{"id":579,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=579"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:00","slug":"56-mother-india-vol-08-translations-volume-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/08-translations-volume-08\/56-mother-india-vol-08-translations-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-56_Mother India.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n <\/span>Mother India*<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

India, my India, where first human eyes awoke to heavenly light, All
\nAsia’s holy place of pilgrimage, great Motherland of might! World-mother, first
\ngiver to humankind of philosophy and sacred lore, Knowledge thou gav’st to man.
\nGod-love, works, art, religion’s opened door.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

India, my India, who dare call thee a thing for pity’s grace today?
\nMother of wisdom, worship, works, nurse of the spirit’s inward ray!<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

To thy race, 0 India, God himself once sang the Song of Songs
\ndivine, Upon thy dust Gouranga danced and drank God-love’s mysterious wine,
\nHere the Sannyasin Son of Kings lit up compassion’s deathless sun, The youthful
\nYogin, Shankar.<\/u> taught thy gospel: "I and He are one."<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

India, my India, who dare call thee a thing for pity’s grace today?
\nMother of wisdom, worship, works, nurse of the spirit’s inward ray!<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Art thou not she, that India, where the Aryan Rishis chanted high<\/span><\/p>\n

The Veda’s deep and dateless hymns and are we not their progeny ?
\nArmed with that great tradition we shall walk the earth with heads unbowed:<\/span><\/p>\n

0 Mother, those who bear that glorious past may well be brave and
\nproud.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

India, my India, who dare call thee a thing for pity’s grace today?
\nMother of wisdom, worship, works, nurse of the spirit’s inward ray!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

0 even with all that grandeur dwarfed or turned to bitter loss and
\nmaim, How shall we mourn who are thy children and can vaunt thy mighty name?
\nBefore us still there floats the ideal of those splendid days of gold:<\/span><\/p>\n

A new world in our vision wakes. Love’s India we shall rise to
\nmould.<\/span><\/p>\n

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India, my India, who dare call thee a thing for pity’s grace today?
\nMother of wisdom. Worship, works, nurse of the spirit’s inward ray!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Dwijendralal Roy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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