SWAMI RAMA TIRTHA
A person can never realize his unity with God, the All, except when unity with the Whole Nation throbs in every fibre of his frame. Let every son of India stand for the service of the Whole, seeing that the whole of India is embodied in every son. One’s personal and local Dharma must never be placed higher than the National Dharma. The keeping of right proportions only secures felicity. Doing anything to promote the well-being of the Nation is serving the Cosmic Powers, devas, or gods. To realize God, have the Sannyasa spirit, i.e. entire renunciation of self-interest, ninking the little self absolutely at one with the great Self of Mother India. To realize God or Bliss, have the Brahmana spirit, dedicating your intellect to thoughts for the advancement of the Nation. To realize Bliss, you have to possess the Kshattriya spirit, readiness to lay down your life for the country at every second. To realize God, you must have the true Vaishya spirit, holding your property only in trust for the Nation. But to realize Bliss and Rama, in that world or this, and to give a living concrete objective reality to your abstract subjective Dharma, you have to work ibis Sannyasa spirit, Brahmana, Kshattriya and Vaishya heroism through your hands and feet in the manual labour, once delegated to the holy Shudras. The Sannyasa spirit must be wedded to the Pariah hands. This is the only way today. Wake up! Wake up! There is but one remedy and one disease. Nations can be cured and made free by the Life of Law. Individuals can be made saints and higher than gods by the same. In renouncing the sense of possession, in adopting the spirit of Vedantic renunciation lies the salvation of nations as well as of individuals. There is no other way The
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