We were faced so many invasion the past thousand years and faced the brutal consequences of them. But how could the invader was successful in conquering us? Why we failed to defend ourselves? Let's see what Swamiji has to say...
"So this accumulated culture of ages of which the Brahmin has been the trustee, he must now give to the people at large, and it was because he did not give it to the people that the Mohammedan invasion was possible. It was because he did not open this treasury to the people from the beginning, that for a thousand years we have been trodden under the heels of every one who chose to come to India. It was through that we have become degraded, and the first task must be to break open the cells that hide the wonderful treasures which our common ancestors accumulated; bring them out and give them to everybody and the Brahmin must be the first to do it. There is an old superstition in Bengal that if the cobra that bites, sucks out his own poison from the patient, the man must survive. Well then, the Brahmin must suck out his own poison. "
- Swami Vivekananda (Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Lecture given at Madras)
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