MY LIFE'S ALLEGIANCE IS TO THIS MY MOTHERLAND - MY COUNTRYMEN

I am grateful to the lands of the West for the many warm hearts that received me with all the love that pure and disinterested souls alone could give; but my life's allegiance is to this my motherland; and if I had a thousand lives, every moment of the whole series would be consecrated to your service, my countrymen, my friends.

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 4/Writings: Prose/India's Message to the World