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Originally Posted by arjun2826
Hinduism is one of the religion that counts the most rituals.
Everywhere in India people make ritual.
In this case, exepted for the first answer, don't you think rituals are more a restriction of freedom ?
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Freedom to do what? Drink alcholol, indulge in free sex, party all night long in disco?
Some of this rituals as you call them requires the doers to maintain a strict diet and strict lifestyle. Kavadi carrying (common during Thaipusam in Malaysia) for example requires a person to be "clean" physically, mentally and spiritually for about a month.
While to someone like you, this could be consider as "restriction to freedom", to the practitioners it is an exercise for the Mind, Body and Soul.