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AYODHYA : A HISTORICAL WATERSHED |
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a historic change of this magnitude takes place, intellectual
confusion is generally unavoidable. The human mind, as a rule,
trails behind events; it is not capable of anticipating them. But it
should be possible to cut through the mass of confusion and get to
the heart of the heart of the matter.
The heart of the matter is that if India's vast spiritual (psychic in modern parlance) energies, largely dormant for centuries, had to be tapped, Hindus had to be aroused; they could be aroused only by the use of a powerful symbol; that symbol could only be Ram, as was evident in the twenties when the Mahatma moved millions by his talk of Ramrajya; once the symbol takes hold of the popular mind, as Ram did in the twenties and as it has done now, opposition to it generally adds to its appeal. An element of subjectivity and voluntarism, typical of a modern Westernized mind, has got introduced in the previous paragraph because that is the way I also think. In reality, the time spirit (Mahakala) unfolds itself under its own auspices, at its own momentum, as it were; we can either cooperate with it, or resist it at our peril.
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