"My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like loins. I have formulated the idea and have given my life to it. If I do not achieve success, some better one will come after me to work it out, and I shall be content to struggle.
(CW : VOL 5 : Interview : the missionay work of the first hindu sannyasin to the west and his plan of regeneration of India : p. 223)
Where are the men? Tha is the question. Young men, my hope in you. Will you repsond to the call of your nation? Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare belive me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faithe I had when I was a child, and which I am working out now. Have that faith, each one of you, yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every sould - and you will revive that whole of India. Ay, we will then go to every country under the sun, and our ideas will before long be a component of the many forces that are working to make up every nation in the world. We much enter into the life of every race in India and abroad; shall have to work to bring this about. Now for that I want young men. "It is that young, the strong, and healthy, of sharp intellect that will reach the Lord", say the Vedas.
(CW : VOL 3 : Lectures from Colombo to almora: The future of India p: 303 - 304)
My hope of the future lies in the youth of character - intellligent, remouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - who can sacrifice their lives in working out my idea and thereby do good to themselves and the country at large. Otherwise, boys of the common run are coming in groups and will come. Dullness is writeen on their faces - their hearts are devoid of energy, their bodies feeble and unfit for work, and minds devoid of courage. What work will be done by these? If I get then or twelve boyes with the faith of NAchiketa, I can turn the thoughts and pursuits of this country in a new channel.
(CW : VOL 7 : Conversations and Dialogues: From the Diary of Disciple : p. 230-231)
Among those who appear to me to be of good calibre, some have bound themelves by matrinomy; some have sold themselves for the acquisition of worldly name, fame, or wealth; while same are of feeble bodies. The rest, who form the mejority, are unable to receive any high idea. You are no doubt fit to receive my high ideas, but you are not able to work them out in the practical field. For these reasons sometimes an anguish comes into mind, and I think that taking this human body, I could not do much work through untowardness of fortune. Of course, I have not yet wholly given up hope, for , by the will of God, from among these very bodys may arise in time great heroes of action and spirtuality who will in future work out my ideas.
(CW : VOL 7 : Conversations and Dialogues: From the Diary of Disciple : 231)
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