BIOGRAPHY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

78 SWAMI VIVEKANANDAwhole music of national life. Social reform has tobe preached in India by showing how much morespiritual a life the new system will bring, andpolitics has to be preached by showing how muchit will improve the one thing that the nationwants— its spirituality. Therefore before floodingIndia with socialistic or political ideas the landshould first be deluged with spiritual ideas. Thefirst work that demands our attention is that themost wonderful truths confined in our Upanishads,in our scriptures and Puranas, must be broughtout from the books, the monasteries, and the forestsand scattered broadcast over the land so that thesetruths many run like fire all over the country, fromnorth to south, and east to west, from the Himalayasto Cape Comorin, from the Indus to theBrahmaputra.’‘Ay, let every man and woman and childwithout respect of caste or birth, weakness orstrength, hear and learn that behind the strong andthe weak, behind the high and the low, behindeveryone, there is that Infinite Soul, assuring theinfinite possibility and the infinite capacity of allto become great and good. Let us proclaim to everysoul: Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal isreached. Arise, awake! Awake from this hypnotismof weakness. None is really weak; the soul is infinite,omnipotent, and omniscient. Stand up, assert