The Principle Of Yoga Is

Many Of Us, Utterly Overcome By Tamas, The Dark And Heavy Demon Of Inertia, Are Saying Nowadays That It Is Impossible, That India Is Decayed, Bloodless And Lifeless, Too Weak Ever To Recover; That Our Race Is Doomed To Extinction. It Is A Foolish And Idle Saying. No Man Or Nation Need Be Weak Unless He Chooses, No Man Or Nation Need Perish Unless He Deliberately Chooses Extinction.

The Deeper We Look, The More We Shall Be Convinced That The One Thing Wanting, Which We Must Strive To Acquire Before All Others, Is Strength Strength Physical, Strength Mental, Strength Moral, But Above All Strength Spiritual Which Is The One Inexhaustible And Imperishable Source Of All The Others. If We Have Strength Everything Else Will Be Added To Us Easily And Naturally.

We Can Arrive At A Point Of View Where The Preservation Of The Individual Activities Is No Longer Inconsistent With Our Comprehension Of The Cosmic Consciousness Or Our Attainment To The Transcendent And Supracosmic.

Even In Rags I Am A God,fallen I Am Divine,high I Triumph When Down-trod,long I Live When Slain!

India Of The Ages Is Not Dead Nor Has She Spoken Her Last Creative Word; She Lives And Has Still Something To Do For Herself And The Human Peoples. And That Which Must Seek Now To Awake Is Not An Anglicised Oriental People, Docile Pupil Of The West And Doomed To Repeat The Cycle Of The Occident's Success And Failure, But Still The Ancient Immemorable Shakti Recovering Her Deepest Self, Lifting Her Head Higher Towards The Supreme Source Of Light And Strength And Turning To Discover The Complete Meaning And A Vaster Form Of Her Dharma.