CHILDREN, ARISE ! ... 1
When you speak from the podium on the spiritual stalwarts of the past, do not resort to debilitating dramatics. Spare your audience such paralysing pulsations. This poison of soft sentimentality masquerading as cultural strength has already taken a heavy toll on a people much prone to such despicable degeneration and need not any further be encouraged if we care at all for future self-survival as a race. Let strength come to our people --- especially the Bengalis who are most susceptible to such sentimental cultural inductions --- through the virile propagation of the Vedanta devoid of the slightest trace of effeminate music and poetry by way of cultural embellishment. Let the pure masculine message resound through the length and breadth of the country. Let it permeate the very atmosphere of our vast continent of peoples in such a way that every child grows up imbibing the spirit of self-reliance tending to the pursuit of the inmost truth lying embedded in the heart of man.
Let not enervating poetry spoil the child's future nor music rendered in an ultra-soft manner paralyse the pulsations of his heart unto succumbing to the desires of the flesh and all that it is heir to. Our children must be allowed to hear the thundering tones of the Upanishads instead of the debilitating currents of the poetry and music of seminal stalwarts of the past whose names, for civility's sake, I refrain from mentioning here. This much and no more --- just the spread of Vivekananda like wildfire, and the rest will take care of themselves.
The nation will rise as children, shorn of contact with the spoilers of their future, grow up strong and illumined to hold its reins. With it will be ushered in the renaissance of our spiritual civilisation, now lying under the cover of this sensate adherence to all that is ephemeral and insubstantial. Come ye all and contribute to this cause of the mighty reversal of the motherland's fallen fortunes.
Vande Mataram !
Written by Sugata Bose
When you speak from the podium on the spiritual stalwarts of the past, do not resort to debilitating dramatics. Spare your audience such paralysing pulsations. This poison of soft sentimentality masquerading as cultural strength has already taken a heavy toll on a people much prone to such despicable degeneration and need not any further be encouraged if we care at all for future self-survival as a race. Let strength come to our people --- especially the Bengalis who are most susceptible to such sentimental cultural inductions --- through the virile propagation of the Vedanta devoid of the slightest trace of effeminate music and poetry by way of cultural embellishment. Let the pure masculine message resound through the length and breadth of the country. Let it permeate the very atmosphere of our vast continent of peoples in such a way that every child grows up imbibing the spirit of self-reliance tending to the pursuit of the inmost truth lying embedded in the heart of man.
Let not enervating poetry spoil the child's future nor music rendered in an ultra-soft manner paralyse the pulsations of his heart unto succumbing to the desires of the flesh and all that it is heir to. Our children must be allowed to hear the thundering tones of the Upanishads instead of the debilitating currents of the poetry and music of seminal stalwarts of the past whose names, for civility's sake, I refrain from mentioning here. This much and no more --- just the spread of Vivekananda like wildfire, and the rest will take care of themselves.
The nation will rise as children, shorn of contact with the spoilers of their future, grow up strong and illumined to hold its reins. With it will be ushered in the renaissance of our spiritual civilisation, now lying under the cover of this sensate adherence to all that is ephemeral and insubstantial. Come ye all and contribute to this cause of the mighty reversal of the motherland's fallen fortunes.
Vande Mataram !
Written by Sugata Bose
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