{"id":369,"date":"2013-07-13T01:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=369"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:27:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:35","slug":"004-unity-an-open-letter-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\/004-unity-an-open-letter-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-004_Unity-An Open Letter.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n\t\t
\n\t\tUnity<\/a><\/font><\/b>*<\/font>
\n\t\t
\n\t\tAN OPEN LETTER
\nTO<\/span> THOSE WHO DESPAIR OF THEIR COUNTRY<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n   <\/font><\/b>                    T<\/font><\/b>O
\nTHE<\/b> <\/font>sons of our mother Bharat<\/span> who
\ndisclaim their sonhood<\/span>, to the children of languor
\nand selfishness, to the wooers of safety and ease, to the fathers of despair
\nand death — greeting.<\/p>\n

         To those who impugning the holiness
\nof their Mother refuse to lift her out of danger lest they defile their own
\nspotless hands, to those who call on her to purify herself before they will
\nsave her from the imminent and already descending sword of Death, — greeting.<\/p>\n

        Lastly to those
\nwho love and perhaps have striven for her but having now grown themselves faint
\nand hopeless bid others to despair and cease, — to them also greeting.<\/p>\n

        Brothers, for
\nwhether unwise friends or selfish enemies of my Mother, you are still her children,
\n— there is a common voice among you spreading dismay and weakness in the hearts
\nof the people; for you say to each other and to all who would speak to you of
\ntheir country, "Let us leave these things and look to our daily bread;
\nthis nation must perish but let us at least and our children try to live while
\nlive we can. We are fallen and depraved and our sins grow upon us day by day;
\nwe suffer and are oppressed and oppression increases with every setting of the
\nsun; we are weak and languid and our weakness grows weaker and langour<\/span> more languid every time the sun rises in the east.
\nWe are sick and broken; we are idle and cowardly; we perish every year from
\nfamine and plague; disease decimates us, with every decade poverty annihilates
\nfamily after family; where there were a hundred in one house<\/span>,
\nthere are now ten; where there was once a flourishing village, the leopard and
\nthe jackal will soon<\/p>\n

\n
\n        * <\/span>An incomplete piece of writing found among the early
\nmanuscripts, probably belonging<\/span> to a period before
\n1905<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-57<\/p>\n

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inhabit<\/span>. God is adverse to us and ourselves our worst
\nenemies; we are decaying from within and smitten from without. The sword has
\nbeen taken out of our hands and the bread is being taken out of our mouths.
\nWorst of all we are disunited beyond hope of union and without union we must ere
\nlong perish. It  be five decades or it may be ten, but very soon
\nthis great and ancient
\n<\/span>nation will have perished from the face of the
\nearth and the Negro or the Malay will inherit the homes of our fathers and till
\nthe fields to glut the pockets and serve the pleasure of the Englishman<\/span> or the Russian<\/span>. Meanwhile
\nit is well that the Congress should meet once a year and deceive the country
\nwith an appearance of life; that there should be posts for the children of the
\nsoil with enough salary to keep a few from starving, that a soulless education
\nshould suck the vigour<\/span> and sweetness of body and
\nheart and brain of our children while flattering them with the vain lie that
\nthey are educated and enlightened; for so shall the nation die peacefully of a
\nsort of euthanasia lapped in lies and comforted with delusion and not violently
\nand in a whirlwind of horror and a great darkness of fear and suffering." <\/p>\n

      With such Siren song do you slay the hearts
\nof those who have still force and courage to strive against<\/span>
\nFate and would rescue our Mother out of the hands of destruction.<\/span>
\nYet I would willingly believe that matricides though you are, it is in ignorance<\/span>. Come therefore, let
\nus reason calmly together.<\/p>\n

       Is it indeed…<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n(Incomplete)<\/i><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-58<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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