We live in a society with thousands and lakhs of beliefs
which we rarely question. We follow them religiously because our mothers taught
us to do so and our mothers follow them because their mothers taught them to do
so and the cycle goes on and on. One such incident recently took place with me
which I am sharing with you.
One fine evening I thought of cleaning my room and
started brooming the floor. My mother noticed that and told me not to do so
because it is a religious belief that you should not sweep the floor after the
sunset. I asked her about the reason to which she replied that it will make
Goddess Lakshmi leave our house. Her answer failed to satisfy me and we ended up fighting and obviously she won.
Does something like this ever happened to you as well??
If so, have you ever questioned that thing or wondered why our forefathers and
their forefathers and their forefathers had such a belief?? I tried to find out
the real logical reason behind it.
First of all we should understand something about
Goddess Lakshmi. We associate Goddess Lakshmi with wealth. Wealth includes the
money we have, jewellery and other valuable stuff. Decades back, we din’t had access to electricity. In such a scenario if someone sweep the floor after the
sunset, they might end up losing some valuable stuff like jewellery or
something. This loss may be seen as Goddess Lakshmi leaving our house.
So, now I feel it makes sense to you that what is the
logical reason behind this belief. Please give me your valuable feedback and
let me know what do you think about this.
See you soon with another interesting topic. Till then
take care of yourself. #Zindagi_Gulzar_Hai !!
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