NANDHIVARMAN OPINES

 FAILED PROPHECY AND FAILED CITY

Dutchman Carel Theime gets angry if I refer Mirra Alfassa as Frenchwoman. Let me quote from Mother’s Agenda. “Born in Paris on February 21, 1878, in a very materialistic middle class family. She completed a thorough education of music, painting and higher mathematics. A student of French painter Gustave Moreau, she befriended the great Impressionist artists of the time. She later became acquainted with Max Theon, an enigmatic character with extraordinary occult powers, who for the first time, gave her a coherent explanation of the spontaneous experiences occurring since her childhood, and who taught her occultism during two long visits to his estate in Algeria. In 1914 she visited the French colonial city of Pondicherry in India and met Aurobindo who had sought refuge there from British. She returned permanently to Pondicherry in 1920 via Japan and China, and when Aurobindo “withdrew” to his room in 1926 to devote himself to the supramental yoga, she organized and developed his Ashram, and tried in vain to awaken disciples to a new consciousness. In 1958 after Aurobindo’s departure, she in turn withdrew to her room to come to terms with the problem, in the cells. From 1958 to 1973, she slowly uncovered the great passage to the next species and a new mode of life in matter, and narrated her extraordinary exploration to Satprem.This is the Agenda”

I am a Tamil, Indian Tamil, and she is a French, French being her mother tongue. After all she spoke only in her mother tongue to Satprem, who recorded it for 22 years. I wonder why Mr.Carel Theime gets angry when I say her or BBC describes her as Frenchwoman. It becomes evident from Satprem’s words that she “uncovered the great passage to the next species and a new mode of life in matter”. Mr.Carel Theime is in India to finish her unfinished agenda. Then Indian people expect that the so many trusts Mr.Carel Theime and his friends from overseas have created should have some connectivity to the purpose of tracing the next species and new mode of life. It is not so. A forestation, environment, solar energy, natural farming etc for which these trusts have mushroomed here can be undertaken by Indians. These are global issues and in every country non-governmental organizations are working on these themes. We require Mr.Carel Theime and company here only to find the passage to next species or the new mode of life in matter. Indians know for centuries to build temples, and all goddesses in India, are due to Indians being matriarchal society. Hence to build a Matrimandir, we don’t need foreign expertise. We need these foreign species here to find out the passage to next species. If for that purpose they are here, we can welcome. But to teach Indians agricultural farming, which Indians knew for centuries before west knew, if these foreign species create non-governmental organizations here, we don’t need them. We say to them Go Back!

In the wrapper of Mother’s Agenda, Satprem says: “This tremendous document- 6000 pages- is the day to day account of over 22 years of Mother’s exploration into the body consciousness and of her discovery of a cellular mind capable of restructuring the nature of the body and the laws of the species as drastically as one day the first stammering of a thinking mind transformed the nature of the ape. It is a veritable document of experimental evolution. A revolution in consciousness that alters the laws of species. And it is a question of our times, for whatever the appearances, we are not at the end of civilization but at the end of evolutionary cycle. Are we going to find the passage to next species…..? Or perish? As scrupulously as a scientist in his laboratory, Mother goes back to the origin of matter’s formation, to the primordial code and there, by chance stumbles upon the very power that changes death, and upon a new energy which curiously parallels the most recent theories on the sub atomic nature of matter. The key to Matter contains the key to death…. And the key to next species” so says Satprem.

After Aurobindo, Mirra Alfassa became Guru. Thereafter there is no Guru. If Mr.Manoj Das Gupta is a Guru or real inheritor of his Mother’s mantle, he must have inherited the key to death. With that key, while Ashram inmate Kamal Shah raped and attempted to murder Paravathi Shah, his own brother’s wife, Mr.Manoj Das Gupta who deputed 8 of his men, who silently delayed taking her to nearest hospital, could have sent that key to death to save Parvathi Shah. After all the God of Death, Yama has not bought modern cars, yet he uses old aging buffalo from the times of Sathyavan and Savithri. He could not have dared to take the life of Parvathi Shah, if the key to death is in the custody of Mr.Manoj Das Gupta. There would be no deaths in Aurobindo Ashram. But what happens is shocking. There has been deaths, which means, whatever the Gurus told as theory, their disciples failed to research further and prove scientifically, what their Masters visualized. Let us go back to hear Mirra Alfasa’s own words, on what went wrong. After all as Mother she knew what fault is behind her children’s failures.

“You no longer knew where you stand; there is Sri Aurobindo Society, Sri Aurobindo Action, and Sri Aurobindo this and that…. The result is dispersion. Yes but when you tell them that especially if you put it that way to Navjatha of Sri Aurobindo Society he will say all right, Sri Aurobindo Action had to go… Each one says I am the one who should stay… That is no solution. You have hit the point; lack of unity is the cause of all difficulties. Even the ashram has been contaminated by the disease; each department considers itself a separate entity. And since there is no more cohesion, nothing works. That is the situation.   [Mothers Agenda volume 13 page 84]

You would have read our demand for bringing all sub trusts under Auroville Foundation as one entity, one department under the Indian Government controlled Auroville Foundation. The reason why we made such a demand stands proven from the words of the Mother of Aurovillians and Ashramites. The creation of Trust after Trust is a disease which started in Aurobindo Ashram Trust and spread to Auroville Foundation. The motive behind so many trusts is tax evasion. Let us go back to 1975, when Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust passed a historical resolution. “Resolution dated 19.12.1975: It has been decided in the interest of ashram that in order to free from Income Tax on its business incomes that would otherwise be attracted inevitably because of the new Income Tax Amendment Act 1975 and the recent decisions of the Supreme Court of India on Trusts doing business, the Ashram shall stop doing business and its existing businesses shall be taken over by Aurobindo Ashram Harpagon Workshop Trust…. By this precedent, Ashram created Trust after Trust with the motive to evade tax. The irony of naming a Workshop as Trust sounds like Mohammed John Iyengar, if any person could imagine of such a name, which proves its hollowness. This precedent is followed in Auroville Foundation. Dravida Peravai had submitted a memorandum to then Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on 10.10.1998, for which the reply came on 2^nd November 1998.

Tax exemptions to perform scientific research were obtained by ashram. Had any research been undertaken? No we can say. Let them refute. Our humble submission is when that Frenchwoman who claimed to have found the key to death, what happened?

 Satprem reports: Before my eyes they drove twenty five screws into her coffin. There was a ray of sun on the nape of her neck, her hands were tightly clasped together, and there was such strength in those hands. Such power in that supposedly dead body. And then that fierce concentration……. Already night and silence have fallen over the little actors, their good and evil, their sorrow and petty affairs. Tomorrow this scribe too will return to the flame of love whence he came, and she to the sweetness of Ganges. But what about men? What about history? Still millions and millions of men destined to die? Still sorrow upon sorrow?  When there will be undying love? When a lovely earth? Is it once again put off? “A new way of dying ought to be possible” she said in 1963. She spoke so much to me about death. Savitri too went to death to release Sathyavan….

So Death had won. The Key to Death could not save Mirra Alfasa.This is truth. And if at all those who believe in her had faith in what she spoke are wrote, they must have carried forward from where she left. They would have undertaken scientific research to prove her theory or to realize her dream. Neither the business trusts of ashram nor the eyewash trusts of Auroville Foundation are pursuing the goals of their prophets. If Mr.Carel Theime finds our criticism on failed prophets to be harsh, he must vow to do research and find the key to death or guide the humanity to the next evolutionary cycle. We don’t question anybody’s faith. Let them believe that key to death could be found. If it is faith, let them have their faith. The followers of Jesus Christ till day even after 2000 years believe resurrection will take place. Like that for 2000 years let these people search the key to death. But till the prophecy stands scientifically proven, rationalists have the liberty and freedom of expression to call the failed prophets a failure.

[I am sorry to say some people are comparing me with Dr.Subramanian Swamy, for raking up these issues. Dr.Swamy is my friend but I differ with him on all aspects.]

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

Japanese Tamil scholar Susumu Ohno passes away

Prof. Susumu Ohno (23.08.1919 - 14.07.2008)

Professor Susumu Ohno, distinguished scholar of Japanese linguistics, known for his phenomenal research of linking the origins of Japanese language with Tamil, passed away on Monday in Tokyo at the age of 89, reported The Japan Times. He was working on the relationship between Tamil and Japanese languages for the last 30 years and even last year came out with a publication, reasserting to his theories. A 1999 book of him on Japanese language sold nearly 2 million copies. Born on 23rd August 1919 and initiated into linguistics in the late 1930s at the Tokyo University, his academic contributions date back to the times of the Second World War. He later became a Professor at the Gakushuin University of Tokyo.Ohno’s researches included the study of language found in the earliest poetry of Japan, compiled in the 8th century, and in an epic-novel of 11th century. His monumental publications dealt with the origins, practice and usage of the Japanese language.

In the late 1970s he came out with his first writings on the affinities between Tamil and Japanese. He was not the first to come out with such a study, but he became the central figure in theorizing it.Ohno’s Tamil-Japanese studies didn’t just stop at linguistics: comparing sounds, words, grammar, and literature, but involved a wider area covering archaeology, folklore etc. It is well known that Chinese and Japanese are fundamentally different languages despite their geographical proximity. Linguists, account to this difference by speculating maritime origins for the Japanese language.

Prof. Ohno, while accepting a Polynesian base for the Japanese language in prehistoric times, put forwarded the theory of the influence of Dravidian languages, especially Tamil shaping Japanese, along with the introduction of agriculture in Japan in the Yayoi period between 500 BCE and 300 CE. He envisaged maritime contacts behind such developments.

To substantiate his theories he conducted research on the comparison of the Yayoi burials of Japan with the Megalithic burials (1300 BCE – 300 CE) of South India and Sri Lanka. This study in early 1990s revealed amazing similarities in pottery, burial habits and above all in the graffiti marks between the two cultures.

Prof. Susumu Ohno maintained a long connection with Tamil institutions and scholars. He encouraged many Japanese students to learn Tamil.Sri Lankan Tamil scholars, Prof. A. Sanmugadas and Manonmani Sanmugadas worked for a long time with Prof. Ohno and have brought out joint publications while Dr. P. Ragupathy was associated with him in the study of Yayoi burials. Encyclopedia of Languages & Linguistics refers to his Tamil-Japanese studies in the following words:

“His search for the roots of Japanese language started in 1957. He compared Japanese with Korean, Ainu, and Austronesian languages. Unable to establish any kind of genetic kinship between them, he turned to a branch of Dravidian. Encouraged by professors Emeneau and Kothandaraman, Ohno pursued his Japanese-Tamil hypothesis in spite of withering criticism by some Japanese scholars. Commenting on it, Zvelebil (1990) said: ‘The similarities between Japanese and Dravidian cannot be regarded as mere freakish coincidence, and may indeed reflect a very deep genetic kinship…’ Ohno’s studies are trying to prove this kinship.”

courtesy :Kalinga Tamil weekly