| Come, be man. Come out of your narrow holes | | | | insight into the history of the race than any |
| and have a look abroad. See how nations are on | | | | amouflt of books. Mark now these temples bear |
| the march. Do you love man ? Do you love your | | | | the marks of a hundred attacks and a hundred |
| country ? Then come, let us struggle for higher | | | | regenerations, continually destroyed and continually |
| and better things. Look not back, no not even if | | | | springing up out of the ruins, rejuvenated and |
| you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not | | | | strong as ever! That is the national mind, that is |
| back, but forward ! With all my love for India,and | | | | the national life-current. For the next fifty years |
| with all my patriotism and venerations for the | | | | this alone shall be our keynote -this, our great |
| ancients,I cannot but think that we have to learn | | | | Mother India.Let all other vain gods disappear for |
| many things from other nations. ... We cannot do | | | | the time from our minds.This is the only god that |
| without the world outside India; it was our | | | | is awake, our own race - "everywhere His hands, |
| foolishness that we thought we could,and we | | | | everywhere His feet, everywhere His ears; He |
| have paid the penalty by about a thousand years | | | | covets everything." All other gods are sleeping. |
| of slavery. That we did not go out to compare | | | | What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot |
| things with other nations, did not mark the | | | | worship the god that we see all round us, the |
| workings that have been all around us, has been | | | | Virat? when we have worshiped this, we shall be |
| the one great cause of this degradation of the | | | | able to worship all other gods. |
| Indian mind. We have paid the penalty; let us do it | | | | Lecturer, entrepreneur and Fortune 500 business |
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