Then again we must give full recognition to this fact that our social restrictions are still tyrannical, so much so as to make men cowards. Yet, remember that in Switzerland the races can mingle, they can intermarry, because they are of the same blood. An automobile does not create freedom of movement, because it is a mere machine. There are different parties in India, with different ideals. Do not include your name, "with regards" etc in the comment. Yet he had the courage to defy the possibility of censure and make his country aware of the dangers of excessive nationalism. Like all artificial stimulants its first effect is a heightening of consciousness and then with the increasing dose it muddles it and brings in exultation that is misleading.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Europe has her past. The same thing happened where she tried to ward off the collisions of trade interests. The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

On the suggestion in this article, I visited the project Gutenberg page and glanced through the pages of Book 'Nationalism' by Tagore.I may have to go back later to read it in detail.As Tagore himself has written in the book, Nationalism has its dimension in varied ways.

The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. The social habit of mind which impels us to make the life of our fellow-beings a burden to them where they differ from us even in such a thing as their choice of food is sure to persist in our political organization and result in creating engines of coercion to crush every rational difference which, is the sign of life. Thus India in being turned into so many predigested morsels of food ready to be swallowed at any moment by any nation which has even the most rudimentary set of teeth in its head.

It is a sign of laziness and impotency to accept conditions imposed upon us by others who have other ideals than ours. Be it said to the credit of India that this diversity was not her own creation; she has had to accept it as a fact from the beginning of her history. Therefore Life departed from her social system and in its place she is worshipping with all ceremony the magnificent cage of countless compartments that she has manufactured. The party split, and there arrived the Extremists, who advocated independence of action, and discarded the begging method, - the easiest method of relieving one's mind from his responsibility towards his country. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Therefore political freedom does not give us freedom when our mind is not free. It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. Her problem was the problem of the world in miniature. "Even though from childhood I had been taught that idolatry of the Nation is almost better than reverence for God and humanity, I believe I have outgrown that teaching, and it is my conviction that my countrymen will truly gain their India by fighting against the education which teaches them that a country is greater than the ideals of humanity. But we have found out to our cost that human nature is not what it seems, but what it is in truth; which is in its infinite possibilities. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. And we are content in India to suffer for such a great cause. Today, we find two contradictory trends at work. OUR REAL PROBLEM in India is not political. It is after all quite a short book. In India the production of commodities was brought under the law of social adjustments. The very people who are upholding these ideals are themselves the most conservative in their social practice.

But the present-day commercial civilization of man is not only taking too much time and space but killing time and space. Its basis was cooperation having for its object the perfect satisfaction of social needs. A true unity is like a round globe, it rolls on, carrying its burden easily; but diversity is a many-cornered thing which has to be dragged and pushed with all force. The USA after all was pursuing its own national interest, wasn't it?The book 'Nationalism' is available for free on Project Gutenberg. - 1500 A.D. Rock-Cut Monuments in Indian History and Rock Architecture in India. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one. What would we do if, for any reason, England was driven away? In trying to avoid collisions she set up boundaries of immovable walls, thus giving to her numerous races the negative benefit of peace and order but not the positive opportunity of expansion and movement. This problem of race unity which we have been trying to solve for so many years has likewise to be faced by you here in America. If this persists indefinitely and armaments go on exaggerating themselves to unimaginable absurdities, and machines and store-houses envelop this fair earth with their dirt and smoke and ugliness, then it will end in a conflagration of suicide. The publishers permit sharing of the paper's PDF on WhatsApp and other social media platforms. ), (To download our E-paper please click here. She treated life in all truth where it is manifold, but insulted it where it is ever moving. They laugh not only at our modest household lamps but also at the eternal stars. Men in those times were rightly ashamed of the instinct of mere money-making.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. The party, however, lost power because the people soon came to realize how futile was the half policy adopted by them. But in the economic world our appetites follow no other restrictions but those of supply and demand which can be artificially fostered, affording individuals opportunities for indulgence in an endless feast of grossness. Each nation must be conscious of its mission and we, in India, must realize that we cut a poor figure when we are trying to be political, simply because we have not yet been finally able to accomplish what was set before us by our providence. But in the West it is guided by the impulse of competition whose end is the gain of wealth for individuals. On the other hand, nationalism refers to the feeling of belonging to a political community. The general opinion of the majority of the present day nationalists in India is that we have come to a final completeness in our social and spiritual ideals, the task of the constructive work of society having been done several thousand years before we were born, and that now we are free to employ all our activities in the political direction. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941), the 1913 Nobel Prize Laureate from Bengal, India, gained international fame through his poetry and tours in the early 1900s. The degradation which we cast upon others in our pride or self-interest degrades our own humanity - and this is the punishment which is most terrible because we do not detect it till it is too late. What India has been, the whole world is now.

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