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<font size="4">National and International</font></b></p>
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<FONT SIZE=3>A LEADING Nationalist has opined that he does not
understand the &quot;slogan&quot; of viewing the nation against a
background of internationalism. We can only say that the patriot has
learnt nothing and forgotten nothing always like the old guards
attached to the old regime who do not see how much water has flown
below their feet while they stood gazing at the sky or shut
themselves up in their ivory tower. Well, a village headman could in
the same way assert that he does not know and cares not to know how
to look upon his village against the background of the whole nation:
still the village exists only in and through the life of the nation.
Even so, the nation which grew out of the fusion of clans and tribes
has to outgrow itself; it has to live today, if she wishes to live,
in and through the life of humanity as a whole.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Kurukshetra is a turning-point in history. The battle
was between an old order that had to go and a new order that was
taking birth. The old order was supported, on the one hand, by
Bhishma and Drona, personating its codes and laws, its morals, and,
on the other, by Duryodhana and Sisupala as its dynamic actors and
executors. The new order was envisaged by Krishna and its chief
protagonists were the five brothers. The old order meant the
supremacy of the family and the clan: that was the central unit round
which society grew and was held together. Krishna came to break that
mould and evolve a higher and larger unit of collective life. It was
not yet the nation, but an intermediary stage something like a League
of clans, (as we in our day are trying another higher stage in the
League of Nations). The Rajasuya celebrates the establishment of this
New Order of a larger, a greater human organisation, Dharmarajya, as
it was called.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 80</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>We have just passed through another, a far greater, a
catastrophic Kurukshetra, the last Act (Shanti Parvam) of which we
are negotiating at the present moment. The signi&shy;ficance of this
cataclysm is clear and evident if we only allow ourselves to be led
by the facts and not try to squeeze the facts into the groove of our
past prejudices and set notions. All the difficulties that are being
encountered on the way to peace and reconstruction arise mainly out
of the failure to grasp what Nature has forced upon us. It is as
simple as the first axiom of Euclid: Humanity is one and all nations
are free and yet interdependent members of that one and single
organism. No nation can hope henceforth to stand in its isolated
grandeur – not even America or Russia. Subject or dependent nations
too who are struggling to be free will be allowed to work out their
freedom and independence, on condition that the same is worked out in
furtherance and in collaboration with the ideal of human unity. That
ideal has become dynamic and insistent – the more man refuses to
accept it, the more he will make confusion worse confounded.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center" style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>Page – 81</FONT></P>
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