A CLARION CALL TO STUDENTS ... 1

I urge you all to study hard and excel in your lives which ought to be consecrated to the service of humanity. Our Motherland needs premier souls who shall dedicate themselves to nation-building and thus usher in a golden age of humanity. This is the hour and let it not pass by in idle, decadent pursuits which debilitate the nervous system and bring about the utter ruination of character. Live pure lives full of sincere aspiration and effort that your future may be secure and with it the future of the world about you. The children of the world are humanity's best hopes and I exhort you to realise this that upon your present actions lies the future of the world, upon your deeds of the day will be built tomorrow's citadel. Therefore, take guard and onward with the mission of life-building, character-formation and world-welfare, my children. Humanity hangs by a hinge. On one side is immortality, infinite consciousness and bliss and on the other is death, desolation and disaster, oblivion. Choose now the path that is for the wise to follow and discard decadent habits fostered through tradition or personal pollution. Give up vain frivolity and immerse yourselves in the serious pursuit of overcoming life's greater challenges. Excellence is the motto, will-force the means, silent study and meditative retirement the method. Then will come the power to co-operate and co-ordinate effort for collective well-being and organisational efficiency. Upon individual and collective effort of a fine order does the fulfilment of the greater destiny of the human race depend. My young friends, now no hour of rest. The river floweth by, slake your thirst by drinking of its waters before the moment perishes and you are left stranded, marooned in your Isle of 'I'. Take charge of your life and leave nothing to fatalistic fascinations. This is the command coming down from the highest heavens like rushing torrents of the Ganga onto its Himalayan heights. Fulfil the will of the Rishis who were the architects of human destiny in the ages gone by, men who had not hazarded opinions or theories based on half-baked realisations but sages who had transcended the limitations of the senses and having ascended the pinnacle of spiritual realisation, had arrived at their conclusions about the destiny of humankind and the ways and the means to achieving it. And this is their dictum---'Be strong, be pure and conquer Nature, external and internal.'