REVERENCE......

REVERENCE

At the offset, if you wonder or examine my cerebrations or my incite,you would obviously tend to wonder if i have any reverence,to begin my blog with this kind of post.!and if still it was a dawn at dusk for you ?let me make it better for you to understand what am trying to convey through this post on reverence!Reverence?The moment when my neurons had to send them to my cranial capacity for the very first time, and retain them,i cottoned on it that,it means a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe. It is a combination of admiration and wonderment. While we can have awe for even a tyrant or a cruel animal, admiration is reserved only for positive qualities .Reverence, a mixture of awe and admiration, is a virtuous quality. The complexity in veneration or reverence and understanding it is dewy-eyed,i mean to say it is indeed not as complex as it is perceived to be!It is however not that simple as proper definition of reverence is difficult. Reverence begins only where there is a realization of our limitations as a human to comprehend things that are external to our control.- God,nature,justice,death to name a few.. Reverence does not belong to religion. It belongs to society or community.so if reverence is reverence to us, we need to be well-turned. When people live together they secure themselves with some form of rules, regulations, forms of ceremony, and good manners and observance of these is an act of reverence. An arrogant man cannot be reverent as he has no respect for things that are higher than himself. Power without reverence is arrogance, politics without reverence is blind to general good, service without reverence is rebellion and a life without reverence is brutish and selfish.

We should not confuse respect with reverence. Respect can be good, bad, wise or silly depending upon the person respected. It would be silly to respect a fool but wise to respect an intelligent youngster. To pay respect to vain men with false fame or tyrants with power is not reverence. Reverence calls for respect only when respect is really the right attitude. We can define reverence as “the well developed capacity to have the feelings of awe and respect and shame when these are the right things to have. Reverence can be misplaced on basis of belief, custom or whatever reason. It is not proper to mock at them if there is sincerity behind such reverence.I could still fortunately remember when i glanced through a book by mark twain, one of my favourite writers too,There was a story related by Mark twain about a Yankee who was shown a lamp burning in a temple in Burma. The priest told him with awe that the lamp had never been extinguished for hundreds of years. “Is that so?” said the Yankee;” well, I guess it’s out now”; and he stooped down and blew it out. Mark Twain remarked that, “True reverence is the reverencing of other people’s reverence. Such an act alone would foster better understanding and tolerance in the world.