Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this powe… - Sister Nivedita

I believe that India is one, indissoluble, indivisible.

Our whole past shall be made a part of the world’s life. That is what is called the realization of the national idea. But it must be realised everywhere,

… a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning. Ages of accumulation are entrusted to the frail bark of each passing epoch by the hand of the past, desiring to make over its treasures to the use of the future. It takes a certain stubbornness, a doggedness of loyalty, even a modicum of unreasonable conservatism maybe, to lose nothing in the long march of the ages; and, even when confronted with great empires, with a sudden extension of the idea of culture, or with the supreme temptation of a new religion, to hold fast what we have, adding to it only as much as we can healthfully and manfully carry.