Renunciation, that is the flag, the banner of India, floating over the world, the one undying thought which India sends again and again as a warning to dying races, as a warning to all tyranny, as a warning to wickedness in the world.
Ay, Hindus, let not your hold of that banner go. Hold it aloft. Even if you are weak and cannot renounce, do not lower the ideal.
Say, "I am weak and cannot renounce the world", but do not try to be hypocrites, torturing texts, and making specious arguments, and trying to throw dust in the eyes of people who are ignorant.
Do not do that, but own you are weak. For the idea is great, that of renunciation.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Calcutta,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
Ay, Hindus, let not your hold of that banner go. Hold it aloft. Even if you are weak and cannot renounce, do not lower the ideal.
Say, "I am weak and cannot renounce the world", but do not try to be hypocrites, torturing texts, and making specious arguments, and trying to throw dust in the eyes of people who are ignorant.
Do not do that, but own you are weak. For the idea is great, that of renunciation.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Address at Calcutta,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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