An Excerpt From Vandemataram By Shree Aurobindo Ghosh

Yesterday I was reading this book ,The Vandemataram by Shree Aurobindo Ghosh. I found many thinks interesting .I want to share it with my fellow Indians .So I am going to put a excerpt from the same. This shows what would be our future road to free our beloved motherland from so called social ,cultual as well as political oppression.

Hope you all will definitely enjoy this ....

Editor






THREE THINGS NEEDFUL.
We need three things answering to three fundamental

(I)BHAKTI—THE TEMPLE OF THE MOTHER.


We cannot get strength unless we adore the Mother of strength.
We will therefore build a temple to the white Bhawani, the
mother of strength, the Mother of India; and we will build it in
a place far from the contamination of modern cities and as yet
little trodden by man, in a high and pure air steeped in calm and
energy. This temple will be the centre from which Her worship
is to flow over the whole country; for there worshipped among
the hills, She will pass like fire into the brains and hearts of Her
worshippers. This also is what the Mother has commanded.



II. KARMA—A NEW ORDER OF BRAHMACHARINS.
Adoration will be dead and ineffective unless it is transmuted
into Karma.Writings and a Resolution 1890 – 1906
We will therefore have a math with a new Order of Karma-
Yogins attached to the temple, men who have renounced all
in order to work for the Mother. Some may, if they choose,
be complete Sannyasins, most will be Brahmacharins who will
return to the grihasthasram when their allotted work is finished;
but all must accept renunciation.



WHY? FOR TWO REASONS:—


(1) Because it is only in proportion as we put from us the
pre-occupation of bodily desires and interests, the sensual gratifications,
lusts, longings, indolences of the material world, that
we can return to the ocean of spiritual force within us.

(2) Because for the development of Shakti, entire concentration
is necessary; the mind must be devoted entirely to its aim as a
spear is hurled to its mark; if other cares and longings distract the
mind, the spear will be carried out from its straight course and
miss the target.We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is
developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner
of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth. These,
having the fire of Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go
forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land.



III. JNANA—THE GREAT MESSAGE.
Bhakti and Karma cannot be perfect and enduring unless they
are based upon Jnana.The Brahmacharins of the Order will therefore be
taught to fill their souls with knowledge and base their work upon it as
upon a rock. What shall be the basis of their knowledge? What
but the great so-aham, the mighty formula of the Vedanta, the
ancient gospel which has yet to reach the heart of the nation, the
knowledge which when vivified by Karma and Bhakti delivers
man out of all fear and all weakness.