IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE, NOT ONCE OR TWICE, BUT AGAIN AND AGAIN, IT HAS BEEN THE DESTINY OF INDIA IN THE PAST OF SUPPLY SPIRITUALITY TO THE WORLD

Wherever there is a thing really needed in one part of the world, the complement will find its way there and supply it with new life. This is true in the physical world as well as in the spiritual. If there is a want of spirituality in one part of the world, and at the same time that spirituality exists elsewhere, whether ...we consciously struggle for it or not, that spirituality will find its way to the part where it is needed and balance the inequality. In the history of the human race, not once or twice, but again and again, it has been the destiny of India in the past to supply spirituality to the world. We find that whenever either by mighty conquest or by commercial supremacy different parts of the world have been kneaded into one whole race and bequests have been made from one corner to the other, each nation, as it were, poured forth its own quota, either political, social, or spiritual. India's contribution to the sum total of human knowledge has been spirituality, philosophy

- Swami Vivekananda
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