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A country under foreign domination seeks escape from the present in dreams of a vanished age and finds consolation in visions of past greatness. That is a foolish and dangerous pastime in which many of us indulge. An equally questionable practice for us in India is to imagine that we are still spiritually great, though we have come down in the world in other respects. Spiritual or any other greatness cannot be founded on a lack of freedom and opportunity or on starvation and misery. Many Western writers have encouraged the notion that Indians are otherworldly. I suppose the poor and unfortunate in every country become, to some extent, otherworldly; they become revolutionaries, for this world is evidently not meant for them, so also subject peoples.

As a man grows to maturity, he is not entirely engrossed in or satisfied with the external objective world. He seeks also some inner meaning, some psychological and physical satisfactions. So also with people and civilizations as they mature and grow adult. Every civilization and every people exhibit these parallels of an external life and an internal life. Where they meet or keep close to each other, there is an equilibrium and stability. When driven, conflict arises, and the crises that torture the mind and spirit.