India is not true India today; it is a pale shadow of the true India. Today it is tarnished with the borrowed ideas and tainted with an imposed life that are foreign to its body and spirit. This country is infected with an antibody pathogen of secularism, clamped with a concocted glory of “an idea of India” and undergoing the sufferance of a stale constitution. This India is ill and cannot stand on its own feet.
India is fearful and is still not free. For example, this India yet cannot dare to officially say that killing of humans, even if they happen to be ‘Kafirs’ according to some definitions, is not permitted in this country; it cannot openly dare say that there is no pace in this country for believing in and practicing, and propagating of such religious teachings. This India has no courage or will to declare that believing in and practicing and propagating of such religious teaching are against the fundamental law – constitution – of this land, against human reason and universally accepted morality of humanity. This is only one example out of many. This India is bogged down by the ‘political correctness’ of democracy, as if democracy is an ultimate invention of collective social living. The irony of the situation is this India has to preserve this democracy by being politically correct for them whose history has no sympathy for democracy.
This country is fearful to say the truth. This India is not mentally free. It is culturally still slave; it has inferiority complex – in its thinking, language, literature, dress and habits. This India suffers from a slave mentality because of 1000 years’ slave history. As fish are not aware that they live in water surrounding them – unless fish are taken out of water – Indians are not aware of their slave mentality, until someone from foreign land points it out to them. In the first phase of its politics, India has to become free and fearless.
In this first phase, India has to learn to assert itself; it has to become a power – nationally a political power to be able to assert itself against all those elements that challange this India. It has to become a power – an international power that is reckoned with and listened to by the international community. In this phase, India may have to do many things – take many steps – that may not look reasonable, that may look transgressing the limits, that may be objected to by many elements, within India and outside of India. This country would need to become advanced in science and technology and ruthless to regain its former self – original, confident and forward looking.
In this first phase India has to learn to become powerful and fearless. It has to free itself from all the tainting blemishes. This is what India is doing today under the leadership of Narendra Modi.
But India is not done yet. It is only the begining. It is its first phase.
India doesn’t aspire to become a Hindu theocratic nation; India does not want to become a ‘Hindu Pakistan’. India has a different aim. It is busy completing this first phase. It has yet to get ready to embark on a second phase of what it aims at. It is beyond all religions; it is sublime in purpose; it is awakening the mankid to its destiny.
In the second phase, the new India full of spiritual energy will transgress all religions and lead the transformation of animal-humans into the higher plane of consciousness, which is divine and universal and is beyond mind and human thoughts. It would embrace the whole humanity, be a collaborative – instead of competitive religious – work and flung open the gates of occult mysteries for humanity. The second phase of Indian politics would speak in the voice of Sri Aurobindo.
In this second phase, the first phase of cultural Hinduism would evolve into the universal spirituality. It seems probable that in the second phase, the new India may have to combat and convert the cultural Hinduism into that higher reality, which would entail many serious repercussions for our present way of life, including its economy and politics. Such a comprehensive transformation would not be palatable to many who live the luxary of cultural Hinduism. After all, total transformation is not an easy thing. In one sentence, this total human transformation would be an integral Yoga undertaken by humanity at large with love, knowledge, conduct and surrender to Divine – or any of them according to one’s liking and choice.
Let the world welcome the efforts of India; let the world bear with the first phase of India’s politics and wait for its next – second – phase. In the meantime, let anyone having curiosity to look into all these things – incredible possibilities for humanity – find out what Sri Aurobindo says in his “The Life Divine”.