VIVEKA BHARATH

INDIA

I was asked by an English friend on the eve of my departure, “Swami, how do you
Like now your motherland after four years’ experience of the luxurious, glorious,
Powerful West?

I could only answer: “India I loved before I came away. Now, the very dust of India
has become holy to me, the very air is now to me holy, it is now the holy land,
The place of pilgrimage, the Tirtha.
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Let us all work hard, my brethren; this is no time for sleep. On our work depends the

coming of the India in the future. She is there ready waiting. She is only sleeping.

arise and awake, and see her seated here, on her eternal throne, rejuvenated,

more glorious than she ever was – this Motherland of ours.

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The national ideals of India are Renunciation and Service.

Intensify her in those channels, and the rest will take care of itself.
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If there is any land on this earth that can lay claim to be the blessed Punya Bhumi,

to be the land to which soul on this earth must come to account for Karma, the

land to which every soul that is wending its way Godward must come to attain

Its last home, the land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness,

towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness, above all, the land of

Introspection and of spirituality – it is INDIA.

One of the objects of my going west to preach religion was to see if I could

find any means of feeding the people of this country.

Seeing the poor people of our country starving for food a desire comes to me

to overthrow all ceremonial worship and learning, and go round from village

to village collecting money from the rich by convincing them through force of

Character and sadhana, and to spend the whole life in serving the poor.
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This is the land of Religion Eternal. The country has fallen, no doubt, but

will surely rise again, and that upheaval will astound the world.

The lower the hollows the billows make, the higher and with equal force

will they rise again.

We are destined by the Lord

to do great things in India.