Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

He thanked the youngest of nations in the name of the most ancient order of monks in the world in the name of the mother of religions and in the name of the millions and millions of Hindu people of all classes and sects. [...] But the God-intoxicated Swami had not learnt the full significance of those pregnant sentences ; for the past of his racial consciousness and the tradition of his order stood against a full cognizance of the Ways and means of the world and more so against a full acceptance of them. [...] First the breadth of his religious culture : second the great intellectual newness and interest of the thought he had brought : and thirdly the fact that his call was sounded in the name of that which was strongest and finest and was not in any way dependent on the mealier elements in man. [...] No wonder that the Swami who once pined for Samadhi for personal salvation should cry in the moment of his triumph : May I he born again and again and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may help the only God I believe in the sum total of all souls : and above all my God the wicked my God the miserable my God the poor of all races and of all species is the object of my worship. [...] The Master as was his wont fathomed the rare potentialities of his disciple from the very beginning and accordingly trained him along the line of least resistance for the highest form of truth the Advaita or the absolute oneness of Existence.