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and girls learn on other things before they have their minds filled with the spirit of contentment and universal love. Then alone will they love peace, and respect all life.
The other ashramas need not be described in today's address as they are outside our present topic.
It only remains to consider how the rule of Love is to be enforced all over the world. Obviously, no one can be made to love another by a mere order to that effect. Love is one of the most powerful of emotions; and emotions cannot be forced upon anyone, but may be engendered by convincing him of our goodness, or of the need for Love. What is needed is a general education of the right sort. In a word, if we want to make our enemies love us, we must affectionately educate them in the principle of Universal Love. If this is supplemented by the broadcasting of the Truths of Comparative Religion, which are, in reality, one all over the world, the religious differences of men will all be removed at the saine time. If we are really moved by sincerity in this regard, I have no doubt that we shall meet with full success sooner than in any other way. I look to the great Libertyloving American nation to take the lead in this matter to-day. To the Hindus, too, I say: if you wish to enslave the Muhammadan heart, gather together the real precious Gems of Islam, and publish them in millions and let every Muhammadan have a copy of the book. The English can be made to give back the Sacred Land of India easily, in the course of a few years, if you convert them to true Christianity, in the first instance, and make them appreciate the creed of giving the cloak with the coat, when the latter alone is claimed. You need not non-cooperate with them at all. Let sincere love and the true sympathy, born of religious understanding that illumines and illuminates the heart at the same time as it removes the differences of dogmatic origin, endear us to one another; and you will find the cloak being offered with the coat before the World is many years older in age !
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