Aurobindo on Bengal’s role as the fount of Indian nationalism:
“Bengal was once drunk with the wine of European civilisation and with the purely intellectual teaching that it received from the west...”
“Bengal was once drunk with the wine of European civilisation and with the purely intellectual teaching that it received from the west...”
“It began to see all things, to judge all things through the imperfect instrumentality of the intellect. When it was so, Bengal became atheistic, it became a land of doubters and cynics.”
“But still in Bengal there was an element of strength. Whatever the Bengali believed...he lived what he believed.”
“Well, what was the one saving element in the Bengali nature? The Bengali has the faculty of belief. Belief is not a mere intellectual process, belief is not a mere persuasion of the mind...”
“belief is something that is in our heart, and what you believe,you must do,because belief is from God. It is to the heart God speaks,and it is in the heart God resides.This saved the Bengali.Because of this capacity of belief, we were chosen as the people who were to save India”
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