[bhattdivya]

My views related to this topic are a little bit different. I don't say that one should blindly believe in some superstition but I do believe that we should try to understand the reason for it and might as well follow it. According to my experiences in life I have seen all the superstitions are made due to some scientific or religious reasons to it. We might not have discovered it yet so we think it's crazy to follow them. For eg. It is believed that we cannot leave the house with a diya in the house still lit. The underlying reason is that an object nearby due to any unforeseen circumstances may catch fire and create a problem.

Similar is with cutting nails in the night, that it would poke a bird's eye. But the real thing is that in night the vision is not as clear as day and in early days there used to be no nail cutter and people used scissors.

There are endless of these examples but unless we find a scientific or logical reason to it we are not going to follow it. So I would say if there's something that is preached by the previous generations there must be a reason to it let's not oppose it and find reality to it !!