The hidden cages we live in, remain in-cognitive to our conscious mind, yet always actively influencing our decisions and opinions. All the presumptions in our mind create cages for our mind, and confine it within a narrow periphery. The presumptions could be of many types. The most prevalent presumptions seem to be:

1. Political cage:
My leader is right; your leader is wrong. The subject does not matter; objectivity bothers either none or very few. For a BJP supporter, Modi is everything, RSS is always right. For the supporters of Congress or ‘Anti NDA Brigade’, NDA is always wrong, and vice versa. When it comes to education some believe the colonial education system, even History, is the most correct, while others, who are trying to correct it, are seen as hijacking education systems. People divide their political preferences on the basis of their caste and religion they are born in.

2. Religious cage:
My religion is the best. Your religion I don’t care about. However, it cannot be better than mine. Traditions, rituals, garbs and food associated to culture becom religion. Superficiality matters, but conceptual similarity of religions finds no heed. Myths are seen as truths, while truths beneath myths remain undetected. For a Hindu everything written in his scriptures is truth, for a Christian everything that the Bible says is BIBLE, and for a Muslim, everything that Mohammad did is to be enacted, including sporting a beard on face, but not drawing his face. Ignorance takes the firm of belief, prejudices, bias,fundamentalism and even negligence. "Adharmam Dharma iti manyate tamasavrita" meaning: Impiety is seen as Piety and vice versa, by those who are covered by the cages of such darkness (ignorance, ill-knowledge).

3. Being Scientific Cage:
The more prestigious a degree one has, the more are the chances of his being biased against the religion. They think there is no logic in religion - all Mumbo-Jumbo. A truly scientific mind gives logic for accepting or rejecting. A fact cannot be the basis for rejecting another, unless there are connections. Scientists believe in possibilities, as science is in its nascent stage, probably not even 1% of where it will be in next 500 years, if the world continues to exist, as it is unable to explain many realities. Its explanations are bound by the 4-D physical realm, except for string theorists that conceive of 10 dimensions (11 in case of M-Theory), but it not applied to biology, psychologies and general thoughts and logic by the people.

Not every answer comes from the physical realm alone, and situation that goes inexplicable, is declared perfidy, artifice and farce easily. There are striking matches within Sanatan Dharma with Quantum Physics, and cosmological Sciences, but it is either not paid enough attention, or declared set of coincidences. People tend to inadvertently marginalize that Rishis did have another method to know realities, which we people do not know and do not strive to know as well.

Srimad Bhagwad Gita says that, what one knows by Sankhya (logic and science) can also know by 'Yog', as they lead to the same truth. The only difference is that the latter is more direct and quicker, possibly unknown to humanity today. 'Not knowing or being beyond understanding' does not mean 'not existing' - a popular falacy by those calling themselves scientific minds, but in reality, that would hamper and delay the development of knowledge, especially some of the premises and truths of Sanatan Dharma. Apostates cannot be blamed completely as they get energy by the jubilant lot who think all epistemological mentions are truths. Exaltation, exaggerations were part and parcel of storytelling to those illiterates in the forms of chants, symbols and fables, so that the essential knowledge could be preserved, and deciphered by Scientists tomorrow - that is today. In 16th century while Keplar challenged Heliocentric theory of Solar system, the notion that "everything in religion is truth", changed, but since then lot of waters have flown and we are caught by it yet. Today, relooking into religion, we see numerous similarities with current sciences, and the time has come to realize that Myths camouflage some truths, but No Sir!, we are still caught by prejudices, that being a science student we must believe that all religions are myths'. That's another cage a few live in. Myths camouflage Truths, should be the revised notion.

4. A Triple sandwich cage:
Yes, this is the mix of previous three, and the most dangerous. They mix their political and religious biases with scientific caliber and often apply logic of religions to politics, and logic of politics to religion, and logic of science to religion and vice versa, without adequate filtering and truth-seeking. They pose to be scientific, yet their political bias comes from religious affinities, and scientific bias goes against it, and vice versa. The goodness and ills of Secularism, and religions are weighed irrationally. Their cages wouldn't let them investigate truths deeper than perceived in glib, due to presumptions and myopic sight. Root cause bothers them not. Ignorance rules. Religions are politically hijacked and never seen logically, with its deeper intent, where all religions merge. Religions rules the world's politics and laws, and 80% of news headlines, yet it is not taught in schools with truth and logic. How foolish? A person with strong Scientific opinion on Religions said, being religious is not necessary for being spiritual. Sounds to me like an Oxymoron, he believes in spirit, which is not proven by sciences, but mentioned in religions, still thinks he values science above religions. He is caught in such dualism. Possibly he wants to say I believe in egalitarian humanism, mentioned in religions, that has nothing to do with science, but he gives it's credit to science.

Kashmir, for example, is seen as political issue, where religious bias is the basis of politics, like many Islamic separatist movements elsewhere in the world, including Pakistan and Bangladesh which were carved out from India. this is not the case for Laddakh and Jammu, who are Buddhist and Hindus. Myopic Kasmiri's fail to see their heritage, beyond 250 years past, that gave foots and foundation to Sanatan Dharma. Not only Kashmir, even Pakistan, the chief conspirator of Kashmir, fought for 600 years against Gazanavi's and Ghouri's, saving religion of the land, before converting to Islam and becoming the supporters of their own invaders who destroyed their original culture with ruthless brutality on chieftains, women and children. Indians instead of hating Pakistan, should be rather grateful to them. Had the erstwhile Pakistanis of 1100 AD not fought with Gazanvi's and Gouri's, half the India would have been in Pakistan today. Failing to see their contribution to Hinduism, we blame them relentlessly. Those are the mixed cages we live in. Can we see the truth, that is beyond?
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