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and again looks to India for inspiration and guidance, why is it so > 'cause it is the gentle dew that falla unseen and unheard and yet brings into blossom the fairest of roses, has been the contribution of India to the thought of the world silent, uopercieved yet omnipresent in its effect, It has today revolutionised the thought of the world. India with her best culture, its own religion, its own philosophies and its unique leaders, it may very well be the prvot on which the history of Asia, nay 1 of the whole world swings.
This is the time for India to overlow the world with its spintuality and philosophy. Love must conquer hatred, materialism can never conquer miseries and materialism itself. "Armies," as Swamy Vivekanand puts it, "when they attempt to conquer armies only multiply and make brutes of humanity.' Today the Westerners have searched every comer of the world and have found no respite. They have drunk deep of the cup of pleasure and found it vanity. The Westerners, going through the words of Dr. Heinrich Hensoldt of Germany: "Apart from the material progress, or more outward developement which the Hindus had already attaunded in times which we are apt to call pre historic as evidenced by the splendour of their buildings and the lusunes and refinements of their civilisation in general, it would seem as if this greatest and most subtle of Aryan races had developed an inter life even more strange' and wonderful; let those who are imbued with
