इसलिए हम स्वतंत्रता के पक्ष में खड़े हैं, क्योंकि हम अपनी खुद की शख्सियत को विकसित करने और पश्चिमी सभ्यता की सीख से बेफिक्र तथा पश्चिम द्वारा थोपी गई संस्थाओं के बंधनों से मुक्त होकर अपनी खुद की तकदीर तय करने के अधिकार का दावा करते हैं।
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.
We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.
हम यह नहीं भूल सकते कि हम एक साम्राज्य के साये में जी रहे हैं और कई सालों से जीते आ रहे हैं। हम यह भी नहीं भूल सकते कि भारत के विभिन्न प्रांत धीरे-धीरे एक-दूसरे के करीब आ रहे हैं और हमारे बीच एक नई राष्ट्रीयता पनप रही है जिसमें न केवल अलग-अलग प्रांत बल्कि संपूर्ण भारत शामिल है; और हम इस बात को नहीं भूल सकते कि हमारे हित, यहाँ तक कि हमारे स्वार्थी हित, हमारी उम्मीदें और हमारी महत्वाकांक्षाएं इस साम्राज्य के हितों से अटूट रूप से जुड़ी हुई हैं।
We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.
We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.
जिस समय राजा राममोहन राय के दिनों में इस देश में अंग्रेजी शिक्षा की शुरुआत हुई थी, तब मोहम्मडनों (मुसलमानों) ने इसे स्वीकार नहीं किया था... उन्होंने अंग्रेजी शिक्षा को तो अपनाया ही नहीं, साथ ही वे उस संस्कृति से भी कट गए जिसे उनके पुरखों ने आगे बढ़ाया था। परिणाम यह हुआ कि जहाँ हिंदुओं ने जीवन में तरक्की की, सरकारी नौकरियां हासिल कीं और वे तमाम चीजें पाईं जिन्हें लोग जीवन में अहमियत देते हैं, वहीं मुसलमान इन सब से वंचित रह गए और धीरे-धीरे स्वदेशी आंदोलन के समय दोनों समुदायों के बीच एक तरह की दूरियाँ और अलगाव पैदा हो गया।
In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.
In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.
महात्मा गांधी के बारे में: फैसले लेने में महान, उन्हें अमली जामा पहनाने में महान, और अपने देश के हक में आखिरी दम तक खड़े रहकर संघर्ष करने के मामले में महात्मा गांधी की महानता की कोई तुलना नहीं है। वह निस्संदेह दुनिया के महानतम इंसानों में से एक हैं। दुनिया को उनकी जरूरत है, और अगर "खास लोगों" और "इस देश में निहित स्वार्थ रखने वाले लोगों"—यानी ईसा मसीह के समय के शातिर जानकारों और फरीसियों—द्वारा उनका मजाक उड़ाया जाता है या उपहास किया जाता है, तो भी एक ऐसा राष्ट्र उन्हें आज और हमेशा कृतज्ञता के साथ याद रखेगा जिसे उन्होंने एक के बाद एक विजय दिलाई।
About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at by "the people of importance," "the people with a stake in this country," - the Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ - he will be gratefully remembered, now and always, by a nation which he led from victory to victory.
About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at by "the people of importance," "the people with a stake in this country," - the Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ - he will be gratefully remembered, now and always, by a nation which he led from victory to victory.
[स्वामी विवेकानंद के बारे में:] मैं यह नहीं कह रहा हूँ कि स्वामी जी का संदेश हमारे राष्ट्रवाद का आखिरी शब्द था... लेकिन वह बहुत जबरदस्त था—एक ऐसी चीज जिसकी अपनी एक अमर महिमा है। यदि आप उनकी किताबें पढ़ें, उनके भाषण पढ़ते हैं, तो आप तुरंत मानवता के प्रति उनके प्रेम और उनकी देशभक्ति से प्रभावित हो जाते हैं—वह कोई यूरोप से आई अमूर्त देशभक्ति नहीं थी, बल्कि एक बिल्कुल अलग किस्म की, ज्यादा जीवंत चीज थी, जिसे जब हम उनके लेखों को पढ़ते हैं तो अपने भीतर महसूस करते हैं।
[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.