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THE DAY OF VICTORY.[1]
(1916)
Jai! Jail! 0 Day of Victory!—the day of the victory of truth over tradition, the triumph of faith’ over conformity—the day of the ascendancy of living communion as against reported satisfaction—the day of victory when
the lowly could see what was hidden from the proud, when the trusting could enjoy what was denied to the doubting, when the innocent could realise what was alien to the self-complacent—the day of the victory of fact over fiction, of self-approved truth over consecrated imagination, of pregnant reality over empty semblance—the day of victory when the earth was revealed as the store-house of of Inexhaustible Bounty, when the heavens were unfolded as the canopy of Eternal Majesty—the day of victory when the human
- ↑ Brahmotsav Day. (Foundation of the Brahma Samaj by Rajah Rammohan Roy : 23-1-1830)
