India and Her Destiny || TE 624 || Dr. Alok Pandey

The talk takes a look at the future of India as foreseen and foretold by the Mother, and the present reality. Several compilations from Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's words on India: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... Some statements by the Mother on India and her destiny are given below: The Soul of India is one and indivisible. India is conscious of her mission in the world. She is waiting for the exterior means of manifestation. * Let the splendour of Bharat's past be reborn in the realisation of her imminent future with the help and blessings of her living soul. * India must be saved for the good of the world since India alone can lead the world to peace and a new world order. * The future of India is very clear. India is the Guru of the world. The future structure of the world depends on India. India is the living soul. India is incarnating the spiritual knowledge in the world. The Government of India ought to recognise the significance of India in this sphere and plan their action accordingly. * Patriotic sentiments are not incompatible with our yoga—far from it—to will for the strength and the integrity of one's Motherland is a quite legitimate sentiment, the will that she may make progress and that more and more she may manifest, in full freedom, the truth of her being, is a fine and noble will which cannot be harmful for our yoga. But one must not get excited, one must not plunge prematurely into action. One can and should pray, aspire and will for the victory of the truth and, at the same time, continue to discharge one's daily duties and wait quietly for the unmistakable sign to come, indicating the action to be done. * True spirituality is not to renounce life, but to make life perfect with the Divine Perfection. This is what India must show to the world now. * India has or rather had the knowledge of the Spirit, but she neglected matter and suffered for it. The West has the knowledge of matter but rejected the Spirit and suffers badly for it. An integral education which could, with some variations, be adapted to all the nations of the world, must bring back the legitimate authority of the Spirit over a matter fully developed and utilised. * India should be the spiritual guide explaining what is happening and helping to shorten the movement. But, unfortunately, in her blind ambition to imitate the West, she has become materialistic and neglectful of her soul. * India ought to be the spiritual leader of the world. Inside she has the capacity, but outside... for the moment there is still much to do for her to become actually the spiritual leader of the world. * India has become the symbolic representation of all the difficulties of modern mankind. India will be the land of its resurrection―the resurrection to a higher and truer life. * In the whole creation the earth has a place of distinction, because unlike any other planet it is evolutionary with a psychic entity at its centre. In it, India, in particular, is a divinely chosen country. * It is only India's soul who can unify the country. Externally the provinces of India are very different in character, tendencies, culture, as well as in language, and any attempt to unify them artificially could only have disastrous results. But her soul is one, intense in her aspiration towards the spiritual truth, the essential unity of the creation and the divine origin of life, and by uniting with this aspiration the whole country can recover a unity that has never ceased to exist for the superior mentality. * India is not the earth, rivers and mountains of this land, neither is it a collective name for the inhabitants of this country. India is a living being, as much living as, say, Shiva. India is a goddess as Shiva is a god. If she likes, she can manifest in human form. ******************************* AuroMaa playlists navigation: https://auromaa.org/youtube-playlists/ AuroMaa Daily Offerings: https://auromaa.org/subscribe/