Literature and Religion

Literature and Religion
Sunday, 05 - January - 2020

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Today I'm sharing one more Blog with you. My today's topic is Religion and Literature. Literature gives us many things and give values and liberation. But Religion not give that type of liberation and Bondage us.

The English word ' religion ' is beloved to have been derived from the Latin root ' ligare ' which means " bind , connect " etc. It is prefixed by ' re ' meaning ' again '. Thus the world ' religion ' means ' to reconnect'. This Latin word ' religio ' means ' reverence for God, careful pondering of divine things ' etc. Thus the word religion means that which connects us to God and the practices related to divine things. 

As we know at our birth time we belong to the Religion of our parents. At home we learn the daily practices, prayers and methods of worship from our parents and elders. As we grow older we come to know about other religions as well from our friends, teachers and other sources. In a country like ours, where there is diversity of Culture, languages and religions, it is necessary for us to learn about other religions. For a peaceful co-existence and other growth of our nation we all should learn to respect the religious beliefs of others. 

Sach one's argument is justified, because each one is speaking from his own experience. But he should know that others are also speaking from their experience and their arguments are also justified. The different religions are like these different ways of communicating with god. Every Religion has its own unique way of helping people 'talk' or 'relate' to God. 

Each of of the paths may have it's its own uniqueness. Also those who took each of the ways many argue tha his way the best. But what did he know about other ways? Each path is unique, but it does not mean that the other path taken by another traveller is wrong. This different paths are the different religions.

If you want to communicate with your friends, there are different methods. You can talk in person, write a letter, send a SMS, chat online etc. Each of these methods may have its own advantage and disadvantages, but they all serve the purpose of communicating with your friends. Each one may feel that his method is the best but objectively each one is the best, good and unique. 

The relation of criticism to religion, when they deal with the same documents, is more complicated. In criticism, as in history, the divine is always treated as a human artifact. It is at this point that we can see how religious conceptions of the final cause of human effort are as relevant as any others to criticism.

God for the critic, whether he finds him in Paradise Lost or the Bible, is a character in a human story; and for the critic all epiphanies are explained, not in terms of the riddle of a possessing god or devil, but as mental phenomena closely associated in their origin with dreams. We have identified the central myth of literature, in its narrative aspect, with the quest-myth. Now if we wish to see this central myth as a pattern of meaning also, we have to start with the workings of the subconscious where the epiphany originates, in other words in the dream.

This once established, it is then necessary to say that nothing in criticism or art compels the critic to take the attitude of ordinary waking consciousness towards the dream or the god. Art deals not with the real but with the conceivable; and criticism, though it will eventually have to have some theory of conceivability, can never be justified in trying to develop, much less assume, any theory of actuality. It is necessary to understand this before our next and final point can be made.

The human cycle of waking and dreaming corresponds closely to the natural cycle of light and darkness, and it is perhaps in this correspondence that all imaginative life begins. The correspondence is largely an antithesis: it is in daylight that man is really in the power of darkness, a prey to frustration and weakness; it is in the darkness of nature that the “libido” or conquering heroic self awakes. Hence art, which Plato called a dream for awakened minds, seems to have as its final cause the resolution of the antithesis, the mingling of the sun and the hero, the realizing of a world in which the inner desire and the outward circumstance coincide. 

This is the same goal, of course, that the attempt to combine human and natural power in ritual has. The social function of the arts, therefore, seems to be closely connected with visualizing the goal of work in human life. So in terms of significance, the central myth of art must be the vision of the end of social effort, the innocent world of fulfilled desires, the free human society. Once this is understood, the integral place of criticism among the other social sciences, in interpreting and systematizing the vision of the artist, will be easier to see.

In last , summarising this God is just thing not anything. People just believe in that power. But many people are not believing in that and they believe on his or her own. And Literature helps for understanding of this unbelievable things. People things that this divine helps us in everything , so they believe but some are not believing in that because they learn and they believe on his own and also on knowledge of Literature and those people question this divine.