Moha Mudgara- Hindus’ Moral Science

 It is taken for granted that Hindu philosophies were crude and hard and was tough for common mass to understand the meaning and concept. Certainly {philosophical acumen was tough and therefore these concepts were not spread in whole civilization. There were Gurukuls (schools) where Acharyas taught these ideas and concept to prepare better administrators, planners and managers, judges in the society.

It is important to understand the difference between rishis (seers), Acharyas (professors), Sadhus (saints). Veragis (Nomadic) and Vanprasths (wanders). Seers were those who gave their lives for writing the Vedas, compiling and making Angas and philosophies and started schools on their metaphysical and epistemological concepts while professors were those who run Gurukul and prepare students according to their philosophical concepts. Saints were the people who preach humanity in society and nomadic were those who left the world and society and roam to find their own solutions while Vanprasth were people that left the family lives and wander in jungles as per the third Ashram system of Hindus.

 

The main aim of these philosophies is to make better lives and good societies like Plato prepared the roadmap of Ethiopia. The aim of philosophy is to advance the concept of metaphysics and epistemology and then prepare a code of conduct. These codes of conduct were not like ten commandants of Bible but rule of law for the common mass. In this sequence the Upnishads came out that explained Vedic philosophies through stories and Buddhism also brought Panch Tantra in form of stories the moral life in Hindu societies.    

 

Very few people know that Adi Shanker that advanced and advocated oneess concept of truth through Advait Vedanta based on Maya that simulation theory of the universe and also wrote Moha Mudgara in Sanskrit language. Unfortunately this book was later translated into Bhaja Govindam and used in Bhakti movement in Hindus. Irony is that Shanker never advocated the existence of gods but took gods true till we live a life in illusion. For shanker ultimate truth is Brahma that is one, attribute less, colourless, shapeless. Moha Mudgara means destroyer of illusion that is Maya and provide true way of life by understanding that the world or universe is not real and the singularity is the only truth.   The truth is non-duality and only one and singular. The Moha Mudgara later turned to the worship or bhakti of Mythological deities Ram and Krishna in Bhaga Govindam.

 I am delighted to quote the translation of Moha Mudgara in English through Sanskrit by Durga Das Ray published in 1888-

   Give up the thirst for wealth, banish all from the heart, let the mind be satisfied  with what is gained by the Karman

 -        Do not be proud of wealth of friends or proud on youth. Time takes all away in a moment. Leaving all this which is full of illusion leave quickly that which is full of illusion, leave quickly and enter into the place of Brahman.

 -         Who is the wife and who is the son? Curious are the ways of this world. Who art thou whence did thou come and you ponder on this

 -        Life is tremulous like a water drop n a lotus leaf. The company of the good, though for the moment only, is the only boat of crossing this ocean of the world.

 -        As is birth so is death and so is the dwelling in the mother’s womb. This is manifesting the misery of the world. How can there be satisfaction here for thee. O! Man. 

 -        Day and night, morning and evening, winter and spring come and go. Time is playing life is waning- yet the breath of hope never ceases.

 -        The body is wrinkled, the hair grey, the mouth has become toothless, the stick n the hand also shakes, yet man leaves not the anchor of hope.

 -        To live under a tree of the house of the gods, to sleep on the earth to put ton a goat skin, to abandon all worldly enjoyment when does such surrender not make you happy?

 -        Do not trouble about enemy, friend, son or relation whether for war or peace. Preserve equanimity always, if you desire to reach the place of Vishnu place (Becoming Brahma explained).

 -        The eight great mountains, the seven oceans, Brahma, Indra, the sun and the Rudras, thou, I and the whole world are nothing, why then is there any sorrow?

 -         In thee, in me and in others there dwells Vishnu (Brahma) alone; it is useless to be angry with me and impatient. See every self in self and give up all though of difference.

 -        The child is given to play, the youth delights in a beautiful damsel an old man is absorbed in cares- no one clings to the highest Brahman.

 -        Consider wealth as useless there is truly no particle of happiness in it. The rich are afraid even of their own son, this is the rule established everywhere.

 -        So long as a man can earn money, his family is kind to him. But when his body becomes infirm through old age, no man in the house asks after him.

 -        Having given up lust, anger, avarice and distraction, mediate on theyself, who thou art. Fool without knowledge of self are hidden in hell and boiled.



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