Yuva Bharati - August 2007 - Vivekananda Kendra Prakashan

SRI AUROBINDO’S MESSAGE TO INDIASri Aurobindo played a very importantrole in the struggle for India’s freedom. Verysignificantly India attained her independenceon the 15 th of August 1947, the 75 th BirthAnniversary of Sri Aurobindo. On thisoccasion All India Radio requested SriAurobindo to give a message to free India.In this message Sri Aurobindo spoke of hisfive dreams.Five DreamsAugust 15 th , 1947 is the birthday of freeIndia. It marks for her the end of an old era,the beginning of a new age. But we can alsomake it by our life and act as a free nationan important date in a new age opening forthe whole world, for the political, social,cultural and spiritual future of humanity.August 15 th is my own birthday and it isnaturally gratifying to me that it should haveassumed this vast significance. I take thiscoincidence, not as a fortuitous accident,but as the sanction and seal of the DivineForce that guides my steps on the work withwhich I began life, the beginning of its fullfruition. Indeed, on this day I can watchalmost all the world-movements which Ihoped to see fulfilled in my life time, thoughthen they looked like impracticable dreams,arriving at fruition or on their way toachievement. In all these movements freeIndia maywell play alarge partand take aleadingposition.The firstof thesedreams wasarevolutionarymovementwhich would create a free and united India.India today is free but she has not achievedunity. At one moment it almost seemed as ifin the very act of liberation she would fallback into the chaos of separate States whichpreceded the British conquest. Butfortunately it now seems probable that thisdanger will be averted and a large andpowerful, though not yet a complete unionwill be established. Also, the wisely drasticpolicy of the Constituent Assembly has madeprobable that the problem of the depressedclasses will be solved without schism orfissure. But the old communal division intoHindus and Muslims seems now to havehardened into a permanent division of thecountry. It is to be hoped that this settledfact will not be accepted as settled for everor as anything more than a temporaryexpedient. For if it lasts, India may beYUVA BHARATI - August 200734