Hospitality in indian culture
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Indian culture places great importance on hospitality, viewing guests as equal to gods. The scriptures teach that even enemies should be offered hospitality in one's home and that a tree provides shade for all, including those who would cut it down. Traditional Indian hospitality involves offering guests refreshments, a place to sit, sweet words, and practicing the five-step worship of fragrance, lamp, eatables, rice, and flowers.
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Hospitality in indian culture
- 1. HOSPITALITY IN INDIAN CULTURE FREDIN SCARIA
- 2. Atithi Devo Bhavah “matrudevo bhava, pitrudevo bhava, acharyadevo bhava, atithidevo bhava.” - Taittiriya Upanishad "Even an enemy must be offered appropriate hospitality if he comes to your home. A tree does not deny its shade even to the one who comes to cut it down." -Mahabharata sweet words, a place to sit, and refreshments
- 3. Panchopchara Puja five-step worship = five formalities • Fragrance (Dhupa) • Lamp (Dipa) • Eatables (Naivedya) • Rice (Akshata) - symbol of being undivided. • Flower Offering (Pushpa)
- 4. • Food • garland • Speak • Willingness to help • Travellers • Wash • no No • Etiquetes