We must have a hold on the spiritual and secular educations of the nations. Do you understand that... The education that you are getting now has some good points, but it has a tremendous disadvantage which is so great that the good things are all weighed down. In the first place it is not a man-making education. It is merely and entirely a negative educations. A negative education or any training that is based on negation, is worse than death.

India I loved before I came away, now the very dust of India has become holy to me, the very air is now tome holy, it is now the holy land, the place of pilgrimage, the Tirtha.

If you want to become equal with the Englishman of the American, you will have to teach as well as to learn, and you have plenty yet to teach to the world for centuries to come. This has to be done.

The degenerations of India came not because the laws and customs of the ancients were bad, but because they were not allowed to be carried to their legitimate conclusions.

When you have men who are ready to sacrifice their everything for their country, sincere to the backbone - when men arise, India will become great in every respect. It is the men that make the country!

I consider that the great national sin is the neglect of the masses, and that is one of the causes of our downfall. No amount of politics would be of any avail until the masses in India are once more well educated, well fed, and well cared for.

Keep the motto before you: Elevation of the masses without injuring their religion.

Education, education, education alone! Travelling through many cities of Europe and observing in them the comforts and educations of even the poor people,there was brought to my mind the state of our own poor people and I used to shed tears.What made the difference ? Education was the answer I got. Through education comes faith in ones own self, and through faith in ones own self the inherent Brahman is waking up in them. While the Brahman in us is gradually becoming dormant.

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