How can we get rid of or overcome certain practices, beliefs etc?

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How can we get rid of or overcome certain practices, beliefs etc?

And is getting rid of them necessary?

If the answer yes, then how can we do it ?

Yes similar to above list there are many more.

Let us make it clear at the outset that our nation is not alone in following such stupidities does not justify continuing them.

We do many things ( even very meaningful and useful ones) blindly with a mechanical and ritualistic approach without bothering to know their real meaning and significance because earning brownie points for following ( considered as discipline) is valued more than learning the real import or questioning to know ( considered as impertinence).

We get offended when some outdated traditions which are not in sync with modern civilization based sophistication are questioned.

Most importantly, most of us have a very healthy public view and a filthy personal and private agenda.

We seldom acknowledge that for mortal life there are no permanent taboos or trends.

We fail to realize the however great, good and grand our region, religion, language etc that there are similar, if not superior, splendors all over the world.

Pride of ancestry is the hope for the future but succumbing to larger than life ethnocentric pride is counter- productive.

As everything around us and about us change, we fail to realize that we also must be willing to change or to adjust internally.

Universal mantras are contextual relevance and everything that provides  comfort, convenience; begets benefits and profits; ensures utility, happiness, pleasure and so on without hurting others and evaluating everything or anything based on its inherent attributes/merits and intrinsic value/purpose.

All wisdom and value systems must be woven around these universal mantras or at least relevant to these. Otherwise something else will replace all values, wisdom, principles, practices etc.

The most important wisdom is to make the necessary adjustments to emerging changes and contexts.

Unfortunately most aspects of traditional practices, rituals, customs etc are forced on us as social obligations [though initially no harm in it]. But further energizing the inherently vulnerable hypocrisy and putting forth vocal justifications for not only following them blindly but trying to perpetuate them without any valid reason is bad.

Guy Murchie declares, “Evolution itself is an open ended and indeterminate process”… “Given the remarkable progress in our understanding of biochemistry, molecular biology, and evolution as a whole … we have failed to develop concepts, ideas, even a language that could capture the dance of this life” 

I would like to add it is because of our intellectual reluctance and religious impediments.

He adds, “Darwinism is agreed and uncontroversial: humans are an accident of evolution, because everything produced by evolution is strictly incidental to the process”.

But the whole malady started when certain societies, already well connected, intellectually more advanced ones and therefore got so well conditioned by their traditions and religiously prescribed ways of life based on such sound base, obviously ended up, out of lack of humility and refused to or blocked to accept alongside biological evolution, evolutionary psychology and evolutionary sociology as well.

Greater the comfort with abundance of resources and intellectual advancement providing a sense of or false notion of intellectual superiority made them get insulated in their ethnocentric arrogance and moved away from humility.

I think it happened to certain societies, naturally so because of their great advancement when most parts of the world were in dark ages.

Where there is no humility or lesser humility there is less and less attempt to learn.

So they developed certain systems or practices which were superior at that earlier point of time in human history compared to the rest of humanity and hence they felt that such practices had no expiry date at all.

While innards and inherent qualities are inevitable and beyond our choice, at least, our utilization of strengths /reactions to shortcomings can be sane and more sensible, that is what must be the attempt of any subject be it philosophy, spiritual science or pure science.

Evolution goes about its jobs unmindful of whatever we do or do not do, and this evolution decides and determines everything including our birth and death as biochemical organisms- which are bound to decay or to die or to reorganize or to be reborn or to recreate into something else eventually.

What we must be actually be teaching to the present generation is to expose them to the positive aspects of our great heritage which do not contradict any rational approach or curtail any acceptance of change or constrain seeing facts as they are and help them to address any issue based on such premises.

Human psychology is more comfortable and conversant dealing with premises, frames of references and observations rather than through indoctrinations, conditioned prejudices which will collapse at some point of time when the poor people will be left to suffer in a vacuous inanity without a proud socio cultural and psychological identity and will also be very vulnerable to adopt anything and everything irrespective of its long term benefits or inherent value.

So, let us impart more importantly prioritizing humaneness, rational approaches and humanitarian values along with our rich cultural heritage.

Left ,Isms, Traditions, human nature, variety, division

Left-especially the Indian variety is not fit to exist even at ideological level- why?

Whenever I read the wonderful book' An Idealist View of Life' by Dr. S.Radhakrishnan which he has written as a professor writing a text book for students without any passionate positioning of particular ideas against another or Osho's book of Secrets or the Zen stories or Encyclopedia of Social Inventions - an excellent reference work for everyone incidentally perhaps one of the few good things done by Oxfam.

What all these great books show is that humanity in the realm of  social engineering can throw any idea or ideology, even the farfetched ones, into the cauldron of  socio-cultural experimentation and churn it with whichever form of political or religious denomination at the collective level and observe the psychological ,emotional and intellectual acceptance and reactions at the individual level.

In this process various ‘isms’ or ‘ologoies’ evolved -which later on, in some cases turned into belief systems or ideological faiths or functional political systems.

Ultimately they are, rightly or wrongly, judged by their survival value in terms of chronology – like kingdoms and empire hoods- besides, more importantly their benefits to the individual and society at large.

In this process various believers of some ‘isms’ have tried their level best to homogenize individual aspirations and social behaviors to fit into their ‘isms’.

These are all perfectly justifiable in the process of social evolutionary trends.

Though the ulterior motive of many of these homogenizing trends have been to hegemonize, command and control greater number of human beings spread across larger geographical areas.

These were pushed in through euphemistic terminological claims of ushering in unity, though these were more focused on creating uniformity and not unity.

These linguistic attacks were so well injected that hardly anyone doubted the intentions.

They are as difficult to clearly distinguish as differences between naïve, innocent, ignorant.

However, among these multitude of ‘isms’, even prima facie ‘The Leftist communism –especially the variety that is peddled in India- ironically of all the places, is absolutely out of sync with both the socio-religio-cultural milieu as well as the very nature of human beings which predominantly manifest variety and which love to live with identities starting from the name that is assigned to as a baby to the tradition, religion, cultural mores that one gets groomed into, enjoying all forms of festivities and activities together with others, all the while being aware of  all sorts of varieties but never nurturing an animosity based on exaggerated notions of victim hood.

This is the natural tendency of normal human species primarily as a bio chemical entity with emotional and mental aspirations everywhere as no one would like to move around in vacuous inanity or inane vacuum unless one is monk who because of his highly evolved condition of mind and awareness, can easily manifest detachment or one is a mentally retarded person who, unfortunately, is not aware of his identity.

Therefore, almost all over the world Left has various hues and colors to accommodate the ever changing trends and developments [the most diplomatic way of choosing expediency over out dated ideology] but surprisingly in India they have dominated both the social debates and social engineering because it was used as a convenient tool by foreign outfits to exploit some of the inconvenient traditions that local people were unwilling to change though knowingly sometimes even uncomfortable to put up with. It was their own psychological choice to live in harmony with differences rather than resorting to dividing in animosity

This has also some lessons in introspection for Indians at large, that we as a society  must effect the necessary changes in certain traditions which have outlived their significance or relevance in present life styles for example not being able to use cow dung mixed water on granite floored house entrances or not being able wear a nine yards sari and play tennis or clean/soak everything with water after paying visit to a dead body [except purses, keys, mobiles phones, lap tops, car interiors etc].

In societies like these with a very rich heritage, with multitude of regional traditions and all these mixed with almost highly sanctified pride of ancestry while one group parades its past glories cherry picking, the attackers focus and zoom the irrelevant practices through scum clearing. This is where we give greater room for the Left which would otherwise have been left unnoticed long back.

The only success stories of Left in India are one man ruling, or should I say ruining, a state for 30 years, shouting and sloganeering against American Imperialism [his imagined and projected enemy-while letting his daughter studied even her primary education in USA wherefrom she wrote books like Karma Cola], now Karat family dominating the scenario with another Namboodri Bad dominated till he became older than his political competitor Karunakaran and retired after 80 years.