Hanuman and pursuit of positivity.
Few years back, after clearing my mind on whether to be an atheist or a believer and if a believer then which faith to believe in, I opted to follow the religion I was born in. However, this blog is not about atheist vs faithful. Here my thoughts pertain to Lord Hanuman, whose birthday will be celebrated by millions of Hindus across the globe this Saturday. While enunciating his concept of “Karmayoga” Swami Vivekanand explained - "Any religion consists of 3 parts – philosophy, mythology and rituals (or symbols).Philosphy is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary lives of great men, stories and fables of wonderful things and so on. Ritual gives to that philosophy a still more concrete form so that everyone may grasp it. It is easy for men to think that they can understand anything, but when it comes to practical experience, they find that abstract ideas are often very hard to comprehend. Therefore sym...