India’s inner soul is endowed with a living spiritual sense, and if she follows the materialistic aims like those other nations of today, she will lose her existence and will die materialistic death; and that will bean irreparable loss not only to herself but to the world and the fate of humanity. India has a unique spiritual culture which the other nations of the world need the most today. India must deliver her message of spiritual brotherhood which she is guarding in her soul from the time immemorial.
Today is also the birthday of one of India’s most luminous soul, Sri Aurobindo. Today the world does not recognise the significance of the divinely ordained coincidence of these two events. But the mystic meaning of this coincidence carries in its heart the indications of the line of development India must take. Sri Aurobindo’s life and his message in his profuse works of thirty five volumes hinge upon one refrain. Man is essentially spiritual, and in the progress march of evolution, now, he is poised to work for the next step in the evolution of a spiritual man leading to the manifestation of a supramental being, the god, the Devmanava.
India cannot but choose to work in this direction. For this, she must not only help establish a lasting and harmonious peace but lead the nations by the deliverance of her own secret message to humanity, help mankind to work towards the realisation of the age old ideal of vasudhaiva kuñumbakam, an ideal which the ancient Rishis of India sang in their tapovans and ashrams. On the basis of the realisation of this ideal of universal brotherhood, India must strive with the rest of the humanity to bring about a ‘spiritual culture’, a new body given to her age old spirituality. The yogis like the Janak and the Kartavirya must adorn the thrones of the world. India must and will become the guru of the world.
Our University is blessed twice for even before its beginning the two luminaries worked here to find themselves and give foundation to their messages to the world. Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad in the administrative and political field and Sri Aurobindo in the political, cultural and spiritual field.
There are three kinds of people in the world. The first kind lament the loss of the past glories but find themselves impotent to work for its realisation in the present or the future. The second kind live in the past glories and strive for its revival but bogged down by the present turmoil lament because it cannot be revived in its old form. The third kind undeterred by the present confusion absorb and assimilate the essence of the past glories, new-creating their souls and with the light and strength of these new-created souls give a new and splendid shape to the future. We must not be only the nostalgic children of the past dawns but must also be the citizens of the noons of the future. (cf. CWSA 19, p. 10)
Immortal India, her civilisation and culture, was created by our ancient fathers, the Rishis of Vedic and Upanishadic times, by the power and light of the intuition pouring its riches into our mind, heart and body and thus enabling her to labour untiringly to forge a civilisation endowed with ultimate and spiritual values. It was sustained again by the intuition and tapasya of the yogis, saints and sages. It was summarised in the life of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, intuitively harmonising all the past divergent efforts into a single organic body of spiritual vision.
Our University would have taken a step forward in this universal march of time towards the future, if our workers instead of solely depending on the discursive and uncertain power of intellect recognise the role of higher faculty lying dormant today in our higher state of consciousness. If we utilise this fourfold power and light — of revelation, inspiration, intuition, discrimination, the power and light of the Vedic Goddesses, Mahi and Bharti, Ilia, Saraswati, Sarma and Dakshina — we will be empowered to create a thousandfold more useful and effective knowledge endowed with wisdom and power.
Today India is gathering and organising the knowledge power and is being increasingly recognised for that. With the progressive use of higher powers of intuition in the creation and organisation of our
