Ripples : A Reflection On Dattopant Thengadi's Third Way - Part 4

 

 

 

 

Once it is accepted that our model for the reconstruction of our nation is to be rooted in our culture and traditions, we need to define our goal too. Blueprint of our plan is expected to be put forth. Intellectuals always raise a question about the details of the plan.

 

Small programmes or projects may have a Blueprint no doubt. But when we are focusing on the model for the social order, it is not logical to ask the question about the detail plan. The discussion about the ideology and the objective is a logical step. Dattopant states that giving a blue print would lead to stagnation as it would not not be flexible enough to accommodate the necessary changes., it would reach a dead end. He refers to Marx who believesd that the bourgeois system had the elements of change which would be set free and form new society .

 

Deendayal ji did not believe in restricting future by defining it.

 

A thought unfolds itself when it is being implemented. Anything might be labeled as utopia without the actual existence of any social order.

 

Dattopant reminds that on the Vijayadashami of 1925 the goal is expressed as ' Param Vaibhavam ' of the 'Hindu rashtra'. It is to be accepted that people of the nation are 'Hindu'. Their culture is called 'Hindu', where people believe in undivided country. They wish to establish the social order which is a 'Dharma rajya'. ( this concept is unfolded in his writing gradually) Taking our nation to the 'pinnacle of glory' is what expresses the end point. All of us need creativity too. And to make it a reality, all need to strive hard. We ought to contribute and invest our physical as well as mental energy and creativity too.