A Great King Shivaji and Hindu empire / Tolerance and Humanity

     Chattrapati Shibaji Maharaj  and Hindu Empire ,  a Hindu King and Indian history .

     Smart style Of Chattrapati Shivajis  and Indian History and Lifestyles ,  Freedom  Struggle and Tolerance And  Humanity

✒ History and culture never  betrayed  you .  Need a great and neutral analysis of Indian history . Distorted Indian history needs to   be rewriten . History of India described chatrrapati  Shivaji  as a revolutionary .  Positive leadership of Chattrapati Shivaji  

Hindu Empire 

inspired  the Indian in a great way .  Chatrrapati  Shivajis life was a lifestyle of wellness .

  Indian king were not as like as west or middle east . Most of them were great  learned personalities . Being illiterate, getting  the  touch of Guru, they used to  become a learned one . They   trained themselves  into Gurukul or in the universities like  Nalanda.  Large number  of them were the disciples  of great spiritual  personalities .  In ancient  India   war were limited   into the battle  grounds . So people   can enjoy the battle  sitting  on the side line . 

   Even  a dacoit never touched   women and children , patients and old men . This principles  were named as a " Principle of the Sabar " .  Sabar was the king of the dacoit .  He introduced these principles . Killing a non armed enemy was not a permissible  one  even in the battle field .   Killing of war prisoners and ambassadors  was not acceptable at any cost .   There are lot of examples  regarding  this into the epic of Mahabharat and Ramayana . Rabindra Nath Tagore told us that the " epics are the living history of Ancient  India" .

But  the invaders   crossed   all boundaries  and limit . And killed  the Hindus as a non believer even they are unarmed and innocent .  Arab , the invaders did misdeed with the  war prisoners . Either  they are killed or converted   or sold them as a slave . They always  used to raid the people's residence  to kill  the Hindus and kidnapping women . Various  sharia law were introduced  as a tool to oppress  the Hindus. ✒

Leadership And Spiritual Life

  Walking with  Chattrapati Shivaji is a source of inspiration.  Shivaji was a great  king of "Hindu Empire" . In an answer to a question , the  prime minister of Vietnam  said to the Indian journalist that we have learned the Gharila warfare from Shivaji Maharaj , the great king of India . Runious Hindu society  became united through him. The rise of Shivaji   explained by Rabindranath  Tagore  in the following  way, "Shivaji...introduced  the Maratha race on the way of history after having clearly  formed  in his mind the ideal of setting  up a 'Hindu Empire ' and that Shivajis wars were the well connected  steps of a ladder, they were not more outbursts of passions, not mere wrangles".  He was the founder of the Maratha kingdom in India . Shivaji  integrated  the ordinary Hindus  who were in trouble and distress due to the Arab  invasion . At the age of fifteen  , he occupied  the Torana fort from the invaders. At  this time India was ruled  by five  Arabian power .  Shivaji  were also  aware  of the  European colonial forces and  to resist them, he formed a fort   into the   sea side and formed  a strong navy . He started   war of freedom with  a few  young friends  .  He had to fought a war  against  the British .  His short numbered army in comparison  with  others , snatched  two seventy six forts from the   invaders .     

A. P.G. Abdul  Kalam former  President  and Scientists  of India said to us that a  less civilized  power  invaded India . Atrocities  against  Hindus were tremendous . 

   Shivaji at the age of nine attended the imperial court of the Bijapur Sultanete with his father. His father was a  army officers of that Sultanete . He was asked to salute the foreign  invaders  but he denied  to bend head to a foreigners . His father  managed  that awkward situation  . On the way he saw a man  about to killing a cow  . Seeing that he snatched  the sword  from his father  belt and cut down  the hand of the cow killer. Shivaji was the disciples  of Great Guru named  Santa Ramdas . He was a Devine  man . Spirituality in life and Knowledge and wisdom  embedded  in him . He was a spiritual man of high degree . Shivaji met Ramdas to be a disciple of him and  he requested the saint to give permission to be a monk . Great  guru, Santa Ramdas asked him to be a king to rule  the state and fight the foreigners.  . One day he saw that Ramdas was begging from door to door. Being surprise ,Shivaji invited  his guru into his palace .  Putting  his sword on gurus feet, he said to him , " Why are you begging ? From today you are the king of the Kingdom ".

  Ramdas smiled  at him and said to Shivaji , " From today , you are only a trustee of the Kingdom .   I am a saint . What I would do with the Kingdom ? Rule the state as a trustee!" .

 Jijabhai , his mother was a devotee of Indian culture . She was the source of inspiration .

 Ancient India had a glorious  past  . India invaded by the Arab Islamic imperialism   . According to a Islamic historian , Feresta told us that  thirty crore  Hindus were killed due to the invasion in the name of religion. Every invader destroyed temples , twenty six universities including  Nalanda and Taxila. . More than twenty thousands students used to study as a residential students   into the Nalanda . Student from all over the world  used to come to India to study into the Nalanda . Library was a six storied building .  A Muslim invader burnt down the library and cooked food of eighty thousand soldiers for six months with the research papers .  The world lost the ancient research papers on  science,  philosophy , medical science and politics etc .    According to the Arifen Daniken , Alexandria library  , an ancient library was destroyed by Caliph Omar .These libraries and universities  were the missing link of the knowledge and wisdom  of the civilization .   Hindu monks are nonviolent in nature . Being  that Hindu monk were killed in a large number.  They also  attacked the women and did not hesitate to kill the children .  They killed the children  putting  them into their mothers head .  Hindu women were sold into  the market  as a sex slave .  Invaders develop a market named  Mina Bazar  where women and homo sex slaves were sold. Seeing that Hindu women were blocked into the house . For an example, a Muslim historian had written that newly appointed  governor of the Bengal by Akbar, brother of Mansingh , had freed three thousand  Hindu naked women  from the Moghul Barrack . Such incidents  were often happened.  . Aurangzeb and Aurangzeb  was not only cruel.  Chattrapati  Shivaji  and Shivaji Maharaj came with the hope of light to Hindus . Shivaji was a quick learner and determined  leader.  Hindu empire is a tolerant  one . Raja Shivaji  again  established it . He  always   believes  in religious  freedom  and   integration  of humanity. The rise of Shivaji  tamed the Arab invasion  and Hindus got relief  to the some extent . The historian said to us that he never attacked any mosque and Islamic religious places but invaders always used  mosque and their religious places as a center of attack . Even today they are following  the same  policy all over the world .One of his commander being influenced by the invaders and  captured two girls of a defeated  invader . And brought them into the court of Shivaji . And proposed him to accept the gift .  Seeing that Sivaji became furious against the Commanders and cut down his  hand . And asked it should not be happen again .  He apologizes to the girl and treated them as a mother . And  asked to  sent them to their house with honor  and respect .. It is the story of a Hindu king . 

 Shivaji was lying down into his bed . It was a deep night . A boy entered  into his bed room and about to kill him . One of  his commander  caught the boys hand from the back side who was following the boy .   Shivaji woke up . Seeing the incident  he asked the Commander

 ,  " What had happened in my bed room "  ?

 Commander replied that the boy was about to kill you and saying that he snatched his sword   Chattrapati  Sivaji Maharaj said to him , " Who are you " ?

How  had  you entered in this house ?

 Being not afraid the boy said to the king , " I have come to kill you   secretly" . 

     Raja Sivaji and Shivaji said to him , "Why have you come to kill  me ? Have I done anything wrong to you " ?

 The boy said to him ," Your Majesty ! My mother is ill and hungry and about to death . Suvagroy, the enemy of you  has given me word  if  I killed you  I would be prized with wealth . So why I have come to kill you ". Tanaji and Tanaji one of the great general  of Sivaji said to the boy , " Have you come to kill the king who is fighting against the invaders  ? Not only that he is the new hope to the Hindus ". Sivaji said  to Tanaji , " Stop ! ".  

The boy being not afraid said to Sivaji , "  Your Majesty !  Give me death sentenced .  Your Majesty !Give me a permission  to go to my house and see to my  mother  and she is about to death . I am promising you I will return to you  to get  my punishment ". 

Tanaji became furious and said to the boy ,"  How are you think that we are foolish ? We have to believe  in your story " !

 In an answer  , the boy said to Shibaji ,  "Your Majesty! Maratha  never tell a lies ".

      Shivaji gave him some foods and asked  him to return to the home . The boy with tears  said to the king " Your Majesty ! Tomorrow  I will  come to you to get the punishment . I will enjoy the death  penalty " . 

 Into  the dark, the  boy became invisible . Next morning Sivaji was  in the court .  A security man came to  the King and said to him  that  a boy want to meet him . He asked the security man to send the  boy into the court room .  

The boy entered into the court room and asked the king to give him a death sentence for his crime . Shivaji dethrone himself and embrace the boy in his chest . Shivaji   said to him , "We need brave and honest people to lead the country  . How can I kill a honest boy like you  " ? Asked Tanaji  to include him into the army. Shivaji  himself met the  boys  mother  with  doctors  and gave food and cloth to her. Name of the boy was Maloji . 

 Shivaji Maharaj and  Shivaji,  In the eyes of few historian and historian of Aurangzeb court  , Khaifi Khan  ,  "Shivaji made it a rule that whenever his followers went phlundering , they should do no harm to mosque, the Book of God  or any one"s women . Whenever a copy of the holy  Koran came to his hands, treated with respect, and gave it others Muslim followers . When the women  of any  Hindu  or Mohammedan were taken prisoners by his men , and had no friends to protect them, he watched them till their relative came . Aurangzeb and Aurangzeb was one of the cruel   and more religiously blind ruler among   all Moghul and Moghul and emperor . His atrocities against Hindus crossed all limits . He destroyed  Kashi Biswanath temple , the most sacred temples of the Hindus along with other hundreds Hindu   temples at Kashi . 

 According to  historian and historian Rawlinson , " Shivaji, was  a sincerely religious man . He believed  himself  to be constantly guided and inspired  by Goddess Bhavani . He was the disciple of Ramdas and admirer of the saintly Tukaram . His devotion to his parents, especially to his mother Jijabahi, was proverbial . He organized  an army that shattered the Moghul Empire in the height of its power  ".

According to historian R.V. Nadkarni , " Great as a warrior, greater still as a stateman , the Maratha " Hero" deserves to be gratefully remembered by modern Indians for, It was he who by his example and life work added a cubit to our moral  stature ". 

       Bala Gangadhar Tilak, the great  freedom  fighter  and the president  of National  Congress introduced " Sivaji  Utsav "  as a remembrance  day of coronation of   Chattrapati Shivaji . In Bengal  nobody was agreed to become a president of "Shivaji Utsav  committee" due to the British Raj . Swami Bibekananda  was into the death bed . He said to his people  ,"If anyone  didn't  agree to become a president  of the Shivaji  Utsav  committee , I would  be the president  of the committee". It was a painful  to a monk like him . Netaji and Swami Bibekananda were the great  admirer  of him . Netaji read his lifestyle into the jail   and make him as his master. Netaji ,  Subash Chandra Bose and Ajad hind army  implemented Shivajis war policy   during the Ajad Hind invasion against British Raj  . Revolutionary  of the Indian and freedom  fighter inspired  themselves by  reading  his lifestyles .  During the freedom struggle  ,  the member  of the revolutionary organization  , Jugantar  samiti and Anusillion Samiti  and like other similar organization followed his life style . 

 Some facts regarding  Shivaji are given below : 

  He was born at Shivaneri now named as Poona ,I.e, Pune . Then it was a small village  but looted and destroyed by  the Invader .

 He  was born in the year  1630 , dated  9th, February   and died in the year  1680 , dated 3rd ,April . He was the son of a army officer named Sahaji . How many swords he had ?

  He had  three swords . The name of the swords were 

(1) Tulija 

 (2)  Bhawani 

(3) Jagadamba .

 Bhawani  weighted 65 k. g. 

  His enemy was inside and  outside the country .  At his time five  Islamic power ruled India . In the name of religion , the  Sulatane of Parasya became  his enemy and Sultanete was supporting  Aurangzeb and other Muslim rulers against him    .  Dutch , British, French , Spanish and African Habshi  were also in the  enemy group .  Spanish ,Dutch and Habshi were the  pirates in nature .  He had to fight them to keep the sea shore  secure . And  ensured the people of the sea shore to lead a  secure  life . 

    All war of freedom against invaders were failed .  Lakhs of people  laid down  their  lives to make India free . Due to the foreign invasion and atrocities against  Hindus,  they had forgotten how to live . They were accustomed  to bent their head to the foreign rulers .  So why Shivaji has given a slogan , " Do not bent your head to the invaders , hold it high  ". 

How was Chattrapati  Shivaji ro look at ?

  He was a short heightened man  . An English man saw him at his age of 37  and described  him in the following way :

 He was fair to look at . His eyes were brighter  and were  moving among the people with a smiling face . A French tourists also told to us that he was a short  heightened   fair complexed smiling face . Eyes  were brighter and moving one . 

 Where are Chattrapati Shivaji  Maharajs pictures 

  His pictures is in the foreign  museum . One of his repliaca  is in the British Museum . Two pictures of Shivaji are  in Holland  and Paris Museums . 

Was Chattrapati  Shivaji Maharaj a freedom  fighter ? When thousands wars  occurred against foreign  invaders  and  failed , it was not a easy task to initiate  a freedom  struggle . As a arrested  civilization  Hindu became enemy of his own .  Castism was playing a vital role  to de unite the Hindus . He decoded the problems and uploaded  the hope and aspirations  into the Hindu mind. His rein was  revolutionary  and reawakening days of India .  Being illiterate,  in the darkness of intolerance , he showed the  art of tolerance .

How many times  he got married  ? He got married 8 times due to the political  compulsion and one of his wife was captured by Moghul .  She had to  suffer  a lot  .

He had two sons and three daughters .  Shambhaji was his elder son and Rajaram was the second one . On a treachery Aurangzeb and Aurangzeb killed Shambhaji .  First he was arrested on treachery  and  Aurangzeb  and Aurangzeb offered him to embrace Islam .  Chattrapati  Shambaji  and Shambaji decided  to embrace death  disregarding  Aurangzeb s offer. First Aurangzeb   ordered  to pelt his skin and to make a hole in his eyes . He died after two years  tolerating all painful  way of torture . Gurgovinda Sing and  Teyg Bahadur also died  tolerating all painful  way of torture . Boy, Fate sing and  his brother  were engraved into the wall lively.  They embraced the death  dening  Islam . 

Was Chattrapati  Shivajis  in love with  Aurangzeb s daughter? 

There is no prove about  this . Zebu un Nessa  was a Sufi Poet .  She always  disallow  his father's orthodox activities . At the age of 23 she saw Chattrapati  Shivaji in his father's court . Chattrapati  Shivaji  was then 37 years old . Aurangzeb  told the story  of Chattrapati  Shivajis  to his daughter . She saw  the fearless  reaction  of  chattrapati Shivaji  in his father's court . She advised  her father  not to kill Shivaji . These are not authentic  in great way. 

What can we learn from Chattrapati  Shivajis life ?

   High quality leadership and politics  of diplomacy  and bravery and innovative techniques  into the war front were his wealth . He never ignored  humanity  and mankind .  As a statesman he used to deliver justice and equality even they are Muslim  . Alliance and hostilities were his policy. According to him women  were  the part of  Ma Bhawani . He showed tolerance and respect to other religions . Indian  people  remembered  him as a source  of  inspiration till today . Revision and reviews of Chattrapati Shivajis lifestyles inspired  us  in a great way .

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