Oral Tradition of Preserving history

Oral Tradition Of Preserving History
Indian traditions and cultural intricacy have always fascinated me, At the same time it also stirs up the confusion of my existing knowledge even more. Indian history as we know is very old and ancient. Therefore, it has developed a unique way of preserving our ancient wisdom through folk storytelling. The sages of that time must have realized the need for storing, recording, and preserving the ancient wisdom safe for the future generations.


How did they do it? Well, they abstracted the primary essence of wisdom into cultural traditions to record our history safe from outside invaders and other natural mishaps. If you’ve noticed the brilliance of our sages, they always knew that any written knowledge can be lost, stolen, forgotten, destroyed, damaged, but oral tradition is much harder to destroy and damage.

This tradition of passing on ancient wisdom to the future generations through hearing and reciting age-old oral stories is called shruti & smriti param-para. It has been an impeccable part of our education system since ancient times. It’s much like today’s decentralized data centers.

Whether they are Vedas, Ramayana, Mahabharata or folk stories – the whole Indian education system of that time was based on the same oral tradition. The modern education system simply doesn’t want to acknowledge its value, and often tags the older generations as illiterate since they often rely on fingerprints for document signing. In my own opinion that is just pure ignorance of modern ideology.

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