Understanding and preserving the good that we have inherited is our responsibility and contributes to the education of our children. As it is important to preserve culture, so is the need to better it. Please visit https://wegujaratis.org/culture/ to read my thoughts on culture.

I see this blog as a subset of a larger conscious culture initiative. While each culture has its beliefs, customs, food, language, literature, and art, when they evolve, they converge to the ultimate universal set of values. While the world is a necklace of diversity, there is human thread that holds us together. If each culture evolves to understand this human thread, we can be one despite our diversity.

I share my journey of preserving and evolving the Gujarati Hindu culture in this blog. My adaptation is minimalist on rituals, and with a focus on understanding the essence. I want to overcome some aspects that make our culture difficult to follow – lack of understanding, elaborate customs, convergence with the larger universal values set.

While we preserve our culture, it is equally important to respect other cultures and learn from them. It is important that children not only inherit good, but also see and imbibe good from other cultures. I share my learning from other cultures in this blog.

As the intention is to converge to a larger universal set of values, this blog will

• Avoid endorsing superstition and beliefs with negative tones
• Be cruelty free – We will only endorse vegan, dairy (minimal use and from cruelty free source) and non-animal products
• Avoid customs that lead to wastage and harm to the environment
• Promote conscious and minimal consumption
• Avoid fundamentalistic ideas and promote an open positive mindset

I wish for one person in every culture to do this, so in the end we can all be part of a larger conscious culture movement. Please get in touch with me using the contact form on this website if I can help you contribute to your culture.