Sanatana Dharma: An Aurobindonian Perspective -  R Y Deshpande

2014 - HB - 787 pages

It is proclaimed that “pure water of Ganga is essential for the spiritual as well as physical well-being of India.” It is Ganga Mahatmya. But the cleaning of the Ganges itself has now become an insurmountable human problem. The socio-governmental effort is certainly one thing and will fetch in the measure of commitment and sincerity as much the reward also. But in India the Indian Ganges is not just a river or a few thousand cusecs of water flowing sedately through the land. The Veda speaks constantly of the waters or the rivers, especially of the divine waters, and occasionally of the waters which carry in them the light of the luminous solar world or the light of the Sun. These waters are so because of the spiritual tapasya of the Rishis and Sages. It is in the tapas that there is the purification and there is the constancy of the flood of light, of the divine waters. It implies national tapasya being carried out in the worthiness of the soul of the country and of the River herself. The Ganges that the Society is, that too can get purified only in such a glowing tapasya.