Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1
- The New Humanity
- The Creative Soul
- Rationalism
- The Intuition of the Age
- The Nietzschean Antichrist
- On Communism
- The Basis of Social Reconstruction
- A Theory of Yoga
- The Parting of the Ways
- Principle and Personality
- The Basis of Unity
- Three Degress of Social Organisation
- The World War
- The Message of the Atomic Bomb
- National and International
- The Right of Absolute Freedom
- Federated Humanity
- Vansittartism
- India One and Indivisible
- The Basic Unity
- The Way to Unity
- Independence and its Sanction
- New World-Conditions
- The Ideals of Human Unity
- On Social Reconstruction
- Panacea of Isms
- Life-sketch
- The Malady of The Century
- Aspects of Modernism
- Modernism - An Oriental Interpretation
- The other aspect of European Culture
- The Spiritual Genius of India
- Divine Humanism
- Some Thoughts on the unthinkable
- The Standpoint of Indian Art
- Art and Katharsis
- Hamlet - A Crisis of The Evolving Soul
- Modernish Poetry
- Tagore - Poet and Seer
- The March of Civilisation
- A Chapter of Human Evolution
- The Eternal East and West
- A Global Humanity
- The Immortal Nation
- Evolution of the Spiritual Consciousness
- Matter Aspires
- An Evolutionary Problem
- Values Higher and Lower
- Man and the Gods
- God's Labour
- Bypaths of Soul'sJourney
- The Immortal Person
- In Quest of Reality
- Physics of Philosophy
- The Observer and the Observed
- An Age of Revolution
- The Changed Scientific Outlook
- Knowledge by Identity
- The Place of Reason
- The Revealer and the Revelation
- Darshana and Philosophy
- The Sanctity of the Individual
- Sartrian Freedom
- A Modernish Mentality
- Evolution or Special Creation
- Man to be Surpassed
- Lone to the Lone
- The Urge for Progression
- Being or Becoming and Having
- Success and its Conditions
- The Base of Sincerity
- Process of Purification
- Sweet Adversity
- The Soul in Anguish
- The Nature of Perfection
- God Protects
- Vengeance is Mine
- There's a Divinity
- Divine Intervention
- Yoga as Pragmatic Power
- Caesar Versus the Divine
- Light, More Light
- Index
The Basic Unity
THERE is one unity which cannot be denied to India, because Nature has given it and man cannot withdraw or annul it. It is the geographical, the physical unity. It is so clearly and indelibly marked that it has always been looked upon as a definite unit by all outside its boundaries; one may call in question the cultural unity, if one chooses, one may be sceptic about the spiritual unity, but the unity of the body leaps to the eyes, even as the clear contour of a living organism. As we know, however, an individual human frame may contain many personalities, many Jekylls and Hydes may lodge in the same physical tenement, even so, the physical unity that is India may harbour many and diverse independent elements. Admitting even that, the problem does not end there, it is only the beginning. The problem that is set in such a case is, as has been pointed out by the psychologists, the problem of the integration of personality.
A
firm physical unity presupposes, at least posits the possibility of
an integral unity. Otherwise the body itself would tend to break up
and disintegrate. Such physical cataclysms are not unknown in Nature.
However, a geographical unity cannot remain exclusively limited to
itself; it brings about other unities by the very pressure, by the
capillary action, as it were, of the boundary. The first unity that
is called into being is the economic. A Zollverein (Customs
Union) has almost always been the starting-point of a national union.
Next or along with it comes the political unity. India's political
and economic unity has been the great work of the British rule,
however that rule might be distasteful to us. It is an illustration
of Nature's method of compulsion and violence, when man's voluntary
effort fails. India possesses a resounding roll of great
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names who endeavoured to give her this solid political and economic unity; Bharata, Yudhishthira, Asoka, Chandragupta, Akbar, Shivaji have all contributed to the evergrowing unification of Indian polity. But still what they realised was not a stable and permanent thing, it was yet fluent and uncertain; it was only the hammerblow, the plastering, as one would say today, from an outside agency that welded, soldered and fixed that unity.
Fissures of late have opened again and they seem to be increasing in depth and width and in number. What appeared to be a unified structure, of one piece, whole and entire, now threatens to crash and fall to pieces. We are asked to deny the unity. The political unity, it is said, is an impossibility, the geographical unity an illusion.
In
such a predicament the vision of a prophet counts more than the
arguments of a political huckster. That an Indian consciousness is
there and has grown and taken more and more concrete shape through
the ages is a fact to which history bears testimony and honest
commonsense pays homage.
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