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Man leaves one structure, walks the corridor ritually, is taken into a new structure with new vision of life, duties, obligation, religious awareness. At every stage a man is born again. A chick cannot re-enter the shell. Life is a onward journey. He carries a symbolic mark with him, like a thread, circumcision, etc. To take a anekānta drsti, the polylogue gives us the truth that reality is identity-in-difference. Rituals are paryaya recorded in narrative history of man and idealised. The eternal truth with them is oneness of mankind indicated in words by such concepts as "Initiation" in "Rites of Passage". Polylogue breaks the system barriers to help us to take a anekānta view of history and society, cultures and cultural differences. It helps us understand cultural conflicts and cultural unity. Rituals are occurrences and change, and have been changing. Moral qualities in a religion are common to all religions but are subject to interpretation and changeable by situational logic. What is śāśvata is man's Reason and Will to live a Good Life and the Sense of Sacred.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा जुलाई-सितम्बर, 2008
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