Sri Aurobindo on Bharat-Mata (age 30)

Dr. K. M. Munshi, Ex-Governor of Uttara Pradesh, who was a student of Sri Aurobindo at Baroda College, asks Sri Aurobindo how Nationalism could be developed. Sri Aurobindo points to a wall-map of India and said:

“Look at that map. Learn to find in it the portrait of Bharat-Mata. The cities, mountains, rivers and forests are the materials which go to make up Her body. The people inhabiting the country are the cells which go to make up Her living tissues. Our literature is Her memory and speech. The spirit of our culture is Her Soul. The happiness and freedom of Her children is Her salvation. Behold Bharat as a living Mother, meditate upon Her and worship Her in the nine-fold way of Bhakti.”