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'Cause and Effect'. Bad actions and bad causes produce bad effects, creating problems miseries and conflicts. The solution is good or rational actions. There is no other solution. The god-incarnation Krishna or any deity or ritual or hymns (Mantras) or tantras (totems, weird practices or pacifying planets etc.) will not solve the problems created by us. We create problems by our irrational and bad actions and we only can solve them by rectifying our actions. It requires hard effort to change bad habits and actions into good and rational. People by habit and tradition shirk the effort. Wily people take advantage of this weakness and suggest and propogate false, irrational and infructuous measures for their own vested monetary interests. Even monks of almost all religions insist more on wasteful rituals than an moral conduct. Monks are escapists very likely because of fear of the household responsibilities. Many do not have experience of house holders' hardships and therefore not competent to preach and advise. They are fully dependent on householders and are therefore almost parasites. The institutions of astrologers, tantrics, pandits, kathavachaks (story tellers) are all parasites and misguide gullible people to fatten their own purses by advocating irrational wasteful superstitious practices of performing havans (burning edible grains, butter etc.), rituals of various worships of inanimate ideals which can not protect themselves and can be easily stolen and in similar other rituals and lot of money and time is wasted. There are numerous instances of devoted pilgrims dying in accidents on way to the seat of their deity and at the very place itself. People sitting inside places of worship have also been killed by terrorists and deity could not protect them. Tantrik practices are worst as they prescribe drinking of wine, eating meat and sexual indulgence. In devotional (Bhakti) rituals it is suppressed sex urge that is expressed in form of titillating dances, songs under the garb of religion to please the deity. Dancing, singing are sensuous activities and titillate via senses of sight and hearing. It is strange that human beings even though highly evolved and with brain power yet subscribe to superstitions adore and adorn inert idols. Even after performing worship, ritual, propitiating any deity or planet one has to make efforts, take required activity to have desired result viz. have to go to shop or office to earn living, have to cook and eat food and no god incarnation or deity will come and do his work. A student has to study and write in the examinations and no amount of worship or singing devotional songs will be any substitute to his own appropriate action. A doctor has to diagnose and prescribe treatment and the patient has to take medicines. An engineer has to plan and construct. A farmer has to sow and nurture the crop. Similarly appropriate action is necessary in every field by persons themselves. All rituals, worships for one's works are superstitions. Of course to make ideals of iconic personalities as an object of meditation only to realise their good deeds and instructions will certainly encourage to follow their ideals. But the belief that we have not to make any effort and these iconic persons sitting somewhere will come and do needful for us is an ignominious superstition.
