A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

CONQUEST OF THE WORLD BY INDIA. 561your country.If you had done that for hundreds of yearspa^t you would not be here to-day, at the feet of ev^rycountry tha$ wants to rule India. The ^first manifesteffect of life is expansion. You must expandifyou wantto live. * The moment you have ceased to expand death isisupoh you, danger ahead. I went to America and Europe$o which you so kindly allude I had to ; go because that isthe first sign of the revival of national life, expansion. Thisimtional reviving life, expanding inside, threw me off andthousands will be thrown off in that way. Mark myvrords, if- uhs got to come if this nation lives at all. Thisexpansion, therefore, is the greatest of signs of the revivalof national life, and through this expansion our quota ofoffering to the general mass of human knowledge, our partof the general upheaval of the world, is going out to theThose ofexternal world. Again, this is not a new thing.you who think that the Hindus have been always confinedwithin the four walls of their country through all ages areentirely mistaken ; they have not studied the whole books,they have not studied the history of the ra^e aright. *I am an imaginative man, and my idea is the conquestthe Hindu race. There have beenof the whole world bygreat conquering races in the world. We also have beengreat conquerors. The story of our conquest has beendescribed by the great Emperor of India, Asoka, as theconquest of religion and of spirituality. Once more theworld must be conquered by India../ This is the dream ofmy life, and I wish that each one if you who hears me today, will have the same dream in your minds, and stop nottill you have realised the dream. They will tell you everyday that we had better look to mr own homes first, thengo to work outside. But I willJtell you in plain languagethat you work best when you \rork for others. The best