Half baked interpretations are lethal.. inadequate knowledge can be murderous.

A religion and its cardinal principles and ideas that form its foundation evolve over thousands of years, as a product of very deep faith, dedication and abiding love exhibited by its sincere followers..

Religion, and most often its central theme..God,, are too sacred and sacrosanct..

I was guilty of very partial knowledge coupled with the abundance of arrogance of the know-all which comes only to the half baked or rather rotten mind..

The religion I follow, is also definitely as great as any other faith

.. Like so many so called learned persons, I too indulged in reading some minor part of scripture relating to the faith, and understood most of it in the wrong way, and compounded my guilt of ignorance by interpreting even those limited pieces glanced over by me in the most clumsy way..

The ghatsly result of that action stares at me...

I am looking face to face with my religion and am finding it completely mutilated and injured by my discussions and careless injuries inflicted through indiscretion by me, and am shocked beyond reason, even unable to mumble my apologies.

Thank God, I am not a scholar or a Pundit of the religion, and so I have never been in a position to cause injuries which would be noted and be further complicated by anyone and all..

But I think it is time that I drilled in some reason into my thick skull.. and realize that language is only a vehicle, and ultimately, the content alone counts.. and pollution of the environments with wrong and misconceived ideas deserve even greater contempt than that bestowed upon the action of filling the public places with litter and waste..

A movement to spread the idea of a clean mind is also relevant.

That would be the real swatchata andolan

Bhuta Yajnam Feeding crow, animals etc.. Musing

It is human arrogance to presume that crows or for that matter any creature exists for the convenience of man or that they act as proxies of men or divinity..

Crows, or birds, are a species of living things..

They just share this earth with all other living things.. and in fact they have their right to exist on this globe just the same way as we humans..

Do we really know, or is it right to presume that the clan of birds called crows have adopted or assumed the name kaka.. just becuase the humans identify them with that name in one language.. and phonetically similar names in some other languages?

I wonder..

Of course human beings understood and appreciated the necessity of the scavenger species in cleaning the earth and environs for their use, in spite of the continued dirtying by the humans..

The idea of Bhuta Yajnam.. especially in Vaishvadevam, arose from such considerations..

The scavengers should live and survive..

So we offer food for such beings under some pretext or other..

The Vaishvadevam provides for scattering food materials all around in the open dumpyards, so that crows, birds, vagrants, reptiles etc could eat..

It is ultimately the instinct of sustaining eco balance that led men to adopt such rituals.

I read somewhere the explanation given by a respected saint about the allegorical significance of feeding crows.. in pitru yajnams..

The explanation is just symbolic.

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I am not trying to contradict what the revered saint has said.. No one should challenge him.

But I think he said so because the so called devotees around him would do that pious act of feeding crows if religious dimensions are point out..

We as a clan do not care much about saving the environment .. we would rather take pride in making the earth as polluted as we can manage..

It is better we consider at least once in a while the social and scientific background for the rituals.. But ..

Do not write to torture others..... Musings

Do not write to torture others.....
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Invariably my arrogance takes over..
I just forget the basic rules of communication..
If I am just trying to understand something, or learn something, it is the eyes, ears, nose and the mind that I have to use.. Not the tongue.. (unless I want to understand and regret the taste of something..)
But I just convince myself that I should use my tongue, or its web equivalent, the finger, as often as possible so that I can make the whole world to like me, to my line and so on..
It is a delusion..
But there should be some method even for a deluded mind..
What I say or what I write can be of any use if some other persons reads it ( at least) and in rare cases even tries to understand it..
Often I am writing many things perhaps with the exalted idea that such writings will bring bliss to me and others too..
Funny is it not..?
When I talk, when I write, when I discuss, I should keep the audience in mind, first and last...
To talk to myself, I need not write at all.. Is it not clear?
No one is interested as to whether I brushed my teeth or performed the toiletry in the morning..
No one would care about such actions even by Modi or Obama..
No one is going to attain moksham by writing running commentaries of such activities in social media..
But delusion... delusions galore !
I heard someone say, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.. translating it, putting it on paper..
But who cares whether you enjoyed it .. Especially if you writing is just trash or somewhere near trash...?
That triggered my thoughts
This is just a reminder to myself...
Nowadays I am not able to keep journals ..
So my timeline is used to record my weird thoughts
Later on I can copy it to some document..
Of course, I do not expect anyone to agree or disagree,
or even read..
You are all at your liberty to ask.. "why should we care about what you write, what you think, or even what you are..?"