Conversation and questions, “Be the Spirit, slavery and domination”. Delhi, (India), 8 February 1983. Speaker: What we would like you to discuss is the difference in aims and aspirations between India and the developed countries, how they have progressed, the way history has taken them, and also what they have to offer each other.Shri Mataji: Aims and objects?Speaker: Yes, the aims, and objects – how they have taken their own courses.Shri Mataji: Apparently, India has the same aim as you had before. They are actually trying to follow you, apparently. In our political systems we are trying all your methods. In our economic development, we are trying all the paths that you have followed and faltered.In our approach to education, we are trying to follow you. In our mental development we are trying to follow the West. Even the young people of this country are now trying to follow you, even copy you, in every way. So, apparently this is the condition of this country. Whatever you did about, say, twenty years back, we are doing the same now and we are getting into a state where the decline might start very soon. Apparently, I’ve seen. But as far as myself is concerned, it was the other way round. I could see the future of the disaster of industrial development a long time back, and also where all such people were blindly following the West will got into.So, my whole search personally was to go towards the roots, towards the Read More …