Journal of Sociology and Social Work

Spiritual Dimensions of Indian Culture
Dr. Sribas Goswami

Abstract
This article deals with several aspects of spiritualism as the foundation of Indian culture and tradition. It says that each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or workshop or psychic control or philosophy - by one or more or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of Hindu religion. Doctrines and dogmas, rituals, books, temples or forms are but secondary details. It is not confined to any form of god or different styles of prayer and it is not the rules and regulations written in religious holy books. But these are means to unfold our spiritual personality and not the goal in itself. The spirituality means manifestation of the potential divinity within us by work (karma yoga) or worship (bhaktiyoga) or philosophy (gyana yoga) or psychic control (raja yoga). The characteristic of this manifestation is the mastery over the inner and external personality and the result of it is total freedom. An effort has been made to look into the spiritual dimensions of Indian culture through this study.

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