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deception and infidelity.
To be sure, there are many grand people in this country who are earnestly seeking truth and true spirituality. But these are turning to the ancient literature of India to find it. The only kernal of truth contained in Christianity evidently came originally from India. Light must come to us from India again, but India must first find her lost gems and polish them that they may shine for the whole world, as they did in the distant past.
My brother, I could give my life for India for the people who ever seemed my own people, if by doing so they could be brought to the standard of their former spiritual greatness but to reach this, India must begin at the root. Learned Hindus must be less selfish and less indifferent to the requirements of the times. It is time your ancient scriptures abound, polish them and bring them clean, fresh and pure to the people. The very atmosphere of the present time demands that all educated Hindus, all Aryans, whether they are Hindus, Buddhists or Jains, should rise en masse, ignoring their differences of sect opinions, and unite as brothers for the uplifting of poor fallen India - I mean India spiritually fallen, and this can be done only through education. Why are Hindus indifferent to the needs of their ignorance ? Why permit foreigners to teach your ignorant masses a begoted creed? Surely, the Hindus are to blame. Should they rise and demand education for the masses, and offer true spiritual teaching to the masses, they could reverse the many wrongs that now exist.
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My brother, you know my love for India. Will you not urge the men to seek the cause of India's fallen state? Education must be given to the women who are to be future mothers
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