Untold Potentialities: India and the Third World by Richard Hartz
Richard's work at the archive has been a treasure to us all. This article will be a basis for a talk which Richard gives at the India International Centre In Dehli: Sri Aurobindo hoped to see a renaissance in India “governed by the principle of spirituality”. At the same time he clarified that by spirituality he did not mean “the moulding of the whole type of the national being to suit the limited dogmas, forms, tenets of a particular religion”. He added that “clearly such an attempt would be impossible, even if it were desirable, in a country full of the most diverse religious opinions”. Spirituality, he went on to say, “is much wider than any particular religion”.16 At the time when he was writing, the neologism “Hindutva” (Hinduness) had not yet been coined. The notion of Hindu nationalism was in the air, however. Sri Aurobindo unequivocally distanced himself from this idea and stated explicitly that he did “not understand Hindu nationalism as a possibility under modern conditions”.17 Not Hindutva, but Ekatva—oneness—should be the ideal. more » Leave Comment Permanent Link
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