India's Sordid State.....Why?
“Design Creates Culture
Culture Shapes Values
Values Determine Future”
- Robert L. Peters
The Indian leaders, at the turn of the 19th century, were stalwarts in their own right. They were high intellectuals and rationalists par excellence. However, they had no clue whatsoever about the universal truth in the about mentioned statement. The statement had its roots in European Renaissance. Victims as they were of the British Educational system that was essentially designed to keep Indians away from ‘Art-innovation-knowledge-wealth’ link.
India’s intellectuals since 1900 knew India’s History. They had full knowledge of VEDAS, SHASTRAS, UPANISHADS and VEDANT. But they didn’t know the creative link between HERITAGE-TRADITION-ACCOMPLISHMENTS prior to VEDAS. The link had a long unwritten history of relentless growth in the form of repeating cycles from generation to generation, dating back to Pre-History. It was a WEALTH-CREATING LINK.
Unaware of this Wealth-Creating Link and its importance, the intellectual stalwarts between1900-1920 got divided between MODERATE and RADICAL groups that wished India’s freedom from the British. This intellectual division created a vacuum in our country where no Design Strategy could evolve, no DESIGN-BASED CULTURE could emerge, no DESIGN-BASED VALUES could be shaped; and quite naturally, the FUTURE OF A GLORIOUS FREE INDIA went for a toss.
Today, in 2016, we have a charismatic Prime Minister with lots of progressive ideas. But he has no party aware of India’s WEALTH-CREATING CULTURAL LINK. We have a capable looking Home Minister, but without the support of a public that has no qualifications to live in a Democracy. We have a good administrator as a Defense Minister with valorous Armed Forces, but no superior military hardware innovated by Indians that will deter China and Pakistan. We have an experienced and charming Foreign Minister, but she has no equally charming image of India to project.
Why this sordid state of affairs in India, after some 70 years of independence? The answer is found laid in SHIVA CONSCIOUSNESS.
I will talk more elaborately about the Shiva Consciousness in my next post!!!
Vedant is another nomenclature for UPANISHADs. Meaning the ultimate thought processes culminating to the best of the Vedic lore.Raja Ram Mohun Roy had translated them in French titles Oupnechts. Dara Shikoh ( Aurangjeb's brother ) got them translated in Persian. Plato is said to have access to these treatises carried back by the then Greek sea-farers as mentioned in East & West a Ph.D. thesis of Wilhelm Halbfass of Columbia University published about 1989.
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