Vice President Venkaiah
Naidu is incapable of distinguishing between mythology and history. Speaking
at a leadership summit at the Indian School of Business the other day, Mr Naidu
said that goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati were India’s finance and
education ministers respectively.
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| Source: OneIndia |
Gods and goddesses belong
to myths. Myths are important but not
for teaching history. Myths have been
used by every culture to teach certain religious and moral lessons to the
children. They have also served well to
help man deal with the demons in his subconscious and unconscious minds.
Joseph Campbell, arguably
the best scholar on myths, said that myths provide a cultural framework for a
society to educate their young. Even as
we grow older myths may help us to deal with certain problems of life. The function of myths remain, however, at the
religious level.
It is dangerous to mix
myths with historical facts and events.
India is already going through a crisis caused by the mingling of myths
with facts particularly in the last three years. A person who occupies such a high position as
Mr Naidu should exercise his brain a little more if India is to continue as a
single nation of diverse faiths and myths and all such stuff which are as inevitable
as the demons that occupy the deeper recesses of human minds.
“All the gods, all the
heavens, all the hells are within you.”
Joseph Campbell.
Myths and gossips have played a role since early civilisation in controlling the mass. One cannot ask lakhs of people to follow a person without powerful myths and story telling. People are attracted towards things which defy common sense and it is hereditary . ironically cognitive abilities are hereditary and yet they love to live in q life full of contradiction
ReplyDeleteBJP is making use of the power of myths effectively. But political leaders' job is not to hoodwink people with myths 😊😊
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