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\nAPPENDIX<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n


\n15 August 1947\u00b9<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/span>August 15th, 1947<\/span> is the birthday of free <\/span>India<\/span>. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age.
\nBut we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date
\nin a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural
\nand spiritual future of humanity. <\/span><\/p>\n

August 15th is my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to
\nme that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence,
\nnot as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force
\nthat guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its
\nfull fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements
\nwhich I hoped to see fulfilled in my lifetime, though then they looked like
\nimpracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In
\nall these movements free <\/span>India<\/span> may well play a large part and take a leading position. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would
\ncreate a free and united <\/span>India<\/span>. <\/span>India<\/span> today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it
\nalmost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would fall back into the
\nchaos of separate States which preceded the British conquest. But fortunately
\nit now seems probable that this danger will be averted and a large and
\npowerful, though not yet a complete union will be established. Also, the wisely
\ndrastic policy of the Constituent Assembly has made it probable that the
\nproblem of the depressed classes will be solved without schism or fissure. But
\nthe old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened
\ninto a permanent political division of the country. It is to be hoped that this
\nsettled fact will not be accepted as settled for ever or as anything more than
\na temporary
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
\n\u00b9The
\nmessage broadcast by All India Radio, Trichinopoly, on 14 August 1947, the eve
\nof the <\/font> <\/span>
\nIndependence<\/span> of <\/span>
\nIndia<\/span>.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\nPage – 271<\/span><\/p>\n

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expedient.
\nFor if it lasts, India may be seriously weakened, even crippled: civil strife
\nmay remain always possible, possible even a new invasion and foreign conquest.
\nIndia’s internal development and prosperity may be impeded, her position among
\nthe nations weakened, her destiny impaired or even frustrated. This must not
\nbe; the partition must go. Let us hope that that may come about naturally, by
\nan increasing recognition of the necessity not only of peace and concord but of
\ncommon action, by the practice of common action and the creation of means for
\nthat purpose. In this way unity may finally come about under whatever form the
\nexact form may have a pragmatic but not a fundamental importance. But by
\nwhatever means, in whatever way, the division must go; unity must and will be
\nachieved, for it is necessary for the greatness of <\/span>India<\/span>‘s future. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another dream was for the resurgence and liberation of the peoples
\nof <\/span>Asia<\/span> and her return to her great role in the progress of human
\ncivilisation. Asia has arisen; large parts are now quite free or are at this
\nmoment being liberated: its other still subject or partly subject parts are
\nmoving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to be done
\nand that will be done today or tomorrow. There <\/span>India<\/span> has her part to play and has begun to play it with an energy and
\nability which already indicate the measure of her possibilities and the place
\nshe can take in the council of the nations. <\/span><\/p>\n

The third dream was a world-union forming the outer basis of a
\nfairer, brighter and nobler life for all mankind. That unification of the human
\nworld is under way; there is an imperfect initiation organised but struggling
\nagainst tremendous difficulties. But the momentum is there and it must
\ninevitably increase and conquer. Here too India has begun to play a prominent
\npart and, if she can develop that larger statesmanship which is not limited by
\nthe present facts and immediate possibilities but looks into the future and
\nbrings it nearer, her presence may make all the difference between a slow and
\ntimid and a bold and swift development. A catastrophe may intervene and
\ninterrupt or des- <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 272<\/span><\/p>\n

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troy what is
\nbeing done, but even then the final result is sure. For unification is a
\nnecessity of Nature, an inevitable movement. Its necessity for the nations is
\nalso clear, for without it the freedom of the small nations may be at any
\nmoment in peril and the life even of the large and powerful nations insecure.
\nThe unification is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility
\nand stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against
\nthe necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. But an outward basis is not
\nenough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international
\nforms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or
\nmultilateral citizenship, willed interchange or voluntary fusion of cultures.
\nNationalism will have fulfilled itself and lost its militancy and would no
\nlonger find these things incompatible with self-preservation and the
\nintegrality of its outlook. A new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human
\nrace. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another dream, the spiritual gift of <\/span>India<\/span> to the world has already begun. <\/span>India<\/span>‘s spirituality is entering <\/span>Europe<\/span> and <\/span>America<\/span> in an ever increasing measure. That movement will grow; amid the
\ndisasters of the time more and more eyes are turning towards her with hope and
\nthere is even an increasing resort not only to her teachings, but to her
\npsychic and spiritual practice. <\/span><\/p>\n

The final dream was a step in evolution which would raise man to a
\nhigher and larger consciousness and begin the solution of the problems which
\nhave perplexed and vexed him since he first began to think and to dream of
\nindividual perfection and a perfect society. This is still a personal hope and
\nan idea, an ideal which has begun to take hold both in <\/span>India<\/span> and in the West on forward-looking minds. The difficulties in the
\nway are more formidable than in any other field of endeavour, but difficulties
\nwere made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be
\novercome. Here too, if this evolution is to take place, since it must proceed
\nthrough a growth of the spirit and the inner consciousness, the initiative can
\ncome from <\/span>India<\/span> and, <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 273<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>although the scope must be universal, the
\ncentral movement may be hers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Such is the content which I put into this date of <\/span>India<\/span>‘s liberation; whether or how far this hope will be justified
\ndepends upon the new and free <\/span>India<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\n\u00a0<\/font><\/span>Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, Vol. 26, pp.
\n404-406<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 274<\/span><\/p>\n

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