It is the power of this universal Shakti that will help create a nation. Special souls had come to invoke her and persuade her to take charge of our life first by moving towards Independence and then establishing foundation for the future work. She must be invoked again that in her strength and in her wisdom we rise to do her work. She wants us to do it and she is there to help us always. It is in that way she herself will grow in this creation, grow more and more in the opulence of the manifesting spirit, in its richnesses. We have come out of the slavish tamas, and entered into the phase of the vital, but it is not yet nobility and valour and majesty of the enlightened vital. We are tied to a thousand little and petty things of life and are full of jealousy and envy, and our works are shabby and imperfect and clumsy, and our thoughts and feelings lack broadness that alone can make the appearance of the vast spirit in us dynamically meaningful and powerful. Another birth has yet to take place in us. It is to effect this new birth that we demand in us her own power to effect it. Our demand has to carry the qualifying tapas-yajna or sacrifice by which we offer ourselves to her.

When this tapas-yajna ceased to exist, the nation fell into desuetude; it languished and the ignominy of slavery had to be suffered. But luckily in this land of ours the gods always remained awoke thigh men slept the sleep of inaction. But we can take courage in it and keep our epistemology well-kindled. It gave continuity over the running cycles of the ages. That hope is yet again with us. We are using a language that has lost the living power of the spirit and make fetishes of inconsequential stuff. We have to acquire knowledge of another vision, make another darshan our scripture or shastra of purposeful life that allows the living powers of the spirit enter in us. Even while we shall retain the best of the traditions that time does not wear them out, we have to find new ones appropriate for the new powers of expression and realization. We are heir to the sixteen formulations or samsakāras of the past, but unless they pass the fire-test of the future they shall not bind us. They must, after the fire-test create a new future of spiritual prosperity. The spiritual prosperity as envisaged here is embedded in the Life Divine given to us by Sri Aurobindo. We have to prepare ourselves to live in it. At times it is said that Sri Aurobindo’s thought-visions should be located in the Indian tradition; this may prove preposterous, in fact it should be the other way round. In him is a greater and meaningful synthesis of the eastern and western traditions and these could be foundations for the future.

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