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Do not the figures make it clear that not the English, but the Indians, have enslaved themselves?'
indictment
THE VEDAS. God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. I JOHN iv. 16. God is one whole; we are the parts. EXPOSITION OF THE TEACHING OF THE VEDAS BY VIVEKANANDA. I Do not seek quiet
The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting
the chief if not the sole cause of the enslavement of the Indian
Enslavement of india
alike. II O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet,
enigma
coercion,
Enforcement of thoughts
every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.
irreconcilable
coercion
perverted
persecutions
waywardness,
wail
repu...
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The recognition that love represents the highest morality was
Love above all
lost confidence in any religious authority for a belief in the divinity of potentates of various kinds, people would try to free themselves from subjection to it. But unfortunately not only were the rulers,
Altruism
commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. What does it mean that thirty thousand men, not athletes but rather weak and ordinary people, have subdued two hundred million vigorous, clever, capable, and freedom-loving people? Do not the figures make it clear that it is not the English who have enslaved the Indians, but the Indians who have enslaved themselves? When
elucidated
But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries.
perverted
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