Can any of you take a pledge here on this auspicious New Year Day that you will dedicate your life for the uplift of the masses, a cause for which Swamiji lived and died ? Then I call you valorous indeed if you can make a sacrifice of your lives for the salvation of the teeming millions daily dying miserable deaths. Man indeed I call you if you can forego the ephemeral pleasures of life and serve this moving mass of humanity sinking slowly but surely in the vortex of ignorance and poverty. Believe it my friends, your renunciation, your sacrifice will not go in vain, it never does. It is the only hope, the last lingering light for countless souls who have forgotten that they too are men, who have never known that they too are the inheritors of the highest knowledge, immortality, bliss, who have resigned their lot to the cruel hand of fate knowing not where to find succour. These are your sisters and brothers who suffer that you may lead lives of relative ease and enjoyment. Does it not behove you brother to deeply reflect on this and take a stand whether you will wallow in the dust of desire for the rest of your life or whether you will take up the Cause and live a glorious life founded on truth and purity that you may be a fitting instrument in the hands of the Divine for the redemption of these forgotten souls ?
Shubha Nababarsha to all my brethren wherever they be ! May Swamiji bless you all !
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