UNICORNS AND MYSTERIOUS EAST
Unicorns are found and hieroglyphed in the remains of Mohenjo-Daro, the center of Indus Valley Civilization for over 5000 years BCE. Archaeologists believe, with an ample evidence from the dry core drilling of the cultural layers of Mohenjo-Daro, that the site is perhaps the oldest of the bronze age sites of the world.
While the evidence takes us back to the cave art in the surrounding Rohri Hills, there are cultural layers found in Sindh in general which further extend to stone age, perhaps that was the time when we had Unicorns in Sindh.
Sindh is a civilization that gave the identity to the subcontinent, ‘Hind’ because the Greeks at the time of the invasion of Alexander the Great came with a unique sound for letter ‘S’ which is somewhat shifted in phonological space. So the Sindhu (the Indus) was began to be called and known as ‘Hindu’ and the Indus as ‘India’. It was much later that the Ganges was found, which as the probability suggests, was discovered and expanded after the catastrophic end of Mohenjo-Daro.
But, it continues to stand as a living symbol and memoir of the center of a civilization which continues to flourish in all of its diaspora and expansion of its culture, values and traditions, spiritual and material, in a state of Unity of Creator and Creation. The ‘Hama Oast’, not as — pantheism, but as ‘Wahdat-ul-Wujood’, the Unity of Existence.
The Aryans added to the beauty of the land which led to the development of its arts and architecture, its music and dances, its creation and collection of wisdom (Vedas) and its preparation of the soil for the incarnation of none else but of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, the thinnest and the finest of a pinnacle that could ever be reached by humanity, in all of its times and tribulations.
Buddhism flourished in Sindh. The top layer of Mohenjo-Daro and much of surrounding mounds is Buddhist, and; as we move south-east of Larkana, the landscape is seen strewn with Jain temples, with Mahavira appearing as the continuity of Buddha himself.
Much as the inter-mixture of Vikings with Anglo Saxons led to Renaissance, the Aryans and Indus led that to the development of mysterious East. Mysticism was the way of life of the people of the land, where the trees were sacred and the rivers were divine.
Around the birth of Jesus the Christ, India was leading the spiritualism of the known world of the time. Interestingly, the evidence suggests that Jesus was not Christian, because it was an Occidental accent of the name of Krishan. That Jesus had a spiritual connection with Lord Krishna is supported by a practice of His light-bearers which was called Krishan-Neeti, which ultimately began to be called as Christianity in the West.
The spiritual inspirations of Sindh did not end there, but continued to the times of Holy Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) who came as Divine Light and Beauty not just to the Middle East, but as a Divine Consciousness to the entire world, to wherever his voice and teachings reached.
It is narrated that the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon Him) used to talk of Sindh as a place from where he received an air of fragrance and aroma of its spices. Meditation was alien to Arab culture, yet it was the cave of Hira in the heart of Jabal al-Nour, the ‘Mountain of Light’ where the world heard the word ‘Iqra’, which is not just to read, but to read in rhythm and in love.
It is the Indus that gave the world the concept of Zero, because it was practiced by its mystics as their zero experiences, through their physical and metaphysical living in caves — and their coming out of them, and themselves, as Light.
Kazi Ayaz Mahesar
MysticTalks
November 28, 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohenjo-daro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohri_Hills
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