renuka
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I have been doing some thinking and adhering to a new but not an unknown modification of life.
It is quite regimented, proved a bit challenging at first cos I have never followed any regiment in my life in the real sense though I am quite a disciplined person who has never even broken a traffic rule in my life...but my new lifestyle is a 2nd nature to me almost reflexive Pavlovian.
Then it got me thinking...as Hindus as how Shashi Tharoor puts it...there is Freedom to not adhere to anything as there is no compulsion.
Yes..I pretty much lead my life that "I have freedom of non adherence as there is no real Halal and Haram policy in Hinduism"
But at the same time I could not help thinking...well Hinduism does have the concept of Nithya Karma ..so was non adherence really an option in Hinduism or its just that some of us were just finding escape grounds of non adherence by stating that there is freedom for us to not adhere to anything.
Just like some go into a frenzy of rituals and some others go into hibernation mode of not doing anything.
So was it really freedom or just our inability to commit?
Is sheer "laziness" actually marketed as Freedom?
It surprisingly took me 48 years to realize that I was masking my "laziness" by calling it freedom in Hinduism.Well...its one heck of a "crime"!
And it took me another lifestyle to realize this fact..well I never stop learning and would like members to give feedback.
It is quite regimented, proved a bit challenging at first cos I have never followed any regiment in my life in the real sense though I am quite a disciplined person who has never even broken a traffic rule in my life...but my new lifestyle is a 2nd nature to me almost reflexive Pavlovian.
Then it got me thinking...as Hindus as how Shashi Tharoor puts it...there is Freedom to not adhere to anything as there is no compulsion.
Yes..I pretty much lead my life that "I have freedom of non adherence as there is no real Halal and Haram policy in Hinduism"
But at the same time I could not help thinking...well Hinduism does have the concept of Nithya Karma ..so was non adherence really an option in Hinduism or its just that some of us were just finding escape grounds of non adherence by stating that there is freedom for us to not adhere to anything.
Just like some go into a frenzy of rituals and some others go into hibernation mode of not doing anything.
So was it really freedom or just our inability to commit?
Is sheer "laziness" actually marketed as Freedom?
It surprisingly took me 48 years to realize that I was masking my "laziness" by calling it freedom in Hinduism.Well...its one heck of a "crime"!
And it took me another lifestyle to realize this fact..well I never stop learning and would like members to give feedback.
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