MESSAGE FOR THE MILLENNIUM
Sri Aurobindo
India will rise through the power of
religion, of moral courage and truth. Let those be united, who are ready to
give up everything for the ideal of nationalism; eager to present their mother
before humanity as the highest divine force on earth capable of imparting
spiritual wisdom and of doing universal good. Let them take up the work of the
mother imbued with the spirit of religion and self-sacrifice. Children of the
mother! you have strayed away for long from your ideal. Turn again to the path
of religion. But be sure you do not do anything out of sheer, reinless excitement.
Learn how you can work unitedly for what is just and for the good of the
country with a single minded determination and adopting all of your the same
method and the same means.
Truth is the rock on which the world is
built. Satyena tishthate jagat. Falsehood can never be the true source of
strength.
The work is nothing without the ideal, and
will be fruitless if divorced from its inspiring force. The uplifting of a
nation cannot be accomplished by a few diplomatic politicians. The spirit to
serve, the spirit to suffer must be roused….work without ideals is a false
gospel.