Saturday, 16th January 1897 - Floral Hall, Colombo On this evening, the Swami gave a public lecture to an audience which thronged the building from corner to corner. In fact, Swamiji never lectured in his life, until he spoke at the Chicago Parliament of Religions. His religious teaching in India being given in the form of question and answer between the guru and disciple. This is his first lecture after he returned to his homeland. The Swami spoke in the following terms. What a little work has been done by me has not been from any inherent power that resides in me, but from the cheers, the good will the blessings, that have followed my path in the West from this our very beloved, most sacred, dear mother-land. Some good has been done, no doubt, but especially unto myself, for what before was the result, perhaps, of an emotional nature, grained the conviction of certainity, attained the power and strength of demonstration. Before then, as every Hindu thinks, I thought - as the Hon.President has just pointed out to you - that this Punya Bhumi the land of Karma. To-day I stand here to say, with the conviction of truth, that it is so, that if there is any land on this earth that can lay claim to be the blessed Punya Bhumi, to be the land to which all souls on this earth must come to account for Karma, the land where every soul which is wending its way Godward must come to attain its last home, the land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness, the land above all of introspection and of spirituality, it is India. To be continued ...
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