CULTURE

In Bharat the sages discovered and initiated a culture that is spiritual and this spiritual culture is maintained and worked out through spiritual practices and,therefore,culture and religion are,to the Hindu,one and the same.Very rarely we find any mention of the term culture as such in our ancient literature.More often we meet with the insistence and mention if the religious practices.Each generation passes down the torch of its culture to its next generation of children,and it is for them to preserve,tend and nourish that torch and hand it over carefully to the future generation.Survivors maintain and continue the cultural purity that they had themselves so labouiously cultivated and inculcated in to the mind of their children.But as a result of slow blooming of the social values of life through generation of careful cultivation,necessarily,we will be  insulting the very labour of our ancestors.In fact the Hindu religion is a technique by which  this spiritual culture can be maintained and worked out in the community.From above explaining we come to know that Dharma is those divine values if life by living which we will be manifesting more and more the essential spiritual being in us.Family Dharma(Kul-Dharma) is thud nothing but the rules of living,,thinking and acting in a united,well-planned family,strictly following which we soon come to learn,in the prayer-room of the homes,how to live as better citizens.