So many religions and so many beliefs.... I really don't know how many times I have followed certain rituals only to satisfy someone or to keep their belief system alive.. I DO believe in GOD.. But that doesn't mean, I would believe in all the rituals which human beings have created.
I don't think I need to follow any ritual only because I was asked to, or because our ancestors have mentioned that in our holy books. I have read Bhagvadgita, Ramayana, and Mahabharata.. I really think they have a lot to say which makes sense even in today's world. But that doesn't mean, I byheart shlokas and try and recite them without understanding. I would prefer to pray and say what I want to say to LORD in the language I prefer. After all, GOD would understand whatever I want to say in whichever language I say it. How does it matter in which language I say it? Why is there so much stress on knowing shlokas? If you have been to a temple, you would be given a set of instructions on what to do and what not to do, I really have never understood them and I am sure, even the people who are giving the instructions would not know why they are doing it.
Its not that I am against Hinduism, for that matter, even other religions have a set of things to do and not to do. Though I have heard about that from my friends, I don't want to go into details of all that. But as a matter of fact we all are designed from our childhood to believe certain things in life. It begins from what is right and what is wrong and based on these we set up our values. Do we ever think why we are doing certain activities? Most of the times, it because of the habit. The individuality is hardly there in this world of 'being with the soceity'. We all are different human beings, but we all follow the soceity, irrespective of the fact that we want to or not. And the ironic thing is that 'we are the soceity'.. We always want to inscribe our thought process on someone else... Well that's the way we are.. and that's the way its going to be..
