My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
Strength, manhood, Kshatra-virya + Brahma-teja.
Our beautiful hopeful boys -- they have everything, only if they are not slaughtered by the millions at the altar of this brutality they call marriage.
O Lord, hear my wails! Madras will then awake when at least one hundred of its very heart's blood, in the form of its educated young men, will stand aside from the world, gird their loins, and be ready to fight the battle of truth, marching on from country to country.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from London (1896)
Strength, manhood, Kshatra-virya + Brahma-teja.
Our beautiful hopeful boys -- they have everything, only if they are not slaughtered by the millions at the altar of this brutality they call marriage.
O Lord, hear my wails! Madras will then awake when at least one hundred of its very heart's blood, in the form of its educated young men, will stand aside from the world, gird their loins, and be ready to fight the battle of truth, marching on from country to country.
- Swami Vivekananda,
in a Letter to Alasinga Perumal
from London (1896)
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