It Is Not Peace That I Seek,

You Desire A Popular Art? Begin By Having A "people" Whose Minds Are Liberated, A People Not Crushed By Misery And Ceaseless Toil, Not Brutalized By Every Superstition And Every Fanaticism, A People Of Itself, And Victor In The Fight That Is Being Waged Today.

The Greatest Human Ideal Is The Great Cause Of Bringing Together The Thoughts Of Europe And Asia; The Great Soul Of India Will Topple Our World.

His (swami Vivekananda) Words Are Great Music, Phrases In The Style Of Beethoven, Stirring Rhythms Like The March Of Handel Choruses. I Cannot Touch These Sayings Of His, Scattered As They Are Through The Pages Of Books, At Thirty Years' Distance, Without Receiving A Thrill Through My Body Like An Electric Shock. And What Shocks, What Transports, Must Have Been Produced When In Burning Words They Issued From The Lips Of The Hero!

History Furnishes To Politics All The Arguments That It Needs, For The Chosen Cause.

Let Us Return To Our Eagle's Nest In The Himalayas. It Is Waiting For Us, For It Is Ours, Eaglets Of Europe, We Need Not Renounce Any Part Of Our Real Nature...whence We Formerly Took Our Flight.