Bunch Of Thoughts: The Nation and its Problem - IX - 2

                                             Wanted Heroic Devotion

Theme: Devotion to motherland should be dynamic not passive. This earth is for valiant. We should aim to bring the motherland in the undivided original form.

Detailed Explanation:

  Some people say “What is this so-called motherland, except stones and clay’. Same people don’t have answer why one consider his mother different from others. Why have devotion to her? Mere intellect is not enough.

 Take example for frog and snake. They have no idea of mother at all. Gradually as life evolves, in mammals mother feeds her young ones in their childhood. Birds take care of their offsprings, once offspring are independent they leave their mother.  Man is supposed to be at top in the scale of evolution.If he is cultured, his love and adoration for his mother continues even after she ceases to be physically useful to him.He sees so many other things to which he owes a debt of gratitude. He begins to look upon them also as mother.e.g, river, cow, soil, etc, Thus to look upon one’s land of birth as mother is a sign of a high state of human evolution. 

The Vedas declare.

 (The Earth is my mother, I am her child.)

   The devotion to motherland should be dynamic. Formal way like worshiping with flowers, lights, chants of hymns, etc is passive way. Dynamic aspect of devotion is to manifest in practical national life a spirit of sacrifice in every possible way.A heart fired with such devotion can never tolerate the slightest affront to the object of its devotion. Dynamic devotion can only protect dharma. We can see in past when many foreign aggressors attacked Nation. At that time only dynamic one was able to save the Nation. That is also the lesson of our puranas which depict the stories of the struggle between devas(gods) and rakshasas(demons). We often see devas, in spite of their divinity, being beaten down by the organised and aggressive rakshasas. And it was only when the devas roused themselves to heroic action that they could triumph over the rakshasas.

 Indeed, "veerabhogya vasundhara" (This Earth is for the valiant) sums up the philosophy of a successful life in this world.

  There was indeed this lack of devotion, that's why partition happened. The son of this soil were not courageous enough to prevent that. Partition cannot be a settled fact. We are here to unsettle it. Things get settled or unsettled solely by the will of man. A true son can never accept other than a whole mother.A spirit of compromise, an attitude of purchasing peace by parting with portions of our motherland to whoever chooses to lay axe on her, has taken hold of our people. Even the memory of those parts under enemies’ possession is dying away.We have especially to guard ourselves and our coming generations in this regard.

   At times, political boundaries undergo some changes on account of political impacts and the whimsical fortunes of war. But it can never mean that the portions we have lost politically are not parts of our motherland at all.Was not the whole of our country, until recently, under the foreign domination of the British? Before that, was not part of our country under Muslim domination for centuries?If, today, we say that what we have lost to the aggressors, whether they be the Muslims or Chinese, is not ours but belongs to them by right, then it only means that we have lost the will to fight, that we have forsaken our manliness to the extent that we have begun to glorify our defeats and humiliations.

 We should bring to life the dream of Bharat Mata reinstated in her pristine undivided form.