Before I start mumbling or rather
scribbling My thoughts or the Borrowed ones, let me set the context first!
If at all the disaster strikes
& you happen to land on this page, by will or mostly by chance: Whom are
you going to hear from?? What can you expect to read?? Why the topics that are
being discussed here??
You are listing to a sane girl in
her mid-twenties caught in a cultural quagmire! She is living amongst a bunch
that eats cereals rich with badam & kesar for breakfast, gobbles up noodles
only if it contains the Indian masala & uses perfumes and brands imported
from America
Yes I am a sane girl but just
that I was born in the late eighties, thus belonging to that generation which
is too advanced for its predecessors from pre economic liberalization era but
at the same time is not as individualistic as the generations that have
followed it! And hence, naturally, I definitely do want to go to a temple, pray
to God and follow all the customs & rituals that my parents &
grandparents have been following but there is a disclaimer to it. I want to
understand the science behind it. I am not dismissing that my ancestors have
been fools to have set rules & regulations & talked about culture &
scriptures. I am concerned that somewhere with the passing of knowledge over
generations, its essence might have gotten lost thus making it all irrelevant
to most of us today.
I am not here to make changes to or
disintegrate the rituals; all I am here to do is to add value to them by unlocking
the hidden meanings. I truly believe that there is some merit in trying to
understand the scriptures, rituals & their eternal meanings.
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