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ESSENTIAL PRACTICES OF RELIGION: THEOLOGY, RATIONALITY, AND FOLKS WISDOM


What is essence? A perceptual faith, a transitory imagination; a short sighted creation; a static wisdom; a rotten fruit. Nothing exists for permanency; nothing remains evergreen.The old wisdom has been that nothing qualifies as knowledge unless it frees. How does essentialization make a phenomenon free at its sublety? Essentialist vision of life is the chain, which needs to be set free.

In pre-modern society, essentialism was the process of fine guess. In modern society, it was used to rationalize in need of stability, order, and security. In post-modern era, a chain of tribalism has encaged, what has hitherto been the universalized myth of Equality, Liberty, and Fraternity. Nothing changed except a myth of 'no truth' became fashionable.

The origin and growth of human made laws were inspired with the cosmic order, a Hobbesian myth of power-jurisprudence, the Leviathan, was a rationale-legal God; the essence of all the essence, prisoned all the futuristic imaginations except, the Right Jurisprudence. Right in its particular direction swallowed up, each and every orientation of life; flourishing in need and desire of a particular human condition. To find an essential practice of religion, which was celebrated and practiced in past; and to re-impose it here and now,  without any glimpse of change; is nothing but a slavery to the dialectical imagination (here I'm referring Hegel, The Philosophy of Right). And for Supreme Court comes forward in a role of fine theologian, in defence of secularism vis-a-vis Constitutional morality, without letting a culture to grow in its unique best! For many secualrist writers create a fashionable song of progressivism without paying the heed to the folks- wisdom. For no custom is meant to remain the same; let it grow in flux of time and in uniqueness of space. For wisdom is not missing in folks; it is absent in juris-generation.

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