Nothing Is Dearer than Her Service Thereare times in a nation’s history when Providence places before itone work, one aim, to which everything else, however high andnoble in itself, has to be sacrificed. Such a time has now arrivedfor our motherland when nothing is dearer than her service,when everything else is to be directed to that end. If you willstudy, study for her sake; train yourselves body and mind andsoul for her service. You will earn your living that you may livefor her sake. You will go abroad to foreign lands that you maybring back knowledge with which you may do service to her.Work that she may prosper. Suffer that she may rejoice. All iscontained in that one single advice. SRI AUROBINDO, Talk given at the Bengal National College on August 23, 1907.