ADDRESS TO THE YOUTH OF INDIA

It is an imperative today that you all should take upon your shoulders the burden of India and take her on to higher levels of excellence through your dedicated service to her cause. Swamiji's 'Triple H Formula' should be your guide -- 'H' for heart, 'H' for head and 'H' for hand. Feel for your countrymen with all your heart, feel their misery, their suffering and their pain intensely, then seek out solutions with your head to address these issues and finally, having attained to an understanding of the problems and having discovered their possible solutions, devote yourselves heart and soul to executing action programmes to put these into effect. Then and then alone will you be fit to be called Swamiji's children.

O youth of India, do you not see that youthful energy and enthusiasm alone can override the Himalayan hurdles that thwart the progress of your motherland? Will you not stand up as heroes to deliver death blows to all that impede the growth of India? Must you not defend the sovereignty and integrity of India and set her up on the perennial path of peace and prosperity which is her age-old rightful status, and, even beyond that, will you fail to imbibe the glorious spirituality that is your national inheritance and for which you stand as trustees to the wide world athirst for such knowledge as has been in the safekeeping of India for ages? Youth of India, answer.

But for the shouldering of all these heavy responsibilities you need to broaden your shoulders a bit through character-building and practice of continence. Purity preserves vitality and builds one up to becoming a dynamo of spiritual power. This purity you must attain to by reading 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' and 'The Life of Swami Vivekananda by his Eastern and Western Disciples', and by absorbing the lessons thereof. Purity, selflessness and love for the nation will make ideal men and women out of you. 'Then will come power' and you will work wonders for your motherland.

To such a dawn, my friends,
I send these lines tonight,
They'll waft through the starry skies
To welcome you with the light.