PARAMVIR NAIK NIRBHAY SINGH SISODIYA - IMMORTAL RAJPUTS

( स्वर्णमंदिर को खालिस्तानियों से मुक्ति दिलाने में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाने वाले भारतीय सेना की 15 कुमाऊ बटालियन की एल्फा कम्पनी देश की एकमात्र ऐसी कम्पनी है जिसने 3 अशोक चक्र जीते हैं। इसके बाद इसका नाम अशोक चक्र कम्पनी रख दिया गया )

ऑपरेशन ब्लू स्टार के समय जब आर्मी की ब्रिगेड ऑफ द गार्ड और गढ़वाल कंपनी के सैनिक अधिक शहीद हो गए तो 15 कुमाऊँ को आगे भेजा गया ।

6 जून 1984 को 15 कुमाऊं की एल्फा बटालियन की प्रथम यूनिट के 5 सिपाही सुबह 5:30 पर स्वर्ण मंदिर में घुसने लगे। आतंकवादी ऊपर से गोलियां बरसा रहे थे।

सबसे आगे चल रहे चुरु निवासी रणजीत सिंह गौड़ सबसे पहले शहीद हुए। उन्हें बाद में शौर्य चक्र मिला । दूसरे और तीसरे नंबर के जवानों ने ओट ले ली। एलएमजी के साथ झालरापाटन के नायक निर्भय सिंह सिसोदिया चौथे नंबर और स्टैंनगन के साथ जोधपुर के अमर सिंह भाटी पांचवें नंबर पर चल रहे थे।

गोलियों की परवाह नहीं करते हुए निर्भय सिंह आगे बढ़े लेकिन गोलियों की बौछारों ने उनका दाहिना बाजू उड़ा दिया। तब तक वे तहखाने के पास पहुंच गए और दूसरे हाथ से ग्रेनेड फेंका, जिससे वहां धुआं हो गया। अमर सिंह भाटी ने भी दो ग्रेनेड फेंके । धुंए की आड़ में निर्भय सिंह ने एक हाथ से ही एलएमजी से फायर शुरू किए और भिंडरावाले सहित कई आतंकवादी मारे गए । इस बीच सेना की टैंक का एक गोला स्वर्णमंदिर की छत पर लगा। वहां से मलबा गिरने से निर्भयसिंह की दबकर मौत हो गई। इसके बाद तहखाने से भी फायरिंग बंद हो गई और भारतीय सेना ने स्वर्णमंदिर पर पूरा कब्जा कर लिया। रात 9 बजे ऑपरेशन खत्म हो गया...

सेना की 15-कुमाऊ की एल्फा कम्पनी देश की एकमात्र ऐसी कम्पनी है जिसको तीन अशोक चक्र मिले हैं।

During the Operation Blue Star on 6 June 1984, he provided cover for his company commander from heavy firing by the Sikh militants using medium machine guns. Sensing danger to his company from a light machine gun in a pot hole, Singh charged towards the gun. Although he suffered bullet shots to his legs, he crawled to reach the pot hole and lobbed a grenade into the basement, but exposed himself to heavy firing and succumbed to his injuries.

Naik Nirbhay Singh Sisodiya was born on 1 May 1958 in Hindu Rajput Family of Mr Nand Singh Sisodiya, who was Aide-de-Camp to the Tehsildar and Mrs Mata Basant Kanwar, a simple and religious lady, in Jhalawar, Rajasthan. Naik Nirbhay Singh was the eighth child amongst a family of five brothers and four sisters. His elder sisters are Shashikala Sisodiya, Hansa Sisodiya and Vijya Sisodiya and the name of two brothers are Kalyan Singh Sisodia and Abhay Sigh Sisodia respectively. He was a keen sportsman and his early education took place in Jhalawar where he passed his IX class from Government Higher Secondary School.

From childhood, he was determined to join the forces so after his class IX he enrolled himself in the Army and was posted to 15 Kumaon Regiment.

Operation Blue Star

Former Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi launched Operation Blue Star, military operation in order to establish control and evacuate the temple complex.

During the operation, Singh's company was given the task to clear an important building complex which was heavily fortified and strongly held by fierce terrorists. Naik Nirbhay Singh was chosen as the Light Machine Gun Detachment Commander of ‘A’ Company. As the company moved towards, they came under heavy fire from the defenders of Harmandir Sahib. As a result, they had to halt their actions. Singh's Company Commander decided to move towards the building all by himself. Naik Nirbhay Singh set to provide cover to his Company Commander, plunged forward and mounted a Light Machine gun. The hidden militants were firing on them from the building. Singh continued to remain in the open and kept firing to provide the cover. While firing, he realized danger to his Company Commander from a light machine gun mounted in a porthole. He marched towards the porthole exposing himself to grave danger. In the action, he was hit by bullets in his leg but his objective remained unfettered. After injured, he still crawled towards the porthole and silenced the machine gun with a hand grenade. But in the action, he was hit by a blaze of bullets for the second time. This proved fatal and he succumbed to his injuries.

Naik Nirbhay age only 26, didn't care his own safety and made a sacrifice for the army. He laid down his life in highest traditions of the Indian Army. He lived true to his name, fearless.

For his extraordinary bravery, cool courage and supreme sacrifice for his nation Naik Nirbhay Singh Sisodiya was posthumously awarded with the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest gallantry award during peacetime.

Ashoka Chakra award Citation

The Citation of Ashoka Chakra posthumously given to the martyr Nayak Nirbhay Singh Sisodiya on 23 March 1985 which was taken by his mother Lt. smt. Basant Kanwar.

BY A CHASM OF FEARFUL

A root was wanting and the flower sufficed to please the hollow-hearted!

With steps so slow, with words so few..

He dwelt among the gloomy rocks

Around his home on every side,

Where the deep salt water ran,

The distant ships sailed far away,

Over the moaning wave,

The sea-birds swept, with pale whie wings,

As phantoms haunt the grave.

It was dreary on an autumn night,

To hear the tempest sweep,

When gallant ships were perishing,

Alone amid the deep.

He was stranger to the shore,

A stranger he remained,

For to his heart, or hearth, or board,

None ever welcome gained.

Great must have been the misery,

Of guilt upon his mind,

That thus could sever all the ties,

Between him and his kind.

How many share such destiny,

How many, lured by fancy's beam,

Ask the impossible to be,

And pine the victim of a dream.

AN EXTRAODINARY SAGA OF EMPEROR DHANGADEVA CHANDEL - IMMORTAL RAJPUTS

FOR AT LEAST HALF A CENTURY, KHAJURAHO was renowned for its infamy as a great representative of “erotic temple sculptures.” Needless, the decadent and value-denuded West gave it this infamy. Indeed, nothing pains the Hindu more than witnessing the ugly bazaar in this otherwise nondescript town hawking a vast array of expensively produced coffee table books and DVDs reducing divinity to pornography. The pain intensifies when we also consider how the locals, for the longest time, have been forced to play to this western perversion, belittling their Devatas, transforming them into performers of sexual acrobatics. All for earning a livelihood.

At its peak, the same Khajuraho had earned envious glory as one of the great cities of Bharatavarsha known for the valour of its kings, the wealth they created and above all, the unsullied piety they exuded. In its original avatar, Kharjūravāhaka had done signal service to the cause of the protection and propagation of Sanatana Dharma helmed by the intrepid Candrātrēya (Chandela) dynasty for nearly half a millennium (831 — 1315). Needless, its most glorious expression that has survived till this day is undoubtedly the fabled Khajuraho Cluster of Temples.

Inscriptional evidence traces the origins of the Candrātrēya lineage to the great Maharshi Atri, from whose eye Candra (Moon) was born. Candra’s son was Candrātrēya, the progenitor of the Chandela dynasty. Such stories of divine origins are invariably associated with every Hindu royal dynasty big and small, holding a lesson in itself. The immediate response to such stories from the contemporary Hindu mind conditioned by the West is one of disbelief, ridicule and even derision. The lion-like Swami Vivekananda’s sucker-punch to such deracinated minds remains the most effective till date:

In Europe there is Lord the Cardinal, who is struggling hard and spending thousands of pounds to prove the nobility of his ancestors, and he will not be satisfied until he has traced his ancestry to some dreadful tyrant who lived on a hill and watched the people passing by, and whenever he had the opportunity, sprang out on them and robbed them. That was the business of these nobility-bestowing ancestors, and my Lord Cardinal is not satisfied until he can trace his ancestry to one of these. In India, on the other hand, the greatest princes seek to trace their descent to some ancient sage who dressed in a bit of loin cloth, lived in a forest, eating roots and studying the Vedas. It is there that the Indian prince goes to trace his ancestry. Our ideal is the Brahmin of spiritual culture and renunciation. By the Brahmin ideal what do we mean? We mean the ideal Brahmin-ness in which worldliness is altogether absent and true wisdom is abundantly present. That is the ideal of the Hindu race.

DHANGADEVA OR DHANGA WAS the seventh monarch in the Candrātrēya lineage. He was the son of Yashovarman, who is credited with formally establishing the suzerainty of the Chandela Empire, although he nominally acknowledged the vassalage of the Pratiharas. Yashovarman was a prolific temple-builder, commissioning the beautiful Lakshmana Temple, still resplendently standing in the Khajuraho Temple Complex. He also acquired a highly artistic Murti of Vaikuṇṭha-Viṣṇu, originally hailing from Bhota or Tibet, and built a magnificent Vishnu Temple modelled after his divine abode, Vaikuṇṭha. Sadly the temple has not survived.

In fact, Yashovarman heralded the grand era of Chandela art and architecture, which constitute some of the earliest and finest specimens of the Nāgara style.

Dhanga not only followed his illustrious father’s path but embellished it. Under him, the Chandela Empire stretched from Kalanjara (or Kalinjara), Bhilsa (Vidisha), Kalindi, Chedi, and Gōpādri (Gwalior). He also conducted prolific military expeditions against a rather impressive swathe of territory including Vidarbha, Kuntala, Andhra, Kanchi, Anga, and Radha. Perhaps his noblest service in the defence of Sanatana Dharma was sending his military force to assist Hindu Shahi Jayapaladeva, the last frontier Hindu hero, in his battle against Mahmud of Ghazni.

If Yashovarman built a Vaikuṇṭha-Viṣṇu Temple in Kharjūravāhaka, his son, an extraordinary Bhakta of Shiva, built the grand Visvanatha temple in the same temple complex. The story of how this temple was built is fortunately engraved in an inscription on its wall (now called Khajuraho Inscription No. IV).

Its summary is as follows.

Dhanga erected a magnificent temple for the Great God, Śambhu with two lingas. One was made of emerald and the other, of stone. The emerald linga is eponymously known as Marakatēśvara.

In the true spirit of Hindu kings, Dhanga extended his patronage and piety to the Jaina Sampradaya as well. Having abiding reverence for a Jaina Muni named Pahilla, he granted extensive lands to build a beautiful garden around a temple erected for Jinanatha.

Dhanga’s brilliant regime lasted for a year less than a half century (950—999) and was largely distinguished by peace, prosperity and Dharma. However, his final years were exceptional in a profound sense.

He embarked on a series of Yatras to different Tirtha-Kshetras including Varanasi before stationing himself at Tīrtha-cakravarti, Prayaga. It was at Prayaga that he transformed himself into a royal Sanyasi. As his renunciation matured and ripened, he entered the sacred waters at the Trivēṇi-saṅgama and closing his eyes, fixing his thoughts on Rudra, Dhanga abandoned his mortal body.

Remember Dhanga’s Pious Service to Sanatana Dharma the Next Time you Visit Khajuraho.

The incalculable service of the Chandela Emperor, Dhanga towards protecting and propagating Sanatana Dharma is a little-known story. A great Bhakta of Shiva, his pious end is quite an extraordinary saga.

नव संवत्सर पर्व

अद्यतनं दिनम् (वत्सरस्य प्रथमो दिवसः)

महाकल्पसंवत् -१५५५२१९७२९४९०८७

कल्पसंवत्- १९७२९४९०८७

कलिसंवत्- ५०८७

महाभारतयुद्ध(युधिष्ठिर) संवत् - ५१२३ (प्रचलने ५१२२) 

नव संवत्सर विक्रम संवत २०७९

युग -ऐन्द्राग्न

वत्सरनाम- परिवत्सर (प्रमादी)

उत्तरायणम् (उदगयनम्) 

मास:- तपाः =माघः

पक्ष:- शुक्लपक्षः

तिथिः - प्रतिपद् 

वर्ष में मुख्य रूप से दो नवरात्रि में से एक चैत्र नवरात्र भी भारतीय नववर्ष अर्थात चैत्र शुक्ल प्रतिपदा से ही प्रारम्भ होता है । नवरात्र का एक प्रमुख भक्ति और शक्ति का पर्व है।

इन नौ रातों और दस दिनों के दौरान, शक्ति स्वरूपा देवी के नौ रूपों की पूजा अर्चना की जाती है।

नवरात्रि के नौ रातों में तीन देवियों – महालक्ष्मी, महासरस्वती या सरस्वती और महाकाली के नौ स्वरुपों की पूजा होती है।

ये नौ देवियाँ हैं –

शैलपुत्री, ब्रह्मचारिणी, चंद्रघंटा, कूष्माण्डा, स्कन्दमाता, कात्यायनी, कालरात्रि, महागौरी, सिद्धिदात्री।

नवरात्रि पर्व, सिद्धिदात्री माँ-दुर्गा की अवधारणा भक्ति और परमात्मा की शक्ति (उदात्त, परम, परम रचनात्मक ऊर्जा)* की पूजा का सबसे शुभ अवसर माना जाता है ।

चैत्र प्रतिपदा को वर्षारंभ दिन अर्थात नववर्ष क्यों मनाए?

वर्षारंभ का दिन अर्थात नववर्ष दिन। इसे कुछ अन्य नामों से भी जाना जाता है, जैसे- संवत्सरारंभ, विक्रम संवत् वर्षारंभ, वर्षप्रतिपदा, युगादि, गुडीपडवा इत्यादि।

चैत्र शुक्ल प्रतिपदा को नववर्ष मनाने के अनेक कारणों में नैसर्गिक, ऐतिहासिक एवं आध्यात्मिक कारण हैं।

वर्षाणामपि पञ्चानाम् 

     आद्यः संवत्सरः स्मृतः।

ऋतूनां शिशिरश्चाऽपि 

      मासानां माघ एव च ।।

ब्रह्माण्डपुराणे 

वायुपुराणे 

लिङ्गपुराणे च।

वर्षप्रतिपदा (भारतीय नववर्ष) का महत्व

1.ब्रह्माजी द्वारा सृष्टि-रचना

पुराणों के अनुसार चैत्र मास के शुक्ल पक्ष की प्रतिपदा को ब्रह्मा जी ने सृष्टि निर्माण किया था, इसलिए इस पावन तिथि को नव संवत्सर पर्व के रूप में भी मनाया जाता है।

ब्रह्मपुराण के अनुसार 1अरब 96 करोड़ 8 लाख 53 हजार 123* वर्ष पूर्व ब्रह्माजी ने कमल कोष के तीन विभाग भूः भुवः स्वः करके सृष्टि रचने का दृढ़ संकल्प लिया और उनके मन से मरीचि, नेत्रों से अत्रि, मुख से अंगिरा, कान से पुलस्त्य, नाभि से पुलह, हाथ से कृतु, त्वचा से भृगु, प्राण से वशिष्ठ, अंगूठे से दक्ष तथा गोद से नारद उत्पन्न हुए।

इसी प्रकार उनके दायें स्तन से धर्म, पीठ से अधर्म, हृदय से काम, दोनों भौंहों से क्रोध, मुख से सरस्वती, नीचे के ओंठ से लोभ लिंग से समुद्र तथा छाया से कर्दम ऋषि प्रकट हुए।

इस प्रकार यह सम्पूर्ण जगत ब्रह्मा जी के मन और शरीर से उत्पन्न हुआ।

प्रभु श्री राम का राज्याभिषेक दिवस : प्रभु राम ने भी इसी दिन को लंका विजय के बाद अयोध्या में राज्याभिषेक के लिये चुना।

लंका विजय के पश्चात विभीषण और सुग्रीव के साथ ।पुष्पक विमान द्वारा विदेहकुमारी सीता को वन की शोभा दिखाते हुए योद्धाओं में श्रेष्ठ श्रीरामचन्द्र जी ने किष्किन्धा मे पहुँचकर अंगद को, जिन्होंने लंका के युद्ध में महान् पराक्रम दिखाया था, युवराज पद पर अभिषिक्त किया।

इसके पश्चात लक्ष्मण तथा सुग्रीव आदि के साथ श्रीरामचन्द्र जी जिस मार्ग से आये थे, उसी के द्वारा अपनी राजधानी अयोध्या की ओर प्रस्थित हुए।तत्पश्चात अयोध्यापुरी के निकट पहुँचकर श्रीराम ने हनुमान को दूत बनाकर भरत के पास भेजा।

जब वायुपुत्र हनुमान जी भरत की सारी चेष्टाओं को लक्ष्य करके उन्हें श्रीरामचन्द्रजी के पुन: आगमन का प्रिय समाचार सुनाकर लौट आये, तब श्रीरामचन्द्रजी नन्दिग्राम में आये।

वहाँ आकर श्रीराम ने देखा भरत चीरवस्त्र पहने हुए हैं, उनका शरीर मैल से भरा हुआ है और वे श्रीराम की चरण-पादुकाएँ आगे रखकर कुश आसन पर बैठे हैं। लक्ष्मण सहित पराक्रमी श्रीरामचन्द्रजी भरत तथा शत्रुघ्न से मिलकर बहुत प्रसन्न हुए। भरत और शत्रुघ्न को भी उस समय बड़े भाई से मिलकर तथा विदेहकुमारी सीता का दर्शन करके महान् हर्ष प्राप्त हुआ।

फिर भरतजी ने बड़ी प्रसन्नता के साथ अयोध्या पधारे हुए भगवान श्रीराम को अपने पास धरोहर के रूप में रखा हुआ अयोध्या का राज्य अत्यन्त सत्कारपूर्वक लौटा दिया।

और चैत्र शुक्ला एकम् (प्रतिपदा) के पवित्र दिन श्रीराम का राज्याभिषेक संपूर्ण हुआ ।

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विक्रम संवत' के प्रणेता सम्राट विक्रमादित्य हैं।'

चक्रवर्ती राजा विक्रमादित्य शौर्य, पराक्रम तथा प्रजाहितैषी कार्यों के लिए प्रसिद्ध माने जाते हैं।

उन्होंने ९५ शक राजाओं को पराजित करके भारत को विदेशी राजाओं की दासता से मुक्त किया था।

प्राचीन काल में नया संवत चलाने से पहले विजयी राजा को अपने राज्य में रहने वाले सभी लोगों को ऋण-मुक्त करना आवश्यक होता था।

राजा विक्रमादित्य ने भी इसी परम्परा का पालन करते हुए अपने राज्य में रहने वाले सभी नागरिकों का राज्यकोष से कर्ज़ चुकाया और उसके बाद चैत्र शुक्ल प्रतिपदा से नया संवत चलाया..!!

संवत्सर-चक्र के अनुसार सूर्य इस ऋतु में अपने राशि-चक्र की प्रथम राशि मेष में प्रवेश करता है। भारतवर्ष में वसंत ऋतु के अवसर पर नूतन वर्ष का आरम्भ मानना इसलिए भी हर्षोल्लासपूर्ण है, क्योंकि इस ऋतु में चारों ओर हरियाली रहती है तथा नवीन पत्र-पुष्पों द्वारा प्रकृति का नव शृंगार किया जाता है..!!

भारतीय नववर्ष: विक्रम संवत २०७९ की अनंत शुभकामनायें। 'हे भगवन.....!

आपकी कृपा से यह वर्ष कल्याणकारी हो और इस संवत्सर के मध्य में आने वाले सभी अनिष्ट और विघ्न शांत हो जाएं।'

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