India, the land is so cluttered with people that there has grown
up in some of Indians a craving for aloneness. Is this desire a
form of self-obsession?
Obsession with the self is an ancient Indian peculiarity. It has
always been there. And it has been a limiting factor in the
development and continuity of Indian culture and society.
In India, wherever you turn, in long and chequered history
you find the destructive presence of the Indian ego, which
stresses tge "I" more that any other ego. The break-up of
Indian kingdoms and empires, even to the point of inviting
foreign invaders to destroy a rival, the break-up of our spiritual
experience into segments so small as to be misleading (hence the
rise of mutually exlusive cults, social doctrines and aesthetic
attitude), the break-up of Indian social economy - such are the
evil results of our selfish ways. Indian have never learned to sink
the "I" so that the social amalgam may prosper. Indians have lost
the whole in pursuit of a part. Indian are for ever destroying the
wood in order to preserve a few pet trees.
The consequence is clear; an invitation to the desert to creep up
and swallow everything. [next will continue as no. 103]
Kind REgards!
Sunder T
