Resurgent India

The Resurgent India, is dedicated to the integral resurgence of India so that it may assume its rightful place among the community of nations and, by its powerful example and spiritual influence, open for humanity the way leading to its supreme fulfillment. To assume its true position and to fulfil its true role, India must find back and manifest her true soul which, at present, seems to be completely covered up by an overwhelming commercialism which has arisen out of an onslaught on her of the Western spirit of a very shortsighted utilitarianism whose virus seems to have infected every fibre of her frame. Therefore, we shall notice current events – be they regional, national or international – only as they evidence, help, affect or resist the growth of our national life and the development of the soul of the nation. All political, economic, social and cultural problems shall be dealt with, primarily, from this standpoint, seeking first the spiritual roots and inner causes of all such problems and then proceeding to necessary measures and remedies. In a similar spirit we shall deal with all sources of our national strength – whatever collectivity they may manifest into and whatever source they may be drawing from – seeking to bring them home to the comprehension of all our people so as to make them dynamically applicable to all our life and creation.

At present, India is apparently going through a process where all the aspects of its life and values are increasingly coming under the sway of Western spirit and values. It is a great mistake to believe that our salvation can come by allowing ourselves to be even more completely dominated by Western utilitarian spirit and thereby instituting an even more vigorous pursuit of the same goals that drive the modern Western societies. We believe that India is destined to work out her own independent life and civilization, to stand in the forefront of the world and solve the political, social, economic and moral problems besetting modern societies which the West has failed to solve, yet the pursuit of whose solution and the feverish passage in that pursuit from experiment to experiment, from failure to failure she calls her progress. A successful pursuit of great ends requires great means and the strength to discover and use such means can only be found by seeking the eternal source of strength within ourselves – a task which India alone is equipped to perform in spite of its present precarious condition.

The object of The Resurgent India is to read the heart of our religion, our society, our philosophy, politics, literature, art, jurisprudence, science, thought, everything that was and is ours, so that we may be able to say to our nation, ‘This is our Dharma’. We shall review the Western civilisation and its values and institutions from the standpoint of Indian thought and knowledge in order to have our people throw off from themselves the dominating stamp of this alien culture. What we need to take from West we should take as Indians.

India is the only country in the world which has always lived for the Divine and never for itself alone. Therefore, our ideal and aim is to work, in whatever way we can, for the building up of an India which will play a decisive role in leading humanity to its divine destiny. We wish this paper to be in the nature of a clarion call to all the people, the world over, who share our vision and will to join their hearts, minds and souls to ours in adherence to the following call of the Mother: “Let us all work for the Greatness of India.”