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The effects of culture in our lives

Culture is a different as you think

By Afzal OthiPublished 12 months ago 12 min read

I have been specifically asked to present something to you about culture. In this regard, today's program may be a little different, but I will definitely try to easily go through the difficult stages that have been or are being presented in the search for the culture of our lives. Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen about 62 different definitions or discussions about culture, but in the field of knowledge, humanities and social sciences have not been able to reach any specific final conclusion. That is, our very worthy anthropologist, a woman like Benedict, or the great French scholar Levi Star, and then on the literary level, T.S.L. Eliot, all of them have defined it. But the truth is that I am courageous and have a stone in my heart and with great courage, I understand that Westerners are not able to give the correct definition of culture in such a way that they consider culture to be associated with human life, this life that we are living. But for this, it is necessary to expand this life far and wide until you understand the life to which it belongs. Not from the intermediate parts between birth and death, but with this endless journey of life that goes from here to here after, these poor people have this life and its knowledge and know about it, so they often say that the relationships of a certain group of people, their beliefs, their games, their movements, their courage and honesty, whose culture is and becomes a part of it, we accept this.

This is indeed right and correct, but I think that until you add death to life, the full purpose of life is not clear in weight. This is a very important thing and it is especially easy for us to understand where we buy death by sacrificing our lives and blue the here after. In this definition, if we go far back and try to break it down, try to find out what culture actually is, then you know better than me that from the birth of Adam until now, man has been using stones in ancient times. And even before the time of villages, man was forced to sit alone for the first time and think about this. He asked himself five very important questions and kept trying to find the answer. His first question was, what is this universe around me, this sun, moon, clouds, stars, lightning, earthquakes, storms, oceans, and where did all these things come from and how did they come? Second, he thought, who am I and where did I come from and what is my relationship with all these things and with what relationship am I living among them? Third, he thought, where did my uncle, my mother's brother, who used to go fishing with me, suddenly go? Why does my mother keep crying and we put him in the stones and bring him back? What happened to him? If he is not alive like this, is he alive like this that I am not aware of? And if there is a lot of life there, is there any objection in this life that I have lived a life in the past or not? These five questions are asked by man. My life revolves around

My ancestors, our elders, and they have derived the answers to these five questions according to their own thinking, understanding, and observations. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the group of people who have derived the answers to their five or six questions in one way have one culture, and those who have derived the answers in this way and that way have a different culture. This is a simple division. Our mistake has been and continues to be that we consider the way of life, the way of life, the society as culture, and today we have continued to understand that society is how we live. We consider singing, playing, mehndi, marriage, and marriage as culture. This can certainly be a part of culture, but not the whole of it, because those five questions are different from it and are beyond it. Now, when you did not derive the answers to the five questions, your elders derived them and gave them as heritage, then Then it will be very difficult for you to live together with these people in the way that the group has given these people the answers to the questions, they are yours, they are yours. You can live on one land with great ease, but according to the answers to the questions, your culture will be different, their culture will be different. We start to understand this. Someone will say, look, Baba, we also sing the same songs, our folk songs are the same, we also eat the same food, they also sing the same, we also sing the same on mehndi, our culture is the same. No, you can say that your folk songs are the same, your way of living, your way of living may be the same, your dress may be the same, but absolutely not, your culture, which you call culture, is not that and is completely different. Then you are asked, do you ask yourself a question, besides yourself, that while living in the same land and adopting the same way of life, does not the same intervention take place within us? You do not get sad about it. With them, you will observe it carefully whenever you get a chance, despite their social way of living, it is exactly the same, but behind the scenes, far behind our subconscious, we are living according to what our type of race has decided, despite the fact that our daily behavior apparently shows that we are the kind of people we are. Now a strange and strange incident has happened to you, and that is that when the pressure of a great culture fell on you, especially on the community in which you are living, and it accepted it, accepted it, and left many of its questions unanswered, and adopted the answers to these new questions, and said to it, "From today on, my faith is the answers to these questions." So, a complete change has occurred in you. Now, how great a change has occurred that, just as a patch of summer ash appears on a very common tree, most people say to you, "Our grass roots, the roots of our tree are the same, and its trunk is the same, but Now let's get to know each other.

As a tree of Sambar Bisht, we are no longer a sour mother. Whenever someone tells someone, this is a tree of Sambar Bisht and when you bear fruit, you will bear fruit every year. Whenever you bear fruit, its fruit will be different from the fruit that was born before. Now I am often asked whether other cultures do not influence our culture. I submit that other lifestyles are often different and you make changes in your daily life, but the strong trunk of your mule remains intact, despite the fact that ladies and gentlemen, your roots are old. I have given the example of a tree. It can be easily understood that if ever there were two trees on a small area of ​​land, one of a fruit tree and the other of a mango tree, and the leaves and branches of both trees were intertwined with each other, and both trees were growing and growing by consuming carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. Both trees were so close that Perhaps their roots below are also intertwined with each other, blood and circulation are so close that even the top and bottom are black in your taking, in receiving the air, in receiving the water, and in taking all these things, in common with the nature of taking them, when he finds the answers to his questions, he will find the green, when he finds the answers to his questions, he will find the green, although they are in the same place, it will never happen that when the roots meet, nothing will happen, no difference can change, the shape and form of its leaves and bark will all look the same, you will say, but the difference in finding the answer will be the same as the one who is running it. I was also told and it is said that if we look at our ancestors, you will see in them that their civilization, their civilization, affects you. Through these roots, one day I tried to go to this abyss that could take me down with respect to grass roots, so I went down very far.

Harappa also crossed Manjudaro also crossed and going ahead I saw a very big gate its door and there was a guard gate and there was a guard at the gate he said where are you going I said I am going inside to enter this city he said no you will have to tell me who you are I said I am a human he said human no identity you tell me which caste you belong to what caste you belong to I said we are human he said no here you are Brahmin or Kati or Vaish or Shudra you tell me who you are then I I could not say I am Brahmin I said I am Vaish and I said okay I said okay you go inside and you are allowed ahead another guard was standing he said very good then come forward Maharaj Adhiraj's elephant which is about to come out which will go round so keep playing the dholak behind it because the worship of Maharaj is that It is important that we have a share, so I took the bell from his hand and continued to ring it after him. There were other young boys, too. We completed the circuit of the entire city with Maharaj and returned.

When I went home in the evening, exhausted, my mother told me that your sister's husband, that is, your brother-in-law, has died. Your sister is young and strong, and your father is old. We tried to lift her up and throw her into the pyre. She did not agree. So she went ahead. Catch her and throw her into the pyre. I lifted her up. I was a strong man and took her and burned her in the burning pyre with her husband. I was watching this scene with many of my friends. When I came out, I saw that this discrimination among people was going on at such a rapid pace. So I thanked God that I had received this order that white people have no superiority over black people, black people over white people, non-Arab people over Arab people, and Arab people over non-Arab people. And 1400 years ago, this democracy was in vain, whether we believe it or not, now it is a different matter whether we can practice it or not. This is our misfortune, when the day we were born It was the summer of paradise, and along with it, this slip was given. I believe that our nation is so different from all the nations of the world that another culture had an impact on it and it happened with intensity and it turned 90 degrees with them completely and they adopted the answer to these questions with their happiness and with their honesty and with the devotion of their hearts that after today we are right. Now a problem arises that sometimes people ask me, yes, you tell me that it seems very good like this, no, because we often keep thinking that this is our culture, so the people around us, in whom we have been living, how can they suddenly become different from us? I say, no, they are not different at all. For this, I will give you an example. Suppose we are traveling on a ship on the sea and suddenly the sea also woke up with a roar and a flood arose and the ship was engulfed in waves and as it happens in stories, the ship is completely wrecked. It happened and we were clinging to a plank each and were near an island. Now there were people of different nations and different languages ​​gathered there. Obviously, I took the closeness of the group that understood my language, which made it easier for me.

I used to go and sit with them and those who liked these songs, which were Khalidi Maro, burned them so that it would be easier for me. I spent the whole day with them and the whole night, life was going well in this, that now someone will come to us and help us from outside, so we might go back to our homes, but I was spending a lot of time there. I used to spend the day with them and spend all my time with them. But when I felt that my last days were coming and I was suddenly dying, I told these same people to hand over this group who are Indonesians and I do not understand their language to them and I am happy with the treatment they give me. So they told them that I was going to hand over my journey, which was about the Heraptor, to them. Because these people have answered the questions the same way we have. I am happy to talk to you about language and I respect you a lot and I am similar to you. So when a big decision comes, whether it is about me or my vision, then I will establish a relationship with them. But as far as talking is concerned, I am here in the name of Allah. So I have understood that the issue of culture is for us, or at least for me.

The issue of culture is not so complicated and difficult for us, or at least for me, and after understanding the answers to the questions or keeping them in mind, for the sake of simplicity, I have suggested that it should not have any more origin in it for the future and for you. We often use this idiom about life: the matter of life and death. Because the rhythm of life is going on. This is the death I mentioned earlier. It has great importance. The warrior, the one who is safe, the one who is a very strong man, and he always maintains a relationship and a connection with his death. Women and Will. If you have done some anthropological study about very ancient sects, about very ancient races, you will see that Rand's Red Indians and the original Abbasids of America had very strange and strange connections. They were a little more attached to their death than we are here. An anthropologist Carlos's friend, who was a spy, went to meet an old South American to do some research. This is a long story. Let me make it short. The things he said or described are all good. His name is Don. He is a young man. Americans call him that. I want to ask this. In our lives, we, the citizens who are related to the American way of life, get very nervous. We get conflicted. We get divided into two parts. There are many questions that we do not understand. So what should we do about it? The Red Indian said.

The question is not as complicated as you have made it out to be. He said. Look, suppose I want to marry a girl and another girl comes into my life. Now I cannot decide and I do not want to be dishonest. I am confused. What should I do? Give me your opinion. How do you people, who are ancient Red Indians and who have a separate reality? He said. Oh, this is a very simple matter. When such a Whenever a problem arises, always ask your death. Now the problem has arisen. How can you ask it? He said that the death of every person walks along the left hand side at a distance of five feet because it protects him. If God forbid, he dies, then if death is not there, then he is killed. If the line is present, then it is the duty of his death to stay with him. So he said that it is very important to ask him, so you should always ask him. He said, how will you answer? He said, first you will know the emotional vibration. Then it seems that it makes the life of our elders a matter of whether to do it or not. Human life should not be limited to this life, but when you meet the here and now, then this journey is completed or the problem of life or life continues. Your great kindness and gratitude to you too. May Allah Almighty grant you ease and grant you the honor of distributing ease. GOD Bless You

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