@AnanthBelthur In 2012, I was selected to start a new counter terrorism force of Assam Rifles (which is under MHA, but operates under Army) that controlled operations in Tripura, Mizoram & South Assam. I started by receiving the first officer, first furniture, first computer etc.
SO SATISFYING
We are told that we are now at the brink of setting up Integrated Theatre Commands. Finally.
My quarrel is with the way they are being projected in the media.
Western Theatre Command - Pakistan
Northern Theatre Command - China
Southern Theatre Command - Maritime borders
IMHO, this confines the role & depreciates the responsibility of these TCs.
Theatre Commands are just NOT for borders alone. They are responsible to look at threats & interests BEYOND our immediate borders. They are an instrument of power projection. A Theatre Commander has the wherewithal to implement the strategic aspirations of the nation. As a rising power, our interests are way beyond are immediate neighbours.
I strongly feel our Theatre Commanders must be known as:
Commander West & Central Asia Theatre ( CO-WACA)
Commander North & East Asia Theatre ( CO-NEA)
Commander Indo-Pacific Theatre (CO-INPAC)
In short, our TCs must cover an arc of 360 degrees around a circle of 5000 kms from Delhi. Only then will strategic thinking, strategic capabilities & strategic power projection be a reality.
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@Ayudhika1310 As per panchangam , In Parabhavanama samvatsaram , there will be more of such open fights amongst the different sects . This was well predicted and happening now !
Five Generations of shukla family
Family of a Brahmin regiment soldeir 185 yr long legacy
- Havildar karta ram shukla - 1841-59
- Naik Hari Narayan shukla - 1909-23
- colnel sri niwas shukla -1954-90
- colnel Bipin kr shukla - Present
- Lt.Tunmay shukla - present
There's a saying in the Brahmanda Purana that I will keep coming back.
There's a moment in the Brahmanda Purana that I keep coming back to. A specific image. And I can't shake it.
Parashurama throws Shiva's trishul at a king.
Not his own battle-axe. Not some celestial weapon he accumulated over years of tapas.
Shiva's own trident. The weapon that leveled Tripura. The weapon Mahadeva himself carries, the one shaped from three worlds collapsing into a single point of fire.
Parashurama, who had once fought Shiva in a twenty-one-day duel and left a scar on his forehead (Shiva was so pleased that he kept the wound as an ornament, which is the kind of detail that tells you everything about both of them), hurled this thing at a Kshatriya king from Vishaala.
It hit the king's chest.
And turned into a garland of flowers.
Soft. Fragrant. Gently draped around the king's neck like a puja offering.
And in that moment, Parashurama, an avatar of Narayana, one of the ten, used his inner vision. Really looked. And saw what was standing there.
Most people who've spent time with the Puranas know the broad arc of Parashurama's campaign.
His father, the sage Jamadagni, was murdered by the sons of Kartavirya Arjuna, a Kshatriya king who had wanted the wish-fulfilling cow Surabhi and devastated the ashrama when refused.
In his grief, Parashurama took a vow: he would purge the corrupt Kshatriya bloodlines from the earth. Twenty-one times. Fill five pools with their blood. It is one of those cosmic vows that is as terrifying for its precision as for its scale.
When Parashurama's campaign reached the territory of Vishaala, Suchandra did not flee. He did not send emissaries. He assembled a coalition of a hundred thousand allied kings and seven akshouhinis of battle-hardened soldiers.
An akshouhini, if you're not familiar, is roughly 218,000 combined forces.
The battle was cataclysmic. Parashurama began destroying the coalition with divyastras.
The armies fell in the way armies fall when an avatar is working. Then it became one on one.
Parashurama launched the Narayanastra.
This weapon is functionally undefeatable if you resist it. It scales its destructive power with your aggression.
The only way to survive it is complete, total, unconditional surrender.
Suchandra knew this. He dismounted his chariot. He lay flat on the ground, face down, arms at his sides, fully prostrate.
The Narayanastra recognized the submission and returned harmlessly to Lord Narayana.
So Parashurama, bewildered, went back to basics.
A spear. A bludgeon. A javelin. A spike. A club. His own parashu hurled directly at Suchandra's head.
Suchandra caught them. All of them. Just caught them, the way you catch things thrown by a child.
Then the trishul. Then the flowers.
Then Parashurama used his inner vision. And he saw Her.
Standing in front of King Suchandra, not symbolically, not metaphorically, standing there, was Maa Bhadrakali.
Standing as an impenetrable field over the Ikshvaku sovereign, who had already dropped all his weapons and gone to his knees the moment Parashurama's inner vision made contact.
Suchandra knew she was there the whole time. He wasn't surprised. This was not a revelation to him. He had been fighting Parashurama from behind that shield. He had been standing in her presence the entire battle.
And here is the secret the Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganapati Khanda) preserves, which most people have never heard:
King Suchandra had been initiated into the Kali Kavacham, also called the Dashakshari Vidya.
The lineage of this kavacham is itself extraordinary.
Lord Narayana originally composed and transmitted it to Shiva, during the war against Tripurasura. Shiva passed it in secret to Sage Durvasa. Durvasa initiated King Suchandra.
What this kavacham does is map specific aspects of Ma to every single part of the practitioner's body.
The head is guarded by Maha Kali from the East. The forehead by Raktadantika from the Southeast.