Through the slavery of a thousand years, Hindus have at present degenerated. They have forgotten their own self respect.
Every English boy is taught to feel his importance, he thinks that he is a member of a great race, the conquerors of the Earth. The Hindu feels from his boyhood just the reverse that he is born to slave.
We can't become a great nation unless we love our religion and try to respect ourselves, and respect our country men and society. The Hindus of modern times are generally hypocrites. They must rise, and combine the faith in the true Vedic religion, with a knowledge of the political and scientific truths of the Europeans.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk at Triplicane Literary Society, Madras,
Report in ‘Madura Mail’ (January 28, 1893)
Every English boy is taught to feel his importance, he thinks that he is a member of a great race, the conquerors of the Earth. The Hindu feels from his boyhood just the reverse that he is born to slave.
We can't become a great nation unless we love our religion and try to respect ourselves, and respect our country men and society. The Hindus of modern times are generally hypocrites. They must rise, and combine the faith in the true Vedic religion, with a knowledge of the political and scientific truths of the Europeans.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Talk at Triplicane Literary Society, Madras,
Report in ‘Madura Mail’ (January 28, 1893)
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