The lesson for India at the present time

The lesson for India at the present time is to wake up the need.
It may look like going back, but it is actually a going forward. The philosophy is true, but it belonged to those older souls who were prepared for it, and the more youthful souls now being born into the people are not prepared for that philosophy. They repeat it by rote, they are hypnotized by it, and they sink down into inertia, because there is nothing they want enough to persuade them to exertion.

The effect is the country in total is going downhill. The old lesson of putting different objects before souls of different ages, is forgotten, and each one is now loosely targeting at ideal perfection, which can only be reached when the preliminary steps have been successfully mounted. It's the same as with the "Sermon on the Mount" in Christian states, but there the practical common-sense of the people bows to it and--ignores it.

No country makes an attempt to live by the "Sermon on the Mount "it's not intended for standard ladies and men, but for the saint. For all people who are on the Trail of Forthgoing, need is required for progress.

What's the Trail of Nivritti? It's the Path of Return. There need must stop ; and the Self-determined will must take its place. The last object of desire in somebody commencing the Trail of Return is the need to work with the Will of the Ultimate ; he harmonises his will with the Ultimate Will, renounces all separate needs, and therefore works to turn the wheel of life as long as such turning is required by the law of Life. Want on the Trail of Forthgoing becomes will on the Trail of Return ; the soul, in tranquility with the Divine, works alongside the law. Thought on the Trail of Forthgoing is ever alert, flighty and changing ; it becomes reason on the Trail of Return ; the yoke of reason is placed on the neck of the lower mind, and reason guides the bull. Work, activity, on the Path of Forthgoing, is twitchy action by that the standard man is bound ; on the Path of Return work becomes sacrifice, and so its binding force is damaged. These are, then, the manifestations of three aspects, as shown on the Trails of Forthgoing and Return. Bliss manifested as desire is modified into will Knowledge manifested as thought is modified into reason. Activity manifested as work is modified into sacrifice.