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Hindustan
An ancient land
Where Man learned to excel
Without having to propel
himself away from the
Principles that maketh
life process and the universe

A land where man was not

eager to do his own will
but to fulfill the will of the divine

He grew in knowing and learning

to enhance himself into an
exuberance of intelligence and
emotion
Enshrined the carnal and the divine
Delved deep into the innards
of creation, deciphered the
primordial
mastered the melody and the math
of music of sound and all its
manifestations. Above all
found the doors of freedom

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 Assured of final freedom
Came to an ease and beauty
Where life was not burden but
a Bounty. A copious production
of effulgent and gentle beings
occurred. Masculine and feminine
found their fulfillment and
went Beyond. An ideal prey
for the brutal forces from
across………

his week, I was to address the faculty

T and students of Emory University.
Members of the public were also
invited and the chapel in the University
Campus was full with over 1200 people.
This lecture was organized by an
endowment of an Indian family of
professors dedicated towards Eastern
studies or Indian studies. India cannot be
studied, at the least one must soak it in, or
at best must dissolve. This is the only
way. It cannot be studied, western
analysis of India is too off the mark, as
symptomatic analysis of Bharat will only
lead to very grossly misunderstood
conclusions of a nation that revels and
thrives in a chaos that is organic and
exuberant.

This most ancient of nations upon this

earth is not built upon a set of principles or
beliefs or ambitions of its citizenry. It is a
nation of seekers, seeking not wealth or
wellbeing, but liberation, not of economic or
political kind, but the ultimate liberation.

A Godless but a Devout nation. When I say

Godless, we need to understand that this is
the only culture that has given humans the
freedom not just to make a choice of Gods,
but to create the sort of God that you can
relate to. When Adi Yogi was asked how
many ways to enlightenment, he said only
112 if you are within the realm of your
physical system, but if you transcend the
physical, then every atom in the universe is
a doorway. “Bharat”, as the nation has
been known for many millennia, is a
complex amalgamation of this variety of
spiritual possibilities. If you happen to be at
the Maha Kumbh, there was quite a display
of this. The best compliment came from
none other than Mark Twain, after his visit
to India, he said, “So far as I am able to

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judge, nothing has been left undone, either
by man or nature, to make India the most
extraordinary country that the sun visits on
his rounds. Nothing seems to have been
forgotten, nothing overlooked.”

India is not a study, but a phenomenon of

possibilities, though a cauldron of multiple
cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic
soup. It is all held together by a single
thread of seeking. The tremendous longing
has been nurtured into the peoples of the
land, the longing to be free. Free from the
very process of life and death.

One must not forget that the basis of

seeking is that One has realized that One
does not know. One does not know the
nature of One’s being. Instead of settling
for a culturally convenient belief, for a
whole populace to have the courage and
commitment to seek the truth about
themselves. This the basis of this nation
that is called Bharata. Bha meaning
sensation, that is the basis of all
experience and expression; Ra meaning
Raga, the tune and texture of life; Ta
meaning Tala, the rhythms of life, which
involve both rhythms of the human system
and nature.

A nation that was conjured not in the minds

of the ambitious, but by the sages, not for
profit but in profoundness. Bharat is not to
be seen as just another political entity, but
as a gateway to the fulfillment of the
innermost longings of the human creature.
To preserve, protect and nurture the
fundamental ethos of Bharat, the legacy of
wisdom and unbridled exploration of life is
a true gift to the Humanity as a whole. As a
generation, this is an important
responsibility that we should fulfill. Let not
the limitless possibilities that the sages of
this land explored and expounded be lost in
religious bigotry and senseless simplistic
dogmas.

Blessings,

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