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India will be rasied, not with power of the flesh, but with the power of spirit; not with the flag of destruction, but with the flag of peace and love. Call up the divinty with in you, which will enable you to bear hunger and thirst, heat and cold. Sittig in luxurious homes, surrounded with all comforts of life, and doing out a little amateur religion may be good for other lands, but India has a truer instinct. It intuitively detects the mask. You must give up. Be great. No great work can be done without sacrifice …
Lay down your comforts, your pleasures, your name, fame or position, nay even your lives, and make a bridge of human chains over which millions will cross this ocean of life. Bring all the forces of good togther. Do not care under what banner you march. Do not care what be your colour, but mix all the colours and produce that intense glow of white, the colour of love. Ours is to work. The results will take care of themselves.
I do not see into the future; nor do I care to see. but one vision I see clear as life brfore me, that the ancient mother has awakened once more, sitting on her throne rejuvenated, more glorious than ever. Proclaim the voice of peace and benediction.
Evils are plentiful in our soceity, but so are there evils in every other society. Here, the earth is soaked sometimes with the widows’ tears; there in the west, the air is rent ith the sighs of the unmarried. Here, Poverty is the great bane of life; there, the life-weariness of luxury is the great bane that is upon the race. Here, men want to commit suicide because they have nothing to eat; there, they commit suicide because they have so much to eat.
Evil is everywhere; it is like chronic rheumatism. Drive it from the foot, it goes to the head; drive it from there, it goes somewhere else. It is a question of chasing it from place to place; that is all. Ay, to try to remedy evil is the true way. Our philosophy teaches that evil and good are eternally conjoined, the observe and the reserve of the same coin. If you have one, you must have the other; a wave in the ocean must be at the cost of a hollow elsewhere. Nay, all life is evil. No breath can be breathed without killing some one else; not a morsel of food can be eaten without depriving some one of it. This is the law; this is philosophy.
Therefore, the only thing we can do is to understand that all this work against evil is more subjective than objective. The work against evil is more educational than actual, however big we may talk. This, first of all, is the idea of work against evil; and it ought to make us calmer, it ought to take fanaticism out of our blood.
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