What we need is to build our country on a war-footing. Religion that lulls us to sleep we have had enough. Now let the dynamism of Vivekananda speak in real earnest in our actions and not passive piety which is the trait of weaklings who profess the leonine soul in a docile way. When we suffer, we redress the issue with energy, but when the nation suffers, we issue pious proclamations of surrender of her destiny to the Divine. This will not do any more for it is hypocrisy of an abject kind. Therefore, be up and doing, brethren, if you are children of Ramakrishna and get to rebuilding our Motherland. Remember, Ramakrishna himself never gave in to passive piety but shook the citadels of the heavens in his bid to realize the Absolute in this world of phenomenal dreams. So, give up this vain attachment to the vanities of terrestrial life that will last but two days and then will be heard no more as you shall be rendered unto nought by the inexorable flow of time that will take you unto the dust whence you had arisen. Follow the twin principles of the Master, abstinence from lust and gold and help build the many welfare institutions of the Ramakrishna Mission. Unto you lies the destiny of the nation, my countrymen, and I fervently hope that you will acquit yourself well. India belongs to all of you irrespective of denominational differences and the Motherland seeks the service of each of her children, blessed and beloved as they are to her. Jai Hind!
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