Japan remained true to its spirit and chose the path of the Samurai, while India did not. Sri Aurobindo: “In India, the bourgeois, in Japan, the Samurai; in this single difference is comprised the whole contrasted histories of the two nations during the nineteenth century.”
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"The belief that a subject nation can acquiesce in subjection and yet make .. progress, growing to strength in its chains, is a lie. The idea that mitigations of subjection constitute freedom or that anything but the exercise of liberty fits man for liberty, is another lie. "
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2)
"The teaching that peace and security are more important and vital to man than liberty is a third lie.
The doctrine that social and commercial progress must precede or will of themselves bring about political strength and liberty, is a fourth and very dangerous lie;
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The doctrine that social and commercial progress must precede or will of themselves bring about political strength and liberty, is a fourth and very dangerous lie;
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for a nation is no aggregate of separable functions, but a harmony of functions, of which government and political arrangement is the oldest, most central and most vital and determines the others.”
Sri Aurobindo: The Bourgeois and the Samurai.
Totally agree with all of this.
Sri Aurobindo: The Bourgeois and the Samurai.
Totally agree with all of this.
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