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and work out dynamics of peace (11). There needed the return of Pakistan and all those
was train service started 48 years ago called regions, and which includes Nepal, Tibet,
“Samjhauta Express”, Samjhauta meaning also Burma, and in the south, Ceylon. A
an understanding that helped Pakistanis get great federation with each country having
treatment in India and allowed cheap travel its autonomous development, perfectly free,
for people in both countries, and the goods but which would be united in a common
buses which helped farmers on both sides single aspiration for peace and fight against
were excellent initiatives. But these are now the invasion of forces of dissolution. That
stalled in the name of border tensions. The was very clear, it was willed — and it’s the
regional cooperation group SAARC (South intervention of this United Nations that stopped
Asian Association of Regional Cooperation) (12) everything (13).”
is also not operational, but has great potential.
st
Let us dive deeper into it. The Mother said this on September 21 , 1966,
exactly a year after the United Nations called
Forming an Aggregate of Nations both countries to cease fire. India had an upper
hand in the war and could have re-united
with Pakistan.

What the Mother had hoped for, a federation
of nations united in their mission of peace and
prosperity, did come to pass, although in a
diminished fashion. From 1977, the smaller
countries bordering India conceived of a
zone of cooperation. Many alliances amongst
nations were being created. The European
Returning to Sri Aurobindo’s vision of a Union was a model they dreamed of. After
united India — and it is not his alone but resistance from India and Pakistan, where
many lovers of India have dreamed of it — both of them thought the alliance was a
in the years after independence there were conspiracy to weaken them against the other,
opportunities to annul the impact of the the alliance was formed in 1985. The SAARC
partition. The Mother comments about the facilitates economic and cultural exchange.
1965 Indo-Pak war in her Agenda: One day it may go a step further, and create a
federation of South Asian countries, although
“Besides, even quite outwardly, that fight the current situation of SAARC seems as

between India and Pakistan was clearly ...
(how can I put it? ... The words that come to
me are English) initiated and driven, that is to
say, set in motion by and under the impulsion
of the forces of Truth that wanted to create
a great ‘Asian Federation’ with the power to
counterbalance Red China and its movement.
It was a federation that, as a matter of fact,

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