Who is a Bauddhika Kshatriya?
The venerable patriot-saint Sri Aurobindo defines a Bauddhika Kshatriya as follows: “[Such a person] should be absolutely unsparing in our attack on whatever obstructs the growth of the nation, and never be afraid to call a spade a spade. Excessive good nature will never do … in serious politics. Respect of persons must always give way to truth and conscience… What India needs especially at this moment is aggressive virtues, the spirit of soaring idealism, bold creation, fearless resistance, courageous attack; of the passive tamasic inertia we already have too much.” [28] Every culture, every religion and every nation has its intellectual warriors, who articulate its cherished values, present a favorable view of it, challenge negative outlooks, define its present and lay out a grand framework for its glorious future. A Bauddhika Kshatriya would dispassionately yet aggressively defend the Indian civilizational ethos without the fear of being named a communalist or a fundamentalist.
