Q. 187: Gurudev, what would you say about the eastern and western cultures?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Pick up good things like cleanliness and following the rules from the Western society. Western Civilization has such cleanliness and the sense of following rules. Learn the Human values from the East. 

Every country or tradition has something good to offer.
We need to learn hospitality from the Japanese, precision from Germans, etiquette from the English and marketing from America and from India human values. We can also learn, what not to learn or what to unlearn? 

Too much formality! At some places, the mother has to take permission to go to her daughter, or the daughter has to take appointment from the mother. This has started to happen somewhere in urban society here also. 

The naturalness, sense of belongingness is disappearing from the society. That has given rise to depression and other disorders in so many countries in the west. There is such a sense of belongingness and human values even in a village in the east, and that is to be maintained.

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