Most of the art forms of Hindu culture starting from
literature to dance to music to painting to architecture to yoga to religious
rituals to religious discourses have never been taken as or treated as mere
modes of entertainment or professional engagement or still worse the
modern money making survival tool kit, but, on the contrary they
were executed with great devotion and dedication, not only because of the
religious significance or connotation attached to them, but they took into
account, out of conscious realization, the most vital truth of life, namely the
fact that life is primarily composed of three fundamental aspects,
Physical [ includes all anatomical, organic and material aspects of life],
Mental [includes all psychological, emotional, socio cultural aspects] and
Spiritual [ the unseen but important aspect underlying all aspects of life] and
also the fact that these three are interlinked and interdependent.
Therefore any Classical Indian
music form or Dance form feeds all these three vital realms of life, otherwise
these art forms should have been and would have been killed long back as newer
and more attractive forms of entertainment emerged. That is the strength of our
rich heritage which could not be destroyed by so many military and mental
invasions. It is by no means a manifestation of being
ethnocentric but excellence centric, so, let us be proud of all these.
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