Hajarimalmuni Smruti Granth

Author(s): Shobhachad Bharilla
Publisher: Hajarimalmuni Smruti Granth Prakashan Samiti Byavar

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Shri Ramchandra Jain
THE PRE-ARYAN SHRAMANIC
SPIRITUALISM
1. Aryan Migrations:
The Aryans of History began their historic migrations Circa 2500 B.C. from their original habitat in the South of the Circumpolar region and to the North of the Caspian and Aral Seas covering the northern parts of the mountaneous Eurasian Steppes and the southern part of the thick Siberian forests extending upto the eastern sea-coast. This region was known to the post-Aryan ancients as Uttarakuru. They reached West Asia circa 2000 B.C., Greece circa 1500 B.C. and Bharata circa 1200 B.C. The Aryan hegemony in this region was firmly established by circa 1000 B.C. and in Egypt by Circa 500 B.C. It has generally been held by the oriental scholars that the culture and civilization the Aryans annihilated, was definitely far superior; both materially and spiritually, than their own.
2. Spiritual Experiences :
We find a remarkable homegenous culture and civilization, broadly speaking, throughout the vast region stretching from Egypt to Bharata, stronger at certain points and weaker at others, with necessary variations conditioned by geography and geology, with no other culture opposed to it in any other part of the world till the rise, growth and hegemony of Aryanism. Such a significant and deep homogeneity could not be wrought and maintained by mere secular forces. There was something deeper, more serene, fundamentally permanent that governed these forces and gave life, cheerfulness and vivaciousness to the material activities of the people. That underlying force of values, principles and standards forged their social ideology that determined the nature of their basic way.
Human society, through its long experiences, developed an understanding that in the motley of these ever-changing events, there is something permanent without which the changes would be unmeaningful. There is grief, suffering and woe which none cherishes; then why bring grief, suffering and woe to a fellow humanbeing, nay, to any being on earth enjoying life. The discovery of the identity of something permanent in the plurality of living beings became the foundation stone of the human society. The permanent substance came to be called Atma or Soul. The discovery of soul was the result of the dialectical historical efforts of the mankind. Human efforts conditioned the nature of society. The efforts of individual members of the society reduced the woe and suffering of his fellow beings to the minimum. The ideal indivi
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