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\nT<\/b><\/font>HERE
\n<\/span><\/b>are two movements of humanity, upward and downward, and both are irresistible.
\nIt may seem for a moment that the downward movement is arrested and an upward
\nlift may for a while rejoice the hearts that are attached to a cause forsaken
\nby God and Destiny. The majestic or impetuous rise of a religion, an idea, a
\nnation, may for a fleeting period be held back by main force and with a fierce
\nand infinite labour the wheel may be driven back for the space of an inch or
\neven two. But God cannot be deceived and God cannot be conquered by violence.
\nWhere He is the Charioteer, victory is certain and if He wheels back, it is
\nonly to leave ground which is no longer advantageous to Him and shift the
\nconflict to terrain fixed beforehand for the victory. Often He forces His
\nadversaries to drive Him from ground
\nconquered and occupied in order that they may exhaust their strength on a
\nposition never meant to be permanently held and by their very triumph prepare
\na more decisive overthrow.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Minute minds fix themselves on details and say, "Here we have
\nfailed, there we have prevailed"; and if the record of defeats seems to
\nbe long and ill-balanced by doubtful successes, they grow discouraged and
\napprehend the ruin of their cause. So men deceive themselves as to the trend of
\nevents by not keeping their eyes open to the great stream of inevitable
\ntendency which prevails over all backwashes and petty currents. And where defeat
\nis predestined for a season, their want of faith leads to the very calamity
\nwhich they apprehended. The eye of faith is not one with the eye of knowledge; \u2014 Faith divines in the large what knowledge sees
\ndistinctly and clearly; but in the main thing Faith and Knowledge are one and
\nthe wisdom of the Lover is justified and supported by the wisdom of the Seer.
\nFaith fights for God, while knowledge is waiting for fulfilment, and so long as
\nthe latter is withheld, the former is necessary. For without<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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indomitable
\nFaith or inspired Wisdom no great cause can conquer.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

We must look therefore to the great tendency of things and interpret
\nin their light the minute events that are passing at the moment. Is the main
\ntendency of things upward or downward ? If
\nit is downward, even then we must strive, for the man who abandons a cause
\nwhich is right because it is denied success, is despicable, and he inflicts a
\nwound on mankind in the present and the future. Great causes which are fought
\nout boldly to the end are made sacred by courage and suffering
\nand their resurrection and final victory is inevitable. Only those which are
\nsupported by cowards and meanly abandoned, are erased from the books of the
\nfuture. The mediaeval movement of civic liberty in France and Italy failed and
\ngave place to Teutonic despotism, but it revived with a hundredfold force in
\nthe French Revolution and it was the impetuous rush earthwards
\nof the souls that had fought for it hundreds of years before that shattered to
\npieces the once victorious feudal system. But if, as we are assured, the
\nmovement is upward, then we may persist in
\nabsolute confidence, sure that reverses in details are only meant to prepare
\nand point the true way to victory.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Persistence does not imply persistence in methods that have proved
\nto be infructuous or from which, though
\ntemporarily fruitful, God has withdrawn His
\nsanction. We must remember that we are a nation not yet trained in the vaster
\nmovements of modern politics. Not only our rank and file, but our captains and
\nour strategists need the training of events, the wisdom of experience to make
\nthem perfect. Fire, impetuosity, self-sacrifice, intellectual vigour, subtlety,
\nwealth of idea, fertility of resource to meet unexpected happenings, these have
\nbeen given to us in abundance. But the perfect experience of the veteran in
\ngreat battles, the acute political intelligence which comes of long familiarity
\nwith the handling of high affairs and national destinies, these are yet in us
\nimmature and in a state of pupillage. But God Himself is our master and
\nteacher, for He would give to His chosen nation a faultless training and a
\nperfect capacity. Only we must be ready to acknowledge our mistakes, to change
\nour path, to learn. Then only shall we victoriously surmount<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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all
\nobstacles and move steadily, impetuously, but without stumbling or swerving, to
\nour goal.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, we have weaknesses that are still rampant and uncorrected in our midst. It is our first duty to
\npurge these out of our hearts with a merciless surgery. If the intellectual
\nequipment is deficient, the spiritual equipment is also far from perfect. Our
\nleaders and our followers both require a deeper Sadhana,
\na more direct communion with the Divine Guru and Captain of our
\nmovement, an inward uplifting, a grander and more impetuous force behind
\nthought and deed. It has been driven home to us by experience after experience
\nthat not in the strength of a raw unmoralised
\nEuropean enthusiasm shall we conquer. Indians !
\nit is the spirituality of India, the Sadhana of India, tapasyā, J\u00f1ānam, śakti<\/i> that must make us free and
\ngreat. And these great things of the East are ill-rendered by their inferior
\nEnglish equivalents, discipline, philosophy, strength. Tapasyā <\/i>is more
\nthan discipline; it is the materialisation in ourselves by spiritual means of
\nthe divine energy creative, preservative and destructive. J\u00f1ānam<\/i> is more than philosophy, it is the
\ninspired and direct knowledge which comes of what our ancients called drsti<\/i>, spiritual sight.
\nŚakti<\/i> is more
\nthan strength, it is the universal energy which moves the stars, made
\nindividual. It is the East that must conquer in India’s uprising. It is the Yogin who must stand behind the political leader
\nor manifest within him; Ramadas must be born in one body
\nwith Shivaji, Mazzini
\nmingle with Cavour. The divorce of intellect
\nand spirit, strength and purity may help a European revolution, but by a
\nEuropean strength we shall not conquer.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The movements of the last century failed because they were too
\npurely intellectual and had not an enlightened heart behind them. Nationalism
\nhas striven to supply the deficiency; it has poured the inspirations of the
\nheart into a swifter and more discerning intellectual activity. But
\nNationalism also has been defective; it has been Indian in sentiment and
\naspiration, European in practice and actuality. It has helped itself with the
\nintellect, rejoicing in its own lightness, clearness, accuracy, shrewd
\ninsight, but it has not been sufficiently
\nsupported by inspired wisdom. It has attached itself to imaginations and
\nidealisms,<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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but
\nhas not learned to discern the deeper Truth and study the will of God. It has
\nbeen driven by ardent and vehement emotions, but was defective in clear
\nwill-power and the pure energy that is greater and more impetuous than any
\npassionate feeling. Either Nationalism will purify itself, learn a more sacred
\ntruth and command a diviner impulse, or it will have to abandon utterly its
\nold body and get itself a new. The pressure of events seems to be pointing in
\nthe latter direction. But in either case, defeat cannot be the end, victory
\nmust be the end.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

In all the events of the last year and a half the voice of the
\ndivine Teacher can be heard crying to us, "Abandon that you may possess; do my will and know yourselves, purify
\nyourselves, cease to follow your fancies." He that has ears, let him hear.
\nKnowledge will not come without self-communion, without light from within, not
\neven the knowledge of the practical steps that can lead to success. Every step
\nthat is taken in the light of a lower wisdom will fail until the truth is
\ndriven home.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

The work that was begun at Dakshineshwar
\nis far from finished, it is not even understood. That which Vivekananda received and strove to develop, has
\nnot yet materialised. The truth of the future that Bijoy Goswami hid within himself, has not yet been
\nrevealed utterly to his disciples. A less discrete revelation prepares, a more
\nconcrete force manifests, but where it comes, when it comes, none knoweth.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Vol. I – March 26, 1910 – No. 38<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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