Remember that the nation lives in the cottage.
But, alas! nobody ever did anything for them. Our modern reformers are very busy about widow remarriage.
Of course, I am a sympathiser in every reform, but the fate of a nation does not depend upon the number of husbands their widows get, but upon the condition of the masses.
Can you raise them? Can you give them back their lost individuality without making them lose their innate spiritual nature?
Can you become an occidental of occidentals in your spirit of equality, freedom, work, and energy, and at the same time a Hindu to the very backbone in religious culture and instincts?
This is to be done and we will do it. You are all born to do it.
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.
Onward for ever! Sympathy for the poor, the downtrodden, even unto death -- this is our motto.
Onward, brave lads!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Madras Disciples
from Chicago (January 1894)
But, alas! nobody ever did anything for them. Our modern reformers are very busy about widow remarriage.
Of course, I am a sympathiser in every reform, but the fate of a nation does not depend upon the number of husbands their widows get, but upon the condition of the masses.
Can you raise them? Can you give them back their lost individuality without making them lose their innate spiritual nature?
Can you become an occidental of occidentals in your spirit of equality, freedom, work, and energy, and at the same time a Hindu to the very backbone in religious culture and instincts?
This is to be done and we will do it. You are all born to do it.
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.
Onward for ever! Sympathy for the poor, the downtrodden, even unto death -- this is our motto.
Onward, brave lads!
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Madras Disciples
from Chicago (January 1894)
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