The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
give it up nor understand it. Art, handicraft,
creative labour, silent work, the task of life is not
given him, only talk, discussion, intellectual
differences, slavery and death. They say the .alien
rule has been the cause of the nation's downfall,
but they do not see the causes of the alien rule
coming in at all. Why has not alien rule penetrated
into the regions of the North Western Frontier,
why has it not gone to Afghanistan yet? Why not
into Siberia? Surely those people are not
intellectually superior to the inhabitants of India.
Even the docile deer refuses to be caught alive; if
you put her into slavery she dies. The lion and the
tiger must be met and shot in the forests, you
cannot break them into slavery. The wise
statesmen of England with their eyes fixed on the
sensed realities of life, have given to the educated
Indians of to-day the semblance of democratic
forms of Government, Legislative Assemblies ad
infinitum to indulge to their heart's content in
intellectual jingle and talk and foam at the mouth
to exhaustion, as is their wont now from centuries
of their glorious culture of inaction. There are
newspapers, conferences, congresses, all talking in
utter delirium for such is the wont of these people.
From the platforms of the abstruse Jain and the
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