78) Sri Aurobindo's Call For Action - First Editorial-March 2015 Issue-Sri Aurobindo's Action Journal

Sri Aurobindo’s Call for Action“When I come back I wish to see some of you becoming rich, rich not for yourselves but that you may enrich the Mother with your riches. I wish to see some of you becoming great, great not for your own sakes, not that you may satisfy your own vanity, but great for her, to make India great, to enable her to stand up with head erect among the nations of the earth, as she did in the days of the yore when the world looked up to her for light. Even those who will remain poor and obscure, I want to see their very poverty and obscurity devoted to the Motherland.” – Sri AurobindoThis was Sri Aurobindo’s final advice to the youth as the principal of the Bengal National College in 1907 before he receded from all social activities to begin his task of summoning the great supramental manifestation. He had stressed the need for a band of devoted servants who were willing to serve the motherland selflessly with naught but a bare maintenance and a roof over their heads.This message resonates even more strongly today and Sri Aurobindo’s force echoes ever more loudly in every heart that hearkens to His call. Though India today has risen to become a formidable player in the world front, her challenges too have become manifold. With the largest youth population in the world, we as a nation areheading by default towards our promised destiny of becoming a world leader. But there is a dire need to introspect as to how firmly we have answered this call of duty. In retrospect, one may as well ask oneself the very same question.“What is needed now is a band of spiritual workers whose tapasya will be devoted to the libeLet all of us unite and play our own role, either individually or collectively,so that our nation shall soon fulfill its destiny of becoming the Jagadguru (Guru of the World)!
Indeed, it will be a beautiful day when we shall hear our children of tomorrow sing-
“Where on every branch, you find birds of gold nestled- that nation- that Bharath- is my motherland. Glory be to the light of the world.”