The Partition of India, its cause, its purpose - PART EIGHT

An analysis based on the new Indo-Centric Cosmology
3.9.2009 – 13.10.2009

We near the conclusion of this series. It is hoped that with its completion right thinking, right planning, right strategising will be elaborated to deal with this sombre moment in India’s history. Sri Aurobindo warned the powers-that-be and the population in his broadcast to the nation at Independence. What he warned of then (‘…another invasion and foreign conquest…’) seemed unimaginable at the time. India and its erstwhile rulers were confident that never again would the nation fall prey to hostile attacks. And yet, in this sixty-two-year interim attempts have been made periodically to violate the Body of the Mother – sometimes successfully.
The disastrous situation in Kashmir is one example. Three major wars were fought due to Pakistan’s perfidy, and though India won she has been proven incapable of winning the peace at the after-war negotiating table. There is a specific reason for this inability which will be detailed in the remaining portions of this series. It is as if a fault line cuts across certain critical portions of Akhand Bharat; periodically eruptions occur deep in those sensitive locations with energy drained away impeding the necessary action on the part of the powers-that-be from reclaiming the occupied territory over which India had fought off the invader – and WON. Alas, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir tells its own tale of this inability.
Let us examine the root of the problem. What exactly constitutes those fault lines, not only in Kashmir but all along the western and eastern borders of the country? Now we note that China has queered the pitch and has intensified its nefarious activities on the eastern front. India is increasingly seen to be caught in a pincer-like grip: China and Pakistan have long since joined hands in this activity; and now, with an American regime indifferent to India’s plight, unwilling or unable to restrain what appears to be a last-ditch attempt to conclusively break India apart once again and for good, clearly India stands alone. Sri Aurobindo warned the nation on 15 August – his own birthday – in 1947:

‘…India is free, but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken freedom…’ (Ibid)

Many in India then and now, particularly in political echelons, consider that the emergence of Partition was actually beneficial. It could be seen almost as a divide-and-rule policy whereby the problems posed by the Islamic block would be weakened by Partition and hence become more manageable, thus resolving vicariously the problems with the community that had surfaced in the decades leading up to Independence. However, this was short-sighted in the extreme. Our analysis of Akhand Bharat makes this abundantly clear. In particular the Guna Symbol-Map lays bare exactly what Partition did mean in that none benefitted. Gaps were left in the Mother’s Body through which energy could be sucked away; and at the same time those gaps left openings through which hostile forces could easily penetrate, leaving no peace for all concerned unless those gaps would come to be closed.
In the practice of the new Integral and Supramental Yogas introduced by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, practitioners learn to accept attacks by what are euphemistically known as ‘hostile forces’ almost willingly. They are seen just for what they are: pointers to ‘gaps’ in one’s consciousness-being, very similar to the gaps in the Mother’s Body. They are welcomed only because they are known to be without substance – indeed illusory. If we ignore their existence and the role they play in our sadhana, we miss the point and fail to take these attacks as aids in the course of our attempts to attain self-perfection. They indicate exactly where attention must be focussed, on ‘knots’ of energy which had become entrapped by these entanglements, thus withholding from the integral development precisely the additional energy required for progress and without which no advance can be made. Indeed, Indian yogas encourage an attitude of dismissing these attacks and attackers precisely because they are known to be ‘unreal’. Lamentably, this label extended to the entire field wherein these activities transpire: the Earth herself, our Mother, our field where progress can and must be made if a thorough transformation is to come about. We will return to this problem further on.
This is the wisdom of the Rig Veda. The same situation faces the Warrior as he or she undertakes the Vedic Journey. Unavoidable is the struggle with hostile forces which, in the Riks, are known as the Panis led by Vala; they do indeed succeed in snatching away those ‘rays (energy/‘cows’) of the Sun’ and entrapping them in their caves deep in the bowels of material creation. These are the strongholds of Vala and his Pani helpers. We may disregard their presence to our own peril because they will constantly interrupt our progress – until, of course, we recognise their utility and the inevitability of integrality on this Earth-centred path.
The 9^th/10^th Avatar understood the need to reverse the direction the spiritual endeavour had taken on the subcontinent from an otherworldly goal to our world in this material universe. He had come ‘to correct the error of the Buddha’, in Sri Aurobindo’s own words. For in his infinite compassion the Buddha understood that there was a sure method to disengage the human being from his suffering by emphasising its illusory nature. To do this he had to undermine the Soul, which is our individual and collective vahana as we journey through life in this material universe and on this planet Earth. But here lies the contradiction: the purpose of this third planet is none other than to provide that immaculate vehicle by which the Journey could be undertaken with the certitude of victory. The zodiacal sign Capricorn gives us this very same message. Consequently, we understand that without the Soul as the acknowledged helper during our sojourn on Earth, trouble inevitably threatens and we are assailed time and again along the path we have CHOSEN to embark on when we take birth. We may have forgotten when and how that choice was made; but indeed it was solemnly made, and it lies at the root of our destiny, individual and collective. The point is to become conscious of that choice, that Act of Choosing.
The entrapped energies in the stronghold/caves of the Panis must be released because that very withheld substance is the fuel required to scale the (Capricorn) Mountain and join the victorious Immortal Ones. The Vedic Journey is an exact description of the demands placed on practitioners of the Integral Yoga. But the process has been extended by the descent of the Supramental Avatar and his Line to encompass not just individuals but the entire Earth through the revelations of the Supramental Yoga. If Sri Aurobindo had not lived the Vedic ‘9 becoming 10’, if he had not introduced that extended process embracing the wider field of the Earth, nothing of this series could have been expounded. The only method to deal with the destiny of the world is through the supramental revelations such as The New Way collection provides, and all publications of Aeon Books since 1976.
Thus, Bharat becomes a single consciousness-being with a destiny the lines of which describe what Supermind is and how it operates in the world; above all, its organisation for Earth use, as explained by Sri Aurobindo when discussing his quest for ‘the Formula’. We do have that Formula now and in the remainder of this series we shall reveal how accurately it has been active in India’s contemporary history. Before that, however, let us reflect on the way in which hostile forces can operate in the life of a nation just as we experience them in our individual sadhana.

Pakistan has played the role of adverse force for many decades, we must admit. But if the equation is applicable – as indeed it is – then the entity we know as Pakistan is simply illusory and substance-less as hostile forces can be proven to be in one’s individual sadhana. That adversity, we know by experience, exists only for as long as the sadhak requires. That is, there is a ‘knot’ which must be undone, and without which progress cannot be made – in this case to achieve true unity and integration. Relentlessly until that undoing, attacks will persist, and they are our greatest aid. Thus, the same may be said of Pakistan vis-à-vis India: when India has succeeded in liberating those hoarded-away energies, that hostile power will dissolve; for, ironically, it is India that feeds Pakistan energy for its survival. Or better, Pakistan gathers substance due to gaps in the Body from where toxins emanate. These are poisonous fumes, to be sure, and whoever utilises them for subsistence must reveal in every way that toxicity, proving Sri Aurobindo’s statement that Pakistan is ‘…fraud, force and treachery’. It cannot be otherwise when nourishment is gathered from oozing wounds, from energies entrapped and usurped to obstruct the attainment of unity.

‘…the whole communal division into Hindu and Muslim seems to have hardened into the figure of a permanent political division of the country…if it lasts India may be seriously weakened, even crippled: civil strife may remain always possible, possible even a new invasion and foreign conquest…’ (Ibid)

Sri Aurobindo highlights the essence of the problem: Muslim/Hindu. It is not so much the divide that causes concern, on which basis Pakistan came into being. It is rather the equation of Hinduism as a religion with the acknowledged religion that Islam is. In so doing the schism was inevitable and easily predictable, as well as the continued strife Sri Aurobindo has noted. This happened considerably prior to actual independence. In fact, in this section we shall move farther back into the Age of Pisces and uncover how weakness set in on the subcontinent at least 1500 years ago. Gradually, as Sri Aurobindo wrote, like a slow poison the consciousness of Bharat became contaminated to reach the present impasse (see The Origin and Nature of Hindu Decline, PNB, 2006, Movement for the Restoration of Vedic Wisdom). But, as stated, we now have Pakistan and China to thank for keeping the issue alive and thereby, due to periodic eruptions from the fault lines caused by Partition, fumes are emitted to remind us that all is not well in Paradise!

Unity in the context of Bharat is quite simple to identify. We have, to begin, Supermind’s revelation of certain ‘keys’ which leave us without any doubt as to what unity is and even how to go about attaining it. We have discussed substantially how unity is defined based on these precious Keys of Knowledge. Let us now focus our attention on the fault lines in the Body where poisonous fumes escape to feed hostile forces.


In this map of Akhand Bharat (without the hieroglyph) we see exactly where the fault lines are located. The means to determine the precise areas in the Symbol-Map was the true Makar Sankranti which we located in the geography of India on the zodiac-ruler at 0 degrees Capricorn. Moving back into the sign based on the measure of the ‘lost’ 23 degrees/days (see Part Seven), the extremity of the western fault is exactly where Pakistan begins. The eastern entry point is 0 degrees Capricorn itself, or Bangladesh. But let us review the historical facts to understand the nature of invading forces at both these locations.
The Guna Map opposite places Pakistan fully in the section governed by Rajas Guna as part of the Mother’s threefold energy play. On the other side it is Tamas, perhaps even more subtle and sensitive because it is in this area that we note a shift in signs, from Capricorn to Sagittarius as the Ruler indicates (Part Six). Both these configurations provide exact descriptions of the quality of the forces that made repeated incursions into Bharat across the centuries from these points, finally gaining definitive entry to become ‘permanent political divisions’ at Partition.
Pakistan’s brief history confirms its rajasic quality: bold, forceful, even reckless as rajas can be when not tempered by the other Gunas. To be noted also is that the western Fault from 23º is LINEAR, in a sense reflective of the largely mountainous terrain of the area it crosses. On the eastern side Bangladesh is fully within tamas. We note the stark difference with Pakistan in that


the latter’s boldness and reliance on the military option is not prominent in the Tamas section. We could almost state that the breakup in 1971 of Pakistan and the formation of Bangladesh was inevitable given that these areas do not share a common guna which is then reflected in the unfolding of their respective destinies.
Also to be noted is that the breakup between East and West Pakistan occurred at a most significant time in the destiny of Bharat – the whole of it. 1971 marked a sort of before and after. The remaining three decades of the century and millennium would be the most important and significant period of the entire history of India, ancient and new. Most significant of all is the lifting of the last veil covering Guha and then the revelation of today’s connection with the Vedic Age, not only in terms of Knowledge but the revelation of the real and not imaginary avataric descent. The full Knowledge did take its place in the spiritual consciousness of India – and can no longer be ignored. During those three decades the understanding of the separate destinies between Pakistan and Bangladesh because of their different Guna qualities was made factual on the basis of the Symbol-Map with the Gunas.
If we wish to visualise the difference between the West and East fault lines, the line that constitutes the border separating Pakistan from India is indeed linear, – stark, aggressive and bold. The Bangladesh line is seen to be more circular. Its influence is exerted in the more subtle ways of the circle which we will discuss further on when we analyse the actual incursions into the Body of the Mother from these two sensitive areas and how contemporary history itself serves to confirm deductions based on the new Indo-centric cosmology.
To further emphasise the exactitude of our supramental Keys, let us observe just how much area in square kilometres these two portions carved out of the Body contain. The result of our calculations is further proof of the remarkable nature of the truth-conscious Supermind.

Applying the Vedic laws of Correspondence and Equivalence, Pakistan and Bangladesh make up approximately 951,510 km² of what was once Akhand Bharat. We state approximate because there may be some difficulty in being exact because of inaccessible areas. According to Wikipedia data, these two sections together make up approximately 22.44% of the total landmass (951,510/4,238,750); other sources give similar approximations, all ranging between 22 and 23%.
Insofar as 23 was the ‘Measure of Falsehood’, again it is proven by the Capricorn Makar Sankranti of India’s geography that this is indeed the percentage of land that must be retrieved; just as the 23 days ‘lost’ by the wrong calculation of the Sankranti must also be retrieved. These are the two areas that require immediate rectification. The calendar comes first, however, inasmuch as there are 80% of the energies of the nation that are currently dispersed by the wrong Nirayana calendar in use for Hindu temple observances. When those 80% are unified through adoption of the Vedic calendar, then India will acquire the power from within to conquer.

There is no outside power that can save India at this critical crossroads of her destiny. She stands alone. True to the centre that she is, power to conquer any adversity must arise from within. There is no nation on Earth that can do for India what she must do for herself. But those Hostiles know exactly how to keep the energies of 80% of the population disunited and hence useless for solving her problems; and above all, to be in a position to face the adverse forces and expose their illusory substance. After all, it was Al Biruni in the 12th Century who set the undermining seed in motion when he wrote that ‘….. ‘The solstice [December] has kept its place, but the constellations have migrated, just the very opposite of what Varaha has fancied.’ (India, II, p.7, quoted in ‘The Origins and Nature of Hindu Decline’, Part 2). And thus the undermining, that would take approximately 800 years to bear results, had begun.
Hindus, slowly but surely, took to heart Al Biruni’s critique, baseless as it was in terms of the Veda; and thus his suggestion, the Nirayana calendar of observances, finally came in vogue and displaced the Vedic Calendar with hardly a protest. No need for invading armies or converting proselytisers thereafter. From within Hindus determined their own fate. It is therefore only from within that the undermining can be brought to an end and India can be made whole – first in the subtle dimension of her energy body; then, with that new and re-vitalised foundation, wholeness will automatically be extended to all Akhand Bharat.

4 October 2009
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The Partition of India, its cause, its purpose - PART FOUR

An analysis based on the new Indo-Centric Cosmology

3.9.2009 – 13.10.2009

On the occasion of India’s independence from British rule, Sri Aurobindo, Vishnu’s 9^th Avatar, inter alia stated in a radio message to the nation:

‘…India is free, but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken freedom... The whole communal division into Hindu and Muslim seems to have hardened into the figure of a permanent political division of the country. It is to be hoped that the Congress and the Nation will not accept the settled fact as for ever settled, or as anything more than a temporary expedient…’ Sri Aurobindo, 15.8.1947.

Clearly Sri Aurobindo was not satisfied with Partition and its implications. More pointedly he foresaw that it would not solve existing problems but would simply create more:

‘…For if it lasts, India may be seriously weakened, even crippled; civil strife may remain always possible, possible even a new invasion and foreign conquest. The partition of the country must go...For without it [unity] the destiny of India might be seriously impaired and frustrated. That must not be.’ (Ibid)

Some years later, before his passing, Sri Aurobindo agreed to meet Shri K. S. Munshi, a senior Congress leader of the day; it was an unusual concession since he was in complete seclusion from 1926 and only rarely agreed to these requests. Here is a transcript of that important conversation:

‘K. S. Munshi, a Congress politician, was granted an audience with Sri Aurobindo, one of the few exceptions he made in the last years of his life.
‘…At the end of the interview, Munshi asked if there was anything Sri Aurobindo wanted to say. Immediately he asked, “When will India be reunited?” Taken aback, Munshi explained that he could not foresee it in his lifetime. Until 1947 he had worked for a united India. But he considered the partition to have been positive in so far as it allowed India and Pakistan to develop in their own separate ways. Sri Aurobindo insisted that Pakistan was “fraud, force and treachery”, and declared: “India will be reunited. I see it clearly.” After an exchange of views on local politics, Munshi asked, “When are you coming out of Pondicherry?” Sri Aurobindo replied: “I cannot say. I must first complete my work here.”’ Sri Aurobindo on Pakistan.

It would appear that the concession granted to K. S. Munshi just before leaving this plane was not a casual decision. Sri Aurobindo clearly wanted it known that Partition was unacceptable in the higher vision and had to go; moreover that it would eventually be undone. Through Munshi his views would be passed on to the Congress leadership. But as history records, not many were ready to heed Sri Aurobindo’s explicit warnings, with the result that sixty-two years later this disregard for the Avatar’s warning would cause the wounds inflicted by Partition to remain opened, oozing poisonous toxins as never before.
Sri Aurobindo left this plane in December 1950; the Mother was then to carry on his work for another 23 years. As a foreigner in those heady times, just after a hard-fought independence was won from British rule, instead of bold proclamations the Mother used more subtle means to effectuate Sri Aurobindo’s command, though certainly no less effective. The photograph below was taken on 21 February 1952.

The Mother seated before the map of Akhand Bharat on 21 February 1952

The Mother’s chair stands before the map of Akhand Bharat. Nothing more needed to be said or done. The image before which she sat throughout the years after his withdrawal until her own seclusion in 1962, would become engrained in the consciousness of all those who came into its presence. It continues to adorn the same wall where originally it had been placed for public display. Occult matters of this high order are known to leave a permanent and indelible imprinting, much like subliminal messaging used in certain advertising techniques. We shall see further on how this particular representation of Akhand Bharat with the Mother’s own carefully-designed symbol contains very exact instructions, if they may be so called, as to how the Avatar’s commands would come to be played out. The entire unfolding, nothing of which was revealed by the Mother to others directly, transpired exactly as she had presented in this bas-relief.
In addition to the above, the Mother left us an even more detailed explanation of the manner in which the destiny of Akhand Bharat would take shape. We present here another photograph taken on the same occasion. The Mother is seen together with four illustrious visitors, Jawaharlal Nehru, Thiru Kamaraj, Indira Gandhi Nehru, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. History confirms the unusual significance of this photograph in that three of India’s present and future prime ministers were with her that day, seated before the all-important map of Akhand Bharat. Finally, Thiru Kamaraj, seated second, is precisely the senior Tamil Congress leader who was responsible for Indira Gandhi becoming prime minister after the death of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (fourth from the Mother).


Further on, factual details of the manner in which the control of Mahakala worked through these instruments, even to the point of gathering them all together for this imprinting, will again provide documented proof that the destiny of India since the Vedic Age has been proceeding according to a carefully crafted ‘plan’. Now, with the advent of the new cosmology those higher laws of India’s destiny can be revealed. But in 1952, unknown to all and as if held together by a magnetic axis around the Mother, these four Congress leaders did come to play most significant roles in the history of contemporary India according to a unique pattern known only to Vedic civilisation. Rightfully so, because being the centre of the entire 9^th Manifestation consisting of over 6000 years – indeed, the central converging temporal pole of the Earth herself – we should not be surprised to make these discoveries. Nor should we be surprised that on 21.2.1952, the key to the entire process was given in the two photographs ‘arranged’ by the Supramental Shakti for posterity – preserved until the time when these revelations could be made known as the real organisation of political power for the nation from the beginning of the freedom movement, through independence and into the present.
In 1952 none of this was openly known. Explanations of the wise ways of the Mother began to take shape only from 1971 onwards; to note, the last three years of the Mother’s sojourn on Earth were dedicated to the transmission of a very special higher knowledge, much of which is displayed in these two images of the Mother’s symbol superimposed on Akhand Bharat.

21 September 2009
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The Partition of India, its cause, its purpose - PART ONE

An analysis based on the new Indo-Centric Cosmology
3.9.2009 – 13.10.2009

It is a problem that may never be resolved, but it just refuses to go away. The scars it has left are too deep and the wounds beneath seem to have touched the core of Indianness. Over the past month in the national discourse the cause of those wounds has been exposed once again: the partition of India.

First we must ask what exactly was it that suffered partition? What constituted ‘Bharat’? We know from history that India was a conglomeration of kingdoms and princely states, which might allow us to draw the conclusion that there was never an India to discuss, at least in the contemporary sense given to the name. Therefore, the next question is what then does the title Akhand Bharat mean? What is this extended or greater India that was finally partitioned in 1947?
The result of the dismembering of Akhand Bharat, however defined, was akin to a civil war, similar to what the United States of America experienced on the road to its nationhood. Or else there was the case of Spain in the last century. Such schisms often leave irreparable wounds which never really heal. There will remain a section of the society that harbours harmful memories and deep resentment over the results: one side or the other must win if fragmentation is to be avoided as the ‘final solution’. When nations are left to their own devices the stronger section wins the day and thereafter ‘unity’ prevails, – or rather is imposed. On the surface civil strife is over; but beneath surface layers the poisons of resentment and revenge may remain; and this can be stirred up by vested interests at any time while the original causes remain unresolved. This was witnessed in the American Civil War. It was not until more than a century had passed that those twists or ‘knots’ in the national psyche were finally brought to the surface, fully exposed and then dealt with definitively. This was the profound significance of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. America confronted those recalcitrant positions over which a civil war had been fought and the root causes were finally dealt with. The indication that it was ‘a job well done’ was the victory of Barak Obama as America’s first black man to be elected to the highest position of the land. The people of America and the world understood that the wounds of the Civil War and subsequent strife were healed. This is the great symbol of Obama’s victory.
While we may view the tragedy of India’s partition in a similar light, we know that no such healing has taken place. It may be argued that precisely because of partition healing can never take place. America did not fall into the trap of re-designing her borders; nor did Spain. Whereas India did, as did Palestine during the same period. This unhappy circumstance came to pass because unlike India (and the Middle East) both America and Spain were sovereign states. India, on the other hand was an occupied civilisation, a civilisation that had already been devastated time and again over 1200 years of her ancient history by invasions and conquests of powers inimical to the native culture encountered in these incursions. Had India been truly ‘Akhand Bharat’ during the period when those invasions had occurred, it is unlikely that conquests and occupations would have resulted. Bharat would have had the strength to repel invaders, especially those who, for one reason or another, could not accept the foundations of Indian culture and civilisation because of certain recalcitrant and arrogant imperatives of their own.
These invaders encountered a totally alien philosophy and culture in India of old, as if it were another planet when compared to Europe of the Middle Ages. It needs to be borne in mind that the purpose of these incursions was to impose a belief system and way of life that was unknown to India of the Vedic Age. That is, the exclusivism of conquering forces and the ideologies they propounded was exactly what ‘conquest’ had meant in Europe when Goddess worship and pagan cultures were obliterated. Their demand was a uniform belief system that did away with the manifold manifestations of pre-Christian and pre-Islamic culture. Monotheism was sought to be imposed in one form or another, then and even now as a part of a hegemonic struggle.
Thus, India was not really sovereign during the last astrological age (234 BCE-1926 CE) because she had lost that inner strength to counter attacks from exclusivist forces and their designs of world domination. India has never invaded another country; she has never sought to impose, by force or inducements of various types, her civilisational underpinnings. This has been her greatness – but also her weakness; for the conflict she carries within due to this reticence, a legacy from her Vedic moorings, is still with her. It came forward fully during Partition and continues to haunt the nation, as all such unresolved wounds must do.
In the rise of fundamentalism the entire globe is forced to deal with a growing religious fervour that refuses to shake off its hegemonic tendencies and to accept the time-bound nature of its origins. Similar to the festering wounds that continue to contaminate the evolving collective consciousness of a society, there are those among the faithful who cannot move forward with the Time-Spirit and relinquish those moorings in which world domination had played such a significant part. Religion was a powerful tool to use in hegemonic struggles and often the lines dividing State and Clergy were hard to distinguish. When fundamentalism arises it is a strong indication that the time has come for all nations involved to find their place in an order where imposition of one ideology over another cannot be accepted. In this new age the Time-Spirit has set a different agenda for evolution on Earth; indeed, foremost is the understanding and lived experience of oneness, of unity whose embrace is by definition global.

While the bold and assertive nature in the power struggle may be easily observed, there are other forces bequeathed from the last age that are more subtle in today’s quest for a continued domination similar to what it had known in the past. But because it is less obvious this underlying zeal is more difficult to detect; consequently it is far more difficult to eradicate. If we are permitted a dispassionate assessment of the legacies the new age inherited from the last, it is clear that the conflicts across the globe which the world cannot seem to resolve can be traced to the ‘soil’ wherein their respective ideological ‘seeds’ were planted. Out of that ‘mix’ ideologies arose without a mechanism in place that would allow for an upgrading from time to time as demanded by the on-going thrust of the spirit of the age. Thus when displacement necessarily threatens as new ideologies arise, this appears to attack those very fundaments at the origin of the belief. In such a scenario fundamentalism is sure to raise its head as we are witnessing today; bold or subtle the intention is the same: to mould or to remake society into what it once was and in this way to remove the perceived threat of survival in a vastly changed world. To counter these trends, overt or covert, the call heard evermore frequently is for a new world order. However, unless we are allowed to impartially study root causes of any malaise – and certainly there are many – how can a new order come about that differs from a past which continues to inject its undissolved poisons into the atmosphere where precisely we are meant to establish the new?

To return to Akhand Bharat, firstly, how is it to be defined? If Partition occurred and still inflicts injury on contemporary Indian society, there had to have been a sense of Bharat covering those very areas that were carved out of the Body of the Mother. But many argue that Mother India was never a united stretch of land and that this ancient ‘unity’ is fictitious and did not actually come about until the British took and retained possession of India for over 200 years. In a sense this is true. Great Britain’s conquest and the Raj it imposed had an important purpose, though this may be a point of contention for many nationalists and historians: it was to prepare the subcontinent to enter the new age as a political united whole. It did not matter that this wholeness was the result of foreign occupation because the Zeitgeist’s own purpose was to allow a sense of India to be consolidated in the consciousness of the people of the land according to the demands of contemporary society, whatever the creed, the class, the caste or the sect. And this did come to pass. As such, it was fully in keeping with the spirit of the times. The stage had been set for that ‘new order’, Indian style.
Whatever hidden motives the play of circumstances fostered, through invasions and conquests India found herself at the start of the new age (1926) to be a repository of numerous unresolved problems, precisely those that are creating havoc across the globe today.
The partitioned state of India displays unmistakably those recalcitrant legacies from the former age that refuse to move along with the times and the demands for a spirit of unity and oneness. The history of partition is well documented and need not detain us. However, in these days there has been a rehashing of the events and the participation of individuals who are deemed to have caused Partition. What has resulted from this tumultuous rehashing or revision of history is to note just how wounding and unresolved Partition has been. Many would like to forget that it ever occurred: the past is the past, let’s move on and somehow find peace with our neighbours. Indeed, this has been the policy of every government since Independence. However, the truth is that we cannot find ‘peace’ when unresolved issues remain; and we must have the courage to face those problems primarily by introspection, by going within. Moreover, India’s neighbours have their own unresolved issues which continuously erupt to haunt us all, lest we forget the oneness that embraces the subcontinent regardless of our contemporary borders.
The call of the hour is therefore to examine that ‘within’. What do we mean by India? If we are to deal with the cause of Partition we must examine what was partitioned in the first place. But before all else, we must penetrate even more deeply in our quest to the point where we understand the destiny of India as something quite different from the rest of the world. For India is the centre of the New Age. This means that though the Middle East was partitioned similar to the Indian subcontinent and by the same colonial power, this historical circumstance cannot be compared to India’s case where a different perspective has to be used to assess what on the surface only may appear similar. The Middle East played a significant role in the last astrological age (234 BCE-1926 CE); but its time of central significance has passed. Whatever ‘resolution’ is found to the problems of Palestinians and Jews will not have a bearing beyond that geographical location. Whereas, India being the new age’s centre it is only from this point on the globe that problems can be resolved which have a bearing on the entire Earth. Therefore, unless those problems are resolved in and by India, there is little likelihood of that much-awaited age of unity and oneness to come into being.
In a word, the new world order is destined to arise in India rather than elsewhere. However, to perceive that newness with its universal embrace a very different faculty of perception must come to our aid which is itself the result of a consciousness of unity and oneness.

3 September 2009
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