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<font size="4">The Pact and its Sanction</font></B></p>
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<FONT SIZE=3>THE Pact if it is to be a success must be implemented at
three levels. First of all, at the highest level, at the source
itself, that is to say, between the Governments who initiated the
move. The ministers and members at the top should themselves maintain
an <I>entente cordiale </I>(in the literal and true sense of the
phrase) and set an example by their word and deed, and what is more
difficult and important, in their thought and feeling. They that are
on either side of the fence should meet and talk and intermix as real
friends and comrades, devise ways and means as to how best to carry
out what they sincerely wish and desire. If they do not believe in
the agreement in their heart of hearts, if they accept it simply
because forced by compelling circumstances and because there was no
other way out, if they entertain doubts and reservations and take it
up as a <I>pis aller, </I>than surely more than half the force of the
Pact is already gone. If the Pact is not sealed by the truth of our
heart, then it becomes a mere scrap of paper and is sure to go the
way of all such papers. It will not be stronger than the hundred and
one contracts that are made between states only to be broken at the
earliest opportunity. We have taken as the motto of our government
the flaming mantra of the Upanishad, Truth alone leads to victory; we
should not forget the continuation of the text, <I>and not falsehood.</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The leaders overhead should be actuated by the truth of
the soul (indeed for that they should have first a soul). A mainly
political deal covers up the fissure, an apparent solution or easing
of the situation hides a festering sore. We should have understood by
now, it has been the bitter lesson of the epoch comprising the last
two great wars that mere politics does not save, on the contrary, it
leads you into a greater and greater </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=3>mess. And still if governments have not <SPAN LANG="en-GB">learnt</SPAN>
the lesson, if they follow the old system of <I>real-politik, </I>well,
we can say only God save us, for we are heading straight over the
precipice - a final crash or a terrible revolution.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The Pact has to be implemented not only at the top but
equally at the bottom. Here the matter seems somewhat easier. For in
reality the common people have no interest in quarrels, they would
prefer to live and let live peacefully; the burden of daily life is
sufficient for them and they are not normally inclined to be busy
about things that would disturb their routine work. Difference in
religion or caste or creed is not such a serious matter with them.
They tolerate and accommodate themselves to any variety easily and if
there is a clash on an occasion, they forget it soon, and live
amicably together as before. That has been the life in the villages
for millenia. And if there is a formal Pact on the upper levels, it
is what is normal and natural to the common mass.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The difficulty comes from the middle region, from the
second element of the tripartite sanction. It is the &quot;middle
class&quot;, not quite in the economic but in the ideological sense.
In other words, in every society there are people who have risen or
are attempting to rise above the mass level. They look around and
above: they are not satisfied with their lot, they aspire towards
higher and wider ideals. They are the material out of which what we
call reformers and revolutionaries are made. In the general mass who
are more or less contented, they are the discontented: they form the
leaven of cells that move and stir and work for change. Now all
depends on what kind of leaven it is, what is the quality of the
force that is called up, the nature of the ideal or idea that is
invoked. For it can be either way, for good or for evil. There are
elements that belong to the light, and there are elements that belong
to darkness. There are mixtures in men no doubt, but on the whole
there are these two types: one helps humanity's progress, the other
retards and sometimes blocks completely. If the mass of mankind is
<I>tamas - inertia -there </I>is a kind of <I>rajas-dynamism -that
</I>drives towards greater <I>tamas, </I>as the Upanishad says,
towards disintegration, under the garb of reformation it brings about
disruption.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>So we have to see the type of cells that grow and become</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3 COLOR="#000000">consciously active in the body
politic. It is <I>sattwa - light-that </I>brings in knowledge and
harmony. And the movement for reformation and growth among the mass
has to be inspired by that quality or mode of consciousness. A sound
and healthy structure can be raised effectively upon that basis
alone. The man in the mass, as I have said and as is well known, is a
good-natured malleable material, but it is ignorant and inert: it can
easily be worked upon by any kind of strong force, worked up to any
kind of mischief. Shakespeare has made us very graphically familiar
with the reaction of a mob and that remains true even today. Even if
right direction is there at the top, at the higher governmental
level, reflecting the mind of the true intelligentsia, a well-meaning
plan is doomed to failure if it does not touch and move the middle
strata that are the real executive agents.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3 COLOR="#000000">The government in modern times
represents indeed the executive power of the nation, itself is
composed of the three social elements we speak of. First of all, the
high or top-ranking officials, as they are called, who can think out
and initiate a policy; next, the intermediate services who form the
dynamic limb of the organism; lastly, there is the rung of the
subordinate services. Here too the difficulty is with the
intermediate grade. It is there that the &quot;disaffected&quot; are
born and bred - disaffected not because of grievances or injustices
done, but because of the urge of ideals and purposes, ideas and
designs. The subordinate man - postman, <SPAN LANG="en-GB">railwayman</SPAN>,
clerk, school master, daily <SPAN LANG="en-GB">labourer </SPAN>- has
no ambitions, is not tortured by nostalgic notions: left to
themselves, these people accommodate themselves to circumstances and
take things as they come without worrying too much. But the point is
that they are never left to themselves. It is told to them-not
without reason, though-that they do not live, they vegetate: they are
dead, otherwise they would be living and kicking. The rousing of the
masses has always been the sacred mission of all reformers and
<SPAN LANG="en-GB">saviours</SPAN> of humanity. For they form the
bulk of humanity and its future is bound up with their destiny.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3 COLOR="#000000">The whole difficulty <SPAN LANG="en-GB">centres</SPAN>
upon the question: who rouses whom, and what is the principle that is
meant to rouse. There is a slogan that incited the Red Terror of the
French Revolution; there is the other one which inspired the Nazis;
there is</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>still another one rampant that had the seal and sanction
of Stalin and his politbureau. These have spread their dark wings and
covered the <SPAN LANG="en-GB">saviour</SPAN> light. On the other
hand, the voice of the Vedic Rishi that hymned the community of faith
and speech and act, the kindly light that Buddha carried to suffering
humanity, the love and sacrifice of Christ showing and embleming the
way of redemption, the saints and sages in our own epoch who have
visioned the ideal of human unity in a divine humanity, even secular
leaders who <SPAN LANG="en-GB">labour</SPAN> for &quot;one world&quot;,
&quot;a brave new world&quot;-all point to the other line of growth
and development that man can follow and must and shall follow. The
choice has to be made and the right direction given. In India today,
there are these two voices put against each other and clear in their
call: one asks for unity and harmony, wideness and truth, the other
its contrary working for separativeness, disintegration, narrowness,
and make-believe and falsehood. One must have the courage and the
sagacity to fix one's loyalty and adhesion.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>A true covenant there can be only between parties that
work for the light, are inspired by the same divine purpose.
Otherwise if there is a fundamental difference in the motive, in the
soul-impulse, then it is no longer a pact between comrades, but a
patchwork of irreconcilable elements. I have spoken of the threefold
sanction of the covenant. The sanction from the top initiates, plans
and supports, the sanction from the bottom establishes and furnishes
the field, but it is the sanction from the mid-region that inspires,
executes, makes a living reality of what is no more than an idea, a
possibility. On one side are the Elders, the seasoned statesmen, the
wise ones; on the other, the general body of mankind waiting to be
moved and guided; in between is the army of young enthusiasts,
enlightened or illumined (not necessarily young in age) who form the
<I>pr<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">an</FONT>a, </I>the vital
sheath of the body politic. All - by far the largest part of
it-depends upon the dreams that the Prana has been initiated and
trained to dream.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>This life principle of a body politic seems in Pakistan
to be represented by the Ansars. The question then to be determined
is whether they have accepted the Pact or not. If they have, is it
merely a political expedient or do they find in it a real moral
value? We have to weigh and judge the ideal and motive that</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>inspire this <SPAN LANG="en-GB">organisation</SPAN>
which seeks to be the steel frame supporting or supported by the
Government. We ask: is this a nucleus, a seed bed for the new life to
take birth and grow, the new life that would go to the making <I>of
</I>the new world and humanity? And we have to ask India too, has she
found her nucleus or nuclei, on her side, that would generate and
foster the power <I>of </I>her soul and spirit? The high policy <I>of
</I>a government remains a dead law or is misconstrued and misapplied
through local agents: they are in fact the local growths that feed
the national life and are fed by it and they need careful nurture and
education, for upon them depends ultimately the weal or the woe of<I>
</I>the race.</FONT><BR>
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