INDEPENDENCE DAY DISCOURSE

August 15, 2007

• I never intended to speak today. Purely out of love towards you, I got up and decided to speak.
• Swami felt bad that none of the previous speakers mentioned about Bose. Thus I felt you must all know about him.
• Bose was a virtuous man. He passed the ICS. He had an excellent and ideal character.
• The situation made him leave the country and today, he is treated as an enemy.
• There are rumours that he died in plane crash. No, he did not die in the crash.
• He was extremely patriotic and had immense love for the nation. He married a woman who translated his book “My country” and had a daughter by the name Lalitha Bose.
• Lalitha Bose strained and struggled a lot to come to Partthi and see Swami. She followed Swami everywhere, from kodai to whitefield, ooty and so on.
• Lalitha was an ardent devotee till her last breath. She died recently.She had a lot of respect and love for her father.
• Bose had sharp faculties. Very few people know of his intelligence. He always wanted the country to prosper. No one at that time was as patriotic as him.
• Today, people only know to speak. Bose not only spoke, he practiced it too. It is sad that no one remembers him today. Sarojini Devi was also a patriot. But no one remembers her today.
• Lalitha came to Swami and said to Him that she was sent by her father.
• All of you must have such kind of national pride. If you don’t love your nation, you consider yourselves as good as dead.
• Swatantra, Swaatantra and Swaarajya
• Life of Bose should be known to all.
• Love all and serve all must be your guiding principle.
• Today, there are many rich people but many more are poor. The rich should serve the poor. You should follow Dana and Dharma. You say “brothers and sisters”. You should really mean it and put into practice
• Bose came to parthi and had Swami’s darshan. He said, “Bhagawan, how is this that you have undertaken this selfless service at such a young age?”
• Today, it is love, not money that is important. You are all embodiment of the divine.

• Youth should understand the meaning of Swaarajya and inner divinity. Only then will India become number one in the world