Amar Vani

Author(s): Amarmuni
Publisher: Sanmati Gyan Pith Agra

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AMAR VANI
your hand. The sleeping man is as good as dead. Therefore wake up, gird up your loins and embark upon the journey of conquest. He who makes sincere efforts must win in the end.
Fate and Success
Today man is being badly ground under fatalism. Everybody seems to say that he is suffering because he is destined to suffer. What could he do? Luck did not favour him, fate was against him.
This only shows lack of manhood : this holds the black flag of frustration.
Attachment to One's Country
Thousands of men fear, weep and hesitate to go out of their homes. They have the desire to enjoy but lack the initiative necessary for it. They have neither any courage nor zest for life. Some people try to conceal this weakness of theirs behind the garb of love of the country. I would ask them : Which is the country of the sun, the moon and the stars? What countries are not theirs ? For those who want to go ahead, in sun and shade, in summer and winter, the whole world is their own country. For the seekers of knowledge no country is a foreign country. For men of action no country is too distant. The noble sons are not those who, on account of their lethargy, would continue to drink the saline water of their ancestral well. Noble sons are those who drink sweet water, however far they may have to go and whatever difficulties they may have to face for procuring it.