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In 1905, Rishi Aurobindo had these prophetic words to say about how India can regain her lost glory.
“India, the ancient Mother, is striving to be reborn, striving with agony and tears, but she strives in vain. What ails her, she who is so vast and might be so strong?
In 1905, Rishi Aurobindo had these prophetic words to say about how India can regain her lost glory.
“India, the ancient Mother, is striving to be reborn, striving with agony and tears, but she strives in vain. What ails her, she who is so vast and might be so strong?
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There is surely some enormous defect, something vital is wanting in us, nor is it difficult to lay our finger on the spot. We have all things else, but we are empty of strength, void of energy. We have abandoned Shakti and are therefore abandoned by Shakti.
There is surely some enormous defect, something vital is wanting in us, nor is it difficult to lay our finger on the spot. We have all things else, but we are empty of strength, void of energy. We have abandoned Shakti and are therefore abandoned by Shakti.
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The Mother is not in our hearts, in our brains, in our arms. The wish to be reborn we have in abundance, there is no deficiency there. How many attempts have been made, how many movements have been begun, in religion, in society, in politics! But the same fate overtajes them,
The Mother is not in our hearts, in our brains, in our arms. The wish to be reborn we have in abundance, there is no deficiency there. How many attempts have been made, how many movements have been begun, in religion, in society, in politics! But the same fate overtajes them,
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They flourish for a moment, then the impulse wanes, the fire dies out, and if they endure, it is only as empty shells. They are forms which lie overpowered with Tamas and inert. Our beginnings are mighty, but they have neither sequel nor fruit.
They flourish for a moment, then the impulse wanes, the fire dies out, and if they endure, it is only as empty shells. They are forms which lie overpowered with Tamas and inert. Our beginnings are mighty, but they have neither sequel nor fruit.
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Now we are beginning in another direction; we started a great industrial movement which is to enrich and regenerate an impoverished land. Untaught by experience, this movement will go like all the others, unless we first seek the one essential thing; strength.
Now we are beginning in another direction; we started a great industrial movement which is to enrich and regenerate an impoverished land. Untaught by experience, this movement will go like all the others, unless we first seek the one essential thing; strength.
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Is it knowledge that is wanting? We Indians, born and bred in a country where Jnana has been stored and accumulated since the race began, bear about in us the inherited gains of many thousands of years.
But it is a dead knowledge, a burden under which we are bowed.
Is it knowledge that is wanting? We Indians, born and bred in a country where Jnana has been stored and accumulated since the race began, bear about in us the inherited gains of many thousands of years.
But it is a dead knowledge, a burden under which we are bowed.
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Dead knowledge becomes a poison which is corroding us, rather than as a staff to support our feet and a weapon in our hands; for this is the nature of all great things that when they are not used or are ill used, they turn upon the bearer and destroy him.
Dead knowledge becomes a poison which is corroding us, rather than as a staff to support our feet and a weapon in our hands; for this is the nature of all great things that when they are not used or are ill used, they turn upon the bearer and destroy him.
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Is it love, enthusiasm, Bhakti that is wanting? These are ingrained in Indian nature, but in absence of Shakti we cannot concentrate, direct, or even preserve it. Bhakti is the leaping flame, Shakti is the fuel. If the fuel is scanty how long can the fire endure?
Is it love, enthusiasm, Bhakti that is wanting? These are ingrained in Indian nature, but in absence of Shakti we cannot concentrate, direct, or even preserve it. Bhakti is the leaping flame, Shakti is the fuel. If the fuel is scanty how long can the fire endure?
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The deeper we look, the more we see the one thing which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength – strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others.
The deeper we look, the more we see the one thing which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength – strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others.
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If we have strength everything else will come to us easily and naturally. In the absence of strength we are like beings in a dream who have hands but cannot seize or strike, who have feet but cannot run.If India is to survive, she must be made young again.
If we have strength everything else will come to us easily and naturally. In the absence of strength we are like beings in a dream who have hands but cannot seize or strike, who have feet but cannot run.If India is to survive, she must be made young again.
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Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as in old times, lvast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamasand inertia thinkthat it is impossible.
Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as in old times, lvast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamasand inertia thinkthat it is impossible.
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We say India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.
We say India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.
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For what is a nation? What is our mother-country? It is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the mind. It is a mighty Shakti, composed of the Shaktis of all the billions of units that make up the nation
For what is a nation? What is our mother-country? It is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the mind. It is a mighty Shakti, composed of the Shaktis of all the billions of units that make up the nation
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Just as Bhawani Mahisha Mardini sprang into being from the Shakti of millions of gods. She assembled in one mass of force and welded into unity. The Shakti we call India, Bhawani Bharati, is the living unity of the Shaktis of a billion plus people, but she is inactive
Just as Bhawani Mahisha Mardini sprang into being from the Shakti of millions of gods. She assembled in one mass of force and welded into unity. The Shakti we call India, Bhawani Bharati, is the living unity of the Shaktis of a billion plus people, but she is inactive
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She is imprisoned in the magic circle of Tamas, the self-indulgent inertia and ignorance of her sons & daughters. We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new souls with new hearts, to be born again..
She is imprisoned in the magic circle of Tamas, the self-indulgent inertia and ignorance of her sons & daughters. We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new souls with new hearts, to be born again..
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We need a nucleus of Indians in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth filled with the fire of Bhawani in our hearts and brains. Then will the Shakti rise again.
We need a nucleus of Indians in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth filled with the fire of Bhawani in our hearts and brains. Then will the Shakti rise again.
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