Myth-ology

Since the Pashan Yug - the stone age- several myths have been stingily followed by the storytellers, the religious seers. They have exerted hard enough to retrieve the origin of logics inserted by these myths. Their efforts have rendered basis of developed ideological expressions and differentiated it for the understanding today and for the times to come.

The word Myth has its origin from Greek word ‘Mythos’, which essentially means speech/ discourse, but has subsequently evolved and later has come to mean fable/legend. Stories those have lost in times have been explored to root, to rationalize their past existence with the present subsistence. They may have vague origins, but being basically religious and supernatural in nature, the interest never ends. The legends being originated from the basic content of Myth is usually understood by certain sages, but does fascinate every religious and critical mind.

As the historical events have been redesigned and refashioned by various storytellers, it may be hard to replenish the vital facts, which perhaps have perished with passing time and through each passing narrator.

Myths try to rationalize the purpose of Universe and everything existing in it. Giving a cosmological and historical insight to society, this has questioned the scientific interpretation of the Myths. Essentially, it has developed a subtle framework for the societies to understand them, and that too with the sophisticated influence. Also influencing Modern Science and its historical investigations.

Myths encapsulate collective imagination, dream, and this collective aspiration of society does influence our behavior and habits. When we study Myth we will establish that it is much more than an ideology or social phenomena and hence its orientation extends beyond the limits human imagination, beyond its consciousness.

A few general characteristics of mythological thinking have been derived from the fact, which primitive people have kept themselves connected from world, and not differentiate themselves from the natural world.

Another fine characteristic of the mythological phenomena is the weakness of its abstraction, as the modern ethno linguistic data represents. In Myth it is impractical to remove the object content and their space-time relationship, and essentially the situations that define these relationships. To beat the critical analysis, usually done by the common listener, logical analysis and classification is necessary via concrete imagery synthesis without becoming excessively abstract.

For our purpose of related meanings Mythology has been divided into systems, we call them Mythological Systems. These systems were followed by particular societies at a particular time and now they are subsequently being followed. We know them as Egyptian Mythology, Indian Mythology, Maori Mythology (originated in New Zealand) and Greek Mythology. Our ancient civilizations have been limited to these origins and so their remains of these Mythological origins are still alive.

If we group them geographically we have, Oceanic Mythology, Oriental Mythology and African Mythology.

Science evolves with every passing second, and somehow mythology does play a vital role in distinguishing scientific secrets. It is no doubt an acting force behind many aspects of magical and ritual practices. Mythology in an ongoing experience of facts, our society has been planned and structured because of various rational and devout reasons. The sagas and legends have ruled the basic learning of human mind from ages, but we still question their past existence, as we are unaware of many virtual facts. Moreover, it may be hard to stretch out each detail embedded but we sometimes have to accept the unknowing, ironically we have always.

Hinduism; A way of Life

Enchanting ‘OM’ behold the significance of subtle truths lying untouched in this universe. Hinduism gives a privilege to live a content life understanding the principles of instructive Vedas and Upanishads. The awakening through certain eternal truths appreciates the real nature of consciousness, which is far beyond the mind or body, or does it depend on the complex perceptions. Hinduism is a philosophy towards Vedic way of life and encourages people of various beliefs to sustain their faith towards it. It helps us learn the Truth confined beyond the world we live in.

The philosophy has extreme sense of tolerance prolonging the essence of its blissful existence. Its biggest strength is that it is not rigidly structured via any single holy book, giving its followers a freedom of thought and belongingness to their opinions. Hinduism itself hold believers and non- believers from various orientations, you can get iconoclasts and idol- worshipers here, and liberal and conservative minds sitting under the same roof that reflect the sacred of path Hinduism.

Being the world’s oldest extant religion it is not clear about its origin, and hence cannot be traced to any individual. The oldest of the Hindu scripts, the Rig Veda was composed well before 6000- 7000 B.C. The Spiritual content of Hinduism has been these four Vedas, which has been scripted by anonymous sages. These Vedic legends have been into existence because of seers who later passed on the message of Hindu Spirituality via Upanishads. Later being followed by various epic poems, like Bhagvad Gita and Mahabharat. They have helped us discover the reigning regime of this religion, which were governed by various Devi Devtas. They all suggest fragments evident with similar concept of the basic principle, which is the existence soul. It is the eccentric realities, which is hard to be effectively described in words.

Man tries to break free the vicious circle of life, i.e birth and death and seeking the divine Mokasha, which is what that has steered the Hindu psychology for so long. For centuries, we have nurtured the fluid Universe that reflects the actions of Karma, which is the force of creations. Undoubtedly, this source has illuminated the life around. We all can easily understand the concept of Karma – actions-, as it is what that in Hindu religion determines the fate of any individual. This is embedded in Hindu minds unknowingly, influencing subliminally. As the Newton’s law suggest, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”. Eventually, Karma being ‘action’ shapes the future we will be walking into, that will ultimately conclude our path of evolution into higher grounds. The seed cropping these actions are the never-ending desires prompting in our heart.

Desires have always been negative impact on human achievement to grow into sacred spiritual grounds. As it is when beholden, then burns the ropeway of spiritual journey of oneself before it begins.

Detachment and sacrifice are means to escape into the Spiritual world selflessly; it guides you to the supreme, when achieved. It is meaningless to stay attached to world around when it does not belong to you.

Hinduism is about selflessness. The Philosophy may be anonymously written but for sure do marvel the world we live in. we can easily feel content being part of the Vedic way of life.

60 going on 16

Why some love stories are so pure but we still can't understand them, even the one involved is virtually unconscious to understand their own drive, and keep steering any fading anxieties. It might be self-annoying falling over and over for all possible rational attributes until the time stride and make you surrender completely. And now the sleeping desires are sitting beside him on his front porch in his old age, slowly rocking back and forth, passing the time, thinking about the end of his life, fast approaching. The st ream of consciousness setting up the story was about what regrets he might have.

Now when he is an old man rocking away the end of his life, somehow might feel like sharing what he has been thinking about the presumptions, the one he never opt ... as openly and honestly as he could. At least some part of that feeling stems from the fact that the adults kept most of their thoughts, and their experiences which have affected from young ones, hidden from their anxious ears. And now wishing and hoping if he would have known then, or perhaps would have explored the same before the black turns Grey. Now knowing things which have been intruding while wondering the untamed anxieties have been a fairly choking experience.

When a child ask question, some of us does amuse him with silly answers, which is likely to confuse him further in future, hoping he will not turn back again with series of connecting questions. Indeed fooling an innocent mind is easy. Mind game of ideas and perceptions is played in the younger years. As the ideas and perceptions are limited to the adults, they strongly insert the same in the building minds, leaving plenty of questions unanswered. The sense of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and the appropriate decision is implanted without the explanations. And later when the answers are explored it’s too late to end the anxieties. Of course we have our values, principles and social attire to carry.

But when a 60 year old man tries to find his way through his untraveled never lands; breaking the barriers, what can we do to intrude his vivacious fantasies. A woman is equally tolerant to these behaviors but lack the extra edge to it, and that is, to fall over lust than compassion. The author in "The Female Brain” has evidently mentioned that, males have double the brain space and processing power devoted to physical needs as females. Just as women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion while men have a small country road, men have O'Hare Airport as a hub of processing thoughts about sex whereas women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes. That probably explains why 85 percent of 20 to 30 year old males think about it every fifty-two seconds and women think about it once a day -- or up to three or four times on their most fertile days.

Leaving aside the Physical communication, a psychological unfulfilled frame is responsible for the old age sensitive engagement. It could be a need for a silent companion and could be the rage for a similar frequency. As the age procures the sincerity into the person it is easy for them to realize the responsibility, leaving aside if it is acknowledged.