HAIL PHOTO

HAIL PHOTO ! 

Idolatry was not a part of the original Vedic religion. So have I read in Swamiji and elsewhere. If I am wrong, I am amenable to being corrected. Idol worship was introduced by the Buddhists in India to popularise their religion and has stayed on since even after Buddhism ceased to be a force anymore in India. Vaishnavism absorbed many of the elements of Buddhism including idol worship, replacing Krishna for Buddha, and, so, idol worship was thoroughly assimilated into Hinduism with all its good and bad consequences. 

Now the worship of photographs on Facebook posts instead of pondering over the content of posts is a direct consequence of this ingrained idolatry and at its nadir at that. Would it were that devotees were a trifle more engaged in reading! They would have benefited more and turned into better devotees. Devotion tries to raise human consciousness above the physical level but such ardent devotion to photographs hardly does so. Thus, such show of devotion betrays quite its opposite attribute, so it seems to me. Would it were otherwise!

Written by Sugata Bose