| Essence Of Hinduism |
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HINDU RITUALS AND MYTHS |
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| Ritualism tends to
make religion not only mechanical but also static. When belief changes, ritual also should
change along with it. Just as in a progressive language spelling should follow pronunciation, and the written idiom should follow the spoken idiom, though at some distance, so in a progressive religion ritual should follow faith. There should be no yawning gulf between the two. The English spelling is notoriously obsolete and irrational, for the printing press more or less fixed the spelling in the fifteenth century according to the pronunciation of that time. In the succeeding centuries the pronunciation of the people has moved on, but the spelling has remained mostly where it was. Similarly our ritual was more or less fixed some centuries before the Christian era by our priesthood according to the faith of those times. In some respects the faith has moved on, but the ritual remains where it was. |
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