True Freedom - Dada J P Vaswani
If Indian culture and civilisation have survived the ravages of time against all odds, it is only because we have a message to give to the modern world — that there can be no true freedom without spirituality. The emphasis of Indian culture has always been on the unfolding of the inner powers, the atma-shakti. It is precisely this atma-shakti, this inner soul power that has enabled India to ride many a storm and quell many a tempest.
Spirituality makes us raise the fundamental question: What is man? Or, to put it more personally, what am I? It is precisely this self-knowledge that our youth must seek, in order to find true fulfilment.
Spirituality does not mean turning your back on life; it is not renunciation or asceticism; it is not running away from the problems of life. It is the source of courage and inner strength that will enable you to take on life’s challenges in the awareness that you are a spark of divinity; that within you is a shakti that is of the Infinite. Young people need to rekindle this spark within, if they are to become India’s servants and soldiers.
Gurudev Sadhu Vaswani said to us: “The noblest work is to cultivate the soul.” The Gita tells us too, that man is not the body he wears, but essentially the spirit, the atman within. Connect yourself to the atman for it is a powerhouse of energy, a spark of the infinite within you.
