From: rkrithiv@hopi.intel.com (Ramamurthy Krithivas)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Swami Vivekananda : Hindu Nationalism
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:06:30 GMT
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Swami Vivekananda: Hindu Nationalism

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. 

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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