Sita was not the daughter of Mandodari, nor was she born from the earth because nobody can be born from the earth. A man
is not a plant or tree. The men and women are born from the human beings alone. There too a child must have a father and
a mother.
Question – Then, what is the meaning of the words like
Krishatah, Kshetram and Laangalaat etc.?
Answer – We have to go into the depth of the words. Before we do that, we must see how the great people
produce their children. We have numbers of examples in this context. Shri Krishna was married to Rukmini (who was also
called Satyabhaamaa), it is wrong to say that Shri Krishna married two girls. He was a great Yogi and a great Teacher of
Karma Yoga. How can such a great man do such wrong things and go against the Vedic system! Just like even today some
people give their pet names to their wives after the marriage, Rukmini was called as Satyabhaamaa by Shri Krishna
meaning that she was wedded not to a body but to the soul that was an embodiment of truth. Both of them sat and talked
about having a child and planned wisely to not have borne one for thirteen years and spend a life of celibacy which
would help them in promoting themselves physically, mentally and spiritually so that they may invite the spiritually
developed soul to become their child. It is in the hands of parents to get a child like they wish to have. So, Shri
Krishna and Rukmini took this vow and consequently they got Pradyumna. Similarly, Shri Rama and Sita did not make love
during the period when they were in the jungle. They rather thought it better to spend their life in meeting the people
of the country and get the first-hand information from them, sit with Rishis and have the new ideas about the Vedic
culture, politics and other things concerned with ruling the country in the best way possible so that they may be able
to bring up the country as the place of great citizens. They did not think of any passions or desires for sexual
enjoyments. Besides, they did not think it proper to make love when his brother Lakshmana was alone spending his married
life as a celibate. They produced beautiful and brave children like Lava and Kusha only after the period of about
fifteen years. Similarly, the king Janaka, who was a great Yogi, thought to live with his wife Sunayana as a celibate
until the both of them were mentally and spiritually well-developed so they get a good child. The word
Krish means to cultivate. Just like a farmer prepares a field by ploughing, leveling and watering etc. before
sowing seeds in the earth, even so a husband should prepare the mental, intellectual and physical field in himself as
well as in his wife and make her ready to develop the seed of a child sowed in her. The women are called
Kshetram in which the seed for the child is sown. The love given to the wife after pregnancy is like watering
the field. To talk with love and imparting all kinds of knowledge to the wife is like maturing the field. All these
things help in the growth of the fetus in the womb of the women. This science is called Krishi in Sanskrit. A
person so developed in the womb of a woman is called Krishti. With this explanation it will be easy to
understand why the Sanskrit pandits of Kashi gave Jesus a sacred name of Krishta to the boy coming from
Jerusalem. They wanted to bring him up as a cultured man of knowledge through teaching him the Vedic literature. It was
this name that made him famous in the future by the name of Christus in Germany and the Christ in other countries of
Europe and the world.
So the name has a great significance in the life of a person. That is why the Rishis have given value to Naamakarana of
the child. According to them a name of person should be like a lighthouse that guides a child on an ideal path it should
follow in his or her life. Having all these things in the mind Janaka and Sunayana went through an ideal life.
Source:
‘Aaryaabhivinaya’ written by Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati and translated in English by Pt. Satyananda Shastri.
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