| Come, be man. Come out of your narrow holes and | | | | those like Somnath of Gujarat will teach you volumes |
| have a look abroad. See how nations are on the | | | | of wisdom., will give you a keener insight into the |
| march. Do you love man ? Do you love your country ? | | | | history of the race than any amouflt of books. Mark |
| Then come, let us struggle for higher and better things. | | | | now these temples bear the marks of a hundred |
| Look not back, no not even if you see the dearest and | | | | attacks and a hundred regenerations, continually |
| nearest cry. Look not back, but forward ! | | | | destroyed and continually springing up out of the ruins, |
| With all my love for India,and with all my patriotism and | | | | rejuvenated and strong as ever! That is the national |
| venerations for the ancients,I cannot but think that we | | | | mind, that is the national life-current. |
| have to learn many things from other nations. ... We | | | | For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote |
| cannot do without the world outside India; it was our | | | | -this, our great Mother India.Let all other vain gods |
| foolishness that we thought we could,and we have | | | | disappear for the time from our minds.This is the only |
| paid the penalty by about a thousand years of slavery. | | | | god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere His |
| That we did not go out to compare things with other | | | | hands, everywhere His feet, everywhere His ears; He |
| nations, did not mark the workings that have been all | | | | covets everything." All other gods are sleeping. What |
| around us, has been the one great cause of this | | | | vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship |
| degradation of the Indian mind. We have paid the | | | | the god that we see all round us, the Virat? when we |
| penalty; let us do it no more. | | | | have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all |
| Some Of these old temples of Southern India,and | | | | other gods. |