Commentary: Why US India Relationship is one of the Most Consequential for the 21st Century?

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August 14, 2024:

The website of the US Department of State mentions that US India relationship is one of the most strategic and consequential for the 21^st century. New India Abroad recently reported the White House as having stated, “We look forward to continuing to expand our critical and critically important partnership and how it’s going to benefit the American people.”

This brief article provides a perspective on how.

The first reason why India is not a developed nation is that the societal level of internal excellence is not yet sufficiently high. India’s own yogic processes, thousands of years old, are perfectly suited to raise the societal level of internal excellence.

The second reason why India is not a developed nation is that its defect levels in products and services are too high. India must dramatically bring down the defect levels in all products and services to those comparable in developed nations if her vision to emerge as a developed nation is to become a reality.

The United States has the resources, equipment, technology, and knowhow for India’s transformation as a developed nation.

As to how India is consequential to the United States, all nations, no matter how great, eventually decline and this is true for the United States as well. The transformation of the three components of the mindset (S, R, T) induces repeated rise and decline of nations.

As the S component increases, the nation rises, but the S component cannot increase indefinitely and so when it reaches its peak, the T component takes over, and the nation begins to decline. The T component cannot increase indefinitely either and when it reaches its peak, the S component takes over and the society begins to rise again. Thus, the transformation of the three components of the mindset induces repeated rise and decline of societies. This is the wisdom from the Bhagvad Geeta.

Sri Krishna does not explain why such a transformation of the mindset should take place, but we can be certain that it does.

A plot of the number of persons born in the United States and listed in all the 23 volumes of the 1993 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica shows ominous signs.

Has the societal level of internal excellence taken a hit? Only time will tell. In any event, it is prudent to intervene and not stay on the sidelines witnessing the vagaries of rise and decline.

How to avoid decline is in the realm of five thousand years of Indian wisdom. While decline cannot be prevented altogether, it can be postponed by embracing yogic processes that restore the primacy of the S component.

India is uniquely capable of ensuring continuing US world leadership for decades to come with its unique expertise in the yogic processes.

It is essential that the United States continue to be world leader until India’s own internal excellence sufficiently rises and India becomes a developed nation.

Much of the information above is under the purview of the two Governments. However, there is plenty of things for Indian Americans to do.

There are an estimated 5 million Indian Americans living in the United States. If they were to take the ideas herein to heart and spread the world among their American friends and associates, sold progress should be possible.

I am highly optimistic that US and India together can solve the renewable energy and global warming problems.

For additional details please see the articles in the link, Select Papers of Prof.
Pradeep B. Deshpande (https://pradeepbdeshpande.medium.com/select-papers-
of-prof-pradeep-b-deshpande-f9302fb680bf). They explain the strategies for
individual, organizational and societal transformation.

Pradeep B. Deshpande is Professor Emeritus in and former Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Louisville, president of Six Sigma and Advanced Controls based in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an author of eight books and over one hundred fifty articles in reputed journals.