Rhythm Of Freedom : "Catalyzed Missions"

N. Chingkhei *

'Kang-He' festival at Maram Khullen under Senapati District on January 06 2013 :: Pix - Bullu Raj

The phenomenon of worshipping and praying the miracles and mysteries by the "School of Faith" is vapourizing though in snail steps - let it go to myth and amalgate into "the School of Common Universal Thought".

It was 12 April 1820 AD, Friday :
"O! My elder brother (Yambung ao), how have we ruined and are still ruining the country?" "Cheitharon Kumpapa (Ch/K)" - Original text, translation by Soroj Nalini Arambam Parratt (SNA Parratt):

This was a self-condemnation statement by Yibungsi Heerachandra to his elder brother Yibungsi Yimchao Taba during one of the most critical period of the prolong war of "Chahi taret khuntakpa". This statement led to the grouping of the two brothers and had fought the Burmese together with hit and run tactics.

"Herachundruh, the son of Robichundruh, and the nephew of Marjeet, continued at the head of a small body of horse to annoy the Burmah garrison left in Muneepoor, who had in vain attempted to capture him: he was secretly supported by his country-man, who admired his gallantry, and by keeping him acquainted with the movements of the enemy, enable him to cut off many of their small detachments." "In 1822, Petumbhur Sing, another nephew, was despatched from the Cachar by Choorjeet to assist Heerachundruh, they succeeded in drawing a large Burmese detachment into an ambuscade, every man of which was out to pieces.(Muneepoor - R. Boileau Pemberton ). And this led to the coined of the phrase "Awa Meithakpa"

According to Ch/K, SNA Parratt, in spite of the support of the people and the then strategic strong position, Yibungsi Heerachandra gave away the throne to his older brother Yibungsi Yumchao Taba who latter fled to Ava when Gambhir Sing entered Manipur with his famous 500 cavalry which led to the complete wipe out of the Burmese from the soil of then kingdom Manipur.

This statement - "O ! My elder brother (Yambung ao), how have we ruined and are still ruining the country?" of Yibungsi Heerachandra, the king of Patriots had been focusing on the destruction and ruin by the intrinsic nefarious design of the Catalyzed Missions in order to make divisive force among the people and to make alienated from their cultural ethos of the then kingdom of Manipur which had otherwise a formidable one to the neighbouring countries.

33 AD: Recorded Age of "School of Sanamahism"with the reign of lord Pakhangba.
1616 AD: Germination of "School of Islamism" when Meidingu Khagemba had captured 1000 Pangans from a battle in the West.
1709 AD, July 23, Wednesday: Meidingu Mayamba (Pamheiba/Garibniwas) ascended the throne. Peak and declination of the "School of Sanamahism" and the advancement of the "School of Hinduism" in Kangleipak.
1717 AD: Conversion of Ningthem Mayamba (Pamheiba/Garibniwas) to Hinduism by Gopal Das also known as Shanti Das.
1723 (Aug/Sept): 9 (nine) Umang Lais (forest deities) were declared as no Lais and the shrines were demolished.
1724 AD (March 20, Sunday): Ningthem after exhumed the bones of most of his male ancestors, left for the Ningthi River (Chindwin) to cremate them completely by the river. The practice of cremating the dead by fire throughout the land also began at this period. And addressing of "Maharaja" also began at this period.
1729 (Jan 16,Sunday): The stone at the Royal Market palace was dragged to Mongbahanba grave to curve out of it the idol of Hanuman.
1729 (Dec 11, Friday): Meidingu Mayamba immersed in the Lilong river for sacred thread.
1732 (Oct 17, Sunday): Declaration of the Meiteis ritually unclean or defiled. All the Lais were destroyed and the "Puya Meithaba (burning of old sacred text)" was taken place.
1733 AD: Loss of posts conferred to the princes and king's near kin.

And so also loss of spiritual influence of the Maichous to the hand of the Guru of the king - Guru Shanti Das.

After the 1891 Anglo-Manipuri war the School of Christianity arrived and it was well established in Ukhrul first and latter gradually spread to other surround hills as well as towards the valley. With the British order, to ban the practice of the Thang-Ta by the Meitei, the influence of Brahma Sabha on the Manipuri Hindu was stronger and shadow of casteism and untouchability was more significant.

The activity of School of Jainism had been felt to the Manipuri society with the event of Nupi Lal in 1939 AD when women of Manipur banned the export of local rice outside the state by the Marawaries with the connivance of the Maharaja and the political agent. Jainism and Sikhism came with Marwari and Punjabi traders and these two schools of faith have no significant role in conversion process and they are satisfied with their own business trades only.

The School of Buddhism has been existing on by its pristine beauty of non-casteism state and recently more or less on the context of the opportunities within the preview of the Constitutional quota for minority upliftment.

And the "School of Tingkao Ragwang" has been existing since long time back preserving the Rhythm of Freedom of the Kabuis and their cognates evolving their distinctive and colourful ethos.

Secularism upholds any direct or indirect attack on any individual's Faith. Secularism sits in Indian constitution only to check the excited state mainly of the three Faiths - the Hinduism, the Islamism and the Christianity. Indian politics is reeling under the excited state of these oldest institutes of religion basically the institutions of knowledge. Any form of means whether violence or non-violence is being used by these catalyzed missions to acquire their objectives. Conversion is direct expansion of their followers whereas passive annihilation is also another form of indirect expansion or reducing the other groups. The drug business is the latest onslaught targeting the youths of another group -the reducing process. For the right example is that no clerics had ever tried to prevent the nefarious design.

Western blocks are trying to fill the political vacuum in the north east regions of India through one of the major Faith of the world.

The converted Muslims have totally forgotten about their original ethos. The converted Christian should feel proud of their beautiful ethos before it is too late to save from the overwhelming flood flushing upon their cultural ethos like that of the converted Hindus that still finds difficult to grasp hold on their pristine beautiful cultural ethos. In fact it is like the action and the reaction of the non-violence resistance of the Nature against the mad man as the enchanting natural scenic beauty is being white bladed by him.

Victory to the Nature ! That the Kang-he festival of Maram is the latest flame at the end of the other tunnel signifying the importance of the Rhythm of Freedom in Manipur Kangleipak.

In spite of the forced and aggressive conversion of the Meiteis into Hinduism fold, the Meiteis gifted to the world to show the sublime beauty on the seam of passion and love in King Chingthangkhomba's "Ras Lila" which is being enthralled by the world till date in order to follow his predecessors' love of Universal Peace who had invented- the "Sagol Kangjei (POLO)" as a gift to the world- a game that is really a conversion of art of war to the art of most ever magnificent and elegant game of the world.

The beauty of moral courage of Yibungsi Heerachandra and the epitome of Universal love of 'Raas Lila" makes us felt that the unique Rhythm of Freedom is still flowing deep under along its own course to the posterity.

The core-beauty objective of 'School of thought" is to enrich human power of thinking to unfold and understand any obscure and obstacles of ignorance and to go further deep to know the unknown and to prove that miracles and mysteries are all governed under the scientific law of nature. This is the eternal layer of the spiritual stage !

Human ethics is still clothed with the parochial view smearing from these catalyzed missions. Its effect and the resultant latent heat is an advocating of the Third World War ! ? !