Rituals
1] Everything is a matter of context/situations.
2] We can follow all traditions in all areas of
life and sometimes the rituals too but they definitely do not contain
any intrinsic value nor can they always produce good, positive or even desired
results. This applies to all traditions and rituals all over the world of all
religions and regions.
3] We may however do it out of sympathy for
satisfying the sentiments of others in society or family, or out of our own
addiction to such activities or sometimes out of sheer hypocrisy and so on.
4] I can give valid examples in all areas of life
to prove that these are not at all necessary starting from individual life to
sports.
5] You can only squeeze your balls with traditional
field placements and traditional batting
styles in present day cricket for example.
6] Everything in all the universes evolves and
grows only out of change or at least modifications and not by mere following of
any rituals.
7] I have written a lot about these in as many
subjects in my blogs, articles and ppts a small sample from one of blog write ups on Sanathan dharma
"Everything in any
process of growth is just a step, important and inevitable, but not a stop. It is so with mother’s milk [our
biological aspect of life]; it is so with learning of alphabets, words and
numbers [our intellectual aspect of life]; it is so with hugging, kissing and
cajoling as babies [our emotional aspect of life]; it is so with our learning
and understanding of different concepts [ our philosophical aspect of life]; it
is so with all forms of worship, devotion and all its concomitant rituals and
religious practices [ our spiritual life] and so on. This is the inherent
wisdom. A normal human being has to go through a process to grow in everything
or into something. There may be exceptions like a Adi shankara, or a Bhagawan
Ramanamaharishi.
We can neither avoid the steps nor get struck to them. That’s why I cannot accept the snobbism of so called intellectuals parroting pet slogans like religion without rituals, god without religion or religion without gods, spiritualism without god or religion etc. In fact I have books titled in each part of the slogan." These may appeal to youth so strongly that they may end up not trying or learning anything. You must go through everything and throw away everything gradually.
8] Especially when we
encounter certain situations in life either of our own making or due to some
unknown or unforeseen factors causing some difficulties which we do not know to
tackle with our existing stock of knowledge, experience etc then at such time
as the Tamil proverb says, ‘EDAI
THINNAL PITHAM THELIUM’ we seek out for all possible avenues to give us
a solution or remedy. At such times certain things fall into place, due to the
grace of supreme power, which is part of us and of which we are part and which
operates irrespective of any or all your following of rituals etc
9] You may find the same
underlying ideas in these PPTs especially in second one read from slide 84 to
91 and slide 98. The very first slide states certain things and then I go about
elaborating philosophically on that.
10] You may all download and read the following ppts and pass on your comments there or to balayogiv@gmail.com or at speakingtree fb
page
1] About Morality http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/balayogiv-1483224-morality-contextual/
16 slides
2] Science and Spirituality http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/balayogiv-1483709-science-spirituality/
3] India’s greatness http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/balayogiv-1489064-natya/
14 slides
4] Swami Vivekananda
5] Attitude Calendar http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/balayogiv-1216196-attitude-calendar-new-ppt/
Finally either for or against we are all
specializing in rationalizing rather than being rational.
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