DEAR ALL,
| How often do most of us make the mistake of labelling a person a Hindu/ Muslim/ Christian etcetera, based on his name? Perhaps, we do so every other day. The moment a persons name is mentioned, most people start identifying him with the generalized characteristics of his community-background and take it for granted that he follows the dictates of what they consider to be his religion. Does a doctor-couples son automatically become a doctor? Obviously, he does not; he becomes one only if he decides to be so, works hard, becomes qualified and practises that profession. He may very well choose to be a business-person. The same logic applies to religion, something even more personal than profession. A person may or may not practise his parents religion (or any religion) and he certainly cannot be held responsible for the name his parents have given him.  Thus, it is only common-sense, not rocket-science, that a persons natal-background is not synonymous to his beliefs or ideology. No one is born with either Hindu-chromosomes or Muslim-DNA or Christian-genes or any such thing. Yet, out of sheer habit or thoughtlessness, most people do the labelling, perhaps unaware of how insensitively they are behaving, all the more so if the person they are identifying in terms of religion, is secular in belief or has non-denominational faith. Thousands of years ago, in India, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, a voice was heard: Sarva dharmaan parittyajya That voice resonates in the hearts and minds of some select-people, who (regardless of the communities into which they have been born), belief and practise what the owner of the voice has said. Would it not be unfair to put religion-based labels on such people? COURTESY:AYESHA PARVEEN |
Aano bhadra krtavo yantu vishwatah.(- RIG VEDA)
"Let noble thoughts come to me from all directions"
REGARDS
Miss.Shaija Vallikatri Bhaskaran
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