But our first necessity as pointed out by the Soul of India expressing itself through Sri Aurobindo, is: If India is to survive and do her appointed work in the world, the youth of India should learn to think, to think on all subjects, to think independently, fruitfully, going to the heart of things, not stopped by their surface, free of pre – judgements, shearing sophism and prejudice asunder as with a sharp sword smiting down obscurantism of all kinds as with a mace of Bhima.
“Let our brains no longer, like European infants, be swathed with swaddling clothes; let it have recover the free and unbound motion of the Gods, let it have not only the minuteness but the wide mastery and sovereignty natural to the intellect of Bharata and easily recoverable by it if it once accustomes itself to feel its own power and be convinced of its own worth.
“The old fixed foundations have been broken up, we are tossing in the waters of a great upheaval and change. It is no use clinging to the old ice – floes of the past, they will soon melt and leave their refugees struggling in perilous waters. It is no use landing ourselves in the infirm bog, neither sea nor good, dry land of a second – hand Europeanism. We shall only die there a miserable and unclean death.
“No we must learn to swim and use that power to reach the good vessel of unchanging truth; we must land again on the eternal rock of ages.”
Yes, we must expand, we must assimilate whatever is assimilable for our growth. Stagnation and contraction are the signs of Death. Our knowledge must be aggressive, must diffuse through the rank and file of the whole Homoeopathic profession if we wish to survive and perpetuate ourselves; to leave an extensive ignorance either below or around us is to expose ourselves to the perpetual danger of being exterminated as a professional entity.
In fine, I welcome you, once again, on this historic occasion to this historic city to deliberate, to exchange view points and to come to agreed decisions with regard to our future line of action in respect of Homoeopathy in all its aspects.
