On India - 1998-2020

April 22, 2020.

This is an unprecedented period and experience for mankind, as most of its 7.5 billions are compelled to stay indoors, in a lockdown situation seen as the only solution to survive a pandemic scare by the present governing bodies of this world, and this day is already, where India is concerned, the 32 nd day of this paralysis. Depending on the perspective one elects to focus on, such a condition which could not ever have been brought about by any political decision even when the very fate of material Nature is compromised – as it has been with increasing speed over the last few decades -, has in only a few weeks resulted in a spectacular cleansing of the earth atmosphere and a visible and sensible, if partial, recovery of its biosphere; it has also exposed the almost complete vulnerability of this human species, however civilized, to a well organized and coordinated takeover by determined and superlatively well-equipped groupings aiming at imposing a totalitarian control of which every stage is well-planned. There are quite a few such broad perspectives, each of which bears its own teaching and also its own questioning. Within this almost terrestrial scene, this overview of an almost frozen humanity, one has to wonder whether India’s true role could thus be given the possibility to awaken to its own laws and necessities and begin to manifest, despite its own chaotic, callous and possessed brand of vitality that has all but drowned its inner voice and sacred intuitions – whether India’s eternal spirit-force could be called upon by at least some of its people to take its right place as a leader and a guide to a delivered and harmonious and progressive collective existence upon earth. A few days ago, picking from the shelf a book which I wanted to read again, published in 1998, I found folded between two pages, a few handwritten sheets of paper: the beginning of a sort of a call to India which I had drafted sometime in the early part of 1999.

Here it is, as a marker on the way, twenty-one years old…:

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