Swami Vivekananda To Sri Haridas Viharidas Desai vivekananda150jayanti.org/vivekvani/todays-special/20-june/Swami-Vivekananda-To-Sri-Haridas-Viharidas-Desai On 20 June 1894 Swami Vivekananda wrote to Sri Haridas Viharidas Desai from Chicago... A very imp letter... Primarily my coming has been to raise funds for an enterprise of my own. Let me tell it all to you again. The whole difference between the West and the East is in this: They are nations, we are not, i.e., civilisation, education here is general, it penetrates into the masses. The higher classes in India and America are the same, but the distance is infinite between the lower classes of the two countries. Why was it so easy for the English to conquer India? It was because they are a nation, we are not. When one of our great men dies, we must sit for centuries to have another; they can produce them as fast as they die..... Why so? Because they have such a bigger field of recruiting their great ones, we have so small. A nation of 300 millions has the smallest field of recruiting its great ones compared with nations of thirty, forty, or sixty millions, because the number of educated men and women in those nations is so great....Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible....The real nation who live in cottage have forgotten their manhood, their individuality. Trodden under the foot of the Hindu, Mussulman, or Christian, they have come to think that they are born to be trodden under the foot of everybody who has money enough in his pocket. They are to be given back their lost individuality. They are to be educated.
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