Do not preserve the Ashes
Christmas seems to have lost its anamnesis. The paraphernalia commemorating its memories are at sale but too expensive for the commons. Market has usurped the Manger. The biblical interpretations also legitimize these invasions. When did tangibility gain precedence over anamnesis? As we brace ourselves for Christmas I find a dire need to rekindle the fire of Re-Membrance which is at the verge of being extinguished by the ashes of misinterpretations. By and large, traditions are held at fault. This is again due to our faulty construal of the term ‘tradition’. This reminiscence me the words of the famous composer Gustav Mahler; “Tradition is not to preserve the ashes but to pass on the flame.” Since time immemorial we have been preserving the ashes reluctant to feed the fire as we relish the numbness of cold and stagnancy. Our indolence is at the expense of the memory of Christ. We are the Disciples of Christ and therefore His sojourning History. Rajneesh Osho reckoned on ...