Raphael Warjri

In the Khasi belief system, the husband also must be equally careful during the pregnancy period of his wife. He must abstain from any activities that may cause harm to others because it might occur in the infant that is being conceived by his wife. It is said that the father of the child being conceived should not engage in cutting any live organism or to burn or shoot anything with sharp implements, because natural consequential effect would reciprocate on the life that is being conceived by his wife. Violent acts are, during a wife’s pregnancy, regarded as taboo. The worst sacrilege would be adultery, because it may disturb the birth of the child and disable his wife and hinder the delivery of birth until he confesses the infidelity. Otherwise, it may cause deformity on the child and even death to one of them or both due to his indulgence of the husband. This is usually perceived by modern science as superstition, but it is the sheer lack of knowledge about folk science on the forces of nature that is linked to every life on earth. The system has nothing to do with moral conditioning, but the forces of nature would motivate every individual to abide by its direction, lest they encounter drastic consequences.

These forces of nature have allocated certain spaces for all creatures to exist and prevail; therefore, if any of the creatures behaved against the law of nature, they may survive but they will be transformed into another being that is not compatible with the original creation. Therefore, if women desired to be like men, they will become men in a way that they chose to defy and deprive of their own feminine nature of existence. The ancient knowledge is about understanding the nature of existence and adapt with the congenial conduct of nature; unfortunately, the modern intellect is about complaint, dissent, assertion, confrontation and frustration about the nature of existence, which are totally contrary to the Laws of Nature. All beings are created with the plan of Nature and human beings are not supposed to change and defy but to live in accordance to these laws in peace and harmony.

Since the felling of the Diengïei, the forces of nature are liable to conduct in such a way to modify everything that human had already blundered. The collapse of Diengïei was celebrated on the misconception of salvation for the human race, when actually was a disaster that the human being has detached its communication with nature and started to sort out the problem through sacrifice, libation and invocation. According to tradition, the egg and the rooster are the two divine mechanism through which the signs and symptoms could be revealed in case of any misfortune. The interference and intrusion of human on the function of nature had caused miserable consequences on every creatures, and drastically affected fellow human the most. There have been many incidences of physical and mental deformity in human that could not be remedied or restored. The human intelligence is more vulnerable to the tragedy than the animals and other creatures that abided by the normal course of nature. The various biological and cerebral disorder occured because human explored the earth and nature beyond their necessity and assumed that they are more competent to handle the situation than the ideal function of the various forces of nature.

Furthermore, the human race still thinks that they are in possession of the earth and all its contents. Laws, conventions, rules and regulations are being made to suit the interest of human and neglect and ignore all other creatures that existed and prevailed in the harmony of nature. The much talked about topic in the present context is human rights, environmental rights, women rights and later animal rights, which could be wrong. Human rights is being implemented or imposed to the extent that nature and other creatures are being taken for granted as the legitimate properties of human; environmental rights is being implemented or imposed by the supposedly law makers who hardly encounter and interact with the real environment; women rights is being implemented and imposed to glorify the bold and assertive and deprive the recluse; animal rights is being implemented and imposed to the extent that the wild are domesticated and the domesticated are preserved in such a manner that they are being pampered more than the human being who faces the scorching sun. Such are the undesirable indulgences of human towards anything and everything on the planet.

In the modern civilisation, the most deplorable leniency is the advocacy for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gendered (LGBT) species of human being, which is based on the alleged abnormal sexual arrogance. These people are the unfortunate offshoot of human indulgence towards the generosity of nature. There could be the consequences of incestuous or prohibited carnal abuses. They are of the same category with the mentally and physically challenged people and people with certain physical and psychological retardations and deformities. Like every fellow human being, they need to be inclusive in the society must restrain any indecent gestures and indulgences in public, which could be against the society. They have every right of privacy provided it does not influence, affect or victimise the other simple and innocent young people. In the Khasi concept of human relationship, such type people are engaged in socially productive activities to contain and divert from undesirable and unusual natural urge of their biological organism. There are many LGBT people in Khasi society and they are as normal as any human being and accepted in the community with their ability to contribute and exist in the society without the concern of somebody who perceived that they are being deprived and discriminated. They do not need the care and concern of some legal, moral and social extremists and temporal greedy mammons/sharks and they are capable of independent survival in society without causing harm to others. Actually, they are very productive and excelled in their respective occupation of their choice. The only deficiency is that they might not be able to engage in the reproduction process. Therefore, they are free to participate in the rare and limited opportunity of responding to their natural life without force or causing harm to others. If two individuals are mutually compatible and comfortable with their natural mutual behaviour, the society should keep away from any prejudiced remarks. All the physically and psychologically retarded and deformed persons are very sensitive and need to be dealt with care and concern but not overly as to make them conscious of their alleged deficiencies. Often they could be more efficient in their respective fields and capabilities more than the supposedly normal person. The inclusion should be a blend of care and freedom of individual expression.

The world would have been a better place if any individual and every creature is allowed to live the life they wish and let the forces of Nature tackle their problems and help them cope as they should. The human species accept that everything that Nature facilitated in the actions of the animate and inanimate objects are part of life,Enough is enough- that human had devastated the world in his endeavour to improve the life and condition of the world. The Khasi matrilineal system is an inclusive maternal family composition that allows every individual to grow and excel in their own field and by their own personal genius. It percolates to the ideal system of administration, judiciary, legislation and dissemination of truthful information and knowledge system.