Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. (Tagore)
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance...... (Nehru)
"Shall we take along the heaven earned,
the thoughts concealed in the minds of those radicals,
the fighters, the martyrs who burned their lives
for this every moment that we are breathing,
For us to take forth the fire they doled out
and become the one they wanted us become?
Shall we fight through the times that shall lead us
Into the brightest future yet to come?
Shall we unite to drain all the banes that still exist
To corrupt our world?
And bring forth fresh life into everything that could ever live?
Freely? With no qualms nor angst about self?"
It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity...... (Nehru)
Jai Hind ... !!
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. (Tagore)
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance...... (Nehru)
"Shall we take along the heaven earned,
the thoughts concealed in the minds of those radicals,
the fighters, the martyrs who burned their lives
for this every moment that we are breathing,
For us to take forth the fire they doled out
and become the one they wanted us become?
Shall we fight through the times that shall lead us
Into the brightest future yet to come?
Shall we unite to drain all the banes that still exist
To corrupt our world?
And bring forth fresh life into everything that could ever live?
Freely? With no qualms nor angst about self?"
It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity...... (Nehru)
Jai Hind ... !!
