Hindu as defined by Vivekananda
Mark me , then and then alone you are a Hindu when the very name sends through you a galvanic shock of strength. Then and then alone you are Hindu , when every man who bear the name from any country ,speaking our languages or any other , becomes at once the nearest and dearest to you. Then and then alone you are a Hindu when the distress of anyone bearing that name comes to your heart and makes you feel as if your own son were in distress
Then and then alone you are a Hindu when you will be ready to bear anything for them ,like guru Govind did.
Driven out from this country , fighting against its oppressors ,after having shed his blood for the defence of Hindu religion , after having sen his children killed in the battlefield --ay ,this example of the great guru , left even by those for whose sake he was shedding blood and the blood of his own nearest and dearest --he, the wounded lion retired from the field calmly to die in South ,but not a word of curse escaped his lips against those who had ungratefully forsaken him!
Mark me ,every one of you will have to be a Govind singh , if you want to do good to your country.You may see 1000's of defects in your countrymen , but mark their Hindu blood .They are the first gods you will have to worship even if they do everything to hurt you .even if everyone of them sends a curse to you ,you send out to them words of love .
If they drive you out retire in silence like that mighty lion, Govind singh. Such a man is worthy of the name of Hindu,such a ideal ought to be before us always.
From --Hinduism --its common bases--a lecture delivered by Vivekananda at Lahore in 1897
courtesy Ramakrishna publications.
Then and then alone you are a Hindu when you will be ready to bear anything for them ,like guru Govind did.
Driven out from this country , fighting against its oppressors ,after having shed his blood for the defence of Hindu religion , after having sen his children killed in the battlefield --ay ,this example of the great guru , left even by those for whose sake he was shedding blood and the blood of his own nearest and dearest --he, the wounded lion retired from the field calmly to die in South ,but not a word of curse escaped his lips against those who had ungratefully forsaken him!
Mark me ,every one of you will have to be a Govind singh , if you want to do good to your country.You may see 1000's of defects in your countrymen , but mark their Hindu blood .They are the first gods you will have to worship even if they do everything to hurt you .even if everyone of them sends a curse to you ,you send out to them words of love .
If they drive you out retire in silence like that mighty lion, Govind singh. Such a man is worthy of the name of Hindu,such a ideal ought to be before us always.
From --Hinduism --its common bases--a lecture delivered by Vivekananda at Lahore in 1897
courtesy Ramakrishna publications.
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