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Ancient but most scientific features of Hindu religion not understood properly
Kashmir Times. Dated: 10/20/2018 2:19:54 PM
Dear Editor,
Proverb ‘Law is Blind’ fits fairly well to some court-decisions where counsels fail to explain and judges fail to understand salient features of world’s most scientific and ancient Hindu religion with controversial verdicts coming seriously hurting religious sentiments of majority community.
Hindu religion comprises of many welcome features which were made religious rituals so that people could not overlook these. For example, there used to be a system to throw coins in river while crossing the bridge. This system had scientific reason of purifying river-water through copper because in earlier days, coins used to be of copper. Restriction on menstruating women to enter kitchens was made because women in those days feel weakness due to bleeding. Worshipping certain gods by women of a specific age-group was prohibited because such worshipped gods were Brahmcharis and it was not considered good to allow women of a certain age-group to worship them.
Since these religious rituals were at times misused by some priests to exploit people, Swami Dayanand brought Arya Samaj as safeguard against misuse of rituals by some priests. Ruling party at the Centre, and if not Central government, should propagate scientific reasons behind religious rituals of Hinduism, because earlier pseudo-secular governments never tried to do so for appeasing vote-bank politics. Any such publicized analysis will be most useful in arguing in courts on matters of religious faith and belief. Women opposing such ancient traditions in name of equality are usually anti-religion, while Constitution gives right to follow religion.
—Subhash Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah
Dariba, Chandni Chowk Delhi.