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

clearance house and when powerful microscopes have searched the very anatomy of the pages, the books, at least, those that are found unobjectionable, should have been returned to their owner! The Nasik conference was really a success. The resolution about the release of the political prisoners has delighted even us, the forlorn and forgotten, and our deep gratitude to those who dare to remember us still. One wonders why the Congress should fight shy of any such thing even after its union. Perhaps the leaders of that body are too much weighed down by the sense of self- importance. Perhaps they think themselves too immaculate—far more responsible a band of statesmen and patriots than General Botha whose Government has released the leaders, the rank and file of the Boer rebellion or Redmond, whose nationalists have never ceased to try for the release of the Irish prisoners till they succeeded in having it. Nor can it be said that ‘that was a general participation in a rebellion’, as Mr. Bonarlaw has attempted to state; for firstly in the Indian political prisoners also, the overwhelming majority are convicts of general participation and secondly, the suffragists though admittedly and case for case had been convicted of ‘individual’ charges, were released by Mr. Asquith long ago. But leave the Congress alone! At any rate as soon as the war ends please do see if a public Petition for our release could be sent. Such petitions and resolutions do not in themselves bring such a release, but they at any rate make it more acceptable if it ever comes. For, I for one would indeed feel it a shame to go back to a people which dares not, or for all I know wills not to remember those who loved and love and will never cease to love the land of their birth and rightly or wrongly but fell fighting for Her! See, see if the petition could be sent. That would be far more significant than any resolutions or meetings. While together for a minute or so, I said one day to our dear Baba, that there is said to be a पितृऋण Pitrarina and देवऋण Devarina and ऋषिऋण Rishirina & C. So, also there is Putrarina पुत्रऋण (debt due to a son). After the receipt of your letter, I felt myself fully acquitted of it! For, after all, you are now fully educated and fully fledged. Now come what may, at least two years of joy have been bestowed on you by the kind Providence and through you on us. No day can shine forever. The life on this earth is like a three petalled flower; one is coloured with pleasure, the second with the colour of pain, the third mixed or colourless. Now the petal of pleasure and then that of pain gets wormed and thus this vain round of recurrence goes on.