Another similar story.
About a hundered years back a marriage was being held in a family. When food was being served on the floor on banana leaves, the cat of the house started running around causing disturbance. Seeing this, the elder of the house caught the cat and put it under a basket in one corner of the marriage pandal. The son of this person was watching this.
He grew up and he had to conduct a marriage in the family. At the time of the marriage, he remembered what his father did with the cat. As he did not have a cat he sent a servant and brought a cat from the neighbour's house and put it under a basket in one corner of the pandal without thinking why his father did this. Next generation automatically followed this practice and now it has become a tradition in the family.
This may be an imaginary story, but indicative of the reasons behind many tradtions that exist now
T. M
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To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 13:31:41 +0530
Subject: [www.keralites.net] Confused Monkeys
Monkey- ism 
(This is reportedly based on an actual experiment conducted in the U.K.)
Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling.
Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Soon enough, whenever a monkey attempts to climb the ladder, all of the other monkeys, not wanting to be sprayed, set upon him and beat him up. Soon, none of the eight monkeys ever attempts to climb the ladder.
One of the original monkeys is then removed, and a new monkey is put in the room. Seeing the bananas and the ladder, he wonders why none of the other monkeys are doing the obvious. But undaunted, he immediately begins to climb the ladder.
All the other monkeys fall upon him and beat him silly. He has no idea why.
However, he no longer attempts to climb the ladder.
A second original monkey is removed and replaced. The newcomer again attempts to climb the ladder, but all the other monkeys hammer the crap out of him.
This includes the previous new monkey, who, grateful that he's not on the receiving end this time, participates in the beating because all the other monkeys are doing it. However, he has no idea why he's attacking the new monkey.
One by one, all the original monkeys are replaced. Eight new monkeys are now in the room. None of them have ever been sprayed by ice water. None of them attempt to climb the ladder. All of them will enthusiastically beat up any new monkey who tries, without having any idea why.
And that is how traditions, religions and systems get established and followed.
Think twice before following a tradition, religion or system blindly .. it wud make more sense if u get ur own understanding to it...
long.. but worth a read...
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