SreeNarayanaGuru

[sugathan]

V T Bhattathirippad says:
When the nampoothiris arrived, Ezhavas had the supremacy in the social front. All other communities except the Ezhavas surrendered themselves to the namboothiris. Thus as the brahmins began establishing their overlordship and hegemony, the Ezhavas started losing their pre-eminence. It is the great tradition of Ezhavas that they sigle-handedly fought against the brahmin overlordship for centuries.

[sugathan]

JAATHI NIRNAYAM - stanza 2

Oru jaathi oru matham
aoru deivam manushyanu
Oru yoni oru aakaaram
Oru bhedavum illa ithil.

" Oru jaathi, oru matham........" appeared first in ' Jaathinirnayam' which Guru composed in 1914. In 1920 Guru proclaimed it as his birthday message. It has become Guru's philosophy in nutshell. 'Oru jaathi' means that all human beings belong to a single species. There is no difference between man and man. The word jaathi has different meanings. Here it means only species and not the caste system of Hinduism. ( Some people try to interpret that Guru wanted Hindu unity. This is meaningless. Guru wanted all people to unite - Ezhavas, Nairs, Christians, Muslims, Daliths, Malayalis, Bengalis, Punjabis, Indians, Chinese, Europeans, Africans etc.). There should not be any discrimination on the basis of gender, caste, religion, language, state, nation, race.

Oru matham means that all the present religions are branches of a single religion, the world religion. Hinduism incorporates several different religions like Saivam Vaishnavam, Dvaitham, Advaitham, Buddhism, Jainism, Charvakam etc. World religion includes all Indian religions as well as Semitic and Chines/Japanese religions. We include all Indian religions under Hinduism because there are some common features. All world religions have some common features. All are started on the basis of eternal values- truth, love, ahimsa, brotherhood, equality, justice. Buddha gave importance to ahimsa, Christ to love, Nabi to brotherhood on the basis of local needs of the time. The differences between religions are only superficial.

There is only one God - there is no differece of opinion. ( Even that one God is not required in Jainism and Buddhism)

Oru yoni means one garbhapaathram (uterus, womb). . Oru aakaaram means one form of body.

[gopu]

Very valuable information on

"Oru jaathi oru matham
aoru deivam manushyanu
Oru yoni oru aakaaram
Oru bhedavum illa ithil."

also about the history of kerala and the ezhavas....

[sugathan]

Even though we are called Srilankans (Ezhavas) all of us did not come from Srilanka. There is a very strong linguistic proof. Simhala language is a member of Indo-european family. malayalam and Thamizh are Dravida languages. If mass migration takes place people will take the language with them. If there was en-masse migration, the language of Ezhavas would have been branch of Indo-european. Since language of Ezhavas belong to Dravida family the mass migration theory is out.

Brahmins who came from outside established Hiduism in Kerala in about 8th-10th century. They made some people brahmins. The Pulaya and Paraya rulers were made Kshathriyas. Some nayars were taken into hinduism as Shoodras, since they wanted a servant class. Ezhavs refused to submit to brahmins. ( They did not take us as vaishyas). The vaishya varnam was kept vacant. Excuse given is that Muslims and Christins were doing the job of vaishyas. Then it becomes obvious that hinduism came to kerala after Christianity and Islam.
Brahmins got many koadaalikkais to persecute the Buddhists(Ezhavas). There was no caste discrimination.( The brahmins treated the lowest caste, i.e., soodras well. They even married soodra women). It was only religious persecution. Ezhavas were denied all civic rights.

[sugathan]

Jaathi Nirnayam - stanza 3

Oru jaathiyil ninnallo
puranniitunnu santhathi
nara jaathi ithu orkkumpol
oru jaathiyil ullath aam

Here again the biological principle comes. A child is born to a male and female of one species. Jaathi means species for Guru.

Stanza 4

Nara jaathi yil ninnu athrae
puranniitunnu vipranum
parayan thaanum enth ullathu
antharam nara jaathi yil

Couple of human species ( homo sapiens) give birth to brahmins and parayas.

stanza 5

Parachi yil ninnu pantu
Paraasara muni pirannu
Mara suuthriccha muni
kaivartha kayayil

A paraya woman gave birth to the great saint Paraasaran . Vedavyasan was born of a fisherwoman. So brahmanan, parayan and fisherman are all one jaathi (species).

JAATHI LEKSHANAM - stanza 1

Punarnnu perum ellaam oru inam aam
punaraatthathu inam alla
inam aam ingu oru ina aarnnu
otthu kaanmathum

If a male and female copulate and a child is born of that relationship, it is one species.
If they do not copulate they are two species. If they are one species they will be seen as couple.

[gopu]

Thanks for the wonderful post..

thanks