{"id":322,"date":"2013-07-13T01:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=322"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:19","slug":"084-boycott-and-after-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/01-bande-mataram-volume-01\/084-boycott-and-after-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-084_Boycott and After.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nBoycott and After<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n                       
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>T<\/font><\/span><\/b>HE<\/b>
\ntwentieth century dawned on a rising flood of renascent humanity surging over
\nAsia’s easternmost borders. The first report of it reached the astonished world
\nin the victorious thunder of Japan. And it spread onward, this resurgent wave of
\nhuman spirit, swiftly, irresistibly, overflooding in a sweeping embrace China,
\nIndia, Persia and the farther West. India received the ablution of the holy
\nwaters singing her sacred hymn Bande Mataram <\/i>that filled the spaces of
\nheaven with joyous echoes heard of the Gods as of old \u2014 and the nations of the
\nearth listened
\nto the song of unfree India and knew what it was <\/span>
\n\u2014
\n<\/span>a voice in the chorus of Asiatic liberty.
\nThe unpremeditated and spontaneous declaration of the Boycott was the
\ndeclaration of the country’s recovery to life from its death-swoon of centuries,
\nof her determination to live her own life \u2014 not for a master, but for herself
\nand for the world. All was changed. Patriotism, the half-understood catchword of
\nplatform oratory, passed out of its confinement into the heart of the people,
\n\u2014 the priest and the prince and the peasant alike
\n\u2014<\/span> giving to each that power of sacrifice which has
\nnow translated itself according to the confessions of the Times <\/i>into the
\nconcrete fact of 42 million yards less of English cotton goods. And the
\ndemonstrations of the sixteenth of October joined in by the Hindu and the
\nMahomedan, the Buddhist, the Jain and the Sikh, the police and the people,
\nthrough the mystic compulsion of an instinctive fraternity, was the enchanting
\nprevision of the India to be. Such a vision is vouchsafed only to the man or the
\nnation that stands on the threshold of emancipation; it came to the Rishi
\nfilling him with the immortal longing to be one with the Divine, to the medieval
\nmonk penetrating him with the life-long love of Christ, and it has ever come at
\nthe mature moment to the down-trodden peoples of the earth revealing to them in
\na flash the mission and the destination of their life. It remains but a moment,
\nbut those<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nthat
\nhave seen it can never forget or rest; they pursue the glory, even while it
\nseems to recede into the distance, over the even and uneven walks of life, past
\nthe smiles of the tempter, through the prison-gate and exit, on through the jaws
\nof death. Its effect on the individual is immediate, on a whole nation
\nnecessarily spread over a longer time during which the seer of it bears its
\nmessage to him who has not seen. But the progress of the pursuit none can arrest
\ntill the vision is reached, realised and reinstalled in all the beauty of its
\nfirst appearance. Ever since the Partition day, India has pressed on this path;
\nthe boycott of foreign goods, the return of the weaver to his loom, the
\ndissociation of the people from the government, the strikes, the deluge of
\nmeetings all over the land, the insulting of the National leaders, the breaking
\nup of the Barisal Conference, the dismissal of Fuller, the appointment of Hare,
\nthe persecution of boys, the dismissal of the school masters, who loved liberty
\nmore than money, the foundation of the National Council of Education, of
\nNational schools, the institution of technical education, the insolvency of
\ndealers in Bideshi goods, the social ex-communication of anti-boycotters, the
\nunbidden repetitions of the Rakhi-day first, the passing of the Swadeshi
\nresolution by the Congress, the prosecution of the Punjabees; the Rawalpindi
\nriot, the Mahomedan rowdyism in East Bengal, the loan to Salimullah, Newmania,
\nthe changed and respectful attiude of Anglo-Indians towards Indians, the
\ndeportation
\nof Lajpat and Ajit Singh, the proclamation, the <\/span>unmasking
\nof English liberalism, the awakening of Madras, the prosecutions at Rajahmundry
\nand Coconada, the continuing prosecution in the Punjab and Bengal, the admission
\nby the Times <\/i>of the success of the Boycott, the throwing of 150,000
\nEnglish labourers out of employment, and the necessity of easing overstocked
\nmarkets, are some of the landmarks of the country’s progress. Before her now
\nlies the valley of the shadow of death full of trials and unknown perils and
\ntemptations, but the light that leads her cannot fail; the inspiration of the
\nPower that gives her strength is irresistible, superior to
\ndeath; she will go on till the fulfilment of the vision of the 16th of October.
\nThere is a Divinity that has been shaping her ends
\n\u2014<\/span> no mere might of man,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nfor
\nnothing but the renovating touch of Divinity can account for the difference
\nbetween now and then, between the days before and after the Boycott.<\/font><\/p>\n


\nBande Mataram<\/i>,
\n<\/i> <\/font> July 15, 1907<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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