Then and now?

Hello readers

Hope you guys are doing great.

The Spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze. And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face.

-Sri Aurobindo Ghose

I was reading about the great Vijayanagara Empire yesterday, well I was amazed to learn how our kings were duty conscious and ensured the name of their provinces soared up in the sky. I was also amazed by the administrative techniques used by the great emperor Sri Krishnadevaraya.

If we correlate the above scenario with present day situation, I feel sometimes we all are repeating what our kings have done before, particularly their strategies that they have used to survive and confront their enemies.

The statue of Sri Krishna Devaraya at Penugonda.

There was an important paragraph which I came across, in which it says initially in the 1500A.D there was lot of friction between the Saluva dynasty of the Vijayanagara  empire and the Reddiars,  now popularly called as “Reddy”  they were like born enemies who were struggling for dominance in the Present state of Telangana. But there was a common enemy for both the Saluva dynasty and the Reddiars which was  the Bahmani Sultanate, who dominated the northern part of Karnataka and parts of Andhra.

As years passed the Tuluva dynasty came to power and, the great King Sri Krishnadevaraya came to power, and I observed one paradigm shift in his style of administration, that was,  mutual negations and strategy to solve the issues of his empire at a point the Reddiars’ and the emperor come into an agreement and overthrow the Bahmani sultans and gain control over trade and business on the east coast.

The story gets still more amazing when the daughter from a Reddy family was married to the monarch, creating a great rapport between the two clans and great unity  among the two kingdoms, as the Reddiars are the direct descendents of the Rashtrakutas.This propelled a  good co-ordination that protected both the parties from the Sultans of the North.

Coming back from the past to the current scenario I have seen many enemies uniting together to fight a single enemy, the easy example is we have seen many countries uniting together to win a war on the third country.

When you read about history of the world, I mean long ago may be in the period when the great empires of various kings existed in India and around the world  or the medieval people have used strategies which we use to achieve our goals.

So the simple truth with which I want to conclude is that, if frequencies of a person matches with the person next to him, their souls feel happy to interact with each other, I feel the world will move forward in the right direction if we implement this,  we can live in a more compassionate world which less people hating each other.

Thanks for your time have a great day and a week ahead.