Idea of "We, the people of India" in Bhawani Mandir and Discovery of India

 

                                                                          Bharat Mata

 

SRI AUROBINDO


Jawahar  LalNehru


Constitution of India

       from Bhawani Mandir  of Sri Aurobindo

 

       ...... What is our mother-country? It is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the mind. It is a mighty Shakti, composed of the Shaktis of all the millions of units that make up the nation, just as Bhawani Mahisha Mardini sprang into being from the Shakti of all the millions of gods assembled in one mass of force and welded into unity. The Shakti we call India, Bhawani Bharati, is the living unity of the Shaktis of three hundred million people

 

 
from the `Discovery of India' by Jawaharlal Nehru

"........Sometimes as I reached a gathering, a great roar of welcome  would greet me: Bharat Mata ki Jai-- Victory to Mother India! I would ask them unexpectedly what they meant by that cry, who  was this Bharat Mata, Mother India, whose victory they wanted? My question would amuse them and surprise them, and then, not  knowing exactly what to answer, they would look at each other and at me. I persisted in my questioning. At last a vigorous  Jat, wedded to the soil from immemorial generations, would say  that it was the dharti, the good earth of India, that they  meant. What earth? Their particular village patch, or all the  patches in the district or province, or in the whole of India? And so question and answer went on, till they would ask me  impatiently to tell them all about it. I would endeavour to do so and explain that India was all this that they had thought,  but it was much more. The mountains and rivers of India, and the forests and the broad fields, which gave us food, were all  dear to us, but what counted ultimately were the people of India, people like them and me, who were spread out all over this vast land. Bharat Mata, Mother India, was essentially  these millions of people, and victory to her meant victory to  these people. You are parts of this Bharat Mata, I told them,  you are in a manner yourselves Bharat Mata, and as this idea  slowly soaked into their brains, their eyes would light up as  if they had made a great discovery."

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA means

 

 the living unity of the Shaktis of three hundred million people  in the words of Sri Aurobindo

or

 

  millions of people  in the words of Pt Nehru

 

 

 


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