A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

AN APPEAL TO INDIANS. 581utterly ignorant of the rules and prohibitions regardingthe Association of men and women that obtain f l*&re, andwhich act as safeguards to perserve the purit^ of theWestern women, allow a free rein to the unrestrictedinterlinking of *men and women in our society.I observed in the West also, that the children ofw^alier nations, if born in England, give themselves out asEnglishmen, instead of Greek, Portuguese, Spaniard, etc.,as the case may be. All drift towards the strong that;the ligi&>ofglory which shines in the glorious, may anyhowfall and reflect on one*s own body, i.e.,to shine, in theborrowed light of the great, is the one desire of the weak.When I see Indians dressed in European apparel andcostumes, the thought comes to my mind, perhaps, theyfeel ashamed to own their nationality and kinship with theignorant, poor, illiterate, downtrodden people of India ! !Nourished by the blood of the Hindu for the last fourteencenturies, the Parsee is no longer a "Native" ! Before thearrogance of the casteless, who pretend to be and glorifythemselves in being Brahmans, the true nobility of the old,heroic, high-class Brahman melte into nothingness Again,!the Westerners have now taught us that those stupid,ignorant, low caste millions of India clad only in a loin clothare non-Aryans They are therefore 110 more our*kith! !and kin ! ! !Oh India ! with this slander 01 others, with thist>ase imitation of others, with this dependence on others,this slavish weakness, this vile detestable cruelty,thou with these provisionswguldstonly, scale the highest pinnacleof civilisation and greatness? Wouldst thou attain, bymeans of thy disgraceful cowardice, that freedom deservedonly by the brave and the heroic? Oh India! forget notthat the ideal of thy womanhood is Sita, Savitri,