On India - 1998-2020

“Auroville, early 1999.

Today more than ever India must play its true role, as a mother amongst the nations and as a guide in the bosom of our confused and wounded race. It must play its role for its own sake and for the sake of the entire world, it must become one with She, the Mother. It must center itself around its soul, offer itself to its spirit and receive from soul and spirit the real strength that is Hers alone. India today is weak, it is a chaos of contradictions: its very own, but also those it has inherited, imported or yielded to.

And yet India alone can lay the foundation for the coming age.

India is ancient beyond memory.

Yet it is hardly born as a nation.

It holds the supreme keys to the only condition that will redeem humanity and save the earth: the life of Spirit in Matter. India has yet to gather its children and its powers into Her true puissance of unity. For uncounted millennia its people, throughout the width and breadth of its land and the many dimensions of its culture have freely met the Spirit.

And yet what selfishness has ensued, what blindness, what denial of the body of the Lord!

It is time for India to make its true offering, the one every human being needs, the offering of a physical and material home for the divinity.

Let India become Herself, the Mother, and show the way for each human being to unite with the divinity within and without, for each human body to serve the divine manifest, for each human action to express the Divine’s inexhaustible riches.

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