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The Role of Indian Culture in Enlightening the Notions of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Living Mechanism

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Abstract

Environmental stewardship is not a contemporary practice but a human obligation, which has been explained through significant poetic works, mythological epics, folklore, and the framework of ecological-spiritual feelings as the duty of humans toward nature for centuries. Ancient sages have exquisitely classified the empirical knowledge of making harmony with life by caring for flora, fauna, and Prakriti (Mother Nature) in their treatises and ethnic methodologies and have preserved the wisdom of moral practices toward maintaining the Earth’s sustainability through the cultural rituals, folktales, songs, poems, festivals, and devotional observances. This work is to identify the classical facts of environmental stewardship and sustainable living and asserts the feasibility of Indigenous techniques as well as their applicability for saving nature in the diversely changing modern era. It also gives an implication of noble approaches of the seers or intellectuals as ecologists through the ideology of reviewing the old concepts. Moreover, it advances an attitude of reverence for nature-oriented cultural reforms, epic endeavors, and narrative endowments.

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Kaushal, N. (2022). The Role of Indian Culture in Enlightening the Notions of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Living Mechanism. In: Marques, J. (eds) Handbook of Engaged Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53121-2_61-1

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