On India - 1998-2020

lament, our pain; we are attached to our routine, to the small pleasures of each day, to the evening cigarette and glass of wine; the sambar and chutney of simple existence, we do not wish to let go, although we know well that death will tear us apart and away and so cling all the more despite even our agony.

Sri Aurobindo is the one son of India who has delved deep within the spirit of Bharat Mata and delivered from the centuries of neglect, shadow and oppression, Her eternal living truths to be incarnated anew for an age of terrestrial harmony.

But who cares to listen?

Bharat Mata’s very body has been desecrated by Her own people, Her rivers and glaciers, Her forests and Her hills have been violated, exploited and vitiated by Her own children avid for the comforts of a global fraud. Her ancient, vast, far-seeing wisdom, exact and fluid, ever welcoming of sincere experiences and seekings, ever compassionate and ready to guide, ever understanding of all, has been revealed anew by Her Son, Sri Aurobindo, for Her leading mission in the world. Instead of the multiplied fossilized rituals and rules and stigma and privileges and moral duties that generations of Her people have let replace the breath of living spiritual advance and discovery that was Her ferment and Her dynamism, Sri Aurobindo has illumined again the deeper laws of the Shakti in Her workings which must take on a new life and vigor in Her rebirth.. Castes, for instance, that to this day remain the bane of Indian society, are a grotesque and painful mimicry and betrayal of the realities of the inner life. For, in truth, each individual is naturally inclined to an aspect of the manifestation, until the soul develops and learns to integrate all complementary aspects in a living, progressive whole: the movement of

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