
Pandit Madhusudan Ojhaji had many students but only one who learnt “at his feet” in a manner according to the tradition of rishis (sages), which involved rigorous discipline. This was Pandit Motilal Shastri. Shortly before he passed away, Pandit Madhusudan Ojhaji told his disciple: “I regret that I could not see the flowering of my literature during my lifetime, because I still have lot of work to do. I am entrusting this responsibility to you.”
Young Motilal honoured his guru’s last request by devoting the remainder of his life to expanding and elaborating upon Ojhaji’s historic contributions.
Pandit Motilal was born in 1908. He received his education in Sanskrit and displayed an extraordinary talent for learning from childhood. At the age of 12, he passed the Prathama examination from Kashi (also known as Benares and Varanasi) , a pre-eminent centre for Sanskrit learning in the country. He continued his studies at the Maharaja Sanskrit College of Jaipur.
At a conference in Varanasi, the young Motilal Shastri heard Pandit Madhusudan Ojhaji speak on the Vedic sciences and thus had the first exposure to the great scholar. The young man made a firm resolve to become a disciple of Ojha ji and pursue studies in Vedic science on his return to Jaipur. This marked his second birth
, as a student of Veda Shastras (Vedic science). Under the tutelage of Ojha ji, he began a rigorous study of the Vedas which continued till his last breath. It also ensured the continuation of a new tradition of dissemination of knowledge of Vedic science, which Pandit Madhusudan Ojha had rekindled after it had sunk into oblivion for several centuries.
Ojhaji’s writings are mostly in the form of aphorisms and the subjects covered therein are intricate and complex. This makes it difficult for even accomplished Sanskrit scholars to fully decipher and comprehend his writings. Therefore, Shastriji opted to write in Hindi, although it is not an easy task to explain the meaning of the Vedas in Hindi. Shastriji invented his own unique adaptation of Hindi to explain Vedic science to the lay readers, and he wrote about 80,000 handwritten pages on Vedic themes. Thus he not only made a great contribution to the exposition of the Vedas but also to the evolution of Hindi itself, vesting remarkable richness to the great language.
In Jaipur, the main centre of his activities, Shastriji established an ashram in 1943 to continue his work. During the latter phase of his life, he devoted himself to self-study, writing, preserving and publishing his work. It was during this phase that Pandit Rishi Kumar Mishra had the great fortune of coming in contact with him which sparked a life-long passion for exploring the unprecedented richness of the Vedic wisdom.
Pandit Motilal Shastri passed away at the age of 52.
पंडित मोतीलाल शास्त्री
पंडित मधुसूदन ओझा के पास कई मेधावी छात्र थे, लेकिन केवल एक ही था जिसने ऋषियों (ऋषियों) की परंपरा के अनुसार सीखा, जिसमें कठोर अनुशासन शामिल था । वह पंडित मोतीलाल शास्त्री थे। निधन से कुछ समय पहले, पंडित मधुसूदन ओझा ने अपने शिष्य से कहा: “मुझे खेद है कि मैं अपने जीवनकाल में अपने साहित्य को परिपूर्ण नहीं देख सका, क्योंकि मुझे अभी भी बहुत काम करना है । मैं यह जिम्मेदारी आपको सौंप रहा हूं । “
युवा मोतीलाल ने अपने जीवन के शेष भाग को ओझा जी के ऐतिहासिक योगदान के विस्तार और विस्तार के लिए समर्पित करके अपने गुरु के अंतिम अनुरोध का सम्मान किया ।
पंडित मोतीलाल का जन्म 1908 में हुआ था । उन्होंने संस्कृत में अपनी शिक्षा प्राप्त की और बचपन से सीखने के लिए एक असाधारण प्रतिभा का प्रदर्शन किया । बारह साल की उम्र में, उन्होंने काशी (बनारस और वाराणसी के रूप में भी जाना जाता है) से,जो देश में संस्कृत सीखने के लिए एक प्रमुख केंद्र है,प्रथमा परीक्षा उत्तीर्ण की । बाद में उन्होंने जयपुर के महाराजा संस्कृत कॉलेज में अपनी पढ़ाई जारी रखी ।
वाराणसी में एक सम्मेलन में, युवा मोतीलाल शास्त्री ने पंडित मधुसूदन ओझा को वैदिक विज्ञान पर बोलते हुए सुना और इस प्रकार महान विद्वान के प्रति आकर्षित हुए। युवक ने ओझा जी का शिष्य बनने और जयपुर लौटने पर वैदिक विज्ञान में अध्ययन करने का दृढ़ संकल्प किया । इसने वेद शास्त्रों (वैदिक विज्ञान) के छात्र के रूप में उनके दूसरे जन्म को चिह्नित किया । ओझा जी के संरक्षण में, उन्होंने वेदों का एक कठोर अध्ययन शुरू किया जो उनकी अंतिम सांस तक जारी रहा । इसने वैदिक विज्ञान के ज्ञान के प्रसार की एक नई परंपरा को भी जारी रखा, जिसे पंडित मधुसूदन ओझा ने कई शताब्दियों तक गुमनामी में डूबे रहने के बाद फिर से जागृत किया था ।
ओझा जी के लेखन ज्यादातर सूत्र के रूप में हैं और उसमें शामिल विषय जटिल और जटिल हैं । इससे संस्कृत के निपुण विद्वानों के लिए भी उनके लेखन को पूरी तरह से समझना और समझना मुश्किल हो जाता है । इसलिए, शास्त्रीजी ने हिंदी में लिखने का विकल्प चुना, हालांकि हिंदी में वेदों का अर्थ समझाना आसान काम नहीं है । शास्त्रीजी ने सामान्य पाठकों को वैदिक विज्ञान की व्याख्या करने के लिए हिंदी के अपने अनूठे रूपांतरण का आविष्कार किया, और उन्होंने वैदिक विषयों पर लगभग 80,000 हस्तलिखित पृष्ठ लिखे । इस प्रकार उन्होंने न केवल वेदों के विस्तार में, बल्कि स्वयं हिंदी के विकास में भी एक महान योगदान दिया, जिससे महान भाषा को उल्लेखनीय समृद्धि मिली ।
उनकी गतिविधियों का मुख्य केंद्र जयपुर में शास्त्रीजी ने अपने काम को जारी रखने के लिए 1943 में एक आश्रम की स्थापना की । अपने जीवन के उत्तरार्द्ध चरण के दौरान, उन्होंने स्वयं को स्वयं अध्ययन, लेखन, संरक्षण और अपने काम को प्रकाशित करने के लिए समर्पित किया । यह इस चरण के दौरान था कि पंडित ऋषि कुमार मिश्रा को उनके संपर्क में आने का सौभाग्य मिला, जिसने वैदिक ज्ञान की अभूतपूर्व समृद्धि की खोज के लिए जीवन भर का जुनून पैदा किया ।
पंडित मोतीलाल शास्त्री का 52 वर्ष की आयु में निधन हो गया ।
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