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Rousing Call to Hindu Nation Swami Vivekananda’s Compiled by EKNATH RANADE Swami Vivekananda’s Rousing Call to Hindu Nation Compiled by EKNATH RANADE Rousing Call to Hindu Nation Contents THE MESSAGE ......................................................................... 4 Our Punya-Bhumi and Its .............................................................................. 7 Glorious Past ................................................................................................. 7 From Past to Present ................................................................................... 21 Religion the soul of India ............................................................................ 38 The task of regeneration ............................................................................. 51 To those entering the arena of regeneration work ..................................... 89 Task of Regeneration- 1 ............................................................................ 106 Groundwork.............................................................................................. 106 The task of Regeneration – 2 THE PLAN OF ACTION ........................... 132 SELECTIONS FROM ADDRESSES, DISCOURSES AND WRITINGS ............................................................................. 157 On the Bounds of Hinduism ...................................................................... 158 STAND UP IN DEFENSE OF YOUR RELIGION ............................................. 163 ON INDIAN WOMEN – THEIR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ...................... 164 ON WOMEN, INDIAN AND WESTERN ........................................................ 172 FABRICS OF CIVILISATION – ARYAN AND EUROPEAN ................................ 174 2 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation SOME OBSERVATIONS AND ADMONITIONS . 180 Observations ............................................................................................. 181 Admonitions ............................................................................................. 192 MAN-MAKING OR MOULDING OF WORKERS .............................................................................. 210 Man-Making or Moulding of Workers ....................................................... 211 Organisation ............................................................................................. 212 LEADERSHIP .............................................................................................. 219 TRUE TEACHERSHIP ................................................................................... 224 SECRET OF REALLY SUCCESSFUL LIFE ......................................................... 228 3 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation PART ONE THE MESSAGE 4 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation The Message Mark me, Then and then alone you are a Hindu when the very name sends through you a galvanic shock of strength. Then and then alone you are a Hindu when every man who bears the name, from any country, speaking our language or any other language, becomes at once the nearest and the dearest to you. Then and then alone you are a Hindu when the distress of anyone bearing that name comes to your heart and makes you feel as if your own son were in distress. Then and then alone you are a Hindu when you will be ready to bear everything for them, like the great example I have quoted at the beginning of this lecture, of your great Guru Govind Singh. Driven out from this country, fighting against its oppressors, after having shed his own blood for the defence of the Hindu religion, after having seen his children killed on the battlefield - ay, this example of the great Guru, left even by those for whose sake he 5 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation was shedding his blood and the blood of his own nearest and dearest - he, the wounded lion, retired from the field calmly to die in the South, but not a word of curse escaped his lips against those who had ungratefully forsaken him! Mark me, Every one of you will have to be a Govind Singh, if you want to do good to your country. You may see thousands of defects in your countrymen, but mark their Hindu blood. They are the first Gods you will have to worship even if they do everything to hurt you, even if everyone of them send out a curse to you, you send out to them words of love. If they drive you out, retire to die in silence like that mighty lion, Govind Singh. Such a man is worthy of the name of Hindu; such an ideal ought to be before us always. All our hatchets let us bury; send out this grand current of love all round. 6 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation Our Punya-Bhumi and Its Glorious Past If there is any land on this earth that can lay claim to be the blessed Punya Bhumi, to be the land to which all souls 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. The ancient history The ancient history of India is full of descriptions of the gigantic energies and their multifarious workings, the boundless spirit, the combination of indomitable action and reaction of the various forces, and, above all, the profound thoughtfulness of a godly race. If the word history is understood to mean merely narratives of kings and emperors, and pictures of society - tyrannised over from time to time by the evil passions, haughtiness, avarice, etc., 7 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation of the rulers of the time, portraying the acts resulting from their good or evil propensities, and how these reacted upon the society of that time - such a history India perhaps does not possess. But every line of that mass of the religious literature of India, her ocean of poetry, her philosophies and various scientific works reveal to us — a thousand times more clearly than the narratives of the life-incidents and genealogies of particular kings and emperors can ever do - the exact position and every step made in advance by that vast body of men who, even before the dawn of civilisation, impelled by hunger and thirst, lust and greed, etc., attracted by the charm of beauty, endowed with a great and indomitable mental power, and moved by various sentiments, arrived through various ways and means at that stage of eminence. Although the heaps of those triumphal flags which they gathered in their innumerable victories over nature with which they had been waging war for ages, have, of late, been torn and tattered by the violent winds of adverse circumstances and become worn out through age, yet they still proclaim the glory of Ancient India. The Aryan race 8 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation Whether this race slowly proceeded from Central Asia, Northern Europe, or the Arctic regions, and gradually came down and sanctified India by settling there at last, or whether the holy land of India was their original native place, we have no proper means of knowing now. Or whether a vast race living in or outside India, being displaced from its original abode, in conformity with natural laws, came in the course of time to colonise and settle over Europe and other places — and whether these people were white or black, blue-eyed or dark-eyed, golden haired or black-haired - all these matters - there is no sufficient ground to prove now, with the one exception of the fact of the kinship of Sanskrit with a few European languages. Similarly, it is not easy to arrive at a final conclusion as to the modern Indians, whether they all are the pure descendants of that race, or how much of the blood of that race is flowing in their veins, or again, what races amongst them have any of that even in them. However, we do not, in fact, lose much by this uncertainty. 9 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation But there is one fact to remember. Of that ancient Indian race, upon which the rays of civilisation first dawned, where deep thoughtfulness first revealed itself in full glory, there are still found hundreds of thousands of its children, born of its mind - the inheritors of its thoughts and sentiments - ready to claim them. Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance. Analytic Mind नासत् सत ्जामत े - Existence cannot be produced by non-existence… Non-existence can never be the cause of what exists. Something cannot come out of nothing. That the law of causation is omnipotent and knows no time or place when it did not exist is a doctrine as old as the 10 Rousing Call to Hindu Nation Aryan race, sung by its ancient poet-seers, formulated by its philosophers, and made the corner- stone upon which the Hindu man even of today builds his whole scheme of life. There was an inquisitiveness in the race to start with, which very soon developed into bold analysis, and though, in the first attempt, the work turned out might be like the attempts with shaky hands of the future master-sculptor, it very soon gave way to strict science, bold attempts, and startling results. Its boldness made these men search every brick of their sacrificial altars; scan, cement, and pulverise every word of their scriptures; arrange, re-arrange, doubt, deny, or explain the ceremonies. It turned their gods inside out,
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