Decolonising Indian mentality & morality & bringing back in nation's memory India's perennial civilisational values were an integral part of #SriAurobindo's freedom movement . His writings & lectures during this period give ample proof of his intention. But subsequent
politicians didn't pay necessary attention to this aspect of freedom. As a result our politics,administration,judiciary& economy are now just copycats. Here is a sample. #SriAurobindo : The European sets great store by machinery.He seeks to renovate humanity by schemes of society
and systems of government;he hopes to bring about the millennium by an act of Parliament. Machinery is of great importance, but only as a working means for the spirit within,the force behind. The nineteenth century in India aspired to political emancipation,social renovation,
religious vision and rebirth, but it failed because it adopted Western motives and methods, ignored the spirit, history and destiny of our race and thought that by taking over European education, European machinery, European organization and equipment we should reproduce in
ourselves European prosperity, energy and progress. We of the twentieth century reject the aims, Ideals and methods of the Anglicised nineteenth precisely because we accept its experience. We refuse to make an idol of the present;we look before and after, backward to the mighty
history of our race, forward to the grandiose destiny for which that history has prepared it.
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