India must nurse the tree of Dharma
Indian thought affirms that T and He are one; that all is integrated in the composite whole, true, good, and beautiful, through and through. Indian thinkers have reached the dizziest heights of speculation and the clearest depths of intuition; they have found that the experience of fundamental unity is not negated by most rigorous logic. Therefore, all other faiths are but facets of this supreme Truth, this sublime experience. And, each little duty cast upon man in the Hindu Code of Morals reflects this awareness of Unity. For example, it is laid down that when a person dines without first feeding the chance guest or the hungry man at his door, he is committing theft, eating a meal of sin, partaking a feast of foulness!
Damayanti, deserted by her husband Nala, in the darkness of the forest, could not sleep, for she was anxious about her 1ord s welfare. Just then, she heard a herd of elephants rushing through, trampling the groups of aborigines sleeping around her; her warning cry was unheeded; they slept too soundly to be awakened. So too, India, that is to say, Vedamata (the mother who speaks with the voice of the Vedas) has to warn the nations of the world, sleeping the sleep of sense-satiety, that wildness is rushing in to destroy them. This is the role of Bharat-,--to assert that God is a present and persistent factor in human life, in every atom, in the Universe and that God is Sat, Chitt and Ananda (Existense, Conciousness and Bliss Absolute). She must nurse the tree of Dharma and garner from it, for the welfare of the whole world, the fruits of Ahlada (spiritual exhilaration), Ananda (bliss) and shanti (calm equipoise).
The preservation and promotion of Hindu Dharma is the need of the times. People who practise its principles have to propagate them, by precept and example. In every one, there is the thirst for God; only many deny it on account of false pride, some on account of ignorance, some call it by some other name, worry, discontent or despair. Some have faith only in Love, some believe only in Truth, some swear that they care only for Goodness---but, all these do not know that they are referring to God alone by these names. They too are pilgrims to the same Sacred Shrine. (SSS Vol. 7)