Nature Worship in India

Contents: Preface. 1. Civilization closest to nature. 2. Vrikshotsava: festival of trees. 3. Woman and tree. 4. Tree shrines. 5. Mountain. 6. Animal worship. 7. Elephant and others. 8. Water. 9. Sun wind and fire.

Indians for centuries saw God in nature and nature in god both worshipful for him.

The primitive world was community of beings which included along with humans all that which implied by the term nature the sky the brooks the rivers the oceans the trees the forests, earth mountains entire flora and fauna.

The reverence and worship offered by humans to other members animate and inanimate of his community of beings gave rise to the cult of nature worship.

The book speaks about this strong Indian tradition of nature worship with the history of several thousand years reaching to the immediate present. (jacket)