What we believe and this thing called Superstition..

I believe . Therfore I exist.
With even kids showing intelligence and cleverness beyond their age, reasoning has hit the nadir today. There are as many opinions as there were people and people with some clarity have become Gurus who flaunt their richness as a parameter for their success. For the same reasons, there has been a rise in the business of consultants as people have no time to apply their mind on issues and are busy with everything else.
The Britishers who arrived in India to loot pretended to be Saviours who would rescue Indians from their thousands of years of superstious beliefs. Today, many so called Modern Indians imitate the British and will join your bandwagon if you raise your voice against superstitious beliefs in India.They have no time and hence to appear modern and progressive, bring down on anything Indian and hence Indian beliefs whatever they were become superstitious beliefs and have to be condemned.
What are beliefs? Is there any distinction between a superstitious belief and a scientific belief and whether any such rhetorical distinction played has substance?
For over thousands of years, Man has respected, worshipped his ancestors and believed that ancestors including dead parents and grandparents guide and protect him in his daily living. Man also worshipped the Sun , the Moon and the Stars and festivals across the world thank the Sun God for the yearly Harvests. These beliefs have sustained Mankind and human life and were the central point of evolution of local heritages. Man has been comforted by these thoughts and if someone has to ask for laboratory proof for the protection received from the Ancestors, they will receive none.
At a different level, Science theories or thoughts have been evolving too. Earth was considered flat and Galileo was condemned when he proclaimed the world as round. Now we know, that the world, was not perfectly round...yes..almost.
Darwin's theory that Man evolved from Monkeys has been questioned recently. What will evolve out of Man in a million years has not been answered yet.
Maybe scientific laws do not change but the theories and our perception of them keep changing. Theories that can not proven wrong at a point of time become scientific laws and remain so, until they were proven wrong.
The Dravidar Kazhagam party of Ramasamy got publicity when they broke idols of Hindu Gods to prove that such beliefs were superstitious. They dare not do anything to Christian catholic Beliefs or to Buddhist Beliefs is a different matter. But nobody questioned when thousands of poor replicas of Ramasamy , the founder of Dravidar kazhagam, were made and erected to across TamilNadu and his followers garlanded these statues as a mark of respect and worship. Does Ramasamy live and bless his followers from these statues? These are pathetic statues and only by reading the name on the slab on the pedestal of the statue, will anyone infer the statue as Ramasamy. Otherwise they could be thought to Sankaradas swamigal too.
Beliefs were not be based on Logic especially when all logic except mathematical logic keeps changing according to our inferences. When beliefs in Gods can inspire Michael Angelo to sculpt David and paint the roof of Sistine chapel, we need more Jesuses. When belief in God can evolve in India into a beautiful heritage with excellence in architecture, paintings, literature, music, sculpture, fine arts..there was indeed a need for enrichment of our belief in Gods. The Gods called Allah and Buddha have led to fine architectures across the world. Every religion has played her part but there has been no visible proof yet of so called non believer's achievements or contributions to mankind. The religions may have their limitations but but for them human excellence would have an imaginary fact.
Isnt it wonderful that beliefs that may be called superstition were the cause of the finest in Human civilisation? The non believers will be hurt by facts because truth hurts.
Indians need to understand their heritage but as such they have blinded. They believe that contempt for anything Indian is Modern and the Secular Leaders of the country have successfully manipulated them.
Let us believe. Believe in our national Flag, believe in our country, believe in our family,believe in Mankind. There were no reasons to do so.Let the non believers and sceptics be allowed to rust..for they chose to be so.