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Bharatha Samskara Pracharana Sabha

India has always been a unique land. Sanatana Dharma in Indian culture is a culture that sees the relationship between man, nature, and God in its entirety.

Many people often ignore many of India's customs, calling them mere superstitions. But we must understand the logic and science behind them.

The biggest curse of our country today is the spineless politicians who reject our invaluable heritage and culture and praise other religions they have fabricated simply for votes. And religious figures who exploit the country in the name of religion, seeking the wealth and respect of the people.

The Hindu religion, idols, creeds, and rituals that we see today are all royal practices created during the reign of the king for the safety and well-being of the country and for the protection of the king, and are not part of Indian culture. It's just that later, when people started watching the dance without knowing the story, it all deteriorated to the way it is today.

India has always been a unique land. The eternal religion of Indian culture is the culture that has seen the relationship between man, nature and God in its entirety. Let us mention a few things to understand the importance of Indian culture -

Education

Swami Vivekananda's philosophy of education says that true Indian education is about bringing out the power and potential that lies within us. Indian culture has grown and is growing through the Guru-Shishya tradition.

The knowledge of that which makes a person perfect is the true knowledge of Brahman.

The culture

For every country and nation, their culture is the most precious and valuable. No other culture in the world, other than Indian culture, has studied the human mind so scientifically and in such depth. Indian culture was designed with a comprehensive understanding of rationality and science for the ultimate well-being of man, fully targeting all the possibilities of the human mind.

Indian culture possesses all the technology and spirituality needed to enlighten the people of India, who are far ahead in intelligence and humanity compared to those in other countries. The spiritual tradition of India has sharpened our intellect and thinking in a special way.

Spiritual

While Western culture emphasizes the body (gross body), Indian culture emphasizes the soul (subtle body). It is a priceless heritage that has been shattered when such a great culture was confined within the confines of religion and pursued in vain in pursuit of knowledge and worldly pleasures for material gains.

Today, while the nations and great powers of the world are admiring these precious spiritual wisdoms of India, we dismiss them all with the label of communalism.

Dharma is of two types, one is the Dharma of the body (bhautika). The other is the Dharma of the soul (sanatanadharma).

Karma

In Indian culture, we believe that life is the result of karma, meaning that each person is responsible for their own life, but with the advent of Western culture, it has degenerated into a form of fate, if not destiny.

In reality, what we need to understand is the truth of Indian culture that our successes and failures are determined by our own actions, and no god can influence them.

We are the architects of our own lives. Today, some foreign authors have embraced the value of Indian culture, which states that everything we do reflects our creative thinking, and have turned it into their own best-selling books.

Humans, slaves to religion and Westernization, have become inactive today, blaming fate and God's pastimes and blaming others, and have become indifferent to themselves. Therefore, today, Indian culture has evolved into some primitive idea for us.

Habits

Before sunrise, you should wake up in the morning, leaning on your right side, and perform your morning rituals with a prayer to God. When you face the sun and do Sarvagavyayama, your body and mind become active and you also receive energy from the sun.

It is essential to do this exercise barefoot, after bathing on the banks of a river or stream, because when you are asleep, the energy in your body is static. When you wake up, your body is filled with kinetic energy. By touching the earth and water, the body's dirty energy is removed and filled with pure energy.

Many scientifically based habits, such as washing your hands and mouth before eating, and washing your feet, hands, and face after coming from outside, are part of Indian culture.

Salvation

Indian culture places the highest value on human beings, with liberation as the ultimate goal of a person's life. The core of Indian culture is to enable every individual to attain this liberation. But the over-expansion of human traditions such as religion, politics and education has damaged this priceless treasure beyond recognition.

Moreover, Western culture, which is colorful and based on social and material objects, has influenced and subjugated the senses of today's society.

God

Death occurs when the soul, which is the vital force of a human being, separates from the body. Modern medicine has revealed that the soul remains in the body for about three hours after death. That is why the organs of that body are taken out and attached to another immortal body and made to function again. Since there is no soul in a body that has become inanimate due to death, there is no pain when the body is torn apart. So, who is it that awakens this mind and body, and also that spirit that operates and sustains the mind and body, is described as God or Brahman in Indian culture.

The soul is separated by death and merges with the Supreme Soul, from where it takes human birth again. This is called Purjanma. If the human soul is awakened, it will attain salvation, and then there will be no rebirth for that soul, only eternity.

Indian women

The Indian concept is that if the family is a sacred temple, then the goddess is the woman. It was Indian culture that first taught the world to consider women as mothers.

It is not difficult to understand that the divine essence is male in other religions of the world, but in Indian culture, it is difficult to see a single male concept of God, or even in the concept of God, equality is shown for men and women. That is the truth. Nowhere else in the world can you find such a beautiful symbol of the unity of men and women.

Moreover, in Indian culture, women are depicted as one of the three goddesses, Saraswati, Lakshmi, or Durga. Even the rivers of India, which in ancient times provided all prosperity, have a feminine aspect. India has a sacred tradition of calling one's wife, mother, and sister "Devi," a synonym for motherhood. This can be understood even by looking at the names given to women in past generations.

As grandmothers, mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, and friends, the role of women in passing on our heritage from generation to generation by transmitting and preserving our knowledge and customs is extremely relevant and important.

Women are the lifeblood of a country. Taking India as an example, all countries today give utmost importance to the advancement of women. Because a family is better when the women are better. A country is better when every family is better.

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by Swami Vivekananda

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Kaavu

The area where the natural habitat is preserved and maintained is named Kavu. It was named as Sarpakavu to prevent the encroachment and destruction of the ecosystem by the Kavas as part of development, not to worship or venerate the snakes.

Temples

Temples are places set aside to soothe and refresh both the mind and body by influencing the senses of man. The temple was equipped with facilities for that purpose. The altar, the surrounding temple, and the temple pond were all there for that purpose. Temples were not built to worship idols.

This is a group of individuals who are willing to re-evaluate our good heritage as an example to the world, while maintaining India's democratic system of governance beyond caste and religious considerations.