Sri
Aurobindo’s Call for Action
“When
I come back I wish to see some of you becoming rich, rich not for yourselves
but that you may enrich the Mother with your riches. I wish to see some of you
becoming great, great not for your own sakes, not that you may satisfy your own
vanity, but great for her, to make India great, to enable her to stand up with
head erect among the nations of the earth, as she did in the days of the yore
when the world looked up to her for light. Even those who will remain poor and
obscure, I want to see their very poverty and obscurity devoted to the
Motherland.”
– Sri Aurobindo
This was Sri Aurobindo’s final advice to
the youth as the principal of the Bengal National College in 1907 before he
receded from all social activities to begin his task of summoning the great supramental
manifestation. He had stressed the need for a band of devoted servants who were
willing to serve the motherland selflessly with naught but a bare maintenance
and a roof over their heads.
This message resonates even more
strongly today and Sri Aurobindo’s force echoes ever more loudly in every heart
that hearkens to His call.
Though India today has risen to become a
formidable player in the world front, her challenges too have become manifold.
With the largest youth population in the world, we as a nation areheading by
default towards our promised destiny of becoming a world leader. But there is a
dire need to introspect as to how firmly we have answered this call of duty. In
retrospect, one may as well ask oneself the very same question.
“What
is needed now is a band of spiritual workers whose tapasya will be devoted to
the liberation of India for the service of humanity”- Sri
Aurobindo
With the descent of the Supramental
consciousness on February 29th 1956, the Divine efforts of The
Mother and Sri Aurobindo had borne fruit in the material and the golden gates
of divinity had been forced open to all of mankind. The seekers of the integral light were but
entrusted a singular task – to ready the ground and create an atmosphere for
the reception of the Divine Light.
And it is the only the youth who can
successfully fulfill this task of becoming the perfect instruments of the
Divine. The Mother describes the word youth to not denote the number of years,
but on the individual’s capacity to grow and progress. Many a times we find
young people to be old and old people to be young and dynamic. The Secret to
eternal youth lies in responding to the call of the spirit. For as long as the
flame of psychic burns, the youthfulness of the spirit remains.
A divine future for our world can be
ensured only by the Divine youth and every single one of us has been vested
with the choice to decide whether or not we can remain young and strong enough to
heed the call of the Divine.
From a cursed slumber a
Goddess shall soon awake –
When a great burden
young shoulders shall take.
Five hundred million
hands shall unite again,
To re-construct a
Utopia for all to gain!
The golden bird shall
once more spread wings and fly;
And new dawn's Orb
shall adorn the morning sky.
Only when a latent
talent, young blood shall harness
Light shall re-emerge
to guide us from abysmal darkness.
Let
all of us unite and play our own role, either individually or collectively,so
that our nation shall soon fulfill its destiny of becoming the Jagadguru (Guru of the World)!
Indeed,
it will be a beautiful day when we shall hear our children of tomorrow sing-
“Where on every branch, you find birds of gold nestled- that
nation- that Bharath- is my motherland. Glory be to the light of the world.”
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