Sanatan Dharma is a thing of passé since bulk of it is stuffed with the mythological tales which are just fairytales of the yesteryears

Don’t you think — when we go deep into meditation, we are susceptible to have hallucinations?

Meditation is also good only if it is within limits.

Too much of meditation is also governed by the same rule that dictates, “Excess of everything is bad.”

There is every possibility that around 18000 years back some sages who may have gone deep into meditation may have concentrated to ponder over the big issue that should have engaged many of them to find an answer to the same questions to which we don’t have any concrete answers even today, such as:

(i) How the entire universe should have come into existence?

(ii) How human beings having so complex and so intricate anatomy should have at all come into existence?

Naturally, they couldn’t have rolled out such facts as the astronomers have been able to roll out for us by placing powerful telescopes in the orbits of the earth or by sending out probes such as TESS having built-in cameras.

So you can imagine, they could have rolled out only bland concepts such as the fixed stars known as Nakshatras (in Hindi) should have been the wives of the Moon and the Mercury should have been the son of the Moon or such concepts that

(i) There should have been some god named Brahma, who should have created all the living creatures of the earth including the human beings;

(ii) Or there should have been some god named Shiva, who should have been sporting a cobra around his neck and should have been sporting a headgear that has a crescent moon embedded into it, who should have collected the water that should have spouted out of the clouds to have fallen somewhere on the Himalayas, in his headgear;

(iii) Or there should have been some god, named Vishnu, who may have been living in a houseboat that looked like a coiled snake.

We may call such concepts as an outcome of some sort of hallucination only which should have become a part of some of the Mythological Tales, which should have been, later on, emboldened as a part of the Sanatan Dharma (the oldest religion, in place).

If you ever had a look at the mythological tale related to the Moon, it would take you not more than a second to get convinced that such concepts have become outdated since, now, we know what the stars consist of.

Does it not make us a laughing stock that we still believe in the things such as the Moon should’ve married all the fixed stars or some ocean should have been churned by the demons (known as Rakshashas in Hindi) and the deities (known as Devtas, in Hindi) using a mountain (Meru) as a churning spindle and a snake as a churning rope wound around the churning spindle?

Is it not the time we woke up to realize that the mythological tales were just like the fairy tales of the yesteryears?

Such concepts had been floated as mythological tales around 18000 years back since nobody knew much about the real astronomy at that time.

Take the case of the Indian god named Brahma.

Though the mythology details that Lord Brahma should have created the universe, it is not enough just to say — who created the universe without telling how exactly he should have accomplished such a momentous task at that time.

Perhaps, depending on the knowledge of the cell from which they should have got evolved, each cell knows — into what types of cells they are supposed to grow in which sequence until each organ of the body gets constructed at its right place till the time it takes the full shape which is complete in all respects.

Do you think Lord Brahma would have been able to have made it possible?

It is too ostentatious, to think so.

We have taken so many centuries only to catch up with the complete knowledge of even the human anatomy and feel happy that we know so much about the human anatomy.

Don’t you think even Lord Brahma couldn’t have evolved such a system unless he should have had the knowledge how it could have been made possible for each and every cell to have been provided such information at hand?

A question arises, “Is it still too early to give up our obsession for believing these mythological tales to be true, when we know such tales were not based on any real facts?”

With scarce knowledge of anything — don’t you think, they should have started kneading all such crap simply to entertain the common people?

All such tales had been floated for the entertainment of the people by only the persons who did not have any other way of spending their spare time.

For instance, look at the mythological tale behind the wives of the Moon and his son Mercury — how funny, it is!

The mythological tale behind the wives of the Moon and his son Mercury

According to this tale, the moon wanes and waxes due to the folklore that the moon had married all the twenty-seven daughters of Daksha but since he used to spend most of his time with only one of them, Rohini, his other wives pleaded with him that he should spend the same time with each of them.

But when he did not mend his ways, his father-in-law cursed him that he would lose his lustre day by day till nobody shall be able to see him.

Worried by this curse, the gods requested Daksha to mollify his curse so that it did not create a problem for the people living on the earth. So Daksha agreed to modify his curse that if his son-in-law agreed to spend the same time with each daughter, though he shall lose his lustre for fourteen days, his lustre shall be restored during the next fourteen days, day by day.

As if it was not enough, they even came out with the idea that though the moon did not have any child by any of his twenty-seven wives, the planet Mercury happened to be one of his four sons born by his another wife named Manohara.

All such tales should have been transferred by the ancient people by the word of mouth to their off-springs generation over generation to give them an impression that these stories were not just imaginary stories but real stories.

I won’t like to hurt anybody’s feelings about the Hindu religion but I think that bulk of the religion is based on such mythological tales only though part of it may be based on some real incidents also such as the stories related to the goddess who used to ride over a lion.

Most probably the story of the goddess Durga who rides over a lion, may not be false since even the video https://youtu.be/SuQXfp_rSoM shows a man riding a lion very comfortably.

But it is time we take a relook at the things from a pragmatic angle.

For instance, don’t you think we can see any gods or goddesses to have as many as four or eight hands only through hallucination?

The fact that some Hindu gods and goddesses are believed to have had as many as four or eight hands gives strength to my belief that all such things should’ve been thought to have been true only during the primaeval days of the evolution of the mankind but such beliefs have lost their relevance as on the date.

It was all right as long as we did not have any good pastime than to have spent our spare time on Facebook or WhatsApp but do we need such stories to entertain us even now?

The way we have stopped playing Carom Board, Rummy or Bridge with the Playing Cards, Ludo, Chinese checkers, Chess or even Crossword Puzzles, we should give a leeway to all such brain-sick concepts also — the sooner the better.