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- From: rkrithiv@hopi.intel.com (Ramamurthy Krithivas)
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- Subject: Swami Vivekananda : Hindu Nationalism
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:06:30 GMT
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- Article from: Tattva Darsana
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- Swami Vivekananda: Hindu Nationalism
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- If Sri Aurobindo declared in his Uttarpara speech that "Sanatana
- Dharma is India Nationalism", it was the unfailing inspiration that
- he received from his predecessor, Swami Vivekananda, who did even
- hesitate an iota to swear his loyalty to his proud heritage of
- Hindu nationalism. Swamiji says: "When a man has begun to be ashamed
- of his ancestors, the end has come. Here am I, one of the least of
- the Hindu race, yet proud of my race, proud of my ancestors. I am
- proud to call myself a Hindu. I am proud that I am one of your
- unworthy servants. I am proud, I am a coutryman of yours, you the
- descendants of the most glorious rishis the world ever saw.". He
- called out to the nation: "O India, forget not that the ideal of thy
- womanhood is Sita,Savithri, Damayanthi; forget not that the God thou
- worship is the great ascetic of ascetics, the all-renouncing Sankara,
- the Lord of Uma, forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life
- are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual happiness; forget
- not that thou art born as a sacrifice to the Mother's altar". His
- call was a direct call to the youth of the nation to offer their lives
- at the altar of the Motherland to liberate her and to install her on
- the pedestal of loka guru". "Liberty is the possession of the brave",
- he declared and called upon the valiant youth of nation to use sana,
- dana, bheda and danda - the four weapons to conquer the enemy.
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- The fact that Swami Vivekananda directly influenced the Indian
- revolutionary movement in the cause of achieving freedom is borne out
- of the statement that Mother Sarada Devi made sometime after the passing
- away of the Swami: "Had Naren been living now he would have been in
- Company's jail". The renowned biographer of Swami Vivekananda says:
- "If the generation that followed saw, three years after Swami's death,
- the revolt of Bengal, the prelude to the great movement of Tilak and
- Gandhi, if India today has definitely taken part in the collective
- action of organised masses, it is due to the initial shock to the
- mighty Lazarus, come forth".
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- Krithi.
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