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higher beauty and fitness which will be most powerful to correct the lower The art of lite must
he understood a more magnificent terms and must subordinate its more fatal lements to the service of the master civilizers, Love and Thou ht.
ANANDAMATH.
CHAPTER X.
Mohendra saw the obber as he spng bedding tem In wonder he ked Whe von Bhavananda replied "Ware the Children."
What is meant by the Children!" asked Mohenda, Whose children
are you
Bhuda replied, "The children of the Mothe
Gold Mohend, "Do the children worship their mother with theft and looting What kind of filial piets that w
We do not thieve and loot," answered Bhavananda.
Why, just now you plundered the carts."
"Is that theft and looting Whose money did we plunder?" Why, the ruler's."
The ruler's! What right has he to the money, that he should take
it "
It is his royal share of the wealth of the country."
Who rules and does not protect his kingdom, is he a ruler at all
I see you will be blown one day from the cannon's month by the supoys."
I have seen your ascal sepoys more than once: I dealt with some today too."
"Oh, that was not a real experience of them; one day you will got it."
Suppose it is so, a man can only die unce."
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and even he will rise with lifted hood. Can nothing overthrow your patience then? Look at all the countries you know, Magadh, Mithila, Kashi, Kanchi, Dehli, Cashmere, in what other country do men from starvation cat grass? eat thorns? eat the earth white ants have gathered? eat the creepers of the forest? where else are men forced to eat dogs and jackals, yes, even the bodies of the dend where else can men have no case of heart besause of fear for the money in their chests, the household gods on their sacred seats, the young women in their homes, the unborn children in the women's wombs Ay, here they rip open the womb and tear out the child. In every country the relation withi the ruler is that of protector and protected, but what protection do our Mussulman rulers give us? Our religion is destroyed, our caste defiled, our honour polluted, our family honor shamed and now our very lives are going the same way. Unless we drive out these vicebesodden longbeards, the [finduism of the Hindu is doomed."
"But what profit is there in going out of one's way to die?"
Mohendra Singha," said Bhavamanda, "I had a kind of idea that you were a man worth the name, but now I see you are what all the rest of them are, merely the death of ghee and railk, Look yon, the snako crawls on the ground and is the lowest of living things, but put your on the state's neck
"How will you drive them out " asked Mohendra.
"Take this first;" said Bhaba nanda, an Englishman will not run away even from the certainty of death. A Mussalman runs as soon as he perspires ard roams in search ot a glass of sherbet. Next take this. that the Englishman has tenacity. if he takes up a thing, he carries it through. Dont care, is a Mussalman's motto. He is giving his life for a hire, and yet the soldiers dont get their pay. Then the last thing is courage. A cannon ball can fall only in one place, not in ten: so there is no necessity for tw hundred men to run from one cannon ball. But. one ennnou ball will send a Mussu'man with his whole clan running, whil a whole clan of cannon balls will not put even a solitary Englishman to flight."
Have you all these virtues asked Mohendra.
No," said Bhava-nanda, Tot virtues dont fall from the nearest tree. You have to practise them
Do you practise them?"
Do you not see we are San nyasins? It is for this practice that we have innde renunciation. When our work is done, when our training is complete, we hall again become householders. also have wives and daughters."
We
You have abandoned all the ties, but have you been able overcome Maya?"
"Are they all Children" "They are all Children "
"The Children are not allowed to speak falsely and I will not make s "How many more are ther: of lying boast to you. Who has th them " strength to conquer Maya? Wheat a man says, I have conquer ed Maya' either he never had any feeling or he is making a vain bous! We have not conquered Maya, w are only keeping our vow. Will you
be one of the Children?"
"By blows."
"You will drive them out single handed With one slap, I suppose." The robber sang: "Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands, When the swords flash out in
seventy million hands And seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful nanue from shore to shore?"
But" said Mohendra, "I see you are alone. "
Why, just now you saw two hundred men."
Thousands like these, and by degrees there will be yet more. ! "Even if there were ten or twenty thousand, will you be able with that number to take the throne from the Mussulman ?"
"Can Englishmen and Bengale be compared?"
"Why not? What does physical strength matter? Greater physical strength will not make the bullet fly farther."
What army had the English at Plassy
"Then," asked Mohendra, "why is there such a difference between an Englishman and a Mussul man?"
"Until I get news of my wife and daughter, I can notsay anything."
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