On India - 1998-2020

service and material care, the movement of ingenious crafting and utilization of materials provided by Nature, the movement of saving, producing, circulating energies, the movement of defending, protecting, breeding valor and fearlessness, the movement of managing, administering, sharing, prospering, the movement of purifying and illuminating and receiving knowledge and sight and helping others in the attainment of the higher foundations - all movements of the dynamic Shakti at work in the world of material Nature, were to find their ordered expression and legitimate growth within the collective organization. Religion in the contemporary sense had and has no place in Bharat Mata’s vastitude; for in truth each person is entitled to one’s own unique discovery of the Reality. Each one’s religion is one’s unique path of experience in one’s quest for union with the One, the Supreme Reality, “That”, which exists without forms and sustains all forms, beyond time and within all times. Innumerable paths have thus been opened and trod through the millennia and innumerable faces of the Divine have thus been discovered and made visible and accessible to mankind, yet none is exclusive, none claims dominion over the whole. This is the profundity and the true prosperity of Bharat Mata: even the sincere and honest atheist is Her child whom She will nurture to new wisdoms further awakening our humanity to Conscious Existence. And this is why it is made unnecessarily hard for Her life as a nation to integrate and assimilate a religious formation which not only claims to be the only righteous one but bans all other expressions of and relationships with the Divinity. Yet in truth even within the breadth and depth of Islam, there is a more profound approach of the Highest, as there is a more inclusive occult knowledge, just as there is, in Islam’s community, a great sense of brotherhood and collective order which can benefit the whole of the nation.

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