for a hindu the ultimate act of faith,as described by our gods is to perform our actions in line with our own conscience and forget about the result .if it harms someone then it is the others choice to harm you back and he is entitled to do so.with such an open definition of dharma i wonder how we hav today come to formulate and follow rigid traditions in the name of our religion. though i will not deny the thousands of conversions to other faiths and continuous malignant of Hindus by Muslim leaders is painful but then it is their choice .however as a Hindu it is up to me how i interpret my dharma and act accordingly.
when i read the epics in our religion it often amazes me how forward thinking our ancestors were and how open the society was.it is described as a system where everyone's work was the foremost tenet and rest came later.it was a society where men and women both were judged by the same yardstick and allowed to indulge in similar excesses.this in the vedic ages which is prominently mentioned in valmikis Ramayana.but in today's society when we talk of such things it is considered immoral as it threatens to liberate people from the shackles of mindless authority and traditions.the more we try to embrace the deeper we dig ourselves into this pit of hopeless faith.
biggest example of our hypocrisy is censorship in arts ,literature and music citing hurting of religious sentiments(though Muslims are the biggest culprits yet we also enjoy a piece of the cake). if it were for the explicit descriptions of intimacy then the kamasutra and the temples of khajuraoh should be razed down (if Muslim rulers had their way they would've done it here too) .texts describing thousand concubines of our gods and erstwhile rulers should be burned.maybe this is why today the original Ramayana is inaccessible to the common man as it would provide a diff version than the pious one we've brain fed all these years.
when i read the epics in our religion it often amazes me how forward thinking our ancestors were and how open the society was.it is described as a system where everyone's work was the foremost tenet and rest came later.it was a society where men and women both were judged by the same yardstick and allowed to indulge in similar excesses.this in the vedic ages which is prominently mentioned in valmikis Ramayana.but in today's society when we talk of such things it is considered immoral as it threatens to liberate people from the shackles of mindless authority and traditions.the more we try to embrace the deeper we dig ourselves into this pit of hopeless faith.
biggest example of our hypocrisy is censorship in arts ,literature and music citing hurting of religious sentiments(though Muslims are the biggest culprits yet we also enjoy a piece of the cake). if it were for the explicit descriptions of intimacy then the kamasutra and the temples of khajuraoh should be razed down (if Muslim rulers had their way they would've done it here too) .texts describing thousand concubines of our gods and erstwhile rulers should be burned.maybe this is why today the original Ramayana is inaccessible to the common man as it would provide a diff version than the pious one we've brain fed all these years.
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