পারস্য-যাত্রী
১৯ এপ্রিল ১৯৩২
সিরাজ-প্রবাসী ভারতীয়দের সংবর্ধনার উত্তর
It is proper that you should feel just as proud of the country which you have made your home for the present, as for your own land of birth. In your lives these two lands should meet in love and join in a common quest of truth. It rests upon you to justify the fair name of your country, to attract your friends here to whatever is worthy and enduring in India by the example of your personal lives. In China and Japan, the different countries of the world wherever I have met Indians, the same thought of the great responsibility that rests upon them has come to my mind. In China our people have had to act against the interest of their hosts—I cannot tell you how much it pains me to think of this. We must follow the traditions of our olden days when India sent to her neighbouring countries messengers of love. However meagre our individual powers may be, we cannot spare ourselves in contributing to this ideal which our great ancestors I have left for us. Be true to India, and true to Iran, serve humanity which comprehends the welfare of both.
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