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Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 6

Show them that a fair deal is still one to be honoured in your shores no one will take more than what is his earned share and none will seek to shortchange his honour for luxury Wake! India! Wake! And let the Wheel of the Law turn your fortunes to steadfast mettle and he that abjured gold and palace to roam the streets and forests has long since won the hearts of nations beyond your continent Wake! India! Wake! And learn from his example the simplicity of forsaking futile ambition of forsaking all that crippled your body and mind of letting them alone in their Vedic mystic glorification Wake! India! Wake! For he has woken up those peer nations they who woke up before you and have put their fellowmen in a state of equal plenitude with nothing to envy those who conquered and humiliated you Wake! India! Wake! And think not nor devise how you may emulate your past masters envy not them their lives nor their wealth in times to come your future is no more never more tied to their apron strings Wake! O! AsiaWake! And let your heart beat to the rhythm of thriving hives let no one tell you where to put your feet next when you pull your weight together there your feet will prop you up straight Wake! Asia! Wake! And let those who enslaved your body and mind for so long let them learn from your willingness to forgive that they too have a place in your heart as guests Wake! Asia! Wake! Do not crush the children of those whose ancestors sought to humiliate you children grow conditioned to the ways which you accepted for ages as you accepted the conditioning of your children by their fathers Wake! India! Wake! (Continued in Part One - 7)

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