believe it or not!

India is incredible!
India stands united despite the fact that there are diversified religions and castes and subcastes and many more divisions within just like the product line and width and depth, in management student sense with reference to marketing.
Strange as it is,but true is the fact that there exist many foundations on which INDIA as a country stands. While in other countries there is one foundation in terms of religion and language as I presume, there are many religions and sub religions as I have refered to in the above lines. Let me come to my religion and caste,to refine and talk in a clear manner as to what I want to convey..
Am a Brahmin,6000 Niyogi,Telugu. it is said that 6000 Niyogi Brahmins are the most refined and respected class in the brahmins category,well I dont know much about it though. Living in the modern society, there has been a lot of erosion in the values and principles and modification and tuning of the disciplines to suit us as we want it today, so there is nothing much to boast of.

There are stories I get to hear about my Father's uncles and aunt's and grandparents. How they lived and how they were the most feared is what I get to listen. Now why were they feared? Discipline and hard core following of traditions were the corner stone of this foundation. Now all that is left for us today is just stories about how they used to live and lead a wonderful and infact surprisingly superb life...

Yes, they didnot have laptops,i-pods,plasma TV's or black berry's or Air conditioners. They didnot have even Radio's even. Electricity was a luxury. They had a different set of mind,a different psychology and bend of mind which was perfect for their time. As history does, there are many principles and practices, which become a part of our day to day living,courtsey our ancestors who believe that a tradition can be preserved if percolated to the generations to come.

Well,now comes the part which I want to talk about.
While the ancsetors are right in thier thought and belief that a tradition or a culture can be preserved only if followed by generation next after their own it also it true that they leave many of the practices followed unanswered as to why they are being in practice or what is the significance of following that particular rule.

Its a general practice at home for us that we donot start any new work what so ever on monday,be it any thing - use of a new shirt or purchase of any thing or to go anywhere. At night we donot refer to a snake as a snake...we call it something else.. there are many more such practices which we follow. Once I did ask my granny as to why do we do this or why we are not suppposed to do it, she said simply it should be followed because our ancestors followed!

Now again, am not trying to say that they knew nothing but the fact is that even they had been following some acts just because their parents followed it. there was never a questioning perhaps as to why it should be done because of the fact that children were never allowed to ask questions- they were to follow what elders said.
What I intend to say is that even if we are educated and well positioned wealthy wise, there are many practices we follow blindly without trying to understand why we need to do that or why we donot need to do that and there is a greater possibility that we will drain it down to our next generation as well - some unanswered questions which are simply a practice!

Out of this discussion I would like to say that even if we are educated, we too, in today's world, are illiterate if we follow something blindly without trying to understand what it is or why is it necessary to follow...its not that we are testing the genuinity of the practice which was being followed but that we need to be educated as to the practices which constitute our culture...... the more we know the significance of each the more we will enjoy it.

There are many more such practices like animal sacrifices done en-mass in some tribal belts and cities as well to appease the Gods and Goddesses, but why??? the answers are not satisfactory. The fact that appeasing a God with the murder of an animal and its blood is something which Gods wanted is never the less true.

Anything we do for our comfort and cause is given the name f god and that is a blind belief,not God made.... be it in the temple or at home,we Indians are good at working in the shadow of culture and tradition and practices age old without questioning them ever..

Why?