| We must have a hold on the spiritual and | | | | When you have men who are ready to sacrifice |
| secular educations of the nations. Do you | | | | their everything for their country, sincere |
| understand that... The education that you are | | | | to the backbone - when men arise, India will |
| getting now has some good points, but it has | | | | become great in every respect. It is the men |
| a tremendous disadvantage which is so great | | | | that make the country! |
| that the good things are all weighed down. In | | | | |
| the first place it is not a man-making | | | | I consider that the great national sin is the |
| education. It is merely and entirely a | | | | neglect of the masses, and that is one of the |
| negative educations. A negative education or | | | | causes of our downfall. No amount of politics |
| any training that is based on negation, is | | | | would be of any avail until the masses in |
| worse than death. | | | | India are once more well educated, well fed, |
| | | | and well cared for. |
| India I loved before I came away, now the | | | | |
| very dust of India has become holy to me, the | | | | Keep the motto before you: "Elevation of the |
| very air is now tome holy, it is now the holy | | | | masses without injuring their religion." |
| land, the place of pilgrimage, the Tirtha. | | | | |
| | | | Education, education, education alone! |
| If you want to become equal with the | | | | Travelling through many cities of Europe and |
| Englishman of the American, you will have to | | | | observing in them the comforts and educations |
| teach as well as to learn, and you have | | | | of even the poor people,there was brought to |
| plenty yet to teach to the world for | | | | my mind the state of our own poor people' and |
| centuries to come. This has to be done. | | | | I used to shed tears.What made the difference |
| | | | ? Education was the answer I got. Through |
| The degenerations of India came not because | | | | education comes faith in one's own self, and |
| the laws and customs of the ancients were | | | | through faith in one's own self the inherent |
| bad, but because they were not allowed to be | | | | Brahman is waking up in them. While the |
| carried to their legitimate conclusions. | | | | Brahman in us is gradually becoming dormant. |
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