Nepali Culture and Civilization

Nepali Culture

Nepal's rich cultural heritage has developed over the centuries. Nepal is a country full of cultural diversity. Some cultures are similar to Tibet and some to India. There are many similarities between the costumes, the language, and the dishes. Dashain is a major festival celebrated by Nepalis who believe in Vedic, Sanatan and natural religions. This festival falls on the side of autumn i.e. Ashwin Shukla which is also called Devi side. During the fortnight, many religious rituals and worships are performed to please Goddess Bhagwati. Of course, such divine aspects occur three times a year. Apart from the goddess side that falls on this black night of September, there is also Sukhratri in Kartik and Maharatri in Chaitra. Among these, it is customary to celebrate Kalratri on Ashwin Shukla, which includes Baradasai. There is a belief that worship or sadhana performed on such special occasions will bring special fruits. Therefore, it is customary to perform special worship of Bhagwati for nine days of the tenth day and receive Tika and Jamra as offerings on the tenth day. The process of worshiping and receiving offerings lasts until the full moon. Worship of the Goddess also ends after immersing the Jamara on the day of Punirma.

There are many forms of Goddess Bhagwati as power. Descriptions of these forms are found in texts such as Durga Shaptashati and Devi Bhagwat. Among them, the worship of Goddesses named Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skandamata, Katyayani, Kalratri, Mahagauri and Siddhidatri are done for nine consecutive days. This is known as Nava Durga. It is believed that worshiping Nava Durga destroys all sins and fulfills the desires of the heart. These goddesses reside in the body of all beings in the form of mother, knowledge, Lakshmi, power, wisdom, love, peace, patience, forgiveness, kindness, sleep, etc. During Dashain, people perform many sadhanas with the intention of fulfilling their desires by revealing the power inherent in them.

With the blessing of divine power, Vishnu destroyed the demon named Madhukaitav. With the help of power, the gods defeated the demons. Sages like Bhrigu, Angaria, Vashishta, Vishwamitra, Katyayana, Jamini etc. achieved success through the worship of Shakti. Rama, Krishna, Yudhisthira, etc. also became great men by practicing and devotion to Durga Bhawani. Tridevs like Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh also run the creation with the grace of Maheshwari. Therefore, the goddess is revered as a symbol of power in the Sanatan Vedic religion. Nothing can happen without his power. Because of this, in order to get the grace of Bhagwati, who is worshiped as the mother power, an attempt is made to please her by taking the tenth opportunity.

On the first day of Dashain, which begins on the day of Ghatsthapana, the goddess is installed and the deposit is kept. On that day, deposits are kept at home individually and collectively at various temples and fortresses. Durga Shaptashati is also recited along with the task of keeping the deposit after completing the entire method. After bathing and washing in the morning and doing pure recitation, in the evening always doing Aarti should be done regularly throughout the tenth day. This sequence continues till the fifth day and on the sixth day, the willow invitation i.e. bell leaf is worshiped. Flowers are brought in on the seventh or seventh day. In order to import flowers, nine wavelengths and varieties of flowers like banana, pomegranate, paddy, haldi, belpatra, ashoka, jayanti, sugarcane and mane are required. On the night of Ashtami, sacrifices are performed and homadi is performed by worshiping Kalaratri. On that day, some even sing hymns all night long. On the day of Navami, goats, chickens, ducks, pigeons, calves, lambs etc. are sacrificed to the Goddess. Brahmins are forbidden by the scriptures. That is why Brahmins and other vegetarians offer sacrifices in the shape of animals from kuvindo, coconut, sugarcane or any other fruit, emulsion and meat flour. The fact that the goddess is the mother of all does not mean that sacrifices must be made. The influence of Tantric tradition is linked to the act of sacrifice. Probably due to the fact that Tantra was very prevalent in Nepal in the past, innumerable animals were sacrificed in Nepali Shakti Peeths. Is it possible to slap the neck of an animal without realizing that it is appropriate to sacrifice the animal instinct within oneself with a sattvic spirit to please the Goddess? Therefore, making the festival of Shakti and Sadhana non-violent can be a good way to gain power. Similarly, on the day of Navami, food, clothes and Dakshina are offered to the nine virgins as much as possible by considering them as the form of Goddess Nava Durga.

On Dashmi, the day of tika, blessings are received from the hands of a person older than oneself. In the age of Treta, on this day, there is a story that Shri Ram killed Ravana who was depriving Sita. For this, it is said that Rama worshiped Goddess Durga for nine days from the teachings of Narad and conquered Ravana on the tenth day. Since Rama has thus conquered Ravana, this day is called Vijaya Dashami.

The festival of Shakti and Sadhana is being celebrated on the tenth day due to the belief that power can be acquired for birth and rebirth by worshiping Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. Although all the Shakti Peeths worship the Goddess from Pratipada, some of them have a tradition of immersion on the day of Dashmi and then gradually till the day of Kojagrat Punirma. Although in some parts of the kingdom it is customary to tika only on the day of Vijaya Dashami, in some places it is customary to tika from Dashami to Punirma according to one's own tradition.

Tithing is a festival to sing the praises of women in particular. Sanatan culture has been respecting the entire female race as the mother power since the beginning of human civilization. The gods seem to have resorted to manhood to address demons like Mahishasura, Shumbha-Nishumbha, Raktabija, Chandamunda. Since men are incomplete without women, it is appropriate to celebrate the tithe according to one's power, which plays an important role in awakening the feeling that women's power should be worshiped.

Nepali civilization

Nepal is a civilized nation of South Asia in the world picture. It is an independent sovereign nation in the southern lap of the Himalayas. However, the organization of the Nepali nation has been disintegrating. Many nations and societies around the world have been in turmoil, disintegration, and disintegration. Nepal's history has not really been thoroughly researched. Especially after the entry of the British Empire in the year of India, in order to expand their colony, the British established relations with the then Nepal. At that time, the British could not make Nepal a complete colony out of fear of the heroism and militancy of the Nepali people. He had made some compromises with the then ruling class to keep the small districts and states of India under his control as a new colony. In this connection, English scholars - Hamilton, At Kinson, Kirk Patrick, and others - have written a history of the organization, dissolution, and reunification of the state of Nepal. It also does not develop and explore the living conditions, customs, and civilization of small districts. There were only twenty-two or twenty-four kingdoms of the then state and only the Kirant kingdom in the east and the Gurkha kingdom of Prithvi Narayan Shah. After launching another unification campaign, he wrote only descriptive histories about his successes and failures and based on that, the later Shah dynasty and Rana dynasty were forced to write the only history in a way that sang their praises.

No matter how old the Nepali society and civilization is, the pride of the people, the production system, the post-production distribution system, the rules, methods, caste, language, religion and culture of the society have not been studied and researched in depth. Even in modern times, the society, the intelligentsia, the ruling class based on adhochism and the lack of development of deep and responsible thinking have reached the stage of disintegration of our nation and society. Of course, the rules of the world are revolution, change, formation and dissolution, these are natural things. Nations were created in the development of human civilization. Society, language, culture have their own mercury according to the physical and social environment of the place. That may be natural, but if the leadership of the carrier and the organization that carries change after revolution and change is not transparent and people-oriented, then that nation, society and its people will suffer.

Even in ancient times, leaders and villains were present in every age - Shiva civilization, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Buddha-Muhammad (Prophet Muhammad), Christ in any age to do good or not. There were Bhasmasura and Mahisasura in Shiva's time, Ravana in Ramayana, Kansha in Mahabharata, and Duryodhana, but in essence, Shiva Parvati (Ambika), Ramachandra, Lakshmana, Hanuman, Sugriva (Ramayana period), and Krishna and Arjuna or Balaram (Mahabharata) Would have done a good job in time). Even in the time of Christ and Muhammad, there were characters who did good deeds and were villains. But today, there is a need for a man who can save the Nepali mythological civilization which is known as Aryavarta civilization by meditating from the heart and uplift the Nepali caste, which is true. But from Shiva-Buddha to Shankhadhar Sakhya, from Falgunananda-Janak-Virat, Shakya dynasty or Anshuvarma (Licchavi golden age) or Pratap Malla of Malla dynasty or earlier Yalambar, later Prithvinarayan Shah Vishe Nagarchi, Manimukunda Sen, Amarsingh Thapa, Bhimsen Thapa, Vir Balbhadra , Kalu Pandey, Bahadur Shah, Veer Bhakti Thapa, Dev Shansher or Pushpalal or V.P. It is not that the guardians of Nepali nationality and civilization have not come to this society till Koirala. Among the creators - from Mahakavi Vidyapati to Bhanubhakta Acharya, Motiram Bhatt, Siddhicharan Shrestha, Laxmi Prasad Devkota (modern times) and in mythological times - Vedavyas, Yajna Valkya, Valmiki, Gargi and Charak, the so-called learned sages are also symbols of Nepali civilization.

Our civilization reached from Mansarovar to Caucasus yesterday. After that, the formation was shrinking into disintegration. Even , after all, our forefathers like Bahadur Shah, Amar Singh Thapa, Vir Bhakti Thapa, Bal Bhadra Kuwar, and Bhimsen Thapa have brought us from Tista to Kannada. From the Himalayas to the river Ganga, today's Lucknow, Hajipur, half of Patna, Haridwar, all of them now fall within the borders of the Northern Nepali Civilization of India and Nepal. Later, due to the luxury and power struggle inside the palace, we had to shrink into the Sugauli Treaty. Today, the same shrinking borders of Nepal have been crossed. Disintegration of Legendary Civilization If our nationalism and civilization are not re-organized in today's 21st century to save capitalist exploitation, injustice, oppression and our Eastern tolerant most democratic Sanatan culture in the 21st century, the disintegration of the West is about to take place today. Our civilization, culture, society, and nation have no choice but to preserve, glorify, modify, popularize, and glorify the glorious civilization and culture embraced by our forefathers. In order to preserve and propagate it, it has become very necessary to preserve our old civilization by assimilating it with modern science.

After 20,000-25,000 years ago, when people recognized fire and the meat roasted from the fire became sweet, people began to cultivate grains, vegetables, fruits, and herbs after raising livestock and edible forest products. It is from this awakening that man must have entered the age of agriculture. Since natural facilities are also required for farming and animal husbandry, it can be assumed that after entering the life of a pastoralist, they have settled in their suitable places. Looking at the construction of Shiva Gita and Shiva Samhita, it can be considered as a code of conduct or discipline to run a civilized society. The Shiva Gita and the Shiva Samhita teach man what to do and what not to do. Even a few years later, people seem to have explored areas with some fertile water and settled some temporary and some permanent settlements. Then people started making clothes to avoid winter. For that, sheep are reared and sheep are used to make cloth from them and then after identifying the grains and forest products, cotton is found to be protected. In the Shiva Gita itself, even though Shiva emphasized the cultivation of cotton and grain even though he wore the skin of a tiger, the earliest age in human civilization can be taken to be the age of Shiva civilization.

There is Mount Kailashkut in the Himalayas. We Nepalis have not been able to recognize this age of the greatest human civilization that has spread to other parts of Tibet, Chentu, Canton and all over China, Mongolia, Khabarezm and Caucasus, and from the Sindh province of Pakistan across the Ganges to Afghanistan and the Middle East, Iran, and Turkey. History has written the interpretation of our own Kirant regime. History has shown that the Kirant ruler Yalambar established the temple of Pashupati (Mahadev Temple) in the Kathmandu Valley and its restoration was done by the conquest of the Kirant dynasty. If we look at the development of Shiva Samhita, the aim is to create an ideal society rather than the present utilitarian age.

Rice planting festival

 Today, Hegel Marx's or Ricardo's materialistic philosophy and economics of the 19th century or early twentieth century can be said to have been influenced by the same Shiva Gita, Ramayana Gita or Buddha's philosophy. The Shiva Gita or the Ramayana Gita, the Buddha's philosophy or the Qur'an or the Bible also opposes the exploitative immorality in society and explains that all human beings are one, born, and cannot be high or low. Based on that, it can be said that modern politics and science have developed today. Moreover, in the minds of Nepalis and Sri Lankans, Mandodari, the wife of King Ravana of Sri Lanka was a disciple of our Mustang. On the way to Mansarovar, Mount Kailash, to meet Shiva on the way to Mustang, there are rumors that Ravana saw Mandodari liked him and got married. Before that, it is said that Ravana's grandfather Rishi Pulastya also did penance in our Dhaulagiri Himalayan range. Moreover, in India and Nepal, it is said that Prophet Muhammad and Jesus Christ themselves came to Varanasi, India via Iran and Afghanistan after spending months for penance. Seen in this way, it is Nepali civilization.