Think of all this mass of energy that our nation [India] displays--where does it get it?
In India, they are the producers and you are the enjoyers, no doubt. They produced this--the patient, toiling millions of Hindus under the whip and slavery of everyone. Even the missionaries, who stand up to curse the millions of India, have been fattened upon the work of these millions, and they do not know how it has been done.
Upon their blood the history of the world has been turning since we know history, and will have to turn for thousands of years more. What is the benefit?
It gives that nation strength.
They are, as it were, an example. They must suffer and stand up through all, fighting for the truths of religion--as a signpost, a beacon--to tell unto mankind that it is much higher not to resist, much higher to suffer, that if life be the goal, as even their conquerors will admit, we are the only race that can be called immortal, that can never be killed.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Class Talk in London,
May 7, 1896
In India, they are the producers and you are the enjoyers, no doubt. They produced this--the patient, toiling millions of Hindus under the whip and slavery of everyone. Even the missionaries, who stand up to curse the millions of India, have been fattened upon the work of these millions, and they do not know how it has been done.
Upon their blood the history of the world has been turning since we know history, and will have to turn for thousands of years more. What is the benefit?
It gives that nation strength.
They are, as it were, an example. They must suffer and stand up through all, fighting for the truths of religion--as a signpost, a beacon--to tell unto mankind that it is much higher not to resist, much higher to suffer, that if life be the goal, as even their conquerors will admit, we are the only race that can be called immortal, that can never be killed.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Class Talk in London,
May 7, 1896
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