I was trying to make out that today what is needed is a dynamic spirit of unity, of action, of sacrifice and of faith. Let us not forget the grand, beautiful vision painted by our poet, Viswakavi Rabindranath in words of matchless beauty. That vision should animate us and guide us in our future labours ‘so that we can all build up a great India worthy of our past and worthy of the sacrifices which our martyrs have undergone. Permit me, Sir, to quote those words which picture a vision of matchless beauty:”Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high,Where knowledge is free,Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls,Where words come out from the depth of truth,Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection,Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit,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.”
