Prabuddha Bharata Or Awakened India

0 Powers of Light ! The Twin Rays leaping from the abysmal depth of the Unknown And speeding through the trackless Night To the shores of the rosy Dawn — Will they not encircle our Being In the thrilling embrace of a new-found Joy And melting it into a stream of ineff able Beatitude Lead it on to the Rhythm of the lucent immensities ? Turn us into channels of your rushing Might 0 Twin Rays of Im [...] If instead of this only a vast organization is built up and the books are filled with the names of tens of millions of members belonging to the sect nothing of consequence is gained by these in the field of religion. [...] Swamiji has said that our motto should be : 'For the liberation of one's own self and for the good of the world.' First acquisition of Self-knowledge and then the good of the world. [...] India has of course always emphasized the One as against the Many the timeless as against the contingent for without the support of the former the latter becomes wholly illusory. [...] The 'divine event towards which_ the whole creation is moving' is the emergence of a humanity in possession of the complete and correct truth of existence: What is still superconscious for the vast masses of men will one day be the consciousness for all.