At this particular moment, everybody should work to awake the spirit of India as mentioned by Swami Vivekananda, by Aurobindo Ghosh, by Rabindranath Tagore and more recently by Jiddu Krishnamurti.

My last dialogue with Krishnamurti was in the year he passed away; before he went back to Ojai. It was our last dialogue; he asked us what is the uniqueness of India and what is India’s responsibility. We all responded to him; somebody said the importance of its geographical position, and so on and so forth. But he was not satisfied and he finally came back to the question.

The potential of India is the Spirit of India; it is not only the people, the territory, the flora and fauna, the Himalayas, the rivers, the mountains, the ocean, it is the totality of this - which has a great potential. A potential to save the entire living system and that is the Spirit of India. This potential, we need to awaken.

Therefore, the people at large who are not contaminated by political or economic corruption, who are still clean in the consciousness of this land, shall have to work together. By working together, I do not mean, come out in the streets and shout slogans. Work together means that we must create a collective will, a common will, and that common will or collective will, will evoke the potential of India.

(Photo: Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche is in front of Guest House of Institute of Gandhian Studies, Wardha, Maharashtra on 2nd January 2015)