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SECTION -6SECTION - 6DEFENDING INDIAThis is the ancient land wherewisdom made its home before it wentinto any other country, the sameIndia whose influx of spirituality isrepresented, as it were, on thematerial plane, by rolling rivers likeoceans, where the eternalHimalayas, rising tier above tierwith their snowcaps, looks as it wereinto the very mysteries of heaven.Here is the same India whose soilhas been trodden by the feet of thegreatest sages that ever lived. Herefirst sprang up inquiries into thenature of man and into the internalworld. Here first arose the doctrinesof the immortality of the soul, theexistence of a supervising God, animmanent God in nature and in man,and here the highest ideals ofreligion and philosophy haveattained their culminating points.-Swami VivekanandaSAMARTHA BHARATA 277