Tuesday, November 26, 2013

On traditions



On Rituals and traditions

See comment on “ Nov 24th 2013" Can we take up new rituals not followed by our families?

The answer is look around you and look within.

How many rituals are we following that have been handed out to us? Very few.

Why? Because, we can’t incorporate them in our life -styles.
Then, why do we follow those that we do?
Often because it’s become our habit and secondly because we are comfortable with them. 

As they say in Telugu “Nachchinnavanni achaaralu nachcannivanni anacharalu”. It means if I like or am comfortable with some ritual it becomes tradition and if not it becomes ‘not good’ for my family.

So, in the first place let us just look into our frame of mind with regards to the traditions that we follow….


…contd….

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