(v) Accepting, Assimilating and a Tolerant Society
An accepting group and assimilated society allows expansion of its human resources along with the physical, and knowledge from within and without. Exclusivity and intolerance are the hallmark of a stale and potentially declining system. Live and let live and toleration of that which is different but has its own value and significance allows a society to grow in its multidimensional social life.. This process feeds enrichment of life from north to south and west to east.
Indian social structures have been accepting, assimilating and tolerating ideas, people, values, cultures, music, governance, architecture, science and technology, and just about everything else from outside throughout its history.
This is perhaps so as a result of most broad and open source thinking in the ancient Vedic system of thought and inner examination of life on earth as well as individual life and its meaning and purpose.
It is no wonder India became known as the ‘spiritual guru to the world’. The spirit and practice of acceptance, assimilation and tolerance continue to manifest themselves in the day-to-day life in India of 2013.
The modern constitution of India has enshrined these values beyond simply history into a continuing cultural legacy from as far back as one can think of social and cultural history of the Indian civilization with its known roots in the Vedic system of values.
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