Chitrakar - Painter, Illustrator, Writer

Shiva Consciousness – 5

Hu Shih (1891-1962) was China’s Ambassador in America in a period prior to the Communist Regime in China. In one of his quotes he has paid handsome tributes to India. “India dominated China culturally for 2000 years successively, without sending a single soldier across the border....it was India from whom the Chinese learnt about religion (धर्म) that led to bold theory of the origin of the universe.”

The mention of the theory of the origin of the universe immediately puts forth the year 3000 B.C. – the birth year of Acharya Kapil who invented the theory. Obviously then, the two thousand years suggested in Hu Shih’s statement are from 3000 B.C. to 1000 B.C. – the period of India’s cultural dominance over China. These very years were the years of India’s ancient Ganatantra System, which had a Dharma that promoted innovation and wealth creation. That Dharma was in fact the result of the two topmost human values – Propriety (a product of left side of the human brain); and Beauty (a product of the right side of the brain). Their joint balanced control over human mind was Dharma.

What Hu Shih quoted was in fact a concise summing up of India’s Creative Heritage-Tradition and Accomplishments in terms of symbols like Ghata-Shiva-Parvati and Ganapati. But Shiva Consciousness didn’t end up at Ganapati. It continued to produce other symbols that perfected the Ganatantra of 3000 B.C. to 1000 B.C.

It is necessary to remember that the Shiva Consciousness wasn’t one of those philosophies that the world saw emerging and collapsing like the forts built from sand. It was one of the phenomena fundamental to human life; which, if ignored, would lead to lot of miseries. And that is why, other symbols in the Ghata-Shiva-Parvati groove were developed after Ganapati. They all were new icons of Adishakti – India’s basic ability to transform vacuum into space. India’s basic power to transform secular happiness into spiritual satisfaction that could be measured only from man’s inner mental space to the highest level in the outer space above (ब्रह्मावकाश).