Foreword
The book entitled “Knowledge Soup for the Soul” encompasses prehistoric developments of the land of paradise with a theme story of ‘Arimanus versus God HU’ when the manly body would have started taking control of the gifts of nature. The book is a pre-meal starter for arousing strong appetite. Recently, the author has published another book, “White and Aryan Civilizations” and I will suggest that the reader should read “White and Aryan Civilizations” after the “Knowledge Soup for the Soul.”
The author of the book Hamma F. Mirwaisi has presented the whole matter in 21 chapters. His observations may be given thought as the author is a native of the land of Mesopotamia and he has a right to bring happening of the playground of ancient people on the surface for the present and future generations. A busy guy of modern time will pick up the book like a crazy for the old taste soup used to be served by the grandmother with love and affection avoiding a pint of the bitter taste for someone of you. I give credit to the author that he has referred Vedas, Upanishads (Sanskrit: Upaniṣad). And many historical books from Mesopotamia to present time India and consistently focused on the theme how the cultures were changed to religions particularly in reference of Aryans who gave their best to the society and how the cunning of the society can modify the culture. Some of it can be evolution, which follows laws of nature but the change of direction is always by force.
Intellectuals spare time to refer history and prehistoric happenings in dire need of getting right direction when they are in a state of utter confusion. All the religions in the modern time have the imagination of a God and all the so imagined Gods have highly common virtues. But every religion tries its best to solidify ground of that faith only. Obviously, if not for a common man but the intelligent person starts searching for the Omni-God. In ‘Vedic Richas,' Sun has always been accredited with high supremacy, non-controversial, the source of energy and life, the provider of food, vegetation, and medicines for the survival of everyone on earth including birds and beasts. The primary attraction of supremacy should have led many great individuals to be worshiped like Sun. This slowly converted into collective sectarian approaches of groups of people to establish their entity with a God. New, method being related to a larger section of the society got the place in the instrument of administration and even in Court of law in some nations. Many nations have the problem of proliferation of Gods, and a God is treated as a precursor-means of safety, security, business and almost all things on behalf of the individual. This has indeed weakened original approach of raising characteristic of individual human. It reminds me the warning of the great warrior of Mahabharata war, Bhishma Pitamah when lying on his deathbed, said to Krsna (Krishna) “ Oh Krsna, yes, you have won the war, but now this country will not get characteristic people for thousands of years.” According to the author of the book, the prevailing approach of human Gods was started in Mesopotamia. Many efforts would have been made for the revival of Aryan culture that had hypothesized a non-human to be a God, like the Sun, and the culture had forcefully stopped unsocial acts (vulgarity) of mighty people in many cases. According to literature written after the Vedic period there existed Tri-Murty or Three Deities with their distinct realm of duties. In India idea of Tri-Murty got popularity much after its first Vaishali democracy ~ 600 BCE.
Great philosophers have always imagined about the end result of activity. Hence, they can speculate another activity or an approach of the future. By the way, Europe had two world wars one after the other. And has seen a devastated state of the region and curses of human life, but the role of its philosophers must be appreciated because they saved Europe from the very bad state of the affair after the wars within almost three decades, unlike India after Mahabharata war. The important difference is that the winners paid full attention to the welfare of Europe as well as other lands contrary to a ply out in Bharatvarsh after the Mahabharat war.
Several stories of three deities, Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh are similar in three big religions like Judaism, Islam and Hinduism e.g. stories related to Manu or Mannus. This is available in the old literature of Kurds too. Similarly, Arīmanius is an older character and may be a name of Shiva or Mahesh and stories related to him are found in Latin and Greek literature as well. At one time Arīmanius was opposing to God HU or the Sun, and in the later period, he is equally worshiped by both demons and Devas. The Caucasian (later known as Aryan) approach was nearly consistent that the Sun or God HU existed in Mithra and before Mithra religion and in the Aryan approach ‘Fire’ was treated as an equivalent. This may be a matter of further research what the reasons of replacing Sun by the Fire God were? Was it because of evolution or Aryan became a different race with its God as ‘Fire’ or it was because of a competition set between Arīmanius and God HU. It is sure that in the land of Bharatvarsh lot of experiments of producing different kinds of fires and their applications were conducted for thousands of years by sages and seers and they were consistently opposed by the so called as the race of demons. It is a surprising truth that none of the literature of any religion gives the clear picture about the ‘beginning and end of the universe’ and occasionally one intelligent deity to test the others misuses the concept. Lord Shiva to test supremacy of Brahma or Vishnu once posed Story of the question of ‘Jyotirlinga.' Much later Lord Krishna (Krsna) poses a similar set of questions about the ‘matter and soul’ before the great warrior Arjun of Mahabharata for provoking him to start fighting. Whether the universe began with a big bang or a dense lump of light is still an unsolved question and in modern time high-energy physics community of the world is busy in finding the ultimate of matter. Like that ‘Cause or because of life’ and ‘existence of soul’ are the questions even today. In my opinion ‘wisdom(s)’ can be generated on philosophizing happenings of time but to convert them into real work or to provide shape to them may take thousands of years. In my opinion, the Aryan culture has always been for a realistic world.
The author of the book has gathered in-depth knowledge about the religions. He has discussed competitions between religions, interpretations, hiding of the truth, etc. and all together it indicates towards that life of people will be complicated, atrocities on weaker sections or non-religious people may increase. Religion, which generally has chances to penetrate in administrative tools, may make a free life as very difficult. In that sense, it's hard to authenticate any happening. But one thing is sure that people once again want to lead the simpler life for the purpose of leading a life. They probably expect a different system to evolve for their help that can guarantee a life with true pride of individual.
Dr. V.K. Verma
Professor (Retired)
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (India) and
G.G.S.I.P. University, New Delhi
(Email: vkv1951@gmail.com)
