भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 284, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 284
- व्रजन्ति ते मूढधियः पराभवन। भवन्ति मायाविषु वे न मायिना॥:। साध्वाचारः साधुना प्रत्युपेय। मायाचारो मायया बाधितव्यः॥ (Those dull-witted, who do not behave knavishly with base and crafty rogues invariably court failure! A polite person should be treated politely while a crafty scoundrel should be destroyed by super-craft.) [THE SELF-SAME STORY OF NURSINGH ITSELF TELLS] that not with the perverted virtues of Prahlad but with the cruel, crafty measures alone could that demon, Hiranayakashipu, be killed.
- Shree Shankar had blessed Hiranyakashipu with a boon that he would not be killed by any man or beast, with any weapon or missile, ordinary or charmed with magic power, on the earth or in the skies, neither by day nor by night, neither in nor out! But mysteriously enough, an effective expedient was found for every one of these thoughtless terms of the equally thoughtless boon and the enemy of the Gods, the invincible demon, Hiranyakashipu, was killed by an incarnation, which was neither purely human nor purely beastly, but a mixture of both, at twilight, on the threshold, taking him on the lap and by cutting open his stomach with his sharp talons! 875A. It is this frightful incarnation of God, whose whole body has been besmeared with the spouts of blood emanating from the dying body of the wicked demon, rending the whole universe with his horrible war-cries, and at whose furious visage, made ten-times more terrible by his beard standing erect, even the Gods themselves were alarmed and began to request him to calm down, that a Nation wishing to keep itself alive in this diabolic warring world, should worship as the emblem of the high peak of national valour!
- This story also implies another noble principle that although the outward appearance of this violent incarnation of Nursingh was fierce and repellant, its heart was that of a human being made of the ‘milk of human kindness’. Its merciless valour also is most essential, even unavoidable, to the development of ‘human kindness’! For this violent act of tearing open the entrails of Hiranayakashipu, a reckless tyrant, a terror to Gods and demons alike, was performed solely to protect a devotee of the Gods, Prahlad, and that too as the last remedy! It is for the sake of free