Who does not want
self progress? Who doesn’t want Mithila as progress
region?
Obviously, Answer
will be yes. How does Mithila Manthan be one of the options
for the mission of progress? We will try to focus on the
concern relating Manthan on Mithila for over all development.
Progress of any region is not a magic. Where ever any region
has progressed, it is the result of serial efforts by every
individual of all castes and communities. We are trying to
explore various Manthan in context with the progress for
oneself & society. Manthan means churning i.e. a
rotational agitation to produce positive vibration &
energy.
The
churning is to attain the elixir of life at all levels to work
tirelessly for ‘happiness’ in all our life for society, &
acquiring physical or spiritual assets one after
another.
Mithila: linked with
Manthan: How & Why?
Living or non living
object is to be produced by vigorous agitation is called
Churning (Manthan). In context with Mithila, eventually,
Taking birth by churning (Manthan) was the core factor to
understand about Janak and emergence of Janak Dynasty. In
brief, there was an incident where Vasishtha, the Kulguru of
King Nimmi was assigned to perform Yagyna but could not be
available. The Saga was preoccupied with assignments at heaven
and auspicious time for yagyna was about to lapse where King
Nimmi was having no ways other than to depute another sagas.
Yagyna was completed successfully. When Vasishtha returned and
found yagyan was over. He became furious and punished King
Nimmi to become invisible body. In context with yajna, Both
Kulguru and King had attacked each other for to live without
body (Nirdeh). Option for continuation of Kingship after King
Nimmi were explored by Group of Rishi’s (Researcher) and
planned for creating living body by the churning of dead body
of King Nimmi to begin Janak Dynasty. So, Churning (manthan)
of Body is called Mithi and one who takes birth by Churning is
known as Jank, so was the birth of Mithi-Janak. King Mithi
(Janak-1) Mithi created created Mithila. Raja Janak is known
as Videh also. A Mithila formation was rooted from Manthan.
Manthan in Mithila had given the popular King named as Mithi.
Mithi had made Mithila as cultural and spiritual power.
Thereafter, Sita wife of Ram was Mithila girl-a very popular
name in and out of Mithila in the category of
goddess.
Various types of
manthan
1. Samudra manthan 2.
Milk manthan 3.
Atma manthan
Let’s take the
significance of Samudra manthan.
Point
of concern:To control devil
forces, the point of concern is to know that the assistance
was taken by daityas ( Asuras /demons) only. Devas played
diplomatic way at step by awarding lucrative result to achieve
the immortal status. But after manthan, Devas didn’t share
with any divine emergence despite taking support from Demons.
When Paradise, the Land of the Devas fell into the hands of
the Daityas, then the options of
Samudra-manthan was explored. The Churning of the Ocean’ was
not the easy task. The contribution of Daityas during
Samudra-manthan was the need. Immortal was the cause for
daitiya to participate in Samudra-manthan. Manthan is the
projections of negative & positive forces. We know that
the story of Samudra Manthan in our Hindu Mythology in a
spiritual terms projects about an individuals on
followings
Subjects
Abstract represents (Spiritual
language)
Devas(Gods) and Asuras
(demons)
Positive and negative forces within
one's personality
Samudra (Sagar) means
Ocean
Mind is as like as
Ocean
Wave of ocean
Feeling & thoughts
Mountain named as Mandhara
Concentration means holding the mind
in one line
Kurma (tortoise)
The withdrawal of the senses into
oneself -
practicing for concentration and meditation
Vasuki: a kind of snake : a
component for churning
Deserve than desire. Churning
the mind with the help of concentration and withdrawal
of the senses.
Precious objects during churning of
ocean
Progressing of spiritual forces
through steps to steps.
Dhanvantari
Relation between body and the mind
for good health
Mohini
Pride and egoism - last hurdles but
critical before experiencing
self-realisation.
Halahala poison
Beginning of spiritual sadhana
(practice):- intense suffering and great inner turmoil,
controlling pain through mind and body.
The Amrit (a)
The ultimate achievement of
self-realisation.
Above are 14 ratnas, the emergence of
samudra-manthan. Neelkanth (Lord Shiva) and Rahu are the
incident of Manthan which reflects as my uncle late Surya
Narayan Das had written his poem relating several problems
& life. 2-lines are mentioned herewith.
Emergence of Milk
manthan
Butter is being prepared by continued
agitators. Lord Krishna's habit of stealing butter and milk
for building team and act as team leader. As a child Krishna
was very fond of milk and milk products. He would prowl into
anyone's house and steal or break pots of butter and milk.
Learning lesson is to know the tricks of team effort and
effective leader.
Emergence of Atma
manthan (Introspection)
What we do?
Our mind is merged in Atma. is permanent
and is without any change or alteration. It is full of
knowledge, bliss and purity.
Very difficult, but not impossible as per
GITA: emergence for peace of mind.
1. To Control on bad desires 2.
To Control on bad actions 3.
To Control of wavering mind 4.
To Control on egoism 5.
To Control on external indriyas 6.
To Control on criticism of others 7.
Merciful nature on all living beings 8.
Charitable nature 9.
Avoiding criticism of others 10.
external and internal purity 11.
Straight forwardness
Suitable manthan for the development of
Mithila: Point of concern
Floods in Maithila have stopped the
progress. It is annual disaster. How to overcome? There is no
shortcut solution. Anyway, we do explore with Jal Manthan. Jal
Manthan should be focused with great hopes for Mithila’s
agricultural and industrial development, but equally, should
be promised for basic standard of living, social progress.
Everyone who aspired to see migrated maithil to return to the
homeland and provide them with a decent living depended on
technological progress.
Floods in Mithila do draw attention to
churn the flooded and rain water through effective water
management for progress: electrification arrangement hence the
building up of the land could not be realized without a
technological revolution.
Maithili Manthan
Who doesn’t like Maithili? Who does not
like to be called as Maithil? Who does criticize Maithil and
Mithila? Who is responsible for this? Do we realize for
Maithili Manhan? The language of Mithila known as Maithili has
its own script which has some resemblance with Bengali script.
Now, Maithili script is disappearing and becoming the part of
our history. Hindi script has dominated over Maithili
script.
Mithila movement towards maithili as
mother language will create interest to restore Maithil.
Professionals involved for the maithili promotion, have been
failed completely to generate interest and create the sense of
responsibility. They are also help less. There are no readers.
Non-Purchasing habit towards Maithili journal are the
root-cause.
Above & below graphs represent the
serious concern towards the non-interest of Maithil on Reading
& Writing their own language.
Cause for down trends:
1) Lacking of tendering respect to our
mother tongue which has begun from maithil itself. If we don’t
respect our language, our mind has accepted linguistic
slavery. Knowing other languages at cost of deep ignorance of
maithili in terms of speaking, reading and writing is very
bad.
2) Generation gap: Maithil families do
have different opinion on Maithili which has been resulting
into generation gap. 3)
No leading magazine as like as Anand bazaar patrika of Bengali
language. Maithils don’t have emotion to purchase maithili
patrika in case it is available on sale. There is an
opportunity to start and publish commercial magazine as like
Anand Bazaar patrika of West Bengal.Difficult task but easy to
act: Maithil should enjoy to ready and write maithili. Maithil
should have the interest to purchase Maithili Patrika. Every
Maithil should adopt good practices towards our mother
language to speak, read & write.
Udyog Manthan
Poverty in any region is root for
humiliation, harassment, starvation, crime, and many things.
The very next point comes to discuss on cause for poverty.
Poverty can be routed out through economical development hence
Industrial growth. Few General Manager of District Industries
Centre, Govt. of Bihar are visionless & mission
less. They are orthodox in approach. In such situation,
individual will have to make own effort.
Problems in entrepreneurship for
Maithil
Who doesn’t want progress? Nobody can live
without progress. Progress is the part of life. There is
tendency among maithil to ignore and neglect any serious
effort. Most of maithil does not want to start any industries.
Marwari & Sindhi of Mithila do thing for industries. I
know few of them where bread & biscuit industries at
cottage scale have been running. Nav Ratna concept on
industries (agro, pharma, food, tourism, herbal, dairy,
handicrafts, paintings etc.) for Mithila will be the boon for
Maithils.
Packaging industry has
proved that packging is the life-line of any product and
sunrise industry in India. Packaging is constantly evolving to
meet changing social, economic and environmental needs.One
such need is to service a growing world population. More
mouths to feed usually means more packaging required. On the
other hand, packaging acts to reduce the sickness and disease
that is often associated with non-packaged food in less
developed countries and, indeed, saves food wastage. People,
certainly in the more industrialized nations, are eating
healthier food today than ever before. So today's packaging
has to reflect the need for seniors to read labels and
nutritional and health information without difficulty. Mithila
has tremendous potential to grow in Mircro-Small
Industries.
Maithil Manthan:
Sincere Maithils are dedicating themselves
to promote Maithili literature. They are continuously in their
job despite series of hurdles. Some Maithils are dedicating
themselves in social reforms also. One of them Shri Ashok
kumar Jha of Tumaul for the last two decades says that we
should keep alive of our socio-cultural rituals but not in
orthodox/forcibly manner. Expenditure of Feast (Bhoj) during
Mundan, Upnayan, marriage and shradya are adding economic
liabilities to the organizer for which they face difficulties
in their life time. Social economical growth is blocked. In
place of Bhoj, expenditure may be made for common
infrastructure hence resulted into the
progress.
Maithil’s on E-manthan: There are many
e-groups apart from Yahoo. But our study in yahoo only
projects that 3232 Maithils (till December 22, 2007) are
discussing core issues on Mithila’s progress.
Summary
Yahoo Group Name
Members
Yahoo Group Name
Members
Maithili
1299
Mithilamanthan
14
mithila_vasi
717
The_Mithilanchal
9
the_mithila
371
Mithilagroup
8
mithila_maithili
272
Mithilawasi
8
yomofmithila
196
Lnmudarbhanga
7
mithilanchal
49
Mithilayatan
6
mithilamatchmaker
41
mithila_university
5
AMPMithila
37
lalitnarayanmithilauniversity
5
CMLA_Mithila_Teachers
34
madhubani_mithila
4
maithili_group_usa
29
development_madhuban
4
vividha_maithili
24
MithilaDarbhanga
4
mithila
16
Maithilgroup
4
Youthsofmithila
14
mithila_sumathi
4
mithilians
9
smiling_mithila
4
mithila_youth_society
10
mithilafriends
4
dmpmithilaart
20
mithilauniversity
4
Total number of Groups: 32 & Total
Members: 3232 (Many members would be repeatable also in other
groups as well but does not matter)
Mithila is being developed. Maithils are
taking necessary steps as per the need. Step of manthan will
force to come forward for action. Action with good attitude
will bring the success by technological
revolutions.