We have to free our society. Tall talks of spiritual freedom will not suffice. Even in our homes there is tyranny, a fall-out of our degenerate social state. Men tyrannising over women, women equally tyrannising over men, despite their tallest protestations to the contrary. All this must go and and an atmosphere of freedom prevail in both the domestic and the public sphere. It is only then that the Indian genius will freely flow, for constraints, imposed as they are right now, the legacy of past historical degeneration, will not allow the fullest flight of either imagination or execution of dreams that can effectively transform our society to be the fittest vehicle of expression of the grand ideals that are enshrined in our Vedic scriptures.
Right now our task is to remove these barriers that prevent the free flow of the Indian spirit and to this effect we have to be progressive in our outlook and not resort to regressive ways and means that are camouflaged as the renaissance of Indian spirituality. Indeed, that is what we have to achieve, this right renaissance but it cannot be achieved in the manner we are right now adopting, the reversal to regressive religious revivalism. It will rather have to be achieved by quickening the spirit of democracy in thinking and expression along scientific lines, the rational way of looking at things as was the Vedic way which had ushered in such a grand civilisation in ancient India. And even earlier in the Indus Valley civilisation we see this preeminence of the scientific outlook which seems to have been the historical hallmark of ancient and medieval India till we lost our track somewhere down the line. We must revert to that glorious path of progressive, creative thinking as we go about rebuilding our national fortunes from the ashes of the historical past.
Written by Sugata Bose
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