{"id":1078,"date":"2013-07-13T01:32:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:32:25","slug":"43-union-day-vol-02-karmayogin-volume-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/02-karmayogin-volume-02\/43-union-day-vol-02-karmayogin-volume-02","title":{"rendered":"-43_Union Day.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Union Day<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nT<\/b><\/font>HE
\n<\/span>16th of October is generally known as the Partition
\nDay, and it is inevitable that, so long as the administrative division stands,
\nthis feature should be emphasised. Especially now that the Reforms threaten to
\nmake the division in our administrative lives permanent and real, a mournful
\nsignificance attaches to the celebration this year. It is possible that,
\nbefore the day comes round again, the fatal complaisance and weakness of
\nleaders and people may have effected the division between East and West Bengal
\nwhich the hand of Lord Curzon attempted in
\nvain. The Reform drives in the thin end of the wedge, the rulers know how to
\ntrust to time and national cowardice and inertia to do the rest. But if we can
\novercome the temptation as we overcame the intimidation, the 16th of October
\nwill take its place among the national festivals of the future under the name
\nof Union Day.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The unity of Bengal was almost complete when Lord Curzon struck his
\nblow; but there were defects, little
\nfissures which might under untoward circumstances develop into great and
\nincreasing cracks. Lord Curzon’s blow
\ndevised in a spirit of Machiavellian statesmanship, but delivered in a fit of unstatesmanlike haste and fury, instead of
\nsplitting asunder, soldered Bengali unity into a perfect whole. Bengal one and
\nindivisible came into existence on the 16th of October. The indivisibility has
\nyet to be confirmed by withstanding the covert and subtle pressure of the
\nreformed Councils, but, even if for a moment there is backsliding, the young
\nhold the future and in their hearts Bengal is one and indivisible.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The unity of India has been slowly prepared by the pressure from
\nabove and the creation of a reaction from below. It is only by that reaction
\ngiving birth to a self-conscious democracy aspirant towards oneness and
\nfreedom and reliant on its own manhood, that the dream of an United India can
\nbe materialised. The publication of the People’s Proclamation on the 16th was<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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the
\nfirst self-conscious utterance of such a democracy, as yet imperfect and
\ninchoate but aware of its separate existence and conscious of its potential
\nstrength. That democracy is now alive in Bengal and Maharashtra,
\nit is struggling to get existence in Punjab and Madras and, to a slighter
\nextent, in the other provinces. When it is fully awake all over India, the
\nunity of the whole country will be within sight. On the 16th of October, in the
\nPeople’s Proclamation, the first condition of an United India was created.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

There is yet another unity which is as yet only dimly symbolised in
\nthe ceremony of the Rakhi, a unity which
\ncannot come into being until a perfect comradeship in aspiration, in struggle,
\nin suffering shall have been created throughout the length and breadth of the
\nland, \u2014 the unity in national comradeship of the children of one mighty Mother,
\nwhatever their class or condition, \u2014 Indian fraternity based on Indian liberty
\nand Indian equality.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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