All your observations
are correct and to the point and especially point number 5 on which I would
like to dwell a bit more.
As I see it, the most important aspect is trying to
socially or legally or religiously
authorize or sanction or not sanction any particular aspect of nature is applying
the wrong tools of evaluation and also arrogating on the part of socio –cultural
legal brigade to rule over domains beyond their expertise. Scriptural justifications
therefore need not be valid.
And these things which are inevitable part of nature
will happen at any cost whether the courts sanction it or not and as long as it
does not harm others than those involved in it why the society or courts should
bother about it?
We have had some very ridiculous judgments in the
past as well. It seems once a court in Kerala gave a judgment saying that
mosquitoes must not enter that district
after 6 P.M.
Floods, Earth quakes, Tornadoes, Storms, Volcano
eruptions all happen unmindful of any social or legal sanction.
Besides both the courts and the country have much greater
and pressing issues and priorities than debating and judging whether what
sexual types are allowed to have sex and when etc.
Self styled moralists
in all spheres be it religion,politics, media, legal profession etc especially
the ones in legal profession and media use or misuse their eloquence and the thesaurus as a drilling
machine to bore into any subject [and bore others too] and depending on the
person, issue , their prejudice, their understanding or lack of it , use
different types of chucks and drill bits and spindles and use sometimes to even
dig tunnels to escape when they are caught with their pants down.
Here I would like to
add these as part of Hindu religion or to be more precise Santhan Dharma which
is practiced as a religion my many in India.
"The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away
from anything, but to keep in tune with everything." - - Swami
Chinmayananda.
[http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2013/12/new-year-with-new-realization-of-reality.html]
Hinduism is the only religion which preached
Atheism too.
I
am a Hindu but that does not mean that I have to blindly follow or justify
everything because I am caught up in
some cage of identity. If someone points out some superstition or irrelevant
practice or insignificant activity in terms of human body, mind and spirit and
environment then I must acknowledge that what I have been doing or claiming as
a virtue could be or is wrong.
Only
then the religion and the people following it will evolve. In fact you must do
it more happily because you are born in a religion Sanathana Dharma which
allowed also carvaka philosophy which almost advocated atheism when the word
atheism itself did not exist in any
language.[http://www.mahavidya.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/gajdostik-megan-carvaka-philosophy.pdf
and http://www.slideshare.net/ajitceo/the-carvaka-philosophy]
from
[http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2014/01/superstitions-and-blind-faith.html]
Besides
I always maintain that “Everything that has ever
existed and continue to exist or anything that has happened or continue to
happen quiet often has its own inherent logic, principle, purpose, value,
strength etc. In addition they are or act as some pieces to fit into the jigsaw
puzzle of life”
All evolutionary trends in general and biological
ones in particular are unending, unfixed, unfinished, mysterious jig saw puzzles
wherein the pieces are all always moving around as per some laws inside a
cauldron and every now and then we manage to take out some pieces, marvel at it
and try to use that discovery to
explain or enhance our life further. At times
manage to understand the some laws governing some pieces and then derive
scientific theories, philosophical truths etc. In this process there is no such
thing as aberration nor can therefore be any taboo.
Let us all try to savor and understand the beauty of
evolutionary trends in every aspect of life through some ideologically
unconfined, non religious, non political scriptures for the educated like ‘The
Seven Mysteries of Life ‘ by Guy Murchie
Everything is contextual and we need not hold on to
anything because it is old or is part of any tradition etc.
Even morality is after all contextual and that’s why
you won’t find in any religious scripture the do’s and don’ts on any aspect of
cyber space/world simply because cyber world did not exist at those times.
“Whatever is a reality today, whatever you
touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like
the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.”
― Luigi Pirandello
― Luigi Pirandello
“Get out of your own
way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple
plan, and get moving!” – Steve Maraboli.
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