48.

My Mother India,
Even for a fleeting second,
Do not allow us to forget
Our Lord Krishna’s —
Your choicest son Krishna’s —
Immortal utterance:
“Whenever righteousness declines
And unrighteousness prevails,
Myself I embody and manifest.
For the protection of the good,
And for the destruction of the wicked,
And for the establishment
Of the inner Code of life,
I come into being from age to age.”