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I gave this text the title of:
*An offering to Mother India, July 13, 1999, Auroville.
“Today more than ever India must play its true role, as a mother among the
nations, and as a guide in the bosom of our confused and wounded race.
It must play its role for its own sake and for the sake of the entire world; it must
become one with Her, the Mother.
It must centre itself around its soul, offer itself to its spirit, and receive from soul
and spirit the real strength that is Hers alone.
India today is weak, it is a chaos of contradictions: its very own, and also those it
has inherited, imported or yielded to.
Yet India alone can lay the foundation for the coming age.
India is ancient beyond memory.
Yet it is hardly born as a nation.
It holds the supreme keys to the only condition that will redeem humanity and save
the earth: the life of spirit in matter.
India has yet to gather its children, and its powers, into Her true puissance of unity.
For how many millennia its people, throughout the width and breadth of its land
and the many dimensions of its culture, have freely met the spirit.
And yet what selfishness has ensued, what blindness, what denial of the body of
the Lord!
It is time for India to make its true offering, the one every human being needs: the
offering of a physical and material home to the divinity.
Let India become Herself, the Mother, and show the way, for each human being to
unite with the divinity within, for each human body to serve the divine manifest, for
each human action to express the divine’s inexhaustible riches.
Let India gather Her land and Her people, teach them the living love of the One and
become the haven and the beacon She is meant to be for all nations and all peoples
and all beings.
Let each Indian at heart drop the pretence and the falsity and stand by the very
breath of the Lord throughout the land of India and become worthy of that blessing.
Today every individual, every grouping, every people, every nation, has but one
choice: to work for the true sense of evolution and to serve the advent of a
terrestrial life ruled by the spirit and the soul, or to join the forces that resist and
deny.
These forces are active everywhere, in every one of us.
This is the battle.
There is no other.