Myth to Reality

In the mythical legions that India has inherited, there was, once upon a time an âsura by the name of Raktabeeja. The very name of this being conveyed it's character. It had this boon to be able to resurrect itself from it's own drops of blood.

Just as we hear of cloning/genetic engineering in the modern times, India has had in its past/mythology, events, entities or both which have probably exemplified all aspects that science has discovered/ doscovering today.

So Raktabeeja never was destroyed, because everytime he would be wounded he'd have reinforced himself with another of his kind.

At such times, the world managers (devata) went to the triumvirate (Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha) and asked for respite. That's when the Goddess Durga/Kali/Chandi emanated from the force of all the beings that existed in those times.
The Goddess was the supreme power, with the supreme ability of being a ferocious mother - a mother who innately is meek and soft, but when it is time to defend her close ones, she would be unstoppable in her tracks of destruction.

Mahakali as she came to be known finally vanquished the blood spurting terrorist by not letting a single drop of his blood hit the ground
- and this was possible only because everyone came together with a single purpose to join forces and defeat the terrorist forces.

I remembered this story since the time I have been hearing about terrorists and attacks. All these characters that call themselves terrorists are individuals who have lost the element of humanity in them for whatever reason - most often governance caused.
And with the increase in the numbers of these incidents, I am reminded of Raktabeeja, and thus wonder about the emergence of a power that can actually destroy these entities along with all those factors which are giving rise to such events and entities.
But the driving force behind any such move is vastly lacking in the nation today - the power of unity.

As it is said, history repeats itself, except that the price one has to pay is higher.

In today's capitalist times, we all have forgotten our past and the lessons we need to learn from them. People who refer to the past are seen as old-fashioned and so-jurrassic that the present is not able to learn anything new and is too busy rotating the gerbil-wheel of detached life through generation of money.

Only if there were sufficiently sane people in the nation today, who would leave their self interests aside and get together to generate a think tank and action body that can actually get down to work out the issues, the nation can feel proud of 'emerging' as a new power.

But as someone said, the Indian arena of intellect is under dire neglect and thus India will remain 'emerging forever'.

With the Devi Navratra approaching, sharing this aspect was poignant to the times we are living in.