{"id":2819,"date":"2013-07-13T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:00","slug":"220-speech-baruipur-speech-12-4-08-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/06-07-bande-mataram\/220-speech-baruipur-speech-12-4-08-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-220_Speech – Baruipur Speech 12.4.08.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBaruipur Speech <\/font> <\/b>
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\n\t\tSj. Shyamsunder
\n\t\tChakravarti having finished his speech, Srijut Aurobindo Ghose rose to
\n\t\taddress the audience. He began with an apology for being under the
\n\t\tnecessity of addressing a Bengali audience in a foreign tongue,
\n\t\tspecially by one like himself who had devoted his life for the Swadeshi
\n\t\tmovement. He pointed out that through a foreign system of education
\n\t\tdeveloping foreign tastes and tendencies he had been denationalised like
\n\t\this country and like his country again he is now trying to renationalise
\n\t\thimself.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n\tNext he referred to the
\n\tcomparative want of the Swadeshi spirit in West Bengal to which Shyamsunder
\n\tBabu made very polite reference, himself coming from East Bengal. But Sj.
\n\tGhose as he belonged to West Bengal had no hesitation in admitting the
\n\tdrawback. This superiority of East Bengal he attributed solely to its
\n\tprivilege of suffering of late from the regulation
\nlathis<\/i>
\n\tand imprisonment administered by the alien bureaucracy. He offered the same
\n\texplanation of the increase of the strength of boycott in Calcutta after the
\n\tdisturbances at the Beadon Square of which the police were the sole authors.
\n\tThe speaker dilated on the great efficacy of suffering in rousing the spirit
\n\tfrom slumber by a reference to the parable of two birds in the Upanishads so
\n\toften referred to by the late Swami Vivekananda. The parable relates that
\n\tthere was a big tree with many sweet and bitter fruits and two birds sat on
\n\tthe tree, one on the top of it and the other at a lower part. The latter
\n\tbird looking upwards sees the other in all his glory and richness of plumage
\n\tand is at times enamoured of him and feels that he is no other than his own
\n\thighest self. But at other moments when he tastes the sweet fruits of the
\n\ttree he is
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\n\tDelivered in Baruipur, Bengal, on 12 April 1908. Text
\n\t(third-person report) published<\/font><\/i>
\nas a news item in the <\/i>Bande Mataram on 17 April.<\/i>  <\/font>
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\n\tso much taken up with their
\n\tsweetness that he quite forgets his dear and beloved companion. After a
\n\twhile there comes the turn of bitter fruits, the unpleasant taste of which
\n\tbreaks off the spell and he looks at his brilliant companion again. This is
\n\tevidently a parable concerning the salvation of individual souls who when
\n\tthey enjoy the sweets of the world forget to look upwards to the Paramatma
\n\twho is really none else than their own highest self, and when they forget
\n\tthemselves in this way through the maya<\/i> of this world, bitterness
\n\tcomes to dispel the
\nmaya <\/i>and revive the true self-consciousness.
\n\t<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n\tThe parable is equally
\n\tapplicable to national mukti<\/i>. We in India fell under the influence of
\n\tthe foreigners’ maya <\/i>which completely possessed our souls. It was the
\nmaya <\/i>of the alien rule, the alien civilisation, the powers and capacities
\n\tof the alien people who happen to rule over us. These were as if so many
\n\tshackles that put our physical, intellectual and moral life in bondage. We
\n\twent to school with the aliens, we allowed the aliens to teach us and draw
\n\tour minds away from all that was great and good in us. We considered
\n\tourselves unfit for self-government and political life, we looked to England
\n\tas our exemplar and took her as our saviour. And all this was
\nmaya <\/i>and bondage. When this maya<\/i>
\n\tonce got its hold on us, put on us shackle after shackle, we had fallen into
\n\tbondage of the mind by their education, commercial bondage, political
\n\tbondage, etc., and we believed ourselves to be helpless without them. We
\n\thelped them to destroy what life there was in India. We were under the
\n\tprotection of their police and we know now what protection they have given
\n\tus. Nay, we ourselves became the instruments of our bondage. We Bengalis
\n\tentered the services of foreigners. We brought in the foreigners and
\n\testablished their rule. Fallen as we were, we needed others to protect us,
\n\tto teach us and even to feed us. So utterly was our self-dependence
\n\tdestroyed that we were unable to fulfil every function of human life. It is
\n\tonly through repression and suffering that this maya<\/i> can be
\n\tdispelled, and the bitter fruit of Partition of Bengal administered by Lord
\n\tCurzon dispelled the illusion. We looked up and saw that the brilliant bird
\n\tsitting above was none else   
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\n\tbut ourselves, our real and
\n\tactual selves. Thus we found Swaraj within ourselves and saw that it was in
\n\tour hands to discover and to realise it.
\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tSome people tell us that we
\n\thave not the strength to stand upon our own legs without the help of the
\n\taliens and we should therefore work in co-operation with and also in
\n\topposition to them. But can you depend on God and
\nmaya <\/i>at the same time? In proportion as you depend on others the bondage
\n\tof maya <\/i>will be upon you. The first thing that a nation must do is to
\n\trealise the true freedom that lies within and it is only when you understand
\n\tthat free within is free without, you will be really free. It is for this
\n\treason that we preach the gospel of unqualified Swaraj and it is for this
\n\tthat Bhupen and Upadhyay refused to plead before the alien court. Upadhyay
\n\tsaw the necessity of realising Swaraj within us and hence he gave himself up
\n\tto it. He said that he was free and the Britishers could not bind him; his
\n\tdeath is a parable to our nation. There is no power so great that can make
\n\tIndia subject; when we will say this, God will make us free. Herein lies the
\n\ttrue significance of national education, boycott, Swadeshi, arbitration. Do
\n\tnot be afraid of obstacles in your path, it does not matter how great the
\n\tforces are that stand in your way, God commands you to be free and you must
\n\tbe free. We ask you to give up the school under the control of the foreign
\n\tbureaucracy and point out to you national education, we ask you to keep away
\n\tfrom the legal system which prevails in your country as it is a source of
\n\tfinancial and moral downfall\u2014 another link in the chain of
\nmaya<\/i>. Do not suffer in bondage and maya<\/i>. Leave this maya <\/i>
\n\talone and come away. Don’t think that anything is impossible when miracles
\n\tare being worked out on every side. If you are true to yourself there is
\n\tnothing to be afraid of. There is nothing unattainable by truth, love and
\n\tfaith. This is your whole gospel which will work out miracles. Never indulge
\n\tin equivocations for your ease and safety. Do not invite weakness, stand
\n\tupright. The light of Swadeshi is growing brighter through every attempt to
\n\tcrush it. People say there is no unity among us. How to create unity? Only
\n\tthrough the call of our Mother and the voice of all her sons and not by any
\n\tother unreal means. The  <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n\tvoice is yet weak but it is
\n\tgrowing. The might of God is already revealed among us, its work is
\n\tspreading over the country. Even in West Bengal it is working in Uttarpara
\n\tand Baruipur. It is not our work but that of something mightier that compels
\n\tus to go on until all bondage is swept away and India stands free before the
\n\tworld.   
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