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\n\t\t\tWHEN I was asked to speak to you at the annual meet<\/font>ing of your sabha<\/i>, it was my intention to say a few words about the subject chosen for today,
\n\t\t\t\u2013the sub<\/font>ject of the Hindu religion. I do not know now whether I shall fulfil that intention; for as I sat here, there came into my mind<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\ta word that I have to speak to you, a word that I have to speak to the whole of the Indian Nation. It was spoken first to myself<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tin jail and I have come out of jail to speak it to my people. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt was more than a year ago that I came here last. When I<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tcame I was not alone; one of the mightiest prophets of Nationalism sat by my side. It was he who then came out of the seclusion<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tto which God had sent him, so that in the silence and solitude of his cell he might hear the word that He had to say. It was he that<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tyou came in your hundreds to welcome. Now he is far away, separated from us by thousands of miles. Others whom I was<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\taccustomed to find working beside me are absent. The storm that swept over the country has scattered them far and wide. It<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tis I this time who have spent one year in seclusion, and now that I come out I find all changed. One who always sat by my side<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tand was associated in my work is a prisoner in Burma; another is in the north rotting in detention. I looked round when I came<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tout, I looked round for those to whom I had been accustomed to look for counsel and inspiration. I did not find them. There<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twas more than that. When I went to jail, the whole country was alive with the cry of Bande Mataram, alive with the hope<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tof a nation, the hope of millions of men who had newly risen out of degradation. When I came out of jail I listened for that<\/font>
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\nDelivered at Uttarpara, Bengal, on 30 May 1909. Text published in the
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\nEnglish-language newspaper of Calcutta, on 1 June; thoroughly revised by Sri Aurobindo<\/font><\/i><\/font>
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\n\t\t\tcry, but there was instead a silence. A hush had fallen on the country and men seemed bewildered; for instead of God’s bright<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\theaven full of the vision of the future that had been before us, there seemed to be overhead a leaden sky from which human<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthunders and lightnings rained. No man seemed to know which way to move, and from all sides came the question, “What shall<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twe do next? What is there that we can do?” I too did not know which way to move, I too did not know what was next to be<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tdone. But one thing I knew, that as it was the Almighty Power of God which had raised that cry, that hope, so it was the same<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tpower which had sent down that silence. He who was in the shouting and the movement was also in the pause and the hush.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tHe has sent it upon us, so that the nation might draw back for a moment and look into itself and know His will. I have not been<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tdisheartened by that silence, because I had been made familiar with silence in my prison and because I knew it was in the pause<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tand the hush that I had myself learned this lesson through the long year of my detention. When Bipin Chandra Pal came out of<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tjail, he came with a message, and it was an inspired message. I remember the speech he made here. It was a speech not so much<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tpolitical as religious in its bearing and intention. He spoke of his realisation in jail, of God within us all, of the Lord within<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthe nation, and in his subsequent speeches also he spoke of a greater than ordinary force in the movement and a greater than<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tordinary purpose before it. Now I also meet you again, I also come out of jail, and again it is you of Uttarpara who are the first<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tto welcome me, not at a political meeting but at a meeting of a society for the protection of our religion. That message which<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tBipin Chandra Pal received in Buxar jail, God gave to me in Alipore. That knowledge He gave to me day after day during<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tmy twelve months of imprisonment and it is that which He has commanded me to speak to you now that I have come out.<\/font>
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\n\t\t\tI knew I would come out. The year of detention was meant only for a year of seclusion and of training. How could anyone<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\thold me in jail longer than was necessary for God’s purpose? He had given me a word to speak and a work to do, and until that<\/font>
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\n\t\t\tuntil that work was done no human power could stop God’s instrument, however weak that instrument might be or however<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tsmall. Now that I have come out, even in these few minutes, a word has been suggested to me which I had no wish to speak.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tThe thing I had in my mind He has thrown from it and what I speak is under an impulse and a compulsion.<\/font>
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\n\t\t\tWhen I was arrested and hurried to the Lal Bazar hajat I was shaken in faith for a while, for I could not look into the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\theart of His intention. Therefore I faltered for a moment and cried out in my heart to Him, “What is this that has happened<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tto me? I believed that I had a mission to work for the people of my country and until that work was done, I should have Thy<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tprotection. Why then am I here and on such a charge?” A day passed and a second day and a third, when a voice came to me<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tfrom within, “Wait and see.” Then I grew calm and waited. I was taken from Lal Bazar to Alipore and was placed for one<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tmonth in a solitary cell apart from men. There I waited day and night for the voice of God within me, to know what He had to<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tsay to me, to learn what I had to do. In this seclusion the earliest realisation, the first lesson came to me. I remembered then that<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\ta month or more before my arrest, a call had come to me to put aside all activity, to go into seclusion and to look into myself, so<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthat I might enter into closer communion with Him. I was weak and could not accept the call. My work was very dear to me<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tand in the pride of my heart I thought that unless I was there, it would suffer or even fail and cease; therefore I would not leave it.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tIt seemed to me that He spoke to me again and said, “The bonds you had not strength to break, I have broken for you, because<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tit is not my will nor was it ever my intention that that should continue. I have another thing for you to do and it is for that I<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\thave brought you here, to teach you what you could not learn for yourself and to train you for my work.” Then He placed<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthe Gita in my hands. His strength entered into me and I was able to do the sadhan
\n<\/i>of the Gita. I was not only to understand<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tintellectually but to realise what Srikrishna demanded of Arjuna and what He demands of those who aspire to do His work, to<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tbe free from repulsion and desire, to do work for Him without<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tthe demand for fruit, to renounce self-will and become a passive and faithful instrument in His hands, to have an equal heart for<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\thigh and low, friend and opponent, success and failure, yet not to do His work negligently. I realised what the Hindu religion<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tmeant. We speak often of the Hindu religion, of the Sanatana Dharma, but few of us really know what that religion is. Other<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\treligions are preponderatingly religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatana Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tso much to be believed as lived. This is the dharma <\/i>that for the salvation of humanity was cherished in the seclusion of this<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tpeninsula from of old. It is to give this religion that India is rising. She does not rise as other countries do, for self or when<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tshe is strong, to trample on the weak. She is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. India has always<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\texisted for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great.<\/font>
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\n\t\t\tTherefore this was the next thing He pointed out to me,
\n\t\t\t\u2013He made me realise the central truth of the Hindu religion.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tHe turned the hearts of my jailers to me and they spoke to the Englishman in charge of the jail, “He is suffering in his confinement; let him at least walk outside his cell for half an hour in the morning and in the evening.” So it was arranged, and it was<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twhile I was walking that His strength again entered into me. I looked at the jail that secluded me from men and it was no longer<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tby its high walls that I was imprisoned; no, it was Vasudeva who surrounded me. I walked under the branches of the tree in front<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tof my cell, but it was not the tree, I knew it was Vasudeva, it was Srikrishna whom I saw standing there and holding over me<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tHis shade. I looked at the bars of my cell, the very grating that did duty for a door and again I saw Vasudeva. It was Narayana<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twho was guarding and standing sentry over me. Or I lay on the coarse blankets that were given me for a couch and felt the arms<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tof Srikrishna around me, the arms of my Friend and Lover. This was the first use of the deeper vision He gave me. I looked at the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tprisoners in the jail, the thieves, the murderers, the swindlers, and as I looked at them I saw Vasudeva, it was Narayana whom<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tI found in these darkened souls and misused bodies. Amongst <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tthese thieves and dacoits there were many who put me to shame by their sympathy, their kindness, the humanity triumphant over<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tsuch adverse circumstances. One I saw among them especially who seemed to me a saint, a peasant of my nation who did<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tnot know how to read and write, an alleged dacoit sentenced to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment, one of those whom we<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tlook down upon in our Pharisaical pride of class as chhotalok<\/i>. Once more He spoke to me and said, “Behold the people among<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twhom I have sent you to do a little of my work. This is the nature of the nation I am raising up and the reason why I raise<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthem.” <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhen the case opened in the lower court and we were<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tbrought before the Magistrate I was followed by the same insight. He said to me, “When you were cast into jail, did not your<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\theart fail and did you not cry out to me, where is Thy protection? Look now at the Magistrate, look now at the Prosecuting<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tCounsel.” I looked and it was not the Magistrate whom I saw, it was Vasudeva, it was Narayana who was sitting there on the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tbench. I looked at the Prosecuting Counsel and it was not the Counsel for the prosecution that I saw; it was Srikrishna who<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tsat there, it was my Lover and Friend who sat there and smiled. “Now do you fear?” He said, “I am in all men and I overrule<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\ttheir actions and their words. My protection is still with you and you shall not fear. This case which is brought against you,<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tleave it in my hands. It is not for you. It was not for the trial that I brought you here but for something else. The case itself is<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tonly a means for my work and nothing more.” Afterwards when the trial opened in the Sessions Court, I began to write many<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tinstructions for my Counsel as to what was false in the evidence against me and on what points the witnesses might be
\n\t\t\tcross-examined. Then something happened which I had not expected. The arrangements which had been made for my defence were<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tsuddenly changed and another Counsel stood there to defend me. He came unexpectedly,
\n\t\t\t\u2013a friend of mine, but I did not<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tknow he was coming. You have all heard the name of the man who put away from him all other thoughts and abandoned all<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\this practice, who sat up half the night day after day for months<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tand broke his
\n\t\t\thealth to save me, \u2013Srijut Chittaranjan Das. When I saw him, I was satisfied, but I still thought it necessary<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tto write instructions. Then all that was put from me and I had the message from within, “This is the man who will save you<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tfrom the snares put around your feet. Put aside those papers. It is not you who will instruct him. I will instruct him.” From<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthat time I did not of myself speak a word to my Counsel about the case or give a single instruction and if ever I was asked a<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tquestion, I always found that my answer did not help the case. I had left it to him and he took it entirely into his hands, with<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twhat result you know. I knew all along what He meant for me, for I heard it again and again, always I listened to the voice<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twithin: “I am guiding, therefore fear not. Turn to your own work for which I have brought you to jail and when you come<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tout, remember never to fear, never to hesitate. Remember that it is I who am doing this, not you nor any other. Therefore<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twhatever clouds may come, whatever dangers and sufferings, whatever difficulties, whatever impossibilities, there is nothing<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\timpossible, nothing difficult. I am in the nation and its uprising and I am Vasudeva, I am Narayana, and what I will, shall be,<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tnot what others will. What I choose to bring about, no human power can stay.”<\/font>
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\n\t\t\tMeanwhile He had brought me out of solitude and placed me among those who had been accused along with me. You<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\thave spoken much today of my self-sacrifice and devotion to my country. I have heard that kind of speech ever since I came out of<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tjail, but I hear it with embarrassment, with something of pain. For I know my weakness, I am a prey to my own faults and<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tbackslidings. I was not blind to them before and when they all rose up against me in seclusion, I felt them utterly. I knew then<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthat I the man was a mass of weakness, a faulty and imperfect instrument, strong only when a higher strength entered into me.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tThen I found myself among these young men and in many of them I discovered a mighty courage, a power of self-effacement<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tin comparison with which I was simply nothing. I saw one or two who were not only superior to me in force and character,
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\n\t\t\tability on which I prided myself. He said to me, “This is the young generation, the new and mighty nation that is arising at<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tmy command. They are greater than yourself. What have you to fear? If you stood aside or slept, the work would still be done.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tIf you were cast aside tomorrow, here are the young men who will take up your work and do it more mightily than you have<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tever done. You have only got some strength from me to speak a word to this nation which will help to raise it.” This was the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tnext thing He told me. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThen a thing happened suddenly and in a moment I was<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\thurried away to the seclusion of a solitary cell. What happened to me during that period I am not impelled to say, but only this<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthat day after day, He showed me His wonders and made me realise the utter truth of the Hindu religion. I had had many<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tdoubts before. I was brought up in England amongst foreign ideas and an atmosphere entirely foreign. About many things<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tin Hinduism I had once been inclined to believe that it was all imagination; that there was much of dream in it, much that<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twas delusion and maya<\/i>. But now day after day I realised in the mind, I realised in the heart, I realised in the body the truths<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tof the Hindu religion. They became living experiences to me, and things were opened to me which no material science could<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\texplain. When I first approached Him, it was not entirely in the spirit of the Bhakta, it was not entirely in the spirit of the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tJnani. I came to Him long ago in Baroda some years before the Swadeshi began and I was drawn into the public field.<\/font>
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\n\t\t\tWhen I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tsceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tto the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion. I felt there must be a mighty truth somewhere in<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthis Yoga, a mighty truth in this religion based on the Vedanta. So when I turned to the Yoga and resolved to practise it and<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tfind out if my idea was right, I did it in this spirit and with this prayer to Him, “If Thou art, then Thou knowest my heart. Thou<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tknowest that I do not ask for Mukti, I do not ask for anything<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\twhich others ask for. I ask only for strength to uplift this nation, I ask only to be allowed to live and work for this people whom I<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tlove and to whom I pray that I may devote my life.” I strove long for the realisation of Yoga and at last to some extent I had it, but<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tin what I most desired, I was not satisfied. Then in the seclusion of the jail, of the solitary cell I asked for it again. I said, “Give<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tme Thy adesh<\/i>. I do not know what work to do or how to do it. Give me a message.” In the communion of Yoga two messages<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tcame. The first message said, “I have given you a work and it is to help to uplift this nation. Before long the time will come<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twhen you will have to go out of jail; for it is not my will that this time either you should be convicted or that you should pass the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\ttime as others have to do, in suffering for their country. I have called you to work, and that is the
\nadesh <\/i>for which you have<\/font> <\/font>\t\t\tasked. I give you the adesh <\/i>to go forth and do my work.” The second message came and it said, “Something has been shown<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tto you in this year of seclusion, something about which you had your doubts and it is the truth of the Hindu religion. It is this<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\treligion that I am raising up before the world, it is this that I have perfected and developed through the
\nrishis<\/i>, saints and<\/font> <\/font>\t\t\t
\navatars<\/font><\/i>, and now it is going forth to do my work among the nations. I am raising up this nation to send forth my word. This<\/font><\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tis the Sanatana Dharma, this is the eternal religion which you did not really know before, but which I have now revealed to<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tyou. The agnostic and the sceptic in you have been answered, for I have given you proofs within and without you, physical<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tand subjective, which have satisfied you. When you go forth, speak to your nation always this word that it is for the Sanatana<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tDharma that they arise, it is for the world and not for themselves that they arise. I am giving them freedom for the service of the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tworld. When therefore it is said that India shall rise, it is the Sanatana Dharma that shall rise. When it is said that India shall<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tbe great, it is the Sanatana Dharma that shall be great. When it is said that India shall expand and extend herself, it is the Sanatana<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tDharma that shall expand and extend itself over the world. It is for the dharma
\n<\/i>and by the dharma <\/i>that India exists. To magnify<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthe religion means to magnify the country. I have shown you<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tthat I am everywhere and in all men and in all things, that I am in this movement and I am not only working in those who<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tare striving for the country but I am working also in those who oppose them and stand in their path. I am working in everybody<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tand whatever men may think or do they can do nothing but help on my purpose. They also are doing my work; they are not my<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tenemies but my instruments. In all your actions you are moving forward without knowing which way you move. You mean to<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tdo one thing and you do another. You aim at a result and your efforts subserve one that is different or contrary. It is Shakti that<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\thas gone forth and entered into the people. Since long ago I have been preparing this uprising and now the time has come and it<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tis I who will lead it to its fulfilment.” <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis then is what I have to say to you. The name of your<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tsociety is “Society for the Protection of Religion”. Well, the protection of the religion, the protection and upraising before<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthe world of the Hindu religion, that is the work before us. But what is the Hindu religion? What is this religion which we<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tcall Sanatana, eternal? It is the Hindu religion only because the Hindu nation has kept it, because in this peninsula it grew up<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tin the seclusion of the sea and the Himalayas, because in this sacred and ancient land it was given as a charge to the Aryan<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\trace to preserve through the ages. But it is not circumscribed by the confines of a single country, it does not belong peculiarly<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tand for ever to a bounded part of the world. That which we call the Hindu religion is really the eternal religion, because it is the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tuniversal religion which embraces all others. If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\treligion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose. This is the one religion that can triumph<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tover materialism by including and anticipating the discoveries of science and the speculations of philosophy. It is the one religion<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twhich impresses on mankind the closeness of God to us and embraces in its compass all the possible means by which man<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tcan approach God. It is the one religion which insists every moment on the truth which all religions acknowledge, that He<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tis in all men and all things and that in Him we move and have<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tour being. It is the one religion which enables us not only to understand and believe this truth but to realise it with every<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tpart of our being. It is the one religion which shows the world what the world is, that it is the
\nlila <\/i>of Vasudeva. It is the one<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\treligion which shows us how we can best play our part in that lila<\/i>, its subtlest laws and its noblest rules. It is the one religion<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twhich does not separate life in any smallest detail from religion, which knows what immortality is and has utterly removed from<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tus the reality of death. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis is the word that has been put into my mouth to speak<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tto you today. What I intended to speak has been put away from me, and beyond what is given to me I have nothing to say. It is<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tonly the word that is put into me that I can speak to you. That word is now finished. I spoke once before with this force in me<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tand I said then that this movement is not a political movement and that nationalism is not politics but a religion, a creed, a faith.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tI say it again today, but I put it in another way. I say no longer that nationalism is a creed, a religion, a faith; I say that it is<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tthe Sanatana Dharma which for us is nationalism. This Hindu nation was born with the Sanatana Dharma, with it it moves<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tand with it it grows. When the Sanatana Dharma declines, then the nation declines, and if the Sanatana Dharma were capable<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tof perishing, with the Sanatana Dharma it would perish. The Sanatana Dharma, that is nationalism. This is the message that<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tI have to
\nspeak to you.<\/font><\/p>\n

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