India's Gift to the World, by Swami Vivekananda

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To the other nations of the world, religion is one of the many occupations of

the world, and among all there various occupations of life, there is perhaps a

bit of religion. But here in India religion is the one and the only occupation

in life.

 

This has been the case with up for the past several millenniums, and as a

consequence our culture and national genius have derived a special cent or

direction in which alone they are bound to travel now and in the future also.

Each race, by virtue of its part, has such a bent, a peculiar raison detre, and

a particular mission to fulfil in the life of the world. Political greatness or

military power has never been mission of our race. But there has been the other

mission given to us, which is to conserve, to preserve, to accumulate, as it

were,into a dynamo, all the spiritual energy of the race, and that concentrated

energy is to soup forth in deluge on the world, whenever circumstances are

propitious.

 

Let the Persian, or the Greek, the Romans or the Arab, or the Englishman march

his battallions, conquer the world, and link the different nations together,and

the philosophy and spirituality of India

is ever ready to flow along the newly made channels into the veins of the

nations of the world. The Hindu's calm brain must soup out its own quota to the

sum-total of human progress. India's gift to the world

is the light spiritual.