BIOGRAPHY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

80 SWAMI VIVEKANANDAdescendants of gods and of sages have become nextdoorneighbours to brutes? Do you feel thatmillions are starving today, and millions have beenstarving for ages? Do you feel that ignorance hascome over the land as a dark cloud? Does it makeyou restless? Does it make you sleepless??Have youforgotten all about your name, your fame, yourwives, your children, your property, even yourown bodies? Have you done that? That is the firststep to become a patriot—the very first step.?Insteadof spending your energies in frothy talk, have youfound any way out, any practical solution, somehelp instead of condemnation, some sweet wordsto soothe their miseries, to bring them out of thisliving death? Yet, that is no all. Have you got thewill to surmount mountain-high obstructions? Ifthe whole world stands against you, sword in hand,would you still dare to do what you think right??Ifyou have these three things, each one of you willwork miracles.’‘For the next fifty years?let all other vain godsdisappear?from our minds. This is the only Godthat is awake, our own race: everywhere His hands,everywhere His feet, everywhere His ears, He coverseverything. All other gods are sleeping. What vaingods shall we go after and yet cannot worship theGod that we see all round us—the Virat??The firstof all worship is the worship of the Virat—of those