INDIAN PRACTICES
We greet elderly person while meeting
Bow down to touch feet to receive blessing.
When we climb up a stage for any act
We bow down to the stage in fact.
We pray to God when we get up every morning
With a belief that day will pass off without stalling.
We thank God before going to bed
And for keeping life in good stead.
We sing or dance without footwear
We consider it as an act of prayer.
We bow down to food served on plate
To satiate hunger that we face.
We celebrate change in seasons
Be they harvest winter or spring times.
We follow movements of sun overhead
We get up by sun rise and eat by sun set
We follow changes in moon's phases
We fast or diet for health reasons.
We respect air water as primary entities
We bow to them to receive their blessings.
We light an oil lamp in front of an idol
So the light may make our acts vital.
Before starting construction activity
We perform ground prayer ceremony.
Before occupying new home freshly
We perform a ceremony for entry.
We buy a new vehicle or machinery
We worship before we start using really.
Coconut fruits flowers are an integral part of ceremony
We break coconuts to allow start of activity.
We remove footwear when we enter home outright
We believe home ground sacred and leave road dust outside.
We have faith in universal cosmology
We invoke sustainable cosmic energy.