HOW TO TACKLE THIS SITUATION?
IMPERISHABLE SOUL AND THE PERISHABLE BODY OF OUR RELIGION
-K N Shivashankararao
We should see religion sans mythological, ritualistic and sociological forms. Vedanta as a religious philosophy should be viewed independent of the Indian caste system or mythology or rites and ceremonies. If we cannot penetrate its outer covering which had grown thick during the middle ages, the philosophy based on spiritual experience cannot be understood and the soul of the religion which is different from its body will be missed. The soul is imperishable and the body is perishable. Our myths, rites and castes belong to the body and not for the soul of our religion.
Let us view the state of Hindu society today with what it was before the social reforms which started with Rajaram Mohan Roy’s agitation for abolition of Sati.
1. Sati has become an incredible thing of the past.
2. Child marriages and polygamy have become illegal.
3. Widow marriages have become possible.
4. There is provision for divorce.
5. Foreign travel has become common.
6. There is no ban on inter dining.
7. Caste system has become less rigid.
8. Untouchability is over thrown. etc.,
Thus there is no going back to the evil customs and harmful restrictions of the age of decadence.
Swami Vivekananda, Prof. Radhakrishnan and a few others have carried the message of Hinduism to the western nations because of their ability to interpret Vedanta as a religious philosophy independent of the rites and ceremonies.
It is necessary to adjust the teachings of Hinduism to the scientific thought and the political and social philosophies of the West. The truths of our religion endure for all times. However, these have to be correlated from time to time to the growing scientific political and social thoughts of the ages and reinterpreted and worked up into systems of philosophy. We must remember that our own Darshanas were systems of this kind. But the contemporary scientific knowledge of their times is now obsolete. The society has grown tremendously more complex and the religion requires to be reinterpreted in the light of modern ideas.
The philosophy of the upanishads comes home to us today with a new meaning and a fresh application to our own social problems.
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From: Ravikumar
I would like to get one of the incident happened this weekend to your notice.
One of my co-brother met with an bike accident and expired on Friday night.
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