LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS The case in point is; those who can “see” the incoming holistic renaissance; would certainly get thrilled to blissfully participate in the process of engendering holistic renaissance in their respective fields; and fulfill their lives as leaders!

1. FAITH
AND
CHITRAAHUTI
DR
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. What is chitraahuti?
We gratefully and prayerfully share a small part of
food available to us for eating; before beginning our
lunch and dinner. This procedure, norm or ritual is
called chitraahuti. The word is derived from the
combination of two words Chitra and Aahuti. Chitra
is deity’s name and Aahuti means offering.
This is one of the examples; of the philosophy and
rituals, emerged from the realization of truth and
organized so as to culminate in the realization of
truth. Truth is beyond articulation. But it can be said
to be the state of being; where the individual
consciousness is one with the universal consciousness.
Chitraahuti is a gesture of reaffirming our oneness
and harmony; with the visible and invisible living
universe; in and around us. It transforms a biological
compulsion and mechanical act into a YAJNYA, a
noble deed and leap forward towards individual and
universal blossoming.

3. It is obvious and clear that when we are too immature
to understand this purpose; we either simply follow
the procedure; with “religious feelings of reverence”;
without understanding its importance; or reject it
with “arrogant rationality and rebelliousness”! We
get labeled as “conformists” or “rebels” respectively;
but are in either case; immature!
As we are immature; we tend to blindly adhere to our
past glory irrationally; or get variably influenced,
impressed and overwhelmed by the cacophony of
individualism and the apparent freedom in it. We get
either fossilized in the letters and words of scriptures;
or get inebriated by the showy glamour and the phony
glitter. We get entangled in the external aspects of the
rituals or get delirious in petty individualism, lopsided
logic, superficial analysis and callous reductionism.
Due to our immaturity; we either become shyly
diffident conformist; hostile to rationality; or become
maniacally arrogant rationalists; hostile to ancient
profundity, wisdom and benevolence!

4. Our plight is in our secessionist and treacherous
ungratefulness to nature in and around us; and our
emotional separation from it. Actually this is;
“splitting away” from our own roots; our life lines!
The process of reconnecting with cosmic
consciousness i.e. returning to our own selves is
however; swiftly absorbing all of us; who represent
the global conscience.