Monday, 08 October 2018
Gratitude
to ancestors
Times
in The Speaking Tree , India | ET
Muraleedharan
Appath
‘Pitru-Paksha’,
homage to ancestors performed as a ritual during a certain period every year,
reminds us to express our gratitude to our elders and lighten our burden of any
debts we feel we owe to them for not having given thanks earlier. A high
gratitude quotient is the hallmark of inner growth. Karna, in the epic
Mahabharata, remained eternally grateful to his benefactor Duryodhana.
For
a single act of saving him from humiliation, Karna was always thankful; he even
paid back with his own life. Remembering the goodness of others and sending
positive vibes towards them are natural processes of pure minds. Divinity
graces such hearts that have embraced prayerful gratitude.
Ancestors
symbolise the past. Past modified in time, is the present. Present being an
extension of the past, cannot be separated from it. Therefore, remaining
grateful to all those who came into our lives, including the lineage, teachers,
friends, institutions, situations, struggles and opportunities — and also
remembering their contributions to our lives — contribute greatly to making our
lives total and holistic.
To
quote Thunchath Ezhuthachan, a 14th-century Malayalam devotional poet, “The one
who forgets his debt content is dead, though alive.” The shradh ceremony
institutionalised once a year, however, is indicative of having such a grateful
heart all the time. It is an opportunity for remembrance and reflection, and
feeling thankful to our ancestors. Pitru Paksha is being observed from
September 24 and concludes on October 9.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
The spheres of science and religion being different
there is no necessity for them to clash. How is it, then that there used to be
talk about a conflict between science and religion?
All conflicts between science and religion arise
from avoidable causes, such as:
a.
The clash of a particular expression of religion belief
with facts of science;
b.
The clash of a particular scientific philosophy with
religious feeling;
c.
Attempts to combine in one statement scientific and
religious formulations: or
d.
The application of psychological inquiry to phases of
religious experience.
An analysis of all conflicts between science and
religion will show that they originate in misunderstand and in a false
antithesis between two incommensurables.
The only way of avoiding conflict between religion
and science is to be truly spiritual and truly scientific.
Theoretically speaking and also practically,
it is perfectly possible for one to be truly scientific and spiritual simultaneously.
In fact, for a fuller understating of the world of being, man needs to bring
about as pervasive an encounter as possible between these two ways of knowing
in his personal life.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who
spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this,
his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was
wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into
believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am
wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your
entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should
you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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