Scepticism & Superstitions

“Seeing is believing” is a well known proverb, that speaks that when a thing is seen or observed it must exist. We believe this idea that whenever a thing is observed at that very moment it is also proved that the thing has an existence. To percept a thing we need to have the thing remain in front of our eyes or in that sphere where our organs can reach. To have an idea of a thing without proper perception produces knowledge with insufficient authenticity. Thus this kind of knowledge drawn from improper perception is called “Wrong View” . This Wrong view is the motherland of Scepticism & Superstition. “Superstition” the word means a belief without proper idea, conception or judgement from scientific view.

Generally human being inherits these from very childhood. He never thinks of its connection with real life. When if he is asked to find out the connection of these with real life, he would fall in a world with so many questions piercing him. This new world is called Scepticism. It rears the superstition with care, caress, love and respect. Superstition grows up in this environment and never feels to judge the authenticity or the view of its acceptance. Whenever we are led by superstition to behave accordingly, we do not even know that we have been trapped by scepticism. Scepticism mesmerizes superstition as well as us who follow it. We act or behave following some ideas, conceptions, trend, belief those have not yet been proved to be widely acceptable. Such kind of behavior we do is called superstition. If we are asked whether we have ever tried to know the reality of these belief, we would not be able answer properly, because we have never tried to know this, or it can be said that we did not ever feel to judge it. Can anyone say why we did not feel it? It is because Scepticism had been able to occupy our minds entirely with its care, attention and skill. Scepticism mesmerizes our mind in such a way that we become unaware about the existence of it in our thought & behavior. In our daily life we act or behave according to some gesture, rule, customs we have adopted from our ancestors and have never tried to get into the core of these. Such kinds of behavior have no connection with the real life. If we try to find out the reality or authenticity we would find scepticism reigning there vigorously. But we could not feel it that our thought, judgement, reasoning had been succumbed completely by scepticism. What a shock we will get at that moment? We would waste no time but start suspecting all the things around and would not get enough confidence to believe a thing we are watching. The result is that we would cover ourselves by suspicion i.e. Scepticism. What a great judgement!!!