{"id":385,"date":"2013-07-13T01:27:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=385"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:27:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:41","slug":"135-a-great-message-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\/135-a-great-message-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-135_A Great Message.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

\nA
\nGreat Message<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n 
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>               
\n<\/span><\/font>T<\/font><\/b><\/span>HE<\/font><\/b>
\nstupendous success of the reception to Srijut Bepin Chandra Pal, a success which
\noutdid all previous occasions of the kind, was a convincing proof of the popular
\nfeeling and left no doubt in the minds of those who saw it that the nation is
\nalive. We have always believed that God is at work in the hearts of the people
\nto effect His mighty purpose. When Sj. Bepin Chandra spoke at College Square in
\nanswer to the welcome he received from the people of Calcutta, the same deep
\nconviction breathed from his lips and expressed itself in words of an inspired
\nfervour, "The man is nothing, the personality is nought, and it is a vain
\negoism to think that we are doing anything. There is One in whose hands we are
\ninstruments and puppets, One who directs all our motions." This is the
\nconviction that the Prophet of Nationalism has brought with him from his deep
\nself-communing in the solitude of the cell to which the enemies of Nationalism
\nhad consigned him. They sent him there in the hope of silencing for a while the
\nmighty and inspiring voice which had stirred the heart of India and created a
\nrevolution in sentiment and opinion. But they were mere instruments in the hand
\nof One who is ordering all things so that Asia may move steadily to its
\nresurgence. He it was who secluded Bepin Chandra for a while from the stir and
\nmovement of the outside world so that his heart might be forced in on itself and
\nlie open to the new thought which the nation must now learn, so that Nationalism
\nmay enter on a new chapter of its history. No farther progress, no new
\ndevelopment is possible until the divine nature of the movement is thoroughly
\nunderstood by those who have been selected to lead it. The one thing which can
\nbring it to nought and drag this nation back into servitude is selfishness,
\nweakness and egoism in those who are entrusted severally with different
\ndepartments of the work which has to be done so that Swaraj may be fulfilled. It
\nhas therefore been made an indispensable condition of the success of the
\nmovement that those who lead it shall learn<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nthis
\nlesson that it is God’s movement and not theirs, that, as Bepin Chandra declared
\nin his speech at College Square, the men are nothing, there is One who directs
\nand controls all their movements. In the stir and clamour of the political
\nstruggle, in the clash of factions with their petty meannesses and paltry
\nrancours, with the voice of thousands shouting accalmations to him as the
\ncreator of the movement, even so powerful a mind as Bepin
\nChandra’s
\nwould have been led<\/span>
\naway <\/span>and
\nanother might have <\/span>been added to the mighty
\nminds and strong personalities whom egoism has stopped short in their work for
\nIndia and through India for the world. Therefore he was removed for a while from
\nthe busy scene which was so largely filled with his great personality and
\nfar-sounding eloquence, removed by a means which man would never have dreamed
\nof, by a chain of petty circumstances which seemed mere fortuity so that for six
\nmonths his soul might be alone with itself and he might take stock of his
\npersonal strength and weakness and realise that his strength was not his own but
\nGod’s, his eloquence was not his own but God’s, his fruitful, strong and subtle
\nbrain was not his own, but God’s. When we heard him on Tuesday avow the struggle
\nin his soul and its deep consequence, we felt once more convinced of the divine
\nworkings. All great teachers have to go through this hour of lonely
\nself-communion and deep mental travail in order that they may learn the nature
\nof their commission and whence it proceeds. It is only after this hour has come
\nto them that their mission really begins, and all that went before was merely a
\npreparation for that hour; for they must feel the power within them before they
\ncan realise who gave them the power. Bepin Chandra went to prison,
\n\u2014<\/span> the leader of a section and the spokesman of a
\nparty; but if he lives in the revelation he has received in his sojourn in the
\ndesert, he will be in future something far greater, and become the prophet and
\ninspirer of a nation consecrated to that mission by a power whose wisdom will
\nlead him and whose strength will protect throughout the struggle that lies in
\nfront. Others, we hope, will realise the meaning of the words which fell from
\nhim in his first utterance after his return. There are many powerful spirits now
\nin the ranks of Nationalism who have also their share of the work, some of whom
\nare still under the influence of egoism and<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-750<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\nbelieve
\nthat by their own skill, courage and ability they will bring the movement to a
\nsuccess. Unless they learn the lesson which Bepin Chandra has learned, they will
\nbe in danger of misleading the people and themselves being withdrawn from the
\nfield as unfit instruments. To them as to all this country it was a great and
\nnecessary message that the foremost man among us has delivered as the word that
\nGod spoke to him in the silence of his prison.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nBande Mataram<\/i>,
\n<\/i> <\/font> March 12, 1908<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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