What is freedom?

Freedom is the ecology which enables every person to realise his or her potential substantially. The extent of freedom people have determines the strength of their persona, their drive for initiatives and enterprise. The test of the state of freedom is that each person is in command of his or her life. None serves mere as the means to other person's end. Freedom in this sense is a mutual obligation. Free societies are progressive societies as they innovate continuously. Such societies are also prosperous and as a collective they command power. Now come to the ground level of free existence. Such societies cannot be other than capitalist ones and thereby democratic. And for such societies, nothing is more sacrosanct than an individual, her dignity and autonomy. 

Niraj Kumar Jha

Under animal attack

These hounds
When sink
Their teeth into your flesh,
They do so not for their morsel,
But wanna kill your spirits,
And have their sway.
With their barks and bites
They demean
All and sundry,
Meaning included.
Let me warn you my friends!
They stir whirlpools
Of meaninglessness, 
And these suck unsparingly
Naïve or guilty alike.
My friends,
Beware of them, my friends!

Niraj Kumar Jha

The Tyranny of the Meanings

The meanings are the floating vessels in the ocean of infinity, on which we rest. We must not forget ultimately that they are after all the floats in the endlessness of meaninglessness. But most unfortunately, some assume the custodianship of the meanings and start issuing diktats in the name of meanings. True, these  are meanings, which provision our lives, but they cannot be used to enslave us, the creators and upholders of the meanings, in the name of these meanings. They must be reminded of the ocean, where everything is nothing and nothing is everything. 

We must always be conscious of the meaninglessness which is the inevitable aspect of our existence so as not to surrender ourselves to the tyranny of meanings. 

We the Sanatanis always had the answer against the tyranny of meanings - 

NETI NETI.

Niraj Kumar Jha 

धर्म और रिलिजन

यह तय है और सभी सुधीजन जानते हैं कि धर्म और रिलिजन सर्वथा अलग संवृत्तियाँ हैं। बिलकुल अलग। यहाँ तक कि इन दोनों में तुलना का कोई समान आधार भी नहीं है। मेरे एक छात्र ने दोनों के अंतर के विषय में बड़ा अच्छा उत्तर दिया। उसने बताया कि मानवों के रिलिजन कई हैं लेकिन धर्म सभी का एक है। 

दूसरी तरफ, धर्म को मात्र जीवन शैली कहना वास्तव में कुछ भी नहीं कहना है।ऐसा कहना कुछ भी परिभाषित नहीं करता है। अब सवाल है कि हिन्दुइज़्म क्या है? क्या इसे धर्म से अलग कर देखा जा सकता है। यह एक विचारणीय प्रश्न है। मुझे लगता है कि हिन्दुइज़्म शब्दरचना और इसको परिभाषित करने का प्रयास धर्म के प्रतिगामियों की कुत्सित योजना का हिस्सा है। ऐसा करके वे सनातन धार्मिक परम्परा को रिलिजन के समान्तर खड़ा करना चाहते हैं। रिलिजन हमेशा से नियंत्रण के यन्त्र के रूप में प्रयुक्त हुआ है। रिलिजन व्यक्तियों के अंतःकरण को अधीन करने का उपक्रम है। 

नीरज कुमार झा

On the Occasion of Holi

Holi is the great Sanatana festivity of mingling, and trashing distinctions and taboos. This is the periodic return to everyone's social self. In its contrast, Diwali is the statement of attainment, though not with its attendant social obligations. The great celebration of Vijayadashami, asserts the civilization's resolve to take to arms in defence of Dharma. Its uniqueness is the deification of the feminine as the fountain of chivalry. The Sanatana is the completeness of humanism and the order of justice. India is progressing to regain its essence, with which it would embrace the whole world. With Dharma's ascendance, the mankind would be in realisation of its humaneness.

Sanatana ki Jai!

- Niraj Kumar Jha

Victims we all

The women's subjugation is not an autonomous issue. It is inevitably interrelated to the general order of domination. People however generally overlook the fact that at the receiving end of the order the men come first and suffer no less. And the women suffer because the oppressed men and even the women are condemned to victimise their own kith and kin. This is a tragedy, very painful tragedy, which the men don't realise despite being the victims, and the women do not sense this as they are not seeing the puppeteers.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Putting our acts together

The shift cannot be starker. The US is closing its doors and the PRC is going all open. The former is trying to shield against further losses and the latter is attempting to hold on its gains. The heat they face is not only generated by the competition but also by the unfolding technologies. We Indian must rise above the inane debates and look at the immense opportunities the present future offers and the great threats it inheres. Putting our acts together has never been more critical an issue than it is today.

Niraj Kumar Jha