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wanatamasan The Jaina Philosophy recollections of Shakuntala and Urvashi rise in the minds of Hondo scholars with the name of that prince in whose court Kalidasa flourished. Hindu astronomers cherish the memory of that great patron of Varaha-Mihira, and Hindu lexicographers honor the name of the potentate who honoured Amara-Sinha, and as if the true claims of glory were not enough, a hundred tales familiarize his name to the illiterate and simple, so that in this sense history does repeat itself and teaches that after all nations are preserved, regenerated and liberated to higher planes of realization, achievement and prosperity in material and spiritual things, by human embodiments of those divine forces which are universal, and which, when rightly understood, are answerable for human destinies.
You Americans are living in the realization of the ancient dreams of the philosophers of India and the East. The means of the growth and human uplifting are great here. Our prophets and philosophers of the East have laid the foundations of them and it is now for you to build on those foundations. This is the message of India, which she delivers to you and through you to the whole American nation. With this message, also, come more than simple greeting and recognition. The young American nation is in a condition to rightly appreciate the treasures of the ancient lore and sublime philosophy of India and the Orient, because, intellectually considered, this is virgin soil, and with the message which I bring to America comes also the fraternal invitation to you to study and understand this philosophy. - The key to the archives of our ancient history and lore is placed in confidence in your lap, and you are invited to unlock for yourselves, with our permission and co-operation, this vast storehouse which, contains the treasures of our ancient philosophy and achievements. Why? Because you are young; because you are studious, unbiased, free - and these are the conditions which answer for receptivity.
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