outstanding features of Indian culture
The outstanding features of Indian culture responsible for bringing unity in diversity may be summarized as follows:
- We Indians lay emphasis on spirituality, not on material wealth.
- Religion has the most important place in India. We believe in Karma and Sanskar.
- Performance of duty is our religion.
- Religion tolerance is the unique feature of religions in India. Hence there is no difficulty in coexistence of follower of different religion.
- Hinduism, which forms majority of the population, has the capacity to absorb all good cultures. It has either absorbed the immigrant cultures or has largely influenced them.
- We have a very broad outlook. We preach and follow religion and spiritualism without ignoring married life and worldly things.
- We firmly believe in freedom of thought and freedom of expression because such freedom enriches the culture which then becomes dynamic.