भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

or guile of the enemy. They should have thrown to the winds, the old traditional views and customs. They ought to have made it the religion of the day! 550A. The Hindus were not averse to idolatory. Many of the Hindu seats and many of the Hindu religious tenets had been established by great personalities, and the Hindu society as a whole, had recognized them and adapted them to the framework of their religious code, at least so far as they concerned their followers. In their own individual capacity, the followers of those particular religious heroes, obeyed those particular codes of conduct. But the otherwise, highly idolatrous Hindu society did not follow these new idols—the new heroes—who effected individual and mass conversions and reconversions, carried on equally violent religio- political counter-offensives. They avenged the humiliation and persecution of the Hindu women on the Muslim women by similar treatment. The national heroes, who did all this, have all along been highly honoured and worshipped as idols among the Hindus, yet the way they showed as the most suitable for the age was not actively and enthusiastically followed, after they had passed away. As soon as those heroes died, their particular followers relegated to oblivion their practical lessons of violent or non- violent religious counter-aggression and their teaching in this respect. Why, while the particular sects of Chaitanya and others have been still alive so far as the other aspects of their teachings are concerned, and their eulogistic biographies like the भक्ति विजय have been written and read most devoutly, not the slightest mention of the armed revenge these very heroes took against the Muslims is to be found in them. Does it not sound very strange? Nor is any heroic ballad seen to have been composed on their counter-aggression or on their mass reconversions by any of the minstrels or bards or ‘Charans’ of those days! The Hindu society in general felt no urgency of handing down to the later generations, the anecdotes and legends of those heroic deeds. 551. FOR DEEP DOWN, THE MODERN HINDU MIND IS TOLERANT, WHICH IN THE VULGAR MEANS SHAMELESS OR CALLOUS! THE MODERN-MOST EVENT OF THOSE TIMES, WHICH LENDS THE STRONGEST HISTORICAL PROOF AND SUPPPORT TO ALL THE STATEMENTS AND REMARKS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED SO FAR IN THE EARLIER CHAPTERS OF THIS BOOK.