👉 Indian Culture

🔶 The publication of Sri Aurobindo’s renowned work “The foundation of Indian Culture” had sparked a new wave of interest in the multiple aspects of Indian Culture. His disciples and other residents of his Ashram also used to have prolonged discussion on the elements of this great legacy of the Vedic Age.

🔷 Once a disciple raised a query as to why the Indian Culture is reffered to as the “Divine Culture” while the cultures of all the other nations are known after their names only. He put this question to Nalinda, who was the seniormost sadhak in the Ashram and was considered very close to the master. Nalinda could not find a satisfactory answer to the query and said that he would approach Sri Aurobindo himself for a reply.One day, while discussing some related topic, Nalinda put the same query before Sri Aurobindo.

🔶 The latter replied-“ The principle objective of the Indian Culture is the awakening and expression of Divinity in human life. The Vedic Rishis, the founders of the Indian Culture, had developed the grand structure of this culture around this very central search. Because of the incorporation of divine values and elements in its genesis and expansion, the Indian Culture is also synonymous with Divine Culture.”

📖 From Pragya Puran