MOVEMENT FOR THE MASSES ... 1

The movement must be of the masses. The people are the power. But they are not to be sent to the slaughterhouse like cattle in the bargain as we have seen it happen in other countries where revolution has resulted in a barbaric change, the spilling of the blood of innocence so often and wholesale destruction of existing refined culture. The people have been duped into believing in the leadership who thereby have replaced the existent despotism with a worse kind of epic barbarism and mass murder unthinkable. Here in India, the birthplace of the highest spiritual philosophy, the land trodden by countless sages and saints, the blessed spot on earth sanctified by the footsteps of the divine incarnations, we must avoid this extreme deceitful practice of revolutionaries preaching high equality, rule of the proletariat, high-sounding principles of democracy and socialism and, yet, in practice, a coterie ruling by the sword, so to say, mutilating the hopes and aspirations of the millions who have bled for the ghastly socioeconomic transformation that has gone by the name of revolution. Here in India a different ethos prevails altogether and transformation must be according to the spirit of the land, in keeping with the culture that has rolled down to this day like the water of the Ganga from the high Himalayas since antiquity. Evolution, not revolution must be the key word here. And where revolution is concerned, it has to be a spiritual revolution which again is a restatement of our ancient spirituality in modern terms with a further expression of the Vedic principles and a newer assertion of them in practice and their installation in the national psyche. In actual terms it must only be a quickening of mass consciousness at an accelerated pace and, so, rebuilding the national edifice much degraded by the thousand year old tyranny of Islamic invaders and European colonisers.

The masses must be raised, educated, enlightened, deified and veritably served in the highest spirit of worship. Literacy and health are the top priorities and must be catered to in unison to help build up a vibrant citizenry, the best assets of the nation. The framework is already there, for ours is a continuing civilisation that has successfully tided over the thousand year old ravaging by marauders and military despots and shines resplendent even today with the hope of a future fruition yet. Let us then take heart from this and fill in our quota of service to the national cause, our life's input to this ancient national machinery to help fuel it in its advancing march. Our motherland is the heartland of spirituality and, as such, all developmental work has to be in line with her essential ethos, all progress must be in tune with her mission of the manifestation of the Self in and through the vibrancy of the terrestrial life wherein forces are in equipoise for the fullest flow of spirituality to be possible.