The tables have been turned, and the Hindu,
who saw through tears of despair his ancient homestead covered with incendiary fire, ignited by unfriendly hands,
now sees, when the searchlight of modern thought has dispersed the smoke,
that his home is the one that is standing in all its strength, and all the rest have either vanished or are building their houses anew after the Hindu plan.
He has wiped away his tears, and has found that the axe that tried to cut down to the roots the
ऊर्ध्वमूलमध:शाखमश्वत्थं प्राहुरव्ययम् (Gita, XV.1)
has proved the merciful knife of the surgeon.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Reply to the Madras Address’
who saw through tears of despair his ancient homestead covered with incendiary fire, ignited by unfriendly hands,
now sees, when the searchlight of modern thought has dispersed the smoke,
that his home is the one that is standing in all its strength, and all the rest have either vanished or are building their houses anew after the Hindu plan.
He has wiped away his tears, and has found that the axe that tried to cut down to the roots the
ऊर्ध्वमूलमध:शाखमश्वत्थं प्राहुरव्ययम् (Gita, XV.1)
has proved the merciful knife of the surgeon.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘Reply to the Madras Address’
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