Service of the Mother - India

India is not the earth, rivers and mountains of this land, neither is it a collective name for the inhabitants of this country. India is a living being, as much living as, say, Shiva. India is a goddess as Shiva is a god. If she likes, she can manifest in human form.                                                                                             

Love has a place in politics, but it is the love of one's country, for one's countrymen,, for the glory, greatness and happiness of the race, the divine ananda of self- immolation for one's fellows, the ecstasy of  relieving their sufferings, the joy of seeing one's blood flow for country and freedom,  the bliss of union in death with the fathers of the race.

The feeling of almost physical delight in the touch of the Mother soil, of the winds that blow from Indian seas, of the rivers that stream from Indian hills, in the hearing of Indian speech, music, poetry, in the familiar sights, sounds, habits, dress,  manners of our Indian life, this is the physical root of that LOVE. The pride in our past, the pain of our present, the passion for the future are its trunk and branches. Self- sacrifice and self - forgetfulness, great service, high endurance for the country are its fruit. And the sap which keeps it alive is the realisation of the Motherhood of God in the country, the vision of the Mother, the knowledge of the Mother, the perpetual contemplation, adoration and service of the Mother. 

- SRI AUROBINDO

Each nation has a psychic being which is its true being and moulds its destiny from behind the veil: 

it is the SOUL of the country, the national genius,  the spirit of the people, the centre of national aspiration, the fountainhead of all that is beautiful, noble, great and generous in the life of the country.

True patriots feel its presence as a tangible reality. In India it has been made into an almost divine entity,  and all who truly love their country call it ''MOTHER INDIA'' (Bharat Mata) and offer her a daily prayer for the welfare of their country. It is she who symbolizes and embodies the true ideal of the 

country, its true mission in the world  - THE MOTHER

IT IS BY BEING SINCERE, COURAGEOUS, ENDURING AND HONEST THAT YOU CAN BEST SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, MAKE IT ONE AND GREAT IN THE WORLD.

THE MOTHER.