myriad forces in India have no resultant pressure, being nullified by being pitched one against the other. Is it not a pity? What is the reason? Because each party concentrates its attention on the faults of its neighbour. 0 disrespectable Respectability! There can be no union and love in a country, so long as; you keep emphasizing each other’s faults. The secret of the successful art of living lies in developing the mother’s heart to whom all her children are lovely, whether big or babes. Mother is the word which brings the deepest feeling from the soul of a Hindu. Almost every town, stream, hill, stone or animal is personified and sanctified in India, is it not high time now to deify the entire motherland, and let every partial manifestation inspire us with devotion to the Whole? White, towering temples and stone Vishnus, erected by you, will not allay the fever of your heart… Worship, worship the hungry Narayanas and the labouring Vishnus of the country. Instead of wasting the precious ghee into the mouth of artificial fire, why not offer even hard crusts of dry bread to the Gastric fire which is eating up the flesh and bones of millions of starving but living Narayanas? The highest gift you can confer on a man is to offer him knowledge. You may feed a man today; he will be just as hungry tomorrow. Teach him an art and you enable him to earn his living all his life. Indian charity does not trouble itself so much about the starving labouring classes (Shudras), but it takes the charitable donors straight to heaven by feeding the over-satiated idlers, in the Store Houses of God, the high representatives of Religion Petrified. The weak-minded Yatri who pays a pittance to the persistent beggar drone may compliment himself on having done something
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