TOURISM-RELIGION-DASA SAHITYA

An article on tourism studies in the age of Dasa movemet with its implicatons on the present day industrry is in the offspring(being edited and translated from an article in Kannada)........

Bharat- which carries literally fabricated name as India is synonimously referred to as holy land, vedic land and "Karmabhoomi".
it is indeed consodered to be great honour to take birth in this land nad its the result of selfless deeds one has done in many of his previous births.
india is the4 abode of cuktural heritage and religion is its spirit. religion plays an integral and undettachable part of the lifestyle of the people here. scores of scions,sadhus,saaints,sanyasies and godly gurus from various spheres have adopted and adapted and ascented to the hieghts of spirituality have tranfomed and purified this "Karmabhoomi"(the land of deeds).
this land is an ocean of wisdom into which flow streams of spirituality. religion is in every breath one takes and it forms the undeterred base of inhabitants. what is passed on to us fron our ancestors is this great heritage, inheritance of unmatchable ethoes, ethics finely woven into religious tolerance and practice.
the same philosophy of life and its essence was practised and proposed by every single sadhu, sant and sanyasi and dasa and sharana.
the enthusing features of religion can be concieved from the following lines from a sanskrit sloka:

dhruthi kshama damah ashtreyam
shuacham indriyanigraha I
dihi vidya satyam akrodha
darshakam dharma lakshanaam II

what's religion(dhatma)?there have been thousands of versions derived from time to time over a two thousand years. huaman race hasn't yet at a satisfactory conclusion which undoubtedly an unendinding process of search for truth.
its there in the blood of every indianess to render a helping hand to the fallen and help to satnd steady again. they call it, " its our DHARMA".
The point of discussion is not about the fallen-who, when, why, how and how much? becauase this wil lead us into a listless differential conclusions. if to uplift the fallen is Dharma, what attributes/traits the uplifter endoves. where does he imbibe these naunces from? an attempt to journey the alleys of untrodden meadows of Dharma renderes us all the answers because its from there metemorphosis commences.
let me unlock the complexities of subtle reality to make it simpler- brotherhood, sensibilty, integfrity, humility, co-operation, responsibility and truthfulness are infact the derivations of Dharma in the post medivial era.
what turns a 'human being into a parasite, unimpressive, uninspiring and gloomy is his dullness, stagnacy of thought process and lethargic acumenship.
the remedy to shun them all is to amke an indomitable approach towards pragmatic life style, to be part of the perennial soceity and participate in constructive endeavours and above all to travel across the country, nook and cornner of it. and then relate to the realities of the existence outside his chamber of mundaneness sandwitched between the crumbling walls. this process of realisation from relating and through the hard realities/enchanting experiences of travel result in the emergence of tourism literature. this is what an old adage in Kannada speaks about:
" Desha sutti nodu, Kosha odi nodu"

to be continued.......