Can our scriptures hold all answers?

I concur with your thoughts. I had a little discussion with a friend about changing city names a few years back. His argument was that many cities were renamed by invaders so we need to restore their original names. My thought is : Yes many bad or we can say tragic things happened in the past : Invasions, Killings, Rapes, forcible religious conversions etc which one cannot forget. Yet now we have certain city names which are a kind of brand. We have to live in the present, have good economic growth, raise our Human Development index and focus on better standards of living for everyone. Changing city names would put paid many things. Plus the administrative and other costs. Bombay to Mumbai was ok. Madras to Chennai - I still am not clear about the reason. Gurgaon to Gurugram and Bangalore to Bengaluru - I have big problem with that, since those were internationally known names and kind of brands. We scored a kind of self goals with that. People still prefer calling Bangalore. Coming back to the scriptures, many scriptures still talk of "Putra Prapti" (getting a son..). Now that was fine during the times of Ramayana and Mahabharata when people would routinely have 10 or more kids and there was nothing like Female infanticide. Going by those scriptures in the present times is not good and could encourage discrimination against women or female infanticide. Some talk about blindly following what parents say. Yet at times, parents are not that good or that wise. Can we follow blindly then? Can we follow those religious rituals everyday which take 1 hour to complete when at times we don't even have 15 minutes to spare on our work days? Can we explain that to our employees? Yes, some knowledge in ancient scriptures about respect for elders, our brothers, sisters and family, diet to be followed, sleeping and waking routines can be adopted. But blind adherence .... A strict no. So everything should be based on rationality.

Do you really think you stopped your research?

I agree with you. There are some manuscripts that need to be proven like Charles Darwin's Evolution Theory. Another one, the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs should be revised.

Research and more research and every time you get a different answer because no one knows for sure. No one has the answers.

No-one - government or individual - seems to learn much from the past, more's the pity.

This post reminded me of this: Tough times create strong men, and strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men, and weak men create tough times.

Research and development are only as good as they go in the right direction, being done for the right reasons. If their direction is being directed by profiteering corruption, we might find more answers about navel-gazing, but the world will still end by global warming, and mass extinctions will still continue to occur too. Research has to look at areas that are beneficial to all, not just to those profiteering companies, profiting from them, by foul means at times, which leads to many a disaster in our times too. Perhaps, the Scriptures try to guide us into researching, and living our life, for the right reasons, in the right directions too.

Knowledge is a powerful tool. We should never stop learning. Hope you have a great weekend.