जितना सम्मानास्पद और आवश्यक यह वास्तविक धर्म है उतना ही घृणित और हेय है - धार्मिक अन्धविश्वास | अन्न जब भोजन बनकर थाली में आता है, तब वह आदरणीय होता है और उपयोगी भी, पर जब वह पेट में पहुँचने के बाद सड़े हुए मल के रुप में बाहर निकलता है तो घृणित, दुर्गन्धयुक्त और अस्पर्श्य बन जाता है |
धर्म के सम्बन्ध में भी यह बात लागू होती है | उसे मनुष्य जाति का प्राण कहना चाहिए पर जब वह अज्ञान के आचरण में लपेटा हुआ और धर्म व्यावसायियों द्वारा विकृत किया हुआ होता है तो उसे अन्धविश्वास कहा जाता है |
- पं. श्रीराम शर्मा आचार्य
वांग्मय ५३ - धर्म तत्त्व का दर्शन और मर्म
पृष्ठ - १.२२
Superstitions must be abolished!
Dharma is essential for our lives, it is an eternal effort to give life its true meaning. Dharma is that through which we can gain affluence on earth and grace in the heavens.
According to this definition Dharma does not reside in rituals and traditions, but resides in our character and qualities.These qualities and character should bedeveloped in ourselves so that it can prove beneficial not only to our spiritual life of today but even to the life beyond tomorrow.
This Dharma, described above is essential and highly revered, but at the same time religious superstitions, which we might sometimes misinterpret as Dharma are utterly despicable and wrong. Food when served to us on a platter is quite respectable and beneficial but after passing through the stages of digestion and moving out of the body in the form of excreta, it becomes utterly disgusting and foul.
The same analogy applies to Dharma as well.
In its intended form, it is fit to be termed as the life force, which sustains the entire humanity. But when swathed in ignorant practices and distorted by thecommercially minded it leads to superstitions, which should be shunned and avoided at all costs.
- Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya
From the Complete Works of
Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya Vol. 53
(Essence of Dharma and Its Significance)
page 1.22
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