Attachment to any concept or group makes you a lesser human being. However intelligent a human being you may be, identifying yourself with a caste or a race makes you exhibit discrimination and intolerance towards another caste or race. Identifying yourself with one religion will make you exhibit violence at worst and ridicule at best towards other religions. Linguistic chauvinism, gender chauvinism (both male and female), cultural chauvinism have all divided man from man. (I can already see the feminists bristling at that last comment :) ). And then there are a million political affiliations that divides people. Worst of all, Humanism, which is supposed to be a most benign philosophy makes you feel that you are gods chosen creatures and prompts you to slaughter billions of animals cruelly and cut trees with pleasure. Create android games like ant crush where ants run around the screen and you pres the touchscreen to crush them. Even the most devout Brahmins instinctively kill wasps, snakes, and such other creatures. Let me not talk about other groups which kill animals for fun and food. And all of us defend ourselves, calling our path the true path. There is a way to survive without hurting anyone. Just as cutting the hair or nails does not hurt a human, using products of plants in a way so that the plants are not harmed, to produce food for yourself is a great way ahead. I am no one to advice anyone, but live softly. Brahminism, Dalitism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Islam, men, women, all can wait. Matter of fact they do not matter at all. People have criticised me for my atheism, anti casteism, gender equality, and many more such principles I hold dear. I do not care. I say, live softly.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:58:10 +0000
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