Bharata that is India

 

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Bharata that is India

In the East, spirituality and religion were never an organised process. Organisation was only to the extent of making spirituality available to everyone – not for conquest. Essentially, religion is about the individual, it is not about God. Religion is about our own liberation. God is just one more stepping stone that we can use or skip towards our ultimate liberation. This culture recognises human wellbeing and freedom as of paramount importance versus the prominence of God, and hence the whole system of God-making evolved into the science of consecrating various types of energy forms and spaces. We find these in all our shakti peeths and ancient temples. Enter any of these premises, into the aura of these premises and we can feel a palpable difference in the energy.

The essential purpose of God is to create reverence in a person. What we are reverential towards is not important. Being reverential is what is important. If we make reverence the quality of our life, then we become far more receptive to life. Life will happen to us in bigger ways. There is so much misunderstanding about these things because there is a certain dialectical ethos to the culture where we want to express everything in a story or in a song. But in a way, this whole culture referred to as Hindu is rooted in the spiritual ethos of each individual working toward ultimate liberation as the fundamental goal in life.

If we explore mysticism in India, it is absolutely incredible and this has been possible because it does not come from a belief system. It happens as a scientific means to explore dimensions beyond the physical.

Bharat that is India, is not a study, but a phenomenon of possibilities, though it is a cauldron of multiple cultural, ethnic, religious, and linguistic soup. It is all held together by a single thread of seeking. The tremendous longing has been nurtured into the people of the land, the longing to be free. Free from the very process of life and death. India cannot be studied, at the least one must soak it in, or at best must dissolve. This is the only way. It cannot be studied, western analysis of India is too off the mark, as symptomatic analysis of Bharat will only lead to very grossly misunderstood conclusions of a nation that revels and thrives in a chaos that is organic and exuberant.

This most ancient of nations upon this earth is not built upon a set of principles or beliefs or ambitions of its citizenry. It is a nation of seekers, seeking not wealth or wellbeing, but liberation, not of the economic or political kind, but the ultimate liberation – moksha!

One must not forget that the basis of seeking is that One has realised that One does not know. One does not know the nature of One’s being. Instead of settling for a culturally convenient belief, for a whole populace to have the courage and commitment to seek the truth about themselves. 

This is the basis of this nation that is called Bharata. Bha meaning sensation, that is the basis of all experience and expression; Ra meaning Raga, the tune and texture of life; Ta meaning Tala, the rhythms of life, which involve both rhythms of the human system and nature.