In English
India has on its side
I know that your hearts are filled with other thoughts - thoughts of pushing back the Chinese from the land they have invaded and occupied, of sympathy to the families of the soldiers who have been killed and wounded. Minister also referred to them feelingly. They fought for their country to keep the enemy away. It is your first duty to pray for the dead and to pray for the happy and victorious return from the battlefield of the gallant fighters. It is your duty also to search for your own faults and failings and to correct them soon. You have also to discover and develop all your talents and become strong, self-reliant, full-grown Indians, in order to save your country and its culture. Above all, you must get firmly entrenched in faith; faith in the ultimate victory of truth and love, of justice and fortitude. You have not tried it, so you are unaware of the potentialities of faith. During the War also, people had the faith that “Where is, there victory is certain,” for will always be on the side of truth and truth cannot bring defeat. India has virtue () on its side; that is to say, on its side, so the paeans of victory will sound soon - if they have not already sounded! The Chinese can do India no harm, for we are not wanting in the strength of virtues, truth, justice, love, and forbearance. These are the real arms, the real ammunition, the armaments. When slyly entered the camp and, blinded by hate, slaughtered the sleeping children of , she scorned to wreak vengeance on the maddened culprit, for he was the son of the of the and as worthy of reverence as the himself. That is the nobility that stirred the hearts of mothers in this country. That is no weakness; it toughens the fibre; it demoralises the enemy, who is rendered a coward by the fear that haunts him and the hesitation and doubt about victory that dog his steps.