In our times one of the concepts wanting deconstruction is ‘sin’. It is no more adequate to simplistically reduce it to mere breaking of one law or the other. People today are suspicious of the duality of God, cosmos and human beings and the testimony based on authourity. This is one of the reasons for the slack in the educated and the first world people towards structured religions. Further it renders an insight into the rise, at times the craze, of ‘modern-man’ about spiritualities and gurus. As we are growing more and more to understand divine as an insider manifesting by working in and through everything, a narrow understanding sin as breaching of the law is unconvincing. Sin is more a negligence of the divine who is bidding us every moment to lead a selfless life that loves ones neighbour as oneself. For example, we sin when we fail to care for the one who is sick, the old, the small, the poor, and the weak. The circle of neighbour includes everything that surrounds us visible and invisible, the whole cosmos.
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