Unit-self and united-self

Oasis

A teenager came to the ashram and asked, “Guruji, we are the most youthful nation of the world but why are we not seen as the most powerful nation of the world?” Because our youth is yet to empower its united-self to that extent where it transforms into supreme self-confidence. And, the way to reach this goal goes through empowering every unit of self unexceptionally. This piece is a brief description of the aforementioned dialogue.

The route to reclaim or retrieve real-self goes through empowering of indigenous tongues. Knowing ourselves through mother tongue and other sister languages, that we are inheritors of a glorious culture and higher values, consolidates and crystallizes our real self. This route leads to becoming wise, and wise always walk in unison. The power lies in unity.

Empowerment of language happens through its usage. And, the content of language in turn helps empower the users. This relationship between consciousness, language and empowerment through knowledge has no alternative. Language, consciousness and self are connected very deeply and, their mutual empowerment is involuntarily shared. When one is empowered other too to get empowered. We need to become one, as knowledge in the form of oneness transforms into power.

And we have a glorious legacy in terms of languages and culture as our ancestors lived glorious lives. And, that glory has a living presence in the form of eternal values in our hearts and, for universal reiteration, assertion and acknowledgement of those universal-family values our grand narratives Ramayana and Mahabharata are with us in all Indian languages, family traditions, community practices, architecture, folklores and most of all -in oral traditions. These narratives confide our higher values in our real selves. Those are the highest values known to humanity. Do you see any parallel anywhere in the world across time?

We end up educating wrongly when content is copied or translated thoughtlessly from elsewhere. Adages like ‘Kalidas is Shakespeare of India’ or “Kautilya is Indian Machiavelli. (Not even Acharya Chanakya)“ exemplify it. Perhaps ‘we’ don’t realise that it changes the order moronically. And, if ‘we’ are doing it on purpose then, it is a lack of self-confidence and height of inferiority complex. Youth need to retrieve their self-confidence. We (not ‘we’) have discussed how to retrieve it. From unit-self United-self is chiselled and shaped thus.