[India] is a very deeply rooted country – deeply rooted in its traditions and its understanding of life. It’s one of the most ancient countries where people have been searching the truth since long. The roots of all philosophies were born in this country. That’s why most of the incarnations took their birth in this country, or ended up here, like Moses and Christ. In spiritual life, I would say that time has taken its toll; we have had all kinds of sufferings and dominations because of the spiritual understanding and bearing power we have. That’s representative of what many saints have suffered on account of aggressive people. Despite all that, this country has survived all its bans. And there is something still lurking behind every Indian mind, that the spirit of this country will never die.
With all these horrible things that we have gone through and the waves of calamities that have passed through, today, at this juncture, we should hope that this country should take a new turn to spiritual life. It should prosper in its own nature which is spirituality. It is not going to prosper through economics or politics or any such things which are extraverted but it is going to prosper through its spirituality which is its nature. Once this is realised by Indians, that it is the spirituality of this place which has given us the blessings of God to survive under all circumstances, that we should really pay full attention towards spirituality, they’ll change their ways and methods. And we’ll not take to Western methods anymore, but we’ll take to the methods which were taught to us by saints long time back.