Ethico-Religious Practices of Borok People of Tripura: A Philosophical Inquiry

The Boroks are Animist. They believed that each and every object has a spirit or soul and power. Natural phenomena such as trees, brooks, hills, rivers, stone, earth, sky, wind etc. all have a soul. They think that nature is alive, filled with soul, spirit and power.  And if she is worshiped she will give them a blessing. The Boroks worship river, wind, earth, forest etc. the entire nature is an object of their worship and they venerate nature. Religion means to respond to the unseen power, soul or spirits and also tries to control destiny by worshiping, sacrificing and praying. And we observed these traditions in the religious belief of borok. Animism is not only the religious customs it is the philosophy, the elementary human philosophies as stated by Hoffding and the groundwork philosophy of religion, said by Taylor in his “Primitive Culture”. In this paper an attempt has been made to know the Borok culture through the lens of religious rituals. The borok is a group of people who speak the kokborok language.