SUPERSTITION :

 

 

India and Superstitions:

India has a long history of superstitions. There are many superstitions which people in this country follow. When someone sneezes during the time of departure, people consider it unlucky.

Similarly, when you hear long mewing of a cat, people consider it a bad omen. Alternatively, offering curd before the start of any journey is auspicious. A group which follows superstitions a lot are students appearing for an examination.

Weeks before exams, the visit to temples starts to grow. Some of the students also get a taveez with a lucky stone to help them out. Further, some students place their stationery for the exam in the prayer room.

Most common superstitions include not cutting nails at night, not using the broom after sunset, not opening the scissors without cutting anything, not looking at oneself in a broken mirror and many more.

Even some political leaders in India believe in superstitions. For instance, they wait for an auspicious day to file their nomination or take an oath. In other words, even in the highest places, people do follow superstitions.

Origin of Superstitions :

The man started to believe in superstitions when he got a feeling that humans are at the mercy of natural elements. Similarly, some superstitions were also created because of social values. As a result, people worship forces of nature for a long time.

The Greeks and Pagans used to worship elements of nature in the form of Gods and Goddesses. Same is the case with Indian tradition. People continue to worship the sun, moon, stars, planets, plants and more believing these things have the power to influence our lives.

You might have heard ‘it is because of the impact of some evil star’ and more when a disease overtakes or disaster strikes. Even the people in the West have been believing in them. You will find instances in Shakespeare’s plays where he includes things like omens, witches and more.

In fact, ever since a long time till date, people still consider the number 13 to be unlucky. Similarly, salt spilling over the dinner table is also an ill-omen. In India, people consider the black cat crossing the way to be unlucky. Similar is the case of an owl hooting or a dog wailing.

 

EXTRACTS OF SUPERSTITION :

As a result of these notions numerous godmen ministers, alleged stargazers, palmists and mediums are having thundering business. The simple and eccentric individuals crowd their shops and enthusiastically get hoodwinked. Strange notions have different structures and signs. At certain spots it tends to be found in the love of snakes, creatures, trees and the act of witch makes. At others it is seen as creature and human penances. Here and there an odd individual doesn’t stop for a second even in forfeiting his own child or little girl to appease a divine being or goddess. There is no restriction a. odd individual can go as far as. Quite a bit of dogmatism and zeal have their foundations in our notions. Commonly a lady is scorched alive as a witch or sorceress. It helps us to remember Jaon of Arc of France who was singed to death since she was viewed as a witch by the attacking English armed force.

In numerous towns and towns there are houses, places, trees and sinkholes accepted to be spooky by apparitions. The cemeteries should be regularly visited by these spirits, and ought to accordingly be kept away from, around evening time and at odd hours. On the off chance that anyone dares to go there at odd hours, the individual will undoubtedly be moved by the underhanded spirits. The lone cure accessible is soundness and logical temper. The more the information dependent on realities, the lesser the shades of malice of strange notions. We should kill obliviousness, dread of the obscure, the thoughts of presence of abhorrent spirits through scattering of logical information and edification to uncover odd notions from our psyches.

In India there are numerous notions. Convictions in phantoms, witches, signs, spirits, age old spoiled traditions and customs are to be discovered wherever in India. For a great many individuals in India odd notions are synominous with religion since they are frail leaning and objectively not created. They are survivors of the notions and unreasonable spoiled beliefs in the pretense of religion, customs and ceremonies. In the no so distant past little pox was considered as the consequence of the rage of a goddess. Still in numerous towns and towns the goddess Shitala is venerated as the creator of little pox. Essentially, sniffling toward the beginning of a work or a movement is considered as an insidious omen. The intersection of a feline while you are going for some work is additionally viewed as similarly unpropitious. In such an occasion it is assumed that the work makes certain to end in disappointment. The yelping of a canine, the crying of a feline, the yelling of a jackal and broying of an ass are additionally taken as unpropitious. Yet, a man or lady, with a pitcher loaded with water, crossing your direction, a sweeper clearing the street before you, are viewed as favorable.

There are sure days and hours which are promising. Individuals of India have set convictions and need to perform work appropriately. They counsel a celestial prophet or a cleric for a propitious development to begin a significant work or an excursion. The time and date of a marriage, initiation, establishment laying of a house, beginning of a business, and so on, are fixed by the places of the planets and stars. There are sure foreboding days and months when nothing but bad and significant work can be embraced.

 

CONCLUSION :

If we look at it closely, there is no logic as such behind the beliefs in superstitions. However, they have grown age-old and despite all the scientific advancement, they are not going anywhere soon. However, it is better to subject ourselves less to them otherwise each moment of our life will be on the edge.