"Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious......" these are the words Nathuram Godse stated in his confession. The confession material which i got somewhere on net is not the detailed one or one could doubt its authenticity.
I am not a history student or least to say i am not aware completely about the partition issues i.e. what transpired among whom, who are involved etc... . But something instinctively driving me to comment on this. In the write-up he speaks about his thought formation on freedom issues by reading many great leaders speeches at that time.The material wholly speaks on Godse decision to assasinate the most revered person of our country in his own words. He accepts that the services by Gandhi in South Africa to alleviate Indians living in dire conditions at that time.This is the only part i can see positive point on Gandhi. But when it comes to Gandhi's attitude towards muslims his thoughts goes awry (subjectised).He calls Gandhi as pro-Muslim person.
He accuses Gandhi (with respect to material) as one who consider himself as final decision maker and yields others ( read Congress) to surrender to his words. He also said that Gandhi alone understood the science of activities he initiated like civil disobedience movements and irrespective of results it never made no difference in Gandhi's infallibility.In his own words (w.r.t material) " 'A Satyagrahi can never fail' was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is ".
His comments on Gandhi's support of Hindustani as National language,his fast unto death to remove hindus who occuppied mosques in Delhi at that time, pro-muslim attitudes of latter,can invite die-hard supporters of Gandhi to declare war on him. The comment which made me to sit and think about the write-up,which otherwise an ordinary one, is "I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah's iron will and proved to be powerless".He went on to express why he decided to assasinate him,his unshaken stand on morality of his action,his contribution to nation....and so on.
Certainly things are perceived by lot of people in increasingly hard way.In my opinion whatever Godse confessed is purely his perception. Perceptions cannot be always true as they are very much subjective. When i read Gandhi's autobiography, my instinct told me that he is very personification of Truth and he is.Many great leaders who praised his work towards Indian independence couldn't go wrong with their statements.Its impossible for all to go wrong or impossible for Gandhi's name to remain in minds of every indian so long, if he is not truly what he was. Gandhi might be wrong in few cases which few alone could understand what he did actually and what went wrong. In any case we are eternally debted to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Authors note:
This write-up is based on a material i got somewhere on Net. Truly i lost its source. I got a copy of it. if needed jus mail me at saithilak@gmail.com .
I am not a history student or least to say i am not aware completely about the partition issues i.e. what transpired among whom, who are involved etc... . But something instinctively driving me to comment on this. In the write-up he speaks about his thought formation on freedom issues by reading many great leaders speeches at that time.The material wholly speaks on Godse decision to assasinate the most revered person of our country in his own words. He accepts that the services by Gandhi in South Africa to alleviate Indians living in dire conditions at that time.This is the only part i can see positive point on Gandhi. But when it comes to Gandhi's attitude towards muslims his thoughts goes awry (subjectised).He calls Gandhi as pro-Muslim person.
He accuses Gandhi (with respect to material) as one who consider himself as final decision maker and yields others ( read Congress) to surrender to his words. He also said that Gandhi alone understood the science of activities he initiated like civil disobedience movements and irrespective of results it never made no difference in Gandhi's infallibility.In his own words (w.r.t material) " 'A Satyagrahi can never fail' was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is ".
His comments on Gandhi's support of Hindustani as National language,his fast unto death to remove hindus who occuppied mosques in Delhi at that time, pro-muslim attitudes of latter,can invite die-hard supporters of Gandhi to declare war on him. The comment which made me to sit and think about the write-up,which otherwise an ordinary one, is "I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah's iron will and proved to be powerless".He went on to express why he decided to assasinate him,his unshaken stand on morality of his action,his contribution to nation....and so on.
What on earth made me to post this kind of matter here ? Do i support what ever Godse had confessed ? or Do i back Gandhi for his actions ? or Do i support Gandhi for no reason like hundreds of my fellow Indians ? or Do i out of pure love on him ?
Certainly things are perceived by lot of people in increasingly hard way.In my opinion whatever Godse confessed is purely his perception. Perceptions cannot be always true as they are very much subjective. When i read Gandhi's autobiography, my instinct told me that he is very personification of Truth and he is.Many great leaders who praised his work towards Indian independence couldn't go wrong with their statements.Its impossible for all to go wrong or impossible for Gandhi's name to remain in minds of every indian so long, if he is not truly what he was. Gandhi might be wrong in few cases which few alone could understand what he did actually and what went wrong. In any case we are eternally debted to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Authors note:
This write-up is based on a material i got somewhere on Net. Truly i lost its source. I got a copy of it. if needed jus mail me at saithilak@gmail.com .
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