There is a vociferous and strident lobby of intellectuals, of the self-righteous western brand, who persistently downgrades the traditions of India, not understanding the well-founded principles on which its society and social organizations are built. With the least perception of things it quickly equates Sanatan Dharma and Hindutva, and the Religion followed by the common Hindu people, to arrive at fallacious conclusions, without realsing that that is in the very nature of things so, that the conclusions will be misleading. But what is essential to recognize is that there is a cosmic movement of evolution of consciousness taking its soul,—not only it as an individual but also as a group or collective being,—towards the possibilities of divine expression in the dynamism of life; it is to that it lends itself. That is its fundamental urge, its glory, the raison d’être for serving the cause of higher working. There is at times an attempt to redefine some of these terms but the formations are so fixed in the reasoning, but palpably not reasonable minds of these people, that the effort proves futile. Not that they do not understand it; they do. But there is stubbornness, an obstinacy to oppose it as a mechanism for self-defence and self-preservation. When the contact with the inner springs is absent there is always this frustrating dryness, and maybe nothing much can be done about it.

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