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Everything changed suddenly.
Now laws are made for the people’s advancement,
according to the people’s desire.
They have proclaimed for the whole world
to know that theirs is the people’s state.
There are no shackles of slavery,
nor any slaves.
Like a wall knocked down,
Kali Yuga collapsed,
And the Golden Age has dawned
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Out, Out, Old India! And Welcome! New-India!
You with weak shoulders —
go,
go,
go
away.
You with a sunken chest —
go, go,
go
away.
You without a brilliant face —
go, go, go away.
You without sparkling eyes —
go, go, go away.
You with a feeble voice —
go, go, go away.
You without a shining body —
go, go, go away.
You with a mind full of fears —
go, go, go away.
You who always wallow in meanness —
go, go, go away.
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We shall destroy the foolish custom of
humiliating women.
No more shall there be any servitude or subordination.
Men and women will live as equals in this country.
Liberation! Liberation! Liberation!
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In Praise of the Goddess of Learning
There she is on the lotus of immaculate white.
She is present in every note of the Veena.
She dwells in the hearts of the poets
who compose poems in ecstasy.
She is in the chantings of the Vedas
that illumine the Truth.
She is in the compassionate words of the virtuous
sages.
There she is…