Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Religious Worship is very common and normal activities among the all religions daily or occasionally. It may be seem that without any everyday ritualistic practice one can failure in his target. Bengali Hindu Community maintaining some environmental ethics during their worships, and friendly behavior with nature as a part of Hindu culture. Some ritualistic practices in collaboration with eco-friendly activities are carried out by us in our daily and occasional worship. Bengali Hindus carries out several eco-friendly worships and rituals throughout the Bengali Calendar year such as plantation of Tulsi tree in the month of Baishakh or Durga puja or Navratri in the month of Ashvin and harvesting of new rice or Nabanna in the month of Agrahayon or Suryavrata, a vrata carried by unmarried Hindu women on the month of Magh etc. In Kolkata, some Durga Puja used eco-friendly materials like cane, jute, etc. for making the Puja Pandals. Such themes concerning sustainable development definitely carry a great impact on the crowd’s mind, given the sanctity of the occasion. With this attempt, the festivals in Hindu Bengali Community a thought of sustainability combined with sanctity of the religious rites have developed which in turn helps in the preserver or transferring of natural resources to next generation. Hindu religious rituals are mostly inter-connected and inter-dependent with our several Hindu deities. Hindus believe that all living things are sacred because they are part of God as is the natural world. In Hindu religion the Supreme God has absolute sovereignty overall creatures including humans. In contemporary period, Bengali Hindu society most of the time maintaining environmental guideline during their worship.
Institution: Annamalai University
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4294896575