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prevalent modern conceit that we, Westerners have reached the highest pinnacle of intellectual culture, go to India; Let them go to the land of mystery, which was ancient, when Great Alexander crossed the Indus with his warriors, ancient when Abraham roamed the plains of Chaldae with his cattle, ancient when the first Pyramid was built; and if after a careful study of Hindu life, religion and philosophy, the enquirer is still of opinion that the palm of intellectual advancement belongs to the Western world--- let him lose no time in having his own cranium examined by a competent physician," are now convinced that what they want is spirituality to preserve them as nations and not the physical gains. They are waiting for---they, are eager for the messages of the great saints and sages of India. They want to become thread bare with the spirituality India has developed, hence there should be an inflow of spirituality in the West. Today the whole of the Western world is on a volcano which may,burst any time- go to pieces at any time. I say the one and only condition of an awakened and vigorous Indian National life should be to instill spirituality and our philosophy over the waters. For all these, we Indians should get ourselves thoroughly prepared and that moral and spiritual regeneration should like charity, begin at home, before being converted into an exportable commodity because we shall be judged not by the creeds we profess, the lables we wear, the slogans we shout, but by our sacrificial work and our brotherly outlook
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