Passage 3

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In plain words

We must use only the goods of our own land. They took the decision that the goods of another … must not be used. They put to use the words svadeśa and videśa. That is, we must use only the goods of our own country. That foreign goods must not be used. By fixing, in an outward view, only a certain boundary called svadeśa and videśa, they were able to gain independence and win the victory. It was only by putting svadeśa to use in the outer world that they were able to win svarājya. Here, when … has been gained, that too … use the goods of its own land alone; svarājya means that to win the empire of the Ātma we must use these qualities of the Ātma alone: this is its right bearing. We must use only the Buddhi that is our own. We must practise only the qualities that are our own. We must live by our own svabhāva alone. That is, the feelings of the Ātma. The resolves of the Ātma. These: only when we follow what belongs to our heart does that very thing become our witness. So only when we gain the quality that is our own, with the Buddhi that is our own, by effort of our own, that is, svabhāva …, do we come to sva-rājya.

Students! When we wish to develop the ancient tradition and culture of Bhārata, we must foster the Sanātana Dharma that belongs to our ancient culture. What is our culture? Neither the people nor the students have any chance today to enquire fully what this culture is. Our culture is not merely of today. In society, each one may have growth of the senses. There may be growth of the mind. There may be growth of the intellect. With this growth of the senses, the mind and the intellect, we must also join spiritual growth. The very strength of the wholeness of these four is the culture of Bhārata. Growth of the mind, growth of the senses, growth of the intellect, spiritual growth: on the day we achieve the wholeness of these four, on that very day we become those who have restored the culture of Bhārata. So only when the students of today develop the qualities that belong to our ancient culture will Bhārata, ever festive with green festoons, ring with joy and laugh aloud. Students must nourish love of their country. As much as we need attachment to the body, just so much do we need love of country. Rāma said, Jananī janmabhūmiśca svargādapi garīyasi: ‘My mother, and the land that gave Me birth, are sacred to Me. No heaven beyond them do I need,’ He said.

So, holding the progress of the country in our hearts, when we enter into spirituality and into the actions of the world, we can gain both, happiness here and Ānanda hereafter.