Lunar eclipse and superstition

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While there might be some scientific basis on the effect of moon and other planets on the tidal waves and on our own psychology, the unscientific irrational ways of beliefs and traditions followed for years, without understanding any reasoning behind it, blindly believing what is handed over to us in the form of tradition and culture is a superstition followed by many. Nowadays, doomsday prediction are too common and such persons only seem to use these events to create new predictions.

What makes a belief work? It is *our thought* and *our attitude* that works behind the scene. Why only lunar eclipse and lunar cycle days? Why not every day? The way we partake food with an inner calmness and centered with our deepest self, and taken as a ‘prasad(Divine gift)’ will be more beneficial. Thoughts are more potent. Instead of being superstitious, if in our heart we know nothing wrong will happen, there will not be any harm in not following a ritual. A raja yoga practitioner knows how shaping our thoughts is as important the rituals we follow. If we do not sub-consciously believe in something and do it for the sake of doing with a blind faith, will it have any effect? Instead it increasingly pushes back our inner voice which says to us silently, *‘I am not what you do and behave’*. If we ignore this voice for too long, we create a big gap between our outer self and inner self that will become difficult to bridge.

In this, my favourite quote is from Shakespeare:

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

While people hold on to beliefs for various reasons, and are to be respected, it would be better not to get trapped by ‘fear’ in not following such beliefs and become superstitious and worse still instill the fear in others and ostracize. Few thoughts as I was standing watching the eclipse last evening with the local community…

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