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Shubhashito: Noble Thoughts:- Part 4
"......Each country, like each person, has a soul and a destinies. India
has her soul and its destiny, which is to be a land of religious freedom
and spiritual practices.Unless a person live up to their soul value or
Dharma, he or she cannot be successful or happy in life. The same is true
of a country. It is not the soul or Dharma of India to become another
Westernized economic giant, which is not to say that India needs to remain
poor. It is not her Dharma to become another communist land, and communism
is already a thing of the past. Nor is it her Dharma to adapt an exclusive
religious belief like that of Islam or Christianity, which claim that other
religious are false, inferior or out of date. Above all, it is not India's
Dharma to slavishly imitate the West in culture, mind or religion.
India must wake up to her destiny, which is to revive her spiritual culture
and share it for the benefit of all mankind. This requires that the
intellectual elite of the country cease denigrating the soul of India in
hasty and superficial attempts to be modern and humanitarian. It requires a
new Hinduism that corrects the social evils of the older Hinduism while
maintaining the greater spiritual basis of the tradition. Such a new
Hinduism or awakening to Sanatan Dharma, the Universal Tradition, is
essential not only for India but for the entire world. Without reconnecting
with our older spiritual traditions and their yogic sciences we will not
have the foundation to move forward to a real enlightened age for humanity.
Fortunately India appears to be beginning this awakening, however slow,
difficult or painful it may be.
-- Hinduism in Crisis
by Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)
Book: Arise Arjuna: Hinduism and the Modern World
