Yesterday I was watching a program on TV about "healthy food habits". They were telling that you must avoid meat, especially red meat. And you must eat a lot of vegetables. They also said that for "liver cleansing" you must not drink alcohol. And they gave so many other tips.
In short, they implied that one must be vegetarian and not drink alcohol. Does'nt our religion tell us the same?
Our religion only uses a different approach, it speaks in the "emotional language". Religion tells us not to kill animals, they too have the right to live and hence it says, you must be a vegetarian. But we do not listen to religion. And when science tells us the same thing, but explains in "scientific language", we are ready to accept it.
Religion also has reasoning, it has logic. But the mode to convey the thought is different. Years ago, people believed in the language of religion & followed it. Today we call it blind faith & do not follow it. Today Science is speaking the same language but with a different perspective. We believe in this language of science & follow the same path. Funny, isnt it?!
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What our religion(s) or our customs say have always had a scientific basis. No one seems to see that. I think that is a problem. Basically do we really know what our religion(s) say? We seem to blind follow what other people think about what our religion says. Well science has always been there I think, just that it has evolved and now everyone knows there is 'science'.
bingo sonali!!
you said the right thing - no one understands the "science" behind "religion". and hence everyone listens only to science, which is infact telling us the same thing that religion tells us!
and another point you made is - "We seem to blind follow what other people think about what our religion says".
i agree with you totally on this!
Hmmm funny! After all 'science' is meant for dumb people like these!
our religious beliefs are based on lots of observations and experimentation by our rishis in the yesteryears... hence, science and religion flow hand in hand...
i think we really need to understand the laguage our religion talks in.. how many of us.. know.. the meaning of every word that we ever chant in the aartis..shlokas etc.
Not really! The reason we, or rather I would rather follow science than religion is kind of similar to the basis of the game of "kangoshti". While the original intent of the tradition and religion that was passed on through the generations was undoubtedly genuine, it has often so happened that somewhere down the line, someone was selfish enough to interpret the rules to his/her benefit, resulting in something really unwanted (religion is, after all, subject to interpretation!) Take the practice of sati, for instance, or that of child marriage, or even the caste system! It's mostly a once bitten twice shy situation - if you cannot trust in a part of what was (eventually) handed to you, how do you trust another part that you do not have a basis of deciding as to whether it is good or bad!
...and thats what we mean by "progress" :-)
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