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The two great epics of Hinduism, Ramayana, and Mahabharata, preaches us an important lesson - 'Don't stay back in time; change, adapt, evolve'. Wondering how? Let me explain.
The two great epics of Hinduism, Ramayana, and Mahabharata, preaches us an important lesson: ‘Don’t stay back in time; change, adapt, evolve’. Wondering how? Let me explain.
Back in 2009, I grew up seeing the ‘Ramayana’ serial which was telecasted every Sunday on television. Though I didn’t have much interest in it initially, I greatly indulged in it eventually.
My major walk-throughs of this epic were:
I would say that Mahabharatha evolved mainly because the great warriors Bheeshma, Dronacharya, and Karna followed the dharmas of the Tretha Yuga (Ram’s Yuga), despite living in the Dwapara Yuga (Krishna’s Yuga).
And so there was Krishna to preach: It’s well and good to follow your promises and customs. But it’s even better if you are able to reason why you follow such customs, and be ready to sacrifice them if it proves offensive to people around you.
Epics evolve over time; Dharma evolves over time; Even Gods evolves over time. Why not us, then? Why not we evolve our old mindset, which isn’t valid or fruitful any more?
By ‘evolving our mindset’, I mean anything and everything, ranging from our thought processes to our physical behaviours.
It can be about setting a benchmark for a woman in handling her career and household chores, it can be about judging a person instantly based on their outfits, it can be about how we treat our domestic help, it can be about expecting the younger generations to follow an older pattern, it can be about our inability to come out of certain beliefs passed on to us by our parents, it can literally be about anything which you blindly believe or do without a logic behind it.
We necessarily needn’t wait for an era change to evolve our mindset. All we need to do is, identify the areas where we are not able to think beyond our beliefs, figure out if such beliefs hold good even today, and work on it.
Though it’s not an easy task to forgo our foundational characteristics and accept the new changes immediately, we surely can take it slow and make it happen.
I’m not here to mislead anyone about Ramayana; neither do I intend to place Krishna above Ram. I’m only trying to convey a beautiful fact that our epics teach us: ‘Nothing but change is the only constant’.
Let’s be ready to accept the surrounding change, adapt to the current environment, and evolve to become the best version of ourselves.
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