{"id":2868,"date":"2013-07-13T01:44:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:17","slug":"123-bande-mataram-25-7-07-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\/123-bande-mataram-25-7-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-123_Bande Mataram 25-7-07.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tCALCUTTA, July 25th, 1907 }
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\nOne More for the Altar
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\nSrijut Bhupendranath Dutt has been sentenced to one year’s rigorous imprisonment for telling the truth with too much emphasis. As to that we have nothing to say, for it is a necessary part of the struggle between Anglo-Indian bureaucracy and Indian democracy. The bureaucracy has all the material power in its hands and it must necessarily struggle to preserve its unjust
\nand immoral monopoly of power by the means which material strength places in its hands, by the infliction of suffering on
\nthe bodies of its opponents and on their minds, so far as they allow the suffering of the body to affect the mind, by forcible
\ninterference with the outward expression of their feelings, by intimidation and a show of brute power and force. But if the bureaucracy has all the material power in its hands, the democracy has all the spiritual power, the power and force of martyrdom,
\nof unflinching courage, of self-immolation for an idea. Spiritual power in the present creates material power in the future and
\nfor this reason we always find that if it is material force which dominates the present, it is spiritual which moulds and takes
\npossession of the future. The despot in all ages can lay bonds and stripes and death on our body; his power is only limited by his
\nwill, for law is an instrument forged by himself and which he can turn to his own uses and morality is a thing which he regards not
\nat all, or if he affects to regard it, he is cunning enough to throw a veil of words over his actions and mislead the distant and
\nill-informed opinion which is all he cares for. But if the despot can lay on the body the utmost ills of the scourge and the rack and the
\nsword, if he can directly or indirectly plunder the goods of those who resist him and seek to crush them by wounding them in
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\ntheir dearest point of honour, the enthusiast for liberty can also
\nturn suffering into strength, bonds into a glorious emancipation and death into the seed of a splendid and beneficent life. He
\ncan refuse to allow the tortures of the body to affect the calm and illumined strength of his soul where it sits, a Divine Being
\nin the white radiance of its own self-existent bliss, rejoicing in all the glorious manifestations of its Will, rejoicing in its
\npleasures, rejoicing in its anguish, rejoicing in victory, rejoicing in defeat, rejoicing in life, rejoicing in death. For we in India who
\nare enthusiasts for liberty, fight for no selfish lure, for no mere material freedom, for no mere economic predominance, but for
\nour national right to that large freedom and noble life without which no spiritual emancipation is possible; for it is not among
\nan enslaved, degraded and perishing people that the Rishis and great spirits can long continue to be born. And since the spiritual
\nlife of India is the first necessity of the world’s future, we fight not only for our own political and spiritual freedom but for the
\nspiritual emancipation of the human race. With such a glorious cause to battle for, there ought to be no craven weakness among
\nus, no flinching, no cowardly evasion of the consequences of our action. It is a mistake to whine when we are smitten, as
\nif we had hoped to achieve liberty without suffering. To meet persecution with indifference, to take punishment quietly as a
\nmatter of course, with erect head and undimmed eyes, this is the spirit in which we must conquer.
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