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World is One</font></B></p>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style="font-size:12pt;">WE
say not only that India is one and indivisible (and for that matter,
Bengal too is one and indivisible, since we have to repeat axiomatic
truths that have fallen on evil days and on evil tongues) but that
also the whole world is one and indivisible. They who seek to drive
in a wedge anywhere, who are busy laying some kind of </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">cordon
sanitaire </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">across countries and nations or cultures and
</span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">civilisations</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;">, in the name of a bigoted
ideology, are, to say the least, doing a disservice to humanity,
indeed they are inviting a disaster and catastrophe to the world and
equally to themselves. For that is an attempt to stem the high tide
of Nature's swell towards a global unity that shall brook no
resistance.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">The distinctions and differences that held good in other
times and climes can have no sense or value in the world of today.
Race or religion can divide man no longer; even nationhood has lost
much of its original force and meaning. It is strange -perhaps it is
inevitable in the secret process of Nature's working -that when
everything in conditions and circumstances obviously demands and
points to an obliteration of all frontiers of division and separation
-economically and politially too - and all drives towards a closer
co-operation and intermingling, it is precisely then that the
contrary spirit and impulse raises its head and seems even to gather
added strength and violence. The fact may have two explanations.
First of all, it may mean a </span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">defence</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;"> gesture
in Nature, that is to say, certain forces or formations have a
permanent place in Nature's economy and when they apprehend that they
are being ousted and neglected, when there is a one-pointed drive for
their exclusion, naturally they surge up and demand recognition with
a vengeance: for things forgotten or left aside that form</span><BR>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style="font-size:12pt;">indissolubly
part of Nature's fabric and pattern, one has to retrace one's steps
in order to pick them up again. But also the phenomenon may mean a
simple case of atavism: for we must know that there are certain
old-world aboriginal habits and movements that have to go and have no
place in the higher scheme of Nature and these too come up off and
on, especially when the demand is there for their final liquidation.
They have to be </span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">recognised</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;"> as such and
treated as such. Radical and religious (including ideological)
egoisms seem to us to belong to this category.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">In the higher scheme of Nature, the next evolutionary
status that is being forged, </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">it </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">is unity, harmony that is
insisted upon, for that is the very basis of the new creation:
whatever militates against that, whatever creates division and
disruption must be banned and ruthlessly eschewed. In the reality of
things, in the actual life that man lives, it will be found that on
the whole, things that separate are less numerous and insistent than
those which unite, man and man and nation and nation, if each one
simply lives and lets live: on the contrary, it is the points of
concordance and mutuality that abound. A certain knot or twist in the
mind makes all the difference: it brings in the ignorance,
selfishness, blind passion-a possession by the dark forces of atavism
that makes the mischief.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">We ask for freedom, liberty of the individual,
self-determination -well and good. But that does not mean the </span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">licence</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;">
to do as one pleases, impelled by one's irrational idiosyncrasies.
The individual must be truly individual, not a fractional being, the
self must be the real self, not a shadow or surface formulation in
order to have the full right to unfettered movement. Liberty, yes;
but that means liberty for all which means again the other two terms
of the great trinity, equality and fraternity. Individuality, yes;
that means every individuality, in other words, solidarity. The two
sides of the equation must be given equal value and equal emphasis.
If the stress upon one leads to Nazism, Fascism or Stalinism,
steam-rollered uniformity or streamlined regimentation, the death of
the individual, the other emphasis leads to disintegration and
disruption, to the same end in a different way. But in the world of
today, after the victory in the last war over the Nazi conception of
humanity, it seems as though the spirit of disruption has gone</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">abroad,
human consciousness has been atom-bombed into flying fragments; so we
have the spectacle of all manner of parochialism pullulating on the
earth, regional and ideological -imperial blocs, nations, groups,
parties have </span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">chequered</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">ad infinitum,
</span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">have </span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">balkanised</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;"> human commonalty.</span></P>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">We badly needed a United Nations </span><SPAN LANG="en-GB" style="font-size:12pt;">Organisation</SPAN><span style="font-size:12pt;">,
but we are facing the utmost possible disunity. The lesson is that
politics alone will not save us, nor even economics. The word has
gone forth: what is required is a </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">change of heart. </span></I><span style="font-size:12pt;">The leaders
of humanity must have a new heart grafted in place of the old. That
is the surgical operation imperative at the moment. That heart will
declare in its beats that the cosmos is not atomic but one and
indivisible, </span><I><span style="font-size:12pt;">ekam sat, neha n</span><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">a</span></FONT><span style="font-size:12pt;">n</span><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">a</span></FONT><span style="font-size:12pt;">sti
ki</span><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">ñ</span></FONT><span style="font-size:12pt;">cana.</span></I><BR>
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