Page 2 - The New Nationalism
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WHAT IS A NATION
The Indian idea of nationality ought to be truer and deeper...
What is true of the man, is true also of the nation.
The country, the land is only the outward body of the
nation, its annamaya kosh, or gross physical body; the mass
of people, the life of millions who occupy and vivify the
body of the nation with their presence, is the pranamaya
kosh, the life-body of the nation. These two are the gross
body, the physical manifestation of the Mother.
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