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Jaya Jagannath,
Many a times we have received mails with snap of a
famous GOD attached, saying "Forward this mail to 24 people
immediately and see the miracle happen within seven days and it
seems some rich man ignored this mail and lost all his wealth". Many
people respond to this mail in many ways... Many just try their
fingers on Ctrl Alt Del, where as Some forward the mail to 24 people
and wait for 7 days to become rich.
Although such mails test the extreme of our patience, but this
triggers a big topic of Interest. How can we preserve the fragrance
of our culture off course not by swallowing it as a bitter gulp of
tonic. Particularly if we see Odisha as a mass and Odia community
from a bird's eye view, we find many regional gods and goddesses,
pseudo spiritual icons, self styled god men and even many individual
saints have ruled over the soft sentiments of common man and divided
the Odia mass into numerous clusters of unidirectional devotees.
At one side Rich people fall prey to the net of such pseudo cultural
self styled living gods where as poor people are easy pick for the
missionaries to get converted to another religion itself. Although
we stipulate our state Odisha to be culturally united, but a true
analysis will show us the diversity. Odisha as a state is famous for
stationing one among the four dhams (Badrinath at North, Rameswaram
at South, Dwarka on West and Puri at East ) of Inda, but inside
truth is that the recent generation is either ignoring or being
diverted away from preserving the core values of these Dhams.
It is quite high time Oriya people should realize the importance of
preserving the universal values of Lord Jagannath Dham, fame of our
own highest cultural icon "Lord Jagannath". In a rapid changing
modern society where youth are more leaning towards western culture
and are completely ignorant of our own age old tradition, it's an
easy guess how our next generations will be, if it goes in this way.
It's a quite common observation that except quite a few most of the
youths either doesn't have time for GOD or no interest for culturo-spiritualism.
If we do a thorough root cause analysis of this alarming issue, We
will find ourselves standing at the tip of an Ice berg. Problem
started with us, proliferated by us and is now punishing and
impacting us only. ( In further segments of this mail series we will
do a complete scrutiny of this issue and will also look for
solutions how to overcome this issue ). We request all the readers
of this mail to please post their views and opinions on this
cultural crisis. Jaya Jagannath.
Regards
Team Nilachakra
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