Every tradition followed either voluntarily as a practice,
or due to pressure, or being very much a part of life may have been adopted due
to or identified with some religious, political, socio –cultural milieu etc and
some aspects of such tradition may have lost their relevance with evolutionary advancement,
changed contexts, life styles, scientifically made available newer and multiple
options etc.
At such situations trying to vehemently hold on to certain
such practices of a tradition must be given up or relooked and there is no harm
in doing that.
Let us not perpetuate anything with uncritical love nor
prevent anything out of unloving criticism.
Ultimately human beings must realize that they are not only
one more species but a dominant species with various advanced faculties
compared to other species in nature.
It is therefore preferable that human beings engage in
activities which either enhance or promote the progress or improvement or give comfort
and pleasure to the body, mind and soul of the individual and others around
without causing much harm to others as well as the environment.
This can be followed as a cardinal principle and based on that
either decide to continue or give up certain practices and be open to accept
suggestions and help that come from any source which contributes to all such
enhancements. There is nothing wrong in that.
Several centuries ago probably some of my ancestors were
moving around naked covered only with leaves, roamed in the forests hunting for
food, when they broke their leg never had any medical help etc.
This has been common to the whole of humanity but haven’t every individual of human race changed from
all that irrespective of religion or region, irrespective of who got the credit for
all the change and how the change took place etc. why for that matter how all
of us have migrated from letter writing to emails.
In the issue of menstruation, lots of taboos are unnecessarily
sustained by many societies in many ways. A person undergoing a biological inconvenience
is further subjected to lots of unwanted customs and traditions which do not have
even an iota of scientific reasoning or humanitarian concern.
Already menstruation is a torrid time to experience let us
not torture further with taboos.
Read the below link without fail to get further details and
also go through other links in this blog post
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