You know very recently i learned a scientific reason behind keeping navaratri ... and i told my parents next year.. even when i am not religious... i would try to follow the diet it envisages ... for health reasons.
Sometimes i/we think as today generation know everything but its the past ancestors weren't stupid. Certain things had a meaning n purpose which our restricted progressive minds dont understand.
Definitely. They had a certain wisdom which is lacking in people today. They may not have been as well educated as us, but they knew what is important in life. They also knew how to cultivate relationships without letting ego come in between and ruining everything.
When I fall sick, my Nani's herbal/homemade nuske are more helpful than allopathic medicine (which alleviates symptoms but causes other side effects). My Dadaji (God rest his soul) was always emphatic about self-sufficiency and growing own food, DIY projects and walking everywhere. He also advised us to eat a spoonful of ghee everyday because he believed it aided digestion and was good for us. Well what do you know, now the science is out that that is exactly what ghee does (among other beneficial things) after people were mislead for decades into believing that ALL fat is EVIL.😆
My parents mostly refused to take their wisdom and fell for the 'progressive' traps of the modern life. I am not about to make the same mistake.
Science is not infallible. Wisdom is important. So is experience and intuition.
Now people on social media are posting their macronutrients and the huge stacks of butter they purchased to make a statement about their healthy and 'alternative' lifestyles and diets. Now people are becoming aware about their carbon footprint. Now people are realising how utterly useless they are at creating something by using their own hands, thus becoming consumers by default. Now people are realising how important being connected to the Earth/land and family is for our mental wellbeing.
My illiterate (by today's standard) Dadaji knew all of this without a fancy degree or a bunch of PhDs. He just knew what was important in life and had the wisdom to distinguish between right and wrong.
