Foreword

 

Towards immortality

In the history of Hindi literature, Buddhist philosophy has found a place in some form or the other from ancient times to modern times. According to the circumstances of time and place, poets have given new dimensions to their writings by taking Gautam Buddha's philosophy of life. Poetry keeps changing itself according to the circumstances of time and place. Today, when the whole world is living under the shadow of terrorism, there is a great need to adopt Buddha's philosophy of life. Whenever our country has faced a crisis, we have turned towards the supernatural philosophy of life of our ancestors and then they have paved our way and provided us with guidelines. Today, world humanity is groaning in pain. It has to bear many stings. The dance of violence is descending with new experiments every day. Will those who blow the trumpet of humanity in these circumstances keep watching the victory of terrorist forces silently and without any emotion? In such times, Indian thinkers, sages, poets and scholars have found some way or the other, which has proved capable of saving world humanity. The poet's pen has done such a thing on hundreds of occasions which even the most powerful people have not been able to do.

In the rich tradition of Indian literature,  "Amriteya Buddha: The Eternal Enlightened One" is the pinnacle point of victory over those destructive powers, from where the inexhaustible stream of creation flows and from where the sacred river of knowledge illuminates the inexhaustible stream of knowledge in thousands of ignorance-filled hearts, eradicates inertia and fills them with affection. "Amriteya Buddha: The Eternal Enlightened One"  is that timeless creation of the epic Savitri Devi through which the poetess has not only given form to the Buddhist philosophy but has also played an important role in making the modern society of Buddhist philosophy in a new perspective. In the life of modern man, there is a conflict between the senses and the perceptible subjects. If the conflict ends, then the bad state of the mind also ends and it appears in the powerful flow of consciousness. “"Amriteya Buddha: The Eternal Enlightened One"  is the name of flowing in the flow of this powerful consciousness in the context. Lord Buddha's mental state was calm and stable. Lord Buddha had only one happiness - that happiness was freedom from selfishness, greed, worldly thoughts and ego. If modern man gets this kind of freedom, then most of the problems will automatically end. The solution to these problems is in "Amriteya Buddha: The Eternal Enlightened One".

"Amriteya Buddha: The Eternal Enlightened One"  epic is divided into 28 cantos. In the journey from "birth" to "Mahaparinirvana", there are many incidents, sub-stories, points of view, hard ground of reality, feelings, emotions, great female character, living and non-living, destruction of unconscious humanity, infusion of new life, value establishment, search for immortality, contemporary context, the path to attaining Kaivalya, its final climax, what not. All of them have been woven one by one into the beads of a rosary with concentration and great skill.

Explaining birth in the first canto, the poetess has very classically depicted the creature coming into the world – wandering in the blind alleys, falling into the temptations of the five elements, forgetting himself and getting entangled in the magic web of Maya:

The living being!

The past forgotten,

The present ironized.

That,

A trembling snowflake on the thousand leaves of the five elements.

A delicate web of instincts.

The vast magic web of Maya.

 

The “Prophecy” canto has a very charming view of the child –

Glowing like molten gold,

Causing a dazzling effect,

As if rising like a golden pitcher full of day-gem,

In the blue sky,

The clear sky is illuminated.

.................

My calculation

Unquestionable.

This will only be,

 

Buddha! The poetess has brought the epic to the hard ground of reality by giving precise definitions of old age, disease and death. Who is not afraid of old age, disease and death-

Kumar took a deep breath.

I have seen the disease,

And old age too.

And this dead body!

This too.

Is this the fate of all living beings? Is this my body?

Will this also be lifeless?

Alas! This heart-rending pain

Terrible and intense.

 

There is churning of the heart in Hans, Pravrajit, Antim Shringar, Mahabhinishkramana. There is guidance of mind to mind. There is anxious yearning. There is agitated chest. There are deep breaths. There is renunciation of Kumar's room, but there are also those memories, where once Kumar had embraced in the silver moonlight, where there was a well-developed flower, but he had set out to become a great man forgetting all these. In the epic, the characters of Shuddhodhan, Gopa, Prajapati Gautami, Sujata, dancer Chanda, Angulimal, Krisha Gautami, Amrapali etc. have been portrayed in a charming style.

In the 26th canto, the beautiful scene of Amrapali's body has taken the beauty to its peak. At the same time, in the Angulimal canto, the surrender of a giant killer like Angulimal in front of the glory of Mahatma Gautam Buddha has a broad scope to give a message to the terror and violence-ridden society of today's times. Today, the society needs a brilliant non-violent hero like Gautam Buddha, with whose one gesture the picture of violence spread on the world stage can be destroyed.

"Amriteya Buddha: The Eternal Enlightened One"  not only provides a creative initiative to live life to different sections of the society, but it also guides towards self-knowledge and establishes world love and true love.

In the end, while doing inner meditation, he gets absorbed in the cosmic power where there is no birth, no death, no past, no present.

Where there is only the Amrit Kalash. Where there is the incarnation of Veenapaani, a great light.

The language of the most revered Savitri Devi is clear, Sanskrit based and full of Tatsam vocabulary. Wherever words were needed, those words were used automatically. It seems that the flow of words is a spontaneous explosion of Mother India who has blessed Savitri ji with immortality in the form of "Amriteya Buddha: The Eternal Enlightened One". I believe that this epic will undoubtedly become an immortal treasure of literature.

Navsamvatsar 2060

2 April, 2003

Prof. Nityanand Pandey

Director, Central Hindi Institute

(Ministry of Human Resource Development,

Government of India)

Hindi Sansthan Marg, Agra- 282 005