Superstitious ….???

Well…today I want to share something with you’ll.

Superstition:  A belief in supernatural causality: one event leads to the cause of another without any process in the physical world linking the two events.

How many of you are superstitious ….???

The majority of answers would be, no we are not that superstitious…, We are of modern type, 20^th century guys…!!

But I would have the correct answer for this…

Most of us, especially we Indians are very superstitious.

If not us, our family is for sure.

They make us get into it by relating things happening in and around our life.

If that is not the case, I would say we get superstitious even when any of our friend’s relates the things happening, either good or bad.

And today even I am one of them….

I always did avoid comparing things, either good or bad happening in my life…, that is, I never compared it with any such kind of religious or so called superstitious matters.

Because, I always felt that when you start comparing in that way, it is for sure your mind will get involved much in that matter of superstitions.

And when that happens, you will always get depressed whenever you get sad/bad results in your living life, which is not a good thing, for a happy life.

Having that kind of thought, I could not resist for a long time.

Oh god, I started believing this…!!

There are many such instances which happened in my life, which now I am comparing them to the superstitious things.

That mainly affected me because of my family and the things that happened in my life in the past years.
Always took things happening in my life for a good sake, but today I feel the difference of loosing many things and started comparing things with those religious or superstitious thing which were installed in my mind since my childhood from parents, friends…

• One first thing is of the ‘cat’…

         It was always told to me that whenever a cat crosses your path when u walking or going somewhere, it’s a very bad omen…this is one big shit which I never believed and also will not believe in the future.

They always asked me to turn and go back from other way or at-least , to move back some 7 to 10 steps(don’t remember exactly).

One more, such situation I faced and even now face is the sneezing of a member near you when you start moving out of your home or on some work.

They say, that it is not good, ask us to sit for a while drink water and then start off.

Other such things which I remember are as follow:

• Never play with a scissor, or with the door al drop (bolt).. will get fights between members at home.

               I would ask you one thing: What about the hair cutter or gardener or farmer who use scissor’s…Is it that they always fight ?

• Similarly, exchanging salt between two people will get fights between those two.

Then how about those who do their business in salts (salt industry)…Do they fight always? If so how would the members work together? 

•  Now- a- days, many are just believing about the feng shui…Keep some selected items like feng shui coin, toy etc, at home and you will have peace at home and will make you earn more and so on…

          If that is the case why don’t every human, in-fact, poor people have it and get richer? 

•  Recently I got to know an interesting one of such kind, which I feel is somewhat funny…

         We have an Idol of lord Krishna at home and my mom got to listen that if lord has the flute in his hand, it’s that even statue of Radha must be beside him or, we must just remove the flute from his hand and just keep the idol. If not there won’t be peace at home.

•           Also one more interesting thing…..

          We had a fish pond(aquarium) at home, just bought it as we loved to have fishes at home as pets...

And one fine day someone just said we should not have shark fishes at home (they lead the members at home to fight) and also aquariums is not good for some people at their homes…!

Things won’t happen in right way.

What about the fisheries and aquarium shops? Aren’t they happy?

Listening to all this, we just removed the aquarium from our house.

•      Now coming to religious matters…

         I had always been to a Sai Baba temple on every Thursday since few years and things were fine.

Due to some reasons changed the temple which I used to visit regularly in between and also not that regular as before to the new temple, and at the same time things were not going good in life and the very next comparison done by one of friend and mom is that as you are not visiting that temple, thing are not good.

I would ask you once again, is it not that God is God anywhere? If that is not the case, why is that we have such kind of and these many temples all over the places where humans live.

• One final thing I would share with you’ll today is about the most superstitious thing/religious matter which made me to start my belief about all the above mentioned points on superstitions.

Even if I don’t like or try avoiding…it is getting me involved so densely that I am not able to avoid it and the results coming out.

On some day last year, our family had a pooja (a religious ritual performed by Hindus), done at a temple. And don’t know, if it’s of luck or fate/destiny or unfortunately the power of pooja.

The same day two good things happened in my life, which made me and my family very happy. Also my friends who always loved me, felt very happy.

One thing is that, I got my passport, for which I had been waiting and roamed for about 6 months to get it and other great thing which made all of us very happy is that, I was selected for a campus interview at my college and finally got a job. It was one of the best/happiest things that happened in my life till date.

And as usual, my family just started comparing all that to the pooja we had got done that day in the morning.

It is not that I am against it.

I always felt that all things just happen, they have their own reasons, may be written in our fate or so as told by elders.

But, why to compare them with superstitious kind of things, which just get into your mind very soon, and even when you try to avoid them, you can’t. You just start following them

Now I am in such situation…but even now try saying to myself that’s not the way.

These are such kind of mind eaters or say settlers which once get into your mind, may never move out…!

They even start affecting people with you when you start saying them about the things told above. It’s the same thing which happened with few of my friends.

Now, I hope you all are not comparing things happened in your life…with such superstitions.

Please don’t, it will never give happiness as you wanted. In-fact will just make you ask questions to yourself…why you did that and why didn’t you do that, and so on…!

I just shared my experience, so as to let you all know the way things can affect you in your life.

 

Just be yourself, have your faith in God and do what makes you and people around you happy.

  Help the needy and keep smiling :)

Thank you.