တံခါးမရွိ၊ေသာ ့မခတ္တဲ ့ရြာ.... Shri Shanidev: The Doorless Village

တံခါးမရွိ၊ေသာ ့မခတ္တဲ ့ရြာ.... 
Shri Shanidev: The Doorless Village

 

 

 

အံ ့ႀသဖြယ္နတ္ဘုရားကုိယ္ပြားေက်ာက္တံုး

အိႏိၵယနုိင္ငံ၊မဟာရာရွတၱရာ ၿပည္နယ္မွ ရွာနီရွင္နာ.ဂ္ပူရ္ရြာကေလးမွရြာသူရြာသားမ်ားသည္သူတုိ ့၏ရြာ
ကုိသူတုိ ့ကုိးကြယ္သည္ ့နတ္ဘုရားကေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္ကာကြယ္ေနသည္ ့ဟုအခုိင္အမာယံုႀကည္သည္ ့အ
တြက္ရြာထဲရွိအိမ္တုိင္းတြင္တံခါးေပါက္၊ၿပတင္းေပါက္တခါးမ်ားႏွင္ ့ယုတ္စြအဆံုးေသာ ့မ်ားကုိပင္အသံုးမ
ၿပဳႀကေႀကာင္းသိရသည္...

သူတုိ ့ဟာဟိႏၵဴစေနၿဂဳိလ္နတ္မင္း ရွရီရွာနီေဒ ့ဗ္ ကုိ အလံုးစံုကုိးစားယံုႀကည္သည္ ့အတြက္ရြာအတြင္းတြင္
ၿပတင္းေပါက္ႏွင္ ့တံခါးမင္းတံုး၊တံခါးခ်က္မ်ားကုိပင္လံုး၀အသံုးၿပဳခြင္ ့မေပးေပ....
လြန္ခဲ ့ေသာႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၁၅၀ ခန္ ့မွစ၍ဤနတ္မင္းကုိကုိးကြယ္ခဲ ့သည္မွယခုအခ်ိန္အထိရြာသားမည္သူတစ္
ဦးတစ္ေယာက္၏အိမ္မွ်ေဖာက္ထြင္းခုိးယူခံရၿခင္းမရွိခဲ ့ဟုဆုိပါသည္....
တစ္ခ်ဴိ  ့ကသူတုိ ့အိမ္ေတြကုိလံုး၀၀င္ေရာက္ခုိးယူခံရၿခင္းမရွိဟုဆုိၿပီးတစ္ခ်ဴိ  ့ကေတာ ့သူခိုးမ်ားလာေရာက္
ခုိးယူခဲ ့ေပမယ္ ့ထုိပစၥည္းမ်ားအားလံုးကုိၿပန္လည္လာေရာက္ထားသြားရန္နတ္မင္းကစြမ္းေဆာင္ေပးခဲ ့
တယ္လုိ ့ဆုိႀကပါတယ္...


လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ ၂၀၀၄ ခုႏွစ္ကတည္းကရြာသူႀကီးအၿဖစ္တာ၀န္ယူခဲ ့တဲ ့အမ်ဴိးသမီးႀကီးကေတာ ့”  ကြ်န္မ
တုိ ့ရြာမွာလုယက္ခုိးယူမွဳေတြလံုး၀မရွိပါဘူး....တစ္ကယ္လုိ ့တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ကအဲဒီလုိလုပ္ခဲ ့မယ္
ဆုိယင္လည္းအဲဒီလူဟာမ်က္ေစ ့ေတြကြယ္ကုန္ၿပီးသူက်ဴးလြန္ခဲ ့တာကုိ၀န္မခံမၿခင္းဒီရြာကေနဘယ္
မွထြက္သြားလုိ ့မရပါဘူး....ဒါေပမယ္ ့ကြ်န္မတုိ ့ရဲ  ့ပုိက္ဆံေတြကုိေတာ ့ရြာအစြန္မွာေဆာက္ထားတဲ ့
လံုၿခံဳစိတ္ခ်ရတဲ ့ရြာပုိင္ဘဏ္အေဆာက္အဦမွာအားလံုးအပ္နွံထားႀကပါတယ္....”  ေၿပာဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...


သူတုိ ့ကုိးကြယ္တဲ ့နတ္မင္းအထိန္းအမွတ္ရုပ္ထုကေတာ ့အၿမင္ ့ ၅ ေပေလာက္ရွိတဲ ့အနက္ေရာင္
ေက်ာက္တံုးတစ္ခုၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ေဒသခံရြာသားမ်ားရဲ ့အဆုိအရလြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကေရႀကီးမွဳအၿပီးမွာအပ်က္အစီးအေဆာက္
အဦးေတြႀကားထဲကေနထုိေက်ာက္တံုးကုိေတြ ့ရွိခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္တယ္လုိ ့ဆုိပါတယ္..
သူတုိ ့ဟာေက်ာက္တုံးရဲ ့ထူးၿခားတဲ ့စာသားနဲ ့ပံုသ႑ာန္ေႀကာင္ ့အံ ့ႀသခဲ ့ရၿပီးအဲဒီတံုးကေက်ာက္တံုး
ကုိတုတ္အရွည္ေတြနဲ ့တြန္းထုိးၿပီးေရြ ့တဲ ့အခါေက်ာက္တံုးမွေသြးေတြစီးႀကခဲ ့လုိ ့ပုိမုိအံ ့ႀသတုန္လဳွပ္
ခဲ ့ႀကရပါတယ္တဲ ့.....


အစပုိင္းေတာ ့လူေတြဟာမေကာင္းဆုိး၀ါးတစ္ခုသဖြယ္ေက်ာက္တံုးကုိေႀကာက္ရြံ ့ခဲ ့ႀကေပမယ္ ့ေနာက္
ပုိင္းေတာ ့လူတစ္ခ်ဴိ  ့ေက်ာက္တံုးကနတ္ဘုရားရွာနီကုိကုိယ္စားၿပဳတယ္လုိ ့အိမ္မက္ေပးပါတယ္.....
အဲဒီေနာက္ေတာ ့အဲဒီနတ္ဘုရားကုိယ္ပြားေက်ာက္တံုးကုိအမုိးအကာမဲ ့ေက်ာင္းေတာ္အၿဖစ္ေဆာက္
လုပ္ပူေဇာ္ဖုိ ့ဆက္ၿပီးအိပ္မက္ေတြေပးခဲ ့တယ္လုိ ့ဆုိႀကပါတယ္...
နတ္ဘုရားကသူ ့ရုပ္တုကုိအမုိးအကာမဲ ့ေနေစခ်င္သလုိရြာသားေတြကလည္းလုိက္ၿပီးအတုယူကာသူ
တုိ ့အိမ္ေတြကုိၿပတင္းေပါက္၊တံခါးေပါက္မ်ားမတပ္ဆင္ပဲေနထုိင္ႀကပါေတာ ့တယ္....အဲဒီလုိေနၿခင္း
အားၿဖင္ ့သူတုိ ့ဟာနတ္ဘုရားအလုိက်၊နတ္ဘုရားနဲ ့နီးစပ္စြာေနထုိင္ႀကတယ္လုိ ့ယုံႀကည္ယူဆႀက
ပါတယ္.....


အဲဒီအၿပင္သူတုိ ့နဲ ့နတ္ဘုရားအႀကားမွာႀကားခံရြတ္ဖတ္ပူေဇာ္ေပးမယ္ ့နတ္ဆရာ၊ဘုန္းႀကီးလည္း
မလုိအပ္ေတာ ့ပါဘူးတဲ ့....ဒါေပမယ္ ့ကန္ ့သတ္ခ်က္တစ္ခုကေတာ ့ရွိပါတယ္....အမ်ဴိးသမီးေတြက
ေတာ ့နတ္ဘုရားရုပ္ထုအနားကုိမကပ္ရပါဘူး...သူတုိ ့အေနနဲ ့၀တ္ၿပဳပူေဇာ္ခ်င္ယင္ခပ္လွမ္းလွမ္းက
ေနသာပူေဇာ္ရပါမယ္တဲ ့....
သုိ ့ေသာ္အခုလုိအမ်ဴိးသမီးေတြကုိခြဲၿခားဆက္ဆံေပမယ္ ့ေယာက်ာၤး၊မိန္းမမေရြးလူအားလံုးဟာနတ္
ဘုရားကုိကုိးကြယ္ယံုႀကည္ေနႀကတာပါပဲ....
တစ္ကယ္ေတာ ့အဲဒီနတ္ေက်ာင္းေတာ္ဟာအဲဒီေဒသတစ္၀ုိက္မွာေတာ ့နာမည္အေက်ာ္ႀကားဆံုးဆုိ
ယင္မမွားပါဘူး......


မူရင္းေလးလဲဖတ္နုိင္ပါတယ္....
Shani Shingnapur is a small village in Maharashtra, India that has been depending on their deity for crime prevention measures and thus, has so far avoided using doors, windows or even locks.Such is their faith in Shri Shanidev (Hindu God of Saturn), that they unofficially ban people from having normal safety mechanisms like latches, windows and doors.

The people of the town claim that ever since the deity’s idol was set up in the village around 150 years ago, no one has experienced theft or any such grievances.
However, there is some discrepancy about the exact nature and number of crime instances.
Many point out that there has not been a theft in their time, while others note that thieves are always attempting to rob them but that their deity always sends the items back to them.
On the other hand, the village chief from 2004 was forthcoming about crime deterrence factors in Shani Shinhnapur.
According to her, “There have been no robberies in the village. When someone has tried they have gone blind and unless they confessed they were unable to leave the village.”
She did however end the account with this statement: “We keep our money in banks that have been built outside the village”.
As for the idol in question, it is a tall black rock that stands at approximately 5 feet.
Locals state that, years ago, villagers found this rock amongst the debris brought by a bad flood. They were mystified by its texture and overall look and were even more surprised to find that the rock bled after being poked and probed with sticks.
Initial fear of the black stone gave way to wonder when people started having dreams that linked it to Lord Shani. Soon they received instructions through their dreams to construct an open-roof shrine for this earthly representation of their deity.
The roofless feature was followed by the doorless village concept, both of which emphasized the close bond between Lord Shani and his people.
Their rituals also followed this basic idea where pilgrims and patrons did not require the help of a priest for darshans (prayers).
However, there are some limits in this special relationship. The deity has placed a restraining order of sorts against women and thus, they can only worship him from afar.
Nonetheless, the shrine and the quirky details of its surrounds are accepted by men and women alike.
In fact, this religious structure is one of the most popular temples in the country.