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\n\tCALCUTTA, March 19th, 1908 } <\/b> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nThe Need of the Moment
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\nAll that we do and attempt proceeds from faith, and if we are deficient in faith nothing can be accomplished. When we are
\ndeficient in faith our work begins to flag and failure is frequent; but if we have faith things are done for us. No great work has
\never been done without this essential courage. Misled by egoism, we believe that we are working, that the results of what we do
\nare our creation, and when anything has to be done we ask ourselves whether we have the strength, the means, the requisite
\nqualities, but in reality all work is done by the will of God and when faith in Him is the mainspring of our actions, success is
\ninevitable. Sometimes we wish a thing very intensely and our wish is accomplished. The wish was in fact a prayer, and all
\nsincere prayer receives its answer. It need not be consciously addressed to God, because prayer is not a form of words but
\nan aspiration. If we aspire, we pray. But the aspiration must be absolutely unselfish, not alloyed by the thought of petty advantages or lower aims if it is to succeed. When we mingle self with our aspirations, we weaken to that extent the strength of the
\nprayer and the success is proportionately less.
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\nWhoever believes in God, rises above his lower self; for God is the true self of the Universe and of everything within the
\nUniverse. When we rely upon our lower self, we are left to that lower self, and succeed or fail according to our strength of body
\nor intellect under the law of our past life and actions. There
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\nThe exact date of the article published here under “March 19th” is uncertain. It appeared<\/font><\/i>
\nin the daily edition on 18 or 19 March. Both these issues have been lost. The article was<\/i>
\nreprinted in the weekly edition on 22 March.<\/i>
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\n\tis one law for the lower self and another for the higher. The
\nlower self is in bondage to its past; the higher is lord of the past, the present and the future. So the will of the lower self
\nis born of ahankara <\/i>and limited by ahankara<\/i>, but the will of the higher self is beyond
\nahankara <\/i>and cannot be limited by it.
\nIt is omnipotent. But so long as it works through the body, it works under the laws of time, space and causality, and we have
\nto wait for its fulfilment till the time is ready, the environment prepared, the immediate causes brought about. The will once
\nat work infallibly brings about the necessary conditions; all we have to do is to allow it to work.
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\n\tApply this great psychological law to what is happening in India. The aspiration towards freedom has for some time been working in some hearts, but they relied on their own strength
\nfor the creation of the necessary conditions and they failed. Of those who worked, some gave up the work, others persisted,
\na few resorted to tapasya<\/i>, the effort to wake in themselves a higher Power to which they might call for help. The
\ntapasya <\/i>of
\nthose last had its effect unknown to themselves, for they were pouring out a selfless aspiration into the world and the necessary
\nconditions began to be created. When these conditions were far advanced, the second class who worked on began to think that it
\nwas the result of their efforts, but the secret springs were hidden from them. They were merely the instruments through which
\nthe purer aspiration of their old friends fulfilled itself.
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\n\t\tIf the conditions of success are to be yet more rapidly brought about, it must be by yet more of the lovers of freedom withdrawing themselves from the effort to work through the lower self. The aspiration of these strong souls purified from self will create
\nfresh workers in the field, infuse the great desire for freedom in the heart of the nation and hasten the growth of the necessary
\nmaterial strength.
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\n\tWhat is needed now is a band of spiritual workers whose tapasya<\/i>
\nwill be devoted to the liberation of India for the service of humanity. The few associations already started have taken another
\nturn and devoted themselves to special and fragmentary work. We need an institution in which under the guidance of highly
\nspiritual men workers will be trained for every field, workers for self-defence, workers for arbitration, for sanitation, for famine
\nrelief, for every species of work which is needed to bring about the necessary conditions for the organisation of Swaraj. If the
\ncountry is to be free, it must first organize itself so as to be able to maintain its freedom. The winning of freedom is an
\neasy task, the keeping of it is less easy. The first needs only one tremendous effort in which all the energies of the country must
\nbe concentrated; the second requires an united, organized and settled strength. If these two conditions are satisfied, nothing
\nmore is needed, for all else is detail and will inevitably follow. For the first condition the requisite is a mighty selfless faith and
\naspiration filling the hearts of men as in the day of Mazzini. For the second India, which has no Piedmont to work out her
\nsalvation, requires to organize her scattered strengths into a single and irresistible whole.
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\n\t\tFor both these ends an institution of the kind we have named
\nis essential. The force of a great stream of aspiration must be poured over the country, which will sweep away as in a flood
\nthe hesitations, the selfishnesses, the fears, the self-distrust, the want of fervour and the want of faith which stand in the way of
\nthe spread of the great national awakening of 1905. A mightier fountain of the spirit must be prepared from which this stream
\nof aspiration can be poured to fertilise the heart of the nation. When this is done, the aspiration towards liberty will become
\nuniversal and India be ready for the great effort.
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\n\t\tThe organization of Swaraj can only be effected by a host of selfless workers who will make it their sole life-work. It cannot
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\n\tbe done by men whose best energies and time are given up to the
\nwork of earning their daily bread and only the feeble remnant to their country. The work is enormous, the time is short, but
\nthe workers are few. One institution is required which will train and support men to help those who are now labouring under
\ngreat disadvantages to organize education, to build up the life of the villages, to spread the habit of arbitration, to help the
\npeople in time of famine and sickness, to preach Swadeshi. These workers must be selfless, free from the desire to lead or shine,
\ndevoted to the work for the country’s sake, absolutely obedient yet full of energy. They must breathe the strength of the spirit,
\nof selfless faith and aspiration derived from the spiritual guides of the institution. The material is ready and even plentiful, but
\nthe factory which will make use of the material has yet to be set on foot. When the man comes, who is commissioned by God to
\ndo it, we must be ready to recognize him.    <\/span><\/p>\n

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