A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"558 EDUCATION ON NATIONAL LINES.secular knowledge to our people ; they must carryboth as*"e have been already carrying religion from door to door.Let us along with religion carry secular education fromdoor to door. That can be easily done. Then the workwill extend through these bands of teachtis and ^reachers,and gradually we shall have similar temples in othercentres, until we have covered the whole of India. Thatis the plan. It may appear gigantic. But that isneeded. You may ask where is the money. Money isuotneeded. Money is nothing. For the last twelve years ofmy life I did not know where the next meal * .vould coi_3from, but money and everything I want must come, because they are my slaves and not I theirs ; money andeverything else must come. Must, that is the W4vd.Where are the men ? That is the question. I have toldyou what we have become. Where are the men ? Youngmen of Madras, my hope is in you. Do you respond tothe call of your nation ? Each one of you has a gloriousfuture ifyou dare believe me. Have the tremendous faithin yourselves which I had when 1 was a child and I amworking it out. Have that faith, each one, in yourself,that eternal power is lodged in every one of our souls.You will revive the whole of India. Aye, we will go toevery country under the sun and our ideas must be withinthe next ten years a component of the many forces thatare working to make up every nation in the world. Wemust enter into the life of every race inside India and outside India ;we will we *k. That is how it should be. Iwant young men. Sa) the Vedas, It is the strong,the healthy, of sharp and intellect young that will reachthe Lord." This is th< timeto decide your futurewith this energy of youth, when you have not beenworked out, not become f*-ded, but still in the freshness and