(x) Balance between the Physical, Mental and Spiritual Lives
India has the image and a good bit of substance in being a representation of balance between the physical, mental and spiritual. The continuous search for balance will act as breakers in the pursuit of higher economic growth rates.
The dominant Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh traditions in India will continue to seek material progress within their spiritual traditions instead of somehow abandoning them to become material-centric humans.
The Islamic tradition in India today is so unlike the aggressive invaders from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan from the tenth to the eighteenth centuries that the spiritual and life-style values of Muslims are no different than the other spiritual traditions.
It is difficult to visualize ‘animal spirits’ to propel Indians of any persuasion to be economically, and parenthetically militarily, aggressive. After all even Western societies are trying to be less aggressive than in the past.
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