ျမန္မာသၾကၤန္သမုိင္း

ျမန္မာႏွစ္ကူးပြဲေတာ္ ဘယ္ကစခဲ႔သလဲ? သမုိင္းေနာက္ခံက ဘာလဲ?

ကၽြန္ေတာ္သမုိင္းသုေတသီေတာ႔မဟုတ္ပါ၊ ဒါေပမယ္႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဖတ္ဘူး/ေလ႔လာဘူးတဲ႔ သမုိင္းစာအုပ္တစ္အုပ္အလုိအရ ျမန္မာသၾကၤန္ (သုိ႔) ျမန္မာႏွစ္သစ္ကူးပြဲေတာ္သည္ ပုဂံမင္းတစ္ပါးလက္ထက္ ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္ကမ္းေဘးမွာ ေႏြရာသီ (April)မိဖုရားေတြေရဆင္းခ်ိဳးရင္း ေရကစားရာကေန စတင္ခဲ႔တယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ္႔ အခုကၽြန္ေတာ္ သၾကၤန္လည္းနီး အမိျမန္မာျပည္ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးကုိ လြမ္းဆြတ္သတိရသျဖင္႔ လက္လွမ္းမွီရာ အင္တာနက္မွာ ရွာၾကည့္ေတာ႔ သၾကၤန္ (သုိ႔) ျမန္မာႏွစ္သစ္ကူးအေၾကာင္း သမုိင္းစာ တစ္မ်ိဳးေတြ႕ရသျဖင္႔ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ားကုိလည္း အမိျမန္မာျပည္ သၾကၤန္ (သုိ႔) ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးပြဲေတာ္ကုိ သိေစလုိေသာ ဆႏၵျဖင္႔….ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေတြ႕ရွိတဲ႔ သၾကၤန္သမုိင္းေၾကာင္းကုိ ျပန္လည္ေရးသားထားျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ စာဖတ္သူတုိ႔ေတြ႕ရွိထားတာရွိကလည္း Cboxကေန ေအာ္ထားခဲ႔ပါလုိ႔ အၾကံျပဳရင္း------

The Myanmar New Year falls on the second week of April. The New Year is ushered in by three days of Water Festival. According to folklore, Tha-gyar-min (သၾကားမင္း), king of the celestials, will be on a visit to the human abode for three days.
The Myanmar New Year falls on the second week of April. The New Year is ushered in by three days of Water Festival. According to tradition, Tha-gyar-min (သၾကားမင္း), king of the celestials, will be on a visit to the human abode for three days.

Who is Tha-gyar-min (သၾကားမင္းဆိုတာ ဘယ္သူလဲ)?

Thagyannin may belong to myths, but he is very much within the domain of Buddhist thought and way of life. He is not an immortal like the Greek gods. There is no such thing as an immortal according to the -teachings of the Buddha. Tha-gyar-min, like all celestials, has a very long life- span, thousands of times longer than human life. The life of a celestial is counted in astronomical figures.
However, Tha-gyar-min is a being who is going round the cycle of rebirth, like humans. Tha-gyar-min is just a being, who in his other lives, most probably human, has done good deeds, the strength of which causes him to be reborn in that state. The state of being a human is believed to be the best in which to do good deeds that would enable one to go up higher states of existence.

How to become a Thagyarmin or a celestial? (သၾကားမင္းဘယ္လုိျဖစ္သလဲ?)

In one of the Jataka tales, the tales that tell of the former lives of the Buddha, there is an account of how the dynasty of Tha-gyar-min started.
There was a man named young man, Margha (မာဃလုလင္) who organized good works, like repairing roads, building bridges, and digging wells. He gave all he could for the cause. When he died, he was reborn in the celestial regions (နတ္ျပည္) as king of the celestials. Some of the details of his story will again turn up in the story of the monsoon season in the month of June.
The story of Tha-gyar-min is like a guide to Myanmar Buddhists: How to become a Tha-gyar-min. Repair roads, build bridges, dig wells, in future you might be a tha-gyar-min.

Tha-gyar-min's duties and obligations (သၾကားမင္း၏တာ၀န္ႏွင္႔၀တၱရားမ်ား)

A Tha-gyar-min's life is one of bliss and sensual pleasures, as could be imagined, with four chief queens and billions of beautiful nymphs. The life of bliss lasts only so long as the force of good deeds lasts. If he is too steeped in pleasures, he might forget to reinforce his good deeds until too late. As in the nature of things, Tha-gyar-min comes and goes. The line of Tha-gyar-min goes on and on.
The Tha-gyar-min of today is fortunate, because he has his duties and obligations. The story goes that the Buddha before he entered the Parinibbana(ပရိနိဗၺာန္) summoned the Tha-gyar-min and entrusted him with the responsibility of seeing that the Buddha's teachings flourish. Tha-gyar-min is there to see that humans live according to the way of life taught by the Buddha. This act in itself is a good deed, so it is not possible for the Tha-gyar-min to forget to reinforce his good deeds.
It is by way of helping and guiding humans that he comes down to bring in the new year and remind people of their religious and spiritual duties. New Year is the time for people to cleanse themselves of the defilements they might have collected during the year and look forward to a better life.

သၾကၤန္မွာ အႏၱရာယ္ကင္းစြာ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္နိဳင္ပါေစ