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