It happens in almost all the religions that people follow the religion without truly examining the underlying scriptures. Even if your religion has one book, three books, thirty books, three hundred or three thousand books, most people don’t read their scriptures. They just read parts and extracts. There are many people who have heard about Krishna and they talk about Krishna and Bhagavad Gita but have they actually read the Mahabharata, the scripture? If you haven’t, clearly you don’t have the information from the first hand source.
Most people have these rules and rituals without knowing what the scriptures actually say. If you read the scriptures, no doubt there are parts that won’t make sense to you because lot of scriptures and texts were desecrated by the Mughal invaders when they came to India. For example China destroyed the Tibetan monasteries, we also went through hoards of people who came to our nation and destroyed the very root of our culture. That’s how the nations are destroyed because their culture is destroyed. If you transform their culture, they would no longer be what they were earlier.
Listen to this discourse by Om Swami to find out more.
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