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