ପୃଷ୍ଠା:Aama Madhusudan.pdf/୪୦୪

ଉଇକିପାଠାଗାର‌ରୁ
ଏହି ପୃଷ୍ଠାଟି ବୈଧ ହୋଇସାରିଛି
ଉତ୍କଳ ଛାତ୍ର ସମ୍ମିଳନୀକୁ ପ୍ରଦତ୍ତ ବାର୍ତ୍ତା
Mission Road, Cuttack
 
28th September, 1927
 

Dear brother,
You ask me to send a line “ for the encouragement and inspiration” of the students.

INSPIRATION
The development of national consciousness should be the chief object of these conferences. Our students should be taught to distinguish between corporate bodies and a nation. When a number of men form an organised body with a common object to be accomplished, they form an association, a company, a syndicate and even an unlawful assembly to commit an offence. In such cases they draw their inspiration from the common object. Their zeal in the pursuit of their common object is their inspiration from the common object. You know the names of the members of such an association, the date when they first assembled to form their corporate body. A nation cannot be organised. We do not know when a nation was formed. A nation has its history, which is a record of the achievements of the ancestors of the present generation. You cannot create a nation. The chief object of a national gathering is to draw its inspiration from the national history and the achievements of our ancestors. Each student must feel that behind him stand his ancestors, before him are his progeny and his object of life is to connect the past and the future so that the result is a homogeneous whole.

ଜାତି ଇତିହାସ ଜାତିର ନିର୍ଝର, କଳ କଳ ରବେ ଧାଇଁଛି ସେ ଧାର

ତହୁଁ ବହେ ସଦା ଜାତି ପ୍ରାଣଧାର, ଅତୀତ ଗୌରବ ଗାଇ ନିରନ୍ତର ।

ସେ ଧାରରୁ ନୀର ପିଏ ଯେଉଁ ନର, ଭାବୀ ଉନ୍ନତିର ଉଦୟେ ନାଚୁଛି

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