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The following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by DailyO

It is time for India as a political state to acknowledge and support itself as

a civilisation.

India is not just a country or a nation, India is a civilisation.

A civilisation is more than a country. It exists as a vast domain in the human mind and heart, encompassing
many kingdoms and historical eras, not merely a place in geography or a current in history.

India is one of the oldest, most extensive and deepest civilisations on the planet, regarded as the guru
among nations for its unfathomable yogic wisdom and universal dharmic principles.

There are very few countries in the world that one can speak of as great civilisations. We can speak of
European civilisation, for example, but not civilisation in terms of any single European country only.

Probably the only country that one can equate in scope as a civilisation like India is China, the other
dominant cultural center of Asia.

Yet China has been more influenced by India than India was by China.

Indias civilisation more than a political state

India is first of all a civilisation and cannot be looked upon merely in terms of political boundaries. India has
survived, continued and prospered as a civilisation even during adverse periods in which the country
lacked political unity or was oppressed under foreign rule.

India has continually produced powerful thinkers, yogis, visionaries and artists owing to its unique
civilisational strength, which is much more than any political or military force. No army so far has been able
to break it.

Indias independence in 1947 is usually looked upon in terms of political independence, but was much
more than that. India in 1947 brought the opportunity for a revival and Renaissance of Indias ancient
civilisation.

Unfortunately, those who came to rule India after 1947 preferred to downplay Indias older civilisational
heritage. To the Leftist crowd there was no real idea of India before 1947 because there had not been a
nation state that formally called itself India.

Votaries of the Left have been unable to recognise the magnificence of Indias civilisation, even while living
within it, surrounded by its evocative monuments and colourful festivals.

They feel more at home with European Marxist or Freudian thought than with the many yogis and rishis of
India who brought cosmic consciousness to the world.

For centuries prior to 1947, India was under the political domination of a hostile civilisational ethos that did
not understand the regions dharmic civilisation and tried to undermine it, at times violently.

There was a concentrated effort to bring India into the sphere of Islamic civilisation by Muslim invaders,
and into Western or European civilisation by the British.

Both groups were reluctant to honour Indias older civilisation, judging it according to their own different
values that found Indias many-sided mystical culture to appear contradictory and disorganised.

After independence, the Nehruvian socialist and Marxist alliance continued to westernise Indias
civilisational values, as they regarded Indias older cultural heritage as their main political opposition.

Proclaiming Indias civilisational independence

What India as a country and the world overall needs today is the independence, prospering and global
spread of the ancient Indic/Bharatiya civilisation.

Celebrating Indias independence as a political state, we should remember Indias importance as a

profound civilisation, with a worldwide impact and spiritual influence extending far beyond all human
boundaries.

It is time for India as a political state to acknowledge and support India as a civilisation, for eternal Bharat
to rise again.

Fortunately, India today has a government that is beginning to do this, after decades of rule by those
whose primary civilisational values were from foreign lands.

The impact of yoga globally is a good example of Indias civilisational revival and its world recognition.

India holds the ancient spiritual heritage of humanity, the vision of enlightened yogis and sages across the
ages that can still lead us beyond the limitations of time and space, and the uncertainties of human
opinions and beliefs.

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