{"id":775,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=775"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:19","slug":"15-more-lessons-from-comilla-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/27-supplement-volume-27\/15-more-lessons-from-comilla-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"-15_More Lessons from Comilla.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

\n
\n
\n
\nMore<\/span>
\n<\/span>Lessons
\nfrom Camilla<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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

\n
\n                           <\/span><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/span>T<\/font><\/b>HE fresh disturbances in Tipperah are only so
\nmany more
\narguments for an organised League of Mutual 
\n<\/span>peference
\nthroughout Bengal. Mere individual or local self-protection will not meet the
\nexigencies of the situation. In the towns where the
\neducated community is strong and compact and there rare
\na number of active and spirited young men, the nationalist ,may be able to hold
\nhis own against riot and outrage, official or 
\n<\/span>unofficial, though even here help from outside may become increasingly
\nnecessary; but in villages where the educated class is not represented, the need
\nfor immediate assistance from outside is imperative. The educated classes have
\nnow in Swaraj
\nan idea for which men
\ncan fight and, if need be, die without fear and even with joy; and the
\npossession of such an idea gives a moral  <\/span>strength
\nwhich more than compensates for inferiority in numbers. But we have not had time
\nas yet to instil this sentiment deeply into the
\nhearts of the masses. If we are to carry the peasant and the
\nshop-keeper with us, we must give them a ready support and protection against
\nattack which will accustom them to look up to their educated compatriots as
\ntheir natural protectors and 1eaders. Otherwise
\nthe sense of helplessness under such organised oppression as is being practised
\nin Comilla will be too strong for
\nthe nascent spirit of patriotism and we shall be seriously hampered in our
\nfuture work. We must have such an organisation that the first news of such
\nincidents may be taken as a cry fur help and sufficient assistance proceed to
\nthe scene of action without a moment’s delay. In the stirring address of the
\nPresident of the Berhampur Conference, defence was included as a necessary part
\nof our programme in Bengal. We look to the young men to lay the foundations for
\nsuch an organised League. The physical training and self-defence movement which
\nwe started three or four years ago has borne admirable fruit, and we rejoice to
\nfind its wisdom so entirely justified; but it must now be given a far wider and
\nmore thorough realisation and become national<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n


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and
\nuniversal instead of local and sporadic. Wherever ten or twelve young men can
\ngather together let them form an institution, however small and unpretentious,
\nfor the training of the body, discipline and the habit of physical courage and
\nactivity. Let them put themselves in communication with similar bodies near
\nthem, form local leagues and send out preachers and organisers to create such
\ninstitutions in neighbouring places where they do not exist. Let every youth who
\nis not an active member of these institutions and leagues be looked down on as
\ndeficient in manhood, patriotism and his duty as a citizen. In this way the
\nfoundation may be laid for a National League of Defence. Older men may give
\nideas and advice; it is the young who in these days of revolution must lead in
\naction; for on their foreheads is the light of the new dawn and theirs are the
\nmillion arms of the  <\/span>awakened
\nMother. The work to which we call them is not less pressing and urgent than the
\nmaintenance of Boycott and Swadeshi; for without it neither Swadeshi nor Boycott
\ncan endure. <\/p>\n

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

 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Bande
\nMataram, <\/span><\/i>April
\n2, 1907
\n<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


\n <\/font>Page-48
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