Indian Culture
Some of the most interesting entries of Swami Balendu's blog are surely those in which he compares Indian culture and customs to Western culture and traditions.
Sometimes things work similar, with small differences, and sometimes there is a fundamental difference which cannot be overseen.
Whether it is traditions and celebrations, rituals and religion or manners and habits, Swami Ji depicts the differences in an often humourous way.
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| Swami Ji writes about westerners who come to India and are surprised that nobody is shy to express his curiosity, to look and to ask. |
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| Swami Ji writes about the greeting Namaskar and how some people believe women should cover their head when greeting God with Namaskar. |
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| Swami Ji writes that people in the west often hesitate to say directly when they don |
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| Swami Ji writes about differences in manners of different cultures and countries for example knocking before entering which is not usual in India. |
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| Swami Ji writes about another difference: Hindi is a very emotional language and it can look like people are fighting although they are having a nice talk. |
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| Swami Ji writes about differences in cultures. In India children do not feel like leaving their home when they get older like in the west. It is just not in the culture. |
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| Swami Ji writes about families who decide to have a caesarian birth at a certain date and time so that the birth chart of the child predicts a good future. |
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| Swami Ji writes about his childhood and how he feels the difference in growing up in India or in the West. |
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| Swami Ji writes that you need to be close to people of a culture if you really want to understand a culture. A club holiday in a big hotel will not help you to get to know a culture. |
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| Swami Ji tells about dying in India. There is normally a family around who takes care but there are also organizations helping those who are alone. |
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| Swami ji writes about the Indian custom that having a guest is an honour. They serve guests as if the guest was God and give much respect. |
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| Swami ji talks about some similarities that the Indian arranged marriage has with the western way of making a relationship. There is often no previous emotional connection. |
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| Swami Ji writes about arranged marriages nowadays and in the time of his grandmother when children were married before they even had heard about sex. |
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| Swami Ji writes about arranged marriages in India and about how the concept of this relationship was thought to be. |
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| Swami ji talks about the cast system which is unfortunately still in active in some parts of the society. This may be the reason that some children don?t want to tell their last name. |
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| After a Pooja ceremony in Munich Swami Ji tells how a ceremony is in India. |
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| Swami Ji talks about the good and bad things that come from one country to another. |
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| Swami ji tells how one of his friends gets shaved for the first time by hand in India and how big the price difference is between services for Indians or foreigners |
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| Swami Ji tells more about Sadhus, who are fully detached from all material things. Everybody can be a Sadhu, also in normal life. |
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| Swami Balendu depicts how traditions were brought from India to the West and changed also by Indian gurus for commercial use. |
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