Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Quotes ( Part 10 )

But mark you,if you give up that spirituality,believe that they are born as slaves, born as
leaving it aside to go after the materializinghewers of wood and drawers of water.
civilization of the west,the result will be that inThe truths of the Upanishads are before you.
three generation you will be an extinct race;Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation
because the back-done of the nation will beof India will be at hand.
broken, the foundation upon which the nationalDo you feel? Do you feel that millions and millions
edifice has been built will be undermined, and theof the descendants of gods and of sages have
result will be annihilation all round.become next-door neighbors to brutes? Do you
Europe,the center of the manifestation of materialfeel that millions are starving today,and millions
energy, will crumble into dust within fifty years,ifhave been starving for ages? Do you feel that
she is not mindful to change her position,to shiftignorance has come over the land as a dark
her ground and make spirituality the basis of her.cloud? Does it make you restless? Does it make
And what will save Europe is the religion of theyou sleepless? Has it gone into your blood,coursing
Upanishads.through your veins,becoming consonant with your
Our aristocratic ancestors went on trading theheartbeats? Has it made you almost mad? Are
common masses of our country under foot, tillyou seized with that one idea of the misery of
they became helpless,till under this torment theruin, and have you forgotten all about your name,
poor, poor people nearly forgot that they wereyour fame, your wives, your children, your
human beings. They have been compelled to beproperty, even your own bodies? Have you done
merely hewers of wood and drawers of waterthat? That is the first step to become a
for centuries, so much so,that they are made topatriot,the very first step.