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“Spirituality is India’s Only Politics”
“India is passing really through the first
stages of a sort of national Yoga. It was
mastered in the inception by the inrush of
divine force which came in 1905 and aroused
it from its state of complete tamasic ajñanam
[ignorance]. But, as happens also with
individuals, all that was evil, all the wrong
samskaras and wrong emotions and mental
and moral habits rose with it and misused
the divine force…..
“I am sure that eventually the nobler part of us will
prevail,…when we no longer obey the dictates of a veiled
self-interest, but return to the profession of a large and
genuine patriotism….” (CWSA 6: 19)
