On India - 1998-2020

It is self-evident that we, all of 7.5 billions of us, have been subjected to a common spell and yet the way to shake off this hypnotic malignancy cannot be identical for all. It is also self-evident that, through human agencies, numerous forces are rapidly ruining the earth’ integrity and compromising the very possibility of continuous and progressive life upon it. Many voices have risen in the past decades and many more are now rising: voices of warning, of prophecy, exhorting voices, voices of alarm, of denunciation, from all paths of life and all disciplines, even while certain technological advances are forging ahead, fuelled by the greed for enormous profits and control. Some of these voices resonate deeper as they draw the substance of their calls from experiencing the fundamental oneness of the universe and mankind’s role and responsibility as an evolutionary bridge – a bridge TOWARDS a more harmonious and conscious condition, instead of an agent of another destruction and failure within its infinity.

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One of India’s sons and its most articulate and far-seeing voice, which India as a country, a society and a field of research, thought and action, has so consistently and significantly ignored since its very birth as a nation, is yet the One who has enunciated all the keys and processes that are necessary for an integral realization and the activation of a high unifying power upon earth for its future as a site of ever-progressive manifestation.

Sri Aurobindo.

And the reason why He has been so largely ignored for all these crucial decades is plain and simple: one can begin to “understand”, accept and

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