INADEQUACY OF A YEAR

                                               

The 28^th of September alone every year  is famous for different national and internal events. We know that melody queen Lata Mangeshkar was born on this day. Shahid-e-Azam Bhagat Singh’s  birth day also falls on this date. Recently we have declared to observe it as the ‘Daughters Day’. Somebody was referring two more events related to this date.  Similarly there may be several more dates having over a dozen of important events associated with each date. Who will remember them and organize functions accordingly?  The question arises, are we making a fun of observing a date?  

There are 365 days in a year. Everybody has to observe birth and death days of himself’ his family members and relatives. Then add to them national and international days. In addition to that in Sanatan Dharma, almost every day of the week is associated with some deities or rituals. Additionally, if he has faith in astrology, which in general most of us have, he will have to trace the connotations of a day from these angles. If it is Bhadra, no auspicious work will be started. On a particular day, one should avoid journey southward. Similarly it applies to all directions. Thus, the total events of a year will rise to thousands, each date having the share of about a dozen or so.

Despite Valentine Day, Mothers Day’ Fathers Day so on and so forth, do we find that love, respect and compatiability in the family and society have increased? Say when the observance of these days was not in fashion, people lacked love and respect and were always fighting against each other? Delhi, which of late has started becoming highly festive on New Year Day, Valentine and Sisters Day, has also become notorious as the rape capital. Why this contradiction?

Some days back, I was reading a spiritual commentary in which the writer tried to explain that instead of adopting some good qualities in our day-to-day behaviour, we stage a ‘tamasha’ and be happy. We cannot adopt truthfulness and compassion of Gandhi and Buddha and  so we idolize them and put in the category of divinity to falsely convince ourselves that these qualities are not for human beings.