THE CLARION CALL
Swami Vivekananda categorically affirms that in his extensive travels through the Himalayas he came across no secret societies as is the claim of mystery-mongers and further avers that such secrecy finds no place in the Vedas which are of the nature of openness, light and strength. He continues that sleight-of-hand tricks are not necessary for the presentation of the grand truths of the soul, and magic, esoterics and induction of weakening, paralysing ideas destroy the capacity of the common man to think vigorously and leads to the debility and despicable degeneration of the masses, destroying the seeds of civilisation.
Miracle-mongering, thus, has no place in the dharma of the Hindus and superstitious affirmations of Himalayan secrecy neither finds place in it. The thunderous rolls of the Vedic mantras, sounding and resounding through the entire landmass of Aryavarta, will dispel these delusions and bring to the children of the Rishis the pristine spiritual culture of their ancestors whence they will find strength and succour to rise rejuvenated, a renascent civilisation, fit not only to defend themselves as a people but to conquer the world with these glorious ideas of the Vedas.
Swamiji, therefore, exhorts his countrymen, his beloved brethren, his spiritual children who are the rightful inheritors of these stupendous truths of the Atman, to rise resplendent in the realisation of the Self and, thence, to go forth into the wide world, preaching these pristine principles for which the world for ages is thirsting, but he warns us all not to carry one word of superstition beyond the borders of India. He repudiates all association of such superstition with religion and exhorts us to rid ourselves of all such self-hypnosis through the study of the grand language of our ancestors, the divine Sanskrit, whose very utterance sends strength coursing through the veins and makes of men gods. The dissemination of Sanskrit on the national scale will bring culture to the people, connection with its heritage and a self-regenerative pride which will raise India and the world.
Written by Sugata Bose
Swami Vivekananda categorically affirms that in his extensive travels through the Himalayas he came across no secret societies as is the claim of mystery-mongers and further avers that such secrecy finds no place in the Vedas which are of the nature of openness, light and strength. He continues that sleight-of-hand tricks are not necessary for the presentation of the grand truths of the soul, and magic, esoterics and induction of weakening, paralysing ideas destroy the capacity of the common man to think vigorously and leads to the debility and despicable degeneration of the masses, destroying the seeds of civilisation.
Miracle-mongering, thus, has no place in the dharma of the Hindus and superstitious affirmations of Himalayan secrecy neither finds place in it. The thunderous rolls of the Vedic mantras, sounding and resounding through the entire landmass of Aryavarta, will dispel these delusions and bring to the children of the Rishis the pristine spiritual culture of their ancestors whence they will find strength and succour to rise rejuvenated, a renascent civilisation, fit not only to defend themselves as a people but to conquer the world with these glorious ideas of the Vedas.
Swamiji, therefore, exhorts his countrymen, his beloved brethren, his spiritual children who are the rightful inheritors of these stupendous truths of the Atman, to rise resplendent in the realisation of the Self and, thence, to go forth into the wide world, preaching these pristine principles for which the world for ages is thirsting, but he warns us all not to carry one word of superstition beyond the borders of India. He repudiates all association of such superstition with religion and exhorts us to rid ourselves of all such self-hypnosis through the study of the grand language of our ancestors, the divine Sanskrit, whose very utterance sends strength coursing through the veins and makes of men gods. The dissemination of Sanskrit on the national scale will bring culture to the people, connection with its heritage and a self-regenerative pride which will raise India and the world.
Written by Sugata Bose
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