From Raja Rao's essay The Meaning of India:
India is not a country (desa), it is a perspective (darsana); it is not a climate but a mood (rasa - spiritual mode) in the play of the Absolute - it is not the Indian who makes India but "India" makes the Indian, and this India is in all: it is that centre of awareness wherein one's self dips again and again into the hearth of Agni, as the sacrifice is made. All acts are rites when "the perfect performance of our tasks, whatever they may be, is itself the celebration of the rite" - so says Ananda Coomaraswamy. Of such is the meaning of India. And in that rasa he that liveth, liveth in India.
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