She is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. She does not rise as other countries do, for self or when she is strong, to trample on the weak. It is to give this religion that India is rising. This is the Dharma that for the salvation of humanity was cherished in the seclusion of this peninsula from of old. Other religions are preponderatingly religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatan Dharma is life itself it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. We speak often of the Hindu religion, of the Sanatan Dharma, but few of us really know what that religion is. I realised what the Hindu religion meant. I was not only to understand intellectually but to realise what Sri Krishna demanded of Arjuna and what He demands of those who aspire to do His work, to be free from repulsion and desire, to do work for Him without the demand for fruit, to renounce self-will and become a passive and faithful instrument in His hands, to have an equal heart for high and low, friend and opponent, success and failure, yet not to do His work negligently. His strength entered into me and I was able to do the sadhana of the Gita. I have had another thing for you to do and it is for that I have brought you here, to teach you what you could not learn for yourself and to train you for my work.' Then He placed the Gita in my hands. It seemed to me that He spoke to me again and said, 'The bonds you had not the strength to break, I have broken for you, because it is not my will nor was it ever my intention that that should continue. My work was very dear to me and in the pride of my heart I thought that unless I was there, it would suffer or even fail and cease therefore I would not leave it. I was weak and could not accept the call.

I remembered then that a month or more before my arrest, a call had come to me to put aside all activity, to go in seclusion and to look into myself, so that I might enter into closer communion with Him. In this seclusion the earliest realisation, the first lesson came to me. I waited day and night for the voice of God within me, to know what He had to say to me, to learn what I had to do.

The night at the roxbury