Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India March 1925

During the latter half of the nineteenth century the British rule in India became an established fact; and as a consequence the people were brought face to face with all the external splendour scientific achievements and progress of the material civilisation of the West at a time when the national life of the country was at a very low ebb. [...] In a word in all departments of life the West became the Guru and its approval the only standard of merit or greatness to such an extent that the most enlightened of the land began to flout their own religion and glory themselves in a slavish imitation of the customs and ways of the West. [...] It was at this psychological moment that the soul of the ancient Vedic wisdom and the consciousness of the East took the form of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa in order to lay the foundation of universal brotherhood and peace in the world. [...] The wealth is the people's wealth and the goverment as I told you is the government of the people for the people by the people. [...] Therefore invite man to the embracing of the Divine life welcome him to the holy and joyful feast of God-intoxication worship of humanity cosmos and the cosmic movement and thus join God and His servants in the blissful work of purifying ennobling and spiritualising the cult and culture the civilisation and the entire life individual and collective.