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\nBhawani Mandir<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bhawani<\/font><\/i><\/span> Mandir<\/span>
\n<\/font><\/i>was written by Sri Aurobindo<\/span> but it was more Barin’s<\/span> idea than his. It was not
\nmeant to train people for assassination but for revolutionary preparation of
\nthe country. The idea was soon dropped as far as Sri Aurobindo <\/span>
\nwas concerned, but something of the kind was attempted by
\nBarin<\/span> in the <\/font>
\nManicktala<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font>Garden<\/font>…<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/font><\/span>From
\nnotes and letters 0f Sri<\/span> <\/font>
\nAurobindo<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Page-59<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n


\nBhawani<\/font><\/b><\/span> <\/font> Mandir<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

<\/font>0M  Namas<\/span> Chandikayai<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n                   A<\/font> TEMPLE    is to be erected and consecrated to Bhawani<\/span>, the
\nMother, among the hills. To all the children of the Mother the call is sent
\nforth to help in the sacred work.<\/p>\n

Who is Bhawani<\/span>?<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n                                   
\nWho is Bhawani<\/span>, the Mother, and why should we erect a
\ntemple to her?<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nBhawani<\/i><\/span> is the Infinite Energy<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

 
\n
\n       In<\/span> the unending revolutions of the world, as the wheel
\nof the Eternal turns mightily in its courses, the Infinite Energy, which streams
\nforth from the Eternal and sets the wheel to work, looms up in the vision of
\nman in various aspects and infinite forms. Each aspect creates and marks an
\nage. Sometimes She<\/span> is Love, sometimes She is
\nKnowledge, sometimes She is Renunciation, sometimes She is Pity. This Infinite
\nEnergy is Bhawani<\/span>, She also is Durga<\/span>,
\nShe is Kali, She is Radha<\/span> the Beloved, She is Lakshmi<\/span>, She<\/span> is our Mother and the
\nCreatress<\/span> of us all.<\/p>\n

Bhawani<\/i><\/span> is Shakti<\/span><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n                  In<\/span> the present age, the Mother is manifested as the
\nmother of Strength. She is pure Shakti<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The Whole World is Growing Full of the Mother<\/span><\/span> as Shakti<\/span><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n        Let us raise our eyes and cast them upon the world around us. Wherever we turn
\nour gaze, huge masses of strength rise be<\/span>fore our
\nvision, tremendous, swift and inexorable forces, gigantic<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nPage-61<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

figures of energy, terrible sweeping columns of
\nforce. All is growing<\/span> large and strong. The Shakti<\/span> of war, the Shakti<\/span> of
\nwealth, the Shakti<\/span> of Science are tenfold more mighty
\nand colossal, a hundredfold more fierce, rapid and busy in their activity, a
\nthousandfold<\/span> more prolific in resources, weapons
\nand instruments than ever before in recorded history. Everywhere the Mother is
\nat work; from Her<\/span> mighty and shaping hands enormous
\nforms of Rakshasas<\/span>, Asuras<\/span>,
\nDevas<\/span> are leaping forth into the arena of the world.
\nWe have seen the slow but mighty rise of great empires in the West,<\/span> we have seen the swift, irresistible and impetuous<\/span> bounding into life of Japan. Some are Mlechchha<\/span> Shaktis<\/span> clouded in their strength, black or blood-crimson
\nwith Tamas<\/span> or Rajas, others are Arya<\/span>
\nShaktis<\/span>, bathed in a pure flame of renunciation<\/span> and utter
\nself-sacrifice: but all are the Mother in Her new phase, remoulding<\/span>,
\ncreating. She is pouring Her<\/span> spirit into the old; She
\nis whirling into life the new.<\/p>\n

We in <\/i>India<\/i> Fail in All Things for Want of Shakti<\/span><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n   <\/span>     
\nBut<\/span> in India the breath moves slowly, the afflatus is long in
\ncoming. India, the ancient Mother, is indeed striving to be reborn, striving with agony and tears, but she strives in vain.What ails her,
\nshe who is after all so vast and might be so strong? There is
\nsurely some enormous defect, something vital is wanting in us, nor is it
\ndifficult to lay our finger on the spot.<\/span> We have all things else, but we
\nare empty of strength, void of energy. We have abandoned Shakti<\/span>
\nand are therefore abandoned by Shakti<\/span>. The Mother is
\nnot in our hearts, in our brains, in our arms.
\n        The wish to be reborn we have in abundance, there is no deficiency there. How
\nmany attempts have been made, how many movements have been begun, in religion,
\nin society, in poli<\/span>tics! But the same fate has
\novertaken or is preparing to overtake them all. They flourish for a moment,
\nthen the impulse wanes, the fire dies out, and if they endure, it is only as
\nempty shells, forms from which the Brahma has gone or in which it lies
\noverpowered with Tamas<\/span> and inert. Our beginnings are
\nmighty, but they have neither sequel nor fruit.
\n        Now we are beginning in another direction; we have started<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-62<\/font><\/p>\n

\n


\na great industrial movement which is to enrich and regenerate an impoverished
\nland. Untaught by experience, we do not perceive that this movement must go the
\nway of all the others, unless we first seek the one essential thing, unless we
\nacquire strength.<\/p>\n

Our Knowledge is a Dead Thing for Want of Shakti<\/span><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n   <\/span>     
\nIs<\/span> it knowledge that is wanting? We Indians, born and
\nbred in a country where Jnana<\/span> has been stored and
\naccumulated since the race began, bear about in us the inherited gains of many
\nthousands of years. Great giants of knowledge rise among us even today to add
\nto the store. Our capacity has not shrunk, the edge of our intellect has not
\nbeen dulled or blunted, its<\/span> receptivity<\/span> and flexibility are as varied as of old. But it
\nis a dead knowledge, a burden under which we are bowed, a poison which is corroding<\/span> us, rather than as it
\nshould be a staff to support our feet and a weapon in our hands; for this is
\nthe nature of all great things that when they are not used or are ill used,
\nthey turn upon the bearer and destroy
\nhim.
\n        Our knowledge then, weighed down with a
\nheavy load of Tamas<\/span>, lies under the curse of
\nimpotence and<\/span> inertia. We choose to fancy indeed,
\nnowadays, that if we acquire Science, all will be well. Let us first ask
\nourselves what we have done with the knowledge we already possess, or what have
\nthose who have already<\/span> acquired Science been able
\nto do for India. Imitative and incapable of initiative, we have
\nstriven to copy the methods of England, and we had not the strength; we would now copy the
\nmethods of the Japanese, a still more energetic people; are we likely to
\nsucceed any better? The mighty force of knowledge which European Science
\nbestows is a weapon for the hands of a giant, it is the mace of Bheemsen<\/span>; what can a weakling do with it but crush himself
\nin the attempt to wield it?<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nOur Bhakti<\/span> cannot Live and Work for Want of Shakti<\/span><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n   <\/span>     
\nIs<\/span> it love, enthusiasm, Bhakti<\/span>
\nthat<\/span> is wanting? These are ingrained in the Indian
\nnature, but in the absence of Shakti<\/span> we cannot
\nconcentrate, we cannot direct, we cannot even preserve<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-63<\/font><\/p>\n

\n


\nit. Bhakti<\/span> is the leaping flame, Shakti<\/span>
\nis the fuel. If the fuel is scanty how long can the fire endure?<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

                  When the strong nature, enlightened by knowledge, disciplined<\/span> and given a giant’s strength by Karma, lifts
\nitself up in love and adoration to God, that is the Bhakti<\/span>
\nwhich endures and keeps the soul for ever united with the Divine. But the weak nature<\/span> is too feeble to bear the impetus of so
\nmighty a thing as perfect Bhakti<\/span>; he is lifted up for
\na moment, then the flame soars up to Heaven, leaving him behind exhausted and
\neven weaker than before. Every movement of any kind of which enthusiasm and
\nadoration are the life must fail and soon burn itself out so long as the human
\nmaterial from which it proceeds is frail and light in substance.<\/p>\n

India therefore Needs Shakti<\/span> Alone<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n        The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting,
\nwhich we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength — strength
\nphysical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual
\nwhich is the one inexhaustible<\/span>
\nand imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else
\nwill be added to us easily and naturally. In the absence of strength we are
\nlike men in a dream who have hands but cannot seize or strike, who have feet
\nbut cannot run.<\/p>\n

India, Grown Old and Decrepit in Will, has to be Reborn<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n        Whenever we strive to do anything, after the first rush of
\nenthusiasm is spent a paralysing<\/span> helplessness<\/span>
\nseizes upon us. We often see in the cases of old men full of years and
\nexperience that the very excess of knowledge seems to have frozen their powers
\nof action and their powers of will. When a great feeling or a great need
\novertakes them and it is necessary to carry out its promptings in action, they
\nhesitate, ponder, discuss, make tentative efforts and abandon them or wait for
\nthe safest and easi<\/span>est<\/span> way to suggest
\nitself, instead of taking the most direct; thus the time when it was possible and necessary to act passes away. Our race
\nhas grown just such an old man with stores of know-<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-64<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nledge, with ability to feel and desire, but paralysed<\/span>
\nby senile sluggishness<\/span>, senile timidity, senile<\/span> feebleness. If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing
\nand billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become,
\nas it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or tur<\/span>– bulent<\/span> at will, an ocean of
\naction or of force.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nIndia<\/i> can be Reborn<\/i><\/p>\n

    Many<\/span> of us, utterly overcome by Tamas<\/span>,
\nthe dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible,
\nthat India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to
\nrecover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle
\nsaying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses,<\/span>
\nno man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.<\/p>\n

What is a Nation? The Shakti<\/span> of Its Millions<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n     For<\/span> what is a nation? What is our mother-country? It
\nis not a piece of earth, nor<\/span> a figure of speech, nor a
\nfiction of the mind. It is a mighty Shakti<\/span>, composed
\nof the Shaktis<\/span> of all the millions of units that make
\nup the nation, just as Bhawani<\/span> Mahisha<\/span>
\nMardini<\/span> sprang into being from the Shakti<\/span> of all the millions of gods assembled in one mass of
\nforce and welded into unity. The Shakti<\/span> we call India, Bhawani<\/span> Bharati<\/span>, is the living unity of the Shaktis<\/span>
\nof three hundred million people; but she is inactive, imprisoned in the magic
\ncircle of Tamas<\/span>, the self-indul<\/span>gent inertia and ignorance of her sons. To get rid of Tamas<\/span>
\nwe have but to wake the Brahma within.<\/p>\n

It is Our Own Choice whether We Create
\na Nation or Perish<\/i><\/p>\n

What is it that so many thousands of holy men, Sadhus<\/span>
\nand Sannyasis<\/span>, have preached to us silently by their
\nlives? What was the message that radiated from the personality of Bhagawan<\/span> Ramakrishna Paramhansa<\/span>?
\nWhat was it that formed the kernel of the eloquence with which the lion-like
\nheart of Vivekananda<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-65<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nsought to shake the world? It is this, that in everyone of these three hundred
\nmillions of men, from the Raja on his throne to the coolie at his labour<\/span>, from the Brahmin absorbed in his Sandhya<\/span> to the Pariah walking shunned of men, GOD LIVETH. We
\nare all gods and creators, because the energy of God is<\/span>
\nwithin us and all life is creation; not only the making of new forms is
\ncreation, but preservation is creation, destruction itself is creation. It
\nrests with us what we shall create; for we are not, unless we choose, puppets
\ndominated by Fate and Maya; we are facets and manifestations of Almighty Power.<\/p>\n

India must be Reborn, because her Rebirth is Demanded by the Future of the
\nWorld<\/i><\/p>\n

India cannot perish, our race cannot become extinct, because among all the
\ndivisions of mankind it is to India that is reserved the highest and the most
\nsplendid destiny, the most essential<\/span>
\nto the future of the human race. It is she who must send forth from herself the
\nfuture religion of the entire world, the Eternal Religion which is to harmonise<\/span> all religion, science and philosophies<\/span> and make mankind one soul. In the sphere of
\nmorality, likewise, it is her mission to purge barbarism (Mlechchhahood<\/span>)
\nout of humanity and to Aryanise<\/span>
\nthe world. In order to do this, she must first re-Aryanise<\/span>
\nherself.
\n       
\nIt was to initiate this great work, the greatest and most wonderful work ever
\ngiven to a race, that Bhagawan<\/span> Rama<\/span>krishna<\/span> came and Vivekananda
\npreached. If the work does not progress as it once promised to do it is because
\nwe have once again allowed the terrible cloud of Tamas<\/span>
\nto settle down on our souls — fear, doubt, hesitation, sluggishness. We have taken,
\nsome of us, the Bhakti<\/span> which poured forth from the
\none and the Jnana<\/span> given us by the other, but from
\nlack of Shakti<\/span>, from the lack of Karma, we have not
\nbeen able to make our Bhakti<\/span> a living thing. May we
\nyet remember that it was Kali, who is Bhawani<\/span>, Mother
\nof strength whom Ramakrishna worshipped and with whom he became one.<\/span>
\n       
\nBut the destiny of India will not wait on the falterings<\/span>
\nand failings of individuals; the Mother demands that men shall<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-66<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\narise to institute Her<\/span> worship and make it universal.<\/p>\n

To Get Strength We<\/span> must Adore the Mother of
\nStrength<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n       
\nStrength then and again strength and yet more strength is the need of our race.
\nBut if it is strength we desire, how shall we gain it if we do not adore the
\nMother of Strength? She demands worship not for Her<\/span>
\nown sake, but in order that She may help us and give Herself to us. This is no
\nfantastic idea, no superstition but the ordinary law of the universe. The gods
\ncannot, if they would, give themselves unasked. Even the Eternal comes not
\nunawares upon men. Every devotee knows by experience that we must turn to Him
\nand desire and adore Him before the Divine Spirit pours in its ineffable beauty
\nand ecstasy upon the soul. What is true of the Eternal is true also of Her<\/span> who goes forth from Him.<\/p>\n

Religion, the True Path<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n        Those<\/span> who, possessed with Western ideas, look askance
\nat any return to the old sources of energy, may well consider a few fundamental
\nfacts.<\/p>\n

The Example of <\/i><\/span>Japan<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n       
\nI..<\/span>  There is no instance in history
\nof a more marvellous<\/span> and sudden up-surging of
\nstrength in a nation than modern Japan. All sorts of theories had been started to account
\nfor the uprising, but now the intellectual Japanese are telling us what were the fountains of that mighty awakening, the sources of
\nthat inexhaustible<\/span>
\nstrength<\/span>. They were drawn from religion. It was the Vedantic<\/span>
\nteachings of Oyomei<\/span> and the recovery of Shintoism<\/span> with its worship of the national Shakti<\/span> of Japan in the image and person of the Mikado that
\nenabled the little island empire to wield the stupendous weapons of Western
\nknowledge and science as lightly and invincibly as Arjun<\/span>
\nwielded the Gandiv<\/span>.<\/p>\n

India<\/i><\/span>‘s Greater Need of Spiritual
\nRegeneration<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

 \n<\/p>\n

\n
\n        II.<\/span> India’s need of drawing from the fountains of religion<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-67<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

is far greater than was ever
\nJapan’s; for the Japanese had only to revitalise<\/span>
\nand perfect a strength that already existed. We have to create strength where
\nit did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with
\nnew hearts, to be born again. There is no scientific process, no machinery for
\nthat. Strength can only be created by drawing it from the internal and
\ninexhaustible reservoirs of the Spirit, from that Adya-Shakti<\/span>
\nof the Eternal which is the fountain of all new existence. To be born again
\nmeans nothing but to revive the Brahma within us, and that is a spiritual
\nprocess — no effort of the body or the intellect can compass it.
\n <\/font><\/p>\n


\nReligion, the Path Natural to the National Mind<\/i>
\n <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


\n       
\nIII.<\/span> All great awakenings in India,
\nall her periods of mightiest<\/span> and most varied vigour<\/span> have
\ndrawn their vitality from the fountain-heads of some deep religious awakening.
\nWherever the religious awakening has been complete and grand, the national<\/span> energy it has created
\nhas been gigantic and puissant; wher<\/span>ever the
\nreligious movement has been narrow or incomplete, the national movement has
\nbeen broken, imperfect or temporary. The persistence of this phenomenon is
\nproof that it is ingrained in the temperament of the race. If you try other and
\nforeign methods we shall either gain our end with tedious slowness, painfully
\nand imperfectly, or we shall not attain it at all. Why abandon the plain way
\nwhich God and the Mother have marked out for you, to choose faint and devious
\npaths of your own treading?<\/p>\n

The Spirit within is the True Source of Strength<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n       
\nIV. The Brahma within, the one and indivisible ocean of
\nspiritual force is that from which all life, material and mental, is drawn.
\nThis is beginning to be as much recognised<\/span> by leading
\nWestern thinkers as it was from the old days by the East. If it be so, then
\nspiritual energy is the source of all other strength. There are the fathomless<\/span> fountain-heads, the deep and inexhaustible<\/span> sources. The shallow<\/span>
\nsurface springs are easier to reach,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nPage-68<\/font><\/p>\n

\n


\nbut they soon run dry. Why not then go deep instead of scratching<\/span> the surface? The result will repay the labour<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Three Things Needful<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n
\n        We<\/span> need three things answering to three fundamental
\nlaws.<\/p>\n

I. Bhakti<\/span> <\/i>– the <\/i>Temple<\/i> of the Mother<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n
\n        We<\/i><\/span> cannot get strength unless we adore the
\nMother of Strength.<\/i><\/p>\n

       
\nWe will therefore build a temple to the white Bhawani<\/span>,
\nthe Mother of Strength, the Mother of India; and we will build it in a place
\nfar from the contamination of modern cities and as yet little trodden by man,
\nin a high and pure air steeped in calm and energy. This temple will be the
\ncentre from which Her wor<\/span>ship is to flow over the
\nwhole country; for there, worshipped among the hills, She will pass like fire
\ninto the brains and hearts of Her worshippers. This also is what the Mother has
\ncommanded<\/span>.<\/p>\n

II. Karma <\/i>– A New Order of Brahmacharins<\/span><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n
\n         
\nAdoration will be dead and ineffective unless it is transmuted into Karma.<\/font><\/p>\n


\n
\n       
\nWe will therefore have a Math with a new Order of Karma Yogins<\/span>
\nattached to the temple, men who have renounced all in order to work for the
\nMother. Some may, if they choose, be complete Sannyasis<\/span>,
\nmost will be Brahmacharins<\/span> who will return to the Grihasthashram<\/span> when their allotted work is finished, but
\nall must accept renunciation.<\/p>\n

. Why?
\nFor Reasons:<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n
\n       
\n1. Because it is only in proportion as we put from us the preoccupation of
\nbodily desires and interests, the sensual gratifications<\/span>, lusts, longings, indolences<\/span>
\nof the material world, that<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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\n

we can return to the ocean of spiritual force
\nwithin us.
\n       
\n2. Because for the development of Shakti<\/span>, entire concentration<\/span> is necessary; the
\nmind must be devoted entirely to its aim as a spear is hurled to its mark; if
\nother cares and<\/span> longings dis<\/span>tract the mind, the spear will be carried out from its straight course and miss
\nthe target. We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti<\/span>
\nis developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the
\npersonality and overflows to fertilise<\/span> the earth. These,
\nhaving the fire of Bhawani<\/span> in their hearts and
\nbrains, will go forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land.<\/p>\n

Ill.<\/i> Jnana<\/span> <\/i>– the Great
\nMessage<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n        Bhakti<\/span> and Karma cannot be perfect and enduring
\nunless
\nthey are based upon Jnana<\/span>.
\n   
\n       
\nThe Brahmacharins<\/span> of the Order will therefore be
\ntaught to fill their souls with knowledge and base their work upon it as upon a
\nrock. What shall be the basis of their knowledge? What but the great so-aham<\/span>, <\/i>the mighty formula of the Vedanta, the ancient
\ngospel which has yet to reach the heart of the nation, the knowledge which when
\nvivified by Karma and Bhakti<\/span> delivers man out of all
\nfear and all weakness.<\/p>\n

The Message of the Mother<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n


\n       
\nWhen, therefore, you ask who is Bhawani<\/span> the Mother,<\/span> She herself answers you, "I am the Infinite
\nEnergy which streams forth from the Eternal in the world and the Eternal in
\nyourselves. I am the Mother of the Universe, the Mother of the Worlds, and for
\nyou who are children of the Sacred
\nLand, Aryabhumi<\/span>, made of her
\nclay and reared by her sun and winds, I am Bhawani<\/span> Bharati<\/span>, Mother of India."
\n       
\nThen if you ask why we should erect a temple to Bhawani<\/span>,
\nthe Mother, hear Her answer, "Because I have commanded it, and because by
\nmaking a centre for the future religion you will be furthering the immediate
\nwill of the Eternal and storing up merit which will make you strong in this
\nlife and great in another. You<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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\n


\nwill be helping to create a nation, to consolidate an age, to Aryanise<\/span> a world. And that nation is your own, that age is
\nthe age of yourselves and your children, that world is<\/span>
\nno fragment of land bounded by seas and hills, but the whole earth with her
\nteeming millions."
\n       
\nCome then, hearken to the call of the
\nMother. She is already in our hearts waiting to manifest Herself, waiting to be
\nworshipped<\/span>,
\n– inactive because the God in us is concealed by Tamas<\/span>,
\ntroubled by Her inactivity, sorrowful because Her children will not call on Her
\nto help them. You who feel Her stirring within you, fling off the black veil of
\nself, break down the imprisoning walls of indolence, help Her each as you feel
\nimpelled, with your bodies or with your intellect or with your speech or with
\nyour wealth or with your prayers and worship, each man according to his
\ncapacity. Draw not back, for against those who were called and heard Her<\/span> not She may well be wroth in the day of Her coming; but
\nto those who help Her advent even a little, how radiant with beauty and
\nkindness will be the face of their Mother.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-71<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nAppendix<\/p>\n

<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n


\n <\/font> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n


\n        <\/font>
\n<\/span>               
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/b>T<\/font>HE<\/font><\/b>
\nwork and rules of the new Order of Sannyasis will be somewhat as follows:<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\nI<\/font><\/i><\/b>.
\nGeneral Rules<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n <\/font> <\/font>
\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/i>1. All who undertake the life of
\nBrahmacharya for the Mother will have to vow themselves to Her service for four
\nyears, after which they will be free to continue to work or return to family
\nlife.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>2. All money received by them in the Mother’s name will go to the
\nMother’s service. For themselves they will be allowed to receive shelter and
\ntheir meals, when necessary, and nothing more.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>3. Whatever they may earn for themselves, e.g., by the publication of
\nbooks, etc., they must give at least half of it to the service of the Mother.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>4. They will observe entire obedience to the Head of the Order and his
\none or two assistants in all things connected with the work or with their
\nreligious life.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>5. They will observe strictly the discipline and rules of Achar and
\npurity, bodily and mental, prescribed by the Heads of the Order.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>6. They will be given periods for rest or for religious improvement
\nduring which they will stop at the Math, but the greater part of the year they
\nwill spend in work outside. This rule will apply to all except the few necessary
\nfor the service of the <\/font><\/p>\n

Temple<\/font><\/p>\n

and those required for the central direction of
\nthe work.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>7. There will be no gradations of rank among the workers, and none must
\nseek for distinction or mere personal fame but practise strength and
\nself-effacement.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

II.<\/i><\/b>
\nWork for the People<\/i><\/p>\n


\n 
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

           
\n<\/span><\/i>8. Their chief work will be that of mass instruction and  <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-72<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\nhelp
\nto the poor and ignorant.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>9. This they will strive to effect in various ways:<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n                       
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>1. Lectures and demonstrations suited to an uneducated intelligence.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n                       
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>2. Classes and nightly schools.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n                       
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>3. Religious teachings.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n                       
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>4. Nursing the sick.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n                       
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>5. Conducting works of charity.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n                       
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>6. Whatever other good work their hands may find to do and the Order
\napproves.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font>
\nIII<\/font><\/i><\/b>.
\nWorks for the Middle Class<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n <\/font> <\/font>
\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/i>10. They will undertake, according as
\nthey may be directed, various works of public utility in the big towns and
\nelsewhere connected especially with the education and religious life and
\ninstruction of the middle classes, as well as with other public needs.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font>
\nIV<\/font><\/i><\/b>.
\nWork with the Wealthy Classes<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n <\/font> <\/font>
\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/i>11. They will approach the zamindars,
\nlandholders and rich men generally, and endeavour \u2014<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n                       
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>1. To promote sympathy between the zamindars and the peasants and heal
\nall discords.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n                        2.
\nTo create the link of a single and living religious spirit and a common passion
\nfor one great ideal between all classes.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n                        3.
\nTo turn the minds of rich men to works of public beneficence and charity to
\nthose in their neighbourhood independent of the hope of reward and official
\ndistinction.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\nV<\/font><\/i><\/b>.
\nGeneral Work for the Country<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n <\/font>            <\/span><\/i>12. <\/i> <\/font>As soon as funds permit,
\nsome will be sent to foreign countries to study lucrative arts and manufactures.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span> 13. They will be as Sannyasis during their period of study, never losing
\nhold of their habits of purity and self-abnegation.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-73<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n14.
\nOn their return they will estabilish with the aid of the Order, factories and
\nworkshops, still living the life of Sannyasis and devoting all their profits to
\nthe sending of more and more such students to foreign countries.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>15. Others will be sent to travel through various countries on foot,
\ninspiring by their lives, behaviour and conversation, sympathy and love for the
\nIndian people in the European nations and preparing the way for their acceptance
\nof Aryan ideals.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>After the erection and consecration of the <\/font><\/p>\n

Temple<\/font>, the development of the work of the Order will be
\npushed on as rapidly as possible or as the support and sympathy of the public
\nallows. With the blessing of the Mother this will not fail us.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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