Recently we have celebrated Girmit and Ratu Sukuna after a lapse of some years. People complain of the money spent, and perhaps we should celebrate a little less expensively! Despite the cost, these celebrations of remembrance have a deep value for us. They are an important part of our history.
They have many lessons to teach us that will help us improve our modern ways that seem to be so dominated by speed and money. Years ago the Reverend James Bhagwan said, and I quote: “In our desire to move forward, history is a map. It shows us where we are and where we have been and helps us to figure out how to get where we need to go”.
We can learn much from studying the past. We see the mistakes and can learn not to repeat them. We can learn a great deal about how people lived before our modern times.
They survived conditions that we no longer face nor do we understand. There are times when we need the wisdom that the past has to offer us. Wisdom from the past In the Bible we read in The Book of Proverbs Chapter 8: “Hear how wisdom calls and understanding lifts her voice.
She takes her stand at the crossroads, by the wayside, at the top of the hill ...
at the entrance to the city. ‘It is to you, mankind, I appeal; understand, you simpletons, what it is to be shrewd; you stupid people, understand what is to have sense’.” Now, when we want wisdom we turn to Google.
Google gives the facts, but is not a good source of wisdom. In our twenty-first century of technology and the.