[Advaita-l] The 'Snake-and-ladder' game - The Spiritual path

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste
Changing the devotional compositions of bhakti songs of Thyagaraja by
replacing the names of Rama and krishna withbJedus etc., is very shocking
and unacceptable. It is way beyond any legitimate improvisation in music
compositions .

Yesudas was a Christian and yet was authentic when he sang Hindu bhakti
songs . No one is complaining about him or other genuine similar non-Hindu
carnatic musicians who are not subserving any missionary propaganda.

But when some people are distorting traditional bhakti songs , presumably
for future use in missionary propaganda, we have to recognize that this is
nothing less than cultural violence . To compare such violent cultural
appropriation with the authentic carnatic musical renderings of Yesudas
etc., shows lack of intellectual acumen by acquiescent Hindus who ought to
know better.

Om
Raghav

On Thu 26 Jul, 2018, 7:39 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Copied and pasted from FB page of Ajay Khemka
> <https://www.facebook.com/ajay.khemka.75?fref=mentions>
>
> Unbelievable!!!
> The 13th century poet saint Gyandev created a children's game called Moksha
> Patam. The British (intentionally to break our rich culture & education
> system) later named it Snakes and Ladders instead of the original Moksha
> Patam.
>
>
> In the original one hundred square game board, the 12th square was faith,
> the 51st square was reliability, the 57th square was generosity, the 76th
> square was knowledge, and the 78th square was asceticism. These were the
> squares where the ladders were found and one could move ahead faster. The
> 41st square was for disobedience, the 44th square for arrogance, the 49th
> square for vulgarity, the 52nd square for theft, the 58th square for lying,
> the 62nd square for drunkenness, the 69th square for debt, the 84th square
> for anger, the 92nd square for greed, the 95th square for pride, the 73rd
> square for murder and the 99th square for lust. These were the squares
> where the snake waited with its mouth open. The 100th square represented
> Nirvana or Moksha.The tops of each ladder depict a God, or one of the
> various heavens (kailasa, vaikuntha, brahmaloka) and so on. As the game
> progressed various actions were supposed to take you up and down the board
> as in life... Amazing, isn't it???!
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/subrahmanian.vaidyanathan/posts/2215995825080433
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