Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Swamiji.-- To bhaktas besides the Bramins give this mantra of Gityatri ( here Swatniji recites to the disciple the special Gityatris of the twice-born who are noBrahmins ). By degrees all the people of the land have to be lifted to the position of Brahmins not to speak of the bhaktas of our * The Brahmins Kshatriyas and the Vaishyas are all dwilatis Thakur. [...] The inevitable consquences flowing from this forced juxtaposition of two mutually irreconcilable sets of cultural forces were first the growing disintegration of the whole life of the country and secondly the irredeemable artificiality of the bases of both the system of Government and the system of education it helped to set up. [...] The first was the period of theory; the second of experiment and proof; the third of definite knowlede. In the terms of an educational curriculum these might be classed as the preparatory school the college and the final specialized work of the university. [...] The cow the symbol of of seldiffusing wealth and the Brahmana the symbol of self-diffusing Dharma (which is to guide one and all in the land) were once supposed to be the two pillars on which the destiny of India rested. [...] And though the Conference expressly met on the basis of the economic aspect of-Ahe cow problem the Presidential Address rivets and stimulates our interest because of the many illumnating references in it to broader problems of Indian regeneration of the revival of the ancient Eastern attitude towards the cow of the reawaken.