of there own hairs. The way nature desired?
Today when feminist are waving there bras up high, I think men should also start wiggling there beard, disgusting but hey its our choice. Isn't it?

Sunday, 4 October 2015

The biggest transformation


It's been 4 years since I first met her. There has been a lot of changes in her. The biggest change in her is not social or sexual, which people can easily perceive but something much internal.
She met me with a different identity, a different name. She was childish, as 'innocent' as her name was, with 'love seeking' attitude typical of chick flick movie enthusiasts. She, I used to think, dreamt of her Prince Charming on a horse or something.
When I met her, she was a shy person. She used another fake id on facebook to tell me that she liked me. It did not take much time to figure out what was happening. I did not make it a big deal.
For me, she was a shy person, confused and dwelling in dreams. I was not mature enough myself to understand what goes inside a person's heart.
We remain in contact for years before she revealed her secret, which I've already figured out long back. She told me that it was her biggest change. I disagreed.
She wanted to drop out college. I advised against it but she dropped out. She changed her surname from Pandey to Singh for her 'partner', my castist subconscious made me feel anxious. She came out to her parents, to her leftover friends, and to everyone.
But the biggest change in her is a lack of poker faces that she had put on her successively for many years. She is living her true self. She is bold, outspoken and loved by people who actually matter.
Realization of self is considered enlightenment in India. The LGBT people are in much better position than other spiritually, better but still harder.
There can be many transformations by changing physical or social appearance. But the transformation that matters is the refusal to transform for outer conformity with appropriations.
What happened to Siddharth when he sat under that tree, what happened to Maruti Anjaniputra when he stood on the seashore or to Shakar Govindpada when his leg got caught by a crocodile is what happens to people when they come out. An epiphany, a realization ... to say spiritually, enlightenment.
It may be a small step, but it is in the same direction. Enlightenment may be a huge thing to be compared with but the change in person, what transforms him into a sage, a buddha, a jinna or a god is also centered on self. The change is evident unless you are too fixated on outer appearance.
People sang for centuries about the enlightenment of Gautam Siddhartha, Krishna Devikiputra, Lakulisha, Shankar Govindapada. They will sing for decades about our own Sid, Kanaihya, Sambhu and all who have realized their true self and are living as it is.

Saturday, 11 July 2015

The Gay Debate

Some say, “Homosexuality is unnatural!” (Do notice the exclamation mark). भाई जान, “हाथ कंगन को आरसी क्या?” Don’t they exist? Our great ऋषि जैमिनी said, “Perception is the best proof of Dharma.”
So मित्रों, before you start refuting logic tell me, what is so natural about airplanes, artificial intelligence, spaceships and beautiful girls.
One of my girlfriends asked me once, “Hey! Do you like my makeup?”
“Yes! You do a good Pikachu” I said.
When Neil Armstrong set his foot on the moon, that incident was as natural as Rakhi Sawant’s face (no offense).
राखी सावंत से याद आया, बाबाजी कहते हैं, “अगर आपके पूर्वज समलैंगिक होते तो क्या आप पैदा होते?” बाबजी और अगर वे सन्यासी होते तो दही मठ कर बच्चे निकालते? Maybe but those dahi-mathi kids always grow up into certain Raksashas, Apsaras, and Kinnaras.
I was watching a Hollywood movie with one of my girlfriends, I could not remember the exact dialogue but it might have gone like this –
“Hey, Sebastian! Where are you going?”
“To the yoga class”
“The yoga class, why? Are you gay?”
Not anymore my stereotypical friend, because Babaji says he can cure gays by yoga! Hurray………. Shushrut couldn’t do it, Patanjali failed, Charka also failed but this manifestation of Dhanwantari can.
Babaji also says, “ये हमारी संस्कृति के खिलाफ है।”
कहने को तो बाबाजी की योग संस्कृति है।. But this बाबाजी की संस्कृति is ‘the last novelty left in India.’ The legacy of our great white masters only flavored for Indian palate. मसाला मार के you see.
I was walking around with one of my girlfriends when she said, “Hey what is this ugly pungent smell?”
“What you call ugly, people are intoxicated by it. Look there it is ठेका देसी शराब।’”
“Well indeed Mr. Philosopher, but can you tell what stinks worse than this and is still more intoxicating?” She asked.
“I’ve no idea”
“Get Idea, its ‘ठेका देसी संस्कृति’”
It is often said, east or west India is the best. But sahib India has not only east and west but also north and south and all the in-betweens. यहाँ तो संस्कृति का जमघट है। वैदिक संस्कृति, अवेदिक संस्कृति, मौर्य, गुप्त, मुग़ल, चौल, अहोम, अंग्रेजी राज, राजस्थानी, पंजाबी, मद्रासी। Southeast Asia is the only sub-continent which has a language dedicated to a queer subculture. The Hijra-Farsi of Hijra people of India. राजस्थान की लोक कथाओ से लेकर पौराणिक और आगमिक मिथकों तक क्या फिलिस्तीन की संस्कृति है?
Someone asked Mamdhatri, “Hey Mady! How is your mother?”
“He is fine,” Mandy said.
“No Mandy, I’m asking about your mother”
“Define Mother.”
“The women who suckled you.”
“I'm suckled by a man Sakra, he is fine.”
“No Mandy, umm how is the woman who gave birth to you?”
“Well I'm born of a man, King Yuyanashwa and he is also doing well”
“No Mady. How is your father’s wife?”
“He married thrice, about whom you ask?”
“The one you call your mother Mandy!”
“I told you! He is fine.”
Marriage is a union of two selves it is said. Abhinavagupta tried producing Manas Putras, he failed so the poor guy has to marry.
Apparently one marries because one has to beget. The gay couple can never beget so they should never marry.
If a gay couple does marry, they can always adopt, can’t they? Dattak putram! Well not as per law. A gay couple cannot adopt but a gay person can adopt as a single father beside the point of his relationship status. So in a certain way, they can still adopt. Each one of them can but not together. There is a reason the LGBT group takes Indian constitution too personally.
बाबासाहब बता तूने ये क्या किया?
Talk about rights, जानवरों के पास भी ज्यादा हकूक है।. Elementary rights you know. But the article 377 is not at all discriminatory. It oppresses as much the ‘straight couples who are into non-missionary positions’ as the gay couples. It is a secular oppression. It is a law of a secular republic, its secularism is an axiom. Isn’t it?
परन्तु प्रजापति की माया देखो। In some way gay marriage is not illegal in India, child marriage is. One has to decide what is more anti-social and immoral and what is more abundant.
One of my girlfriends asked me a totally out of the context question, “who made these morality laws anyway?”
All of a sudden Brahma appears, “I did” He said.
“Brahma Dev Ji, didn’t you lusted after your daughter and married her?”
“Yes...” Brahma confessed, “I made laws after that.”
Notwithstanding, Indian is the only society that has recognized the third gender for ages. The recent amendments in law also recognize their marriages and rights. It took years to protect those who were socially acceptable and religiously divine. How much time would it take for dubiously social people who are held demonic?