Madhya Pradesh Rajya Shiksha Kendra Bhopal

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Arise, Awake !
Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page.
This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson. I have
been taught in my life, strength, it says, strength. O man, be not weak. Stand up
and be strong. Ay, it is the only literature in the world where you find the word
‘Abhih’, fearless, used again and again; in other scriptures in the world is the
adjective either to God or to man. Abhih, fearless ! strength, strength for us.
What we need is strength, who will give us strength ? Therefore, my friends as
one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we
want strength, strength, and every time strength. And the Upanishads are the
great mine of strength.
Arise, awake and stop not till the desired end is reached. Be bold and fear
not. Arise, awake, for your country needs this tremendous sacrifice. It is the
young men that will do it “the young, the energetic, the strong, the well-built,
the intellectual.” Arise, awake the world is calling upon you. Think not that you
are poor, that you have no friends. The moment you fear you are nobody. It is
fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest
of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness
that brings heaven even in a moment.
Therefore, Arise! Awake! Come, the youth of my country, stand by me.
Help me. Go out in the world, to the villages, go across the country and spread
this message of courage ; Arise! Awake! Spread this message to the humblest
and to the mightiest. Talk to the people, plead with the people, inspire the
people, tell them that there is no end to their strength. Tell them that they are
the inheritors of the earth–unleash their creative energies. Let them gird up their
loins and plunge into the battle of life. Let them be man enough. Let them know
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